How much weight can you lose by eating a balanced diet in one day?

Just relying on a balanced diet for a day will hardly produce visible fat loss. Most of the weight fluctuations shown on the scale are water changes, usually between 0.2-0.6 pounds. In essence, they have nothing to do with what we call "thin" (referring to pure fat loss).

According to nutritional standards, one kilogram of pure fat contains about 7,700 calories. For ordinary people who eat a balanced diet, the healthy calorie gap is generally only 300-500 calories a day. When converted into pure fat, it is less than 0.1 kilograms. This weight cannot even cover the error range of a home scale, and it is impossible to measure it with one day's adjustment. A while ago, I took my sister who had just graduated from the office to try a customized balanced meal. On the first day, she ate exactly as required, which was all low-oil and low-salt grains, lean poultry and vegetables. She jumped on the scale at night and said she had lost half a catty. The next day, she went to eat salty and spicy crayfish with a friend, and the weight increased by 8 taels when she came back. She squatted at the workstation and emoped for almost half an hour. I figured out the logic of salt locking moisture with her, and she finally stopped worrying about that number.

Some people also say that they lost almost 2 pounds after trying a balanced diet in one day. This situation may be caused by eating high-sugar, high-fat and heavy food every day for a period of time, and the body accumulated a lot of edema, which was eliminated after adjusting the diet.； Or the so-called "balanced diet" actually deliberately cuts out all staple foods. When glycogen is consumed in large quantities, it also takes away the bound water. This kind of weight loss cannot be retained at all. As long as you return to eating staple foods normally, the weight will go back in two or three days. You may even be starved to the point of breaking down muscles, lowering your basal metabolism, and making it easier to gain weight later.

In fact, many people are obsessed with how much weight they can lose in one day. In essence, they are still too hasty. Just like when you plant a small potted plant, you cannot finish watering it in the morning and then dig up the soil at night to see how many roots it has grown, right? The advantage of a balanced diet is not that you will lose weight quickly in the short term. It is that you don’t need to be so hungry that you feel dizzy, or you don’t need to be so greedy that you can’t walk when you see hot pot. If you occasionally want to eat milk tea or nibble on fried skewers, you only need to control the amount and stuff it into the total calories. No problem. If you stick to it for a long time, you will steadily lose 3-4 pounds of pure fat every month. After three to five months, your waist will be three to four centimeters smaller. Your pants will be noticeably looser and your complexion will be much better than that of someone who lost weight suddenly. There will be no rebound problem at all.