Overall I am doing well. Had a good night of sleep. Yesterday I made a point of drinking really a lot – more than the suggested half of body weight in fluid ounces – and the body fat indeed is now dropping. The weight itself dropped a little but not much. Overall I feel that now the ‘true’ weight loss is kicking in. What I mean by that is that I had rapidly gained 5 pounds over the past 3 weeks (which I call “fluff weight”) – I’m now down 7.4 lb since I began, and not to invalidate this number (alright, alright, I do a little), but as I see it, ‘hardcore weight’ that I lost so far is 2.4 lb. That is a GOOD number.
Posts Tagged hydration
Day FIVE
Aug 14
Winning items
Aug 13
The Accu-Weight mailing list is full of helpful people and ideas. I followed a few of those suggestions and here is what I have found so far.
Got a new item on the “YES can do and it also tastes good” list and that’s SNAPPLE Green Tea Peach zero calorie drink. It does not taste horrendously fake, the peach is mellow and soft but nicely distinct and no hint of bitterness from the tea and it also is not overly sweetened. Perfect.
Also, a big, big winner are the sugar free BASKIN ROBINS Hard Candies. No fake sweetener hint in them! And perfectly 10 calories of which you are allowed to have 6 per day, at any time. And yes, it’s the same logo and the same company which if famous for their ice creams, even though on their own site they only hype the ice cream itself.
Day FOUR
Aug 13
Doing pretty well. So good even, that I don’t have much to say.
I’m glad to see the body fat dropping on the scale, sure indicator that I have been better with hydration. I’ll work on improving that even more. Yesterday I had 10+ cups of liquid. That’s not great for being on this diet, considering that on a normal, non-diet day drink 8 cups. My current goal is to reach 16 cups. Most important thing is to have it always handy, the drinking becomes then like a steady stream.
Day THREE
Aug 12
YAY, today I’ll get some solid foods! Definitely looking forwards to it.
My scale shows 6.8 pounds less than when I began.
The dimmer on the joy is that I am obviously drinking too little water as my body fat percentage has gone up, it is 3% higher than it usually is in this weight range. I’ve always found a correlation between the BF and LB numbers on my (Tania) scale and with this can anticipate weight fluctuation and/or “true” weight indication. My BF now should be around 32% but it’s 35%. What I can expect – this at least is true for the past – is that when I am sufficiently hydrated the BF percentage will drop and the weight will go up and I’ll show my “true” weight. To ensure that I’ll work on the hydration, I began tracking this morning on how much liquid I truly drink per day. Will try and get specific, recommended numbers as I only know that A LOT is good, but as A LOT for some people means 6 cups and for others 12 a day I’m a bit in the air.
