Weight Loss Myths - Science behind Weight Loss

Weight Loss Myths

Let’s suppose one pound of your flesh with fats.

So if you burn that quantity of flesh, which sounds reasonable, you know, weird, but if you were to convert that into energy, you'd get around 3500 calories, which is sort of plenty of energy.

Now let’s discuss with dr. Carson chow, an m.i.t. trained physicist and mathematician and he's explaining to us why we must always care, about what quantity of energy fat has.

For you to measure and perform, you wish to burn energy to, like, keep your heart beating, all of your organs going, and just to maneuver around.

But energy doesn’t come free. So if you are not consuming enough calories you're visiting to burn that energy together with your fat. So plenty of diet books prefer to teach this rule, but the matter is it's wrong.

Here is why.

Let's say I eat 500 calories less daily.

So after 1 week, it'd be 3,500 calories, and that I would lose a pound, right?

Because I'd need to burn it.

Yeah, and if I stuck to this diet for a year, I’d burn 52 pounds.

It'd be great!

If you retain taking this thing, well, after 2 years I'd lose 104, and after 10 years I'd lose 500 pounds, you know?

So obviously, at some point, this rule goes to interrupt down. It'll break down before you get to a year.

So to know the important math behind losing weight, dr. Chow wanted us to imagine a leaky bucket.

You have some water within the bucket and that is the quantity of body fat or tissue in your body. And also the leak represents the speed at which you're burning energy. Really what you're doing is adding water at the highest, that's like eating food. And after you are in steady-state the number of water you add at the highest exactly balances the quantity of water you lose at the underside. If you're pouring in additional water then it's leaking then you're visiting to gain weight. Now if you're thinking about the physics of a leaky bucket, the more water you pour into the bucket the faster it's visiting leak. That the leak rate scales with how big you're. And this is often a well-known fact, that the larger you're, the more energy you burn. You are going to burn more energy because it takes more energy just to maneuver a bigger mass. You've got more tissue and just to stay that tissue going it takes more energy.

Congratulations.

You have a replacement steady state. But let’s say you do not want to remain this huge individual that you've become.

Well, the alternative is true, as well. You'll pour in less amount of water than you're leaking.

But...

As you begin to slenderize you begin to induce smaller and burn less energy and you begin to metabolically adapt to your new diet. So as a result, you are never going to lose weight at one specific rate. It's always visiting curves from one steady-state down to another. 

 

when you last a diet, the 3500 calorie rule is the wrong rule.

Weight Loss Myth

There is a brand new rule.

Wait for it...

The new rule is, that for every ten calories you eat less, you lose a pound.

But it'll take you about 3 years or more to determine the complete effect of your diet, which continues to be pretty good. All you've got to try is to consume 100 calories less, you lose ten pounds.

That's sort of a can of coke.

So you ought to expect the diet to be extremely slow. But at the same time, no one wants a slow diet. We all want to lose at least 20 pounds this summer.

What's wrong with just specializing in losing weight rapidly?

But the matter is once you're at this new weight they need to be vigilant for the remainder of their life. Because losing weight is slow, gaining weight is additionally slow.

But it slowly creeps up, and so two or three years later, bang, it hits them, and they are duplicated to where they were.

So the mathematically approved rule for weight loss: for every 10 calories I do not eat each day I'll eventually lose one full pound. This implies changing your steady state may be a marathon and not a sprint.