Which person loses the most weight

[JThompson24]

Lets say someone is 300 pounds and doesnt even eat alot to maintain that weight .

3 meals a day at 500 calories each meal
4 meals a day and 400 each meal
5 meals a day and 400 each meal
1 meal a day and 700 calories

 

[SgtSlaughter]

to many factors/variable to speculate.

 

[JThompson24]

well assuming 30 min of cardio a day , lifting twice a week

 

[Potest]

Find your BMR and lower it by about 300-500 calories a day, then divide that into 5+ meals a day.

 

[harbinator]

Lets say someone is 300 pounds and doesnt even eat alot to maintain that weight .

3 meals a day at 500 calories each meal
4 meals a day and 400 each meal
5 meals a day and 400 each meal
1 meal a day and 700 calories

You aren't going to get the answer you want to hear, stick around, read the forums and learn, slowly change your diet and ease into it. Next thing you know a year later you're diet will slowly continue to improve without burning you out.

But, to give you a guess, 5 meals at 400 each would be the best, by far.

 

[JThompson24]

see this isnt making any sense. Yous saying someone would lose more weight eating 5 meals of 400 calories ovedr 4 meals of 400 calories

 

[Ghede]

yes. and it does make sense. I did it.


less is NOT more when it comes to fat loss. the body has to 'perceive' that it is NOT starving in order to 'permit' the access of stored bodyfat to be used as energy.

Ghede's ATM Analogy

You have amnesia and dont know where or if there any Automatic teller machines in the town you find yourself in.

You have pockets FILLED with cash, but wont spend a dime or your stored funds unless you know where the next ATM is, or have confidence you will find one.

Every 2 hours or so you find another atm and all is well, you have no worries about spending the cash you have in your pockets. Why carry around all that cash? I can get some anytime i need it.

Suppose you didnt see any atms, or when you did you could could only take out fifty cents. You would hold onto that cash JUST IN CASE you needed it later. No way i am gonna spend that cash, who knows when/if i will get more?!



The difference between cutting back JUST ENOUGH and too much.

 

[JThompson24]

so its not true about burning more than you take in?

 

[vin01]

no it's true.

but you can't do it by starving yourself

 

[pintoca]

There is a point where, no matter how little you eat, you will not go down in weight.

The old cals in vs cals out, should be translated into the "The bigger the caloric deficit, the bigger the weight loss"... now, you create the deficit in 2 ways: By limiting your food intake and by increasing your caloric requirements.

There is no limit to increasing caloric requirement, but THERE is a limit to reducing your intake and iff you reaach it will balance the second part (no matter how much cardio you do, you'll plateau, you have reached the well known starvation point).