How long did it take you to lose 25 pounds?

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  • RomulanWarbird
    RomulanWarbird Posts: 230
    I just joined this site today. I have been on a diet and exercise plan mixing raspberry ketones and garcinia cambogia and I'm shocked! I just lost 23 lbs in 8 days!

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  • starvinkevin
    starvinkevin Posts: 331
    I just hit 25 lbs last week - about 2 months... without exercise.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    10 months I think.
  • GertrudeHorse
    GertrudeHorse Posts: 646 Member
    It took me about 10 weeks. This was probably too fast in hindsight, but I hadn't started using MFP at this stage and had no idea my TDEE would be so high. I'm fairness I didn't even know what TDEE was then!
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    A little bit over a month, but I started at over 300 pounds and about 5-7 pounds of it was water weight. The rest took a little under a year ( I had a few months of maintenance that I'm not counting) and I suspect I need another 1-1.5 years to reach my goal.
  • Kukenan
    Kukenan Posts: 44
    For me about 5 months, and I've been stuck since. Then again, I started at 151 lbs and I only have about 5 lbs left to lose and I haven't really been eating at a deficit the last couple of months, so I only have myself to blame :bigsmile: .
  • allotmentgardener
    allotmentgardener Posts: 248 Member
    Been on this site for 40 days, so far have lost 26lbs. Everyone is different though and will achieve loss at different rates.
  • ultrafishboy
    ultrafishboy Posts: 63 Member
    Took me 2 months. Drastic food choices. Logged religiously. Exercise 3x per week 45-60 minutes ea.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    I'm just shy of the 25 pound mark, and started at Christmas. So about 4 months. (Full confidence I'll lose another partial pound in the next week!) I've studied, researched, etc. and understand all the science. I've long known the right things to do (calorie deficit but eat sufficiently) but haven't always followed thru. Calorie deficit of 500-1000 per day and increasing my activity. I'm lazy by nature but I want to be active. Its a work in progress.

    My husband on the other hand (men!) started a month later and is already down 30+.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    I've been on here almost three months and just hit 20 pounds today, so I'll hopefully be there in 3-4 more weeks
  • Littlestandrews
    Littlestandrews Posts: 96 Member
    I started out only needing to lose 45lbs so it took me almost 4 months to lose the first 25lbs. But if you have a lot more to lose, it'll come off significantly faster. My husband needed to lose 70lbs and he lost 25lbs in 2 months.
  • crystalwilliams19
    crystalwilliams19 Posts: 4
    3 months.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    72 days to lose the first 20 lbs. Now I've been losing and gaining the same 1 lb for 2 weeks. I think i'll be to 25 lbs lost by day 100.
  • ddmusica
    ddmusica Posts: 50 Member
    I started September 1st at 173 lbs. I am 46 years old, 5'5" tall. I've lost 15 lbs so far. I watch what I eat and work out 6 days a week for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. My goal is to get to 130 lbs. I hope to be there by March 1st.
  • tindeyy
    tindeyy Posts: 25 Member
    Still haven't lost 25 pounds ;-)
    I lost my first 15 in 3 months, and have maintained a 12 lb lose for 1 year. Now I'm back to lose 10-15 more and get to my most ideal weight. So when I reach my goal THIS time, I'll have lost about 25-30 lbs and then I'm done.
  • gamesandgains
    gamesandgains Posts: 640 Member
    At my absolute heaviest it took me 4 wks.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    About 6 months...
  • wmcmurray61
    wmcmurray61 Posts: 192 Member
    6 months, a pound, average a week. I went slow on purpose to ensure I keep it off and to instill good, healthy eating habits. I don't like feeling hungry all the time and I don't think it's necessary.
  • summerhaze71
    summerhaze71 Posts: 1,204 Member
    about 4 1/2 months... with one month where the scale barely budged at all.
  • EmmaFitzwilliam
    EmmaFitzwilliam Posts: 482 Member
    It looks like it took me 2.5 months. I've lost 35 in 4.5 months, so the weight loss slowed after the first 25 pounds. It takes what it takes.
  • TheSatinPumpkin
    TheSatinPumpkin Posts: 948 Member
    2 weeks for the 1st 25lbs (432lbs to 407lbs
    1 month, 11 days for 25lbs after losing 100lbs (332lbs to 307lbs)
    1 month, 26 days for losing the most recent 25lbs. (234lbs to 209lbs)
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    It took me 4 months to lose 33 lbs. that was 26 months ago, I gained half it back(could be due to weight lifting heavy too though) 8 months ago and then lost 3 of that a month ago and havent lost anything since.
  • Cortneyrenee04
    Cortneyrenee04 Posts: 1,117 Member
    A year! Starting at 207.
  • darkiichyuu
    darkiichyuu Posts: 17
    it depends on your weight..when I started at the weight of 256 lbs.. I've lost 27 lbs in my first month but then it stopped losing that much and I started losing 7 lbs monthly instead : ) ..
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    4 months for the first 25, 5+ for the second (as I'm a tenth of a pound away right now!)
  • sarrah_n
    sarrah_n Posts: 192 Member
    11 months
  • shfoster0721
    shfoster0721 Posts: 239 Member
    It took me about 3 months. Since January I am down 116 pounds. Feel free to add me.
  • NikiChicken
    NikiChicken Posts: 576 Member
    I started at over 260#s. It took me about 3 months to lose the first 25, but the more I lost, the slower it got and I am losing at a snail's pace now. 1-2 pounds per month is all, but it is a loss and as long as the scale is going in the right direction, it really doesn't matter!
  • U2R2
    U2R2 Posts: 260 Member
    One month but I went from a 250lb dedicated couch potato to eating 1500 calories and walking 3-5 miles six days per week.
  • rbfdac
    rbfdac Posts: 1,057 Member
    I have lost a little over 20 pounds in 45 days. I started at 317.

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