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What to do?

suemama5533
suemama5533 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
My weight loss journey is going so slow ~ only lost 30 lbs since October 2014 :9

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  • beamer0821
    beamer0821 Posts: 488 Member
    how much do you have to lose total. how many calories are you eating a day. are you weighing everything? tracking everything? are you exercising? how much?
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Five pounds a month? Sounds pretty good, actually.
  • amozanich
    amozanich Posts: 11 Member
    That is still 5lbs/month! Not too shabby. Increasing your calorie deficit will probably bring about faster results. I've probably only lost 20 lbs since October, so I need to take some of my own advice.
  • serasmommy
    serasmommy Posts: 61 Member
    It's happening, though! Slow and steady, because changing to healthy eating isn't a sprint, it's a marathon! ☺
  • suemama5533
    suemama5533 Posts: 3 Member
    I need to lose about 100 ,so it seems really slow to me ! Just seeing Janejellyroll post that 5 pounds a month sounds pretty good , made my day ! Thank you for the pep talk ,all of you , it really helps! I have been on My Fitness Pal for about a year and never joined in the discussion board , but saw how much it was helping my friend and so glad I did :smiley:
  • navyrigger46
    navyrigger46 Posts: 1,301 Member
    suemama5533 wrote: »
    I need to lose about 100 ,so it seems really slow to me ! Just seeing Janejellyroll post that 5 pounds a month sounds pretty good , made my day ! Thank you for the pep talk ,all of you , it really helps! I have been on My Fitness Pal for about a year and never joined in the discussion board , but saw how much it was helping my friend and so glad I did :smiley:

    She's absolutely correct. 1.25 pounds per week is a nice healthy pace, I wouldn't be bummed about that at all.

    Rigger

  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    navyrigger46 wrote: »
    suemama5533 wrote: »
    I need to lose about 100 ,so it seems really slow to me ! Just seeing Janejellyroll post that 5 pounds a month sounds pretty good , made my day ! Thank you for the pep talk ,all of you , it really helps! I have been on My Fitness Pal for about a year and never joined in the discussion board , but saw how much it was helping my friend and so glad I did :smiley:

    She's absolutely correct. 1.25 pounds per week is a nice healthy pace, I wouldn't be bummed about that at all.

    Rigger

    Agreed with all the above. Great job so far...keep it up!
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    suemama5533 wrote: »
    I need to lose about 100 ,so it seems really slow to me ! Just seeing Janejellyroll post that 5 pounds a month sounds pretty good , made my day ! Thank you for the pep talk ,all of you , it really helps! I have been on My Fitness Pal for about a year and never joined in the discussion board , but saw how much it was helping my friend and so glad I did :smiley:

    You are thirty pounds smaller than you were in October! This is a huge victory. You should be proud.
  • janiceclark08
    janiceclark08 Posts: 1,341 Member
    If you keep up that kind of loss a month you'll lose 60lbs, even if its 50lbs, thats half of what you want to lose. I lost 52 in a year, so definitely doable at that pace. Do you have a food scale, the month I got my scale I lost 9lbs that month. Good luck on your journey.
  • rhtexasgal
    rhtexasgal Posts: 572 Member
    Because I have body inflammation issues due to past inflammatory bowel disease, it took me a year to lose 45 pounds so yes, you are doing great!
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