How Long to Lose 50 Pounds (And Why)?

How Long to Lose 50 Pounds (And Why)?

Exact Answer: 25 Weeks

Physical fitness is something that everyone desires because it keeps one’s well-being physically, mentally, and socially. Exercising regularly and involving in various physical activities would lead to strengthening muscles and bones. Losing weight is something that needs one’s focus, cooperation, and discipline towards their exercises that means how regularly and how vigorously they are working out. Strict following of diet plans is also very necessary for transformative weight loss.

But in a bit of anxiety to look, good people are making wrong choices to lose weight like a beginner eating lesser than the required and doing high-level exercises vigorously would lead to imbalance and can cause health hazards.

How Long to Lose 50 Pounds

How Long Does it Take to Lose 50 Pounds?

People who are looking to lose weight can take diet tips and exercise tips from a yoga trainer and other professionals who are experts in this field. The trainers maximum tell their trainees to cut off calories intake in their diet and they also one’s diet plan according to a calorie deficit. The working principle of calorie deficit is burning more calories and less eating, due to this imbalanced energy will lead to weight loss.

Calories deficit in the equation representation:

Calories deficit= Daily intake calories – Daily outtake of calories

For a better understanding of this is a person burning 2000 calories by doing vigorous exercises and consuming 1500 calories leading to losing 500 calories and this is called a calorie deficit. So, the trainer performs a calculation by multiplying the trainee’s body weight by 15 to estimate how many calories the trainee would need to stay fit by losing weight. Generally, a beginner who is in a weight loss transformation would need a 1200 calorie deficit to stay healthy. So, it would take one week for a loss of 2.2 pounds according to a calorie deficit.

Calories intakeCalories outtakeCalorie deficitTime takes to lose weight
7,0008,0001,000one week
70,00080,00010,00010 weeks
7000,000800,000100,00025 weeks

So, from the above table, it shows that it takes one week to lose 2 pounds of weight. And one pound is equal to 3500 calories.

Many apps like “healthify me”, FITTR help in setting weight-loss goals through calorie deficit principles. Even after following the diet plans, one may not lose weight regularly, because it depends on many factors.

Why Does It Take That Long to Lose Weight?

Even after following correct diet plans and doing regular exercises one may not see stability in their weight loss. This is because of several factors that affect total calorie burn. The factors include one’s weight, muscle weight, type of exercise, and even food choices.

There are even other factors which include are one’s health conditions that affect one’s weight loss.

Overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism, Diabetes, Chronic respiratory obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), Rheumatoid Arthritis, Endocarditis, POCD (in women), and some others are common health conditions that are affecting one’s weight loss.

  • How Hyperthyroidism affects:

Hyperthyroidism is the condition in which the thyroid gland secretes more thyroid hormone and its main function includes the body’s metabolism. This leads to unintentional weight loss because over secretion of thyroid hormone burns more than the required calories.

  • How Diabetes affects:

Diabetes is a disorder in which irregular or dysfunction of the pancreatic hormones insulin, glucagon occurs and leads to changes in blood sugar levels. In type 1 diabetes immune cells inactivate insulin hormone and lead to higher blood glucose levels. Due to high levels of glucose in the blood is unused and gets excreted by the kidneys which leads to weight loss.

  • How Rheumatoid Arthritis affects:

This is also called Autoimmune disorder because here, immune cells attack it’s own body cells which lead to weight loss.

Conclusion

Losing weight is not an easy thing. Proper guidance, regular exercise, diet plans are all necessary components in one’s journey to weight loss. One should never be hasty to lose weight because it may affect health.

References

  1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749379704000285
  2. https://www.nature.com/articles/0800627
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