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>>9456694
You do not have a PhD in food chemistry.

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>>9376609
Hi biochemist here you're both fucking wrong

>it's impossible to lose that much in fat in a day so the only explanation is that you lose muscle.

When you burn calories off your body it can come from fat OR muscle, always a combination of both but depending on how far you've restricted you can lose majority muscle or a majority of fat. Your body uses both for fuel. Even with a very reasonable diet and weight training you will still lose some muscle mass in the course of a cut, that's just the reality.


>It's also impossible to lose that much [Two pounds of] fat in a day. Want to know what you lost? The poop in your intestines and water weight.

Almost correct. It IS possible to burn 7,000 calories (two pounds) in a day, however most people don't have the endurance, stature, or muscle tone to achieve a net 2 pound actual weight loss in one day. You would have to be in HIT for hours and hours, the whole day and most people just can't do that. Even the most dedicated exercise addicts can realistically only lose a pound in a day, and that is really pushing it, we're talking constant HIT for at least 12 hours. Most of the initial weight loss people see is glycogen depletion and bowel movements.

> Caffeine is a diuretic. It makes your body lose water.

This is a myth. Caffeine is a diuretic but it does NOT cause a net loss in water. All it does is make you urinate sooner by stimulating the CNS to move faster, speeding up all metabolic processes. It does NOT leech water from your body or make you dehydrated. All a diuretic is, is something that makes you urinate. So technically water is a diuretic, but we all know it doesn't cause you to get dehydrated.


OP, why are you on a ketogenic diet? Unless you have diabetes or are severely obese there's no medical reason to do so, and in fact you'll just have an increased risk of colorectal cancer, cardiac events, stroke, aneurism, and and hypotension. Not to mention losing out on plant nutrients.