How do you loose last 10lbs

Due to the posted truth by spiriteagle - studies have shown the alternating week diet can be very effect, or the 5:2.

While 1/2 lb weekly is reasonable rate (250 deficit) for last 10, you can get around this by giving body time to distress frequently.

5:2 means eat at maintenance (daily & exercise accounted for) for 5 days, and 2 days at 25% of that value.
Leads to weekly deficit of 22%.

Alternate week means pull a 500 cal deficit for a week off total calorie burn (daily and exercise obviously), then a week eating at maintenance. repeat

Both methods allow hormones to reset you might say, unstress body, doesn't required such strict estimates on eating /burning to hit a 250 cal deficit, get used to eating at maintenance, ect.

I slowed down my loss rate, intentionally.

Anyone who says that the last ten are as easy as the first ten know nothing about how human metabolism works. The lower your body fat percentage, the stingier your body is about burning fat. I dropped 150 lbs over the past year and a half and the more weight I lost, the more my progress slowed. I am now at that last 10 lbs myself.

Our bodies are designed for homeostasis, so if you consistently stay in a caloric deficit then your body gets used to it. Your body can wastefully burn calories when you consistently overeat (I used to eat over 10000 calories a day, but I was gaining very slowly because of that), and when you eat few calories your body tries to be as efficient and conservative as possible. This is known as "a broken metabolism" and can only be fixed by diet breaks where you stay at maintenance for a while and then go back to caloric deficits later. The person who mentioned the 5/2 split is spot on.

You can also do intermittent fasting where you eat at maintenance for the whole week except for the weekend where you do a 36 hour fast and do low intensity cardio among other things to get yourself into fat burning mode during that fast. This also has autophagy benefits which is ridiculously good for your health and helps get rid of loose skin. That's the strategy that I am currently taking, but obviously it requires a lot more will power than the 5/2 strategy.

I am finding I have to be more careful with measurements. I could get by with guesstimating more early on. I am 10 lbs from normal BMI, but I will probably go further.

I'm on the final 15 and I'm pretty sure I'm having diet fatigue because the weight isn't moving and I'm definitely sick of being so precise so I'm slipping up more.

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tsazani wrote: »

Water fasting.

You will lose 1/2 lb of fat per day and almost no muscle mass. At least for the first 72 hr.

Someone more knowledgeable about fasting can talk about fasts lasting more than 72 hr.

Supposedly ONE 7 day water fast in a lifetime reduces the risk of ALL types of cancer by 70%.

Any chance you have some peer reviewed articles for this claim?