What the hell?

[The Defiant One]

Sometimes i'll do an extreme cardio workout of 30-50 minute, and my weight will drop to 190...Make note I weigh 200 pounds right now....When I wake up i'm back to 200 wtf happened?

[darkrelevance]

did you happen to rehydrate after you weighed yourself

[The Defiant One]

Rehydrate, and later on like an hour or so after i'll eat alittle something.

[darkrelevance]

the weight you lost was probably all water weight.
water actually weighs quite alot. most people can sit in a sauna for a while, and get the same type of effects.
a lot of people trying to make weight using dehydration methods, and then after weigh in, rehydrate.

[Da' Don]

Eating Too Late ?

[The Defiant One]

Rehydrate, and later on like an hour or so after i'll eat alittle something.

So all im actually loosing is water, and not actual fat?

[darkrelevance]

So all im actually loosing is water, and not actual fat?

yea. fat is lost gradually. you wont lose a lot of fat in a day.

[Da' Don]

what the hell ?

eat right, sleep good, think good, ---- good, think good, be good and fair and the rest is all gravy people !

[The Defiant One]

hmm...I see.

[Penance]

Some useful numbers

1 pound of fat = 3600 Calories.

The typical human body burns 10 C per lb of body weight per day to maintain that weight.

So if you weigh 200 lbs you burn about 2000 C just to maintain that.

So say you eat a well balanced diet of around 2000 calories a day. If your daily workout + energy expenditure from walking around is 600 C you can expect to take about 6 days to lose one pound. Note that burning 600 C a day exercising is pushing it, a typical cardio workout can burn 250-500 C