The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving

Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:44PM (#20964436)

specialp and johnmaguire2013 are correct. 'real' weight loss occurs very slowly in comparison to the ways your body can shed or accumulate water. In a week you're not likely to lose more than a 'real' pound unless you're being pretty extreme about your calorie intake or expenditure, but you can fluctuate by easily 5 pounds of water/food weight in a day.

Source: tracking my calories and weight for the better part of a decade and having lost and kept off 150+lbs.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by scarface74 on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:02PM (#20964644)

Exactly. I “lose weight” every time that I take my blood pressure pill (a diuretic) and “gain weight” when I don’t.

My weight fluctuates 5 pounds in a given day based on how much I eat, drink, workout etc.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by jobigoud on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:03AM (#20970534)

I wish people would use percentage of weight or BMI points instead of pounds. For one it would save others a conversion, and secondly it would make things comparable. 2.2 Kg in a day seems impossible to me, but for someone else it might be nothing. My max fluctuation is about 1.5%, it happens when there are several factors combined.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by scarface74 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:47AM (#20970712)

BMI is also flawed. According to my BMI, I’m “morbidly obese”. I’m 30 pounds overweight. However when I was 10 pounds less than I am now, I was objectively tone, muscular, and had a body fat percentage of around 10%. Even now, no one (including doctors) look at me and would say that I’m “obese” and need to lose that much weight. At 10 pounds lighter I was wearing 28 regular cut pants. Where would I lose the weight from? I’m 5’5.

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