If you have been dieting, you will know that the typical thing in these cases is to lose enough weight in the first weeks and then progressively stagnating us, causing us to despair in our desire to achieve the ideal weight and decrease the speed with which we lose those extra kilos. But is normal. Everything has to go in due time and if someone tells you that you are losing a pound and a half a week, believe me that the thing is not going well or is cheating you like a child.
Many times that apparent loss of fat is only a loss of water and even muscle mass, so that the percentage of body fat is not affected and the only thing we are doing is causing a rebound effect or yo-yo effect that will make us recover double the kilos that we already have lost.
Therefore, many people wonder how much is healthy or normal to lose per week when we go on a diet. Well I will tell you that this amount will vary by weeks depending on the time we have with the diet but, there is a fairly reliable calculation that tells us what is the approximate successful weight loss in a week to lose more fat than muscle and take care of health.
The idea is that the person under a regime does not lose more than 1% of their body weight in weight per week; that is, if we weigh 86 kilos, we should not lose more than 850 gr. a week. I do not know if they realize that this calculation also has the effect-progress of the diet and the progressive slowdown of fat loss as we move forward, because the lower the weight, the lower the percentage of grams we should lose. That is to say that as we get closer to the goal slower is the advance.
Following this advice, we are leading a healthy loss, mainly of fat and not of muscle mass and without our health being diminished.
