Can You Lose a Pound a Day, Day After Day?

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Lose 30 pounds in 30 days!

Believe it or not, it can be done. There are three different ways I can think of to accomplish this:

1. Dangerously dehydrate yourself
2. Chop off a limb
3. Start off by weighing as much as a Smart Car.

When you dehydrate you end up gaining all the water weight back quickly, of course. That second one involves losing bones and blood and muscles and tendons and doesn’t sound pleasant at all. The third is the only one where all the weight that is lost is from fat; and there is an example of this actually happening.

I saw a video on CNN that showed how a guy lost 237 pounds in seven months. That’s over a pound a day. This actually happened, but the guy started out at 640 pounds. He still weighs around 400 and needs to lose another 200 to get to a healthy weight level. I can guarantee that those next 200 pounds will come off a lot slower than the first 200 did.

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