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30 pounds in 30 days??
Hi all I am new to this newsgroup. I saw a friend last week who had lost about 60 pounds on LC. I haven't seen him in about a year, so I don't know if I believe him when he says he lost 30 pounds his first month of dieting!! Is such dramatic weight loss really possible with LC? Thanks!! |
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"T5ayLor" wrote in message
... Hi all I am new to this newsgroup. I saw a friend last week who had lost about 60 pounds on LC. I haven't seen him in about a year, so I don't know if I believe him when he says he lost 30 pounds his first month of dieting!! Is such dramatic weight loss really possible with LC? Thanks!! Possible: Yes Probable: No The more weight one has to lose, the faster one loses on low-carb. If someone is grossly overweight, it would be possible to lose that much in the first month, but extremely uncommon and highly unlikely. Many people seem to lose 8 or 10 pounds in the first two weeks as the body's cells give up their glycogen stores with associated water, but after that the weight loss slows to a reasonable pace. -- Peter 270/219/180 website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo |
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T5ayLor wrote:
|| Hi all || || I am new to this newsgroup. I saw a friend last week who had lost || about 60 pounds on LC. I haven't seen him in about a year, so I || don't know if I believe him when he says he lost 30 pounds his first || month of dieting!! Is such dramatic weight loss really possible || with LC? || || Thanks!! If your friend is very large and has significant muscle mass, then it is certainly possible to lose 30 lbs in one month. However, it is likely that a goodly amount of that lose is water, not fat. A guy with lots of muscle could easily hold 10 to 15 lbs of water in the muscles that goes away once muscle gylcogen is reduced though following a low carb diet. Then, if this person is very active and if significant appetite supression kics in due to low carbing, the remaing weight loss could be in the form of fat. However, this is not something everyone should expect (quick water weight loss is something to expect, the maybe not 15 lbs!). This is a YMMV kind of thing. |
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T5ayLor wrote:
Hi all I am new to this newsgroup. I saw a friend last week who had lost about 60 pounds on LC. I haven't seen him in about a year, so I don't know if I believe him when he says he lost 30 pounds his first month of dieting!! Is such dramatic weight loss really possible with LC? Thanks!! You can see some statistics which chart the weight loss progress of a bunch of people who have participated here on this newsgroup in Carol Ann's "Weight Loss Challenge". These stats give you a better idea of what kind of weight loss you can look forward to achieving through long-term low carbing. http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/dietpage.htm -- --Jenny Type 2 diabetes since 1998. Hba1c 5.7% Low Carbing for 5 years. 140 lbs (goal) Cut the "carbs" to respond to my email address. ----------------------------------------------------- What they Don't Tell You About Diabetes Web Site http://www.geocities.com/lottadata4u/ Jenny's Low Carb Diet Facts & Figures site http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"T5ayLor" wrote in message ... Hi all I am new to this newsgroup. I saw a friend last week who had lost about 60 pounds on LC. I haven't seen him in about a year, so I don't know if I believe him when he says he lost 30 pounds his first month of dieting!! Is such dramatic weight loss really possible with LC? In the 1980s when I was much younger and my metabolism much nicer I lost 30 pounds in six weeks. So dramatic weight loss is possible. It's more likely in someone who is dramatically overweight. and men usually lose faster than women. Having said that, when I lost the 30 lbs I was 170 and dropped to 140. In that first month I lost 8 lbs the first week, 5 lbs a week for the next two then it dropped to 3 lbs/week after that . I'm sure a lot of that was water weight but I was thrilled to see it leave! I kept it off for 4-5 years before letting my weight creep back up. Now my weight loss is significantly slower however, low carbing keeps my triglycerides low and that's what I really want out of this. Good luck. Remember it's not a race, it's about getting healthy. Susan |
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T5ayLor wrote:
Hi all I am new to this newsgroup. I saw a friend last week who had lost about 60 pounds on LC. I haven't seen him in about a year, so I don't know if I believe him when he says he lost 30 pounds his first month of dieting!! Is such dramatic weight loss really possible with LC? Thanks!! It might be possible if your friend weight like 600 or 700 pounds. Otherwise I think that is an unusually large loss. I just lost about 9 lbs in the last week. But that is the first week after starting again. I am sure I won't lose 9 lb/week for the next 3 weeks! doug |
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Being very overweight may help lose more lbs in the first week, when
much of the weight loss is water. But if you followed The Biggest Loser on TV, one thing that was apparent was that the most overweight guy, at like 440lbs, was rarely the one that lost the most actual lbs each week. That despite being on a strict diet and doing massive amounts of excercise. In fact, unless they put some new final twist into the show, he's going to lose, since percentage wise, he's only down somewhere around 11% weight loss, while the leaders are about twice that. I would think that for most people not doing huge amounts of excercise, the daily calorie reqts don't scale anywhere near proportional to an individuals weight. Then, very obese people are more likely to be doing less excercise and may also have metabolic tendencies that helped get them very fat to begin with. |
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