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How much is too much weight loss per week?

Frost
Frost Posts: 312 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I am losing around 1.5 pounds a week. Is that high? Can that cause health problems?

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  • Frost
    Frost Posts: 312 Member
    I am losing around 1.5 pounds a week. Is that high? Can that cause health problems?
  • heather0mc
    heather0mc Posts: 4,656 Member
    good job! sounds like you are right on target! :flowerforyou:
  • TudorRose
    TudorRose Posts: 238 Member
    No, it's advised you don't lose more than 2lbs a week, but at the start of a diet shake-up, you can lose more as your body response quickly to the change- as well as losing water weight- and then slows down the loss
  • TroyJLehan
    TroyJLehan Posts: 15
    That is healthy weight loss. 1.5 is the most you want to loose weekly though. any more than that you risk weight rebound.




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  • kbirky73
    kbirky73 Posts: 110
    Perfect!!! You are doing exactly what you should be doing!!

    Keep up the great work!!

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  • Frost
    Frost Posts: 312 Member
    Yay! Thanks everyone! I've been feeling a bit under the weather and was afraid it may be related. Probably the beginning of allergy season!
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