First weigh in since beginning...

Congratulations, that is wonderful! Keep up the ambition.

Congratulations, great start...what did you doctor say about the amount of weight you lost? If he was not concerned then I would not worry about it. Most people lost the most in the beginning.

Congrats on your weight loss!! That's a huge accomplishment. Whether or not it is a "fast pace" is for you & your dr. to decide.

The "recommended" amount is (I believe) 0.5 - 2 lb/week, but again, that's "recommended" based on a median.

This rate may be pefectly acceptable dependent upon your current standings & your goal.

I'm tentatively back on the wagon for the umpteeth time and aside from weighing in this AM to find out what my "starting" weight is, I'm done with the scale.

I based my past success/failure off what the scale told me every week. I was one of those compulsive ppl that checked my weight at least every other day, somtimes every day and that was just too much. I got burnt-out VERY quickly!

Good luck to you!!! :flowerforyou:

Good job, I understand the scale dilemma. I also have that issue and have recently admitted it to myself, so I put that thing away.
You are doing great.

This is my 5th week and today I'm at 25lbs down. I'm not going to complain. I'm following dietary goals safely. If I stall I'll rearrange things. CONGRATS!

I wouldn't necessarily worry at this point. It may not be 27 fat pounds of real weight loss. The difference between fully clothed (at the doctor's office) and naked (if you're like me) at home is worth a couple of pounds, scales are rarely well calibrated to other scales, and if you're like me a lot of the early weight loss is just dumping water. I've "lost" 5.8 lbs in 7 days. But I'm waking up an average of 2x a night with a very full bladder - and dumping far more fluid than I consume in a day. That loss rate won't continue - but over a 6 week period if I average in one week of 6 lbs with 5 weeks of 1.5 lbs a week it changes what the rate of loss looks like pretty dramatically. (ETA: I was composing this before your last comment was posted that the 6 week weigh-in was at the doctor's office - I'll leave it because it might be useful for anyone else thinking about speed of weight loss.)

I also lose weight considerably faster in the earlier weeks than the later weeks. It takes more calories per day to sustain my fat weight than it does my skinny weight. So I start with a much larger calorie deficit - and as my weight drops the daily calorie deficit also decreases so the weight loss is slower. For me this is an easier transition to the post-loss phase since I just get to keep eating about the same amount as maintenance that I have been eating all along to lose.

You might try (for a couple of weeks) weighing yourself weekly and seeing what your current rate of loss is. In the early stages of weight loss I often lose 2-3 lbs a week and near the end (eating roughly the same diet) it may take me 2-3 weeks to lose a single pound.