Just curious how much most people lose in about a month's time. I'm losing about 2lbs every 3-3.5 weeks. It's not much but it's steady (or more like I'll go a week or two plateau and then see a week or 1.5 weeks and drop a bunch all of a sudden) so I'm pretty happy with that.
Is it important to you to keep your motivation to lose quickly? I think I could lose more if I pushed myself to have less calories per day but I definitely fear that would put me at a bigger chance for binging so I'm planning on staying where I'm at for the time being. However, I am also thinking about how to keep myself going in the long term. Anybody here had slowly steady weight loss and made it all the way to your goal doing that?
Ag seriously I was just gonna post a poor pity me session on here lol! I moved my calories up to 1500-1600 with 30 min exercise 6 days/week, and I feel like I am in a stop for a week & it is so frustrating- I just want it all to woosh off & be skinny NOW!!
BUT, I know this is a life-long process, so as long as it comes off eventually, Im happy with that...
To answer you, I've only been back on track for about 5 weeks & I've lost 2-3lbs/wk except for last week, I only lost half a lb... & I get all bummed, but we just made an early turkey & I'm assuming theres lots of sodium in there, making me tack on some water weight... anyways, keep on holding on!! Even if its 3lbs a week, were moving in the right direction & will get to our goal eventually!
Frankly, slow and steady wins the race here.
I average about 1.9lbs a week, sometimes a little more, sometimes a lo-ot less.
I weigh daily, once, which is helping me understand that fluctuations just happen.
I like to look back once in a while at what I've achieved, currently 45.5lbs in 24 weeks. Sure it could be faster but it's plodding off at the cost of a lot of effort but no pain.
I enjoy the Christmas jiggle challenge, where each week I just put in the startweight, current weight and total loss, not any of the teeny tiny weeks' losses in between. It just amazes me how all the teeny tinies add up!
Just checked the maths, and apparently the average is 1.89583333lbs a week!
I recently looked back at my "pocket guide" from weight watchers that has the stickers for my weight the past year. Around this time last year I weighed 254 pounds. That has been a smidge more than a pound a week. Lately, it has slowed down much further than that. Last week at WW I only lost .2 pounds.
I'm trying to stay motivated by other ways instead of the scale. Taking measurements, wearing clothes at a smaller size, being able to run further, etc.
I joined my gym a year ago and weighed 232. So... that is about 0.5 lbs a week on average. I have been holding steady at around 205 - 207 since July (with the occassional dip down to 204 or dip up to 209). I ahve tried to push myself to lose faster, but that just seems to back fire. I am content to focus on changing my habits right now and let my weight fall were it may. As I get better in my habits, I will focus on losing a little more a little faster.
But really... if next year rolls around and I am down to 180... I will be exstatic. Then I can work on baby #2. (I want to be one of those PG ladies I see running 5k's)
Slow, yes, steady--not even a little bit. Mine is all over the map! I copied my results from the 2010 weight loss challenge sticky. There is no rhyme or reason to my loss. Usually my slow losses were in big exercise months, so go figure. I stall often. My pattern is to lose one week a month big and then stall the rest of the month. I lost four pounds last week and I'm already seeing the stall. But as you can see, I almost always hit the recommended 4-8 pounds per month (which is the same as 1-2 per week). I do NOT lose steadily 1-2 a week.
January 1st - 207.6
February 1st - 203 (-4.6)
March 1st - 198 (-5)
April 1st - 195.6 (-2.4)
May 1st - 188.4 (-7.2)
June 1st - 184.8 (-3.6)
July 1st - 177.0 (-7.8)
August 1st - 170.8 (-6.2)
September 1st - 168.8 (-2)
October 1st - 161.6 (7.2)
November 1st - 159.4 (-2.2)
a pound a week. I could lose faster by going to 1200 calories but I don't want to kill my metabolism and I like having 300-400 extra calories to enjoy.
I'm losing 3 pounds a week. My nutritionist has me alternating calories to keep my metabolism guessing. Although I wish it were faster I can't complain.
My WW chart says 1.1 pounds a week on average. I have been totally on plan for two weeks and lost 8??? I think some of that was water from guest that interrupted my exercise part.
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I used to loose 10 pounds a month then after about six months I started to lose 5 pounds a month. Currently I loose 2-3 pounds a month if I'm lucky. There are some months were I just plateaue and remain the same...at times I'm happy to get over my plateaue when I loose a pound. Lately my poundage loss is anything but steady.
Slow, yes, steady--not even a little bit. Mine is all over the map! I copied my results from the 2010 weight loss challenge sticky. There is no rhyme or reason to my loss. Usually my slow losses were in big exercise months, so go figure. I stall often. My pattern is to lose one week a month big and then stall the rest of the month. I lost four pounds last week and I'm already seeing the stall. But as you can see, I almost always hit the recommended 4-8 pounds per month (which is the same as 1-2 per week). I do NOT lose steadily 1-2 a week.
Yep, the same is pretty much true for me. If I am diligently on plan, I'll lose 5-8 pounds over the course of a month, in fits and starts and with wild fluctuations. In times when I have been busy focusing on other things and relaxed my diligence a bit - tracked food less carefully, had a few more drinks, made fewer trips to the gym - I have lost more slowly or even maintained for a month or two.
Overall, I've lost 60 pounds in about 14 months - just about a pound a week. But it's not been a steady downhill march, by any stretch of the imagination.
I've only been at this since October 19, so I got a big "whoosh" of weight loss during the first days of my new eating and exercise plan. Tuesday is my official weigh-in day, but as of this morning, I've lost eight pounds and two ounces (haven't updated my info yet because I'm only using Tuesday's weight as the official one). I'm eating an average of 1500 calories a day (zig-zagging) and exercising at least 30 minutes a day.
The last few days, the scale hasn't moved. I'm trying not to feel daunted by that--after all, my previous couple of weeks' losses have been quite fast--but I'm finding it a challenge to consider "stuck" days as successes because it's so ingrained to look at the tyrannical scale as the sole arbiter of success and failure.
I think you're very smart to know your body's limits. It is tempting to think, "Hmm, I could speed things up if I were to shave off just a few more calories," and you might be right, but you also might make yourself feel crappy--tired, listless, hungry. There was a fascinating study I read about recently that showed how self-control drops with brain glucose levels; too few calories makes us easy prey for fast-food ads and bad choices.
I'll take a slower weight loss and a clean record of remaining on an enjoyable, but effective plan over marginally faster weight loss and the constant urge to descend upon the nearest taco joint like a buzzard on day-old roadkill. White-knuckling through a restrictive diet is no way to live a happy life, at least not for me.
The first year, about 6 lbs a month. Now 3 lbs. per month. It helped me a lot that I was concentrating more on the behaviours of eating "correctly" and exercising by tracking my calorie deficit daily rather than the number on the scale. My satisfaction/motivation came from keeping the average deficit in the range I wanted, I knew the weight loss would have to follow.
I started out losing 8-10lbs a month (more my first month), and now I'm down to 4-6ish. While I used to steadily lose about 2 lbs a week, now I'm much more likely to stay at the same spot for a week or two, and then drop rapidly.
Very, very slowly in my case BUT I don't count calories or track my food at all. I'm sure if I did, I'd lose more consistently...but I don't actually LIKE tracking/counting, so I don't. I just keep on keepin' on and ramp up my exercise as I'm able.
How fast are you losing?
Mine is all over the map! I copied my results from the 2010 weight loss challenge sticky. There is no rhyme or reason to my loss. Usually my slow losses were in big exercise months, so go figure. I stall often. My pattern is to lose one week a month big and then stall the rest of the month. I lost four pounds last week and I'm already seeing the stall. But as you can see, I almost always hit the recommended 4-8 pounds per month (which is the same as 1-2 per week). I do NOT lose steadily 1-2 a week. 
(I love this turkey)
