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Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Originally posted by bilmore
They lost 6 pounds a week? You realize a sedentary adult burns around 2000 calories a day, so if they took enough speed to maintain their metabolism while consuming zero calories a week, they'd only lose 4 pounds a week.
So maybe the patch people bilmore associates with are meth-heads. Alternatively, perhaps patch dwellers are as active as professional athletes. A professional athlete could possibly lose 6 pounds a week. For instance, players on New Zealand's rugby team, the "All Blacks", eat 4000 or 5000 a day. Link
This all puts aside dehydration. Everyone knows early on in a diet, there's a quick weight loss due to dehydration. There's even more in the Atkins diet due to the high protein, low carb intake. But dehydration accomplishes nothing except to overwork your kidneys and liver by flushing out all the excess protein. Pushing extra fluid through the kidneys to flush out the protein also has the effect of flushing out extra minerals. This has the added benefit of increasins your risk of kidney stones. And if you're a woman, flushing out calcium also increases your chances of getting osteoperosis. Fun, fun, fun.
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I've lost 7+ lbs in a day. All water of course.
And Bilmore, I think it's great that your friends are losing weight. However, I'd be willing to bet that it's b/c Atkins basically keeps you away from junk food. Well, no shit you're going to lose weight if you don't eat that bag of lime Tostitos and side of fries...it's not the protein-rich component that causes the weight loss. It's the "you can't eat the uber-processed white bread and pasta, etc" that only exists in this country.
Edited to add that I agree w/PLF -- converting suburban fatties to a vegetarian diet can only improve their looks. Although I prefer that my spinning hippie chicks shower.
