Okay, so imagine one pound of your own fatty flesh. If you burn that amount of flesh, that sounds kind of, you know, weird, but if you were to convert that into energy, you would get about 3,500 calories, which is quite a lot of energy. That's me talking with Dr. Carson Ciao, an mit-trained physicist and mathematician, and he's explaining to me why we should care how much energy fat has in order to:
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For you to live and function, you need to burn energy to keep your heart beating, all your organs running, and also to move around, but energy doesn't come for free, so if you're not consuming enough calories, you're going to burn that energy with your own fat, and so a lot of diet books like to teach people this rule, but the problem is that it's wrong, and here's why:
a pound because I'd have to burn it yeah, and if I stayed on this diet for a year, I'd burn through 52 pounds, which is great if you keep taking this thing, after two years, I'd lose 104, and after ten years, I'd lose 500 pounds, so obviously at some point this rule is going to break down, and it will actually break down before you get to a year, so to understand the real math behind losing weight, dr.
Water in the bucket represents the amount of body fat or tissue in your body, and the leak represents the rate at which you burn energy. In reality, what you're doing is adding water at the top, which is like eating food, and when you're in a steady state, the amount of water you add at the top exactly balances the amount of water you lose at the bottom.
Think about the physics of a leaky bucket. The more water that you pour into the bucket, the faster it's going to leak, so your leak rate scales with how big you are, and this is a well known fact that the larger you are, the more energy you burn. You're going to burn more energy because it takes more energy just to move a larger mass. You have more tissue, and just to keep that tissue going, it takes more energy. Congratulations, you have a new steady state.
state, but let's say you don't want to stay this large person that you've become. Well, the opposite is true as well. You could pour in a lot less water than you're leaking, but as you start to lose weight, you start to get smaller, you burn less energy, and you start to metabolically adapt to your new diet, and so you're never going to lose weight at one constant rate. It's always going to curve from one steady state.
Down to another which means that when you go on a diet, the 3500 calorie rule is the wrong rule there's a new rule wait for it the new rule is for every 10 calories you eat less you will lose a pound but it will take you about three years or more to see that the full effect of your diet, which is still pretty good, is that if you eat 100 calories less you lose 10 pounds.
What's wrong with just focusing on losing weight quickly? The problem is that once they're down at that new weight, they have to be vigilant for the rest of their lives because losing weight is slow, gaining weight is also slow, but it's slowly creeping up, and then two, three, or more years later, bang, they're back to where they were.
approved rule for weight loss I'll eventually lose one full pound for every 10 calories I don't eat per day, proving that changing your steady state is a marathon, not a sprint. Hey guys, this is Todd, and if you want life-changing epiphanies like this one delivered automatically every single week, make sure you subscribe also through Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
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