I had been on a plateau since January (between the holidays, my birthday in Feb, a couple of vacations, and a bunch of business trips) I was off plan as much as I was on, and that doesn't make for weight loss. I finally got serious again about losing weight around mid-April. Since then, I've lost 9 lbs, so that's a little under a lb per week. I also don't lose a lb every week. I'll go a week with no loss and then lose 2 lbs the next.
I consistently lost about 1 lb per week until I got within 10 lbs of my goal weight. That happened back in June 2006. At that point, my weight loss slowed to an average of probably 1/2 a lb per week and became inconsistent (I began losing more some weeks and not losing at all on other weeks). Then I started a cycle of losing and gaining that didn't end until this April due to too many off-plan days and weeks. Now I've gotten stricter about my calories and have tightened up exercise routine a bit (less cardio, lifting heavier, running intervals) and I'm back to losing just under a lb per week, but I don't think I'll ever get the consistency back.
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