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    Mostly of the weight loss would be water.

    No carbs plus alcohol and coffee is just diuretics

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      Plus anything that was in your intestines / bowels. There’s no fibre in there at all.

      I used to have to “make weight” and water and empty intestines are the short version of how it’s done.

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          Is that true? It wouldn’t surprise me. When I was competing in that weight category sport I had a very skewed view of what I considered overweight (for me).

          99% of the population would have considered me lean as fuck when I thought otherwise.

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            Unironically yeah. There’s more ways for a girl to pick up a restrictive eating disorder (family pressure, wider social pressure, more sports that care about weight like gymnastics and dance) but men can absolutely still get one and this is the most common way. And I really should have specified restrictive because binge eating disorder is pretty common in both sexes. Although orthorexia is also kinda coming into vogue for both sexes.

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        So if we add some weetabix to the morning meal it’s basically a perfect diet! I’ll start experimenting tomorrow, I’ve already ordered 30 bottles of wine

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          And your brain won’t work because it requires at least 110 grams of carbs to function normally. Then you might start saying things like “if you’re only eating protein you don’t need fibre”

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              Fair enough, that being said, eating exclusively protein is still likely to result in death from nutrient deficiency, kidney overload, protein poisoning, the list goes on.

              But thats not as funny.

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                All those negatives notwithstanding, you still don’t need fiber in your diet if you’re only eating protein.

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                  I mean if you just eat steak and eggs you’re not going to shit. As I said earlier it was a tactic we used for making weight.

                  Not shitting is a great way to get colon cancer.

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                    You’ve obviously never done anything like this and have no idea what you’re talking about.

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      If you lose more than water weight in 3 days, it’s probably due to traumatic illness or amputation.

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      The avg person expending 2000 Calories a day means an ~850 Calorie deficit. 2550 deficit over the course of 3days. That allows about 3lbs of muscle (700C) loss or almost 1lb of fat (3000-3500C)loss.

      Up the calories expended via being active and you could reach the 5lb goal. With such severe caloric deficit nost of the weight loss would be muscle unfortunately.

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          If caloric intake was higher sure. Muscle breakdown is easier than fat so is a prime target in starvation diets to get energy. Results in long-lasting problems for people who have experienced famine or eating disorders. More moderate caloric deficits are healthier for a reason but obviously takes longer to lose weight.

          There’s a lot of variability in nutrition that can impact things but generally protein in the diet helps maintain and grow muscle but doesn’t affect that when your body is starving for energy muscle tends to go more than fat.

          Nutritional fads including the current lots of protein one are likely bunk or only for certain lifestyles.

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            I’m not familiar with this so am interested; presumably there’s a calorie deficit where more fat is consumed than muscle? Where does it switch?

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              It is complex, precise dietary requirements vary person to person (even mouse to mouse but less for lab strains). As a generality women have lower caloric requirements, men higher. Age, height, weight, activity level, genetics, etc all have impacts.

              The timeline of caloric restriction matters. Muscle breakdown occurs first because muscles store glycogen which is a much faster energy source than fat. Fat breakdown can go on for longer as it has a higher density of energy. Simple short-term reduction in calories thus results in muscle before fat. Higher protein intake mitigates or prevents muscle loss in longer-term diets compared to lower protein intake as the muscle cells are used to process/use the protein. Exercise is the best at keeping or growing muscle as it turns them from energy providers to energy users.

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              Resistance training. When on a calorie deficit while doing weight training, you will lose less muscle. You’ll still lose some, but your body will try to rebuild the muscle using proteins and stored nutrients.

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        Google results are showing to me that are at most 30g in a bottle of red dry wine.

        That’s like a potato or something