How fast are you supposed to lose weight on a weightloss plan?

In the beginning of weight loss that is possible due to losing water weight. Has he discussed this program with his doctor? If not, he should so that his doctor is aware of what he is doing and so that his doctor can monitor his overall nutrition while he’s doing it.

It is not impossible, but if he is not building muscle he is setting himself up for failure. His body will go into starvation mode if he is not eating enough. Then when he gets to his target weight he will relax and put on the weight again, with a vengence.

When my mom got serious about losing 50 lbs her doctor was actually glad she gained weight the first 2 weeks. She built muscle which led to a safer, healthier loss of the fat she was trying to get rid of.

Safe is 2 to 3 pounds per week

Good Luck

When you are morbidly obese, which at that weight (the same as I am) it is classed as, you can lose a large chunk of weight in the first week or two no matter which diet you choose. Most of the kind of diets you are speaking of tend to be ready meals/bars/shakes/soups that make up a low amount of calories, so with such a drop from what they were eating before, a lot of weight will be lost. Also some of these diets are so low in calories that they cause the body to go into ketosis which means that a lot of weight will be lost. Your friend should see their doctor regularly whilst on this kind of diet plan, keep up their water intake as this will also be lost, and also try to get in some form of exercise to build up muscle so that muscle loss doesn’t happen and also because although muscle weighs more than fat, it also helps to burn more calories. Good luck to him.

In the very beginning of a diet, it’s hard to make a hard and fast rule.

But over a period of time it should average out to the lower side of 2–2½ pounds per week.

Amy quicker than that is extremely unlikely to be long lasting change because they’ll just gain it back plus more.

Doing it too fast is very self-sabotaging in the end.

I would say no more than 2 – 3 pounds each week. As @Buttonstc stated losing weight very quickly and the chances are the weight will be put back on again.

If it is his first week, that is normal. It will slow down.

It depends on how much weight he has to lose to begin with. Thinner people tend to not drop as much at first. And, while I agree with what everyone else has said, it’s healthiest to drop only 2–3 lbs. a week, it’s not true that quick-paced weight loss means you will always gain the weight back. After my undergrad program I enrolled in Weight Watchers and lost a ton of weight (50 lbs) in about 4 months. The first month I was losing around 5 lbs a week at least. Not only did I never gain the weight back (this was 10 years ago), I continued to lose weight and keep it off b/c I actually learned the correct way to eat. In other words, I think it’s more about changing behavior in the long run than about following a fad diet for a short period of time. It sounds like your friend is doing great but hopefully he is also learning new dietary behaviors.

According to me, the time of losing weight totally depends upon your workout and how much you want to lose. One must follow a schedule and should do regular exercise according to your weight loss program for quick result.