On average much are you losing per week?

Shellymarie604 wrote: »

I am currently averaging 3 pounds.

1-ish per week, at this point; sometimes more, sometimes less. I'm 2lbs above a not-overweight BMI. (I started with a BMI of 40+).

SW: 253
CW: 156.2
GW: 153 (???)

1.33 lbs/week average since late December. Some weeks are more and some are less.

I'm losing about 8 pounds per month so far, which averages out to right about 2 pounds per week.

@KorvapuustiPossu How do you figure? 1% of my body weight is a little over 1 pound a week. So i'm not exactly burning off a lot more than i should be. And honestly i'm not exactly sure what i'm doing "wrong" in terms of my calories to be making my lose quicker than people say is normal.

My calories is 1,500 cals. MFP gave me 1,200 cals. I do cardio and strength (every other day) and Sunday is off day. According to MFP i burn 300 calories during my workout video. That means i eat back the ENTIRE amount i supposedly burn. Most people on here only eat back about 50% of net calories. So.. i'm not exactly starving myself by any means.. Unless i need to up my calories by another 100-200 calories?


**Mind you i don't weigh everything out, either. I have never used a food scale. I will use measuring cups in terms of liquid. So i might actually be eating more than i think, too.

n1cholee93 wrote: »

@KorvapuustiPossu How do you figure? 1% of my body weight is a little over 1 pound a week. So i'm not exactly burning off a lot more than i should be. And honestly i'm not exactly sure what i'm doing "wrong" in terms of my calories to be making my lose quicker than people say is normal.

My calories is 1,500 cals. MFP gave me 1,200 cals. I do cardio and strength (every other day) and Sunday is off day. According to MFP i burn 300 calories during my workout video. That means i eat back the ENTIRE amount i supposedly burn. Most people on here only eat back about 50% of net calories. So.. i'm not exactly starving myself by any means.. Unless i need to up my calories by another 100-200 calories?


**Mind you i don't weigh everything out, either. I have never used a food scale. I will use measuring cups in terms of liquid. So i might actually be eating more than i think, too.

2 lbs a week is a lot for someone who is already at a healthy weight range. There is a possibility some of that is muscle loss. It doesn't have to do with you not eating enough, it has to do with you not having a lot of body fat left and how much your body can metabolize fat in a certain amount of time. Doing resistance training and consuming lots of protein can help prevent muscle loss. Obviously, if you are okay with what you are doing you do you. Folks are probably speaking from personal experience and the concern they had based on their own experiences of muscle loss. I wouldn't take it personally.

blues4miles wrote: »

n1cholee93 wrote: »

@KorvapuustiPossu How do you figure? 1% of my body weight is a little over 1 pound a week. So i'm not exactly burning off a lot more than i should be. And honestly i'm not exactly sure what i'm doing "wrong" in terms of my calories to be making my lose quicker than people say is normal.

My calories is 1,500 cals. MFP gave me 1,200 cals. I do cardio and strength (every other day) and Sunday is off day. According to MFP i burn 300 calories during my workout video. That means i eat back the ENTIRE amount i supposedly burn. Most people on here only eat back about 50% of net calories. So.. i'm not exactly starving myself by any means.. Unless i need to up my calories by another 100-200 calories?


**Mind you i don't weigh everything out, either. I have never used a food scale. I will use measuring cups in terms of liquid. So i might actually be eating more than i think, too.

2 lbs a week is a lot for someone who is already at a healthy weight range. There is a possibility some of that is muscle loss. It doesn't have to do with you not eating enough, it has to do with you not having a lot of body fat left and how much your body can metabolize fat in a certain amount of time. Doing resistance training and consuming lots of protein can help prevent muscle loss. Obviously, if you are okay with what you are doing you do you. Folks are probably speaking from personal experience and the concern they had based on their own experiences of muscle loss. I wouldn't take it personally.

No i'm not taking it personally. That was actually an honest question. If i'm not suppose to be burning 2lbs a week, am i suppose to be upping my calories? I've been doing a lot of resistance training, though i can't seem to keep up with the protein. But i also feel stronger, though i'm sure i could be losing muscle despite that. I don't know, i'm just doing what i normally do. I didn't know 136 pounds was even normal for my height... i thought 115-130 was a normal range.

I've got 6lbs to go give or take, and I'm losing .3kgs or .7lbs a week

As of today, I've lost 21.8lbs over 8wks. So average is 2.725lbs/wk. But, I am now 13-15lbs away from my goal so I am expecting it to slow drastically over the next few weeks.

I started on March 1st @ 308# On April 11th I weighed in @ 280.0 pounds.. 42 days (6 weeks) 28# lost I know that will change as I lose more weight and make adjustments to my diet and exercise program. I wanted results fast. I am going to keep this up until I see my Dr. on April 28th..

1lb/week but last week it was 2lbs. Still pretty fast since I'm now 139 and have 12lbs to go.

On average 0.7 pounds a week

@n1cholee93 Don't worry. I was 5'3" and 139 when I started. I actually did lose 2 pounds per week until I got down to 121 because it really was not hard to do and I wasn't hungry at all. After a while, I found I was getting tired and needed to slow down my rate of loss. If you just started, the two pounds will be sustainable for a while. Are you doing resistance training at the very least? I was doing resistance and running and I don't appear to have lost muscle mass. I just finished a bulk after getting down to 109 and I'm starting my cut this Monday at 114.5 pounds. I'm only going back down to 110 or so since it's my last cut before at least 3 months of maintenance. I wouldn't dream of losing any more than 1 pound per week now.

I can't speak for everyone but, again, I don't appear to have really suffered in the muscle mass department.

blues4miles wrote: »

I maxed out at around 1lb/week in January. In March I only lost around .5lb/week. I am also obese. I would prefer to be losing 1.5 lbs/week until I reach the border of obese and overweight, but I continue to eat too much on a consistent enough basis that I am not meeting my goals. However, even 2 lbs in a month is still moving forward for me so I take it and try to continue to improve.

Same here. No biggie. This isn't a race. Interestingly I notice more changes in the contours of my body even with weight not moving a lot. Numbers on the scale are not the only thing to watch.

Currently ranging from 0.3 lb per week - 0.8 lb per week. I'm 5'4.5" and today's scale weight was 121.5 (lower end of healthy for my height). Just looking to lose a few more vanity pounds. Even if I looked at the 1% max recommendation, the most I should aim for would be 1.2 lbs per week.

When I was over 200 lbs, I was losing between 2-3 lbs per week. Once I hit the 200 lb mark it started to slow from 2 lbs down to 1.5 lbs and then when I was closer to the healthy range it shifted to 1 lb.

Roughly 0.5 lb/week. I'm down to the last 10 pounds, and the last thing I need is to lose muscle instead of fat. Last year I had before-and-after DEXA scans. I had lost 5 lb, and it turned out that half of the loss was muscle. I was losing a little over 1 lb a week. I do not want to repeat THAT.

5'0" 123 lb