Plenty of popular diets and
supplements on the market promise that you can lose weight quickly and keep it
off. It sounds a little too good to be true, but we’ve all heard it before:
“Lose 10 pounds in 10 days!”
But can you really
drop weight this fast? And if you can, is rapid weight loss safe?
How Fast Should I Lose Weight?
Most people who want to lose weight
want it to happen quickly. While that’s understandable, the most common advice
is to slim down slowly.
But how slow is “slow”? Generally,
experts suggest that healthy weight loss is the gradual loss of about one
to two pounds per week. Losing weight faster than this can be considered “rapid.”
