Max amount of wt lost in a wk.. let's hear it here!

DanielleGrubaugh2014

What was the max amount of wt you've lost in a wk? And what do you believe contributed to losing that much in a wk?

usmcmp

Are you looking for hints on how to lose weight quickly? Large weight loss in a week comes down to either starving yourself or water weight loss.

NorthCascades

This thread has wings.

One time I lost 35 pounds in a week by amputating my leg. Do I win?

DanielleGrubaugh2014

I'm not promoting such a thing, just curious. I'm aware everyone is different and will lose differently based on the amount of wt they have.

toxikon

When I first started keto, about 5lbs. Mostly water weight of course.

DanielleGrubaugh2014

I've heard great things about the keto diet. Some of my friends have done it and lost a good amount of wt.

toxikon

DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »

I've heard great things about the keto diet. Some of my friends have done it and lost a good amount of wt.

I stuck with it for about a year and did find losing weight much easier than with a higher carb diet. It really did wonders for my appetite. But in the end, it was too restrictive and I really missed pasta and breads. I returned to a balanced diet and regained all the weight, now I'm trying to lose it again with plain ol' CICO.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

Most super fast weight losses will come from shifts in water weight. My biggest drop this effort has been 2.6lbs but it came back the next week.

DanielleGrubaugh2014

Wow, a year that must have been hard. I've never tried the keto diet cuz I know I would not last more than a wk lol. It's a hard diet I've heard. Well I wish you luck on your wt loss!

toxikon

DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »

Wow, a year that must have been hard. I've never tried the keto diet cuz I know I would not last more than a wk lol. It's a hard diet I've heard. Well I wish you luck on your wt loss!

Thank you! Same to you.

cwolfman13

About 5 Lbs when I first started...combination of water weight lost and less inherent waste in my system. From there on out it was about 1-1.5 Lbs per week. You can't actually lose fat fast...large losses are mostly attributable to water and glycogen depletion.

GottaBurnEmAll

YepItsKriss wrote: »

I think this seems kind of unhealthy.. high weekly losses are mostly going to be geared towards people with hundreds of pounds to lose, smaller people would have smaller losses but both groups of people should be doing it in a safe and healthy way, i think seeing larger numbers all in a list here would promote others to aim for that and do so risking their health in the process

^She's right you know.

hydechildcare

I lost 7 pounds 1 week. I hadn't lost anything in about a week and half. I had gain 3 three of those during that time of the month. 2 days after stopping my period I lost 7 pounds. During that time of the month I don't loss for about a week and a half then I loose it all in 1 big whoosh

ruqayyahsmum

I used to weigh 387lb. Thats what helped me have a large first week loss

aeloine

I lost 6.5 pounds once.

To be fair, I'd been eating tacos by the beach for 17 days before that, and then had a rough flight home, so it was all 100% water weight from salt, travel, alcohol, and new exercise. Hasn't happened since. My pre-6.5 lbs weight was up from what It was before I left, too. And I was in the 250s.

Note the theme in these posts - there was a drastic event that precipitated in water gain then water loss. Most of these were not "real" losses. Don't try to lose huge amounts of weight in a week.

jjpptt2

I've lost upwards of 7lbs in a day before. Not sure about max lost over a week, though.

Silentpadna

DanielleGrubaugh2014 wrote: »

What was the max amount of wt you've lost in a wk? And what do you believe contributed to losing that much in a wk?

This is going to sound like a harsh response, but it's really not meant to be....

Since weight has several components, i.e. bones/muscles/organs, fat and water, with water fluctuating at bigger amplitude and quicker frequency and fat moving more slowly, your question is essentially meaningless. With a max loss rate (of fat) for 90%+ of people, of 2 pounds or less per week, and with your fluid fluctuations in a single day being up to 2X-3X more than that, weight loss over a single week is not going to tell you much, if anything.

I realize it's a simple question, but since the goal of weight loss is really fat loss, the only real thing that's going to contribute to an extraordinary amount weight lost in a given week is likely water retention/release. Fat loss is slower, but harder to isolate because of the other variables....

Jruzer

The largest drop I ever have recorded over a 7-day period is 10.8 pounds, from January 1 to January 8, 2013. You can maybe guess why I dropped a lot of weight over that time period.