AIBU?
Vinto · 03/04/2021 15:24
I think it's possible to 'inflate' your start weight, and to lose 9/10lbs of actual (and water) weight that could make it look like a stone loss.
Body mass isn't a linear thing. Weighing first thing in the morning after using the bathroom, dehydrated can be a low reading. I can weigh later on in the same day and read 3/4lbs higher, sometimes even 5/6lbs higher after a big takeaway and 2 litres of coke. So if her starting weight was after a Chinese and coke, and then she cut the carbs for a week and her after weighing was fist thing in the morning then she could legitimately say she had lost a stone.
Iamnotacerealkiller · 03/04/2021 15:27
Ive lost 8lb in a week and only started at just over 13st. I was eating a very strict, low carb and portion controlled diet though so i can well imagine losing considerably more if i weighed more and was eating even less such as a meal replacement diet. Like pp say however that will be mostly water and the the bulk of food in the gut that is no longer there. I doubt she will keep that up long or even into the second week however.
BarbaraofSeville · 03/04/2021 15:30
Yes, as Vinto says, exaggerate your starting weight by a few pounds by having one last salty fatty carby blowout before starting on a hardcore low carb diet can lose a stone in a week, but obviously it's not 14 pounds of fat, probably less than half that.
I did Slimming World a few years ago and one of the members was a very overweight man who probably had an eating disorder so would go through periods of doing really well for a week or two but would then reverse all his good work by binging on fast food and alcohol and his gains and losses were at least 12 pounds on more than one occasion. I think he almost saw it as a challenge to gain or lose 10+ pounds in a week or preferably a stone, I'm fairly certain there was a loss of 15 pounds in a week at least once.
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