Anu Simh questions whether the standard one to two pounds per week is actually healthy for everyone. The conversation considers how weight loss should account for individual differences in body size and composition.
What is a healthy weight loss?
It makes no sense.
Gosh, how long have we been saying that?
One to two pounds per week?
Yeah.
Is that bad medicine? I don't know.
I've researched that a lot because that's a chunk of what I do. Right. What is a healthy weight loss? Almost every study says one to two pounds. One to two pounds.
Very much what people just often recommend. It makes no sense because we're all different sizes.
Correct.
A different percentage of your total body weight. So why aren't we doing this by percent? And then you get into, well, what's being lost? Is it we want you to lose 1 to 2 pounds of fat or like water weight and you've.
Got muscle.
Yeah.
Doesn't make sense.
It's ridiculous. That's me and.
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