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

About 8 months. The only exercise I do is 30 minutes of walking 5x / week. 90% of my loss has been from diet at a moderate deficit. based on the 'roadmap' thread. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974888-in-place-of-a-road-map-2k13

I lost 47 lbs in the first 6 months by exercising daily. Walking, Curves for Women, Zumba, Swimming/Water Aerobics and a 1200 calorie diet. At that time, I wasn't working so I had plenty of time to workout and prepare meals. It was also Summer so weather was nice, pool was open, and my favorite produce was much fresher. In October, I started back to work and stalled out until mid January. Progress has been slow since then. I'm a little over 10 lbs away from my goal. I can't wait for the pool to open again in a few weeks!

ETA: 1200 calories was net, after exercise. I have now increased to 1400 and plan to increase to 1600 soon. I'm doing more strength training and plan to start lifting.

Almost eight months. I did everything I could possibly do : Zumba, running, walking, biking, circuit training, yoga, dance, interval training... the list goes on and on..

I have been working out and trying to loose weight sine October and i just hit 50 pounds down. Went from 204 to 154 doing a round of turbofire, i did Ripped in 30, lots of turbojam, and staying on the go with my 2 kids.

About three months. I changed what I was eating, started doing DDP Yoga (which I highly recommend) and taking daily walks that sometimes achieve a slightly faster pace. More recently, I started playing a little basketball and working to improve my woeful ability to do pull-ups. I'm (finally) hitting the gym next week.

Another good thing to pay attention to when you are asking this question is how much weight someone had in total to lose as people with a higher starting weight will lose weight faster - just FYI.

I started Jan 2012 and have just now lost 48 lbs. I'm nearly at my "goal" weight of 145 but may not get there as I'm building a lot of muscle and lowering my body fat. I started at 197 lbs and walked about 3 miles a day for the first 6 months or so, then I added on elliptical and bootcamp 3 days a week around June of last year. In October I started Insanity and still walked 3 miles a day 5 days a week. I completed the Insanity program, but have kept going with it. I currently do the Max Insanity dvd's Mon, Weds and Fridays and Tuesday and Thursdays do the abs dvd's. I'm losing pretty slowly, but am ok with that. I've gotten down to around 23% body fat and am wearing a size 6 pants and small shirts. Ultimately I want to have around 20% body fat.

My diet to start with was set to lose a pound a week which I did, over the last 8 months or so I've set it to lose around 1/2 a pound to a 1/4 of a pound a week so that I get used to about how many calories I would eat when I'm trying to maintain my weight. When I first started this I was eating a lot of processed "diet" foods, but I saw how high my sodium intake and how low my potassium was so started to change that too.

I rarely eat pre-prepared foods anymore and spend a couple of weekends a month making large batches of spaghetti sauce, beans and other home cooked, zero sodium added foods. The reason I changed the sodium/potassium ratio is because I researched what natural potassium does for you and how much sodium you really need. It was pretty eye opening for me how flawed the FDA's daily recommended allowance of sodium is. I see a lot of people say that they don't care about sodium because they don't have high blood pressure, but that's like a smoker saying they don't care about smoking because they don't have lung cancer yet. My blood pressure was never high, usually around 100/64 but I still thought it was best to get the sodium in check. I go out to eat occasionally and eat a junk every once in a while, but I log it and keep going.

I have had 4 children, two of which are under the age of 5 and I work a full time professional job and am 37 yo as does my 47 yo husband who has been on this journey the whole time too.

Good luck to you and it's not a race to lose the weight and be healthier!

Ten months and three days. Exercise was once or twice a week in the second half of it for 20-30 minutes, yoga or walking. Mostly just through watching what I ate.

I started myfitnesspal on January 2012, by June 2012 I had lost 50 lbs. My exercise was walking, walking, walking!!!!

A little over 5 months.

It took me 52 weeks to lose 52lbs. I mostly did walking and some JM 30 day shred 4x week.

I started out weighing 260 in January 2010 and was 210 in when I joined MFP in March of 2011. I'd actually lost 55-60 pounds (can't remember exactly) in my first year but gained back some of that over the holidays since I stopped tracking and wasn't keeping up with my exercise schedule due to foul winter weather.

I did several things for exercise just as I do today - walked, started running (intervals like C25K), did 30DS, Hip Hop Abs, elliptical, stationary bike, strength training, etc.

Hmm...It's taken me about 4 months to lose 20 so I will probably hit 50 in 8 months?

im at 49 pounds and its taken me 8 months

Well, once I lost 100 in 9 months...once I lost 70 in a year...once I lost 50 in a year...This past year I've lost 46. I'm a master loser and a master gainer! LOL! I have 39 left (this time) and don't intend on gaining it back as I have hopefully gotten control (finally) over food instead of the other way around.