: I have lost 3kg in 5 days is this bad? I have recently started eating healthy & going to the gym, nothing too crazy just eating roughly 5000kj a day & going to the gym 5 days a week for 60 - 90 minutes each day. i

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If this was 3 kg of fat, that would mean you just lost 3*7000 kcal or 87864 kj, this is obviously entirely unplausible. What does make sense however is that you just lost a bit of water and solids, which is common when you start eating more healthy.

Your weight will always fluctuate a bit, you will have a high and low limit for your weight, if you start writing down and ideally charting your weight, you will notice when you break new low limits and when your high limit seems to have been lowered as well. That will give you an idea of how fast you're actally losing weight.

This might been discouraging right now, but it's nice to know when you have pizza one night and suddenly add 2 kg (of water weight, carbs and salt bind water.)