What's the most amount of weight you've lost in a week?

avocat01
avocat01 Posts: 12 Member
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I'm just curious. I know 1 - 3 lbs/week is considered healthy loss but has anyone ever gone above that without starving?
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  • justjenn1977
    justjenn1977 Posts: 437 Member
    I'm just curious. I know 1 - 3 lbs/week is considered healthy loss but has anyone ever gone above that without starving?


    the week I had my daughter I lost 28#.... but I don't think that's what you meant...

    aside from giving birth... I have had some weeks where I was ill and lost 8-10
  • kimothy38
    kimothy38 Posts: 840 Member
    5 pounds (21 pounds in the first month). Not healthy or sustainable but I was clean eating and it was amazing while it lasted. I was also breastfeeding and that made a huge difference.
  • mgobluetx12
    mgobluetx12 Posts: 1,326 Member
    I was on a liquid diet once and lost 11lbs in one week.
  • _CiaoParis
    _CiaoParis Posts: 166
    3.5 lbs a healthy way :) & 6 lbs an unhealthy way.
  • Zainia
    Zainia Posts: 59 Member
    4lbs (that I know of) in a healthy way
  • skrakalaka
    skrakalaka Posts: 338 Member
    I once caught Norwalk and lost 12 lbs in 8 hrs, but I really wouldn't recommend that method.
  • PiggySweet
    PiggySweet Posts: 60 Member
    3.5 pounds my first week.
  • kimosabe1
    kimosabe1 Posts: 2,467 Member
    2 pounds after a huge dump. lol...
  • lisa483
    lisa483 Posts: 105 Member
    7lb in my 1st week :0)
  • CarleyLovesPets
    CarleyLovesPets Posts: 410 Member
    My first week was like 7lbs.
  • quietasariot
    quietasariot Posts: 198 Member
    I had ONE week in which I lost 4 pounds. I don't know how or why but it worried me because it didn't feel normal. On average I have lost 1 - 1.5 pounds per week. A few weeks here and there with a 2lb. loss. I don't know what I lost my first week because I didn't get on the scale. :)
  • alane15
    alane15 Posts: 121 Member
    My first two weeks (starting from my highest weight ever and least activity) I lost 5lbs each.
  • PLUMSGRL
    PLUMSGRL Posts: 1,134 Member
    many years ago I was on the Beverly Hills Diet, and lost 12 pounds the first week....NEVER again!
    I like myself far to much to do any crazy diets ever again. Even tho I have a "weight ticker", I go by body fat loss, much more accurate since weight loss can also include water and bone loss! Also no longer care about the number on the scale, only using it to recalculate my BMR and TDEE once a month~
  • MouseTmom
    MouseTmom Posts: 201 Member
    On MFP I lost 7 pounds after I went on vacation - Ate way too much on vacation and probably had a lot of water weight.
    Several years ago when I started Weight Watchers I lost 9 pounds the first week.
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    1.5 lbs.
  • Tracepa98
    Tracepa98 Posts: 219
    Most so far was 9lbs in a week. I know that wont be the norm as I just started but it felt amazing. :smile:


    AND....any kind of loss on the scale is a victory to be celebrated :heart: :drinker:
  • annwyatt69
    annwyatt69 Posts: 727 Member
    Right now I am losing about 13 pounds a week. I am a liquid diet by physician's orders.
  • cardsfanlv
    cardsfanlv Posts: 110 Member
    Dropped about 4 or 5 the first week. Those first few pounds usually come right off.

    Now I'm at a steady 2 per week.
  • TravisBurns
    TravisBurns Posts: 353 Member
    12 pounds. pure water weight
  • KittyMul
    KittyMul Posts: 74 Member
    I lost 7lb last week, it was my first week of switching to Paleo. Same calories, just different foods.

    Big losses, especially at the start of a new program, are usually mostly water weight.
  • mariagabriella
    mariagabriella Posts: 267 Member
    I lost 2.2kg in the first week. even when I've lost weight before it has usually been around 2kg.
  • lovinmyselfagain
    lovinmyselfagain Posts: 307 Member
    4lbs after 1st week of using MFP.
  • clobercow
    clobercow Posts: 337 Member
    I went on vacation and the only food available was high carb. I put on 14 pounds of water weight. I lost all 14 lbs of water plus 2lbs of fat when I went back on low-carb and IF in 4 days.
  • suckerlove
    suckerlove Posts: 198
    8 lbs
  • bufger
    bufger Posts: 763 Member
    6lbs. its my first week
    I do think its been a healthy loss though as i've been eating my calorie allowance and its a fairly big allowance. I've been burning roughly 800-1000 at the gym regularly which has made all the difference
  • fallbrawl
    fallbrawl Posts: 72
    8.5 lbs. It was during my high school football days.
  • MSxJENNY
    MSxJENNY Posts: 106 Member
    8lbs in 3 days. I got food poisoning :/ but it stayed off?
  • nicholettebell
    nicholettebell Posts: 414
    At the begining of my weight loss, I would lose 5 to 6 lbs one week and then 1 to 2 lbs the next and then it would go back to 5 to 6 lbs.
  • powahouse11
    powahouse11 Posts: 13
    5kg one week. With intense workouts 5 days and no carbs for the week! But full on protein, vegetables and fruit :) aiming for 3kg this week
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    Well, not voluntarily. But the same thing happened to me twice - once spending a week in Poland and again a few years later in Germany. I don't handle those cuisines very well so I ate very little. Also walking around all the time for sightseeing. I lost 2-3 kg in just one week.

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