Confusion over calories and healthy weight loss

"bookalley" wrote in message
...
in article lunachick-
Personally the theory of the 8 - 10 (cal) x body weight does not
sound
scientifically accurate.

It's not a theory, merely a rough guide that works for "most people",
and doesn't take into consideration variations in bone size/density,
height, age/metabolism, etc. Kinda like those almost useless
height/weight charts. (I say almost, because they are useful for a
few people that fit the perameters). You are only supposed to take
the 8 to 10 guide as a *starting point*, and tweak from there.

If a goodly portion of that weight is adipose
tissue, that adipose (fat) tissue is "dead" weight.

Completely? Fat tissue takes no calories to mantain at all?

Only the muscle tissue
burns calories. Does it make sense to "feed" fat tissue as if it
were
metabolically equal to muscle tissue? No, of course not.

But you don't, not while you are in weight loss phase, that is.
That's what maintenence is... feeding all tissue enough to maintain a
certain range.

revek

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:15:19 -0500, "revek"
wrote:


"bookalley" wrote in message
...
in article lunachick-
Personally the theory of the 8 - 10 (cal) x body weight does not
sound
scientifically accurate.

It's not a theory, merely a rough guide that works for "most people",
and doesn't take into consideration variations in bone size/density,
height, age/metabolism, etc. Kinda like those almost useless
height/weight charts. (I say almost, because they are useful for a
few people that fit the perameters). You are only supposed to take
the 8 to 10 guide as a *starting point*, and tweak from there.

If a goodly portion of that weight is adipose
tissue, that adipose (fat) tissue is "dead" weight.

Completely? Fat tissue takes no calories to mantain at all?

Only the muscle tissue
burns calories. Does it make sense to "feed" fat tissue as if it
were
metabolically equal to muscle tissue? No, of course not.

But you don't, not while you are in weight loss phase, that is.
That's what maintenence is... feeding all tissue enough to maintain a
certain range.

revek

Additionally, most caloric multipliers take that into account. It's
why 8-10 (I usually give 10-12, then adjust downwards) is given for
people who have 50-er-so pounds to lose, but significantly overfat
people can get away with eating at 5-7 calories per pound.

Cheers,
Nina


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