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Old May 2nd, 2009, 03:47 AM posted to alt.support.diet
James G
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Default Can I have some advice here

On Apr 11, 10:21*pm, wrote:
Ok I have lost about 28 pounds in the past month or so and I have had
people tell me left and right I am loosing it to fast. What do they
mean by me loosing it to fast what is supposed to happen if I loose it
to fast?


As Doug has stated, the caloric content of fat is ~3500 calories/pound
(I personally treat this as an absolute, but as a minimum content, it
works well).

If you lost 28 pounds of fat in a month, you'd have an average daily
deficit of around 28*3500/30 ~= 3266 calories. Considering most
people hover pretty near to 2000, unless you're super-ultra-morbidly
obese (think those shows they constantly run on TLC/etc.), this
amounts to negative calories (ie. not eating at all, then burning
EXTRA; the amount of exercise to burn off 1000 calories a day would no
doubt suck up all your time and probably cause serious health
defects).

What does this mean? It means you haven't lost ALL fat, which is a
Bad Thing(tm). You've probably lost some, but you should be aiming
for no more than a 1000 calorie/day deficit (and from personal
experience, I can tell you that 1000 calories/day will make you grumpy
as hell; it's cathartic to see the pounds literally falling off the
scale every morning, though). Most people agree this is the upper
limit on healthy weight loss rates.

Talk to a medical professional about this. You could be losing muscle
mass, which is obviously not going to do you any good.