20 pounds in 45 days. On par with myfitnesspal caloric deficit goal.

When I stepped on the scale on March 20th, it read a bloated 267 lbs. Today, I weigh 247 lbs.

I set my goal to "lose 2 lbs per week", which came out to around 2100 calories a day. Since this was not many calories and far too easy to exceed, I decided to start working pretty hard about 6-7 days a week, both lifting (heavy), and cardio. According to myfitnesspal's estimated caloric burn for different exercises, I burn between 600-1000 calories a day at the gym.

I would eat back about 75% of calories burned at the gym, in other words I have been consuming about 2700 calories a day on average over the last 45 days.

As for the next 20 lbs, I wouldn't be surprised if the pounds don't come off so easy. Or maybe they will? There are two things at play now, mentally forcing myself to continue, and also my body's physical adaptation to my caloric deficit + exercises. I have an internal belief that says the more weight you lose, the more slowly you lose it, but maybe I'm just trying to psych myself out and maybe if I continue on plan, I will continue to lose roughly 2 lbs per week.

The hardest part about the last 45 days has mostly been those days where I am feeling that I am not making progress roughly 3 days a week, feeling heavier or more bloated perhaps than the day before. But luckily the remaining 4 days a week I usually feel the opposite, in that I feel like I am actually making progress, waking up feeling slimmer than the day before. I don't step on the scale every day because of this, otherwise I would probably be posting fluctuations of increases and decreases on a daily basis.

Hopefully the next 20 lbs won't be excruciatingly slower than the first 20 lbs. My biggest fear is that I continue doing the same thing that I've been doing (caloric deficit + gym cardio and weights), but no longer continue to lose weight.

Just wanted to share my story, mainly because of the fact that I have actually lost weight almost exactly according to myfitnesspal's "plan" of 2 lbs per week.