Looking to lose 10-15 pounds a month

near impossible doing it healthy unless you have ALOT of weight to lose, 2lbs a week is healthy weight loss

unfortunately the first month will be a big drop (water weight from glycogen stores in muscles)

you are doing awsome by the way, but you cant expect this sort of loss every month,i if you do thats amazing! but do it in a healthy way, and dont get discouraged if what the scales say dosnt live up to your expectations, any loss is a move in the right direction :happy:

ditto previous posters. Innitially you may drop a lot quickly. to lose healthy aim at 2 lbs a week. eat healthy work out and see what happens. Don't set goals taht are too high.

It really isn't a good idea to put a deadline on weight loss, especially with the amount you want to lose each month. You are just putting unneeded pressure on yourself and potentially setting yourself up for disappointment. Like it's been said your weight loss will eventually slow down. You might also experience some gains along the way and weeks where you don't gain or lose. How would you handle that if it keeps you from reaching your 10-15lbs a month goal?

Set smaller goals for yourself and don't put a deadline on them. Set goals that will help you create healthy habits and will be beneficial for helping you achieve your weight loss goal. Whatever you do don't expect that what happened in the first month is going to be the overall trend in the following months.

The only way to lose that much, that quickly would be by using unsustainable extreme weightloss methods, and you would gain it back as soon as you stopped.

Pick a reasonable goal and it will be sustainable and you will be able to keep it off permanently.

I agree that losing too quickly is not sustainable; neither is losing slowly. Sooner or later you would hit zero either way.

But these posts that predict your outcome based on your method of loss always bug me. To get heavy, you have a broken diet. To lose weight, you have to break it in a different way. If you lose slowly, it is closer to being a good diet and the adjustment to a proper diet when you reach your goal will be easier. What you do when you reach your goal weight will determine whether or not you stay at that weight.

Once upon a time there was a hare who, boasting how he could run faster than anyone else, was forever teasing tortoise for its slowness. Then one day, the irate tortoise answered back: “Who do you think you are? There’s no denying you’re swift, but even you can be beaten!” The hare squealed with laughter.

“Beaten in a race? By whom? Not you, surely! I bet there’s nobody in the world that can win against me, I’m so speedy. Now, why don’t you try?”

Annoyed by such bragging, the tortoise accepted the challenge. A course was planned, and the next day at dawn they stood at the starting line. The hare yawned sleepily as the meek tortoise trudged slowly off. When the hare saw how painfully slow his rival was, he decided, half asleep on his feet, to have a quick nap. “Take your time!” he said. “I’ll have forty winks and catch up with you in a minute.”

The hare woke with a start from a fitful sleep and gazed round, looking for the tortoise. But the creature was only a short distance away, having barely covered a third of the course. Breathing a sigh of relief, the hare decided he might as well have breakfast too, and off he went to munch some cabbages he had noticed in a nearby field. But the heavy meal and the hot sun made his eyelids droop. With a careless glance at the tortoise, now halfway along the course, he decided to have another snooze before flashing past the winning post. And smiling at the thought of the look on the tortoise’s face when it saw the hare speed by, he fell fast asleep and was soon snoring happily. The sun started to sink, below the horizon, and the tortoise, who had been plodding towards the winning post since morning, was scarcely a yard from the finish. At that very point, the hare woke with a jolt. He could see the tortoise a speck in the distance and away he dashed. He leapt and bounded at a great rate, his tongue lolling, and gasping for breath. Just a little more and he’d be first at the finish. But the hare’s last leap was just too late, for the tortoise had beaten him to the winning post. Poor hare! Tired and in disgrace, he slumped down beside the tortoise who was silently smiling at him.

“Slowly does it every time!” he said.

You've got a great start on your weight loss, so congratulations. As you continue on it's more important to focus on eating healthy and exercising enough to be able to maintain the new ways...and to lose as much as you plan per month would not be in a healthy way and that is our concern. People who try to do that usually, when they reach their goal, regain because their method wasn't sustainable. You can't live your whole life in deprivation without doing major damage and you're young. Lose a bit slower and in a healthy way, one that you can continue over your lifetime. Patience is needed if you want long lasting success. Please reconsider your monthly goal as we all want the same thing...a healthy weight in a healthy way.

I agree with everyone else. Thinking you can sustain a 10-15 lbs a month weightloss regularly will set you up for mental disappointment. The weight will come off faster in the beginning while you are heavier but once you start getting more and more weight off it will slow down.

Instead, focus on making permanent lifestyle changes and the weight will come off steadily and you will get to your goal weight. Avoid putting the added pressure on yourself of NEEDING 10-15 lbs a month to be happy about it. A loss is a loss no matter how you look at it. :flowerforyou:

I lost about 15lbs the first month and I started at 232lbs. Now I'm happy if I lose 1lbs a week but I'm OK with that ... the longer it takes to come off the longer it stays off You are on the right track, just continue doing what you are doing and the weight will come off. It's a lifetime change so don't give yourself any deadlines

Good luck and keep up the good work :flowerforyou:

that's my goal and I'm sticking to it.

Well, okay then.

i do think it's true that the more weight you have to lose, the quicker it comes off, but the more weight you lose, the less you have to lose... so it's going to start coming off more slowly.

i read the following blurb in an article on weightwatchers.com:

Quick fix, fast failure
"[With quick-fix diets], our metabolism slows down, and eventually we're eating fewer and fewer calories but not losing weight," says Mandel. "This leads to anxiety, which prompts us to eat even fewer calories to try to lose. The body rebels against that even more."

So it's a vicious cycle. Because if you don't get enough nutrients — which is a major risk when you're going for a quick fix — your brain, and then your body, will, well, insist that you eat. To your body, it's nothing more than survival. But to you, it will feel like you're giving in and losing control. Then you'll feel like a failure, which might very well send you to the fridge.

It's a never-ending yo-yo cycle of weight gain, then loss, then gain again. Go for slow and steady weight loss (a healthy rate is two pounds per week or less), and not only will you be doing a service to your body, you'll also be more likely to keep that weight off for good. Isn't that better than rebounding?"

i'm down to my last 15-20 pounds, and it's coming off SUPER slowly. one thing i remind myself is that the longer it takes me, the more time i have to build healthy habits that i'll be able to maintain.

it's good to have a goal, but i think what most people are saying here (and i agree) is that a goal of 3-4 pounds a week is just unrealistic in the long-run, and you're setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment... that will likely end up in you making unhealthy and counterproductive choices.

I've seen it done via slimming world classes. One girl lost 8 stone in under 8 months when I used to attend. It just shows that it can be done.