> Also, losing 10 lbs in a month is nothing to write home about as most diets will have you shed water weight, up to 8 lbs in less than a week. I think the aut

> Also, losing 10 lbs in a month is nothing to write home about as most diets will have you shed water weight, up to 8 lbs in less than a week. I think the author does a good job addressing this in the section "Actually Why Not Just Look at All The Data". To me, visually, the slope of weight lost does not flatten out significantly either after 7 days or 10 lbs.