On the road again

Very cloudy day, but I know that above those clouds, the sun shines bright.

There has been a question on my mind since I measured myself last Friday.   I lost 5 inches and only 2 lbs last week.  How could that be possible?  I measured several times.  It is what it is.  How?  I chose to pause to celebrate the results. Now its back to accessing my journey.

From Dr. Simeon's "Pounds and Inches", section 'Fluctuations in weight loss': The weight registered by the scale is determined by two processes not necessarily synchronized under the influence of HCG. Fat is being extracted from the cells, in which it is stored in the fatty tissue. When these cells are empty and therefore serve no purpose, the body breaks down the cellular structure and absorbs it, but breaking up of useless cells, connective tissue, blood vessels, etc., may lag behind the process of fat-extraction. When this happens the body appears to replace some of the extracted fat with water which is retained for this purpose. As water is heavier than fat the scales may show no loss of weight, although sufficient fat has actually been consumed to make up for the deficit in the 500-Calorie diet. When such tissue is finally broken down, the water is liberated and there is a sudden flood of urine and a marked loss of weight. This simple interpretation, of what is really an extremely complex mechanism, is the one we give those patients who want to know why it is that on certain days they do not lose, though they have committed no dietary error.

It is my third day in transition from phase 2 to phase 3.  The last day on the Very Low Caloric Diet Phase.  And I lost 1 lb. 

On the road again...Melting the fat Away!