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Not losing weight?

So I completed a 3 day hard dry fast, rehydrated on electrolytes for 2 days, and afterward had one meal (lamb with pumpkin). I immediately started another 3 day dry fast afterward. And after 3 days, my weight is the exact same as my last dry fast. I weighed myself last night (69.5 kilos) and this morning I weighed in 70.0 kilos. WHAT? I did not consume anything at all how did this happen. I weigh 75kilos fed and around 70 kilos fasted, and I want to lose around 15 kilos to be at my right weight. But I cant seem to lose weight. What is wrong with me? I feel so incredibly sad and discouraged because other people are losing tremendous amounts of weight and keeping it off :( I used to be morbidly obese and now I have hit a plateau, I don't know what to do. I am going to continue dry fast until I reach the 6 day mark hopefully, as I really need to lose the weight.

Answer

A scale can only tell you how much you are being affected by the Earth’s gravity. Some of the newer ones also say body fat and water percentages but they are not very accurate. Point is, scale weights aren’t giving you a full picture. How much food is in your gut, water retention, etc, it all fluctuates on a daily basis. It also sounds like your scale might be more on the inaccurate side…

I would only weigh yourself once a day after waking in the morning and vacating your bladder. And even then, expect it to fluctuate. The idea is to see a downward trend over time, not every day.

Finally, 15kg is not going to disappear overnight even on a dry fast. You can only realistically expect to lose 1-1.5kg of fat during a 72 hour fast, and that’s about the limit of what most sensible people will recommend. It’s possible to do more, but in my opinion the potential for problems starts outweighing the benefits at that point.

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Day 1-3 you won’t lose anything. Day 1- you burn all the food contents in your stomach. Day 2 - you use up all your reserve energy. Day 3 - body depletes reserve energy and the shift to living on exclusive fat begins somewhere in this day. Day 4 - first full day of living on exclusive fat. Day 5 - continues. Day 6 - continues. Day 7 - continues…plateaus. Fat burn reach its maximum and the body cycles down its energy usage (fat demands) going Day 8 and beyond. Body is burning fat at a stable rate. It’s best to reach Day 4 of dryfasting to see actual fat consumption of brown fat.