Coping with 1lb a week :/

1 pound a week is fantastic. I have been losing weight since November and I am averaging about 1 pound a week and i'm happy with it. This is a lifestyle, do not rush to get to your goal. Keep doing what you are doing and the weight will come off.

And hell, prepare yourself for weeks with no loss. It happens. It's okay. Look at the overall picture and as long as you are losing, be happy!

Just curious, why did you start at 1200? Assuming you have lost 2 pounds per week some weeks, thats net deficit of 3500x2 = 7000 caloric deficit for those weeks.

now distribute over 7 days, and you're eating a deficit of 1000 per day below maintenance.

it would have made more sense (just my opinion) to start from a much higher number, say (only net deficit of 300 cal per day = 2100 net deficit per week or about .75 pounds lost).

I know it's not 1lb per week or 2, but it ensures that you have a higher calorie pool to cut from, and therefore a more sustainable weight loss track.

If you start at 1200, you have to keep cutting from that 1200 number, or increase exercise output to burn more calories.

Personally my current weight loss schematic is something like 0.25 pounds (net per week)...over something like 32 weeks.

I dont like to give deadlines for when you want to reach a certain weight, as long as you reach it. The slower you reach that weight, the more sustainable and comfortable your life and diet will be on your way there.

Anyways, the problem you are currently probably facing or going to face in the near future is that 1200 calories a day and the same workout will no longer net any caloric loss. This is called metabolic damage (where the numbers SHOULD reach a certain result, but don't, due to overtaxing the metabolism).

At this point, if you are dead set on reaching that 30 lb loss goal, you may want to look at a longer time frame of achieving it, or failing that, start cutting calories or increasing exercise even more. Though the latter choice is probably not very healthy or sustainable in the long run

1-2 Lbs of weight loss is safe and healthy weight loss. I think you need to re-evaluate your expectations a little. When you see people losing much more than that, it's mostly water. Scientifically and mathematically speaking, it's almost impossible to lose much more than 2 Lbs of actual fat in a given week unless you are obese/morbidly obese.

Just think, if you lost 1 Lb per week for a year, you'd be down 52 Lbs...a lot better off than where you started I imagine. Try taking a longer view and seeing the big picture and stop focusing on the minutia of day to day week to week stuff...

Also, when you lose slowly you tend to develop a sustainable dietary lifestyle...going on fad diets only result in rapid weight loss (much of which is water weight) but as soon as you're done, the weight comes right back on because you never learn how to eat a sustainable diet with that bull****.

1 to 2 is great! That could be 100 pounds in a year! Do you realize that? Last year I only lost 20 all year...so far this year I've lost 28 since March as I upped my exercising and lowered my calories (same as you 1200 and work out 2 to 3 times a day). Lately it's been 2 pound/week loss but this past week I gained a pound! It's going to be up and down as you go through plateaus. Be ready for them and don't freak out, just keep going and you will lose, but you are right on track with 1 to 2 pounds/week.

So many get out of shape over years of neglect and bad choices, but want to be fit again RIGHT NOW!

1 to 2 pounds a week consitently is an AMAZING weight loss rate. Just give it time.

Never put "only" in front of a loss, especially if you are losing at a nice rate, which 1lb a week is.

It's difficult to look at the scale after a week of hard work and only see it go down a pound or two... But that's perfectly normal. It took time to put on the weight, it's going to take time for it to come off if you want it to stay off. Sure, you could fast or do one of those trendy juice fasts and lose 10 lbs in a few days... Those things aren't healthy. Take stock in the fact that you're living healthier and are losing weight. I've been stuck with minimal losses for the last month or, so, but I'm still at it. Hoping that I break this plateau soon, but I'm sticking to what I've been doing as I don't want to go back to the old me again.

Also, have you ever considered just how heavy 1lb actually is?! It's a whole block of butter, melting from your body each and every week! And that's cold hard FAT, not just water. When a friend of mine is dieting, she fills up the top shelf of her fridge with blocks of butter and removes them as she loses each pound. It's a nice visual image (although I can't help but think a terrible waste of butter...)

I focus on how far I have come, not how far I have to go.

What? 1-2 pounds is my goal! That is great! Fad diets cannot compare to the life change you are making.