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Originally Posted by cmr924  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. |
1) I titled the thread "How I lost 7.4lbs in 8 Days.." not "How I lost 7.4lbs of fat in 8 days..."
2) I'm just reporting my weight loss as the numbers shown on my scale, and I provide Body Fat % according to my scale as well on my blog. People are free to interpret the #'s as they choose.
3) The reason I don't believe statements like "The body is simply not capable of losing 7.4 pounds of fat in 8 days." and will always argue them is because I don't believe in limiting my beliefs. That is a belief you have based on your research, but I don't have that belief. My belief is that it is possible. I'm not saying I've done it, I'm just saying it's not impossible.
For example, early on in my life, I had people I trusted tell me things like "If you want to make more than $30k/year you must got to collage or university, otherwise you'll be a bum." Others told me "You have to have money to make money.", while others still told me "While the Rich get richer, the poor will always be poor." etc. These were all beliefs they had, which kept them in poverty, but they were not facts.
I had to work a long time on cleaning my beliefs of these BS beliefs. Now that I have, I have been making a six figure income for years now, and I never had any money to start (was in huge debt actually), I wasn't rich to start, and I never went to collage or university even though I was an A student in highschool. I just didn't want to go to post-secondary, I wanted to make money in business on my own.
The funny thing is that the people who told me that you can't make any more than X unless you go to school, went to school and they go their diplomas and certificates and degrees and stuff and they do make more than 30k/year..... they make 40k/year or 45k/year... because that's what their professors told them they should ask for, and I still hear those people talking about how the rich get richer and the poor stay poor, and how it's impossible to get ahead in life, etc. etc.
I guess what I'm saying is that I am not argueing that you believe it is impossible to lose 7.4lbs of fat in 8 days. I'm just saying it's not a fact, simply because you believe it, and I do not choose to accept your belief at this time.
4) Would you be offended if I offered a different perspective on you belief? What if you were hired as an actor to play the role of a crazy scientist who believed that IT IS possible to lose 7.4lbs of fat in 8 days. This is not you, you're just acting. To prepare for the role you decide to do research into how it really IS POSSIBLE to do this, even if the real you doesn't believe it. What if you did that? What if you looked for proof that it is possible. How would you go about doing it?
For example, you could look at the statement and you could say that a REALLY LARGE person, like someone who weighs 800lbs might find it easier to lose 7.4lbs of fat in 8 days than someone that weighs 120lbs and is already their ideal weight, right? Maybe there is some really large person out there that eats like half a cow each day to maintain his 800lb weight, and if he went on a fast for 8 days, he might actually lose 7.4lbs, right?
Another example would be, lets say looking into getting rid of fat WITHOUT burning it. You talk about calories of fat and burning 7.4lbs of fat would be a lot of calorie burn, but what if the body was able to excrete the fat without burning it. Is that possible? Is it, for example possible that the body could eliminate fat through urination? Sweating? Through feces? Or is the only way the body can get rid of fat via burning it for energy?
I'm not saying you have to do this. All I'm saying is that you have a belief that something is impossible, but you wont' really know if your belief is true or not until you actually try looking at it from the other point of view.
This is what I did when I decided to build wealth. I took the belief "You have to go to school to make more than 30k/year." for example and I said to myself "If it was possible for someone to make more than 30k/year without going to school, how could that possibility exist?" and I came up with answers like:
- The person would have to be in a profession that doesn't have mandatory restrictions of going to school in order to make money. For example, professions like doctor or lawyer are out because you have to get a degree before the government allows you to practice. But, for example, programming is not affected by that. THere are plenty of self-taught programmers that never went to collage that are excellent at their craft.
- The person would have to be really smart. Way smarter than even the people who went to school.
- etc.
Once I figured out what would need to happen for it to be possible, I went out and did those things. I began self-study, became a programmer, etc.
Once I was a programmer and I was making $36k/year I began asking myself what would a person need to do in order to make more then that? Like lets say 100k/year. The answer I got was that the person would have to take on more responsibility, be more valueable, become a manager of other people, become a leader and a motivator, etc. So then I became that.