Shanabo's Journal, 08 August 2014

Maybe some water weight, but you'd have to burn 7000 calories per day to actually lose fat. They only way you'd burn that many is by doing a century (100 mile) bike race every day. 

Oh my....that's a lot of calories to burn. I only eat once a day when I'm on a diet. I'd have to spend the whole day in the gym to do a 100-mile bike race. @doggiepuke  

Oh my....that's a lot of calories to burn. I only eat once a day when I'm on a diet. I'd have to spend the whole day in the gym to do a 100-mile bike race. @doggiepuke  

Eating once a day will slow your metabolism. There was a show on The Learning Channel. A woman so large she couldn't walk or get out of bed. The doctor found out she was eating once a day. She gained all that weight because she only ate once. He made her eat 3 low calorie meals. She lost very well but gave up.  

What do you do when the diet is over? How many times a day do you eat then? Do you end your diet and start eating fast food? You are never "on" a diet. You would be best to approach this by setting up a dietary path that you can live with and stay with it forever. Yoyo-ing with on and off of diets is worse for your body than slowly adjusting to a consistent plan and staying with it. If your goal is a lower number of a scale and not general better overall health, you can just starve until you get to that number. I don't know what you'll do after, though. 1800 calories a day of low carb and high fiber combined with 45 minutes of exercise will get the results you want in about 10 weeks. Losing 2 pounds a week is taxing your body pretty hard. Nice and easy and I have every confidence you an do this!! The next thing you know you'll be telling us you hit your 20 pound goal!! 

When I was younger, I could walk on the treadmill 45 minutes every day, eat sensibly and skip dessert and I would lose a pound a day. When my treadmill died, I began riding my stationary bike for 45 minutes a day. When I sold the bike for cash, that is when my weight started to increase. You have to exercise to burn more calories than the calories you eat and drink.  

Congratulations on your weight loss!