eat more to lose?

ilovedogs
ilovedogs Posts: 77
in Health and Weight Loss
I do understand what is being said about this but i can't grasp the fact that people lose weight when they are on vlcd and have gastric surgery.
these people eat around 700-800cals a day and yet lose weight.
I have a freind who did a vlcd on 800 per day and she lost loads of weight. she now eats sensibly and has not put it back on.
so how does this work then?
Also if some one is anorexic ( excuse the spelling) and recovers they dont pile on weight and end up evan bigger than they were so why does this happen to us?

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  • vespertinestar
    vespertinestar Posts: 19
    As I understand it people on a VLCD who were put on it because they are so overweight have so much fat to lose that their body will readily use it if itdoesn't have enough calories from food. Once you start getting down into a much healthier region your body naturally wants to hold on to some fat "just in case." In short, I think they lose weight because they have so much of a fat store that the body will readily draw upon in preference to muscle.

    Your body will naturally lose weight on a VLCD anyway because it's not getting enough energy. If, once you're done, you reintroduce calories slowly and not go back to chomping down 3000 calories as soon as you're finished then there's no reason you should put (much) weight back on.

    This is all info I have pieced together from the net so take it with a grain of salt.
  • suleone
    suleone Posts: 8 Member
    I just analyzed my MFP data for my first 20 days, and I got strange results. Does this make sense to any of you veterans?

    MFP 20-day Analysis:
    * What I eat moderately increases my weight one day later.
    * Water I drink increases my weight three days later.
    * The exercise I do moderately increases my weight three days later.
    * The more fat I eat, the moderately less I will weigh three days later. (It is known that I cannot digest animal fat efficiently.)
    * The more I eat, the moderately more I will exercise that same day, especially if it's protein.
    * Eating fat makes me exercise moderately not as much three days later.
    * Drinking more water will make me burn more calories two days later.
    * The more I weigh, the moderately more calories I burn the next day.

    This makes it seem like I should eat fatty foods and not exercise! That doesn't seem right...

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    Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Calorie Counter
  • nikkitodhunter
    nikkitodhunter Posts: 110
    I just analyzed my MFP data for my first 20 days, and I got strange results. Does this make sense to any of you veterans?

    MFP 20-day Analysis:
    * What I eat moderately increases my weight one day later.
    * Water I drink increases my weight three days later.
    * The exercise I do moderately increases my weight three days later.
    * The more fat I eat, the moderately less I will weigh three days later. (It is known that I cannot digest animal fat efficiently.)
    * The more I eat, the moderately more I will exercise that same day, especially if it's protein.
    * Eating fat makes me exercise moderately not as much three days later.
    * Drinking more water will make me burn more calories two days later.
    * The more I weigh, the moderately more calories I burn the next day.

    This makes it seem like I should eat fatty foods and not exercise! That doesn't seem right...

    24264204.png
    Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Calorie Counter

    Don't weigh yourself every day, is the simple answer. Your weight will naturally fluctuate because of water retention. Weigh yourself once a week, at the same time - most people reccommend in the morning befiore eating/drinking anything. I wouldn;t really pay any attention this analysis tbh; it's only 20 days, and the amount you eat/drink/excersize would fluctuate no matter what!
  • ilovedogs
    ilovedogs Posts: 77
    so why if i eat vlcd for a while and lose weight do i just put it all and more back on?
  • kayleesays
    kayleesays Posts: 564 Member
    I believe when someone with anorexia recovers, they have taken dead metabolism and re-started it - so their body re-learns to burn calories. Also, I find that anorexics in recovery rarely eat a lot (it is recovery, after all) and that probably has something to do with it.

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