Results are mixed. Below is the first two weeks in my spread sheet. One thing that is glaringly obvious is the BF went up not down, even though the weight went down 5.2 lbs. This should mean I lost nothing but muscle. Which is possible, but the measurements don’t seem to agree. I lost .5 inches in my waist. Shawn Philips says you have to lose 10 pounds to lose an inch, which would be about right here. Fitness magazine said losing in the waist is almost always an indication of loss of fat, not muscle. I mean I don’t have .5 inches of muscle in my gut. Also look at the Navy BF calculation. They say I’m down 1.3%, which is good.

So I’m thinking it is my BF scale.This scale is very sensitive to hydration and one thing Atkins is diuretic, meaning you lose a lot of water, which would cause this scale to go up. I haven’t tried calipers, they might be better, but they are very susceptible to user variation and I don’t like the way they use a chart that says if I have the same skin fold as a 18 year old I’m still higher in BF.

And while these measurements are great in an abstract way, I still lost .5 inch in my waist, which is good any way you look at it.

I haven’t been exercising and I need to just do it and stop waiting to feel like doing it. That’s kind of the point. If I don’t feel like doing it I really need to do it.