I am day 5 doing Keto and I noticed I lost water.My fat feels firmer,I touched my body and my gut and hip fat feels like its stiffer.
I heard that you will lose glycogen water from muscles,but my muscles doesnt seem any different,but my fat does.My gut got significantly smaller and when I run my hand over the areas of my body with most fat,it feels different,firmer/stiffer.
Can fat hold water? Can Keto diet remove that water?
There’s a distinct very early water weight drop in the first week or two of keto, followed by longer phases of fat-water cellular recomposition - more here in this very handy little community education video which helped me a lot in my early weeks and months of keto.
She says you will at first not drop weight becose the fat inside fat cell is replaced with water as you burn the fat so the overall size and weight of fat cells doesnt change for like two weeks and only after the fat inside fat cells is strongly depleted,they finaly start shrinking.
That is not what I expected,touching and looking at my body isnt accurate but it seems like my muscles are full like before keto but my fat got drier,or maybe its just illusion and I make wrong judgement.
What happens to water inside body on keto?
Is this correct train of events on keto?
What you’re probably noticing is less inflammation, bloating, and less water retention. Which means you wouldn’t feel as soft and squishy. Beyond that, I couldn’t tell you the chain of events accurately. Are you worried about something?
No,I am not worried,I feel great! I am just curious,body is like complex machine,I want to know how it works.You say less water retention,but in what type of tissue you think this apply to? Do you mean less water in muscle? Less water in fat cells?
It seems to me that I lost water from fat cells,but the video posted above claims this should not happen until couple weeks after keto,I am just at day 5.Also,my muscles doesnt look depleted,they are full and big like before.
Water retention can happen in different tissues at the same time. It can happen near blood vessels in layers of the skin, fat, muscle, organs.
Unfortunately I have quite a problem with cellulite on my legs- the first time I tried keto for 2 weeks there was a noticeable improvement, so I guess it can happen! I gave up but restarted a month later, it’s taken longer this time 
Why would you give up Jules!?
Who needs carbs if you can have bacon.Bacon is love,bacon is life!
Stay strong Jules,you can do it! 
Sadly I’m vegetarian! Have been for 30 years, although all this bacon talk could almost tempt me… I do have quorn bacon, which I love! I gave up the first time because I hadn’t really prepared properly, was feeling glum at everything I couldn’t eat, even though I lost 6lbs water weight in 10 days! Second time I found this fantastic site, read up lots more, found lots of recipes to try… & here I am, 7 weeks later, feeling brilliant and a definite convert!!
I also think that the orchestration related to the let down of the water in swooshes is related to cortisol levels/stress management. It probably involves the hind brain being relaxed/safe/content. Physiology is very primal.
