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how so?

starving myself might actually make me heavier?
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It can. Your metabolism will go to zero and your body will start retaining water as it goes into a panic mode to keep you alive. Haven't you ever seen a homeless person who looks like they are about to explode from the bloating. They can hardly move as they have no energy. The general principle of calories in/calories out assumes your body is behaving normally with no water retention.

One of the reasons why Nitro's weight is swinging all over the place is because he is going through various phases of water hydration. He is not actually gaining or losing much fat or muscle for that matter. His weight swings are 98% water.
 
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One of the reasons why Nitro's weight is swinging all over the place is because he is going through various phases of water hydration. He is not actually gaining or losing much fat or muscle for that matter. His weight swings are 98% water.
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From day to day the swings are often water (hard to tell since the daily gains losses are probably obscured too much by water losses), but when I take a weekly reading, it is always fully hydrated. When I say I lost x pounds this week, it is 95 delta accurate.
 
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From day to day the swings are often water, but when I take a weekly reading, it is always fully hydrated. When I say I lost x pounds this week, it is 95 delta accurate.
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Right. Think of the trend as the actual weight loss but the volatility around the trend as the water weight.
 
BTW, thanks for all the interesting replies to my last question about isolating the abs, and my unwise attempt to lose 3.5lbs in one week.
 
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It can. Your metabolism will go to zero and your body will start retaining water as it goes into a panic mode to keep you alive. Haven't you ever seen a homeless person who looks like they are about to explode from the bloating. They can hardly move as they have no energy. The general principle of calories in/calories out assumes your body is behaving normally with no water retention.

One of the reasons why Nitro's weight is swinging all over the place is because he is going through various phases of water hydration. He is not actually gaining or losing much fat or muscle for that matter. His weight swings are 98% water.
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if your metabolism goes to zero, your dead :D
 
Thread is great .... a real diversion within ET.

I have been trying with limited results to boost my abs over the last 6 months and find that my greatest enemy may be my age at 44. So far sporting a "Two-Pack" far from the 6 I was hoping for at this point.

On the lifting front I have been an avid follower of Mens Health and found that some of the workouts as well as the interviews seem to be spot on. I now lift 2x what I did in High School and as far as their menu's/Nutritional Guides go I give them a B+ You have to customize obviously for your own metabolism but as guides they are worth it.

I don't know if this was addressed at all as I have only read about 10 pages of the thread but I have run across a couple of things while I have been working out. I found that if I dont take a multi vitamin along with a protein supplement I get a massive bordering on migraine headache after a lifting intensive workout. With the addition of the supplements I dont get the headache anymore just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience.
 
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