is this normal?

Are you really close to your goal weight and are at a healthy BMI? I would say its going to take some time if thats the case. Otherwise, I would change up your routine at the gym if you've been doing the same thing for awhile now. If you do cardio add intervels, ie: 2 minutes fast walk, 2 min running etc (I'm sure others are much more expert on this than me) I've read over and over on here to avoid the starvation zone and to eat your exercise calories. I'm eating approx 1/2 my exercise calroies. So I am at 1200 goal as well. With exercise i can have 1395. So i am aiming for low 1300's A few other ideas is to track your sugar. I noticed with juice and a fibre1 bar I was way over on my sugar. I've elminated the juice now. Another thing is to make sure you are eating complex carbs with protein for your snacks and avoiding simple carbs like pretzels. Too long between meals can mess with your metabolism too. My friend who's a trainer gave me these tips and they are working. Loads of water too, like 10 cups per day. Good luck!

Try to eat those exercise calories, so you have energy to keep working out. Maybe eating those calories in the form of fruits and veggies or lean protein will help you.

Also, keep in mind, average, healthy weight loss is one to two pounds per week. So your one pound in ten days is actually a healthy pace. Good weight loss that stays off is slow and steady, made with lifestyle changes, just like you are doing now ! Keep up the good work!

Reality:
1 pound in 10 days is really great for someone with only 6 pounds to lose.
:flowerforyou:

What were your expectations?


And, yes, you should consider eating some of your exercise calories if you are already at a healthy weight (and I assume you are if you only have 6 pounds to lose).

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20100129/what-you-eat-after-working-out-matters

This article helps you to understand the healthy items to eat after an exercise to eat back half of you r work out calories, but in a healthy way... Hope this helps!

Stick with it. If you're only trying to lose 6 pounds presumably you're pretty slim already, so progress will necessarily be slow. The body really hangs on to those grams of fat that aren't really excessive by health standards (I know personal image standards are stricter, this is really frustrating!). Anyway, now you only need to lose 5 pounds - at this rate you'll be done by March 25. That may seem like a long time away, but think like this: if today was day 60 and you'd lost 1 pound per 10 days you'd be at your goal. You would've had to start on December 6. Looking back at December 6, does it seem long ago?

March 25 might seem like forever now, but when you get there it'll feel like you lost weight in the blink of an eye. Of course the last 2 pounds will probably take as long as the first 4, so be prepared for slow progress near the end! May even take till June to get the last one, just stick with it.

Personally, I've been working out a lot (about 7,500 calories per week at the gym) since 8 August and made some progress, but not much. When I started MFP I realised I was way under eating. I've made more progress over the 25 days I've been using this, but I've still only lost 2.5 pounds and 2 inches on my waist. It gets demoralizing, but I know I'm healthier. Even my hair is coming back! (Its been receding over the last 5 years or so, and now its half way recovered - sweet, I wasn't expecting that!) I also found cigarette cravings vanished, and I haven't had to exert any will power at all to go 6 months without smoking, and since I started MFP my alcohol intake has fallen off a cliff (except 1 big night recently that was my prime drinking buddy's birthday - even then I drank more water than alcohol). The point of the personal story is that, even with some pretty big changes, measured results have been small. That doesn't mean there are no results! Stick with it and eventually the ones you're looking for will be there too.