Donald asks…
Why do people say eating nothing doesnt make you lose weight?
I didnt eat for a week because I was ill, and I lost so much weight I started losing it off my face. Whenever i eat less I also lose weight easily, within a week I can see the difference even without doing exercise. Also since anorexics eat nothing and become unbelievably skinny, eating nothing must surely work but every says ‘your metabolism slows down’ if you don eat. But surely if you eat, your metabolism stays high but you probably dont burn off more than the number of calories you consume, or if you do, you dont burn off as many as you would from eating nothing at all.
What’s your view?
Its not that I want to lose weight by not eating I just wanted to know why people say that it doesnt work because like I said, when I eat less I lose fat around my stomach and quite a bit of weight so I thought maybe science was wrong
weight loss cardiff answers:
Around 7 years ago i was over weight – 16st 9lbs /height 5ft 10 age 35yrs. I went on a crash diet and consumed no more than 300 calories a day, 1 meal a day (evening) – I made those calories count though and suprised myself by the size of portions that 300 calories could amount to, though mostly veg.
The weight came of me at a very consistant rate. And within 4months my weight had dropped to 10st 7lbs. I never noticed any slow down till i approached my bmi target of 10stn 12. The slow down occurs around 11sn 4 but i still stuck to my diet till i reach my mental target of 10st 7lbs.
The reason for this was I was prepairinf for some increase and just wanted a bit of a pillow. Anyway, i started to slowly increasy my calorie intake gradually over weeks, no more than 150 calories a week. I eventually arrived by at consuming around 1800-2500 calories a day.
Now all these years on I am still sitting here today under 11 stn. 10st 11lbs last time i checked. I even came out of a 3 year
I dont know where peole get these myths about weight gains for, yes perhaps if your a silly individual who under estimates their own will power to not binge then that may happen. I never, i let my body re-adjust to normal diet and can say from my own experience my diet work wonderful for me. Never once felt ill or any of the effects people describe.
My opinion is aslong as you control the re-adjustment back to normal, and also know when the time to do so has arrived then an extremly low calorie diet works fine. Going to far may cause these muscle wasting things people describe but as long as there is fat to use then it would be a very disfunctional human body that tried to break down muscle over fat!
Just know when to stop, and begin the graudle adjustment back to normal.
Chris asks…
How do i lose the most weight and have a flat stomach?
I am one of thoes people who gain and lose weight very easily. I have lost over 15 lbs in a two week peroid before with no health problems. I just finished finals and during this time i stress ate so i gained many pounds. I am natrually very short and very curvey.
Whenever i seriously exercise, i always lose weight in my butt first, followed by legs, hips, and finally stomach. I want to have flat somach again, what can i do? I do not have access to a gym or weights.
weight loss cardiff answers:
It seems that everybody wants to lose weight. But when most people say they want to lose weight, what they really mean is they want to lose weight without altering their current lifestyle. They want to lose weight without changing the foods that they eat, or without getting up off the couch, turning off the television, and engaging in regular physical exercise. Not surprisingly, there is a huge market that offers shortcuts to weight loss through cosmetic surgery, diet pills, nutritional supplements, and various diets — such as the Atkins Diet.
There’s a growing group of people who leap from one weight loss fad to another, in search of the one thing that’s going to finally help them lose weight without having to alter the foods they eat. People don’t want to give up their soft drinks; they don’t want to give up pizza, and ice cream, and fast food. And they sure don’t have time to go out and exercise on a regular basis. So the shortcuts market is absolutely astounding — $9.4 billion was spent last year on cosmetic surgery alone, and hundreds of millions more were spent on weight loss pills, fat burning nutritional supplements, and low-carb foods. It’s a tremendous market, and the public seems to be more than willing to keep spending money on these items, even though the real answers are to be found in something entirely different.
The reality of weight loss is that there are no shortcuts! You can have cosmetic surgery to remove fat from your thighs, or the back of your arms, but if you continue eating the way you’ve been eating, your body will just deposit the fat somewhere else on your body — usually in a place that looks even stranger than when it was on your hips. Even if the cosmetic surgery works out for you, it doesn’t alter your blood chemistry, your cardiovascular health, or your level of physical fitness. Meaning that you are just as unhealthy after the surgery as you were before, even though you may physically show less body fat. Something similar is true with foods as well. Many people continue to eat a diet high in refined carbohydrates, added sugars, and obesity-promoting ingredients, such as high-fructose corn syrup. Then in an attempt to lose weight, they will take a couple of weight loss pills each day, and hope that those pills will some how counteract the entire day of eating unhealthy, obesity-promoting foods. It just doesn’t work this way.
If you really want to lose weight, you’ve got to do two things. First you have to avoid foods that promote obesity and weight-gain. These are the foods that are consumed by the vast majority of Americans, and are the ones that are the most popular in grocery stores and restaurants. Any food that’s processed or manufactured is very likely to promote obesity, or some other chronic disease. Foods made with refined white flour or refined sugar, for example, will undoubtedly alter your blood sugar levels and tell your body to start storing fat. Foods high in saturated animal fats, such as red meat, or foods that are high in hydrogenated oils, like margarine or shortening, will also pack on the body fat, and harm your cardio-vascular health at the same time. Achieving a healthy body weight absolutely requires taking these foods out of your diet for the rest of your life. You can have either soft drinks and processed foods, or a healthy body weight — but not both. In fact, much of the foods available today in the national food supply are simply incompatible with a healthy body weight, no matter how much surgery you undergo, and no matter how many weight loss supplements you attempt to take.
The other part of the equation here is physical exercise. The human body simply won’t shed excess body fat without engaging in regular physical exercise. Physical exercise gives you a much higher metabolism; it helps you burn calories, even while you’re sitting or sleeping. It also increases your lean body mass — especially when you engage in strength training — and that results in even more calories being burned when you are at rest. Physical exercise, in fact, modifies your body chemistry in a way that helps your body better use refined foods such as breads or pasta. When you eat those foods without engaging in physical exercise, you’re automatically going to add weight. But when you have an extremely fit body that engages in regular exercise, such as jogging, swimming, walking, or biking, you can get away with eating a few processed foods. But still you have to limit your intake of processed foods if you want to maintain a healthy body weight.
In my own case, I engage in rather vigorous physical exercise several times per week, typically putting in 10 hours of exercise each week. And even then, I don’t allow myself to eat any breads or pasta or refined carbohydrates of any kind. I don’t consume breakfast cereals; I don’t drink fruit-drinks or consume soft drinks. And what I’ve found is that if I eat a piece of bread or have a sandwich, then those refined carbohydrates alter my blood sugar in a way that makes me extremely hungry three or four hours later. If I had eaten a high protein meal, or a meal high in healthy fats and fibers, I wouldn’t be hungry so quickly. So it is these processed foods that are in fact causing the obesity in the first place. And consuming diet pills or weight loss supplements simply isn’t the answer to long-term weight loss. The answer is to look at your lifestyle, examine what you’re doing wrong that needs to be corrected, and then have the courage to make the changes that will bring you into a healthy body weight and keep you there for life
Robert asks…
How do you easily lose weight in a week?
Please im in a hurry!!!
weight loss cardiff answers:
Run 6 miles a day, cut down your Calorie in take and get some sleep
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