So, yesterday wasn’t quite so hard as teh day before, I think I ate a little more than the 500kcal, but I still managed to get down to 124.8kg which is down considerably from sunday when I weighed in at my heaviest of 129.2kg … about 4kg down in all.
Now, obviously I can’t expect to lose 4kg in 4 days for every day of this diet, though that would be nice. 1kg a day would mean I could be finished in about 2 months!
I’m actually aiming for about 1-2kg a week.
Lunch today will be chicken curry with naan bread probably, but I need to calculate the calories a bit – I need to limit myself to about 1000 now, which should be a deficit of about 1000-1200 kcals a day.
According to the hackers diet “each pound gained or lost is equivalent to 3500 calories excess, stored as fat, or deficit, burned from fat by the rubber bag”. If 1kg = 2.2lbs, that means that 1Kg = 2.2 x 3500 = 7700kcal. So, to lose 1KG in a week, I need to have a deficit of 7700kcal in that week.
The hackers diet says that the ideal weight for a man of around 6′1″ is around 180lbs for a man of medium build – looking at the top end of the range (trying to be realistic here). 180lbs is about 82kg.
The low end of the calorie scale in the hackers diet shows such a person eating around 2200kcal/day. If I eat 1200kcal a day, then my defecit will be about 1000kcal/day, in a week it will be about 7000kcal and that means I’ll lose just under 1Kg a week at that rate. Obviously the more I’m willing to forgo food, the quicker I’ll lose weight. Eating 500kcal a day should be around 1.5kg a week? It seems unreasonable to expect truly rapid weight loss that I’ve experienced at the first three days – it has to stabilise somewhere around the 1kg/week mark – to eat 500kcal a day for the next 6 months would be impossible, and would not give me much extra benefit weight losing wise.
So, I’ll work on eating around 1000kcal a day, with a defecit of 1200/day, for about 8400/week defecit which equals to a bit over 1Kg/week. At that rate, we’re looking at a weight of around 80kg in about a year. Which would be lovely, not to have to haul around this extra 40-50Kg everywhere.
Although the Hackers Diet does quote the recommended weight tables, it also says:
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There’s really no such thing as an “ideal weight†for anybody. The human body is highly adaptable; as long as you’re within five or ten pounds of the optimum you’ll be fine. It’s far more important to find a weight at which you feel good, one you have no trouble maintaining, than to struggle for a number printed in a table, churned out by an equation in all likelihood, that has nothing to do with your own body.
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