30 lbs in 12 weeks!

wow! thats brilliant! congrats

Great! You are Fabulous! I try to stay at the 1200/day also. It happens for the most part!

Well done !! I am on my way to this sort of goal too. ! 14lb in 6 weeks !

. As long as 1200 calories are logged, I am not warned about starvation mode,.

You realise your diary is open and we can all see that you're regularly UNDER 1200 and by quite a long way some days?

Looking great girlie!!! Keep up the great work!

Fantastic job!!! Keep it up! Sounds like u r learning your body tricks!

Great job girl! Congrats!

Ahhh you're not eating enough!! 1200 is unreasonably low for just about anyone, even someone who is trying to lose weight! I think you'll find that if you, at the very least, eat the bare minimum calories that your body needs to sustain daily function (this would be your BMR, and it doesn't include ANY type of physical activity), you'll find that you could eat more and still lose weight. Seriously! And when that starts to work, eat more (calculate your body's TDEE, which is your BMR plus exercise calories burned, and subtract 15% or so)... it's counterintuitive, but it's so much healthier to eat more than 1200 calories. At 1200, you'll completely stall at some point, and your brain will say, "well, now I have to eat less... then less... then less..." Not sustainable!! Eat what your body needs to fully energize you for life!

There are so many people successfully losing weight while eating upwards of 2000 calories a day... it's a real thing, trust me!

Check out this website for starters if you aren't convinced:
http://eatmore2weighless.com/

Okay, I'll leave you to it.

awesome work! congrats!

That's fantastic! What an inspiration!

I also hesitate to say congrats because a few things pop out at me. Like the others have mentioned:

1. You aren't eating enough. Just because you get near 1200 doesn't mean anything imo. It's not healthy.
2. What you are eating, is a lot of processed crap.One day in your diary, all you had for lunch was a bunch of candy?
3. Overestimating your calories doesn't help you.By overestimating - you are really eating less then what is being accounted for.

I think people are just showing their concern for you, not being defensive. In any case, I wish you the best luck in your weight loss and may it be healthy weight loss

I have to say AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME! You are doing a terrific job!

I started on 8/8/12 and I weighed yesterday at my doctor's office and I'm down 26 pounds. YIPPIE! I weighed 262 and I'm 5'7" tall. I now weigh 236 pounds. My doctor, a true medical professional was thrilled with my success thus far...I will say that having high blood pressure like I DID, prior to a couple of weeks ago and taking medicine for it daily, clogging my arteries with unhealthy fattening foods, eating food like there's no tomorrow and no exercise at all is VERY UNHEALTHY! That was me prior to 8/8 when I started this. So for anyone to criticize- that's just plain ridiculous! I would much rather feel like I do now, have my blood pressure at a healthy rate now with no medication and actually look forward to working out. I eat 1360 calories per day usually- give or take a few. I eat plenty. I just eat a healthy loaded with veggie salad that's 400 calories now, instead of going to eat McDonald's and opting for 2,500 calories for one meal. I don't blow all of my daily calories on one meal. If I want a fattening cheeseburger- I'll have it. The key is not deprivation as this is why many people fail at this and it's why I have so many times. We gorge one day after not eating anything fattening and then we feel deprived and go back to our old ways. I choose to make wiser decisions now and learn that moderation with anything in life is best, food included. I "think" about everything I eat now. I LOVE working out on the treadmill for an hour at 3.6 speed and leaving the gym feeling stress free. I'm one of those people now who used to think that those who crave the workout were nuts.

When you are obese like I am, you will lose quicker in the beginning and then it will slow down. In the beginning you lose a lot of water weight. This has happened to me. I work out 3-5 days per week now for an hour or so each time. Instead of sitting at my desk job for eight hours- Monday thru Friday and I get up and go to the park and walk for at least a half hour- two or three days a week. The key to this is moving your butt and cutting your calories to what you can live with every single day. It's not making such a drastic change that you can't live with it. Remember this is a NEW LIFESTYLE CHANGE, not just until you lose the weight. I have decided to make this change as a 43 year old woman that realizes she needs to get off her butt and do this or risk being very ill one day and having to depend on everyone else to take care of me. How selfish would I be if I didn't at least try to change...I just joined MFP about a month ago and I'm amazed at the amount of people who dis-courage, rather than encourage. I beg to differ with anyone giving this successful woman a hard time over her weight loss! Think about the other option for her, myself and everyone else fighting this battle. I'm not here to argue with anyone. Everyone has and is entitled to their own opinions, but seriously think about what you are saying. Offer this lady encouragement...This lady is not 20 years old, nor am I or a lot of the people on here so it's not right to even compare her to a 20 year old. Nor do we only have ten pounds to lose to get to our goals, like a 20 year old can do in two weeks because their metabolism actually still works. That is what's wrong with society these days, we always look to put the blame elsewhere on someone else. Instead of worrying about a 20 year old seeing her post and not eating, look at it the other way and think about a 40 something who might be reading this post and is struggling through every bite they put in their mouth and looking at this as their inspiration. I'm telling you what I'm doing is working for me as well. You can look at my diary and pick it apart. We can all do that to each other all day long. I have dropped from a snug size 18 in jeans to a snug size 12 in jeans. I have gone from shopping in plus sizes only to being able to shop anywhere I please. I can walk into any given store now in my local mall and shop. That is my encouragement, my motivator to myself...I wish everyone luck, I understand people can't fathom losing this fast but it's all about moving...Getting up and moving and making conscious decisions to put healthy foods into your body. It's about learning everything you can and filling your brain with so much healthy info that you feel like you will explode. It's about surrounding yourself with like-minded and positive people who have a common goal. After all, this is what has brought each and every one of us together...