What would happened to a 230 pound guy...

lynn_glenmont

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

Assuming you mean that every day this man consumed 3000 fewer calories than his TDEE, in theory at the end of two months he would weigh 110 pounds. In reality, there would eventually (and probably sooner than you think) come a point where he would find it impossible to achieve a 3000 calorie daily deficit, because his sedentary TDEE would be so low that he would have to eat nothing and still burn 500 to 1000 calories or a day, and he just wouldn't be able to do that for very long. Of course, the whole experiment could fall apart even sooner when electrolyte issues or burning of lean mass led to heart or other organ failure.

I think you mean ~180 lbs (3000 x 60 / 3500 = 51.something)? Which is presumably the weight OP wants to get to.

Sorry-- for some reason I thought I could "back-of-the-envelope" it without an envelope, while multitasking prep for my second shift of the day. Thanks for fixing the arithmetic. But I stand by the rest of it. I don't think that 3000 calorie a day deficit could be maintained even down to 180, and I think the risks of serious damage are still there.

Carlos_421

It's a moot point since he likely doesn't burn that many calories in a day anyway.

But if he ate literally nothing for two months in an attempt to try, he'd exceed Jesus' PR by 20 days.

magnusthenerd

Carlos_421 wrote: »

It's a moot point since he likely doesn't burn that many calories in a day anyway.

But if he ate literally nothing for two months in an attempt to try, he'd exceed Jesus' PR by 20 days.

Don't give him ideas, have you seen Jesus's abs? Divine. Probably used them to grind the flour for the loaves when he fed the 5,000.