You can easily lose 20 pounds in two months just by cutting out high calorie items like pop and upping your activity.
2 months = 8 weeks
2.5 pounds a week = 1250 calorie deficit daily roughly (assuming you're losing fat primarily)
A single can of pop is 140 - 180 calories roughly just depends on the particular soda. Plenty of people drink 5+ cans of pop a day.
If everything inside the body is working like it is suppose to work then "efficient caloric burn" will be at its pinnacle execution/function.
This high point of efficient execution/function rarely occurs with your "average Joe" person.
For pro athletes, each may or may not be closer to their pinnacle, but more closer to the pinnacle than your "every day person".
Some "regular folk" people have better workings going on in the inside than even some athletes, but largely not.
Some athletes have poor workings going on in the inside than us "average Joes/Janes".
Every single person, "regular folks", pro athletes etc. we all age.....so the workings on the inside are going to age & fatigue too.
As we age, we are going to have to give up something to better our chance for survival. So most people, as they age, they get "fatter".
These aging bodies are giving up the effcient workings inside our bodies to improve our chance for a longer life.
When a person cuts calories, that person actually is cutting back/down the predominantly necessary material your inside workers need to do their work.
What does one need to exercise? Besides the motivation to exercise?
A person needs energy to exercise.
What provides energy? Food provides energy.
What exactly in food provides the energy?
The calories provide the energy.
Calories =/= Pounds.
Calories =/= Weight.
Calories = Energy (most specifically, heat energy to raise the heat temperature of "X" amount of fluid water by 1 degree celsius - most of the time the "X" is 1 gram amount of fluid water, but in specific food case the "X" is actually 1 Kilogram amount of fluid water.)
So every time you read a food label on the package and you read 100 Calories, for example. Those 100 Calories are actually 100,000 normal/original calories.
So let's say I eat those 100 food Calories. I am taking in 100,000 caloric units for my inside workers to use as energy to do their jobs inside my body.
Why do some people have trouble losing weight even when they exercise? These individuals' body actually think they are lacking energy (not enough calories) so these bodies continue to hold on to the calories held in their fat tissue for later use on more important jobs. Most of these kinds of people are on the typical "low-cal" diet. Many people have stated that they feel no energy to exercise while they are on thier "low calorie" diet.
Other individuals who are not lacking energy, are lacking other material/tools (vitamins/minerals) for their inside workers to do their jobs. Here, people can benefit from taking supplements.
Another group of people who are not lacking energy or other materials/tools......these individuals have crappy/shoddy and non-desirable stuff (toxins/poisons)....so the
body doesn't want to use them. The body
actually wants to keep these crappy stuff in the fat and
away from far more important and vital internal organs/structures. Here, people can benefit from staying away from the crappy food available out there and also benefit from a detox diet to help flush out the toxins/poisons.
The specific type of weight needs to be distinguished. I would like to think that for pro athletes and pro teams' trainers would already know and pay careful attention to this. But, they don't.
Weight can be any number of things. I.E. my back pack, my briefcase, my heavy layers clothing, rain coat etc.
Weight could be fat, muscle, bone, other tissues and water.
So what weight do you want to lose? Most likely not muscle and not bone.
If I wanted to lose fat weight (mass), I would eat a heck of a lot more fat. I would acquire this fat from a reputable source, not just from anywhere (to avoid harmful poisons/toxins).
I want to make sure I maintain or
increase my muscle weight (mass) and my bone weight (mass). So here are two more reasons why I would not put myself on a typical "low cal" diet. So instead, I would eat a high fat, moderate protein diet and I would pump iron, life weights.
Cause if my body felt it was not having enough calories or energy material to use & the body won't dip their hands into the posion/toxins bin....the body will get it from somewhere else, like from my muscles and my bones.