first week...10 pounds down!!! Too much?

Chances are good that a large portion of that was water weight. I dropped like 6 pounds in 4 days, then gained back a pound, and then dropped .6 pounds this morning. It will slow down after that initial "woosh" by a great deal.

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Big initial losses are common, it's usually just an adjustment in water weight because you've changed your diet.

Digesting food uses water, so if you reduce the quantity you're eating, you will shed water. Even more so if you reduce the amount of carbohydrate, as you use more water to process and store that than other nutrients. Then there's the fact that when people start trying to lose weight, they incidentally start to eat less salty food, so there's less water retention due to salt - and last but not least, the actual amount of food working its way through your gut is smaller, so that's another reduction in weight.

It's not guaranteed - some people start a new workout regime at the same time, which causes them to retain water for muscle repair, so they actually appear to gain weight in the first couple of weeks, which can be discouraging - but in general, the first week or two is not an indication of things to come, and should be taken with a pinch of salt. If you're still losing fast by week 4, consider adjusting your calories.

This would explain it for me too, thank you :-)

I've started many diets before and usually lose several lbs the first week because of fluid . sounds normal to me . congratulations. Me ,on the other hand need help. I have charted for 10 days not going over , and still only lost 2 lbs .I was down 3 , but over the last few days gained a lb. I'm just watching caleries . I do have trouble getting all the water in. Any suggestions

I'd say it's pretty common for a large loss to happen in the first couple days. This time around I lost 6 pounds of water and "stuff" in the first two days. I maintained that 6 pound loss all week, and then this morning I am down about half a pound. This is the first bit I'm actually counting as true weight loss

I lost 10 lbs my first week too...quite a bit of water weight. The second week it was 6, then 3, then 1-2 since. Just don't give up when you stop seeing big losses. 1-2 lbs a week, every week leads to big results!

CathReese33 wrote: »

I carry around 10lb of water weight

Actually this is not right - it's a common misunderstanding that there is a certain weight of water and the rest is "you", but that's not how it works. Your body is mostly water - about 60%. So if you weigh 150lb, you are carrying about 90lb of water. This is why water weight can cause such massive and random fluctuations - your body is not solid and static, it's like a big wet sponge.

Shawn_in_OKC wrote: »

I'm down 12.4lbs this week but I'm also the size of a refrigerator.