The
truth about quick fix weight loss
By Sherali S. Bharwani
This evening,
I was reading about Oprah Winfrey going on yet another fad
diet and just then, I received this spam message in my mail
"Lose 30 Pounds In 20 Days!"
So I thought I
should write some more on the quick fix weight loss diet
plans and how they're destined to fail miserably.
I have
already written a lot on this topic and I think you should
read Fad
Diets don't work because they are flawed at the
grass root level! along with this article to
learn exactly what's wrong with quick fix diets.
Back to Oprah
now.. According to the Globe tabloid, Oprah Winfrey has gone back to protein shakes to get her weight down again. She lost 20 pounds in 10 days.
There are a few points that I want to make before getting
into the specific details of how she lost 20 pounds in 10
days and more importantly, even
after losing 20 pounds, how she's more fat now!
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Temporary weight loss will never teach Oprah how to maintain her proper weight.
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Protein shakes are an unhealthy way to trick yourself into eating less calories.
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It is unlikely that any person could lose 20 pounds of fat in 10 days. A large part of this loss is water and depleted muscle mass, not fat.
Now let me
explain with respect to Oprah Winfrey how you get more fat (and of course unhealthy) even after losing 10 to
30 pounds with a quick-fix fad diet.
Let's say, for the sake of illustration, that a normally active woman with a body composition similar to Oprah's diets on
1300 calories a day and walks 10 miles, as Oprah did, according to the tabloid.
With a total energy output of
2800 calories (ENERGY OUT), and a calorie intake of 1300
(ENERGY IN), this woman's daily net calorie intake will be
-1500 calories. In other words, she will have burnt 1500 calories more than she ate, and she will have lost
1500 calories worth of body fat in one day.
There are 3500 calories in one pound of fat. In order for Oprah to lose 20 pounds of body fat in 10 days, her net calorie intake must be -7000 calories a day, not just
-1500!
So, to lose 20 pounds of fat in 10 days, Oprah must burn 7000 more calories than she eats each day, an almost impossible task for anyone!
This means 80% of the 20 pounds Oprah actually lost in 10 days is NOT fat! It's muscle and water. With less muscle mass, Oprah's body composition has gotten
worse and her body fat percentage has increased, even though she weighs less.
And I bet most of the 20% real weight loss i.e. fat loss was
due to Oprah's 10 miles walk so what was the fad diet good
for?
And don't
forget that she's going to gain back all the muscle and water
mass in some time (that has happened to her no less than 10
times now) through a complicated process due to which
she'll gain a couple more pounds of excess fat than she had
before going on the diet!
Read Fad
Diets don't work because they are flawed at the
grass root level! to learn a little about the
complicated process through which body recovers from the
effects of a fad diet.
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