I've been moving slowly into this way of eating since Dec. 2011. Each step has been helping me feel better and better. Now I'm at a point where the weight is dropping off. No complaints. I feel great and I intend on just keeping on and letting my body find the weight where it is happy (although the ideal weight in my head is 35 pounds away, for reference). I don't know if I'm in ketosis. I do have a piece of fruit each day - apple or 1/2 a banana, but mostly just eating a lot of vegetables for my carbs. Also, I've always been a big water drinker so I'm not sure that the weight I'm dropping is water weight. Time will tell, I guess.
My question is about fat loss. I have always read that, beyond the initial water weight loss, it isn't possible to lose more that 2 pounds of fat a in a week. "They" say that anything beyond a 2 pound loss in a week is muscle loss. So much about eating this way has turned the things I was always told about healthy eating on its head. Is this 2 pound weight loss rule-of-thumb true for those of us that have our metabolism to run on fat instead of carbs?
I feel like I'm on track regardless, but if the weight loss keeps up like this and I'm losing muscle I'd like to know so I can tweak things if need be.
