# Could you lose five pounds in one week for a million $? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-lose-five-pounds-in-one-week-for-a-million/550853 "2010-08-20T09:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-lose-five-pounds-in-one-week-for-a-million/550853/101 "2010-08-22T21:17:50Z")
Another formula: > **[Body fat percentage! Calculate the % of your body made up of fat and compare...](https://am-i-fat.com/body_fat_percentage.html)** > > Obesity is having a body fat percentage that is too high. Calculate your percentage here! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-lose-five-pounds-in-one-week-for-a-million/550853/102 "2010-08-23T01:05:59Z")
If you mean five pounds of body weight, I have done that just by eating a salty meal one night and then peeing all day two days later. But if you mean five pounds of fat, that is a different matter. That’s about 20,000 calories, so if you burned 3000 a day by working out a lot and ate nothing for a week, you would just about do it. But I imagine most of us couldn’t carry that off since you would feel without eating. But for a million bucks, I would sure try. Some asshole once asked me if I would shave for $100. I said, “Sure”. but no money was forthcoming and I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-lose-five-pounds-in-one-week-for-a-million/550853/103 "2010-08-23T02:13:36Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > > [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > > > Mega and Joel: WTF? How on earth? > > Can’t speak for **Mega** , but I had a similar experience to **Joel** (lost 45 pounds in 12 weeks when I was 19). > > Young men, typically, are naturally geared to get in good shape with even a modicum of diet control and exercise. Having a high testerone level helps a ton. > > And for a young man that’s 290 lbs … there’s typically about 50-60 lbs (or more) that has a somewhat tenuous grasp on the body. Shockingly small changes in diet/exercise start chipping away at that extra weight immediately. And if an overweight young man gets really serious and “diets hard” and “exercizes hard” … the weight just falls off. I started dieting last year at 280 and I was genuinely amazed at how fast the weight fell; without doing anything radical I lost 40 pounds in three months. I’m down another 10 since, but if you asked me to lose 5 pounds in a week and put a million bucks on it I’d probably lose 10 just to be sure. No problem. It’s not going to be a fun week, but the week after sure will be. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-lose-five-pounds-in-one-week-for-a-million/550853/104 "2010-08-23T02:18:52Z")
Women can lose weight easily too. I bet my wife could lose 5 pounds by taking off her make-up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-lose-five-pounds-in-one-week-for-a-million/550853.md?page=5)