Formula for HN: ((calories consumed - calories expended) / 3500) = weight change in LBS of fat. There are healthy ways to lose and gain weight and there are unhealthy ways, but they all come down to that very, very simple formula.
Formula for HN: ((calories consumed - calories expended) / 3500) = weight change in LBS of fat. There are healthy ways to lose and gain weight and there are unhealthy ways, but they all come down to that very, very simple formula.
It gets more complicated from there: hormone's respond to what you eat. Eat more sugar, it raises your insulin (a hormone) which will stop the conversion of fat to energy, and indirectly will cause the conversion of blood sugar to fat. If your insulin is improperly regulated, you'll have difficult following the simple formula above. The same goes for thyroid hormones. They regulate your metabolism. Another hormone involved is cortisol which reponds to stress levels and can increase your blood sugar levels (cascading over into insulin, for example). Note that you can run into the non-intuitive case of over exercise increasing your cortisol causing excessive blood sugar causing fat storage. It's not easy, but it is possible.
One way to look at it simply is to eat foods that control your blood sugar, and manage your stress levels to avoid excessive cortisol. Excessive protein and fiber calories won't cause fat to build, going against the above formula. In fact, protein and fiber are excellent blood sugar regulating foods and are therefore good at controlling fat building.
This is why exercise is critical for losing weight. Exercise counteracts this effect by raising the metabolic rate.
How I interpreted your first comment was that you were arguing this would work for the entire 10 week period. My point was that it would not, that over time the rate of weight loss would slow as your basal metabolism rate drops. Given a constant diet, at some point an equilibrium will be reached.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.