the BODYBUILDER Diet,, its pretty solid,,

[CHOPTALK]

Hahaha. Chop... yes.. I just read on Web md. The multiple meal thing essentially doesn't work.. but what it did say is.. when u graze.. typically u end up eating 25% less calories anyway..

So that MUST be it.. the reason I'm losing.. just sticking with mostly proteins.. and essentially eating less junk

Of course if the side effect of you eating 10 times a day causes you to eat less calories then you would if you are 3 times a day then in a indirect way eating 10 times a day could help you lose as long as you realize that just because you are doing this is not causing any kind of magic to happen like super drive your metabolism and other nonsense people talk about when eating that often .


If you put a gallon of gas in your car 10 times a day does your car get better milage ?

 

[KingEleven]

Well that's a side effect.
The actual eating 6 , 8 , or 10 times a day won't in itself help you lose weight just because you eat that many times.

But if eating that many times helps you consume less calories in a 24 hr period then eating 3 times a day then of course you will lose weight.

But you would have lost the weight based on the calorie deficit not on the fact you are 10 times a day

understood

 

[bodyforlife]

Shy of some anomaly (i.e. food allergies, medical condition), weight gain or loss is based on calories in vs calories out (either intake of calories or those burnt off through exercise). A deficit or surplus of 3500 calories from your basal metabolic rate + normal daily activities will cause a difference of 1 lb. If you are focusing on body composition instead of just weight loss, then your percentage intake of macronutrients will play a role instead of just focusing on calories. There seem to be quite a few services (i.e. weight watchers) that preach that 1-2 lbs a week is a healthy way to lose weight. Personally I think 2 lbs is too aggressive (that's a deficit of 7000 calories). I tend to have my clients focus on 1 lb a week for weight loss which I want them to achieve by averaging an additional 250 calories per day burnt off by exercise and 250 by putting them in a caloric deficit. It's a much healthier way of going about it. People don't feel like they're starving and when you lose in this manner, people are actually learning how to eat properly, control portion size, and have built a habit they can hang onto for the rest of their lives. The only situation I've seen where rapid weight loss isn't damaging is if someone is taking in excessive amount of sodium. I had a lady that wanted to lose 8 lbs in 6 weeks. I told here it's doable but we'd have to hone in on her diet. When she listed out the foods she was taking in (she was Asian), it was loaded with soy sauce, tonkatsu sauce, and the like, and she was taking in an excess of 7000 mg a day (the recommended daily amount is 2300). I told her she would probably drop 4 lbs instantly if she could get down to the recommended daily amount because she was bloated and it was water weight...and she did. I've had one client lose 100 lbs but that was done over a year and a half. All I can say is be careful at how you are approaching this. You can do the math on 15 lbs in a 2 week period. Even if you had an excess amount of sodium in your diet, it's still an extreme amount of weight loss for a 2 week period. I also recommend against changing up on your diet unless this is something that is going to be life changing for you (in other words, if you're not going to continue on with it and just go back to what you were doing before you hit your weight loss goal, you'll simply gain back the weight you loss).

 

[TomGshotput]

If I could come up with some cheaper alternatives it would be great to try. Over 5 000 kcal every day for a month and gained one pound: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-diet/

 

[CHOPTALK]

Shy of some anomaly (i.e. food allergies, medical condition), weight gain or loss is based on calories in vs calories out (either intake of calories or those burnt off through exercise). A deficit or surplus of 3500 calories from your basal metabolic rate + normal daily activities will cause a difference of 1 lb. If you are focusing on body composition instead of just weight loss, then your percentage intake of macronutrients will play a role instead of just focusing on calories. There seem to be quite a few services (i.e. weight watchers) that preach that 1-2 lbs a week is a healthy way to lose weight. Personally I think 2 lbs is too aggressive (that's a deficit of 7000 calories). I tend to have my clients focus on 1 lb a week for weight loss which I want them to achieve by averaging an additional 250 calories per day burnt off by exercise and 250 by putting them in a caloric deficit. It's a much healthier way of going about it. People don't feel like they're starving and when you lose in this manner, people are actually learning how to eat properly, control portion size, and have built a habit they can hang onto for the rest of their lives. The only situation I've seen where rapid weight loss isn't damaging is if someone is taking in excessive amount of sodium. I had a lady that wanted to lose 8 lbs in 6 weeks. I told here it's doable but we'd have to hone in on her diet. When she listed out the foods she was taking in (she was Asian), it was loaded with soy sauce, tonkatsu sauce, and the like, and she was taking in an excess of 7000 mg a day (the recommended daily amount is 2300). I told her she would probably drop 4 lbs instantly if she could get down to the recommended daily amount because she was bloated and it was water weight...and she did. I've had one client lose 100 lbs but that was done over a year and a half. All I can say is be careful at how you are approaching this. You can do the math on 15 lbs in a 2 week period. Even if you had an excess amount of sodium in your diet, it's still an extreme amount of weight loss for a 2 week period. I also recommend against changing up on your diet unless this is something that is going to be life changing for you (in other words, if you're not going to continue on with it and just go back to what you were doing before you hit your weight loss goal, you'll simply gain back the weight you loss).

Agree 100% with this

 

[Ricboff]

Yet another thread on weight loss ? Good grief . With that said , given the failure of US govt whom is a citizen to believe?

US govt swallowed Keys' flawed study . (He was a believer not a scientist, shame on him ) . The birth of the low-fat dietary guidelines ; what followed was an explosion of chronic disease rates


it's what you eat that matters . Calorie counting is nonsense.


Thankfuly US govt DID change dietary guidelines in Jan of this year - finally , what a disgrace ....evidence was plentiful a long time ago