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Your diet does make a real difference, more than you credit for in your reply. In university I had pizza almost every day for a month, I gained 15 lbs (7 kg) and had a way flabbier stomach. I stopped doing that and tried to eat healthier, incorporating salad with my meals, and in just about a week I started noticing it going away, and I was back to where I was before in 3 months.
It wouldn't surprise me too much to see how a body would react noticeably to a drastic change from a sedentary, highly processed carbohydrate diet and lifestyle to an active, more balanced one. Everyone's body is different of course so it won't always be the case, but to me the OP's claims seem far from impossible. Japan still has its share of oily foodstuff, but the average portion is tiny compared to the US.
Cool, all of that within a week?
There is no chance there is a visible change from a week of eating salads, no matter how fast your metabolism is.
If you look at yourself regularly and pay attention you can see your body change pretty rapidly. I've specifically watched my body bulking up on its own before burning those stored calories to build muscle and there's a clear cycle of noticing a bit more pudge a few days before I suddenly make a big jump in cycling distance or how much I can lift (and the pudge also goes away at the same time)
Not. In. A. Week.
If you stop eating for a week you can lose a cool 7kg of a lot more than just water mass. Get off your high (uninformed) horse
Read the original post ffs. They said "i ate better and walked a bunch". Not "starved myself for a week".
Yes, in less than a week even! Try it sometime. Its really cool to watch your body adjust and see just how much control you have over your body!
If you don't regularly exercise and start exercising 5 days a week you will see the changes in your own body after about a week, you might see a small change on the scale after 2 weeks and after 4 weeks someone close to you should be able to see the changes in your body, and after 12 weeks someone you don't see often should be able to see the changes in your body. Since you see yourself every day and you can feel how your body feels you can see the change very quickly
You aren't going to "slim down" in a week no matter what you do. Read the freaking post too instead of jumping in with "excercise 5 times a week". They said "I moved to Japan, ate better and walked around for a week and I got noticeably slimmer". That's not a true statement, simple as.
Actually the person you responded to in this thread (/u/[email protected]) shared a lived experience where they could observe changes in their body after just a week of drastic diet improvement, just as I'm sharing my own lived experiences where I can observe changes in my body related to diet and activity in just a week, while you're just saying "Not. In. A. Week."
I'll just close by repeating myself: Try it sometime! Its really cool to watch your body adjust and see just how much control you have over your body!