Almost all of the diet programs aims for a weight loss of 3 pounds per week, which is good considering that this is what doctors recommend. The reason why doctors recommend you lose 2 or 3 pounds per week and not more is because it can have serious consequences to your health.

It can cause loss of muscle and complications in your metabolism. Not to mentioned, losing weight fast can cause you to gain all the weight back in a short period of time.

But here is the tricky part, Doctors let certain people lose weight fast. Who are they? Well, these people are the ones who are obese. People who are obese can easily lose 10 pounds per week with out a problem.

Some programs provides you a nutritional balance whist. One of those programs are Medifast, which is very successful and many doctors use it around the world.

There are lots of diet programs for losing weight fast, which normally makes you only consume 800 calories per day, but there can be a hand full of side effects.

Some of these side effects are irritability, fatigue, catabolism and vitamin deficiency. So what i would recommend is for you to take it slow, and lose only 2 or 3 pound per week. Hey, patience pays of.