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

I'm hoping half a year to reach my goal size. Don't care for weight though. I am caring more for inches. Getting ripped on the other hand, might take a year.

My goal weight is between 65 and 60 kgs. They're both healthy BMI's but they're not very low, around 23.8-22
My ideal weight would be around 58 kgs (BMI 21) but I don't plan in going that far honestly. If I can re-define my shape (especially on my bottom) 65 looks like a good weight also. I still have to lose 2 kgs to get there so it would probably take a couple of weeks or so, but since I don't see a huge difference coming from such a small weightloss I'll probably just lose a few other kgs until my clothes keep fitting. Then I'll stop and just focus on toning up. I don't know how long will it take to lose the last kgs but it should take less than a few months, depending if I increase my calories soon. I don't really have a plan at the moment I'll just see how it goes.

as long as it needs to?

I lost the first 50 or so very quickly, but recently I've slowed almost to a stop. I take thyroid replacement hormone and I think the local weather has been SO severe that my blood chemistry may be a little off right now.

Fortunately, I still feel so much better on my NO grain, NO dairy, NO sweeteners, and NO salt food plan that I have no interest in adding processed, refined foods back in.

My original goal was to lose 90 pounds in a year, and now it doesn't matter to me whether I meet the goal in a year or not.

I know without question that I WILL meet my goal!

I am 50 years old,, 5'5" and started at 181 pounds my BMI was 30.1 obese for my size.my normal weight range says 111-150lbs. In September I had an emergency appendix surgery and after surgery I weighed myself and lost 10 pounds bringing me to 171. Bringing me to super overweight range of 28.5 BMI. That 10 pound weight loss made me realize how out of shape and unhealthy I was. I then joined Gold's Gym in October 2013. My weigh in with them was 170 pounds. Today I weigh 162 (BMI 27 - still overweight). Since joining Gold's Gym I only lost 8 more pounds... it is coming off so slow. However, I admit I must be more consistent in the gym. There for a while I was only going once a week and kinda watching my weight... I noticed I am beginning to make a bit more traction by journaling what I eat.

Sad thing is back in 2006 (the date my profile pic was taken), I weighed 133 pounds and had just won the Body-for-Life contest at work. Too bad I didn't use those skills to stay skinny. Maintenance was a problem for me. I hope this time around I can stick to it. So I guess what I am saying it is about a lifestyle change that when once we reach our goal, we are done - we will need to work at this the rest of our lives through maintenance and continue with our workouts, weigh ins, watching portions (calories) and try to get as much nutrition in us as possible.

My goal weight is between 125 and 130 pounds (I want to have a bit of fun!) Good luck to everyone!

Hoepfully by August 2015 I'll be there or at least really close.

I've been doing this for 13 months now and I have five pounds to go. I will still be in the high end of a healthy weight for me, but I honestly don't care. I am happy just to be there!

I've been doing this lazy on/off thing for probably about a year, if I do the same amount of lazy on/off it'll probably take me another year and a half or so to get down to where I want to be. If I somehow miraculously get a huge influx of motivation maybe less than that? Though, apathy can strike at any moment, so it could always be more.

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

^^This.

I'm in the same boat, about a year. I'll probably end up 10-15 lbs in the overweight zone, but it'll be muscle instead of fat.

I am currently targeting 180-185. At my height (5'10") for a female, the BMI charts say that's still on the overweight side of the line by a few pounds.

I expect that if I stick with my plan, I will get there before summer.

After that, I am targeting functional strength (lifting and carrying big bags of dog food up two flights of stairs, for example), and endurance for some backpacking trips I want to take.

It has been 6.5 months and I'm 1/3 way to goal so I'm guessing another year.

started out morbidly obese
should take till summer to shift the last pounds, but scared it's going to be the 12th of never before i'm done

Hi! I'm just curious how long does everyone think it will take?
Also is your goal weight a healthy BMI or not (mainly asking this for people who are/were obese)
Thanks!

I was right at the line of overweight/obese per my BF%...I lost 40 Lbs in 8-9 months or so. According to BMI I'm overweight, but I'm at a perfectly healthy BF%. I'm not a body builder by any means, but I have a decent amount of muscle on me. If I were to get int0 the top range of BMI and maintained my current muscle mass I would be around 10% BF and I have no desire to be that lean nor do I think I would be able to maintain that kind of leanness. To get below that I would have to burn up a bunch of muscle which would be kinda dumb I think.

I would put way more focus on your BF% than BMI...realize also that if you're obese you've also had to build up quite a bit of muscle to carry that weight around...If I were you, I'd do everything in my power to preserve as much of that lean mass as possible while maximizing fat loss.

hopefully 20 weeks

I'm thinking for me at least a year. Started in October @260 curantly @212 w a GW of 150. When I hit 180 I will more the likely decrease from 2lbs a week down to 1lb a week