Am I losing too fast or is it still too early to say?

hereforthelolz

I've been on here 11 days and as of this morning have lost 5 lbs, two of which were in the last two days. I put myself as moderately active because I work full time as a massage therapist, and then I log my workouts separately. However I also walk 1-2 hours a day for transportation and I have not been logging that as well, because I though it was encompassed in my daily activity level. I only logged it for the first time yesterday because I was dealing with a lot of hunger, and I ate back every calorie. Should I be logging the amount of time that I walk? Or drop the amount I am losing further? Or just wait longer for the rate of loss to slow down? I have it set to 1.5 lbs a week right now.

adamyovanovich

I lost 19 lbs in my first month, then slowed down to my projected 12 lbs. Initial loss is water and fat. It is great motivation to lose that much the first month though!!!!

RoxieDawn

Its been 5 days and this is mainly water weight. You have dropped to a calorie deficit of 750 calories a day so this will equate into real fat loss soon and water weight (other than day to day fluctuations) will even out. It sounds like the 750 deficit might be too steep if you are getting hungry. Perhaps this will subside after the first couple of weeks or decrease this to 500 a day.

What now to do with real exercise calories? If you set out to purposefully conduct exercise (steady state heart rate inducing exercise for a period of time i.e. 30 to 45 minutes) this gets logged separately. The walking you do to is included in your moderately activity setting, if you want to take this out of that setting and log it separately you can... but I am assuming that this is something that you do and have been doing already on a day to day basis.

rankinsect

Too early to say. The first week you'll often shed a lot of water as your body gets used to being at a deficit. Even after that, weight loss isn't linear.

What you really want to look at are average rates of loss over a month or two, and you probably want to throw out your first week of data when doing this analysis.

rainbowbow

definitely too early to say.

In general within the first two weeks most people experience a "whoosh" where they drop a significant amount of water weight. Don't worry, within the coming weeks it should even out to the estimated 1-2 pounds per week.


I believe when i initially started losing weight back in '11 I lost 7 pounds the first week, 4 pounds the next, and then 1/2 a pound weekly from then on.

edit: P.S. you should only be trying to lose 1% body weight per week. If you’re within 10 pounds of your goal -or- Less than 20% body fat for women/15% Body fat for men half this measurement.

hereforthelolz

Well, right now I am 162, so 1.5 lbs a week would be a bit less than 1%, right? I am still wanting to lose 15-20 more. Hard to say what I want my goal weight to be because I've never had this much lean mass before, and I'd like to keep as much as I can, but I have no desire to be much less than 25% body fat. It's just too agressuve for me to maintain long term.

Thanks everyone for commenting though! I will stay the course for the first month, and then reassess.