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Originally Posted by soccerchamp76
I don't know where you got your information, but you lose weight by a caloric deficit. One pound of fat is equivalent to 3500 Calories. So, assume you have a 2000 Calorie metabolism (+any Calories burned during the day), if you consume 1500 Calories/day, you will lose one pound of fat every week.
So, telling someone to eat MORE to LOSE weight is simple failure in math. Eating below your basal metabolism will result in fat loss, not muscle atrophy as you allude to. The reason that weight-lifters eat such a high-caloric diet is so that they have the energy necessary to amass such muscle and that their body will also use all of the excess Calories for bodily processes (metabolism). This person is trying to lose weight, explained above.
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Atually you're a little off base there, even though it is math.
Most people lose weight in the biginning of a diet by eating less. Then, their very smart body figures out that there is less food coming in so it begins to store food. Unless you just go without, your body slows your metabolism down and stores, which is why most dieters plateau.
It's much more important to eat right and STAY AWAY from refined sugar and refined carbs (like white flour), both of which are in processed foods. The only decent sugars are from maple syrup, honey and aguava syrup.