Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 VERY interesting and informative! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 I don't know about depriving your body of nutrients, but I think the bigger problem with losing weight at a rate higher than about 1 to 2 pounds a week is that your body is more likely to be losing lean tissue at that rate of loss. The reason I say that is because the human body is a carefully designed machine with one main function - survival. Like you said, you need to drop your calories about 3500 per week to lose 1 pound a week. So, to lose more than 2 pounds, you would need to be averaging a 1000 calorie per day drop in calorie level from what you would need to maintain your current weight. Now thinking of your body as a machine, it is complex by nature, but it does not understand that you are on a diet. All it knows is that the amount of fuel you are giving it has decreased a LOT! It needs to do something to conserve the precious fuel it is getting (in now meager amounts) and the best way to do that is to ditch the Hummers!!! In other words, it keeps around the fat, which hardly burns any calories at all, and it loses the muscle, which burns comparatively LOADS of fuel. This is an emergency measure designed to protect you from what your body perceives as the threat of death. SO - you have to walk the line. You have to give your body plenty of fuel to function properly and keep healthy muscles (remember - your HEART is a major muscle, too!!!), but you have to cut back enough that your body will start to burn off some of the fat you have been storing. THIS is why typically a rate of more than about 2 pounds a week on average does not result in healthy weight loss. Oh yeah - and if you go back to normal eating after rapid loss, your body (the machine) will do what comes naturally. It will begin to prepare you in case you ever face starvation again by packing on the most usable fuel storage it has - F-A-T!!!!! It doesn't build your muscles right back up, because it still thinks you just barely escaped death. It builds up as much fat as possible, so next time you will be that much less likely to die. > > I mean its great to lose as your bodies do. I am just a little confused why you said that if you lose more than 1-2 pounds in a week you are starving your body of nutrients? If you are taking a multi-vitamin and you are not starving yourself. I am just wondering why you are saying that. I am not trying to disagree, but more trying to fully understand what you are saying. > > Thanks, > Shirley in CO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 I think this is the clearest I've ever seen an explanation about why it is healthiest to lose only 1-2 pounds a week. I'd like your permission to repost your words to my team on the Weight Loss Buddies site. Just lemme know, Thanks! --- twinmom2701 <twinmom2791@...> wrote: > I don't know about depriving your body of nutrients, > but I think the > bigger problem with losing weight at a rate higher > than about 1 to 2 > pounds a week is that your body is more likely to be > losing lean > tissue at that rate of loss. > > The reason I say that is because the human body is a > carefully > designed machine with one main function - survival. > Like you said, > you need to drop your calories about 3500 per week > to lose 1 pound a > week. So, to lose more than 2 pounds, you would > need to be > averaging a 1000 calorie per day drop in calorie > level from what you > would need to maintain your current weight. > > Now thinking of your body as a machine, it is > complex by nature, but > it does not understand that you are on a diet. All > it knows is that > the amount of fuel you are giving it has decreased a > LOT! It needs > to do something to conserve the precious fuel it is > getting (in now > meager amounts) and the best way to do that is to > ditch the > Hummers!!! In other words, it keeps around the fat, > which hardly > burns any calories at all, and it loses the muscle, > which burns > comparatively LOADS of fuel. This is an emergency > measure designed > to protect you from what your body perceives as the > threat of death. > > SO - you have to walk the line. You have to give > your body plenty > of fuel to function properly and keep healthy > muscles (remember - > your HEART is a major muscle, too!!!), but you have > to cut back > enough that your body will start to burn off some of > the fat you > have been storing. THIS is why typically a rate of > more than about > 2 pounds a week on average does not result in > healthy weight loss. > > Oh yeah - and if you go back to normal eating after > rapid loss, your > body (the machine) will do what comes naturally. It > will begin to > prepare you in case you ever face starvation again > by packing on the > most usable fuel storage it has - F-A-T!!!!! It > doesn't build your > muscles right back up, because it still thinks you > just barely > escaped death. It builds up as much fat as > possible, so next time > you will be that much less likely to die. > > > > > > I mean its great to lose as your bodies do. I > am just a little > confused why you said that if you lose more than 1-2 > pounds in a > week you are starving your body of nutrients? If > you are taking a > multi-vitamin and you are not starving yourself. I > am just > wondering why you are saying that. I am not trying > to disagree, but > more trying to fully understand what you are saying. > > > > Thanks, > > Shirley in CO > > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Sure - what is knowledge if it isn't shared? > > I think this is the clearest I've ever seen an > explanation about why it is healthiest to lose only > 1-2 pounds a week. I'd like your permission to repost > your words to my team on the Weight Loss Buddies site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 In a message dated 1/2/2007 6:17:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, twinmom2791@... writes: Oh yeah - and if you go back to normal eating after rapid loss, your body (the machine) will do what comes naturally. It will begin to prepare you in case you ever face starvation again by packing on the most usable fuel storage it has - F-A-T!!!!! It doesn't Great Point... My sil a few years back lost over 100 lbs very aggressively. She trained up to 3 hrs a day. ATE so great. The minute she started to eat normal again the weight piled back on. It is a great way to jumpstart a diet BUT not a way of life. NH. 246.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 You know, I am loving this group. I love how we all interact. Thanks for sharing the story of your sil... Jase04567@... wrote: In a message dated 1/2/2007 6:17:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, twinmom2791sbcglobal (DOT) net writes: Oh yeah - and if you go back to normal eating after rapid loss, your body (the machine) will do what comes naturally. It will begin to prepare you in case you ever face starvation again by packing on the most usable fuel storage it has - F-A-T!!!!! It doesn't Great Point... My sil a few years back lost over 100 lbs very aggressively. She trained up to 3 hrs a day. ATE so great. The minute she started to eat normal again the weight piled back on. It is a great way to jumpstart a diet BUT not a way of life. NH. 246.6 __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Yep! You can't really EVER go back to eating like " normal " if eating like normal is eating like a fat chick. I used to totally eat like a fat chick, and guess what? I was a fat chick! LOL We've gotta create a NEW normal. > Great Point... My sil a few years back lost over 100 lbs very aggressively. > She trained up to 3 hrs a day. ATE so great. The minute she started to eat > normal again the weight piled back on. It is a great way to jumpstart a > diet BUT not a way of life. > > NH. > 246.6 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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