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don't hurt yourself man. It is unhealthy to be losing that much weight so quickly. About a pound a week is all the body can healthfully lose. Your body NEEDS to get energy and nutrition from food. True, you can burn up your bodies stores, but you need nutrients that only come from food. A pound is equal to 3500 calories. That's a deficit of 500 calories a day to healthyfully lose 1# a week. A normal diet is about 2K cal. Someone your size does actually NEED more cal than that, so you're probably up around 2600. With excercise you can increase your expenditures to around 3300 and eat the same amount (or cut back a little if you're eating junkfood.) Esp. when losing weight and NOT eating loads of food, you need to make sure you are getting the nutrients you need, so eat good stuff. Be safe. Good luck. and remember that excersise is the most important part of the equation.

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thanks for the concern. Losing 5lb a month for someone my size is plenty healthy. 5lb a month for someone your size would be unhealthy. It's not really linear.