Is it normal to have "squishy fat and whooshes"?

Try adding strength training/body weight training to your exercise routine it prevents squishy fat. No idea about the whoosh. I have been 'whooshing" pretty frequently since I increased my water intake to 2L

Well, considering the source (Lyle McDonald) I'm inclined to believe it a little more than I otherwise would, but as far as I know, it's just a theory.

Kalikel wrote: »

I don't know about "normal", but I know it happens. I lose almost all my weight in short bursts. It isn't in one day, but I'll not lose for a long time and then lose a bunch in a week.

I know it is coming, because my fat loosens up. It feels like it is separate from everything else in there. It's like half-melted jello. When that happens, I know it's coming.

The Not Losing is a drag, but the "whoosh" makes up for it. That's always a nice week.

I'm the exact same way. I won't lose an ounce (just fluctuate between the same 2-3 pounds) for 2-3 weeks, then "whoosh!" I'll drop 3-4 pounds in less than a week. Lather, rinse, repeat. The "hold" weeks are incredibly frustrating, because mathematically, I should be losing, but the whoosh weeks make up for it.

I have the same thing happening to me! I've been logging my weight every morning just to see my weekly and monthly fluctuations, and basically every month goes like this:

start at 182, go up to 187ish and down to 180 in a week, but always keeping around 182, then after a month I'm down to 177 and only going back up to 184. Then I bounce around there for a month...and drop 2 pounds, and I'm currently bouncing between 175 and 180. It's a bit frustrating but looking at the 3 months overall I see steady decline in my lows and highs, with a big average drop each month of 2-3 pounds.

Drinking more water helps, as well as having a super heavy workout/running [or sometimes drinking ] day every few weeks to squeeze all the water out of my system. For this I've been doing Bikram Yoga every 2-4 weeks. It helps push all the extra water, salt, and whatever else out. Then I drink a bunch of water and poof! I'm a few pounds lighter.

I also know ALL about the squishy fat [I've read that article a few times] and currently have a nice amount of extra skin and annoying fat clinging to my stomach and refusing to die like a terminator. Hopefully I can slowly starve the rest of this stuff out of me without losing too much weight. I know, go lift heavy yadda yadda yadda...

sllm1 wrote: »

Good to know that I'm not alone. I've tried to describe this "hold pattern" before, but people tend to think I'm nuts. Now I have a name for it in my head - holding and whooshing.

I will also say that I have noticed that I'm terribly irritable on "whoosh" days. I can tell I'm whooshing just by my mood. Lower scale numbers the next day...every time.

I do this too! I thought I was crazy and it's nice to know I'm not alone. Especially the being crabby part.

I dont seem to whoosh I just lose 1-3lb a week. Mind you have only been at it for a cpl months but Im guessing its just individual. Ive also noticed my week has a pattern, bounce around the same weight monday to thursday, resign myself to not losing this week then drop the lot over fri sat and sun. Hence weighing on a monday

From what I know generally this only happens at lower fat levels. Having said that, the actual pattern has been fairly well documented, however, the physiology behind it has, to the best of my knowledge, not been determined. In other words, people are putting forward theories why this happens, but more studies a needed to determine exactly what is happening. It may be water taking the place of the triglycerides in the fat cells which is then dumped in a short period of time resulting in a quick weight loss, or it might be something else. I have not read up on it in a while though so more research might have been done since.