How long does it take

emmab0902

For weight to be gained or lost? As in, if you eat healthily and below maintenance now, how long to see weight shift. Conversely, how long does it take for bad habits to catch up with you? Is our current weight reflectived of our recent eating habits, or does it take longer - is what we are now the outcome of a month or longer ago.

HorseWithNoName27

A pound of fat is made of 3,500 calories, so the time it takes to accumulate/burn that much is when a pound will be gained/lost.
How long this takes, of course, is made up of a bunch of factors. Diet, exercise, metabolism, hormones, water retention, etc.
We didn't gain weight overnight, so we won't lose it overnight. That's how I see it.