decrease my calories?

amymeenieminymo

I am currently on the "lose 1 pound a week" plan and it is working well. I have lost a pound every week since I started (though I am scared to weigh in tomorrow). The calories are working out well for me, it is usually just enough, but sometimes I do go over or find myself wishing I had more calories left.

While I am trying not to discount my current loss and I do ackknowledge that any weight loss is a good thing, it is a little annoying at how slow one pound a week is. That means by the time the wedding that I am in comes up, I will only have lost roughly 27 pounds (if I lose each week). Ok I know I know, looking at my profile that is only 3 pounds shy of my goal, but I am really not sure what my healthy weight is, since I never agreed with what height/weight charts say, so I just set that goal as something realistic that I can envision, and go from there.

So anyway, I currently walk at least a mile to 2.5 miles four days a week, but I plan on buying a bike soon and doing a lot of biking this summer and hopefully play some tennis too, so that will add to the calories I will be able to eat. So do you reccomend that I switch to trying to lose 2 pounds a week now, when I start excercising more, or not at all, since I know health professionals DO reccomend only one pound a week.

amymeenieminymo

I am currently on the "lose 1 pound a week" plan and it is working well. I have lost a pound every week since I started (though I am scared to weigh in tomorrow). The calories are working out well for me, it is usually just enough, but sometimes I do go over or find myself wishing I had more calories left.

While I am trying not to discount my current loss and I do ackknowledge that any weight loss is a good thing, it is a little annoying at how slow one pound a week is. That means by the time the wedding that I am in comes up, I will only have lost roughly 27 pounds (if I lose each week). Ok I know I know, looking at my profile that is only 3 pounds shy of my goal, but I am really not sure what my healthy weight is, since I never agreed with what height/weight charts say, so I just set that goal as something realistic that I can envision, and go from there.

So anyway, I currently walk at least a mile to 2.5 miles four days a week, but I plan on buying a bike soon and doing a lot of biking this summer and hopefully play some tennis too, so that will add to the calories I will be able to eat. So do you reccomend that I switch to trying to lose 2 pounds a week now, when I start excercising more, or not at all, since I know health professionals DO reccomend only one pound a week.

shorerider

I aim for 2 pounds a week but I have a LOT to lose, so a lower deficit is something that I can handle right now. It really depends upon how much you have to lose and overall health right now. Maybe check with your personal doctor?

jill5677

Good things come to those who wait!

Part of the benefit of losing weight slowly is that it changes your eating patterns and habits. When you lose weight quickly, you don't change your habits/patterns, or if you do change them for a short time, you quickly revert back to old/bad habits once you lose the weight.

1 lb a week is unfortunately the healthy way to do it, and the best way that I know to do it and keep it off for an extended amount of time.

At lesat you're losing. A lot of people have trouble even doing that!

supersaver

I believe the professionals say 1-2 pounds per week.

sapphyre0702

Whenever I get hungry and I don't have many calories left, I exercise a bit more.

I am scheduled to eat 1200 calories a day and I end up exercising every day because I can earn 500-600 more calories to eat, so whenever I want something else I'll just go walking for 20-30 minutes to "earn" enough.

I know it sounds like earning money at a job, but somehow it makes me feel better about the whole thing and less hungry.