On Apr 29, 5:44*pm, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
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On 2009-04-29, MU wrote:

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:50:10 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

I have lost 16.6 lbs in the last 7 weeks and only changed 1 meal a
day.

If you were eating 2.75 pounds of food and dropped one meal that weighed
one pound, you would achieve the same results. Except that you would not

``Same results, except not.'' Bull**** equivocation, combined with
blind guessing.

have lost weight so drastically and placed yourself in an inevitable
rebound, return to or past original weight, for which you are now most
assuredly doomed.

Pitiful imbecile, how do you know 16.6 pounds is drastic? It depends on the
total adiposity.

For someone carrying 20 pounds of body fat, it would be drastic (pretty much
regardless of how long it took, really).

For someone carrying 70 pounds, it wouldn't be drastic to lose 16.6 pounds
in 7 weeks.

There is empirical evidence that maximum amount of body fat that can be shed by
means of a dietary deficit, without loss of lean mass (which qualifies
as a good definition of non-drastic loss) is a fraction of the total adiposity.

This fraction is about 0.8% per day, give or take. (Source: this can be derived
from the results stated in the paper ``A limit on the energy transfer rate from
the human fat store in hypophagia'').

From this we can easily calculate the percentage over 49 days:

* 1 - (1 - .008)^49 = 0.325

* (Note: ^ represents exponentiation).

I.e. over 7 weeks, you can safely lose about 33% of your body fat. If you are
carrying 48 pounds of it, then this is 16. The more fat you have in excess of
48 pounds, the easier and safer it is to lose 16 pounds over 7 weeks.

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