As the Title implies... how much weight can you loose healthily in a week? By eating 4 small portions with fresh fruit and veggies as well as light exercise eg walking or resistance band training etc? I hear all kinds of hype about 11 pounds per week and stuff, but I don't believe it, realistically how much weight can you loose in a week?
How much weight can you loose in a week?
- Thread starter reyaz01
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i really doubt anyone really loses the same amount EVERYWEEK... ive lost as much as 4 lbs in a week........ but also as little as -2....
KaraCooks
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A reasonable expectation if you're being safe and healthy is 1% of your bodyweight per week. So, for example, for me at 170, I'd lose 1.7 lbs per week.
But as Steve pointed out - how much of that is fat and how much is other weight - water, lean muscle, etc?
Which all goes back to being healthy and safe about it.
But as Steve pointed out - how much of that is fat and how much is other weight - water, lean muscle, etc?
Which all goes back to being healthy and safe about it.
Absolute figures are sort of silly since someone who is larger can get away with absolute amounts of weight loss compared to someone who is smaller.
That's why I like using 1% of total bodyweight per week as a general guideline.
There are instances where this doesn't apply, however.
That's why I like using 1% of total bodyweight per week as a general guideline.
There are instances where this doesn't apply, however.
Omega
Moderator
I have to echo what the others say about being healthy and safe being the best approach.
You have to remember that losing too much weight in a week can be a nightmare in itself. Your skin has to try and cope with weight loss. If you lose too much you can guarantee to be left with a lot of loose skin plus you have to be learning new healthier eating and activity habits or the chances are that whenever you eventually finish the weight loss phase you will simply regain the lost weight just like you did before the project began.
For the record - the most weight that I lost in a month was about 14 pounds which (when you consider that most months are about 4.5 weeks) works out on average to about 1% per week. To be fair I managed to lose that amount of weight for the first few months - so by that time it would be a little over 1%. I did work consistently hard for my weight loss.
This is disregarding my weight loss over the first two weeks of my project as I did not own scales which were capable of weighing me (I was above their maximum weight and had to buy new ones). I have to go by a start weight from my visit to my doctor a couple of months before my project began. I might have (and probably did) actually started heavier than my ticker as there was a Christmas and a holiday away after that!!!!!..... A lot of people lose extra in water weight at the start of their project.
Although I eagerly wanted to lose the weight as quickly as ever possible - I can say that it is good that I didnt lose it any quicker. The fact is that I have a level of loose skin on my stomach and breasts that will not be rectified without surgery. I do believe that if I had lost weight any quicker I would have had more loose skin problems elsewhere - and more extreme problems in these places. The rest of me is pretty much unscathed by my weight history which means that when I am dressed no-one would guess the size that I have been.
You have to remember that losing too much weight in a week can be a nightmare in itself. Your skin has to try and cope with weight loss. If you lose too much you can guarantee to be left with a lot of loose skin plus you have to be learning new healthier eating and activity habits or the chances are that whenever you eventually finish the weight loss phase you will simply regain the lost weight just like you did before the project began.
For the record - the most weight that I lost in a month was about 14 pounds which (when you consider that most months are about 4.5 weeks) works out on average to about 1% per week. To be fair I managed to lose that amount of weight for the first few months - so by that time it would be a little over 1%. I did work consistently hard for my weight loss.
This is disregarding my weight loss over the first two weeks of my project as I did not own scales which were capable of weighing me (I was above their maximum weight and had to buy new ones). I have to go by a start weight from my visit to my doctor a couple of months before my project began. I might have (and probably did) actually started heavier than my ticker as there was a Christmas and a holiday away after that!!!!!..... A lot of people lose extra in water weight at the start of their project.
Although I eagerly wanted to lose the weight as quickly as ever possible - I can say that it is good that I didnt lose it any quicker. The fact is that I have a level of loose skin on my stomach and breasts that will not be rectified without surgery. I do believe that if I had lost weight any quicker I would have had more loose skin problems elsewhere - and more extreme problems in these places. The rest of me is pretty much unscathed by my weight history which means that when I am dressed no-one would guess the size that I have been.
CFGeekyGirl
New member
I've heard about 1-2lbs over and over again but I lost about 60lbs in the first 5 months of my diet. The first week I lost about 8lbs, but that has water weight in it. I had several weeks I lost 3-4lbs at a time. Now that I'm closer to my goal, the weight has slowed back to that 1-2 rate.
size32someday
Active member
not enough 
