To think losing a stone in a week is impossible

[Wildtimes78889]

Without being seriously unwell

Very difficult to burn through and consume a stone of your own bodily tissues in that time!

I'm a long time target member of Slimming World, and I've known a fair number of new members lose 11 or 12 pounds in their first week: I think it's been when someone has a large amount to lose, and when their diet has previously been very unhealthy.

There was someone in my slimming world group who lost 13lb in their first week. She was very very overweight. She would consistently lose 5-8lb a week after that

I lost 22lb in 17 days walking the John Muir trail in California carrying all my rather spartan food. I was only slightly over weight to start with.

If you have a lot to lose and do VLCD, then it's totally possible. It' all water and goes back on the second you smell solid food again. But it is possible.

To lose a stone in a week you'd have to deficit 7000 calories a day

A quick Google suggests that running a marathon burns about 2600.

So if your daily food is 1800, you have to give that up, and run two marathons a day.

There you go. A diet of water only and two marathons a day.

Not impossible for the first week of a diet, especially if you go from a lot of processed food to everything prepared from scratch. Or if you cut out certain foods that you might have a slight intolerance to. But it’s mainly water and it certainly won’t be anywhere near stone every week.

I lost 15 lbs in a month but I was very ill with diverticulitis and a UTI.

some of the people on BIGGEST LOSER USA show lose that.

they are very overweight and not only do very low cal diets, they also do a ton of exercise every day on their "fat camp"

I have gained and lost 5-6 pounds very quickly after say a cruise holiday when you have over eaten so really that's just water and food working its way through you (gross!)

When I was 172Kg, I lost 18Ib in my first week of dieting. Obviously that wasn’t a regular occurrence but it definitely happens if you start that big

Entirely possible if you are very fat. I have done it in the past and felt fine and lost more but more slowly.

Then I put it all back on.

You won’t lose that amount unless you’re very fat to start with.

I've done it! Keto diet though so most of it was water.

I've I've it happen in slimming world groups. Usually the first week of dieting and someone very overweight, they don't tend to keep the pace up! It probably isn't too bad as a one off for someone very overweight (think 8+ stone to lose to be healthy weight!)

I lost 12lbs on one day a few days after I gave birth. I think it was all water weight as I sat on the loo and peed for minutes at a time.
Ended up losing 3.5 stone in 10 days. All water weight.

I think it’s impossible. I lost 10lb in 10 days with covid, and was barely eating or drinking anything.

Yes, it's possible. I once lost 19 pounds in ten days. But I had a LOT to lose.

I lose 14lbs any time I do a 7 day water fast and always feel great after it. Probably only about half of that is fat though so I usually put on about 5-7lbs again when I resume eating.

@burnoutbabe

some of the people on BIGGEST LOSER USA show lose that.

they are very overweight and not only do very low cal diets, they also do a ton of exercise every day on their "fat camp"

I have gained and lost 5-6 pounds very quickly after say a cruise holiday when you have over eaten so really that's just water and food working its way through you (gross!)

They also did things like water loading before the first weigh in, and later on if they had immunity that week.

I lost 7lb in five days a few years ago - so if you can find someone with norovirus and lick them, you might be able to manage it

I've seen it happen at Slimming World but it was week one and the man was morbidly obese and aiming for a 12 stone loss, he lost 16lb in 7 days.
I'm not sure it's particularly sustainable though.

I lost 16lbs on my first week with WW, I'm aware it was mostly water, but it didn't go back on. In fact I lost another 9 stones over the course of the next 2 years. Been 6 years at my goal weight now

Is it an ad for amoebic dysentery? That would probably do the trick.

It's possible, I did it. Whether it's sensible or not is a whole different thing.

I lost 11 lbs in one week whilst on slimming world a while ago so that's nearly a stone..

I'm now 110 lbs down and 60 to go

I lost just over a stone a couple of months ago when I have bad D&V for about a week. But I ate pretty much nothing bad a few dry crackers all week. I put 3lbs back on afterwards and my overall weight loss slowed for over a month after. So it's evened out to 1-2lbs a week over time of that makes sense?