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Is losing more than 2lbs per week bad?

georgiamaxine1
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Some weeks I can lose 6, 10 or even 12 lbs. is this bad?
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Are you morbidly obese?2
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If you have several hundred pounds to lose it is probably okay. If you only have a little to lose it is probably very unhealthy.6
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Have you just started losing weight?
It slows down after the initial water and food waste loses.1 -
No I'm not morbidly obese I was over weight by 42lbs..0
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It's been a month since I started2
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georgiamaxine1 wrote: »It's been a month since I started
Then it should start to slow down to reasonable rate.
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I've lost 33lbs0
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This past week I haven't even eaten perfect and somehow lost 6lbs..0
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RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »georgiamaxine1 wrote: »It's been a month since I started
Then it should start to slow down to reasonable rate.
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33lbs in 4 weeks for someone with only 42lbs to lose is ridiculous and unhealthy.15
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This may explain the weight loss:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10545330/cheat-days/p17 -
The thing is I weighed myself 4 weeks ago and it said I was 15 stone 4. I never looked 15 stone 4, so I've just counted it from there and I'm now about 12 11 but I don't know if the scales were wrong because I never looked that heavy2
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I was just about to ask. Are you using the same scale at the same time of day wearing the same clothing or naked?3
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RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I was just about to ask. Are you using the same scale at the same time of day wearing the same clothing or naked?
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georgiamaxine1 wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I was just about to ask. Are you using the same scale at the same time of day wearing the same clothing or naked?
What you eat or don't eat is irrelevant. Your calories in vs out is what matters. How many calories a day are you eating?7 -
So not the same time and not the same clothing?
Monthly cycle weight and weighing inaccuracies is looking a likely cause.4 -
Losing a ton of weight in a short period is not necessarily unhealthy or unsustainable. It just depends on HOW you go about it. Are you fasting to lose weight? Or are you counting calories and eating real food? Are you learning how to eat for the rest of your life or are you only interested in short-term weight loss?2
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I've completely changed my life style, my average calories are about 10,000 a week. I weigh myself on the same day each week at the same time.. I'm gonna get some new scales because these don't seem very accurate. I'm not fasting and I'm planning on keeping it as a lifestyle, this isn't a quick fix x1
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How old are you? You seem too young to be using MFP to me.0
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I'm 18, 19 next month.. how do I seem too young to be using MFP?3
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georgiamaxine1 wrote: »I've completely changed my life style, my average calories are about 10,000 a week. I weigh myself on the same day each week at the same time.. I'm gonna get some new scales because these don't seem very accurate. I'm not fasting and I'm planning on keeping it as a lifestyle, this isn't a quick fix x
It is the calories that matter - if you are really losing that much you are somehow creating a MASSIVE deficit through undereating and over exercising. Neither of which are healthy long term.
Definitely get a new scale - you don't want to mess your body up by depriving it of nutrients which will happen if you're actually losing that much that quickly with so little to lose.
I fast, by choice - I've fasted during weight loss, maintenance and purposeful gaining. There is nothing wrong with fasting if you're using a sensible approach.4 -
Thank you. I don't understand how I'm doing it as yeah I exercise but I'm still eating around 10,000 calories a week. Thanks for your hell2
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Help x0
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If you had lost 38lbs, especially if you were only 42lbs overweight to begin with, YOU WOULD KNOW. Your clothes would be falling off you, you'd probably have a bit of loose skin from the rapid loss, etc, etc.
If you aren't noticing this stuff, I'm taking a punt on your scales being broken. Put a new battery in them/get a new set, put them on a hard surface and don't move them, weigh in the morning, when you first get up, after you've been to the toilet, in the nude, before eating or drinking anything.8 -
If you had lost 38lbs, especially if you were only 42lbs overweight to begin with, YOU WOULD KNOW. Your clothes would be falling off you, you'd probably have a bit of loose skin from the rapid loss, etc, etc.
If you aren't noticing this stuff, I'm taking a punt on your scales being broken. Put a new battery in them/get a new set, put them on a hard surface and don't move them, weigh in the morning, when you first get up, after you've been to the toilet, in the nude, before eating or drinking anything.
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I don't have any loose skin as I'm fairly young, I previously lost 5 stone in about 7 months and never got any loose skin0
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What's your activity level set to? I don't believe you are properly fueling the activity you mentioned on your other thread:georgiamaxine1 wrote: »nicolammorris221 wrote: »Do you work out? if so, then you'll need to eat more. At a 1000 cals you have to be careful. If it's working for you, then keep it up. Just be safe about it and take care.1
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If you're doing 10-20,000 steps a day plus heavy lifting, 10,000 calories per week sounds too little.
What is your height?
Are you logging your exercise? You need to eat back your exercise calories.
What are your net calories? You can view your weekly net calories on the iPhone app by going to Diary > Nutrition > Kilojoules > Week View
https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/12031-what-are-net-calories-
"What are Net Calories?
We set your nutritional target in Net Calories which we define as:
Calories Consumed (Food) - Calories Burned (Exercise) = Net Calories
This means that if you exercise, you will be able to eat more for that day. For example, if your Net Calorie goal is 2000 calories, one way to meet that goal is to eat 2,500 calories of food, but then burn 500 calories through exercise.
Think of your Net Calories like a daily budget of calories to spend. You spend them by eating, and you earn more calories to eat by exercising. We do not recommend that women consume fewer than 1200 calories, or men fewer than 1500 calories, on a given day."1 -
tiptoethruthetulips wrote: »This may explain the weight loss:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10545330/cheat-days/p1
OP starts a thread in which people tell her to eat more than 1000 calories or weight loss will be unhealthy.
OP doesnt like advice given so starts another thread.
The reasons for your rapid weight loss were explained in that thread OP - you are eating far too little and it is not healthy.
Not sure what you expect to be said differently in this thread
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