Reasonable weight loss time table

If you have a lot of weight to lose it is common to lose extra in the first few weeks. If you are logging calories on MFP you will settle into a pattern of losing around 2lb per week. Any more than this is hard to maintain long term and you will end up falling off the wagon and binging. Good luck with your journey.

When you have a lot to do, it comes off quickly at first. When I started, I lost 5-7 lbs some weeks. That's really not sustainable or healthy. I settled into a pattern of 1.5-2.5 lbs per week and now I am losing .5 a week. The temptation is to cut calories to lose more, but that just slows your metabolism and causes you to lose muscle mass, too. You should settle into a 1-2 per week loss, knowing that with salt and other factors, you may lose only .5 some weeks and 2 or 3 for others. Just remember this...people don't gain 5 lbs a week and end up 100 lbs over weight. It is a slow and steady 1 lbs a week gain that got me to that point! Taking it off any faster than it was added is unusual. Hope I helped. Feel free to add me!

i lose about a pound a week, and have been doing so steadily since may 1. i have lost weight less regularly in the past, getting down from 242 to 184.4. the thing is, if you continue to lose weight fast, you're losing muscle - and muscle is what dictates how many calories your body uses even when at rest. so if you lose 10 pounds of muscle, your body will burn less calories 24/7 and losing weight will be even harder.

if you keep losing weight that fast, add some more calories to your day.

I wouldn't really set a time table...weight loss isn't a linear thing...you aren't going to lose exactly X Lbs per week. To boot, **** happens...you have a holiday or birthday or just a bad day or whatever...life get in the way and you can't make it to the gym for a week or two, etc. It's best just to really focus on the process of being a healthier and fitter and all around better you...the rest will fall into place.

You will lose weight faster initially, but it does taper off...then you will have weeks with smaller losses, bigger losses, no losses, and even gains due to water and waste. Don't let the scale bet the only determining factor of your success...losing weight and being at a healthy weight is just a nice bi-product of living a healthful life, it shouldn't be your singular purpose for living such a life.

I started on June 5th and lost 10 lbs in the first two weeks because of water weight and all that.

Then I didn't lose for a couple of weeks.

Then I lost 2 lbs here and 1 lbs there.

The past two weeks I've lost 3lbs and 4lbs. I know that isn't going to happen forever, though.

I think it just depends on you. I read some posts of people who lost 100lbs or more in a year and a half. Then again, I've read some posts of people who it took 3 or 4 years to lose that amount.

Also, the biggest indicator seems to be the inches you lose. The scale stayed the same for me for like three weeks, but I steadily lost inches.

The way your clothes fit, etc, is a much more positive thing to focus on than the pounds, I think.

I didn't weigh at first, but it came off pretty quickly. I've kept up a pretty good pace. Haven't looked at the numbers, but it keeps coming off.

It really depends on how well you stick with it.