It isn't healthy to lose 5 pounds a week. If you start a diet and do it right you may lose 5 pounds for a few weeks but then you should lose about 1-2 pounds a week. You have to start excercising regularly and if you follow a diabetic diet your guarenteed to lose weight. That diet is basically no sugar, very low fat, and now complex carbs like whiet bread, white flour etc. Eat whole wheat everything.
Here are some examples: If you are male and need to lose more than 30 pounds, you can plan on around 10 or more pounds in the first 7 days. I have seen men lose as much as 12. If you need to lose around 15 pounds, you can plan on losing about 7 pounds the first week. If you are a woman and need to lose around 60 pounds, you can most likely plan on losing 12 pounds the first week. If you need to lose about 30 or less pounds you will most likely lose around 5 to 7 pounds the first week. The above situations are based on doing the HCG Diet correctly!
Healthily, a person lose lose 2 or 3 pounds a week. Under the watch of a nutritionist or trainer, they can healthiy lose 5 to 8 pounds a week.
This is how I lost weight, I'm ten.Oh weight unless you're like really overweight you shouldn't need to lose pounds :P
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If you are fat like me then yes. If you are just a few pounds overweight then 5lbs is a lot in a week.
you will lose about 5 pounds. Because for every 3400 calories you burn it is a pound, so take 17500 and divide it by 3400
You can lose 5 pounds in one week by committing to a low calorie diet and exercising for at least 5 times a week. Your calorie intake should not fall below 1200 calories daily.
1200 Calories
5 pounds is not a sensible amount to try to lose in a week, so I'm not going to suggest anything for that. 1-3 pounds is doable, by dropping everything that's fatty, sugary and alcoholic, if combined with an otherwise sensible menu and some exercise.
You will probably loose like 3-5 pounds
To lose 5 pounds, you need to spend 17,500 more calories than you consume. This can be accomplished through a combination of healthy diet and exercise.
If you are a 16 year old female who weighs 257 pounds and is 5'5" tall, consuming 1,200 calories a day would help you to lose 3-3.5 pounds per week.