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only about 1 kg per month That's 26 pounds in one year. For most people, that's a game-changer.

• AstralStorm 8y ago
  This means the diet likely had an appetite suppressing effect, not different burn efficiency. Alternatively their adjustment was not controlled for water intake or retention. Note the calories were not controlled just energy adjusted based on weight loss. So the diets were not exactly same calories. A diet that causes more water retention would be adjusted less so could potentially get more loss in the end. (Or vice versa, it is tricky.) This is all old hat but it is admirable someone reproduced earlier Cambridge studies which showed the same effect 10 years ago. Now, go out there and figure out the difference that causes appetite suppression or burn increase. Or if your methodology was junk.
• lucas_membrane 8y ago
  Ask someone starting a diet how long they think it will take to lose the weight they want to lose. Not many will say that it's a year or more. More common is to try to lose some weight between the end-of-year holidays and the beach season.
• Fire-Dragon-DoL 8y ago
  I'm on a diet (fine tuned for me by a professional), and I'm decreasing 1.2 kg _per week_. 1 per month is not that much of you want to lose a lot of weight. I do eat carbs within my diet, but it's selected on purpose: - 80 calories worth of cereals (I use cereals for diabetics, so I can eat 30g of those) - Up to 800g of fruit (some of it is excluded, like grapefruit) The fruit is the real trick: it makes you feel satisfied, when you eat it with right timing, even if you are on 700 calories/day (which is basically starvation. First 3 days are terrible, then the body feels resigned and you feel like you can deal with it. After 6 weeks that's roughly 10kg lost...