PSMF Day 3 Stats

Weight: 212 pounds
Body Fat: 27.2

214 to 212 (or 211.4 or 212.6 if you listen to 4 different times I weighed in. I didn’t believe it so I KEPT weighing myself until it said something different. Funny enough, the last weigh in was 212 which is about the middle. It was like the scale was like “Fine, lets compromise.”)

“I’m” fully aware you can’t lose that much fat in a day so no one needs to alert me of this.  I assume (especially with the 211, which is what I’m gonna think in my HEAD) that it’s more water. Which I’m AMAZED by. How is that possible? I’ve been ketogenic for months now. How in holy hell could I be losing so much water when, theoretically I shouldn’t have gained that much?

I don’t have the science on this, yet, but I’m assuming that a crazy amount of sodium outweighs a ketogenic diet’s ability to act as a natural diuretic.  I did gain 5 pounds while in full blast ketosis, basically in a day. I knew that was water. But what I didn’t take into consideration is “What if I had been losing weight (i.e. fat) while retaining water?” The scale wouldn’t move or it would even go up, and I wouldn’t be aware of the actual fat loss.

Again, this is me theorizing. But man-o-chevitz, it sounds reasonable.

I’m NOT dehydrated because I’m drinking plenty of water (3/4ths to a gallon a day now.) My body is just letting go I guess. I never considered sodium as the cause of a plateau. If you just keep gaining a bit of water cause of various things (for me bacon, smoked fish, diet sodas and other salty stuff) you could be hiding your own progress. Then your plateau would “break” one day when you decide to get a bit more stringent and cut out all the nonsense i.e. you’d flush the extra sodium out.

I need to do reasearch on this to see if this is a solid argument. I think we’ve all read that we lose so much water weight and that sodium can make you gain weight, but the theory is your fat loss is stalled during this time. I’m starting to think maybe not.

And with today being day 3 of my PSMF. No one has been cut yet. Hooray.