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Can I have some advice here
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? |
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Can I have some advice here
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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? If you are able to lose very quickly, then you are equally able to regain very quickly and the time scale of gain is shorter than the time scale of loss. Yyou have a higher risk of falling off the wagon than slow losers. When going for all or nothing, nearly every case the end result is nothing. Combining these and noting the history of many dieters your risk of crash and burn yoyo dieting is much higher than most. Now consider the calorie issue. Fat is 3500-4000 calories per pound. Human metabolism ranges from 1000 calories up and the less you eat the lower the calories burned. Essentially if you're losing at a rate of over 2 pounds per week it is highly unlikely that it's all fat. Losing other than fat isn't good. When this arithmatic doesn't work - More to lose gives faster to lose it so folks with well over 100 pounds to lose can pull off 2+ pounds per week as they lose if they are very careful about chosing foods carefully. To sustain 7+ per week you'd need to have well over 200 pounds to lose and as you lose it the rate would need to taper down. Of course no one ever complains about their own losing quickly but it still isn't a good idea. The chance that what you're doing is healthy is low and the chance that what you're doing is injurious is high. |
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Can I have some advice here
IT"S LOSE WEIGHT, NOT LOOSE WEIGHT!!!!!
wrote in message ... 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? |
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On Apr 13, 10:30*am, "Anthony Allende" wrote:
IT"S LOSE WEIGHT, NOT LOOSE WEIGHT!!!!! Thank you! wrote in message ... 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?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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losing quickly but it still isn't a good idea.
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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. |
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