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cmr924 · 01-14-2008, 07:37 AM

No one is saying you can't lose more than 1 pound a week, but you can't lose 7.4 pounds of fat in 8 days.

The study you showed just listed weight loss. There were no mentions of body fat percentage loss at all. The key being: what percentage of your lost weight is fat, and what isn't? Most isn't.

Also, with Elaine, she lost a certain number of pounds per week. This isn't to say all those pounds were fat.

This is not to say that is a bad thing. It is normal, when going on a new diet, to drop a lot of weight at first. You are losing a lot of water weight.

Anyone can lose 7.4 pounds in a week. 3,500 calories is one pound. 3,500 * 7.4 = 25,900 calories. 25,900 / 7 days of the week = 3,700 calories.
If you eat 3,700 calories under your maintenance levels, the amount you can consume without weight gain or weight loss, you would lose 7.4 pounds that week. This is NOT considering water loss. This goes to show how impossible it would be to lose 7.4 pounds of muscle/fat in a week. Most of it would have to be muscle, and you would have to be eating quite a lot to be able to dip that far below maintenance.

01-14-2008, 07:37 AM	#11 (permalink)
cmr924 Banned Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 10	No one is saying you can't lose more than 1 pound a week, but you can't lose 7.4 pounds of fat in 8 days. The study you showed just listed weight loss. There were no mentions of body fat percentage loss at all. The key being: what percentage of your lost weight is fat, and what isn't? Most isn't. Also, with Elaine, she lost a certain number of pounds per week. This isn't to say all those pounds were fat. This is not to say that is a bad thing. It is normal, when going on a new diet, to drop a lot of weight at first. You are losing a lot of water weight. Anyone can lose 7.4 pounds in a week. 3,500 calories is one pound. 3,500 * 7.4 = 25,900 calories. 25,900 / 7 days of the week = 3,700 calories. If you eat 3,700 calories under your maintenance levels, the amount you can consume without weight gain or weight loss, you would lose 7.4 pounds that week. This is NOT considering water loss. This goes to show how impossible it would be to lose 7.4 pounds of muscle/fat in a week. Most of it would have to be muscle, and you would have to be eating quite a lot to be able to dip that far below maintenance. Last edited by cmr924; 01-14-2008 at 07:51 AM.