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Is losing a pound a day okay

Junebug12205
Junebug12205 Posts: 3 Member
in Motivation and Support
I lost two pounds in one day... Is that normal? How does a typical weight loss go?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,987 Member
    Weight fluctuations are normal.

    This might interest you:
    https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/
  • LisaGetsMoving
    LisaGetsMoving Posts: 663 Member
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    One day is not a long enough time span to reflect on weight loss.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    Losing a pound in one day is fine. Losing a pound every day, not so much.
  • sdailly13
    sdailly13 Posts: 37 Member
    If your at the start of your journey. Water weigh could be a thing. Standing on your scale differently could be a thing. Wairing different clothes while weighting yourself could be a thing. There are so many reasons you could think you are losing a pound a day. However once you get into properly understanding weight loss you'll see that a pound here and a pound there from day to day doesn't make that much difference, it's more to do with the trend of weight loss. It will settle soon. Keep at it. Just as a disclaimer. I'm not a doctor and if you really have been losing a pound a day for a period of time best just to check with your medical advisors for advice. Sure it's just one of the above sinarios though. Good luck. Keep at it.

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