I'm a little confused........first of all, I'm reading the thread regarding how much weight people lost in induction. Many of you posted a loss of 8-10 lbs (which is an amount I hear alot for the first two weeks). Then, from induction on, the weight loss for many people drops _drastically_. How can you go from losing 4 lbs. a week to 1/2 lb a week just by adding 5-10 carbs a day? It really doesn't make sense to me. I am aware that on induction, a good amount is water weight.........but that still doesn't count for the discrepancy.

I certainly don't want to focus on my scale----and I am not looking for a quick loss plan (so please don't address this post in that way). I am simply trying to understand where this sudden loss of losing comes from. Anyone?

Hi Louisa,

I'm no scientist but I'll have ago at your question. There are many points which could be raised.
1 A lot of the initial weight loss IS water. Carbs cause the body to hold onto water and the body can hold quite a lot.
2 Weight loss might not slow that much or that dramatically.
3 Once your body has got rid of the water, it starts doing things with all that extra nice protein - like repairing muscle which may have been damaged by previous high carb low protein and fat dieting. And muscle is heavy.
4 With many people an extra 5 grams of carbs makes a huge difference. I can't go above 20 a day even after 2 years or I start to gain. (Most people aren't like me - don't worry!)
5. I don't think it's a 'loss of loss' as the real fat loss settling down to it's own momentum after the initial shocks your body goes through on induction.

I hope the above makes some sort of sense and goes part way to answering your question. No doubt other people will come along to give you a more full answer.

Good luck
Robert

My "unscientific" take is that Induction is such a drastic shock to your system, that when you start to add carbs, your body needs to take a "rest" from that weightloss (even, if at the beginning it's water weight lost). There's no discrepancy between weight lost and carbs added.