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Source for my answer: for the last 10 months, I have fasted regularly, with various fasts from 16 hours to 7 days, with & without vitamins, including water fasts, electrolyte fasts, and dry fasts. During this time, I have weighed myself multiple times per day. [I have lost >100 lbs doing this, but that’s not important right now.]
How hydrated you are at any given time is a confounding variable whenever you weigh yourself. My body can hold plus or minus nearly a gallon of water without me feeling a difference. If I weigh myself while less hydrated one day, and then while more hydrated the next day, that hydration difference will completely overshadow any weight loss. When I was dry fasting there was no increase in hydration, so weight loss became extremely regular. Eating more carbohydrates also tended make me retain more water for a few days, and the amount of food in my gut at any one time were some other confounding variables.
Source for my answer: for the last 10 months, I have fasted regularly, with various fasts from 16 hours to 7 days, with & without vitamins, including water fasts, electrolyte fasts, and dry fasts. During this time, I have weighed myself multiple times per day. [I have lost >100 lbs doing this, but that’s not important right now.]
How hydrated you are at any given time is a confounding variable whenever you weigh yourself. My body can hold plus or minus nearly a gallon of water without me feeling a difference. If I weigh myself while less hydrated one day, and then while more hydrated the next day, that hydration difference will completely overshadow any weight loss. When I was dry fasting there was no increase in hydration, so weight loss became extremely regular. Eating more carbohydrates also tended make me retain more water for a few days, and the amount of food in my gut at any one time were some other confounding variables.