how long does it take for food weight to go away?
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"On average, it takes us roughly 6-8 hours after eating for food to travel through our stomach and small intestine. The food then travels through the large intestine where further digestion and absorption of water occurs, before it is then eliminated from the body.
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Understand? That's the long answer. The short answer is your calories start the process of turning into fat as soon as 4 hours after eating them. But it would take a couple of weeks of eating too many calories for that fat to show up in a meaningful way.
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It Takes Three Hours to Gain Weight (Say Whaaat?!) So, in a meal with roughly 30 grams of fat in it, you'll have a couple teaspoons of fat around your midsection after about three hours.
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When it comes to our digestive system, it can take hours or even longer for food to pass through. That's what it takes for the body to get the nutrients and energy it needs from what you ingest. It usually takes from 24 to 72 hours for healthy people to completely digest food and eliminate waste products.
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The Research So Far A systematic review of 40 studies found that intermittent fasting was effective for weight loss, with a typical loss of 7-11 pounds over 10 weeks. [2] There was much variability in the studies, ranging in size from 4 to 334 subjects, and followed from 2 to 104 weeks.
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Exactly how much water weight you can expect to shed depends on a lot of factors, including your body size and composition. “I know people who were obese and lost 10 pounds in two days” on a diet, Clayton says. He notes that the average person can expect to lose one to three pounds in about two days.
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At first, food travels relatively quickly through your digestive system. Within 6 to 8 hours, the food has moved its way through your stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. Once in your large intestine, the partially digested contents of your meal can sit for more than a day while it's broken down even more.
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Most weight loss in the first six months The weight loss then becomes less as you get closer to your target weight. By the end of the first year you could hope to have lost about 63 percent of your excess weight and up to 70 percent after two years.
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The time it takes for you to see and for others to notice weight loss results can vary significantly from person to person. Many factors, including your starting size and your eating plan, can make a big difference. In general, however, many people can see results in one to two weeks when they stick to their plan.
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So if you lose 1lb (0.45kg) a week you could hope to reduce your waistline by an inch after four weeks. Dieticians advise that if you eat 500 calories less than your daily requirement you will lose about 1lb every seven days (expect some variation from person to person).
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In terms of losing weight through exercise, he said people can start seeing results in two to three weeks. But, he said, if you want to kept the weight off, you'll need a routine that progresses slowly and steadily instead of one where you're going all out.
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In another study published in the journal Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, people lost an average of four pounds in 12 weeks after consuming one to two tablespoons of diluted apple cider vinegar daily. The acetic acid in vinegar can be beneficial in other ways, since it suppress appetite, says Johnston.
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Women should be able to lose their extra weight by six months after they give birth, Lovelady said. Not all of the experts agreed that all of the weight had to come off within six months. However, 12 months seems to be the upper limit for how long it should take for women to lose all of their pregnancy weight.
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TRY LOSING WEIGHT IN PHASES Once you've held steady for six months, work on shedding the remaining pounds. While this process takes time, “if you want to maintain your weight loss, you must learn and adopt healthy eating and physical activity habits for the rest of your life,” says Maciel.
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It'll take a bit of effort at first – research has found that our brains require anything from 21 to 90 days to cement a new habit – but persist and, in a few weeks' time, you'll find you're eating less without even realising it.
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It takes 4 to 6 hours on average for food to leave the stomach after a meal; longer if there was a lot of fat, less time if the meal was mostly liquid. Total digestion time from stomach to elimination is about 53 hours on average. If you want to eat 250 gm of chicken every day, that's fine.
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For people who do not experience abdominal pain, fatigue, or other discomfort when walking just after a meal, walking at a brisk speed for 30 minutes as soon as possible just after lunch and dinner leads to more weight loss than does walking for 30 minutes beginning one hour after a meal has been consumed.