Has anyone else losing weight without the effort?

That's awesome, and good for you! Just don't get discouraged if you should plateau as you get closer to your goal weight. I don't know any of your stats other than weight but I assume you may have quite a bit to lose if you are seeing a .75 pound a day loss. As you get close to your goal weight, that amount will become impossible or at the very least extremely unhealthy.
Now as for your question, if you are running and watching your diet, you ARE putting in the effort, but what I think you are wondering is if everyone's loss is as steady and constant?
Mine is pretty consistent. I lose about 2 pounds a month. I lift heavy 3 days a week and occasionally do a day of HIIT on the weekend. However I don't know how consistent that is day to day as I only track monthly even though I am weighing in every week while I am playing with my calorie intake.

It may be that your healthier habits are now habits and just don't take as much effort anymore, thus it's easier for you to lose the weight now. A huge part of weight loss seems to be struggling with creating better habits. That's so awesome that it's working for you!

....and we all hate you!!!


LOL good for you. Some have a body that lose the fat easily....others are not that lucky.

Everybody's body knows what it's supposed to be doing!

It's the over-analyzing, over-dramatizing, worrying about every carb/fat/protein/fiber calorie, "OMG I'm 50 cals under today I'm going to go into starvation mode", "OMG I'm only 50 cals under today - I need to go run 5k", "I need to do more cardio - no wait I need to do more strength training" (I could go on and on...) mentality that's got so many people spinning their wheels!

When you just let it happen, it happens. When you truly allow yourself to make steps toward better health, that piece of cake that really doesn't taste good anyway has no pull on you any more. But if you still like chocolate, you eat a piece, and then you don't go into fits of guilt over it. You don't have "cheat days" - you have days where you eat a lot of yummy food! And then days where you just back off a little and maybe focus on vegetables for a day or 2.

It's not rocket science!

So glad to hear there's someone else out there that knows how to enjoy life, and can still lose weight. (I'd throw a few more vegetables in there if you want to get really healthy too! But that's just my opinion...)

Yes... losing my extra weight was really simple/easy/effortless for me. I cut 250 calories a day from my TDEE and tried to stay active (walked my errands, went hiking, rode my bike). I had an initial goal of losing 50 lbs, but it went so smoothly that I ended up losing 66 and now weigh less than I did 20 years ago in high school. I don't think I ever had a bad day or even what I would consider a 'slip up'. I think when I cut calories minimally, and was still eating 2000-2200 calories a day, it was easy to make progress without ever feeling deprived.

I've been maintaining that loss since June now.

I think the key (for me) was NOT dieting, NOT making food rules about what was good/bad, NOT avoiding treats and NOT weighing in more than once a month.

Losing weight has always come easy to me. I can go from normal weight to underweight in a matter of weeks with no trouble. Gaining weight has always been a struggle. Its not that I don't eat, I just think I have an overly active lifestyle. Weird, I know!

Several years ago I lost 70 pounds in about 7-8 months and it came off really easy. Of course I gained most of that back and now I can't seem to shake the weight to save my life.

When I lost all that weight a few years back I think it was the switch from massive quantities of full-octane Mountain Dew every day to either diet Dew (an embarrassment to Mountain Dew) or water. In the beginning I was walking on the treadmill and watching what I ate, but I hurt my knee or back or something and couldn't do the treadmill and the weight still kept coming off. I think it was the jolt from saving hundreds of calories per day in soda that made it so easy that time. Now that I don't have that and my body is used to a lower calorie intake, I find it harder to lose.

Right now I lose 1-2 lbs a week and thats with eating what I like and I eat up to 2000 cal a day and I work out 3-5 times a week I dont burn that many calories when I do mabe about 260 calories burned a day it has always been easy for me to lose weight my only problem is I always gave up in the past!!! I know at some point I will have to change it some are blessed with losing weight every week and it can be harder for others to lose it like they want it but as long as you are losing it then your good to go

The leaner you are the harder it gets

Honestly, I feel like mine has been pretty easy too, though I have worked for it. I completely changed my diet and started moving more, but it does not seem like a great deal of work to me for the results I have gotten.

^^ This too

It's not *entirely* effortless because I spend quite a bit of time and definitely put forth the effort needed.

I also lose weight without much effort----INITIALLY. It slows down, and can even stop. Don't take it as a given!

The beginning of my weight loss was without even try but that's becauseinwent from spending 20 hours a day in a cell filled with honey buns, ramen noodles, chocolate, mac n cheese, donuts, etc. to being free. After that I started intentionally losing weight and every so often my weight loss stalls and I'll change something I'm doing.

the first 6 months I had no issues with losing weight, but that changed the closer to the 1 year mark I came. I plateaued for the last 6 months. It's starting to come off again.

I keep getting bigger and heavier and the fat keeps going away. I guess I scared it pretty bad in the gym last, I heard my fat screaming.

No, must be nice though. Some of us bust our butts and don't get the weight off half as quickly. Stop questioning it and enjoy it IMO.