Nobody can actually gain or lose that much real weight that fast and I can tell you this from personal experience and from working with all my clients too.

This actually happened to me back in 2007 when my boyfriends family from Australia visited for 10 days. We were eating out every other night, having beer or wine or both most nights plus Thanksgiving and a birthday got sandwiched in there too.

By the time they left I could not zip my pants and I weighed 8 lb over my usual 120 lb.

I got on the anti-estrogenic diet for 2 weeks. After week 1 I was down 6 pounds. After week 2 the remaining 2. It wasn't real weight loss or real fat loss just bloating.

That is usually the case for most people but most people panic so much that they go bezerk with their diets and they go overboard cutting calories so their bodies hang on to the false fat even more. It's a case of hey you were overfeeding me and now you're underfeeding me so adapt adapt adapt by slowing down metabolism and hanging on to everything even water weight.

You can't gain or lose that much weight in a week. It's physically impossible.

BTW, anti-estrogenic is basically veggies, some fruits, certain dairy, wild caught fish, eggs, beans of any kind and wild grain rice only. No other foods are allowed. It's a healthy detox and it works fast!

Except on Biggest Loser

3 pounds a week is excellent healthy weightloss. I must look into getting a copy of that game- and the system it plays on!

Monica -

I would agree with Jilly - on the Biggest Loser they routinely lose that much week after week after week, so it's not just water loss. They do six hours a day every day of heavy workouts though. So that's not in my schedule.

I would also say that it is quite possible to gain 7 pounds in a week through raw eating. Someone only has to eat 3500 calories a day extra. So someone sitting on a cruise ship, not moving at all, and eating high-sugar food non stop all day long, and drinking 7-8 high-alcohol drinks a day, could easily ingest 3500 extra calories each day - if not more. A Long Island Iced Tea is 800 calories each. So just four of those would tack on a pound, even if everything else you ate that day was healthy - which it wouldn't be for many people.

I have now hit 132.0 pounds. So that's a drop of 7.6 pounds since 3/19, which was 11 days ago. I've been working very hard at this. No alcohol at all, eating extremely leanly, and dancing hard 2-3 hours every night. I'm only drinking water. My daily caloric intake is in the 600 calorie range. I have a morning EAS shake, a small salad for lunch, and lean protein for dinner with a veggie.

Unfortunately I have a wine dinner coming up, so we'll see what that sets me back

I'm happy - I actually lost weight after the wine dinner. I'm at 131.6 now. Maybe wine is good for weight loss

James is coming over to visit tomorrow though, which is what set this all off in the first place. So just as I'm undoing the damage, it will start all over again. Maybe this time I will be wiser about not joining in with him on the chicken nuggets and pizza and pasta and such.

Woo hoo! I am at 129.2! I have achieved my target!

And not only that, but James came over yesterday, meaning that the day was full of my potential favorite comfort foods - popcorn, mini hot-dogs in crescent rolls, triscuits with cheese, and so on. Plus I usually drink wine when he's here. So I avoided every single temptation. I had a salad for lunch and tuna-with-brussels-sprouts for dinner. And it worked!

Happy Happy

The dinner sounds delicious - Could you remind me what triskits are please?

Triscuits are square crackers - if you google them you can see photos of what they look like. They have a texture to them, they're not smooth.

Ian they are made of woven shreds. Yummmmm.


LISA, YAY!!!! You did good.