25 Pounds by December 25th

That's right around 3 pounds/week, yes? Pretty aggressive. Good luck.

I have T25 and it is great. But 25 lbs by the end of the year is a huge goal, even for someone who has a lot to lose.

I'm gonna go with Beachbody coach and that Shakeology crap. No qualifications needed! LOL I used Turbo Fire (free) from YouTube and ate healthy and lost 15 lbs in 2 months. You don't need a ridiculous goal like 25lbs in 2 months. Just motivation.

I am just coming off being sick for the last 7 weeks (long story, but not diet/weight related) and only lost about 3 pounds in that time. This puts me behind in my mini goal weight for Christmas - I have 24# to lose by 12/22 for a family reunion. I have a lot to lose & have I lost more than 3# in a week a few times since starting on MFP, but it was hard. I'm going to do my best to eat a little below my goal calories & exercise more - I started with fitness classes this week in addition to the swimming I've been doing. I agree that it's very aggressive, but I'm going for it. I figure even if I don't make it, I should be close and at least I will have tried. Ultimately if I can be at my mini goal weight by Jan 1, I will have succeeded since I planned to just maintain for the two weeks of Christmas holidays. So I'll just have to be extra good & stick to my diet through the holidays rather than letting loose and indulging a little.

I'm not interested in joining your group, 'cuz I like to do my own thing, but best of luck to you in reaching your goals!

Thanks for being willing to look at the 25 pound goal and retool it to something more realistic. I think one of the biggest pitfalls a lot of us place upon ourselves is searching for a quick, large goal to 'motivate' versus looking at realistic, healthy goals. While you may be at the mental state to be okay with not hitting a target goal in the time allowed, for someone else, that may be the nail in the coffin on their fitness road (it shouldn't be, but it can be), so you're setting yourself and potentially others up to fail when you are too aggressive.

I went with an 'under promise, over deliver' method for myself. I wanted 2 pounds a week, set myself for 1 pound per week (healthier alternative). I wanted to exercise 5 days a week, but I set my goal at 3x/week. I wanted to go all out on exercise, but I set myself at 30 minutes on a treadmill at a slow pace.

By doing that, I started small, and let myself get mentally back in the game of healthy living and changing my old bad habits. Now, I am at a point that if I don't meet something, I know it's no big deal, and that I'm still doing the right thing and will get there eventually. But at the beginning, it may have been more tenuous, and by biting off more than I could chew and making unsustainable goals, I may have shot myself in the proverbial foot (again).

Goals are great, don't get me wrong, and you shouldn't undercut yourself too much either, but in this lifestyle change journey, I think the biggest problem that we face on the goals front is overpromising to do things..."I'm going to replace one meal a day with a shake, never eat sugar again, cut out all these bad things, etc" and then three weeks or three months later we hate life because we've restricted unnecessarily and made something unsustainable, so whatever progress we have goes away either immediately or gradually. Same with exercise - you do too much too soon and you can burn out and have it backfire on you. Going from nothing to everything, especially with exercise and food changes combined can give short-term results but spell long-term disaster.

I'm not knocking having a program like whatever it is you said you were going to do - sometimes we need to start there or use something like that to liven up or change up our path. In the long run though, I feel like the best and most sustainable pathway to health is exercising and eating within a healthy calorie range, but without unduly limiting our types of food or exercise.

Best of luck in your goals!

My record is 14lbs in 1.5 weeks with low carb + intermittent fasting + walking for an hour every morning fasted.

sounds nice and sustainable. solid plan is solid.

BTW when I said 5 weeks in my first post that was with a lot of running and high carb diet. I got super fit but compared to low carb weight loss was slower. But yeah I'm doing that now cuz I want to rebuild my endurance but if you want blitz weight loss do a low carb diet.

3 pounds a week is WAY too quick. Unless you cut your calorie count to below what is healthy, you will not lose actual weight that quickly, even with an aggressive workout. Another big red flag is that you will be supplying a diet for people to use. How are you qualified to do this?

I suggest eating health at a calorie deficit and setting more reasonable goals.

This.

I'd love to lose 25 by Christmas, that would put me well into onederland. But I believe that I'll sustain my loss better if it's 1.5 lb, 2 lb at most (per week), even for someone like me who could stand to lose over 60 lb still.

I just started T25 this week I will be on day 3 tonight. You will enjoy it. From what I've been reading you can expect to lose more inches then pounds with this workout.

One thing I've learned is that when setting goals for weight loss it is better to set long term then short term. I've been at it for over a year and have had some great results but week to week it can be disappointing. I've gone periods where I would not lose or even gain pounds for 4 or 5 weeks in a row and then suddenly I drop pounds week to week. If you average it all out I've lost about a pound a week but the numbers on the scale week to week don't reflect that. It is a lot of up and down, up and down, but the overall trend is down over time.

With T25 I did not set a weight loss goal. I still want to lose about 35 more pounds but with T25 I am just hoping more to turn some of my flab into muscle. It is a 10 week program if you do alpha & beta. I think a realistic weight loss goal would be 10lbs or less, Christmas is 9 weeks away! Good luck and enjoy the new workout!