Join my group "20lbs by Christmas" ! we can all support each other!

Late start for me as well, but I’ll try!

Current weight (November 14th): 209
November 28th: 202
December 11th: 195
Christmas: 189

would like to join
Nov 15: 141
Nov 30: 131
dec 15: 127
dec 26: 122

Just checking in!

I hit my target of 274 for Oct 31st! Woo! It looks like I am on track to hit 266 for Nov 30th. Right now I am sitting at 270.

Yay!

Flying 160--Unless you are a couple of hundred pounds overweight to begin with, that's not a realistic expectation.

You have 38 days left (and food holiday Thanksgiving is coming up if you are in the US). An aggressive average loss of 0.4 lbs/day will only get you 15 lbs in that time-span.

Some people lose a lot of water in their first week or two--8 or 10 lbs. So lets be optimistic and suppose you lose 10 lbs in 14 days because of this initial dieting effect, which is more a matter of the luck of your biology than of anything you can control. You'd have 24 days left, if you could maintain about 0.4 lbs/day on average, you could only lose 9.6 lbs in those days--not quite enough to lose 20 lbs.

And this could only happen if your diet compliance and results are absolutely perfect.

In this short a time, skin probably wouldn't be a problem, but the other hazard of fast weight loss is a higher risk of loose skin (which can be a problem for some people even with slow weight loss--again a matter of genetic luck more than anything a person can control).

A goal of 10 lbs would be more realistic. Why set yourself up to fail at losing 20 lbs in a crash diet when you can set yourself up to succeed at losing 10 lbs on a reasonable, sustainable lifestyle change? (10 lbs is about 1.75 lbs/week or 0.25 lbs/day)

Ill join the ride!!
November 11 -225 lbs
Goal by December 25 - Less than 200 lbs
We can do this!

Hey, Salvador, read my posts just before yours. Your goal is pretty aggressive (even for a guy). 210 might be a more attainable choice. Not that I'm the example of success (I keep relapsing), but I find it easier to persevere long-term if I meet easy goals than if I strive for and fail to meet hard ones. YMMV.

I started this challenge late--on Nov 15, at 243.2 lbs
It's now Nov. 20 and I weigh 240.3 lbs.

So that's 2.9 lbs in 5 days--0.58 lbs/day or 4 lbs/week (!)

I see this as evidence of the water-whoosh that I've experienced before when I've started dieting after a prolonged period of food-carelessness. Still, it's nice to see the immediate big motion in the scale even though I know this quick-loss phase won't last.

My daily calorie targets are currently set at 500 cals below 'maintenance' for my current overweight state. The past couple of days I've gone over target, but not by the full 500 calories. So I hope I still continue to lose weight & meet my sub-goal of 6-8 lbs by Nov 30, with the final goal of 10 lbs (<233.2 lbs) by Dec 25.

I *intend* to blow through my targets with reckless abandon at Thanksgiving dinner, so that's another factor that could throw me off goal.

2.9 lbs down, 7.1 lbs to go. 35 days remain. That's an average of 0.2 lbs/day or 1.4 lbs/week.

But I'm expecting something more like ~4 lbs for this first week, 2-4 lbs for the second week (probably 2 lbs, because of Thanksgiving), and ~1 lb/week (~0.14 lbs/day) thereafter.