How long can it take to finish loose weight

[LikeAJay]

So when i was in 5 grade i weighed alot. In 6 i weighed the same but in 7 i gained so much during depressin.I weighed my self and i was almost 200.I weighed on the wii.I almost started crying.I let myself go.I started eating less or trying.I start doing Tae Bo with my mom.AND i can kick way higher i have more leg mussel.I think i lost more weight because put on a shirt i had in + grade and it fits normal like it did in 6 grade.I am trying to loose weight and havent lost much anymore.HOw can i finish This off like losing weight im my abs?

[TigerBoy]

Generally weight loss in the order of 2lb a week is at the upper end of healthy, but it depends on your current body fat. Losing weight slowly isn't actually a bad thing, as it gives your skin a chance to contract - fast weight loss can leave you with saggy skin.

How you do it is simply eat fewer calories than you burn in exercise.

In practice this means you need to take a look at nutrition, focus on eating correctly (its easier to not eat the calories than it is to burn them off in exercise).

Make sure you are doing regular cardio, that gets your heart rate up around 120-140 (depending on age) which should be a 'cruise' pace that you can sustain for at least 30 minutes.

You would benefit from doing anything, but if you were to aim for 40-90 minutes of exercise 3-5 times a weak you'd be in the right ballpark.

Ab fat can't really be lost via any means other than general exercise - if you've already got your BMI down, what you may have is a bit of excess skin rather than fat. Some people naturally struggle to show abs anyway. You may need to work on core exercises to build your abs, there are other threads here where this has been discussed at length.

[Zenos]

Generally weight loss in the order of 2lb a week is at the upper end of healthy, but it depends on your current body fat. Losing weight slowly isn't actually a bad thing, as it gives your skin a chance to contract - fast weight loss can leave you with saggy skin.

How you do it is simply eat fewer calories than you burn in exercise.

In practice this means you need to take a look at nutrition, focus on eating correctly (its easier to not eat the calories than it is to burn them off in exercise).

Make sure you are doing regular cardio, that gets your heart rate up around 120-140 (depending on age) which should be a 'cruise' pace that you can sustain for at least 30 minutes.

You would benefit from doing anything, but if you were to aim for 40-90 minutes of exercise 3-5 times a weak you'd be in the right ballpark.

Ab fat can't really be lost via any means other than general exercise - if you've already got your BMI down, what you may have is a bit of excess skin rather than fat. Some people naturally struggle to show abs anyway. You may need to work on core exercises to build your abs, there are other threads here where this has been discussed at length.



X2 on the 2 pounds a week weightloss.

[Nellerin]

It takes 3500 calories less to result in 1lb of weight loss .

Therefore if you decrease what you eat in a day by 450 calories then you can lose 1lb of weight in a week.

Combine that with exercise and you can definitely get to 1.5lbs of weight loss each week without too much difficulty.

[TigerBoy]

In case of TL;DR - if you are very overweight, you can safely lose more weight per week than someone who is only slightly overweight.


It takes 3000 calories less to result in 1lb of weight loss ..

Do you have a source for that figure?

The reason I ask is that if you google calories per pound of body fat you will see "3,500 cals = 1lb" repeated, however I have not yet seen a source from an actual scientific study where even this is proven to equate to a statement such as "achieve a 3,500 calorie deficit and lose a pound of body weight".

The difference between these is that the body is far from 100% efficient at turning 'fat' into 'energy', there are different 'types' of body fat so this is a generalisation at best, and that body fat is around 10% water. What these statements are saying is ...

From a purely thermo-chemical standpoint the ignition of 1 pound of fat would indeed yield the energy (approximately) required to raise 3500 Kilos of water 1 degree Celsius at one standard atmospheric pressure (air pressure at sea level)


... but this is not the same as how much mass of body fat is lost through a calorific deficit as a result of the body's processes.

See this thread (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=555411) for someone with the same query and some interesting responses.

It seems everyone is willing to quote the "3,500" calorie figure even while this is debated (eg here (http://www.zoeharcombe.com/the-knowledge/1lb-does-not-equal-3500-calories/)).

The closest thing I have found to a useful answer is here (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/153704-myth-or-fact-simple-math-3500-calories-one-pound-eat). The key point of this article is to point out that

...research tells us that there are big differences between lean and overweight people in how many calories they can or should cut. If you are obese/significantly overweight, dramatic deficits will still result in a high (and desirable) ratio of fat loss to lean loss. If you are lighter, then you must pay more attention to being sure your calorie consumption doesn't drop too low.

[Human]

To lose weight all you have to do is use more calories than you take in.

[Nellerin]

Do you have a source for that figure?

The reason I ask is that if you google calories per pound of body fat you will see "3,500 cals = 1lb" repeated, however I have not yet seen a source from an actual scientific study where even this is proven to equate to a statement such as "achieve a 3,500 calorie deficit and lose a pound of body weight".

Meant to write 3,500 cals. Sorry lol, but you know what I meant. I'll change my original post.

Plus, that number will vary person to person but it is a good rough estimate of how you need to change diet and exercise to achieve "x" amount of weight loss.

[TigerBoy]

Meant to write 3,500 cals. Sorry lol, but you know what I meant. I'll change my original post.
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Oh thats cool nm then. The rest of my post wasn't a rant about your actual figure by the way it was asking if anyone knew how accurate that kind of figure was: "not particularly accurate" was the best I could find :)

[Magus]

8 Pounds lost in a month. So, that is exactly what the estimate says. I diet and do an hour walk on an incline.