Body water weight losses when very over weight

KurtBarlow

Does an obese person continue to lose water weight when Losing weight even after the first week for example if someone thats 300lbs and wanted to cut to 250lbs and lose 50lbs in 25 weeks and they created a 1000 calorie daily deficit through nutrition and exercise wouldnt the overall weight over 25 weeks be even more due to the extra water weight one would lose?

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Adipose tissue contains about 10% of water, while muscle tissue contains about 75%. Eating excess sugar will retain lots of water and fat.

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If you stop eating you can burn 200-300 gr of fat per day.

Penn

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No. Water weight refers more to the amount of water your body retains. However, when people go on a diet, one of the main things that happens is they're eating less carbs, sugars and salt, and likely drinking more water. This means your body doesn't need to retain as much water as it's getting more water through more regularly.

So you lose water weight in the first 1-3 weeks on top of the fat you lose through diet, but after that you're just losing fat. What people consider water weight is just a by-product of your body adjusting to starting a diet.

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When people go on a diet and fasting reducing sugar and salt also reduces water intake. You wouldn't be thirsty as you think. But forcing yourself to drink large amounts of water actually cause negative effects. And might be a trigger to slip of the diet due to minerals depletion.

Penn

I didn't say anything about fasting or forcing yourself to drink large amounts of water, just that they will likely be drinking more water as part of the diet anyway (swapping out fizzy drinks or high-sugar drinks for water or fruit-based drinks which will have fewer calories and less sugar).

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If you are eating less you are fasting more. That's why we call the first meal of the day is breakfast. And if you are eating less you wouldn't be thirsty. Having fruit juice is absolutely terrible idea.

Penn

Fasting doesn't mean eating less or eating fewer calories, it means going longer without having any calories. Breakfast is called breakfast because you've gone longer without eating due to being asleep. Just because some is on a diet doesn't mean they're fasting.

Look OP, I've been in the exact position you describe. I was just under 300lb and when I started my diet, I lost 3lb the first few weeks, then 6lb in one week (maybe week 3 or 4) and after that it evened out to between 2-3lb per week by aiming for a 1000kcal deficit per day. Those big loss at the start was water weight and just generally my body adjusting to the diet, because the change in diet meant I was eating fewer carbs & sugars and I was drinking more water, both with my meals and between meals (wasn't guzzling the stuff and probably still wasn't even drinking the 8 glasses per day that's recommended, but just drank more water).

So to answer your question, a person doesn't lose more weight on a consistent basis due to water weight, it'll usually happen in the first few weeks of a diet that you'll get a big drop over a week or two (your body losing water weight), and then after that it evens out.

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I agree water lose happens in the first week of carbs drop, but wonder who recommended you 8 glasses of water per day?