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Is losing more than 2lbs per week bad?

georgiamaxine1
georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Some weeks I can lose 6, 10 or even 12 lbs. is this bad?
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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,750 Member
    Are you morbidly obese?
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    Have you just started losing weight?

    It slows down after the initial water and food waste loses.
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    No I'm not morbidly obese I was over weight by 42lbs..
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    It's been a month since I started :)
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    I've lost 33lbs
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    This past week I haven't even eaten perfect and somehow lost 6lbs..
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
    georgiamaxine1 wrote: »
    It's been a month since I started :)

    Then it should start to slow down to reasonable rate.
    Thanks!

  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    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 heavy
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    I was just about to ask. Are you using the same scale at the same time of day wearing the same clothing or naked?
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    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?
    I'm using the same scale, and wearing minimum clothing, I've cut out all fizzy drinks, tea, milk etc and basically only eating natural sugars so I was expecting to lose around 14lbs in the first month or so but I didn't even think it would be possible to lose 33 lbs in a month! I can upload a before and after picture because I didn't look 15 stone before starting a diet x
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    So not the same time and not the same clothing?

    Monthly cycle weight and weighing inaccuracies is looking a likely cause.
  • trjjoy
    trjjoy Posts: 666 Member
    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?
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    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
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    How old are you? You seem too young to be using MFP to me.
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    I'm 18, 19 next month.. how do I seem too young to be using MFP?
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,750 Member
    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.
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    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 hell
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    Help x
  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    misskarne wrote: »
    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.
    I'm 100% noticing changes. My clothes are big on me and I look noticeably different, clothes that didn't fit a month ago are now big on me..

  • georgiamaxine1
    georgiamaxine1 Posts: 77 Member
    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 skin
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    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.
    I have a job at the stables and do about 8 hours of hard exercise whilst mucking out stables, other than that I do around 10,000-20,000 steps per day
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    edited April 2017
    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."
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