Days Weight Loss Challenge. How I lost weight (Part 2) - Essentially, I gradually went on a super low carb diet. Another way to see the implications of these changes on my actual intake is shown in the figure below. On the left is where is I started in September 2. Western) athlete’s diet made up of two- thirds carbohydrates – most of them the so- called “good” or “complex” ones. To assess this most accurately I relied on test called a DEXA scan. DEXA stands for Dual- Energy X- ray Absorptiometry. It’s a pretty remarkable test that is now the gold standard for measuring body composition. Back when I was in high school we relied on a combination of calipers (in the hands of an experienced user) and something called hydrostatic testing, where you are weighed in and out of water to calculate your percentage of body fat. The real beauty of DEXA, besides its accuracy, is that you get segmental information. For example, you can learn how much lean tissue (i. Furthermore, DEXA gives bone density information. The other (profoundly simple) “test” I used to track my weight loss was my waist measurement. I recall the days in high school of having a 2. Somehow that ballooned to 3. As silly as this sounds, I recall, back in the spring of 2. I needed to lose from my waist (both visceral – around my organs – and under my skin) to get down to a 3. It’s actually an easy problem if you can remember how to integrate the volume of an oval “cylinder” and you know the density of fat. Here’s what my measurements showed: I lost weight, sure, but it was almost all fat. At the outset, I weighed 1. My waist was 3. 6 inches. My goal was to reduce my waist to 3. During the 24-Day Challenge, we. Weight loss varies with. Today I reached day 20 and I have my weight loss. 60 Day Juice Fast – Day 20 Weigh In. Day 20 Weigh In Results. Welcome to my day 20 weight & measurement. Weight loss and transformation winners will collect $10,000. LT BUCK$ expire 120 days from date awarded. Lost 120 pounds on the water fast!!! 500ml of that juice everyother day for one week and then one week of. I calculated I would need to lose 2. So this defined my targets: 1. Remember one other point, I was not interested in increasing how much I exercised at all. I was examining the role of diet on my body composition, not additional exercise. The figure below shows how my body “morphed” over nearly two years. Total body weight is shown on top of each bar, while the blue bar represents lean tissue and the red bar represents fat. Hence, in September 2. I weighed 1. 95 pounds, of which 1. Not shown in the figure is that my waist was, as I mentioned, 3. By August 2. 01. 1 I had actually exceeded my goal, as you can see from the figure. Without any loss of lean tissue, I had reduced fat mass to 1. My waist measured about 3. There are a couple of things I should point out, that make this a bit confusing: Between February 2. July 2. 01. 0 I had a bad bout of swine flu, which left me in pretty rough shape for a while. As a result, I probably lost more lean mass than I would have liked, or expected to, even transiently. Pay more attention to fat mass, separately, than overall body weight, and do the same with lean mass. Fat mass decreased monotonically, even as weight fluctuated. Lean mass took a big hit initially (although I believe in my case, the prolonged illness didn’t help), but then recovered. This is actually not uncommon among folks losing weight. Losing weight the “right” way ends with a recovery of lean mass. Doing in the “wrong” way can result in equal loss of fat and lean mass (or, worse yet, disproportionate loss of lean mass). Most people, especially physically active people, probably experience some seasonal variation in body fat, especially at low levels. My body fat probably fluctuations between 7 and 1. Part 3 of my personal journey: How a low carb diet reduced my risk of heart disease »). Daily Photo Update of My Weight Loss. Beginning day. Daily Photo Update of My Weight Loss. Beginning day June 16, 2013 Day 120. Day 32 of 120 Day Transformation. Instead of giving you 30-days worth of eating plans for weight loss. For the best results. Sign in to YouTube. Play next; Play now;. Play next; Play now; 120 Day Weight Loss Challenge Australia Episode 1 by.
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