Weight loss faster without workout :/

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  • blambo61
    blambo61 Posts: 4,372 Member
    rybo wrote: »
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    Jayz395 wrote: »
    Hi all, I'm eating 1600 calories a day and was running a couple mile a day on the treadmill as well but my weight wasn't really moving. My ankle started hurting so stopping running and since then my weight is dropping really fast, how can I lose weight faster without working out?
    Your a 30 something male only eating 1600 cals and running. That's not very much. Sometimes there's a sweet spot deficit where weight loss happens best. Dropping your running found that. When I started many many years ago, the combination of running and eating too little did not work for me. I started eating a bit more and never looked back.
    How would burning fewer calories help his weight loss if nothing else had changed?

    It's almost certainly water weight or eating enough less to offset the missing exercise. It's almost certainly not some sweet spot in which calories in and calories out cease to be the determinant.
    The same way me eating more helped my weight loss.
    And how was that?
    I'm not really sure what you don't understand about my last statement. Eating more = weight loss.
    Except that's impossible, given accurate measurements of "more" and "loss" if other factors are held constant.

    So, what I don't understand, is how the physics of that would work or where the extra calories went.

    Except that it happened, so it's not impossible & I'm not going to continue to argue it.

    Maybe eating more made her system come out of a starvation mode and eating more allowed more fat to be released. A physics possibility is that she excreted the extra cals.
  • blambo61
    blambo61 Posts: 4,372 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    rybo wrote: »
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rybo wrote: »
    DeguelloTex wrote: »
    rybo wrote: »
    Jayz395 wrote: »
    Hi all, I'm eating 1600 calories a day and was running a couple mile a day on the treadmill as well but my weight wasn't really moving. My ankle started hurting so stopping running and since then my weight is dropping really fast, how can I lose weight faster without working out?
    Your a 30 something male only eating 1600 cals and running. That's not very much. Sometimes there's a sweet spot deficit where weight loss happens best. Dropping your running found that. When I started many many years ago, the combination of running and eating too little did not work for me. I started eating a bit more and never looked back.
    How would burning fewer calories help his weight loss if nothing else had changed?

    It's almost certainly water weight or eating enough less to offset the missing exercise. It's almost certainly not some sweet spot in which calories in and calories out cease to be the determinant.
    The same way me eating more helped my weight loss.
    And how was that?
    I'm not really sure what you don't understand about my last statement. Eating more = weight loss.

    ways eating more = greater weight loss

    1) when you are logging more accurately and removing inconsistencies
    2) when you're increasing your TDEE because you're fueling better
    3) diet break replenishing Leptin levels can help you lose more when returning to calorie defecit

    perhaps?

    I took a lot of crap from a lot of people for making suggestions like your number 3 above. No?
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    In order of most to least likely:

    1. Water weight. Muscles retain water when they are repairing themselves, and stopping exercise can lead to a loss of this water. I retain water after basically every workout almost like clockwork.

    2. Better logging.

    3. Coincidence / nonlinearity of weight loss catching up to you.

    4. More muscle loss. For the same caloric deficit, you'll get greater weight loss if you lose muscle instead of fat, because fat is much more energy dense.
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