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The approx weight you change to 1.5 loss per week

lemonsurprise
lemonsurprise Posts: 255 Member
edited March 4 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm currently on plan to loose 2lb a week. I know it's different for everyone but I've seen a good few posts where a small piece of text has been copied and it generally says when you should be loosing 0.5,1.0,1.5 or 2lb a week depending on your weight.
Can someone post it here please

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  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal

    Think this is what you are asking for
  • firebloom
    firebloom Posts: 109 Member
    If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal

    Think this is what you are asking for

    I wonder how important it is to stick to these figures if you're still losing a decent amount each week without adjusting anything. I have about 19lbs still to lose (have lost 41lbs already). Without dropping my calorie limit, I am still happily losing about 2lbs per week. Oh, and I eat 1400 calories and eat back those gained from exercise so I'm definitely not starving myself. I don't want to slow down my weight loss just for the heck of it when I am still quite happily and easily losing.
  • mymodernbabylon
    mymodernbabylon Posts: 1,038 Member
    firebloom - you've only been doing this for two weeks if you've lost 4 lb (2 lb/wk)...for you, some or all of that is probably water weight. What you'll find is that the weight loss will slow down on it's own and you don't want to go down even more in calories at that point - that's why they say that you should go to a .5-1 lb/week loss when you get so close...you want to learn to eat as many calories as you can and still lose weight, maintaining as much lean muscle mass as possible and learning out to eat the way you will for life. 2 lb a month is really, really aggressive unless you have a LOT to lose.
  • firebloom
    firebloom Posts: 109 Member
    firebloom - you've only been doing this for two weeks if you've lost 4 lb (2 lb/wk)...for you, some or all of that is probably water weight. What you'll find is that the weight loss will slow down on it's own and you don't want to go down even more in calories at that point - that's why they say that you should go to a .5-1 lb/week loss when you get so close...you want to learn to eat as many calories as you can and still lose weight, maintaining as much lean muscle mass as possible and learning out to eat the way you will for life. 2 lb a month is really, really aggressive unless you have a LOT to lose.

    Where did you get the two week figure from? I've lost 41 lbs in roughly 6 months (I think, can't remember exactly when I started.) So for me, it's really quite a long way down the track with 19 lbs to go but I'm still losing a fair bit.
  • nosebag1212
    nosebag1212 Posts: 621 Member
    If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal

    Think this is what you are asking for
    I disagree with this tbh, if you have 15 lbs to lose there's no reason you need to limit yourself to 0.5 lb per week, that is slow as ****, there's no reason you can't lose 1.5 or even 2 lbs per week all the way to 10% bf if you want, as long as you lift and get appropriate protein intake you will lose zero to minimal muscle
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    I think that table assumes that everyone's top priority is muscle retention (to the exclusion of all else).

    I think this article has a good list of the pros/cons of different deficit levels and some suggestions of which level might be best for you, based on your own goals:

    http://evidencemag.com/fat-loss-deficit/
  • Cortelli
    Cortelli Posts: 1,369 Member
    If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
    If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal

    Think this is what you are asking for
    I disagree with this tbh, if you have 15 lbs to lose there's no reason you need to limit yourself to 0.5 lb per week, that is slow as ****, there's no reason you can't lose 1.5 or even 2 lbs per week all the way to 10% bf if you want, as long as you lift and get appropriate protein intake you will lose zero to minimal muscle

    I also think that this common rule of thumb that gets posted pretty frequently is too conservative. And while handy, doesn't take into account one's goals and one's body size and target weight.

    However, I think trying to lose 1.5 or 2 lbs a week when one (presumably male) is down into the low teens of BF% is likely too aggressive and will likely result in lean mass losses even with adequate training and protein. I've seen as a rule of thumb to not try and press pass losses of 0.5% body weight per week when already pretty lean - but again a rule of thumb that just seems to "be out there."

    In any event, my own risk tolerance keeps me at between 0.5 and 1 lb loss max per week (male, in low teens BF working to 10%). Coming from around 170 lb, that's right around 0.3% - 0.6% range, and I feel OK about that.

    The link posted by WalkingAlong is a pretty solid discussion.
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