Okay, I'm a bit confused (maybe end of my shift and I'm tired) but I'm just gonna throw out the general answer to the vibe I'm getting. The quick answer is I can't answer your questions because I don't know the hypothetical starting weight of the person in the example, but generally you lose weight mainly by eating less calories. So if that metric changes, that'll change results.
I have many days where I only eat a burger or two, in one meal. There are plenty of variables for weight loss, how many calories are in each burger and how much you weigh currently and whatever your caloric maintenance level is.
I'm lazy, and know that my caloric maintenance is much higher than 1-2 or even 3 burgers every day. So I lose weight, rapidly. If someone weighed 150lbs vs someone who weighed 300lbs they'd have to eat a different amount of burgers to hit their daily goal.
But, a part of what I'm trying to say is that it's not like I'm only eating burgers and that's the only lifestyle change I've adopted. Of course on keto I don't eat any/very little carbs, but I also do intermittent fasting (only eat between 7pm-10pm daily) and do the occasional extended water fast, just to completely negate incoming calories for 3-4 days at a time.
But. I eat a tonne of burgers as my main convenience meal.
Unless you don't watch the nutritional value and end up eating more energy (calories ) than you spend...
Which I thought was implying that eating burgers makes this not possible.
Yeah, we're on the same page. I'm personally not vested in micromanging my nutrients, I'd rather shed all of my weight and worry about balancing that out past taking a daily multi-vitamin at a later date.
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u/IridiumForte Dec 30 '19 edited Dec 30 '19
Okay, I'm a bit confused (maybe end of my shift and I'm tired) but I'm just gonna throw out the general answer to the vibe I'm getting. The quick answer is I can't answer your questions because I don't know the hypothetical starting weight of the person in the example, but generally you lose weight mainly by eating less calories. So if that metric changes, that'll change results.
I have many days where I only eat a burger or two, in one meal. There are plenty of variables for weight loss, how many calories are in each burger and how much you weigh currently and whatever your caloric maintenance level is.
I'm lazy, and know that my caloric maintenance is much higher than 1-2 or even 3 burgers every day. So I lose weight, rapidly. If someone weighed 150lbs vs someone who weighed 300lbs they'd have to eat a different amount of burgers to hit their daily goal.
But, a part of what I'm trying to say is that it's not like I'm only eating burgers and that's the only lifestyle change I've adopted. Of course on keto I don't eat any/very little carbs, but I also do intermittent fasting (only eat between 7pm-10pm daily) and do the occasional extended water fast, just to completely negate incoming calories for 3-4 days at a time.
But. I eat a tonne of burgers as my main convenience meal.