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ChristineAshley
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Posted: 8 February 2012 03:57 pm |
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Has anyone ever tried following the apple diet?
Eating only apples for a short period of time, like four days?
If I followed this and only ate 2-3 apples a day, how much weight would I lose?
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Nir
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Posted: 9 February 2012 12:53 pm |
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Do you mean the short-lived effect on the scales that will immediately go away when you start eating again? Or do you mean how much fat you might lose by doing this, as compared with 4 days of eating your maintenance calories?
To answer that question one needs to know just how overweight/obese you are. Obviously this approach is not very clever (because apples do not have sufficient protein, omega 3 fats and the full array of vitamins and minerals we require) but otherwise not too dangerous for someone with very many pounds to lose - but a much less good idea for someone relatively lean.
So for a sufficiently overweight person - calculate their sedentary RMR (because they're unlikely to be exercising whilst eating so very little), subtract the calories from the apples (this gives their deficit), multiply by 4 (the number of days), divide by 3500 and the result is roughly how much fat they might lose.
Example: female, 200lb, 5'5", 20yo. Sedentary RMR 2,014. Nibbling on 400 calories of apples a day. 2014-400 = 1614. For 4 days: 1614 x 4 = 6456. 6456/3500 = 1.8 pounds.
So there you go, a very obese person can hope to lose up to 0.5lb of fat a day on this very short term approach.
The person will lose a lot more weight and then immediately put it back. The extra weight will be water weight (for example relating to the fact that their normal diet has a lot more sodium than apples, that their colon is usually more full, that their glycogen stores are temporarily depleted...)
Repeat the cautions: (1) not a nutritionally adequate diet (2) this approach creates a very large deficit - a lean person who just has P pounds to lose should not have a deficit larger than (31 x P) calories because that's the maximum amount of fat they can lose per day - so a large deficit will not help them.
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Nir
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Posted: 9 February 2012 12:56 pm |
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However, a person who is willing to commit to a sensible plant-based diet will see sustainable results and will not risk their health. Notice what foods are at the base of this pyramid - vegetables, beans and fruit.
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sleepaidsreviews
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Posted: 1 March 2012 05:16 am |
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Great post Nir. But water is also a great solution for loosing weight...!!!
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