Weight Management (Weight Loss Lecture) Flashcards
Recommended diet to lose weight
500 - 1000 cal/day
Does how many consumed calories or how the calories are consumed have a higher affect?
How many.
Do VERY low calorie diets produce greater long-term weight loss then low calorie diets?
No, they are about the same. This is because your body will fight against weight loss due to lepton. Lepton fears of death.
What predicts if you maintain the weight loss?
If you stick to the diet, not what diet you use.
How many lbs /week will be lost if you burn 2000 - 4000 calories per week during exercise
1 lbs / week
How much exercise /week is recommended
150min per week
What causes more weight loss, exercise or diet?
Diet
True or false: 50% of those who have ever used diet or exercise methods to lose weight report having done so at least 5 different times throughout their lives
True
What happens to 95% of individuals that lost weight?
They will not maintain it.
Physiology of why you cannot keep weight off
Your body weight set point is burned into your brain
What happens when you lose weight?
Brain thinks we are starving.it is the gliosis in the hypothalamus. it is going to make us more sensitive to hunger to try and get us to get back to that weight. it thinks that is the weight we are supposed to be.
How to avoid gliosis
Get fat off fast enough before brain thinks this is how it should be
If we eat a little less food everyday, why will we gain weight.
We will be sensitive to food intake because our body thinks something bad is happening. This puts our body in stress and the stress tells our body to be efficient and store.
When does our body become more efficient to exercise?
When you lose weight. You burn less calories because they’re less of you. Overtime, if you want to lose the same 500 calories a day, you need to do a higher intensity or put in more time to continue this.
Why is being somewhat active important for your appetite regulation
So you don’t have a higher than you should appetite
