What you’re talking about is “real weight” versus “transitory weight.”
If I step on a scale and weigh 200 pounds, then step off and step on a pie that weighs one pound, then I eat the pie and step back on the scale I will weigh 201 pounds. At least very temporarily, but not everything in a pie is going to be consumed.
For instance fiber takes up weight, but it is transitory. It doesn’t stay in our system.
dieticians and nutrianists
Example, I weigh 200 pounds and eat 1/4 of a pound of Metamucil. Almost all of that Metamucil fiber is going to shoot through me. To make matters odder the more liquid I consume the more air and liquid the Metamucil will hold and I’ll gain even more and more weight. At least temporarily.
So you could swallow rocks and assuming no problems going in and out that’d be transitory weight.
Here’s why people plateau. The less you weigh the less you need.
Supposing I’m 5 feet and I SHOULD weight 100 pounds but I weigh 200 pounds. Now on average a person doing everyday stuff needs 11 calories per pound to maintain his weight.
So if I’m weighing 200 pounds I need 200 X 11 or 2,200 calories a day to maintain that. So if I eat any less than 2,200 I will lose weight. But if I SHOULD be 100 pounds (because I’m small only 5 feet) I should be eating 1,100 calories a day.
As you can see that ain’t a lot of food, if you’re tiny.
So as you lose weight you need to lower your calorie intake more and more.
So someone starts out at 200 pounds decides to eat only 1,500 calories a day and eventually comes out at 136 pound (1,500/11).
Now this person says “What’s UP???” I read on packages I need 2,000 calories a day on average. No YOU don’t. Why? Because you’re only 5 feet and should weigh 100 pounds.
You could exercise but even fast hard core areboics is only at gonna burn off about 300 additional calories an hour.
So you have to consider “averages” are just that. Now I used extreme example of small people who aren’t tall and shouldn’t weigh much to easily show the point.
Finally you do have a “yo-yo diet” effect that if you stop and start diets you screw with your metabolism, but research has shown the effect, while real only comes to about 1 or 2 pounds a year. In other words, yo-yo dieter and people who mess with metabolism will lose about 1 or two pound less per year.
You’re not going to notice one or two pounds on a person.
Your last comment brings to mind a study we had hear a few years ago at the U of Chicago about calories. They studied dieticans and nutriantists and had them estimate the amount of calories the comsmed. They found the average one was off by one third. The best was around 15% over and the worst was in the 60% range.
OK now this shows you if dietitians and nutritionists are going to be that far off what can we expect for average joes and joanns? I mean those were people who make a LIVING at eating and judging food and they still get their caloric take way off.
It’s frustrating 'cause the more you lose the less you have to eat.
It’s not like you can 2,000 calories, cut back to 1,200 calories, lose the weight and get where you want to be and then go BACK to eating 2,000 calories again.
People ask me how can you eat what you eat and look like you do. I say it’s calories in and calories out, 'cause that’s really what it is. When I hit 1,800 calories a day, I stop. Unfotunately somedays that can come at 11am in the morning and it makes for quite a long rest of the day
