Impossible for shorties to lose 2lbs per week?

No, but I started out over 300#.

I am short. 5'3 and I have been losing at about a rate of 2 lbs per week. Some more some less. I have really been sticking to this for 11 weeks now and am only .6 away from being at 20lbs lost. My ticker only says 12 because I was on here before and didn't reset it when I started back. I eat 1200 cals a day and try to get in in some form of 30 min exercise 4-5 times a week. It's a lot of work and dedication and I have my days where I fall off the wagon but you'll have that. So it can be done. Good luck on your journey and feel free to friend me if you'd like. I can always use the support.

You don't state your current weight but I doubt it has that much to do with height probably more to do with your starting weight and amount you wish to lose the site does not encourage unhealthy targets. It warned me several times about 2lb a week and I have a lot to lose.

you COULD lose 2lbs maybe in the first week with cutting back - never below 1200 though!!

Some short women need to be under 1200 to lose. It's a matter of trial and error.

Just think of it this way - because we're shorter, each pound matters more, either through a gain or a loss. So, 30 lbs. lost on you will be a bigger difference than 30 lbs. lost on someone who's 5'10''. In other words, it evens out in the end, so please, just focus on losing at a healthy rate and eating enough.

MFP has you eat back all your exercise calories, so you don't get any help there. However, if you change your general (non-exercise) activity level (going from sedentary to active say), that might get you to the point where MFP thinks you could lose 2 pounds a week.

At my height (short) and current weight (about 20 pounds left to lose), even if I netted 1200 and had the highest activity level, I would not reach a 2 pound/week loss. I just now played around with it to see since I hadn't checked in a while (I was never on 2 pounds/wk even when I weighed more because 1200 calories a day does not work for me).

Edited because what I said was probably confusing...at OP's height and weight, even if non-exercise activity level was very active I am guessing it will not be able to calculate a 2 pound/wk loss since it won't go lower than 1200.

I don't really go off of that. I don't think it's ever accurate. I can set it to lose 2lbs a week and be exact with my calories and still only lose 1.5 or 1lb a week. I lose at the same rate no matter what I set it to as long as I am eating at a deficit. Their "you should lose or weight ___" in 5 weeks is just a guess or prediction. I'm never at what the prediction says.

Side note, i'm 5'0

you COULD lose 2lbs maybe in the first week with cutting back - never below 1200 though!!

Some short women need to be under 1200 to lose. It's a matter of trial and error.

The thing about 1200 for women is that it rarely has to do with a weight loss figure, and more about nutrition. Meaning its hard to hit all your macros/micros on that small of caloric intake. Increase it further, and you risk not getting it at all unless you start taking nutritional supplements. If you need to decrease intake that low, I'd speak with a physician and join a gym because that doesn't seem healthy for the long run, as your entering VLCD area.

True enough. Although, for someone's BMR to be less than 1200, they'd need to be sub 5 foot (or be slightly over and old, or have a medical condition). In that case, the RDAs are probably higher than they need to be, too, so it should still be possible to get that nutrition in as a very short person.

I'm 5'4'' and I used the MFP settings for the last month and lost nada. Ok, I DID lose half a pound but that, to me, is arbitrary. I did their settings just to test it out for me. It had me at 1800 cals and then eating back exercise. My point is that you can't always trust what the MFP calculator says. You may have to be patient and play with it. What I'm doing now is tweaking. I'm going to stick with the 1800, but I'm going to follow the TDEE method of not eating back the cals because I think that is why I lost but only such a small amount. According to TDEE and my BMR, somewhere between 1500 and 1800 is my ideal. Which explains why before I did 1600 and lost pretty consistently. So, you may just have to do a few calculators, play with a few numbers, and ignore their predictions. Because that is really all it is! It's like talking to a gypsy! It's generalized and some may be accurate while some isn't. So, don't get too bummed. In the end, if you work at it and tweak what works and doesn't, you'll find the right spot. And really, if you lost 1.5lbs. every week until you hit goal, you're only talking a difference of a few weeks and that is if your body was a 100% perfectly accurate machine that guaranteed weight loss of 1.5 per week. Some weeks you are just going to have little to no loss and then others will be awesome. In the end, it all balances out and the point is progress not perfection. :flowerforyou:

I am 5ft nothing, I started on 6/21 and the 1st two months I did average 2 lbs per week on about 800-1100 calories - no exercise.

However, once the 1st 20 lbs came off I felt better, ate worse and things slowed down and now I am trying to get back on track and am adding exercise but I do not think I will be able to see a 2# per week loss again. If I can get back to 1# per week I will be happy. For me just 10#s more. I had been maintaining the past two weeks so I do know what works to maintain. I just want to maintain at 10# less