Ok so, week 1 of the cut down. If I'm honest, I hated it, but it was relatively easy, I miss my snacks but I'm only combating the want for food, none of the need, not really feeling the hunger. Pretty much hit my goals all week, strength struggled a little bit but ultimately wasn't too bad. Extra cardio sucked.
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Now that the gym is doing the evolt scans for free, I figure I can do one every week and track my progress there as well, however, it's ****ing with me this week.
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Apparently, I lost 3kg, gained 2kg of fat, lost 3kg of muscle and lost 5kg of lean mass. Obviously, this immediately seems very unlikely and highlights that whilst these scans CAN be useful, the bio impedance technology kind of sucks lol.
I ran the numbers through ChatGPT and it largely agreed with me (once again another tool you gotta take with salt), considering I would've need a 14000 calorie surplus to gain 2kg of fat. What it reckons is that the machine has relabelled mass between "lean" and "fat" compartments because of fluid changes, and then made assumptions based on the numbers it thought it had, if I'd thought of it at the time I probably would've just done another scan immediately to see if it could figure it out, if it was just a one of thing or something, might stop by tomorrow morning and see, otherwise will wait till next Monday, but if it keeps giving me numbers like this I'll write it off and just hunt down the more expensive dexa, or just focus on the weight average.
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Based on all the more accurate important numbers, I've dropped 3kg of weight in a week, and average is down 1kg. Very likely that 1kg is fat loss, and the rest is water weight/glycogen shifts plus some normal fluctuations.
In the end, week 1, success.
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Plateaus happen.... there can be a bunch of different reasons for it. It’s nothing to stress about unless it’s happening consistently.
