30% of goal in 4 days?!!??!

[alexisirene]

OK.. I know we're not supposed to weigh ourselves in induction, but I told myself I would weigh myself the morning of Day 4 because I really was afraid that this diet would make me gain weight. (I will never get used to eating this much fat!!!! ) So I got on my scale and it read 143.9.. which blew my mind because I was on 150 Friday when I started. I thought I was going insane so I hopped on again.. and I got the same reading! My scale is ridiculously accurate.. I still thought I was nuts so I weighed some handweights.. they were right... and I hopped on again.. 143.9. OK I haven't even started Day 4 yet (it's 5:45AM here) and I've already lost 6.1lbs... and I'm scared for the health reasons. I'm VERY active.. I run 5 miles every day... could that be why this is working so well??? At this rate I'll be at my goal weight before Induction is out.. which is A-OK with me!

[Desertthorn]

Congratulations, thats a great start. We lose mostly water the first few days, but water, is water, is weight is weight so be happy and don't worry, your doing great.

[pluorvee]

most of the time on day 4 i'm down 4-8 pounds and i am round your size now. Most of it is water weight at this point. If you were to totaly stop today and go back to eatting carbs you would gain it all back.....because its water. After day 4 you can pretty much know it will be fat.

good luck

[Moochiecat]

I would dearly love to tell you that this is going to continue..but in all likelihood it's going to slow down, and perhaps even pause for a while. Regardless, that's a great initial loss, so be proud of that!

Take a second and give this a read :yes

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=63916