Have you ever weighed yourself everyday?  From one day to the next you
could gain or lose 3 pounds (or more).  More than likely that is water
weight fluctuation.  Most people are not increasing (or decreasing) their
calories by 10500.

That was a simple example, but your body is not as simple.  Your body
has many coping mechanism.  Things such as if you eat too few calories
your body will go into starvation mode and slow down you metabolism,
making weight loss very difficult.

If you have medical conditions such as hypothyroid, your metabolism
is going to be slowed down, making weight loss slow and your body will
retain water making weight gains on the scale immediate.  If you are
hyperinsulin, you have too much insulin putting your body into fat
storage mode.  If you have food allergies (think intolerances) this
will cause water weight gains.

The nurses study showed that women that eat more calories were thinner
in general than those that ate fewer calories.  There is an older
study that showed on a controlled low calorie diet; some women lost,
some women stayed the same, and some women gained.

If life was as simple as calories in = weight loss, then all the
places that teach weight loss by low calorie dieting wouldnt have a
95% failure rate.  That includes the 700 calorie liquid protein
diet.  And there wouldnt be many scientist looking for other
explanations of obesity.

One last theory of mine.  Carbohydrates are used for fuel in the
body.  58% of protein and 10% of fat can be used for fuel in the
body.  But protein and fat have other uses, mainly building and
repairing the body.  So my theory (because it is true in my body)
is that is one reason I can eat more calories when my calories
come primarily from protein and fat and not carbohydrates.

Kara


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At 04:58 PM 11/19/1999 -0500, Charlotte Williams wrote:
If the equation isn't that simple, perhaps someone could clarify for me what
other factors, if known, induce the weight loss?  It seems to me that weight
loss must be a simple equation: Calories In - Calories Burned = surplus
energy.
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