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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plus usually when people eliminate carbs they drop ~5 lbs of water weight from lowered glycogen stores.  This has literally nothing to do with fat loss, and is essentially meaningless, but makes people feel good when they step in the scale.[/quote]

Dropping 5 pounds of excess water weight is not insignificant.  Excess carbohydrate consumption leads to massive unnecessary water weight which is a huge contributor to high blood pressure.  Literally a week after starting keto, I was able to eliminate all of my blood pressure meds and I've never needed them since.  It makes me incandescent with rage and frustration that so many doctors don't prescribe this as a first line treatment.  I'm lucky to have a cardiologist who does.  I've never been healthier and I'm so frustrated I spent so many years sick, and sicker from med side effects, when changing my diet was so simple.  I'm not saying it was easy as I was a huge carb addict, but it is simple.  The science is clear.  [/quote]

On top of that, when you adapt from primarily carb burning to fat burning, your body depletes its glycogen stores (form of energy storage).  1 gram of glycogen carries 3 grams of water.  So when people say you lose water on keto, they mean you burn through your glycogen stores which in turn retain water.

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