Ketogenic Diet - Week 2 results

I know it has been a while since I've posted anything up but things have been getting in the way (damn life) and I've decided its pretty damned boring to keep posting every single thing I eat so I thought it would be better to just post the results as I get them with each visit to my naturopath.. Week 2 has crawled around with my last night before the weigh-in day being an ultimate diet disaster due to a gathering me and a few good friends had at a Teppanyaki restaurant in Melbourne.

Because of the "breach" right before the weigh-in day and also a little too much coffee during the week, the results aren't as.. great as last weeks..

Well, here's the results for week 2 into the diet:

Overall:

Weight( kg)

First started: 73.6

Week 1: 71.2

Today: 71.2

Difference from last week: 0 -.-

Measurements:

Actual loss from last week (week 1) to today: 4.5cm!! 1cm off my waist, 1 cm off my butt and 1 cm off my thighs.. but... no weight loss?? this got me all confuzzled like.. until we did the VLA

So now the breakdown of the actual weight loss from the VLA:

Fat (kg from ideal - basically what I need to lose):

First started: 15.46kg

Week 1: 14.06kg

Today: 13.6kg

Difference from last measurement: -0.46kg (I LOST BODY FAT!!!!!!!!! not enough to get me too excited but I actually lost something!!)

ATM (kg from ideal - what I need to gain):

First started: -1.45kg

Week 1: -1.44kg

Today: -1.42kg

Difference from last measurement: +0.02kg (I gained more muscle!!! honestly 20g isn't much but seriously considering I'm not going to the gym...)

ATM Quality

First started: 94

Week 1: 95

Today: 95

Difference from last measurement: 0 (considering I gained a little more muscle and haven't been all that strict with my diet, I'm actually quite happy that the quality didn't decrease!)

Phase Angle

First started: 6.41

Week 1: 6.71

Today: 6.72

Difference: +0.01 (yes! health of cells is up!such a good thing!)

CFB (cellular fluid balance)

First started: 0.05

Week 1: -5.2

Today: -1.96

Difference: +3.24 (sigh.. sadly the fluid balance kinda went mad this time around.. explanation about this will be at the end of the result report)

Biomarker Index (Age of my body as opposed to chronological age)

First started: 29

Week 1: 28

Today: 27

Difference: 1 year (slowly and surely getting it down to my chronological age again.. although Lindsay mentioned that the ideal/optimal age of body should be about 10% less than chronological age.. which would mean that if I am able to achieve it - depending on lifestyle choices and situations etc - will be about 20.7 years)

ICW% (Intracellular water)

First started: 50.05

Week 1: 51.58

Today: 50.74

Difference: - 0.84 (this isn't too good.. means I lost the slight step forward that I had to get to ideal balance)

Difference from ideal: 4.26

ECW% (Extracellular water)

First started: 49.94

Week 1: 48.42

Today: 49.26

Difference: 0.84 (this has gone up.. not a good thing because this means that I am retaining water as well)

Difference from ideal: 4.26 

ECW (Litres)

First started: 15.19

Week 1: 14.38

Today: 14.88

Difference: +0.5 ( this isn't good.. I'm meant to be losing the water, not retaining it all again)

So as you can see, even though I've lost fat and cms off my body, the additional 500ml of water that my body has retained kind of cancels out the actual weight loss from the loss of fat. Thus, although I didn't move in weight, I actually still did lose fat and cms off my body which is pretty good :) 

An explanation about why I may have retained water is that I had a bowl of rice (carbs.. BIG no no on this diet) while out with my friends at the Teppanyaki place, and also a shot of warm sake. Apparently rice (I'm thinking it may be carbs in general) and alcohol actually contribute to absorption of water, meaning the body will retain the water until the carbs/alcohol is out of the system etc etc. 

Also, I did kinda drink quite a large amount of coffee during the week (so much for keeping it down to 1-2 glasses a day!) and therefore must try to reduce the coffee intake in the upcoming weeks..

So all in all (gosh this sounds like a damn essay), although I am relatively happy with my fat and cm loss this week, I am not entirely pleased that my weight did not drop at all. I think I will have to try to work hard to keep to the diet..

Sadly, I can see myself breaking the diet on Sunday coming because it will be a birthday party at a friend's place and she cooks the BEST foods... grrrrrr....

When on a diet people, make note NOT to choose a new lifestyle change around the november and december (NYE included) mark.. there's just WAY too many parties around