How much can i lose in one month with the special K diet?!

How much can i lose in one month with the special K diet?

i just started eating it and i drink alott of water and eat fruits.
i work out as well. [by using my bicycling workout machine] can working out and the special K cereal double my weight loss?

the special k diet is just a meal replacement diet.

from memory, i'm thinking a bowl of cereal with lowfat milk is ~300 cals per bowl. if you have two bowls a day and a sensible meal, you should be eating about ~1500 cals a day.

typically, the average person will "burn" through ~2000 cals per day doing normal movements--moderate exercise, moving around, etc...(hence, the recommended 2000cal daily value since this amount of eating should maintain your weight).

so with your meal replacement, you're down 500 cals per day, times 7 days for the week and you'll lose "one pound per week" with meal replacement.

to "enhance" your weight loss, you should be exercising...and we'll consider 100 cals per 15 minutes of moderately-paced walking. if you walk for an hour a day, thats 400 cals your down...per week, that would be about another pound you've lost--

so total, 2lbs per week.

i believe most dieticians don't recommend losing more than 2lbs per week, as rapid weight loss tends not to be "permanent" weight loss (eg. yo-yo dieting).


and you also have to keep in mind, more exercising will increase your muscle mass and reduce your fat mass--muscle is more dense than fat (one pound of muscle will 'take up less space' than one pound of fat), so you will look slimmer but may weigh heavier.

so, my opinion...i don't completely rely on the scale to gauge "weight loss" it's better to go with overall body measurements to "see" if you're "loosing weight"


good luck!