The 3,500 Calorie per Pound Rule Is Wrong
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I wonder how to take this into account when trying to lose weight.
Just because your body is burning fewer calories doesn’t change the scientific fact that you still need a calorie deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound of body fat. It’s like saying I needed to save $100 a month to be able to purchase an item that cost $1200 after 12 months, if I got a new job that paid more or less would be irrelevant if I adjusted my budget and continued to save $100 a month.
That's true that one will lose less weight over time if they maintain the same low calorie consumption. They will come to plateaus where they won't lose weight. If they want to keep losing weight, they must reduce their calorie consumption more.
That’s what I’m saying
The “rule” isn’t “wrong”. People just assume they don’t need to change anything. As long as you maintain a 3500 cal per week deficit (adjusting every so often for weight loss along the way) you’ll lose approximately 1lb of fat per week.
But the quantity to create a deficit changes so you would still apply this rule. Just using a deficit generated from your current weight.
Terrible video saying 3500 rule is wrong, it is right. It just is often applied wrong by fat people who get lean and don’t recalculate their maintenance.
One thing you failed to mention is your TDEE..will also change…if you weigh 180 and your TDEE is 2300 you lose 1 lb a week for 4 weeks..yes your TDEE will drop..but you can do 500 pounds +/- a day at that new TDEE..so 3500 rule still apply..if I lose 50 pounds my TDEE will be of course less than when I started..but I can always subtract 500 from there.
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Interesting
The rule is NOT wrong. Eating 500 kcal below maintenance calories will result in 1 pound of weight loss per week over time. The fact that maintenance caloric need drops as body weight drops does NOT falsify the rule. If you go from 2500 to 2000 kcal and you lose at the expected rate, you need to keep nudging down the intake over time because metabolic rate drops over time as well, thermic effect of food drops and usually, activity also drops over time. However, a daily deficit of 500 kcal below maintenance will result in 1 lbs of fat loss in physiologal relevant settings of body fat between 10 and higher percentage for males and 18 or more for females. The video title is misleading and the author's interpretation of what the 3500 rule means is wrong.
Great video! I learned a lot.
Do fat cells duplicate or do the expand?
So weighted vest could help
This is possibly the most irritating voice I have ever heard. All the florid, tiny little grunts and growls and tone and tempo variations he deliberately inserts are like nails on a chalkboard. Wanker.
I LOL'd so hard at the -6 vanished woman. Oh my Dr. Greger, you are amazing. I love you!
That doesn’t make the rule wrong, lmao. You still need to burn 3,500 more calories than your maintenance calories in order to lose 1 pound of fat. It’s just that your maintenance calories goes down as you lose fat, but that’s common sense which I had thought everyone knew lmao
You won’t gain a pound if you eat 3500 calories one day because your resting metabolic rate you burn calories doing nothing throughout the day
Lol so you mean that everybody at the start to maintain their weight eat equal amount of food? Of course not, the rule which shows that your calorie intake is proportional to your weight is known everywhere, isn't it?
Clickbait. 395*9=3,555. The laws of thermodynamics cannot be ignored.
I thought that the 3500 calories ruled meant that for every 3500 calories subtracted from baseline (baseline being where your weight stays the same) then one pound of weight is lost. So a subtraction of 3500 calories from your base line weight is impossible to measure precisely by diet alone because we all differ in metabolism, activity, health, and food composition. So the 3500 calorie rule is correct, but you can't measure it by food alone.
but 1lb of fat is still composed of 3500 calories. You can't try to be a respected nutirition source and post dishonest clickbait at the same time…
but 1lb of fat is still composed of 3500 calories. You can't try to be a respected nutirition source and post dishonest clickbait at the same time…
I think I get it. Would this be on par with why the average 2000 cal a day "guideline" isn't for everyone? I always thought it dumb that this figure was the "standard", when depending on age, size and activity level, it could be a lot more or less .