Thank your for your reply and kind advice.
My weight is not reducing as fast as I worried.
It is stabilized around 165 lbs.
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> From my experience of BIA, instant estimates (and don't forget that's what
> they are) of proportions of fat, fat-free mass, and bone are affected too
> much by water levels, gut contents, etc. to be reliable over the short
> term. If you're not convinced of this, just try weighing yourself at
> different times of day - e.g. before and after eating - or have a couple of
> glasses of water and then weigh yourself again.
>
> The best way to use BIA is not to record measurements too frequently, but
> select a longer period (a month would probably be best). Then take a
> measurement at the same time of day (e.g. after rising), for two or three
> days and take the average to be the estimate for that period. Even then,
> it's not the absolute values that really matter, but the change over time.
> Again, don't forget the common-sense guidelines of how, for example, your
> waist measurements (mainly fat) are changing relative to, say, your arm or
> leg size (more muscle).
>
> It's probable that some of your initial weight loss relates to hydration and
> other factors like gut contents, because every pound of genuine fat-loss has
> to be "paid for" by 3500 fewer calories absorbed. Thus consistent speed of
> fat-loss is basically going to be proportionate to overall calorie balance,
> and you could do some simple calculations on this to reassure yourself that
> you're not overdoing it. It doesn't sound as if you're expending an
> inordinate amount of calories on exercise, so just make sure that you don't
> reduce your food intake more than 500-750 calories per day, which with a bit
> of exercise will probably result in 4-8 lbs loss per month over the longer
> haul, mostly from fat reserves.
>
> David
>
> 2010/1/28 kimseunghoon <kimseunghoon@
>
> >
> >
> > Two weeks passed after I started fast-5.
> >
> > I lost about 11 pounds, and it seems that
> > more than half of the lost weight are fat.
> > After one week, I lost 3.5 lbs of fat and 1.3 lbs
> > of muscle according to body composition measurement via BIA.
> >
> > I didn't have much difficulty in fasting and no dizziness, headache.
> > But I'm afraid of the speed of losing weight. Is it too fast?
> > Or is it normal?
> >
> > Before I started fast-5, my weight was 176 lbs (5ft.6in height).
> > I do low intensity of weight lifting 3 times a week (no cardio).
> > During the eating window, I usually take one meal, some snacks
> > (fruits, milk, sometimes protein powder), and supplements
> > (Omega-3, vitamin).
> >
> >
> >
>
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