I got the same sense, but I’ve seen plenty of articles on topics that, for example, debunk the idea that you can’t sweat away weight, because it’s merely water loss, which is to say, dehydration.
The OP, who I didn’t realize had special knowledge of chemistry, seemed to be confounding dehydration with water loss that will happen with weight loss, because fat cells are part water.
When you lose only water, you change the water balance in your body-- the percentage of water in your system goes down. When you lose fat, and the water that is part of it, the percentage of water in your body doesn’t change (well, not much-- it fluctuates all day, but it doesn’t shift much).
Military MREs have a buttload of calories in them, because they anticipate people during war, or during training, who are the people mostly eating them, to be burning a lot. We were told that if we ate them 3 meals, we’d get 5000 calories for the day. Army chow in general has a lot of fat and sugar, but during basic training, you can still be losing weight, but then you go on to the next phase of training, where you sit in a classroom all day, and suddenly everyone starts gaining weight.
I went to basic weighing about 135lbs., dropped about 10 lbs over 8 weeks (basic), then in the next three months (AIT), put on about 20. When I got home, everything leveled out pretty quickly, though.
Not at all. I have never had so much speculation on what “I mean”, I don’t think. I meant what I said. Not all the calories from 1 pound of fat in a jar are needed to be cut to lose 1 pound of body weight. That’s it.
I wasn’t confounding anything. I never said anything about the percentage of your water changing. I very specifically asked how much 1 pound of body weight lost would be from not having to burn the extra calories to burn away fat. I very specifically mentioned I was talking about permanent weight loss that would stay gone, despite being properly hydrated.