Woman who started at a weight of 175-180

I started February 22nd. ( had my son February 19th ). Im 5ft 5 and I was 205 when he was born and I'm down a pound LESS than my pre pregnancy weight at 162!. My main goal is to be around 150, but I'd like to get to the 140s really. So ultimately I have around another 20lbs I want to lose. I eat on average 1450 calories a day I don't have the opportunity to do much Cardio but I do strength exercises 5-6 days a week. I do a lot of squats, leg lifts, push ups, ect... I'm hoping by next month I will able to do the 30 day shred but getting 30 minutes of time to myself is almost impossible with 4 kids lol.

I'm 5'5'', (re)started at 174 lbs in February, and I'm down to 157.6. I'm getting married in September and would like to be in the 140s; it's really an arbitrary goal but I'm sticking to it lol. My ultimate goal weight is low 130s, but I'm not putting a timeline on it. I'll get there when I get there.

5'6"
SW 178 8/15
CW 150-152
I've been maintaining that weight since 2/1/16.
Did a half marathon so I put a check mark next to that goal on the list, now I'm ready to tackle getting to my GW of 140. It will be slow so I'm hoping to get there in 8/16.
FWIW running has been great for my BP and my sense of well-being, but the weight came off with vastly improved eating habits. I could not outrun a bad diet (although I certainly tried!)

I started at 179 in November 2015, I was at 172 when i started MFP in end of December. I'm 151 now: just under 30 pounds lost, just over 20 more to get to my goal weight of 130.
When I started getting serious about my fitness, fifty pounds just seemed impossible!

I started with 1200 calories a day + half my exercise calories until I was out of the Obese BMI category, then upped to 1330 + half my exercise calories, and I take one day a week, usually my weekend 'splurge' day to eat at maintenance, which is around 1770 according to my Garmin.

I have a spinal injury (post-surgery) that limits my exercise to walking, swimming, and indoor cardio on a stride-stepper machine (Gazelle). I started out in November walking 20 minutes a day, then upped to 30, and now walk 5 miles 3 days a week, swimming for 45 minutes on the two days that I don't walk. ]

As to whether you can lose 1000 calories per hour of Zumba, it really depends on your metabolism, your body type, weight, fitness level, etc. Some people, some people barely scrape out 400 calories per session. It's best to wear a fitness monitor with a heart rate monitor to figure out what you're actual burn is, since most calorie burns you find online are just estimates based on normal fit test subjects. (OR are seriously inflated by the sellers of the exercise machine or program to make them look better.)

I would LOVE to try zumba...or kick boxing.....hows the zumba going ? Is it true you burn almost 1000 calories per session?[/quote].

I couldn't really tell you how much Zumba burns. So much depends on your body composition and how enthusiastic you are. I usually give it my all as I love to dance, and MFP usually estimates about 400-500 calories for the class (I think?).
I should wear a heart rate monitor, but I haven't taken that step yet. All I know is that I enjoy it, the time goes by fast and I leave very sweaty. So give it a try!

Age 41, starting weight was 179, current is 138. I tracked religiously to lose 40lbs. Then I started lifting heavy and my weight moves around 1-3lbs any given week up or down. I'd like to cut 10lbs of fat but keep lifting. Slow recomp?? Dunno.

I am 5'4 and my start weight was 185 on March 30th. I'm now down to 178.2! I have my calories set at 1400 but almost always eat a net amount of 1200-1300 with my exercise. I go to the gym Monday to Friday and do 20-30 minutes of cardio and 20-30 minutes of strength training. On the weekend, I go for walks on both days. My goal is to just get 30 minutes of exercise on the weekend but I often get way more. Ultimate weight goal is 130-140lb

Started at the end of July 2014 at 180- I'm 5'4". Made it to 125 at the end of March 2016. Try to do cardio about 6 days a week and lift fairly light weights (adding more as I get stronger) about 3 days a week, with rest days between lifting. When the weather is nice I like to go ride my recumbent trike on longer rides. When it's cold and snowy I ride the stationary bike at the gym. Mainly eat about 1200-1300 calories and ate back half of exercise calories until about the last 5-10 pounds and then didn't eat back exercise calories to lose those last few pounds. Now I'm figuring out maintenance, which looks like for a 48 year old with hypothyroidism is about the same amount of calories - 1200-1300 and eating back about half of them usually. If I don't exercise I eat around 1200 calories or try to. Some days I go a bit over, some days a bit under- it all evens out.

My starting weight was 180lbs in March 2016. I am 5'4 and eating 1230 calories a day and exercising 3-4 times a week for about 30 minutes. Currently I am down 18lbs with a goal weight of 150lbs. When I reach 150lbs I will reevaluate!