I have a friend working at a weight loss camp, and their method is to simply eliminate fat intake and have an exercise regimen. She said that they lose about 8 pounds their first week.

Very interesting.

What if I eat a bunch of fast food and chips and soda pop that amounts to 1800 calories. But in the same day, I burn 2000 calories.

Would I still not lose weight?

No, you don't. I've personally lost 50 pounds just by eating less... didn't exercise at all (exercise a lot now though... still good for your health... just not mandatory for losing weight).



That's the worst possible way to measure weight loss performance. The vast majority of weight loss in the first week is water weight and less food bulk in the system (among other things)... only a small percentage would be actual fat burning. The first week (and sometimes second) always have a huge spike because of that, with later weeks leveling off (though still fluctuating +/- 2 pounds due to various factors unrelated to fat loss/gains), so the only accurate way to measure weight loss is over at least a month period, and starting after a couple weeks on the program.



You would still lose weight. What bard is saying has some truth, but not entirely.
You can gain weight a lot faster overeating on foods high in saturated fat than on other foods because that fat can just be stored directly without ever being digested, which is much more "efficient"... whereas a lot of the energy is loss when digesting food into energy and then converting it into fat.
But the calorie-counting metric still works just fine when losing weight, if you consume fewer calories than you burn you'll lose weight proportionally... it just often underestimates the weight gains that are made when consuming lots of saturated fats (while also consuming a total calorie surplus).

Good Answer.

I also know that Trans fats are so bad because the molecules have a little "kink" in their structure that makes them much more difficult to break down and use as energy.

Ingesting 50-100 calories worth of an artificial by-product chemical every day (as an average American does) has negative health effects... go figure.

Uhm, the fat chick gives health advice? Seriously?

And her advice is shit like "if your body tells you to eat another box of Oreos you should listen to it because your body knows what it needs"

Gah!

This post was edited by inkanddagger on Aug 1 2012 01:06am

In what way does "unhealthy" inhibit the calorie In > calorie Out = weight gain?

If I eat 100 calories of "junk" transfats, but still run a 100 caloric deficit, there should be no effect in terms of weight gain. The negative health effects are duly noted.

if you want to graduate, just as any student would be "forced" to do their school work or not graduate.

No one in the world is forced to do anything, they can choose to face consequences.



This post was edited by Ylem122 on Aug 1 2012 02:25am

Wasn't talking about weight gain in that post m8.
Just the other innumerable health consequences of ingesting so many trans fats.

pretty much. trans fats have a c=c (carbon-carbon double bond) that is tough for the body to metabolize.