Exercise, nutrition and weight loss are three separate and distinct ideas that our culture has collapsed into one idea when we think about losing weight. Therein lies the problem.
Exercise for weight loss: If you are overeating, it’s almost impossible to exercise enough to counteract the effects. It takes a 200 pound person 30 minutes, walking 2 miles per hour, to burn off 1 ounce of tortilla chips or 2 tablespoons of ranch dressing. If the main reason for exercising is to lose weight by burning calories, can you ever really win that game?

Nutrition for weight loss: Choosing foods based on their content doesn’t produce long-term weight loss. If certain foods made you thin, you’d be thin today. Eating more nutritious foods will make your body run better, just as better gasoline makes your car run better. But that’s all they will do. Even steamed veggies will make you fat if eat them when you are not hungry. Giving your body more food than it needs, regardless of its content, is still overeating, and the reason for weight gain.

I, personally, tend to make wholesome food choices. I believe that this contributes to my health. I also am dedicated to vigorous daily exercise. I love it and I believe it contributes to making me fit. However, neither my food choices nor my exercise habits is the reason I have maintained my goal weight for more than five years. I have maintained my goal weight simply because I no longer overeat.

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I am trying to lose weight and I have three different protein/meal replacement bars to choose from:
Special K chocolate peanut butter meal bar
Zone Perfect Classic Nutrition bar
Kashi GoLean crunchy protein and fiber bar
I need to know which one is more effective for weight loss.

you know what your daily calorie maintenance level is, it’s time to officially create your weight loss diet plan.

To do this, just subtract 500 from your calorie maintenance level.

For example, if you figured your maintenance level to be 3000 calories per day, you would now start eating 2500 calories per day instead. It’s really as easy as it sounds. Just subtract 500 from your daily maintenance level and then start eating this new amount of calories each day. By doing so, you would officially be in a calorie deficit. And, as you know, a calorie deficit is what makes weight loss happen.

I’m a nursing student and the following info I’m going to provide, I’ve learned it in my Nutrition class. It’s been a while so my terminology isn’t perfect. But you’ll understand what I’m talking about.

Take a girl, for example. Her body needs carbs (glucose) for energy. Okay. She gets that from food. When she stops eating, the glucose stored in muscle will be used up for energy then. When that’s done, the stored glucose in the form of fat in her body will be used (in other words, the fat would be used up for energy).

My question is, why is that a bad thing? Isn’t that the way weight loss is supposed to work? I understand that once that stored fat is used up as well, the body will start breaking down muscle for energy.

Why do people say that when you severly restrict your calories or stop eating altogether, after water weight loss, the first thing to go is muscle?

Please understand that I am not anorexic. this is something I’ve been curious about for a while.
Thank you for the great answers, everybody.

And Carlos, there was nothing "retarded" about the question I asked. YOU don’t even seem to UNDERSTAND what I asked.

I’m a student of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry… and I can answer your question like this:

When there is glucose restriction, lipid metabolism will take over to meet the energy demands. Lipid breakdown will produce Ketone bodies. Lipid metabolism will NOT result in production of glucose. The glyoxylate cycle doesn’t operate in humans, and consequently, excess fats CANNOT be converted to carbohydrates.
Ketone bodies can, however, serve as a source of ATP, and therefore function appropriately as energy sources for many tissues. BUT, certain tissues are absolutely dependent on glucose metabolism for energy (e.g, Red blood cells, kidney cells, brain cells etc…). Brain cells can shift their metabolic balance towards ketone body metabolism, but it usually requires about 72 hours for the brain to start using Ketone bodies.

So, to produce Glucose, the body has available sources of protein in the muscle. These will breakdown to produce amino acids, some of which will be glucogenic… and lead to the production of glucose (by gluconeogenesis), that can be used by the RBCs, kidney, brain etc…

This explains why… "the first thing to go after water weight loss is muscle".

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I would like to be an inspiration for those who have lost hope in losing weight the RIGHT way! I hope this can help you!

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