How drastically can a body change in 1-2 weeks? How the Power90 models do it.

But DAAAAANG...I swear, just over the course of a few days...I look so much different...just fatter, flabby, lost muscle mass...but a week later, I think I'm back...and I don't know if it's in my head...or the body really can change that much in a week or so.

It would be intersting to see studies on how much and how drastically people's bodies can change over very short periods of 1-2 weeks.

I see some of these Power90 things...and I am certain they hired well developed body builders...had them pork out for 2 weeks...and then they quickly lost the fat, revealing the muscle that was already there.

In my experience, my body can change quickly for the worse...but also for the better...though the worse is easier and quicker. Mostly around the waist and in the chest, and my calves is where I see it. Muscle seems to atrophy pretty fast when not being worked...

...although I bet it's all genetic, because some people never lose muscle, and they don't work out at all. So perhaps my body wants to be a geek body...and it's an uphill battle fighting my geek genes.

Are you sure it is really changing for the worst? When I'm eating to gain weight I can easily put a few inches on my stomach. My stomach got to 3-4' larger over about 3 weeks (eating a LOT). However during the first 2' my skinfold measurements went down by 2mm. Its mainly the difference between being not full and somewhat dehydrated (from low carb) to being super hydrated and very full. Very little was actual fat. Actually the fat only started coming on after the first 2' or so. Even when I got to around 3-4' the measurements where where they started out. The only reason I stopped eating so much was because nothing really fit anymore I'm taking a more conservative route for the rest of my HST cycle. High protein always, about 500C extra around my workout (maintenance throughout most of the day) and about 250C extra the next day (mostly in the AM). Basically I'm trying to keep my Calories up during the times when it is in the most anabolic state and keep them at maintenance the rest of the time.

Well, if we chainsaw off your arms, legs and head, burn what's left, and toss the ashes, arms, legs and head in a bathtub and soak 'em in DRANO for 20 hours, I'd say...

pretty drastically.

It would be a lot easier to just feed him through a woodchipper.

You know, you can void a warranty doing that.

hmmm...excellent points - yeah...being full and hydrated do make a big difference...if it's a short time frame...that is probably it...do you look at the scale too? I think I have reached a point where I won't lose too much more weight...because muscle is being put on...and not that much fat left to lose... at first...apparently i was losing fat more quickly than putting on muscle..because weight was dropping all the time.

but now it's steadied out...if it doesn't start going up....i guess sopmething is wrong with my workout strategy.

So you have skinfold measuring equipment?

What do you weigh? how tall are you? So you count your calories and have a target total for each day...one for work days and another for maintenance days? and you simply add 500c..500 calories to your work days?

As long at you give me my tetnus shots afterward...okay then!

nope...being forcefully drowned or being tossed into molten lava are my biggest fears...besides permanent hell. that's why you won't see me boiling a lobster. fu**** cruel man.

A long drawn out disease, friends and family watching you deteriorate. A lot of us have seen it.

Death doesn't scare me. Nursing homes do though.

I had a Sociology class in college called 'Sociology of Aging'. It was an elective. I thought it would be easy, which it was, but the books I read about nursing homes have scarred me.

dave h