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What was the most weight you lost in 1 week?

NiSan12
NiSan12 Posts: 374 Member
edited December 2024 in Success Stories
It was 7 lbs. for me believe it or not. It's true
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  • mylovesanotherkind
    mylovesanotherkind Posts: 8
    Yeah mine was about 6 lbs! I had a tooth taken out and couldn't eat as much as I used to because it was painful. Since then it's carried on and I've snacked less, I've lost a stone now!

    Congrats on your loss btw. :)
  • castroje
    castroje Posts: 130 Member
    I lost 12 lbs in 1 week.
  • jaynita2
    jaynita2 Posts: 53 Member
    8 lbs.!!!
  • SashaJaneJ
    SashaJaneJ Posts: 92 Member
    I lost 11 pounds in one week.
  • littlemoonsandy
    littlemoonsandy Posts: 1,930
    6 lbs
  • Zoeeee_xx
    Zoeeee_xx Posts: 112 Member
    8 lbs
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    2 pounds.
  • lamasdura87
    lamasdura87 Posts: 21
    10 lbs
  • Darlingir
    Darlingir Posts: 437
    when I was sixteen I cheated one week with a bag of oreo cookies and still lost 5 pounds......oh youth....

    things are quite a bit different at 43
  • jsukhan
    jsukhan Posts: 149 Member
    5 lbs in 24 hours but I had food poisoning.
  • briyowes
    briyowes Posts: 757 Member
    I lost 9 lbs the first week.
  • diemodemdie
    diemodemdie Posts: 37
    I'll say it was my initial weight loss of 10 lbs. It's since significantly slowed down, but that was amazing to me!
  • OnMyWeigh464
    OnMyWeigh464 Posts: 447 Member
    8
  • kiminikimkim
    kiminikimkim Posts: 746 Member
    I lost 10lbs in one week when I visited Tawain with my then-bf. his family was taking us to places with the weirdest foods. I would taste everything but never eat the entire dish. I was afraid to get sick.

    Plus hours of hiking in the mountains burned a lot of calories!
  • Anyaaaa11
    Anyaaaa11 Posts: 242 Member
    2 pounds. I'm sure most of it was water weight.
  • jsapninz
    jsapninz Posts: 909 Member
    My sister had a baby and lost 25 lbs in ONE DAY....:wink:

    Either way, most of these "big losses" can be attributed to water weight and aren't true fat losses, so it doesn't seem like much to brag about...:huh:

    1 lb = 3500 cals
    2 lbs = 7000 cals
    3 lbs = 10500 cals
    4 lbs = 14000 cals
    5 lbs = 17500 cals

    Even if most people ate NOTHING for 7 days, they would have a hard time losing 5 lbs in one week because your body JUST DOESN'T burn that much. As you can see, it is really impossible to lose large amounts of true weight in a short amount of time.

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but most of it is all water weight, kiddos.
  • JenVii
    JenVii Posts: 34 Member
    8 lbs
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member
    1.3 lbs. It's a marathon, uphill the entire way nonetheless. But, I'll take it. It's better than a negative loss.
  • Missi3601
    Missi3601 Posts: 264
    8 pounds- just by cutting out all soda!
  • jallen1955
    jallen1955 Posts: 121
    12 pounds

    but I had my tonsils out, there were complications and all I had for the week were ice chips :P
  • TiffanyDeanee
    TiffanyDeanee Posts: 158
    2 pounds.

    ^^ this.
  • melizerd
    melizerd Posts: 870 Member
    My first or second week I lost 9lbs but I was pretty obese so that's not that uncommon the first couple weeks if you really stick to the goal of 2lbs a week loss. In the end it has still evened out to about 1.5lbs a week.

    I also did start drinking just water. So of course there was water weight, but it doesn't matter in the end. It is motivating early on though to see a "big" loss and keep plugging along.
  • Cold_Steel
    Cold_Steel Posts: 897 Member
    11 I think was my most... It was the second week of this new lifestyle after a week of detoxiing
  • hellokittylove
    hellokittylove Posts: 15 Member
    10 pounds.. And I was at the gym for hours & kind of sick. I was losing weight like I was getting paid for it!
  • ginamaria724
    ginamaria724 Posts: 133
    About 8 pounds. Oh how I wish I could make that happen at least one more time, then I'd be at my goal weight. But nope, it'll probably take another month or two for that to happen :l
  • WanderingMe
    WanderingMe Posts: 216 Member
    9lbs. Im sure it was water weight, but hell, it was still awesome!
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    7 1/2 think. I had taken several rest days beforehand since I was trying to get some sedentary work done so all the water weight got peed out before my weigh day. I've only managed that number twice thus far because I tend to not rest as much as I should or I ate something way salty.
  • karylee44
    karylee44 Posts: 892
    11 pounds.. but i was sick that week.. :( and had basically stopped eating.
  • Umeboshi
    Umeboshi Posts: 1,637 Member
    3lbs
  • MsQt
    MsQt Posts: 793 Member
    4 pounds
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