On 2/25/2012 9:03 AM, Shay wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>
> Walking only burns a few hundred calories an hour. You need to burn (and not
> replace) about 3500 calories (more than a days worth) to lose one pound of fat.
> To make matters worse, you can't do any of this too quickly or your body will
> rebel against you. Walking won't increase your bmr. Eat a piece of pie and all
> of your suffering will have been for nothing.
>
Uh, worse news. Turns out, when you do burn them, your body responds by 
converting you "speed" muscle to "strength" muscle, which is roughly 10% 
more efficient, so to "keep burning" those 3500 calories, you have to 
drastically increase how much time, and work, you apply to doing so, to 
keep off the original loss. In effect, once you have it, its harder to 
keep it off again, than if you never had it.

Also. A thing about BMI. The man that invented it stated, clearly, "This 
is not intended to be a metric of health." It became such via comity, 
not via science. In reality, it cannot tell you if you are healthy, your 
organs are functioning, or you will end up suffering diseases, as a 
result of your weight. Its nonsense, but it is nonsense that can be used 
to sell you expensive "fixes" for the same nonsense, like new diet pills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlXxoG98urc&list=UUJm5yR1KFcysl_0I3x-iReg&index=5&feature=plcp

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