Is 13 pounds in one month noticeable?

Graciecandance · January 2020

One of my favorite youtuber just posted a video on how she lost 13 pounds in one month. She didn’t show a lot of before and after pictures and i’m wondering if it would even be noticeable on my 5’6 125 pound frame. do you think it would just be water weight too?

magnusthenerd · January 2020

At 125? It'd be noticeable, if it wasn't water weight, it would almost certainly be a bad amount of muscle tissue, not just fat.
Honestly, I think you should hit the little bell and unsubscribe from anyone advocating that kind of loss unless they're morbidly obese and putting a disclaimer about that being a part of how they lost that much.

Nony_Mouse · January 2020

What it would do is put you from being an already low healthy weight to borderline underweight.

cupcakesandproteinshakes · January 2020

Yes it would be. But don’t do it. I wouldn’t follow this persons advice. Fast is not always good.

Muscleflex79 · January 2020

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

What it would do is put you from being an already low healthy weight to borderline underweight.

this! are you saying you want to lose 13lbs when you are now 125lbs at 5'6"?? because someone on youtube did??

nighthawk584 · January 2020

You would be UNDERWEIGHT if you lost 13 lbs at your size.

Dreamwa1ker · January 2020

I am your exact same height and weight and small-framed. 125 was my goal weight and I've now reached it and am in maintenance. Losing 13 lbs would put you (and me) in the underweight category on BMI, ideal weight, pretty much any chart you find - where it is unhealthy to be. You could be setting yourself up for nasty health problems.
I stopped at 125 because it is a healthy weight for this height. Yes I do still have some pockets of fat in places, but that's ok - some body fat is necessary for your body to operate.

Is there a reason you feel you need to lose further? You can get your body more toned through recomposition (there is a recomp board on here) which means building muscle, but that doesn't mean losing more weight, rather you have to eat enough energy to support that muscle development.

But it might also mean you should think about if there is something underlying that is making you dissatisfied with your body and what might be driving those feelings. When I was in high school I would feel the same even though I was underweight or edge of underweight at that time - I think I had a slightly warped perception of what I looked like and would only see what I thought were "flaws" - but if I look back at photos now, years later, I don't see those flaws anymore. I wish I had that perspective then. Do you have someone you can talk to about it?

lorrpb · January 2020

At your height and weight you don’t need to lose 13 lbs and doing so would put you in an unhealthy and dangerous place.

KerrieA87 · January 2020

To lose that much weight so fast at your present size is going to cause you harm. Like others have said you’ll go from a healthy weight to underweight.

AnnPT77 · January 2020

Yes, it would be noticeable. You'd look like an unfortunate 3rd-world famine victim, emaciated, haggard, possibly thinning hair and brittle nails, the very opposite of vivacious, and generally overall unhealthy.

It would probably be unhealthful for you to lose that much weight at all (I'm speaking as a woman of about the same height, BTW).

It would definitely be an unhealthful plan to lose that much weight that fast.

You would lose not just water weight or fat, but material amounts of muscle, because you don't have enough fat on your body to support losing that fast (only quite significantly obese people, like 100+ pounds overweight, do). You need muscle to move around; your heart is a muscle, besides.

Furthermore, if I assume you're 20 (guessing you might be younger) and sedentary (guessing you're actually really more active than that), at 5'6" and 125 pounds, you currently burn about 1600-1700 calories per day.

To lose 13 pounds in a month, you need a cumulative calorie deficit of 45,500 calories, or 1516 calories deficit per day. The implication is that you'd need to go 30 days, living a normal sedentary life, and eating a maximum of 100-200 calories daily. At the high end of 200 calories, that's about 2 daily tablespoons of peanut butter, total.

Can you see how ridiculously unreasonable and unhealthy and even impossible that would be? If you can't, I'd suggest you talk to your doctor or another responsible adult counselor with health expertise.

Please, please don't do this. Please!

fitoverfortymom · January 2020

I didn't want to lose weight fast, I wanted to lose it forever. So I took my time.

missysippy930 · January 2020

I think that it’s not even possible at your weight,to lose that much weight in one month, without seriously jeopardizing your health. Two pounds per week is maximum recommended weight loss for even obese people. Why would you even consider this? You are in the low end of normal range for your height at your current weight.

kshama2001 · January 2020

The only people who should be losing 13 pounds in a month are those who have over 80 pounds to lose:

Whydahdad71 · January 2020

Umm...yeah

scarlett_k · January 2020

Link the video, it sound unsustainable and harmful, and/or completely phony

mgalsf12 · January 2020

Graciecandance wrote: »

One of my favorite youtuber just posted a video on how she lost 13 pounds in one month. She didn’t show a lot of before and after pictures and i’m wondering if it would even be noticeable on my 5’6 125 pound frame. do you think it would just be water weight too?

At 5'6", 125 pounds, if you lost 13 pounds in a week it would be noticeable, it would probably mean your arms fell off.

Is 13 pounds in one month noticeable?

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