Set to 2 lbs a week

the "if you had same day as today you will weight xxx in 5 weeks" blah blah is purely cosmetic. It is highly unreliable and I still have no idea why MFP kept that feature. DO NOT focus on that.

The 2 lbs a week thing is more accurate but there are many factors. On the day of your weight in, if you did strength training or ate high sodium food the night before (making you retain water). If what you logged in for food was PERFECT (most foods calories are off by 20%. Some of the non-western cuisines like Asian foods are known to be 100% off calories too).

I would suggest to keep doing your thing and moving forward and focus less on trying to lose 2 lbs a week and focus more on how you are feeling and your pants fitting better etc.

To lose 2 pounds a week, you have to eat 1000 calories less than your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure -- the amount of calories your body burns in a day). MFP won't go lower than 1200 calories because it's really hard to get proper nutrition on less than that. So if your TDEE is less than 2200, you'll lose less than two pounds a week.

In short, you don't have enough weight to lose to aim for 2 pounds a week.

Ok that makes sense.., I wanted to lose 7 lbs this month for a wedding, but I guess I'd be going under 1200 to do that. Thanks for the explanations!

Not a good plan.

You'd be better off eating to lose a half pound a week and adding strength training. You won't lose as many "pounds" but the ones you lose will be almost pure body fat, not a combination of fat and muscle, so you'll LOOK like you lost more.

Plus, you won't feel like crap.

Ha, when I tried out my food diary it said I should reach my goal in about 5 weeks. Well this is the 5th week and I lost 6.2 lb so far, so it might damn well speed up a bit will I reach 40 lb at the end of the week. Totally ignore that part! and I agree with Mokey. 1200 is very low, probable too low. Loosing weight is not about eating less and starving yourself!

And if you do your research you'll find out that eating less than 1200 calories is not healthy and probably even eating 1200 isn't healthy unless you are a very small older person.

If you read what she says, you will see that she doesn't intend to eat under 1200. She asked a different question, and now understands.

You can eat any amount of calories below 1200 and still be healthy. As long as you take your multivitamins and other vitamins so you wont be deficient in your nutrients. The reason we eat is to provide our body with the proper and appropriate nutrients.....Everyone have a idea of what is healthy, but you can eat 500 calories and taking all your necessary vitamins and you will be fine. however its better to get those nutrients from food. So much so call research and so much myth out there.....but in reality you have to take necessary test and check on ur entire health record before you start to loose weight. See where you are and what you are lacking in nutrients....then you can take those supplement or eat those foods that contains them...the reason we get fat, is because our body does not have the proper nutrients to digest the food and throw out what is not needed....then it stays in and stores as fat.......everyone is different and everyone requires different methods of handle their weight loss. But the Golden rule to loose weight is to eat less, get the appropiate nutrients that your body requires and exercise at least 6 times a week. get one day to rest.... u must give your body one day of rest and get enough sleep...but you have to be active 95% of the time.