3 lbs in 45 days is nothing to scoff at! That's really good and it sounds like you're right on track. It might be slower than your friends who are eating low cal, but I bet you will keep your weight off as they gain all their weight back once they start eating normal calories again when they find they are too hungry to keep going. I'm sure they aren't eating 2,100 calories and losing weight. The point of EM2WL is to have a sustainable approach that you can stick with for life in order to maintain your weight once it's lost. I think it sounds like you're doing great! If you're lifting weights 3x a week and eating 2100 calories at only 5'1, it seems like your metabolism is running really well. Great job!

Hello there, I am also 5'1"! I lose weight slowly too. I am pretty sure its because of our height. But there is an advantage to this... Its a lot more noticeable when you lose a "few" pounds. If you are taller, you have to lose more weight to notice it. That sounds about right to me, that's 0.5lbs a week approximately. That is the absolute fastest I seem to be able to lose weight! I know that it is frustrating. Week-to-week if you are only losing half a pound and your weight fluctuates daily, on some weeks it might even seem like you are not losing any weight at all. (my scale only rounds to the nearest half a pound, to make things worse!) But it pays off eventually. One year I lost only 6lbs in 5 months over the summer but a ton of people noticed it!

Way to go on the loss! I'm just starting out and hearing that is reassuring. I have the same concerns when it comes to other dieters. I see how strict they are and I feel I should do the same!

I just re-figured my numbers today after three weeks. I am averaging a little over 3/4 lb. weightloss per week. It is slow, I won't lie, but when you look at what you all got to eat in that months time frame, its a lot. As the above poster said, eating at a slightly smaller deficit and taking it slow I find that I binge a LOT less!!! My scale fluctuates daily for lots of reasons. I am learning this is how it goes, when it goes up, I look at my day and try to figure out what I can make better if I can. But most of all I am learning to trust the process!!!

mcmomma76 wrote: »

In 45 days I have lost 3 pounds. I feel much slimmer. My fitbit fits more loosely and one pair of jeans is a little less tight.

All around me friends are losing weight like crazy! Most of my friends that are dieting have lost 5-8 pounds by now. I know what I am doing is right for me but I can't help feel that frantic urge to "diet" like they are.

What are your friends doing in the bathroom while you are standing on the scale naked!
Kick them out of there!

Oh, they aren't, they just see you, and are jealously wondering how much weight you've really lost because they think you look even thinner and lost more than them.

Just a suggestion, if the 15% was supposed to be a bigger weight loss than
3 lbs x 3500 / 45 days = 233 cal deficit, then your estimated TDEE is wrong.

Find your average true eating level during those 45 days, and add 233 to it. That's your calculated average TDEE with the workout you are doing.
Now take off 15% and eat that much daily.
If truly eating 2100 average, then TDEE is 2333.
15% is 1983.

Perhaps here in the winter your TDEE is lower than warmer months.
Gotta adjust.

You always want to eat appropriately for your amount of activity, that includes while in a deficit.
If you can move down, you do. If you should move up, you do.

Like heybales explains, your TDEE can be calculated from your own losing numbers and eating numbers. If you're happy with the rate of loss, keep it. If you'd like to accelerate it (but still within EM2WL guidelines), you could decrease intake to 1980 and still lose healthily.

Either way, you're seeing results, and your ~1/2 week loss rate is still fantastic and sustainable.

aaliceinw wrote: »

I get upset because I thought I was losing too slowly (8lbs in 50 days) but my dietician tells me she is going to up my calories because I am losing too fast. I am trying to understand how my body works because eating more to lose weight is so illogical and yet it works.

It really does matter why it's slow.

So many throw out that claim - slower is better - but that's because what the body forced on them because of unwise choices to eating level.

But wise choices to have it slow is a different matter - especially when transforming the body from exercise is involved.

Not hard to imagine which method lets the body change better from exercise.

You have to know your body. Just because it's working for your friends doesn't mean it's going to work for you. You did t gain it overnight and you don't want to lose it overnight. You want a healthy weight loss. I know someone that weighed over 300 Ibs. and now is the low 200's but it wasn't a healthy weight loss. They are taking diet pills and eating healthy. It's a dangerous combination because you don't know what's in that stuff and how it will have a long-term effect on your body. This weight loss was in a matter of a few months!!!! It's way too fast!!! She's looking for a quick fix. I have take diet pills before and that weight like you wouldn't believe but as soon as I stopped, I gained back what I lose and more! Weight loss is a journey and enjoy it and not curse it. You ultimate goal and focus should be health, nutrition and permanent weight loss and the only way to achieve that is to continue to practice healthy eating habits and exercise.

You can do it!!! Don't get discouraged by others but be proud of you and love you and you will get there!!! I'm in your shoes!!! Everyone is losing weight around me too! I have made the choice to do it the right way!!!!! I'm taking it one day at a time.

@Missanderson31 I agree with what you said, but this:

You did t gain it overnight and you don't want to lose it overnight

If I could, like someone came and said: "Okay, you can have the weight you want overnight without any disadvantage", I would take it immediately :-D

But since we are not in wonderland you´re of course right with doing it the healthy way :-)

I also only lost 4 pounds since beginning of february - and I went 1200 calories for four weeks. Since I upped my calories, I didn´t lose anything anymore but also didn´t really gain. Weight went up around a pound but it goes up and down 1-2 pounds all the time...so I don´t get upset about that.