Does it get harder to loose?

foxyjanestacey
foxyjanestacey Posts: 6
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Hi everyone, I am new and looking for friends but also have a question.. I have around 14 kg's i want to loose.
After being at the gym for one week and eating healthy i have lost 3kg's and it came off pretty easy. I want to know is it possible to keep this up or does it get harder to loose big numbers the more you get into it? What have you experienced? Did you just keep doing similar work outs or did you have to push harder to get results? Thanks :)

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  • kingscrown
    kingscrown Posts: 615 Member
    My first 50 pounds seem to fall off. The next 20 came off pretty easy, but had to work harder. The last 10 or so I 've had to work pretty hard at and i have about 30 more to go. I'm not quitting ,but it's going to take longer than expected. What else have I got to do. I'm not going to lay around and be fat anymore.
  • ContraryMaryMary
    ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,777 Member
    Tragically, the last couple of kilos can take months!
  • Montarosa456
    Montarosa456 Posts: 133
    Once your body get's used to a workout and a new way of eating it will settle so yes that does make it harder to keep losing at a certain rate.
    However when you hit that point don't get fretful/sad just smile and think 'Right time to take a new class' or exercise 10/15minutes longer to keep your body guessing! :) Good luck!
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    On your first week it's fine to lose what you did but after that 1/2 to 1kg is a healthy loss. Don't try to lose too much more because it's not going to stay off long term. Yes the last couple are hardest but when you are that close it's easy to get slacker at doing all the right things. As long as you keep watching a close eye you'll be ok.
  • Change_is_Good_
    Change_is_Good_ Posts: 272 Member
    I'm on the last 10lb and even the 5 I've lost have been like milking an ant! I've found that I don't lose every week but I'm happy as long as I don't put on to be honest
  • Justjamie0418
    Justjamie0418 Posts: 1,065 Member
    YES!

    But dont quit.. you will get there it will just take longer (even though it may not seem like your getting anywhere)

    I had appx 130 pounds to lose. The first 60/70 just flew off me, then I was stuck then the next 20 I had to work a lil harder at. The last 10 or so I have REALLY had to struggle with. I have about 15 more to go, and while I could have lost that easily in a month before.. I am hoping to have it off by the end of the year... Thats how hard its been for me, with the last little bit of weight. I am lifting heavy, doing cardio, I am in the gym 1.5 hours a day, 5 days a week, and eating 1600 cals with an off day once a week where Ill eat at maintainence. Not much more I can do except specific diets such as eating clean, paleo, etc.. and I am not going to do those diets.
  • JessHealthKick
    JessHealthKick Posts: 800 Member
    3kgs in a week is likely water weight, don't expect that high a loss if you only have 15kgs to go. I started at 67kgs, want to get to under 60, ultimately 55. I am now 63kg after about 3 months.... This is a REAL 63, not just by chance one day. If you want to lose for the long term please try to lose slowly so you lose FAT and now MUSCLE! I have gained some muscle so I have actually lost more than 4kgs of fat (muscle weighs more) :)
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Larger losses are often seen in the first week and it is usually just water weight. It is very unlikely you'd keep this up and it would actually be pretty unhealthy to be losing 3kg (around 6.5 lbs) every week.

    You only have 14 kg to lose so should be aiming for 1 to 1.5 lbs loss per week. When you only have 5 kg left to lose (around 10 lbs) the calorie deficit should be decreased with an aim to lose only 1/2 lb per week. This is to try and ensure you are only losing fat and not precious muscle.
  • pcastagner
    pcastagner Posts: 1,606 Member
    It's not that it's harder to make the same progress, it's just that our way of counting things doesn't match up with how nature counts things. We see one step from one to two, and two more steps from two to four. Nature sees just one step from one to two, another step from two to four, and another single step from four to eight. In order to express this as a straight line we would need to drop the concept of pounds and kilograms in favor of something else based on a natural progression.


    A weight loss trend expressed in pounds or kilos or stones on a graph, when adjusted to eliminate normal fluctuation, should look like an exponential growth curve in reverse. Saying "it gets harder" or "it takes longer" when we get closer to goal weight is less an observation of the rate at which we are changing, and more an observation of how we perceive that change.
  • foxyjanestacey
    foxyjanestacey Posts: 6
    Awesome.Thanks everyone. :):)

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