Another formula:
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.
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.
Women can lose weight easily too. I bet my wife could lose 5 pounds by taking off her make-up.