Lose 5 Lbs

This topic was created for the Lose 5 Lbs challenge.

Blue Opal…5 lbs in 5 days? I don’t get it…is that even healthy?

Could be. If she has alot to lose, 5 lbs comes off quick. if she weighed in on a day after she had eated quite a bit or was retaining water bad… lots of variables. There’s been a couple weeks where I lose that much. Define “healthy”.

I just weighed in and am showing a 7 lb loss since last Monday. Perfect example of how someone can lose that much. The reason? Because when I weighed in on last Monday, my official weigh in day, I was up quite a bit because I ate bad on Sunday. Up so bad I showed a .2 lb gain FOR THE WEEK. I decided to step it up a notch and instead of doing 30 minutes of cardio a day, I did an hour and I made sure it stayed in the heavy intensity area. The result? 7 pound loss for the week that was probably really about 5 pound loss, with the 2 pounds of junk having been flushed out a day after I weighed in.

On a seperate note, if this is an “everyone wins” challenge, why did the challenege close after the first person accomplished the goal?

I dont think it did close? I mean, I only joined yesterday and its tracked the weight I lost today….

And also, in response to Coal, I second everything SawWolf said – If you are extremely overweight then it would be nothign tolose 5lbs in a week anyway
And even if not, waterweight or a heavy meal can through it off because they dont represent TRUE weight since it passes through, plus it could be the opposite, and if someone weighed in after a work out when they were dehyrdated, and maybe hadn’t had a big meal yet that day it might be off a bit.

if this is an “everyone wins” challenge, why did the challenege close after the first person accomplished the goal?

I’m assuming you’re thinking it’s closed because of the “Congratulations” message at the top. In an “Everybody Wins” challenge the message still appears, but congratulates the most recent user to complete the challenge.

Actually it looks like it congratulates the first person to complete it only, cuz we had a new winner yesterday, and it’s still congratulating blue opal

I am obese; therefore, 5lbs comes of like nothing if you eat right and do a little of exercise. My top challenge in 75lbs, but 5lbs, is just a mark for me. So far I am down 13lbs (before I started the challenge). I weigh myself same time every 5 -7 days at 10:30am, to minimize my weight reading error.