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Good article, but loosing 50 pounds over 2 months seems impossible. I always thought the optimal weight loss rate was max 2-3 pounds per week.
by nercury 10y ago
Good article, but loosing 50 pounds over 2 months seems impossible. I always thought the optimal weight loss rate was max 2-3 pounds per week.
- dualogy 10y agoJust because one is considered "optimal", the other needn't be "impossible". Bodyfat is tissue and so carries a certain cost to maintain. Why do so when all of a sudden a massive abundance of fatty acids is ingested on the daily. Plus: when you first near-eliminate carbs after decades of eating them, no amount of safe gluconeogenesis can keep up with the initially-still-high glucose demands of all tissues and mitochondria (until over time they "adapt" themselves to burn mostly/near-only fatty acids and/or ketones). This takes quite a while to complete to perfection, and the still-much-needed glucose can in the meantime be furnished by breaking down body-fat into triglycerides (no harm in doing that since so much fat is coming in already), turning two glycerin backbones into one glucose molecule, and keep the free fatty acids circulating or discard them.
- falcolas 10y agoHe lost the 50lbs over 8 months, not two.