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Originally Posted by tdm5673  Please someone explain why when you tell people you are losing weight the topic of "water weight" and "losing muscle" always comes up. |
In a post above was mentioned that people are accustomed to a calorie restricted regimine as the standard diet and, as such, there is a noticeable loss of muscle/tone. The body needs a specific amount of protein and will take it either from the diet or from existing stores. Low protein diets seem to produce a gaunt participants, unless they compensate by overeating carbs. Most of us know that look, too.
Above, also, was the post on not sharing the Atkins diet due to negative feedback. My wife was this same way until I recently decided to tell her the diet was more of a Paleolithic diet, restricting all aspects of agricultural inputs. It's similar to Atkins without dairy or legumes. That she can understand as I tie it to Evolutionary Fitness. It's a little less restrictive in that we eat as opportunists. We don't eat dairy, as a rule, but if there is a small amount of cheese in something, we don't turn it down. She also likes the notion (from Eades) of the "honey tree". Paleolithic peoples didn't have sweets so we shouldn't either. However, on occasion they would stumble across a honey tree and 'get drunk on sweet nectar'. When we're out and served dessert, we call that our honey tree--and pay a price for it the next day.
TWS