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Originally Posted by EWS87
are you saying that I will lose weight a little slower but be losing more fat?
if so how do we really know this?
I'll give you a sample size of one: me.
August 3, 2007
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277.0 pounds
BMI: 35.6
BF%: 38.5% (106.5 pounds of fat)
Waist: 54 inches
July 14, 2008
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159.8 pounds
BMI: 21.1
BF%: 15.5% (24.8 pounds of fat)
Waist: 34.5 inches
I lost 81.7 pounds of fat and only 35.5 pounds elsewhere, in 45 weeks. (There was a vacation in there where I gained and then re-lost about 8 pounds, accounting for the other 4 weeks).
Never once did I eat less than 1700 calories/day. Early on in the process I ate 2200 or more calories.
I increased my metabolic rate through exercise, to ensure that my caloric deficit was sufficient to average about 0.4 pounds of loss per day -- mostly fat.
Will you lose weight eating 1000 calories/day? Most assuredly. The laws of thermodynamics cannot be snubbed. Is it the healthy way to affect a long-term and permanent weight loss that results in a healthy body and lifestyle at the end of your road? Hell, no.
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