How long will it you take you to reach your goal weight?

i started out as obese now i am in healthy weight range but still want to drop 26-16 pounds.. we will see about that.. my UGW is 100lbs which i am now reevaluating and so it might be 110 or somewhere in between... we'll see about that when i get there.. how long will it take me? seriously i have no freaking idea about that -_-.. and now i am trying not to focus on scale so much .. i losing really slowly but as they say persistence is the key, so i will get there one day:)..

Around 12 weeks, give or take

hopefully I'll be there by 2015

Probably a year - but it doesn't matter because time is going to pass anyway no matter what I do.

I wasn't obese but was overweight.

I start Jan 7th 2013....it's been over a year and I am not at my goal yet...but I am doing it slowly while lifting weights as my goals changed along the way.

At first I just wanted to lose weight...so I did ...30lbs...realized I could do better.

Join MFP started exercising...and counting calories...lost more weight and BF%...

Since joining I have realized it's not the number on the scale that is important to me. I already hit my goal...3lbs ago and changed my goal and put another 10lb loss in there...

Will I be done when I hit that goal??? I don't know..

I have goals of BF% and how I look...not scale weight that is just an offshoot of that...

I will start moving to maintenance in June of this year for summer time...I wont purposefully eat over my deficet but I wont limit myself either.

I'm hoping to be at 9st 5lbs in about 8 weeks, and from there, who knows!

Hoping to run Edinburgh marathon on 25th of may so the healthy living will be continuing anyway, so either way I WILL get there. And onto a leaner, runner's life! x

Probably 6 months ... I hope!

I am at the very very bottom of obese and very very top of overweight right now according to the charts I've looked at. 196.2 lb this morning as a 5'8" woman (still have my weight as 198 on MFP because I don't log until it's steady for several days).

Anyway...I'm totally fine with that. I used to be morbidly obese for years.

It took me 4.5 years to lose 45 lb (307 to 262). That was before MFP.

Since joining MFP on 3-25-13 I have lost 63 lb, actually more but again I don't log the loss until it's sustained awhile.

My current "goal weight" is 180 and that is staunchly overweight but also does not bother me. I may go lower. Not sure. By my estimation I will hit 180 by June. I tend to underestimate so I avoid disappointment. So far so good.

I'm 5'2" and I started off at 220 and with an obese BMI. I'm now 146 - 148 (depending on the day of the week) with a BMI that's overweight. It's taken me 3 years to get where I'm at now and I'm still working on it. I'm very comfortable with where I'm at now, but I'm still a work in progress.

Good luck!

Well I'm the slow poke of the site... I've been working on this weight loss lifestyle change for over 2 years and I've lost half what I wanted to... I was 270 and now I'm at 209 I want to be 170. I'm mostly counting calories and exercising when and where I can. I'm eating a lot of the same foods I did at 270 and still losing/lost weight. Sure the route I'm taking is hard. I could have cut out all processed foods, worked out religiously for 5 days a week, and maybe even gone vegan or paleo to get faster results... but for me, food is a source of happiness, memories, and fun. I'd like to keep it that way and just control portion size. It's slower and not as efficient but I'm still enjoying food, my food costs haven't changed much and I'm still happy. That's all a girl can ask for right?

Probably 18 mos to 2 yrs. Started as morbidly obese and now in the lower end of Obese Class 1. My weight loss is slow and steady continuing to eat right and exercise daily

I anticipate mine will be anywhere from one to two years, lots to lose, and it's best to take it slow which I think would be worth it. I definitely wish some days that it wouldn't take so long, but I don't think I'd be as happy with the end results if I were to lose too quickly (More likely to have excess skin, gain weight back etc.) so I'll take the longer road!

1 year to lose 30 pounds. Plateaued for a while, now on the road to losing another 10 pounds in 6 - 9 months.

I have 4lbs to go! Started losing in September. Aiming for 1lb a week now, so hopefully next month. I was and still am a healthy BMI, but I ended up gaining a lot first year of uni. Proud to say I've lost that and a lil more.

I started at 194 a few months ago. I'm now at 170, which is still considered obese (31.0) but I have about 6 more pounds to go until I'm officially out of the obese range! I want to get to about 135 for now to be considered healthy by BMI, but I ultimately want to get to about 115 as my ultimate goal weight. To get to 135, I think it could take maybe 6 months or so. I'm more concerned about BF% though than anything.