Managing Expectations About Weight Loss
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angela p.
My friend, Robert Seidman, who lost 80 pounds and has kept it off for 4 years went on a rant about a woman he overheard in Starbucks. The woman claimed to have lost 7 pounds in a week, yet she was eating a Mocha and pumpkin scone. Basically he guessed that she was going to gain back 6 pounds with the sweets because she would be rebalancing her system.
He talks about how you need to burn more calories than you consume and that if you lose 7 pounds in a week probably only one of those pounds is fat and 6 are water. This is the science of it he talks about and goes into much more detail.
Here’s something I don’t hear much about which I know scientifically to be a fact (you can look it up!).
1. When you are consuming less calories than you burn, your body will start to burn fat
2. When you are restricting calories/burning fat, you eliminate more fluid (water weight) from your system than when your calories consumed vs. calories burned is balanced.
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Managing Expectations About Weight Loss
Posted by angela p.
My friend, Robert Seidman, who lost 80 pounds and has kept it off for 4 years went on a rant about a woman he overheard in Starbucks. The woman claimed to have lost 7 pounds in a week, yet she was eating a Mocha and pumpkin scone. Basically he guessed that she was going to gain back 6 pounds with the sweets because she would be rebalancing her system.
He talks about how you need to burn more calories than you consume and that if you lose 7 pounds in a week probably only one of those pounds is fat and 6 are water. This is the science of it he talks about and goes into much more detail.
Here’s something I don’t hear much about which I know scientifically to be a fact (you can look it up!).
1. When you are consuming less calories than you burn, your body will start to burn fat
2. When you are restricting calories/burning fat, you eliminate more fluid (water weight) from your system than when your calories consumed vs. calories burned is balanced.
READ THE REST