How long did it take for you to lose 50 lbs?

It took me 9 months to lose 100 pounds. You will drop faster at first and then slow down when you get closer to goal. Weight loss is certainly not linear.

It took me about 5 & 1/2 months. I have consistently kept my calorie intake OVER 1200 daily and mostly under my MFP goal. I have my settings in MFP to lose 1 pound per week and sedentary. There were days when I went over on my calories but there were more days when I was under but never under 1200. I also have eaten as late as 11:00pm at night without it affecting my weight loss.

As for what to eat, I eat all the foods that I like but I now weigh and measure everything. Use actual measuring cups, spoons and a good kitchen scale. It may add a bit of extra time and effort, but its the only way to know for sure how much you are actually consuming of anything. I increased the amount of fruit in my diet. I have always eaten cooked veggies and some salads but I try to make them healthier by not adding butter or margarine to hot vegetables and using lower calorie salad dressings.

I drink more water. I aim for a minimum of 64 ounces of water without counting in tea or coffee.

The only exercise I log is actual physical activity that I purposely do and that would not be something I would do as part of any normal day-to-day routine. For example, I don't log regular household chores or shopping as exercise. I mostly walk outdoors when the weather permits or on a treadmill (only when I am staying at my sister's house because I don't have one) or I use my daughter's Gazelle occasionally. My exercise has been quite sporadic in nature. I just checked back and I've actually only logged exercise on 37 days between June 13/12 and Dec 17/12. It doesn't seem like much now but it's more extra than I'd done in the 6 months prior to June.

This is what has worked for me so far. Hope your journey will be successful!

I averaged about 3-5 lbs lost per month. I still have weight I want to lose but I'm very close to my goal right now.

My best advice... if you want to be healthy and in shape, remove the word "DIET" from your vocabulary.
Change the way you eat and change your activity level. The rest will come as a result.

I set the wheels in motion and forgot about the amount of time it would take.
My favorite hobbies used to be:
1 - sitting
2 - eating

Now I either run or cycle 5 or 6 days per week and I couldn't imagine my life w/o doing that.

Don't get me wrong, I still love to sit and I still love to eat. I just don't do either as often.

i have about 22 minimum to lose, in order to take that amount of weight off did you have to excercise daily and what was your daily calorie intake , i find that even though i eat around a meal a day usually no weight has actually been taken off and it's not that it's fatty and high calorie a normal sized meal with correct nutritional value but i still have not lost weight by limiting my calorie intake

Not everybody are the same.
I started 9 months ago and only lost 30lbs. Eating healthy and exercising. Been jojoing(2lbs) for the past 3 months. I have some 50-60lbs to lose.

About two years, I know it sounds bad, but really it's going so well-and I feel like it's going to stay off. Lifestyle change, not dieting, is my strategy-sometime I get impatient, but it has been good!

8 months in total to lose 56lbs...I did it in two parts, 4 months each time! x

5 months for me...I started in July

Hit 50 Yesterday. I started June 1st so about 6 months .

Guess I'm the same as a lot of others, I lost 50 pounds in about 5 months.
That was eating around 1400 calories per day and doing 30 minutes of cardio and some light weights five days a week.