has the "Wooosh" ever happened to you.
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It seems more likely that a whoosh would result from fluid being retain in all the normal places that fluid is retained in, perhaps caused by one of the normal causes, and when the cause goes away, so does the fluid. Sore muscles are a common cause of fluid retention and once the sourness goes away, it would look like a sudden weight loss on the scale.0
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I doubt it happens like the graphic, but I've experienced it. I had three weeks of miniscule losses, then 6lbs over 10 days. The whole time keeping to my MFP calorie goal.0
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I've noticed the woosh both losing and gaining in fat, especially around the stomach area. For weeks i didnt see any leaning/fat loss then woosh, it just went away and i could see and feel the fat gone around the stomach area. I've also noticed the same woosh affect when i gained the fat around my stomach from not being diligent.0
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There is a lot more going on in a cell than a nucleus, I'm not sure why you're so fixated on the diagram considering that yours is only slightly more realistic.It is also misleading that you could "shut down" a cell. The fat cell is not completely empty. It still contains a nucleus. You cells do turnover, over time, but fat cells are reproduced just like skin cells.
It's not a very technical diagram. The purpose in posting a diagram with a nucleus specifically was to indicate that the cell still lives. Most non-scientific people can grasp nucleus = cell brain. I couldn't find a better adipocyte diagram online that showed fat entering or leaving a cell.0 -
This drawing is overly simplistic and misleading. First, what the heck kind of cell is that? No nucleus?
Here's a diagram of a white fat cell gaining fat:
I'm not going to talk about brown fat cells, since your diagram seems to be talking about only white cells. Although it has been speculated that the emptied fat cells temporarily store water before a large scale loss, I can only find speculation on body building sites, not medical journals. I feel like it would be very easy to test and replicate if it were the case. Also, your body has tens of BILLIONS of fat cells. The idea that they're all doing the same thing at the same time and that results in a sudden scale loss is absurd. Your cells are constantly adapting to the environment you provide (nutrients, UV rays, heat, cold, free radicals, pathogens). Cells in different parts of the body behave differently, as well.
It is also misleading that you could "shut down" a cell. The fat cell is not completely empty. It still contains a nucleus. You cells do turnover, over time, but fat cells are reproduced just like skin cells.
Your diagram is inaccurate as well. There are no mitochondria indicated, no vacuoles, no reticulum, no ribosomes, et al.
Simplified diagrams often work well enough to get a point across.0 -
Not exactly the same thing, but after I went through an elimination diet to reduce inflammation due to food allergies I lost 15 lbs in 2 weeks - primarily water and improved digestion, but it was definitely a very sudden loss. Since then, nope, nothing other than the ups and downs of water retention. Unless I eat a trigger food, then I swell up again and have to start the healing process all over again.0
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Every month I drop about 3 lbs that way in synch with TOM. First two weeks of the month generally go as predicted by MFP, then last two weeks I have no change until the end when I suddenly drop all the weight MFP was predicting overnight.0
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Another possible explanation for a whoosh is constipation. During constipation, you can get a backlog of stuff in your gut that could be as much as ten pounds or so. Once that stuff begins to turn loose, the number on the scale will drop very quickly. Since fat loss would've continued during the constipation, a much lower number may be achieved.0
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »I lost most of my weight that way. Definitely not a myth. I'd stop losing anything 2 weeks before my period, then have a woosh the week after and I've lost 60 pounds that way... only the week after my period. The record is 6 pounds in 2 days, I think.. but it's been a while as I've been maintaining for a year.
I lost in wooshes too.
Yep-I did alternate day IF and I had 6 months of bounces and whooshes. It's how the plan works
But I'm talking about on the scale-not the cartoon in the OP lol. 0 -
My weight loss has been more stair-stepped/whooshy seeming the past month or so. My guess was that it had to do with being closer to my goal (so I have much less body fat than I did at the beginning of all this).
Seems obvious it must be water or stool related. You can easily see a "whoosh" of stool so if you don't know why you've lost it must be water. I doubt it happens like the OP's graph though.0 -
I lost most of my weight that way. Definitely not a myth. I'd stop losing anything 2 weeks before my period, then have a woosh the week after and I've lost 60 pounds that way... only the week after my period. The record is 6 pounds in 2 days, I think.. but it's been a while as I've been maintaining for a year.
Exact same situation for me!! About 2 weeks before my period starts, I completely stop losing and remain the same weight, literally to the 1/10 of a pound and as soon as my period is over, off comes the 1-3lbs I should have lost from those weeks. I have not even the slightest understanding of why, but it's that way every month!
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Yes - my weight loss report looks just like a staircase too (aside from a 10 day holiday 'spike', quickly lost). There is normally 10-11 days between wooshes, then I get a drop of a 2lb over the next 5 or so days: after that, back to 'no-change'.
Since my average loss is 1lb per week, regardless of the ups, downs and no-changes, now I am aware of it I am happy just 'wait on the woosh'... I just rode out a 24 day wait (longest yet), so I'm in the blissful woosh stage right now!0 -
I have no opinion on the accuracy of any of the diagrams, but the whooosh has happened to me.0
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I'm hoping for a whoosh... I've been diligent for the past 3 weeks, but the scale fluctuates 2-3 lbs UP every other day or so. Trying really hard to stay positive and not get the defeated feeling and quit!0
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I had a 10 pound wooosh the night before I started logging on MFP. I just had an 8 pound wooosh after a week long stall and a horrendous cheat day full of salt and fat.0
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After a two week stall I dumped 4.5 pounds between Friday and Sunday last weekend. I don't know the science behind it but I was pretty danged excited when it happened.0
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Yes. I whoosh. I noticed it long before I ever heard of it. I asked here, something like, "Do you notice that your fat get squishy and then you lose a bunch of weight?" and everyone told me about The Whoosh and their personal theories.
It is a VERY REAL thing for many of us.
Your fat gets really loose and squishy, like melting jello and then your weight drops and your fat goes back to being regular fat again.
It's so weird that I've had a bunch of whooshes and still, when it gets all squishy, I can't stop feeling it.
The whoosh is not a myth. 0 -
Your fat gets really loose and squishy, like melting jello and then your weight drops and your fat goes back to being regular fat again.
It's so weird that I've had a bunch of whooshes and still, when it gets all squishy, I can't stop feeling it.
The whoosh is not a myth.
Feeling it with your hands or just a inside?0 -
With my hands. It's just so weird and squishy. It almost doesn't seem human.daniwilford wrote: »
Your fat gets really loose and squishy, like melting jello and then your weight drops and your fat goes back to being regular fat again.
It's so weird that I've had a bunch of whooshes and still, when it gets all squishy, I can't stop feeling it.
The whoosh is not a myth.
Feeling it with your hands or just a inside?
If it happens to you, you'll know it. It's a "You can't miss it" kind of deal.
The more I lose, the weirder it gets because now I have excess skin added to the mix, so it's just like a bunch of melted jello or some kind of gel in there. VERY squishy. Kind of gross.
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