Weekly weight loss goals

becks0127
becks0127 Posts: 15
edited September 24 in Health and Weight Loss
Just wondering how many of you have entered 2 lbs./wk, 1.5 lbs/wk, 1 lb/wk, etc. I originally had entered 2 lbs/wk as my goal and lost 4 lbs in my first week, then I changed it to 1 lb/wk and didn't lose anything. Now I changed it to 1.5/wk. I changed it because a few people had told me that it is unsafe to eat such few calories and to lose that much/wk so I changed it and then didn't didn't lose any! Kind of disappointed. Just want to get an idea of what others on here chose and how much success they are having with the settings they have chosen.

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  • lilwashee
    lilwashee Posts: 222 Member
    ok so within the first two weeks i lost like close to 7 pounds probably alot of water weight cuz since then with a goal of 1.5 a week and being on 1,400 calories im only up to a 9 pound loss and today was my 30 days here ..so dont give up my friend!!
  • Reka2011
    Reka2011 Posts: 134 Member
    Mine is actually been set to 2lbs a week with 1200 calories...I had hit a plateau tho for a couple weeks but last week by the end of the week I did end up losing the 2lb. We shall see how many lbs come off this week! Hopefully more!
  • CalorieNinja
    CalorieNinja Posts: 645 Member
    Mine is set to 1 lb. a week with 1467 cals a day.
  • Jouquetta
    Jouquetta Posts: 20
    I set mine to 2lbs/wk & 1200 calories per day right off the bat. I use the program on my phone & love that I can see the TOTAL nutritional value of everything I eat. 1st week was mega loss at around 5, then each week was 1+ lbs with last week being 3. I noticed that the harder I worked on trying to make the food I eat "count" toward nutritional values the higher my weight loss gets. I particularly focused on 3 things. 1) My total water intake (aimed for 12-15 cups) and I sometimes have to add in the crystal light lemonade or tea stuff to get it all in ; 2) My fiber intake was always at around 20-25gm/day, but I kicked it up to 30 - 35 and that really helped -- no I wasn't in the bathroom all the time either-- and lastly 3) really tried to keep my sugar down to the recommended amount. HOWEVER if my sugar intake went over because I ate a banana or a pear, I didn't beat myself up, I just put it in my head that sugar from fresh fruit was WAY better then refined or even cane sugar. I'll be honest, the sugar was & still is the hardest for me, but it gets better everyday.

    Remember this piece if nothing else: You didn't gain all the weight in a few weeks, you can't expect to lose it all in a few weeks.
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  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    I have mine set at 1/2 pound a week. There are 2 reasons why I have it set low
    1. I wanted a tool to track what I was eating so I could see some patterns and then make some changes. MFP is perfect for this.
    2. I didn't see any point to set myself up for failure with a really low calorie goal that I wouldn't be able to stick to.

    I've been doing this for almost 6 weeks now and am finding it easier to stick to the calories as the week goes by, so I have manually dropped my cals a little bit. IIn fact for the last week or so, I've found that I'm not eating them all, but aim to get at least 1500 net calories.

    I've also been walking or running (C25k) for about 30 mins 5 days a week.

    Results - well, pretty amazing actually. I've lost 5kg (that's about 11 pounds) in the first five weeks. I really don't expect to continue at this rate, and have decided that if I can lose a KG (about 2 pounds a month) while making some healthy changes, AND keep it off, then I am happy. That would be 12kg in a year which would make me dramatically healthier.

    I'm pretty happy with this because it feels sustainable, I'm not here for a quick fix.
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