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James
G was claimed to have wrote:

I'd have to disagree that 2lbs/week is a "just right" rate for healthy
sustained loss.

This was the number recommended by my doctor, and is backed up by each
and every one of the first 10 hits on a query for "safe weight loss per
week"

http://www.google.ca/search?q=safe+weight+loss+per+week

2lbs/week is the upper edge of safe on each listed site, but it's within
the limit.