What was your rate of weight loss?

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  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
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    I lost 66lbs after my 2nd baby, but it was very slow to begin with. The first month I only lost 2lbs. I think hormones may have had an impact because I was only 8 weeks post partum at first weigh in. When weight loss really kicked in I probably only lost at the rate of 1lb a week, sometimes a little more. It sped up a bit when I started to eat a bit more (1200 up to 1500 calories), probably because I was doing a lot of strength training and needed the extra calories for my workouts.

    My third baby is 7 months now and I'm losing at about 1lb a week, sometimes 1.5. I've lost a lot of inches though.
  • higgins8283801
    higgins8283801 Posts: 844 Member
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    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.
  • emalethmoon
    emalethmoon Posts: 178 Member
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    [x] 270 - 2.15.2014
    [x] 265 - 2.27.2014
    [x] 260 - 3.8.2014
    [x] 255 - 3.25.2014
    [x] 250 - 4.13.2014
    [x] 245 - 4.29.2014
    [x] 240 - 5.13.2014
    [x] 235 - 5.26.2014
    [x] 230 - 6.12.2014
    [x] 225 - 7.01.2014
    [x] 220 - 7.15.2014
    [x] 215 - 8.19.2014
    [x] 210 - 9.9.2014
    [x] 205 - 10.11.2014
    [x] 200 - 11.6.2014

    As of 12/19 I'm at 196.
    I hope this helps!
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    edited December 2014
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    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!)
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,134 Member
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    Lost quickly to start (20# first month), kept losing at a reasonable pace (6#/month), and has gradually slowed (1-2#/month). The only time I stalled happened when I wasn't logging everything I ate.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,150 Member
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    slow
  • bloomp99
    bloomp99 Posts: 2
    edited December 2014
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    Here is my graph - a couple of flat spots where muscle gain probably cancelled fat loss but overall quite steady.
    - around 2.4 lbs per week
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  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
    edited December 2014
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    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.
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
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    It took me a year to lose 37 lb.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
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    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....
  • ptargino
    ptargino Posts: 50 Member
    edited December 2014
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    Week 1-2: 4 kg / 8.8 lbs
    Week 3-4: 3.2 kg / 7 lbs
    Week 5-6: 2.8 kg / 6.2 lbs
    Week 7-8: 4.7 kg / 10.3 lbs
    Week 9 (3 days so far): 0.9 kg / 2 lbs

    Starting weight: 119 kg / 262 lbs
    Current weight: 103.4 kg / 227.5 lbs
    Target weight: 90 kg / 198 lbs

    Current total weight loss: 15.6 kg / 34.5 lbs

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  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    edited December 2014
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    It took me about 15 months to lose 80 lbs. My weight loss was very steady once I started to get the hang of things.

    At one point I lost a lot of weight over a 2 month period, but I realized I lost muscle so that's when I introduced heavy lifting and that was the only time my weight fluctuated upwards. I was losing inches and loved the changes in my body so I didn't mind.

    I tried many times to lose before, but one of the differences this time around is that I did not set weight loss goals for example "i want to lose 10 lbs next month". I just took things one day at a time and didn't focus as much on the scale like in the past, but more on my measurements.

    Been maintaining for almost 2 years now and I'm smaller/much more fit than I was in high school. :)
  • kailadriel
    kailadriel Posts: 75 Member
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    ntnunk wrote: »
    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.

    This is brilliant and I am stealing this idea - thank you!
  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
    edited December 2014
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    kailadriel wrote: »
    ntnunk wrote: »
    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.

    This is brilliant and I am stealing this idea - thank you!

    Welcome. I actually have the doc shared if you wish. It's the 2014 version so it'll need to be changed soon. Just save a copy. Enter weight in Column C, Column D will average for the week on the Sunday row when there is at least one value entered for the week. I typically just do this from my phone as soon as I step off the scale.

  • DerekVTX
    DerekVTX Posts: 287 Member
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    I tried my best to lose 2lbs per week in the past 40 weeks. There was one quarter of this that I was camping for half of it (BBQ's and Beers) and then preparing for a 2500 mile move so I didn't get to the gym very much in that time frame. My weight loss through out it all was directly proportional to the calories burned to the calories consumed and I always tried to limit my weight loss to 2lbs per week. Accurate and honest logging is key. Now if I can drop 18 lbs in the next 9 weeks I should be more than ready for the beach when we go on vacation for the last week of February.
  • esjones12
    esjones12 Posts: 1,363 Member
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    I've lost an average of 0.5lbs per week for approximately the last 2.5 years.

    That's only 40lbs. I have used MFP on and off and know I can maintain "maintenance" mode without effort or counting calories due to changing my lifestyle. I have around another 30 pounds to go and would like to drop that in the next year and plan on using MFP consistently to do that. I am perfectly fine with slow and steady, I know in the long run it will pay off :)
  • Murph1908
    Murph1908 Posts: 125 Member
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    I started with a goal of 2 per week, and averaged 2.7 at the start. It slowed to 2.3 near the end of that stage, as I bought an HRM and got more comfortable eating back exercise. It came off pretty steadily during that time, with a few short plateaus.

    I then dropped to a 1.5 a week goal and lost that on average for a spell.

    When I dropped to a 1 per week goal, I had longer plateaus followed by wooshes. I'd go 3 weeks where would seem I gained 2 pounds, but then a woosh would occur putting me back on average or better. Then another plateau, followed by another woosh.

    Now at semi-maintenance. Eating maintenance calories and not eating back all exercise, making sure my calorie intake and calculations are accurate. I've lost a couple of pounds this month, though, so I can start eating back more exercise. Good to have that buffer going into the holidays. I am gonna EAT on vacation. =)
  • tsawrie
    tsawrie Posts: 34 Member
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    I weigh daily but only record it monthly because it varies from day to day so much (especially being a female). But here are my numbers...
    01/09/14 - 202
    01/16/14 - 196 - 3.06%
    02/05/14 - 194 - 1.03%
    03/05/14 - 189 - 2.65%
    03/19/14 - 187 - 1.07%
    04/14/14 - 185 - 1.08%
    05/21/14 - 180 - 2.78%
    06/18/14 - 177 - 1.69%
    07/08/14 - 175 - 1.14%
    08/14/14 - 170 - 2.94%
    09/05/14 - 168 - 1.19%
    10/15/14 - 164 - 2.44%
    11/05/14 - 163 - 0.61%
    12/03/14 - 163 - 0.00%

    BTW - I have 20 lbs left to reach my goal. The DREADED last 20 pounds!
  • rbfdac
    rbfdac Posts: 1,057 Member
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    Without going too much in to it-- I lost 6 pounds the first week I started, and now I consistently lose 8-10 pounds a month.
  • blktngldhrt
    blktngldhrt Posts: 1,053 Member
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    I started out with about 45 lbs to lose.. it was 40 but I decreased my goal weight. I've lost 18 lbs so far at an average of 1.5 lbs per week. I haven't weighed in this week, yet.

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