Friend losing weight in one week

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I’m probably gonna sound unreasonable but ive been on a diet since mid January, ive lost almost 3 stone but I’m still pretty big and got a lot more to lose. Anyway no one has really noticed but that’s fair enough. My friend has been on a diet for ONE week and apparently she’s lost “loads of weight” and everyone is saying shes lost weight? Aibu to think it’s not possible to lose a noticeable amount of weight in one week? She is saying it’s because she is smaller and that’s why it’s more noticeable but one week?

@MadamMMA you read my mind! Can you let us know OP please?

OP she’s probably banging on about it to everyone she meets so they’re forced to noticed. Also losing so much weight in one week might be down to where she is on her cycle. I can’t remember the pattern but our weight changes throughout the month depending on where we are. If she’s lost well in the first week and she’s not that much to shift then this is probably as exciting as it gets for her. Just keep keeping on. You’re doing it for you, nobody else and it sounds like you’re doing great.

I am getting told I've lost more when the scales say otherwise (though my body fat % has shifted, tbf). I've lost over 4st and I just think that people are used to saying the same thing every time they see me now.

I can lose 10lbs of water weight in a week when I cut carbs. It's noticeable because I'm a very bloat-y person and get a big moon face when I overdo it on sugar and salt. Just cutting carbs for a few days is enough for my face to slim down and be noticeable but it's not true fat loss.

everyone is different- I remember having an awful week when I binged on fish and chips and having struggled up to that point in that week I lost 5 lbs!

"Aibu to think it’s not possible to lose a noticeable amount of weight in one week?"
YABU, my friend lost 12lbs in one week when they started SW. IT was noticeable, but obviously it didn't stay dropping that much!

And yes, if you you lose (say) 4lbs of water weight it will be noticeable to the person as their jeans/tops whatever will be looser. Where "everyone" is commenting, is another matter (I suspect she's made the comment of "oh I lost X amount!" and they go "oooh woooww, yeah I can really tell, amazing!"

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I remember having an awful week when I binged on fish and chips and having struggled up to that point in that week I lost 5 lbs!
Down the chippy for me then!

Well done to you OP 3 stone is fab and hope it continues. Losing it slowly and changing your lifestyle so it stays off is the way to go, crash diets and silly fads are unhealthy tbh.
You’ve got this far, be proud of what you’ve achieved and it more your friends nonsense diet. She may have lost all that or she may not but just concentrate on you and ignore silly jealous friends

I recently started the 16:8 intermittent fasting diet. First week I lost 8lbs! But the second week I had regained 2lbs. But was still happy with 6lbs loss over 2 weeks.

Since then have lost about 1-2lbs a week. I think it is possible to lose lots of water weight/ bloating in one week but that kind of pace isn't sustainable or realistic.

Well done on your weight loss so far!

To lose 10 pounds of fat in a week, you would need to consume 35,000 calories less than you normally would in a week.

She didn't say it was fat! In my experience bloat can be cumulative too.

OP I agree with the others - probably her experience v yours is a combination of her being smaller to begin with, so a few pounds being noticeable (love the loo roll analogy! ) and her being more vocal about weight loss. I'm afraid it's also true that on some people weight loss just doesn't show as much, which is a good thing really as it means the weight itself doesn't show as much. I gain weight in my face, and the visible difference in before and after photos of me are quite shocking, although I lost less than 2st; a friend of mine has lost a fair more but quite honestly, as she carried the weight "well", it wasn't that noticeable. (She also has a very different build to me, so 2st is less dramatic on her. I lost a single stone and had to have all my rings resized )

There are also lots of people who have noticed your weight loss but are too tactful / polite to mention it!

3 stone since January is great OP, well done.

I guess it depends on what your starting weight was, and what her weight is. I had a friend who was over 20 stone, and she did brilliantly and ended up losing nearly 9 stone. However in the beginning, at around the 3 stone point, it wasn't necessarily that noticeable, particularly as she was wearing mostly the same clothes at that point, which hid any loss. She was also someone who didn't ever have lots of fat around her face, so it was only at the end of the weight loss that her face started to look different.

In contrast, if your friend is say, 9 stone, and has managed to lose around a half stone, which can be possible, although it will mostly be fluid, if she has lost from around her face it may be quite noticeable.

Focus on your journey - you are doing great, and TBH I always find the people who go on and on about their diet, their wonderful weight loss and simply boring everyone about it, are usually the ones stuffing their faces with cake the next week, once the novelty has worn off.

Also OP well done on your weight loss, that's amazing

If you are bigger / still big despite your loss / have confidence issues then maybe your friends just aren't mentioning your weight full stop?

Well done by the way! 3st is an amazing achievement.

First of all well done to you for your weight loss to date. When you have a lot to lose it is really hard to stick at it so pat yourself on the back and keep on going. Ask yourself who are you doing it for? Yourself or others? Just keep going and eventually everyone will notice but what is more important is that you will feel really good about yourself and your own achievement. My experience of trying to lose weight, and I am a bit of a chunky monkey although very fit with it as confirmed by my recent medical check up, is that as soon as anyone thinks I am on a diet they tell me I don't need to be. I so clearly do but also there is a determination to undermine my efforts by offering all the things I shouldn't have on the basis of "one won't hurt you " or you can always start again tomorrow. Usually it is the very people who also need to cut down who are attempting to get me off the straight and narrow ! So if I were you I would just quietly continue and remember that slow and steady is the way to lose it and keep it lost. You are doing it for you so bugger what anyone else is doing give yourself a goal and keep at it and good luck. When you start buying smaller and smaller sizes people will start noticing but more importantly you will be happy and you won't care what they are saying by then.

With regard to your three stone weight loss, I looked at a colleague one day and thought 'bloody hell, Jane is looking very slim all of a sudden'. Turns out she'd lost 4 stone over the course of many months but I didn't notice until suddenly I did notice. If that makes any sense

It's also possible that people are noticing but they don't want to mention it as they feel it's not their business to comment on your appearance.

Ach, she'll be performance dieting so everyone has to say she looks amazing. I have lost 3 stone since last year and it is very noticeable but only 1 person has said anything. Probably because I don't talk about it.

Her weight loss has nothing to do with yours. You are doing well.

Don’t get jealous of other people’s achievements, you can do it too.

Well done, keep going! Maybe your weight loss is less noticeable as it's slow and steady, rather than lots in one week. Don't worry about others, you're doing it for you not them

Blimey, well done OP!

I quite often look at people and think, something’s different. It takes me a while to notice weight loss unless it’s someone who was very noticeably overweight to begin with.

I’ve lost about 2 stone and people started to notice last summer when I was wearing less bulky clothing. I was asked by a couple of people if I was ill?!

I’ve noticed though, whenever I get my haircut virtually nobody notices! 😂😒

My aunt who was a big lady proudly announced that she had lost 2 stones, you couldn't tell sadly.

My sister who doesn't need to loose weight lost some and looked like a walking corpse, that showed straight away.

It doesn't matter where you start or how long it takes just as long as you get to where you want to be.

Well done keep going it will be worth it for yourself.

You've lost 3 stone!! That is amazing and really hard to do, well done

Op,you are doing brilliantly!!
Don't be out off by this,you and your friend are on different life paths,so comparison is futile.
When you have reached your goal weight,have new clothes,hair etc,you are going to look stunning and receive many compliments.
Acknowledge your friend and leave it there.
Your time to shine is not so far away.

Well done on your weight loss! That's great.

You're friend is probably talking about it lots so people are being supportive.

Start blowing your own trumpet and the compliments will flow in. Sometimes people aren't sure what to say so they say nothing. I don't tend to comment on anyone's weight unless they mention they're trying to lose some/eating healthily etc, it just seems rude somehow.

Thank you your comments have made me feel better. I guess I’m just struggling with the weight loss because I’ve got such a lot to lose (6 stone overall so I’ve got another 3 to go) people not noticing just makes me wonder if I have even lost anything at all and maybe it’s all in my head and I look exactly the same, but clothes are much looser and obviously the scales can’t be lying, so got to keep going. Just felt abit deflated this morning.