Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Losing weight - not always the loss of fat

Losing weight - not always the loss of fat

Currently, obesity is a very common disease, so many perplexed by the problem of dumping of excess weight. And except for those who recognize the mast, and there are those who surround and do not see thick, but they are concerned about their weight and just want to reduce it. The question of getting rid of unnecessary fat for health and
beautiful appearance is a very topical.

The main indicator of obesity is body weight. Its very easy to measure, because the household and medical scales for weighing people available and accessible. Of course, more correct indicator is the mass of fat tissue, but it is very difficult to determine. Therefore, the main indicator of obesity has been and remains body weight.

For these reasons, the fight against obesity is becoming a struggle with weight. And this is fundamentally wrong! Losing weight Rights does not always correspond to the loss of fat tissue.

If a man reported that he dropped, say, 5 kg of weight, then does this mean that he got rid of five kilograms of excess fat? Not necessarily. Weight - the overall rate, which consists of fat mass, skeleton, muscles, internal organs, various body fluids ... Plus another mass of contents gastrointestinal tract, which can vary quite widely!

Consider a hypothetical situation. On the first day you ate and drank very nourishing and a lot, so that on the second day you have a clear aversion to food. Therefore, the entire second day you do not eat and did not drank. If you would have made the morning weighing the second and third days, the difference between them probably would have been large - up to 3 kg or more. That is, per night discharge you would have lost, say, 3 kg of weight. And how much you would have dropped during this time of fat?

Absolutely nothing! After gluttony on the first day of nutrients consumed quite enough for the next day and even left, so that resort to the spending of reserve of fat depots would be required. Losing weight during the entire day due to discharge waste of food substances learned from the eve of food eaten, undigested remnants of the evacuation, as well as loss
then with water, urine and exhaled air. So in this example, weight loss - 3 kilograms, and the loss of fat - 0 kg.

Another example. In hot weather people can lose with the then quite a lot of water. Water may be lost and without intense heat when taking diuretic drugs. In these cases, the loss of water may reach 10 kg, and fat loss, as in the previous example - 0.

Incidentally, this effect is sometimes used to mislead customers into the hands of some unclean "dieticians." They can give under the guise of anti-obesity pills containing diuretic means that the patient was satisfied with the rapid dumping hated weight.

Often the means to contain the slimming laxative components. That is right, because many obese people suffer from constipation. And after visiting the toilet weight will naturally diminish. But do not need to naively believe that the weight loss is a loss of fat.

As we discussed quite often weight loss may significantly outstrip the loss of fat. In such a case, the question arises: how quickly and may reduce weight without deception, by only one fat?

It depends on the chosen diet. The essence of any therapeutic diet for dumping excess fat - to create a negative energy balance to the body was forced to spend their own fat resources. Calorie content of one kilogram of fat known - 9300 kcal. And what could be a negative energy balance?

By their daily caloric unloading all diets can be divided into three groups.

1. The main diet - so named because its daily calorie is about basic human exchange - 1700-2200 kcal. The amount of negative energy balance on such a diet is about 200-500 kcal, so the weight is lost very slowly - in the order of 20-50 g
night.

2. Reduced diet. Daily calorie - 1200-1500 kcal, a negative energy balance - 500-900 kcal, and the daily loss of fat is the value of the order of 50-100 y.

3. Strict diet. Daily calorie - 400-800 kcal, a negative energy balance - 1400-1800 kcal, daily loss of fat can reach 200 g. This is the result obtained by this work in experiments on himself.

The main diet usually do not like because of the very slow loss of extra fat reserves. Strict diet provides the most rapid slimming, but she, as many complain, very painfully. It is therefore often come to a compromise - reduced diet.

The mansion is full starvation, in which people did not receive any nutrients; permitted only water. Because it is moved more easily than a rigid diet, then from starvation many adherents. The most famous books on fasting - a "miracle fasting" (P. Bragg), "Starvation for health" (Yuri S. Nikolaev), etc. For example, H. Shelton, in his book "Starvation your life" leads one of the words his patients: "I visited the resort widely publicized. They kept me on a diet of 700 calories a day, and I constantly felt hungry. The same starvation was happy for me!" That is, she argued that the rigid diet painfully, and starvation - none.

In the same work Shelton provides an answer to the question, how quickly goes with the full weight loss fasting - about one kg a day. Of course, such rapid weight loss really likes his patients. The author of this article also spent fasting, and received another result - 0.5 kg per day (see article Reports on 14 - daily fasting "and" About 15 - daily fasting ").

But ask - this attractive weight loss was due to fat or not? No, of course! Organism hungry spends very little power - a maximum of 1800-2000 kcal per day, corresponding to 200 g fat (as in an austerity diet). And the rest of the weight loss occurs through the costs of other soft tissues. When hunger forced them to discard the body to get glucose from protein. A glucose needed for the synthesis catalyst for the Krebs cycle (Krebs cycle - the main source of energy in the body). Of the fats in the body produced fuel for the Krebs cycle, but to burn this fuel is needed catalyst (synthesized from glucose), which,
Regrettably, little by little lost, and his need to fill.

Thus, starvation - this is also one example in which the weight loss more fat loss. So if you intend to pursue full starvation, not for the sake of rapid weight loss, but remember that the real loss of fat - about 200 g per day.

Thus, we can now answer the question posed above (how quickly may reduce weight without deception, by only one fat?), As follows: - maximum 200 g per day. If you lose weight faster, then you need to understand, so goes the loss.

Resetting the extra weight through diet is usually the situation "honest" - weight loss is 100% from fat. But when diets and weight can be lost faster than it is to be expected. In this case, should not be labour under the delusion, and check and really understands what goes through such a loss of body weight. For example, during a slimming in hot weather, some patients may unknowingly be limited to liquids, to observe more rapid drop in weight. Or when austerity
sometimes diet weight loss may exceed the theoretical 200 g, said that "eating" the body of some of their soft tissues. In this case should be reviewed diet that the body lacked a catalyst for the synthesis of carbohydrates for Krebs cycle and did not need to spend for the proteins own soft tissue.

By the way, and can reverse the situation - the loss of fat more than weight loss. This is, if the person is trying to mast weight through physical education. In this case, in the body are two simultaneous processes - reducing the mass of fat and increase muscle mass. Since the second part compensates the first, the total weight reduction will be less
expected, and people in this case generally dissatisfied with the results.

Can even a situation that you seem incredible - lost fat and weight - is growing! This could occur if, after prolonged fasting people "went" very slowly and for a while "sitting" on the reduced diet with adequate protein full. In this case, the body continues to spend your fat for energy purposes at a speed of approximately 100 grams a day. But the parallel process of rebuilding is under way
"eaten during the fasting soft tissue, which may well be an additional 200-300 g per day. That is, weight will increase, although fat and continue to spend.

So, if you decide to shed extra weight, then irrespective of the mode and method, remember - very often weight loss does not correspond to loss of fat! Therefore, following the trend of its weight, do not be fooled, and manage the process of losing fat, for example, the method
kalipermitriya (measuring the thickness of skin folds-fat).