Unhealthy food fast

Yike

Hey,
So i have a friend who only drank diet coke,water, sugar free chewing gum and green tea for 20 days she told me she lost 31pds(I'm guessing she is about 9 stone now,but thats just a guess) she looks great,but how unhealthy is that.

metamorphosis

You already know the answer to the question you're asking!

I bet you my soul she will gain a lot of weight back when she physically cannot stop herself from mauling down food soon

Rossin

Omg id die!

thehamo

How much of that would be body fat I wonder. No doubt there would be significant muscle loss with that little food

curry_person

thats sounds just awful! must have being starving! :O
thats deffo not healthy but you could always try maple syrup diet which sounds somewhat the same... living on liquids!
31 pounds sound very tempting but she deffo will gain it back ! or atleast most of it!

El_Dangeroso

It is physically impossible to lose 31 pounds of fat in 20 days. That's burning 2000 cals a day ON TOP of eating nothing.

I'm calling bull****.

curry_person

its impossible to lose 31 lbs of fat but she probaly lost loads of water weight etc!!! and probaly lost even extra water weight from the chewing gum if she was eating loads! :O

El_Dangeroso

curry_person wrote: »

its impossible to lose 31 lbs of fat but she probaly lost loads of water weight etc!!! and probaly lost even extra water weight from the chewing gum if she was eating loads! :O

Water weight would be 8lb max, how many calories in a pound of muscle? I'm guessing if it's protein =454g = 1816 cals (if that..)

Just for giggles:

Even if a whole 10lb was water weight (which is extremely generous barring severe dehydration) it's still unrealistic.

21lb fat loss = 73,500 calorie deficit (:eek:)

Max calorie deficit for 20 days assuming a generous daily expenditure of 2,500 (very unrealistic when you factor in that metabolism drops off pretty quickly when starving) = 50,000

I suppose the body might canabilise about 100g of protein per day including the minimum needed to meet glucose needs via gluconeogenesis. = 2kg of protein = ~5lb which you then have to take off the original fat total.

Water: 10lb
Fat: 16lb
Protein: 5lb

= 64,000 which is much more than 50,000.

QED bull****.

metamorphosis

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Water weight would be 8lb max, how many calories in a pound of muscle? I'm guessing if it's protein =454g = 1816 cals (if that..)

Just for giggles:

Even if a whole 10lb was water weight (which is extremely generous barring severe dehydration) it's still unrealistic.

21lb fat loss = 73,500 calorie deficit (:eek:)

Max calorie deficit for 20 days assuming a generous daily expenditure of 2,500 (very unrealistic when you factor in that metabolism drops off pretty quickly when starving) = 50,000

I suppose the body might canabilise about 100g of protein per day including the minimum needed to meet glucose needs via gluconeogenesis. = 2kg of protein = ~5lb which you then have to take off the original fat total.

Water: 10lb
Fat: 16lb
Protein: 5lb

= 64,000 which is much more than 50,000.

QED bull****.

I bet you were a maths nerd in secondary school

El_Dangeroso

metamorphosis wrote: »

I bet you were a maths nerd in secondary school

Nope! I'm crap at maths, always loved science though!

Lanaier

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

It is physically impossible to lose 31 pounds of fat in 20 days. That's burning 2000 cals a day ON TOP of eating nothing.

I'm calling bull****.

You could burn it off with a flame thrower.