Hi all
I have a question about how this diet (and other food replacement diets) work in-respect to the calorie consumption.
So it basically works that you have very little calories (approx 400-500 calories) oer dat, and the amount of calories a woman should have in a day top just maintain is 1500.
And by consuming this small amount of calories, you lose weight.
Ok got all this, but what I don't get is the vast amount we lose/calculations.
If we only have 400 calories a day, that's losing about 1100 calories (a day) x 7 = 7700 calories.
And since 1lb of weight is about 3500 calories, thats only about 2.2lbs
How do we end up losing averages of 3-5lbs a week? By this calculation even if we starved ourselves and ate nothing for 1 week, and did no exercise but just usual walking etc.. we'd only lose 10500calories - which is 3lbs?
How does this make sense?
Am I missing something, or not understanding properly? How does this work?
I really want to know, so I can calculate things - and really understand Thanks in advance
I have a question about how this diet (and other food replacement diets) work in-respect to the calorie consumption.
So it basically works that you have very little calories (approx 400-500 calories) oer dat, and the amount of calories a woman should have in a day top just maintain is 1500.
And by consuming this small amount of calories, you lose weight.
Ok got all this, but what I don't get is the vast amount we lose/calculations.
If we only have 400 calories a day, that's losing about 1100 calories (a day) x 7 = 7700 calories.
And since 1lb of weight is about 3500 calories, thats only about 2.2lbs
How do we end up losing averages of 3-5lbs a week? By this calculation even if we starved ourselves and ate nothing for 1 week, and did no exercise but just usual walking etc.. we'd only lose 10500calories - which is 3lbs?
How does this make sense?
Am I missing something, or not understanding properly? How does this work?
I really want to know, so I can calculate things - and really understand Thanks in advance