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How long will it take for me to lose weight?

wriri7_x
wriri7_x Posts: 94 Member
edited February 10 in Getting Started
19 year old female
5ft 4
172 lbs right now
want to be atleast 120-130lbs
How long will it take me?
I have lost 11lbs in 6weeks.

eating 1200 cals a day
exercise 4 times a week losing 200-300 cals each session.

Every friday i eat 1 take out.

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  • lin7604
    lin7604 Posts: 2,951 Member
    everyone is so different it's hard to say. for me it took me a year to lose 20 lbs! sounds like you are doing a good job so far. are you eating back your exercise cals???
  • wriri7_x
    wriri7_x Posts: 94 Member
    everyone is so different it's hard to say. for me it took me a year to lose 20 lbs! sounds like you are doing a good job so far. are you eating back your exercise cals???

    Sometimes I do eat them back if I do exercise after lunch however if I do it in the evening around the time before I eat my tea (evening dinner in UK if you are from the US) then I will eat my tea which means I am not eating it back.

    Life of a busy student :(
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    it has taken me a year to lose 40lbs

    most of that was following the "17 day diet" but that is not sustainable...

    Since joining MFP I have lost more then weight tho...I have lost inches and weight and dropped from a size 12 to an 8...and I weight 165 right now.

    As the other poster said it all depends....

    If you eat 1200 a day quickly if you can sustain it..but chances are you wont be able to...and it will come back.

    Try eating 1500-1700 every day..(based on stats provided using scooby calculator) and you will lose weight that way too.

    Might not be 2lbs a week but it will be a better way to do it.
  • MarKayDee
    MarKayDee Posts: 196
    You and I are at the same starting weight, with the same goal. That's neat.

    I think the most you're supposed to expect is a pound or two a week, but really it's all up to your body since we'reall different.
  • lin7604
    lin7604 Posts: 2,951 Member
    haha i am from canada :) i do think you should make sure that you are eating NO less then 1200 MAX ever! figure out how much you burn on a average and incorporate it into your daily number.. so no matter what you will always be eating enough, even if you exercise late, etc.. i find going by tdee methods are easier...
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