My experience (1 month in)

[Lubaolong]

So far it is not going well. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong? I'm almost positive I'm not. Using the calculation method in the book I came to these numbers:

1 Month Ago
230 lbs
172 lbs lean body mass
58 lbs fat

2 Weeks Ago
220 lbs
165 lbs lean body mass
55 lbs fat

Today
212 lbs
159 lbs lean body mass
53 lbs fat

It would seem I've lost 5 pounds of fat and 13 pounds of muscle. I've been eating at least the required amount of protein each day, usually more. I don't go to the gym, but I do a body weight regime 3 times a week. I've noticed a large decrease in the amount of pushups I can do from 1 month ago compared to now. Not sure if that's due to muscle loss or lack of carbs. Where could the problem be??

[Relief]

Just an opinion here--but I would suspect your calculations-- a low carb diet is THE muscle sparing diet of choice for athletes, I seriously doubt that the muscle loss you are describing is acurate.
as to the push up issue--it can take up to 6 weeks to adapt to fat burning as fuel instead of carb burning-- once you do adapt your performance will be as before or better.

[Pam O.]

If you would like to post your measurements, height and weight I ir someone else could help your fiqure your lean body mass. Your lbm really should not change much. You are sure doing good at losing weight!!!:thumbsup:

Pam

[Lubaolong]

I used the method listed in the book to figure my lean body mass.

I can't seem to find my measurements from a month ago. Here is from 2 weeks ago and then a few days ago -

weight 220
waist 41.25
wrist 7.75

weight 211
waist 40
wrist 7.25

[Billie]

We also need your height and activity level--like do you do regular gym type or cardio exercising how many times a week for how many minutes. Or do not do exercising yet, that all has to be factored in on your protein requirement. How much protein a day is your minimum and how many ECCs of Carbs are you eating? That sounds like a tremendous loss of weight even for this program, and I just am trying to make sure you are eating what you should be.

[Relief]

there is one odd thing that I noticed in you measurements--your wrist measurement is different in the 2 sets--by a whopping 1/2 inch. the wrist measurement should be the constant--its why it is used--no fat on the bone there. I seriously doubt that you lost 1/2 inch of fat off your wrist in 2 weeks! LOL! so... one of the measurements is inaccurate--and that would defintiely throw off your body fat percentage calculation.