[Isaac Wilkins]

Originally Posted by Isaac Wilkins

Well, they've probably been watching The Biggest Loser, which seems to feel ok with 8-15 lb/week drops.

The enemas those people must go through...

Two pounds a week if someone is obese is not that much of a challenge. Remember that they might be used to cruising on 4000 calories a day. If they drop to 3000 (still pretty high), then that's a 7k right there. Add in 500 calories from exercise per day and now we're up to the theoretical 3 lbs/week.

Obviously this won't continue forever, but if a person is really obese, starting at 30% body fat or higher then it can go quite a while before the whole leptin, etc situation really hits.

A word on my post: I didn't at all mean to say that it won't be challenging. Weight loss is a struggle and takes a ton of hard work. As someone who's always struggled with it, I never would mean to undermine anyone's effort.

I was simply saying that to reach the theoretical two-three pound a week loss isn't a tough plan to come up with. Execution can be a totally different thing!