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Monday, March 7. 2022

Fat loss


1-2 lbs/week is enough.  Sustaining a 2 lb/week loss is difficult, might be too much. Furthermore, fat loss is never steady.


That loss is almost entirely about nutrition. The reason to include exercise, or fitness training, is to minimize muscle loss while getting rid of the fat burden.




Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Physical Fitness at 15:37 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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People can usually manage 10% of body weight reduction. Digging in, you might make it to 20%. The body readjusts all the way down, because it interprets for evolutionary reasons that calorie restriction means starvation is in the wings. You can't reason with your body that it's really better for you. It only knows what has been true for 99% of human existence.

It can be done and has been done, but keeping it off is rare.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-03-07 20:00 (Reply)
"...but keeping it off is rare." Poppycock. I've always kept it off for months at a time, sometimes for years at a time in between weight loss regimens.
#1.1 BillH on 2022-03-08 10:07 (Reply)
Interestingly, Adele Davis's "Let's Get Well", talks about highly effective high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets... several years before Stillman's published his high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet in 1967.
#2 Riick on 2022-03-07 20:04 (Reply)
New Yale study (Controlled Human trial) shows the effects of cutting calories by 14% over two years has profound effects on health and longevity.

https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/22/first-controlled-human-trial-shows-cutting-calories-improves-health-longevity/

“Two years of modest calorie restriction reprogrammed the pathways in fat cells that help regulate the way mitochondria generate energy, the body’s anti-inflammatory responses, and potentially longevity,” said study author Dr. Eric Ravussin. “In other words, calorie restriction rewires many of the metabolic and immune responses that boost lifespan and health span."
#3 Aggie on 2022-03-07 20:16 (Reply)
If that were true those starving children in Africa should live to 120.
#3.1 JustMe on 2022-03-08 09:44 (Reply)
Do cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I lost over one hundred pounds when I did that.
#4 Maniac on 2022-03-08 08:25 (Reply)
Most obese/fat people are obese/fat because of genetics. It is unlikely and extremely difficult for them to ever reach and maintain "normal" weight. Most dieters are neither obese or fat but rather simply heavier than they would like to be. Most of those people can lose that weight but it will always be a life long effort to maintain their ideal weight.
#5 JustMe on 2022-03-08 10:41 (Reply)
But for those 'genetically' fat / obese people, what happens when they are put into a situation where their calorie count is controlled by someone else, no exceptions?

I bet they lose weight, just like everybody else. Their 'genetics' are driving their preferences, maybe?
#5.1 Aggie on 2022-03-08 23:09 (Reply)

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