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Bleuthebat

Updated 10mo ago

How to Determine if Your Weight Loss is Healthy

How do you know if the weight you’ve been losing has been a healthy amount?

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Chesbro99

2y

How long you have been trying
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Bleuthebat

2y

years. But in the past two months I’ve dropped 27lbs due to having sick intestines and stomach.
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Chesbro99

2y

271, that's a lot. So then I would look at how much you are now and if you feel you are health now
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Sunflower.System

2y

You can check your BMI here: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm If you fall within the healthy range or above and have been losing 1.5 lbs a week or less, then it should be fine.
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Y0g1

2y

no don’t use the BMI- if you do research into it it was created by Adolphe Quetelet who was extremely smart but not a doctor and was looking to support his theory that the mathematical mean of a population was the populations ideal. It is more about how you feel, what you eat/ if you feel like you are at a healthy weight. The BMI is extremely toxic and is part of the issue with ED. If the weight loss is because of the meds you are on then I would talk to your doctor
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Y0g1

2y

It all depends on if you needed to lose weight, how long it took you to lose it and how much. Especially when meds are involved!

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