I am not even consistent enough to determine how much I lose per month. I seem to be able to lose 1-2.5lbs per week. The higher end is when I am doing lower carb.
I know I am not weighing more and that should be great and wonderful and it is... but I also wish I had been able to lose more this year. I guess I have two more months to figure it out....
I use Weightbot, which calculates my average for me. 0.9kg/month since starting in January. I suspect that I could do much better if I really put effort into it, but that's been my average thus far this year.
I'm another calorie counter & one of the folks who occasionally goes over my recommended amount. I aim for around 1200 calories/day, though I started at around 1500/day and worked my way down, so it doesn't seem like a horribly small amount anymore.
I also walk between 4-5 miles per day (weekdays) and try to fit in 45 minutes on my stationary bike each day, though I tend to do it 5-6 days/week.
I suspect I might have been more successful in the beginning (as in more pounds off) if I'd put more effort into it and ate out less, but equally I might have just said forget it if I wasn't able to eat out occasionally and enjoy not so healthy foods. I'll never know, but I'm happy with my weight loss so far & the rate of it, so I'm going to hopefully be able to keep things about the same until goal.
ETA: I'm late 20s and have never tried dieting before, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it either.
When I am 100% on plan - i'm not sure, ive never done that!
When I am 75% on plan - about 4-6 lbs a month
I am 23 and aim for 1900 calories a day, with 1 or 2 days of the weekend that may go a bit off plan! I also run and interval train on the elliptical 3 times a week but neither for very long periods of time (about 1.5 hours in total a week).
Now that we have a decent number of results in, how do people feel about them? Is the average higher or lower than you expected? Has it changed how you view your own speed of weight loss?
Now that we have a decent number of results in, how do people feel about them? Is the average higher or lower than you expected? Has it changed how you view your own speed of weight loss?
It's actually quite a bit higher than I expected but I'd really love to know the average age of the posters too.
Now that we have a decent number of results in, how do people feel about them? Is the average higher or lower than you expected? Has it changed how you view your own speed of weight loss?
Its actually lower than what i thought, i thought i was lagging behind but 1-6 seems to be the average and i thought it would be much higher then that! At least I know I'm normal now
I was hoping more people would also say they are losing less than 1 lb of month, so for me, it makes me feel very lonely, down here on the bottom.
Of note is that anyone responding to this poll is (obviously) actively trying to lose weight.
Let's imagine for the moment all the people out there at this very moment who are WISHING they could lose weight, but are in fact gaining.
They aren't the ones responding to this poll.
Again, I know that seems obvious, but what I mean by this is that your weight loss to anyone who is just at the WISHING stage would be a miracle. The fact that you're losing weight and keeping it off is more wonderful than you're giving yourself credit for.
There are people around you in the world who would stare at your results with envy. I was one of those people as I gained my way up and beyond 300 pounds. I just wasn't a member of 3FC then, so I couldn't take a poll and write in the answer "gaining".
But even this is not very useful, sorry. Because we lose at different speeds at different points of the journey. And, typically, the more weight you have to lose, the faster you lose it. So, someone who weighs 300 pounds will probably lose more per month than the person who weighs 200 pounds even if they are doing the exact same thing.
So, initially, I was losing 13 pounds a month. Now I'm losing like 7 pounds a month. I figure as I get even closer to goal, I'll lose less, like 2-4 pounds a month. It gets harder and harder to create a calorie deficit which, of course, makes complete sense.
Last edited by berryblondeboys; 10-19-2011 at 10:17 AM.
I thought that I was on the slower end of the spectrum or just around average, but now I see that I'm actually losing quite a bit faster than other folks. I know that this has to do with a number of things (I'm young, never tried losing weight before, etc.) but it's still eye-opening.
