What was your rate of weight loss?

week 1 & 2 June 10-23: 205lbs, 6.6lbs lost
week 3 June 24-30: 202.4lbs, 2.6lbs lost
week 4 July 1-7: 201.2, 1.2lbs lost
week 5 July 8-14: 199.8, 1.4 lbs lost
week 6 July 15-21: 198.6, 1.2 lbs lost
week 7 July 22-28: 196.4, 2.2 lbs lost
week 8 July 29-Aug 4: 194.8, 1.6 lbs lost
week 9 Aug 5-11: 193.2, 1.6 lbs lost
week 10 Aug 12-18: 192.0, 1.2 lbs lost
week 11 Aug 19-25: 190.4, 1.6 lbs lost
week 12 Aug 26-Sept 1: 188.8, 1.6 lbs lost
week 13 Sept 2-8: 190.2, +1.4 lbs gain
week 14 Sept 9-15: 187.4, 2.8 lbs lost
week 15 Sept 16-22: 186.2, 1.2 lbs lost
week 16 Sept 23-29: 184.8, 1.4 lbs lost
week 17 Sept 30-Oct 6: 183.4, 1.4 lbs lost
week 18 Oct 7-13: 182.6, .8 lbs lost
week 19 Oct 14-20: 180.4, 2.2 lbs lost
week 20 Oct 21-27: 179.8, .6 lbs lost
week 21 Oct 28-Nov 3: 177.2, 2.6 lbs lost
week 22 Nov 4-10: 178.4, +1.2 lbs gain
week 23 Nov 11-17: 179.0, +.6 lbs gain
week 24 Nov 18-24: 175.6, 3.4 lbs lost
week 25 Nov 25-Dec 1: 174.8, .8 lbs lost
week 26 Dec 2-8: 173.0, 1.8 lbs lost
week 27 Dec 9-15: 171.8, 1.2 lbs lost
week 28 Dec 16-22: 171.0, .8 lbs lost
week 29 Dec 23-29: 169.4, 1.6 lbs lost
week 30 Dec 30-Jan 5: 168.6, .8 lbs lost
week 31 Jan 6-12: 167.6, 1 lbs lost
week 32 Jan 13-19: 167.8, +.2 lbs gain
week 33 Jan 20-26: 166.0, 1.8 lbs lost
week 34 Jan 27-Feb 2: 165.8, .2 lbs lost
week 35 Feb 3-9: 164.8, 1 lbs lost
week 36 Feb 10-16: 163.8, 1 lbs lost
week 37 Feb 17-23: 163.6, .2 lbs lost
week 38 Feb 24-Mar 2: 163.8, +.2 lbs gain
week 39 Mar 3-9: 162.0, 1.8 lbs lost
week 40 Mar 10-16: 162.6, +.6 lbs gain
week 41 Mar 17-23: 158.6, 4 lbs lost
week 42 Mar 24-30: 159.8, +1.2 lbs gain
week 43 Mar 31-Apr 6: 158.6, 1.2 lbs lost
week 44 Apr 7-13: 157.8, .8 lbs lost
week 45 Apr 14-20: 154.8, 3 lbs lost
week 46 Apr 21-27: 154.6, .2 lbs lost
week 47 Apr 28-May 4: 156.4, +1.8 lbs gain
week 48 May 5-11: 154.8, 1.6 lbs lost

Total: 57.6 lbs (I think)

Note this is for 2013/2014. Definitely not linear. But, it's all about the trend.

After week 48 I got a positive pregnancy test (on purpose, lol), and now I'm gaining for pregnancy.

So, Just for fun:
(5/11) 4 weeks--154.6-- [-.4 lbs]
(5/18) 5 weeks--154.4-- [-.6 lbs]
(5/25) 6 weeks --154.0-- [-.8 lbs]
(6/01) 7 weeks --155.0-- [0 lbs]
(6/08) 8 weeks --155.8-- [+.8 lbs]
(6/15) 9 weeks --155.6-- [+.6 lbs]
(6/22) 10 weeks --156.6-- [+1.6 lbs]
(6/29) 11 weeks --156.6-- [+1.6 lbs]
(7/06) 12 weeks --156.0-- [+1 lbs]
(7/13) 13 weeks --157.0-- [+2 lbs]
(7/20) 14 weeks --157.2-- [+2.2 lbs]
(7/27) 15 weeks --157.0-- [+2 lbs]
(8/03) 16 weeks --157.2-- [+2.2 lbs]
(8/10) 17 weeks --158.4-- [+3.2 lbs]
(8/17) 18 weeks --157.2-- [+2.2 lbs]
(8/24) 19 weeks --158.0-- [+3 lbs}
(8/31) 20 weeks --159.6-- [+4.6 lbs]
(9/07) 21 weeks --159.8-- [+4.8 lbs]
(9/14) 22 weeks --160.6-- [+5.6 lbs]
(9/21) 23 weeks --162.0-- [+7 lbs]
(9/28) 24 weeks --167.8-- [+12.8 lbs]
(10/5) 25 weeks --166.0-- [+11 lbs]
(10/12) 26 weeks --165.6-- [+10.6 lbs]
(10/19) 27 weeks --166.6-- [+11.6 lbs]
(10/26) 28 weeks --168.6-- [+13.6 lbs]
(11/02) 29 weeks --169.2-- [+14.2 lbs]
(11/09) 30 weeks --169.4-- [+14.4 lbs]
(11/16) 31 weeks --170.0-- [+15 lbs]
(11/23) 32 weeks --171.6-- [+16.6 lbs]
(11/30) 33 weeks --174.6-- [+19.6 lbs]
(12/07) 34 weeks --173.4-- [+18.4 lbs]
(12/14) 35 weeks --176.0-- [+21 lbs]

When I lost 65 pounds back in 2008-2009, the first 45 went by pretty quickly with hardly any effort and took about six months. Then I plateaued at 170 and stayed there for a long time. Then I got to losing again and went from 170 to 150 in about six months. 160 to 150 was quicker than 170 to 160, maybe because I was so close to goal I was more motivated, or perhaps good habits were more ingrained.

I gained back some of the weight and am now back on the wagon. I followed a similar pattern. Fairly quick loss to 170, then a long plateau at 170. I'm back down to 160 and I hope to repeat the pattern from before and get to 150 by the spring.

I dropped pretty steady at 3lb/month for 9 months (30 lbs) and now I've been stuck at 162 since September. I do feel that I'm still making improvements, though, in strength, endurance, and some in the inches. I feel confident that this will break and head downward again.

292 days to drop 110 lbs. However, I started at 336.8 lbs as well. I began logging the Monday after I started this journey. Came to a screeching halt two weeks or so before Thanksgiving, but started playing with my calories and started losing again.

I've lost 26 lbs since aug 15 that's about 6 1/2 lbs per month. I set my goal for 2 lbs a week. I was not always perfect but I am happy with my progress. I did have ups and downs during that time. I kept track of the ups on a separate spreadsheet and tried to only track downs on myfitnesspal. this worked for me psychologically because I didn't beat myself up over fluctuation. However I made a couple exceptions when I went up 5 lbs I did mark it on myfitness pal so I could motivate myself to put on the brakes.

I have kept records of many weight loss bloggers over the years, and of the dozens I have graphed to see how they were going, only one has consistently lost weight, with a greater loss at the beginning, and a smaller loss at the end. All of the others lost a bit, gained a bit, and repeated at least once.

Here is my current loss, it's only been about 50 days.



The last time I reached goal weight (sigh), I actually sped up for the last 7 kilograms.

I found that weight came off very quickly in the beginning and definitely started to slow down... I also became a little more relaxed about my diet the closer I got to my goal of 140.

180: (10/01/13)
175: (10/10/13)
170: (10/26/13)
165: (11/14/13)
160: (12/01/13)
155: (12/13/13)
150: (01/08/14)
145: (02/21/14)
140: (07/01/14)

I've gone from 174 down to 129, which is 45 pounds in 47 weeks, so right around a pound a week.

In October, I was approaching my goal weight so I dropped my weight loss rate from 1 pound a week to half a pound per week. Then in November, I had oral surgery, got the flu, had a gum biopsy done, then a relapse of the flu. So I lost that last 10 pounds in about 6 weeks, but it was a miserable existence. I'm pretty sure I lost some muscle along with the fat, because I feel very weak now.

On the one hand, it's hard to complain, I know those last few pounds are so tough for so many people. On the other hand, it's not how I planned it. I wanted to ease into maintenance. Also after being deprived of real food for so long, it's really tempting to binge on all the holiday stuff.

I think I averaged about a pound a week for the first year, which I'm happy with. If I can keep up that average for this coming year I'll be at my goal by next December or the following January.

That one pound a week has been a real struggle though. I have almost no room to make mistakes anymore.

I'm down 38lbs in 6 months.

First few weeks I lost 2-3lbs a week.

Then it slowed to 1 pound with some random 2lb losses thrown in there

And now it's like 0.2 or even a scale gain. I'm 11 away from goal.

ETA stats: 5'8", 36 years old, female; SW 254.6 lbs - My average weekly loss has been 1.1 lbs over the course of the last almost-2 years but at first I had way too much of a deficit - I lost 11 pounds in my first 10 days (yes I know mostly water), 20 lbs by the end of the first month, and I ended the second month at 31 pounds lost (so almost 4 pounds a week in my first 60 days, yikes no wonder my current .5 a week seems SO SLOW!)

slow

I keep a spreadsheet on Google Docs that I record my daily weight into. The spreadsheet then averages my weight for the week. I don't worry too much about daily weight and I use the average weekly weight as my "true" weight, or my gauge of progress. So, all that being said, here's a distillation of my spreadsheet. The date is the ending Sunday of the week and weight is my weekly average :

7/13/2014 - 206.9
7/20/2014 - 204.0
7/27/2014 - 202.3
8/3/2014 - 199.9
8/10/2014 - 198.1
8/17/2014 - 197.2
8/24/2014 - 196.0
8/31/2014 - 195.0
9/7/2014 - 194.6
9/14/2014 - 191.3
9/21/2014 - 191.4
9/28/2014 - 190.3
10/5/2014 - 189.6
10/12/2014 - 188.1
10/19/2014 - 188.3
10/26/2014 - 188.7
11/2/2014 - 184.9
11/9/2014 - 184.1
11/16/2014 - 183.2
11/23/2014 - 180.5
11/30/2014 - 181.1
12/7/2014 - 180.5
12/14/2014 - 179.5

Starting weight - 209.5
Current weight - 177.9

Using my starting weight and my ending average weight from last Sunday, I've averaged 1.3 lbs per week since I started seriously trying to lose weight last July.

I set my goal, exercise burn, and calorie intake tracker for one pound of weight loss per week. In the end, that is exactly what things averaged out to be. However, I remember there were weeks that seemed to flatline and stagnate, and there were weeks that I dropped more than a pound. Yet, it all worked as planned - average of one pound per week until the goal was met.

I am in maintenance mode now which requires constant vigilance as well....