| Anyone who has followed a low calorie diet | | | | cannibalizing muscle. At the end of the diet, weight |
| knows that losing weight quickly at first, then | | | | loss in the form of muscle you pay with a lower |
| becomes increasingly difficult to lose weight, until, | | | | metabolism. However, the sedentary slimming |
| after several weeks or months, often the weight | | | | faster athlete, which may imply that his method |
| loss stops. | | | | to lose weight is better when it is actually much |
| In this article, we will understand the difference | | | | worse! |
| between losing weight or losing fat and losing | | | | The intestinal contents |
| weight and simply, without distinction regarding the | | | | If you eat 1 kg of food, gain weight exactly 1 kg. |
| origin of its weight loss. | | | | Trivial, but we all think when they climb on the |
| Our body weight consists of: | | | | scale. The same applies after a meal of fish: the |
| - Bones; | | | | wastes are not removed immediately, and then |
| - Origan internal (heart, liver, spleen, etc.); | | | | verify that the kg in the next day is not real, to |
| - Muscles; | | | | understand what has cost us except food must |
| - Water; | | | | weigh two days later. For the same reason, you |
| - Fat; | | | | should weigh yourself at fixed hours, preferably in |
| - Muscle glycogen; | | | | the morning, when conditions are more |
| - Contents of the stomach and intestines. | | | | standardized (we have 8-10 hours of fasting |
| Bone mass and that of organs, in normal health, | | | | behind. |
| do not change quickly, so the variation of | | | | Fat |
| short-term weight change depends on how the | | | | We come finally to weight loss that interests us. |
| body fluids, muscle glycogen, the content of the | | | | To lose weight, that is, losing fat, eat less calories |
| intestine, muscle and body fat. | | | | than you consume. |
| If our desire is to lose weight, then we only lose | | | | One kg fat contains 9000 kcal. However, adipose |
| weight through fat loss, but we cannot prevent | | | | tissue also contains water, if we take the fat |
| the other parameters change 'and so it is | | | | fresh pork, for example, and the chefs, cooking it |
| important to understand how they can vary and | | | | loses volume and weight, because it also contains |
| depend on what, to correctly evaluate the data | | | | water and it does not provide 9000 kcal, but |
| provided from the scale. | | | | about 6500. When thinner, then, we lose not only |
| Muscle glycogen | | | | fat but also linked it to the water. |
| Is the basis of carbohydrates in our body: the | | | | But this is not the only variable: when the body is |
| muscles they contain about 500 g and 80 g liver | | | | subjected to caloric restriction, metabolism |
| Each gram of glycogen binds about 3 grams of | | | | decreases, and when fat, increases metabolism. |
| water so if you consume all the muscle and liver | | | | and the rate of change is subjective, the details |
| glycogen (for example, prolonged physical activity | | | | of this mechanism will find them in "what counts |
| or a very low carbohydrate diet) lose much | | | | calories? |
| weight, as much as 1.5 kg. When we start a diet | | | | For simplicity, suppose that the two phenomena |
| inventories are full, but after a few days dwindle, | | | | compensate each other, then we should eat to |
| and make us read a fictitious weight loss of about | | | | lose weight 1 kg 9000 kcal less than our calories. |
| 1 kg, recovered at the end of the period of food | | | | To understand, we're talking about a couple of |
| restriction. | | | | Christmas dinner consisting of appetizer, trio of |
| The body fluids | | | | first, second encore, trio of desserts, wine, |
| Many diets that relies on those who want to lose | | | | coffee . So, you can grease 1 kg per day, but |
| weight are based on fluid loss rather than fat. The | | | | you concatenate a wedding after another! This |
| level of extracellular fluid (those outside the cells) | | | | means that in normal weight gain is so slow, |
| depend on the amount of sodium in our body, | | | | however if you consider eating only 100 calories |
| which depends on how much sodium assume. If | | | | more than the amount owed, a year fatten 4 kg, |
| we usually eat salty bodily fluids will always be | | | | 20 kg in 5 years! |
| close to the maximum value, eliminating salt in a | | | | The same applies to weight loss, with no |
| few days the weight loss dummy exceed 2 kg, | | | | aggravating recently: food intake is limited only by |
| which are promptly resumed after a meal of salt. | | | | digestive capacity, then one day you can also |
| Muscles | | | | take 3000 calories more than your calorie |
| The muscles are cannibalized by the body if the | | | | consumption. Caloric restriction, however, is limited |
| diet is very restrictive and not supported by | | | | by the fact that our calories varies from 1500 to |
| sufficient exercise. The loss of muscle goes along | | | | 3000 kcal per day, on average, then the |
| with that fat, so it can distort the results achieved | | | | restriction is limited to 500-1500 kcal per day. |
| with a diet. If a proper diet is associated with | | | | Whereas an average of 600-1000 kcal, weight |
| physical activity, can gain muscle and lose fat, | | | | loss induced by physiological proper diet, for a |
| especially if the subject was sedentary. | | | | person overweight (not obese), indicates values |
| A diet that is very slim and sedentary for a long | | | | ranging from 0.5 to 1 kg per week. |
| time a subject is surely a good part of | | | | |