Comparing Weight Loss Plans, Dollars Per Pound

I explored this topic in MASSematics (tm).

These people have no idea what they are talking about. That is to be expected from the morons at ABCNews.

For example, their expert Keith Ayoob says:

as long as you cut back on what you normally eat by about 25 percent, you can expect to lose about a pound a week, says Ayoob.

"A pound of fat is 3,500 calories (sic) so to lose a pound of week (sic), you'd need to trim off 500 calories (sic) a day from what you eat. Based on the standard 2,000 calorie (sic) intake per day, that would amount to a 25 percent decrease in caloric intake overall," Ayoob says.

Cutting back 25% in Calories is extremely burdensome and unsustainable, as the starvation literature shows.

An unsustainable cut in Calories makes a diet fail with 100% certainty. Period.

Also, it is biologically, physically, physiologically and mathematically impossible to trim off 500 Calories per day from what you eat and lose one pound per week.

Because the media are morons and they choose our experts, who are, in turn, morons, the public only learns how to be morons about weight loss.

Get smart.