Fri, Feb-12-21, 04:54
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Senior Member
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Plan: Atkins-ish, post-WLS
Stats: 408.0/288.0/168.0
BF:
Progress: 50%
Location: Southern Colorado, USA
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I'm sure it is going to vary from person to person and depend on a lot of things, so keep that in mind.
For me, I find that I lose about a quarter pound an hour if I'm doing nothing - such as sleeping or watching TV or working on the computer. This is for when nothing obvious is going in or coming out of my body, so the dominate processes are breathing (you are breathing in oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, so carbon is leaving your body with every breath) and water, both through perspiration and exhalation. I have found that this is pretty constant regardless of my weight.
Now, that just accounts for a baseline. If you eat or drink a bunch of stuff not too long before you go to bed, that will still be with you unless you go to the bathroom in the morning before you weight yourself. If you've taken something that causes you to retain water or if you started the day dehydrated, then your body will hold onto water which can add up very quickly -- and the heavier you are the quicker it will add up because these things generally go as a proportion of your weight.
Depending on the exact situation, don't be surprised if most or all of that six pounds is gone over the course of the next day.
After a surgery a few years back my kidneys were having a hard time kicking in so I was given a diuretic and lost 13 lb by the next day (a lot of time spent in the bathroom). And although my doctor could tell that I was retaining water, it wasn't obvious to me at all.
On the flip side. I let myself go and got very dehydrated because my sugars were through the roof. I didn't feel bad (though I knew what was going on because of insatiable thirst). My doctor's reaction to my blood work convinced me to take action and in ten days I had gained 35 lb.
So those give an idea of how much of a switch our bodies are capable of in a very short period of time just due to water issues.
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