Why does it take four months to lose ten pounds --- and less than two weeks to put them back on?

Answer 1

My husband has lost 35 pounds in 11 weeks! It depends on what your diet plan consists of.

Answer 2

On average, with a decent workout schedule you should be able to lose about 2.5 lbs per week. This includes eating well. Are you doing any weight training? You should do both aerobic and anarobic training. That is run/bike/swim and lift weights. One pound of muscle burns 5 times more calories than 1 lb of fat. Meaning that it raises your metabolism. Plus if you slack off for a bit, you'll be losing muscle weight while you gain fat weight and this will cause your overall weight to not shift very much. Of course if you keep slacking then you'll begin to gain again. You don't have to become huge, you'll see great results from just some gain in muscle mass.

Answer 3

Because the way that people normally lose weight is by dieting alone.

When you diet, you starve your body of certain essential nutrients (like fat, for the most part). When you do that, your body reacts by slowing down your metabolism to absorb every milligram of fat it takes in to make up for what it presumes it's missing.

Eventually, you starve yourself enough that your body gives in and starts digesting itself.

However, when you reach your target weight and start eating normally again, your body's metabolism is still slow. This means your body still absorbs every bit of fat it can - which means that you end up getting all of that lost weight back (and often more).

Answer 4

Diets do not work. 99% of people gain the weight back. Here is how it works. No one teaches the animal what to eat and what not to eat. He knows instinctively what to eat. Humans also have the same instinct. The way it works is just eat whatever tastes good and that will be healthy for you and non-fattening. That is why a baby tastes everything. So again whatever tastes good, is good for you. This is why you will spit out spoiled milk.

But wait!!! Man has the technology to create rat poison. It tastes like healthy food (good taste) but kills the rat. So man has done that to you. Note- any food unaltered by man (uncooked) that tastes good, is good for you. So if you are stranded in the woods, that is how you know what to eat (cooking changes that). So man has created fake fruit. It tastes like fruit that exists in nature but it is terrrible for health, addictive and fattening called sweets.

So it is natural to like real sweets called fruit, like a baby does, but they have fooled you just like the rat. But they do not want to kill you. They want you to become obese so you will buy lots of their foods. This is called GOOD BUSINESS. Remember the above (not on site) and see site below to re-learn how to eat so you can be thin and fit for life.

http://phifoundation.org

Answer 5

1.) it does not take 4 months to lose 10 pounds, work harder at it.
2.) most of the foods people eat today contain a lot of fat and that fat builds up

Answer 6

You can actually lose 10lbs of water weight easily in about 2-3 days.. or at least I can.

Answer 7

Because you eat way more than you excersize, so, if you ran 5 miles after every meal, you would gain and lose at the same rate. (im not suggesting you run after every meal, im just telling you).

Answer 8

Depends upon your body metabolism if its slow ull put on real quick and lose real slow

Answer 9

god i desire i knew, i'm particular it has to do with metabolism. it rather is elementary to throw your equipment out of whack and your physique go through the outcomes. on the different hand coaching your metabolism and your physique takes a lot of artwork.

Answer 10

depends on how your trying to lose. It sounds like your body may be in stavation mode.
It's easier to gain wieght because your fat cells are still there, only have shrunk.