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From: Mary_Gordon on 24 Oct 2005 19:25 You have to keep in mind that really obese people burn through a lot more calories just sitting around than does a person of more moderate weight. If you put them on a very strict diet and also crank up the activity level, they can lose weight like gang busters, for at least the first while of their diet. Eventually, the loss will slow down as they get smaller, and their body needs fewer calories just to run the machine (i.e. think of the calories involved in just dragging those extra pounds around). Someone who is really heavy will also retain much more fluid than someone of lower weight, and it isn't uncommon in the first weeks of a diet to lose what seems like big amounts and have it actually be fluid loss. Mary G.
From: Doug Freyburger on 25 Oct 2005 11:51
Cubit wrote: > > How many obese people can be seen in the films of the survivors being freed > from the German concentration camps? Surely, a percentage of those interned > were obese. According to the theory of fat retention because of calories > that are too low, these victims should have been trapped in their obese body > shapes. I have read that the standard rations were 600 calories per day. When put on famine rations, the body will burn a mixture of lean and stored fat, with as much lean as possible early on. Going to the rails of 100% isn't possible. Since lean consumes more fuel than fat, this is a long term strategy to reduce fuel consumption until the famine ends. At some point the body runs low on lean reserves and the misture needs to change again towards mostly fat and as little further lean as can be arranged. So go long enough low enough and both run out. Former concentration camp inmates often will refeed until they have gained more than they lost. The only folks who can voluntarily maintain very low rations are the sick (anorexia included). So try going this low on your own and your setting yourself up for a relapse. Better to cut less in an attempt to reduce the drive to relapse. |