JJ Virgin says the scale lies. Rapid weight loss from fasting or inactivity burns muscle and water, not fat. Real progress means getting metabolically healthy so your body sheds fat while keeping muscle. Measure your waist and know your body composition instead.
You don't lose weight, and that's why I don't like to use the scale as a metric of success, because if you wanted to just lose weight, I would tell you, you know what, if your goal is to lose weight, what you should do is sit on the couch, fast, don't do anything. You will lose a lot of muscle. In fact, if you did that for 3 days, probably 50% of the weight loss would be muscle. You'd lose a lot of water and you'd make yourself worse, not better. If you're losing weight, but you're not losing your waist, you're making yourself worse, not better. In order to get healthy, you don't lose weight. You actually have to get metabolically healthy in order to drop body fat and hold on to or build muscle. And so it all starts with knowing your starting point.
