5lbs a week?

This is not at all reccomended as you will have to eat very little and you will lose a lot of muscle as well. What is your body weight now? As a coach I normally have my clients lose between 0.5% and 1% of their body weight per week, so if you are 300lbs that would be at most 3 lbs per week

Not unless you're 500lbs+ and even then you would have to eat well below the recommended daily amount for nutrition for an adult which would not be healthy. It would require a 2500 calorie deficit daily.

As others have said it's normal to see a large drop of water weight in the first couple of weeks but you shouldn't expect to lose more than 1% of your body weight on average as a goal.

sjursonal wrote: »

Im 5ft tall and 150lbs. My goal is to lose until 110lbs in 3 months.. is that possible. Cardio 3times a day. Trying to maintain 800 cal daily. Im on my 1st week now. Havent got the chance to weigh again after a week.

Are you being medically supervised by your doctor while doing this? That low calorie intake will likely do two things: 1) insufficiently fuel your body including your organs (brain, heart, kidney, liver, etc), 2) your hair and nails will become brittle, skin sallow, and burn through a fair amount of muscle. If your end goal is to be unhealthy and look horrible, your plan is likely to do that.

Not a healthy rate of loss, I'm afraid. At that rate you will end up consuming more than fat, unnecessarily stressing your body, and possibly making yourself sick. And as soon as you start trying to eat again, your body will react by making you crazy hungry, and storing as much as possible to gsin it all back and then some.
Also, because it is unhealthy, MFP generally closes threads where someone tries to argue that very low calorie diets are a good idea.

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

sjursonal wrote: »

Im 5ft tall and 150lbs. My goal is to lose until 110lbs in 3 months.. is that possible. Cardio 3times a day. Trying to maintain 800 cal daily. Im on my 1st week now. Havent got the chance to weigh again after a week.

not sure if you're trolling or just really have no idea how weigh loss works?

I presume start weight is 250lbs if you're wanting to lose 110lbs. 800 calories per day is less food than a toddler needs. You should not be aiming to eat less than 1200 net calories and if you are 250lbs you can certainly lose weight eating double what you're eating now.

OP wants to lose UNTIL 110 pounds. Not lose 110 pounds. I mis-read it originally, also.

sjursonal wrote: »

Thanks all guys for your feedback. It helps a lot. I also noticed that most of the time durong my 1st week i dropped 5lbs then the nxt week slows down that tends me to give up most of the time. Hopfuly, to continue this journey...

Exactly! Bodies aren't designed to lose that fast without being quite ill. Evolutionarily, they are designed tonight try to store fat when you near starvation and just past to keep you from dying. So the only way to lose safely is to do it a bit slower. At your current weight it is safer to aim for half to one pound a week. And work on finding the bad habits and small changes, to make ut permament and sustainable.



Log EVERYTHING.
Don't JUST weigh (with a scale is best) everything you eat, also write why you are eating it (i.e, lunchtime, hungry, kind of bored, out with friends, watching tv) and how you are feeling right before, right after and an hour after (hungry, comfortable, normal, full, very full bloated, drowsy, OMG I am so damn sick of this crap I want to throw the whole plate out a window, etc).
This gives you a baseline pattern for your normal habits and routine. From there, it's just a matter of experimenting. Are you very full after dinner? Cut back on a few things. Does lunch leave you bloated and gassy after an hour, try less or no mayo, and see if there's something you don't mind dropping each meal (fries, or cheese, or maybe only 2 tacos instead of 3).Are you starving an hour after dinner?Maybe more fats during.
It's amazing how quickly these small and easily sustainable changes will add up to big calorie cuts. Only cut one or two things at a time, until they become habit instead if trying to do everything at once. That way they become individual habits instead of one big "diet".
Break things down into individual behaviors and habits. Instead of looking at this as an all at once, or all or nothing proposition, find ways to break things down into smaller and more sustainable habits. That makes it much easier to pinpoint where something is not working, and fix it, rather than staring at the whole jumbled mess of NOT WORKING. Plus, when you do backslide, you are less likely to drop everything, just one or two habits, that can then be fixed again. Otherwise, trying to everything at once, means that you are likely to leave out something important (like weighing food), and pay excessive attention to things that aren't. (Like fiber drinks and vinegar)
Don't demonize foods that don't actually make you feel bad. Obviously if you have food sensitivities avoid those things, but don't cut out all your favorite goodies because they are not "healthy". Think of your calories as a type of currency. You should purchase the nutrient rich stuff first, budget for regular treats, and don't waste any calories on stuff you hate, even if it is theoretically good for you.

Just curious, why are you in such a hurry to lose 30 lbs so quickly? I am 100lbs overweight and I would HATE to set myself up to lose 5 lbs per week. You gotta eat. I suggest you follow what others have said, take it slow. Shoot for 1- 2 lbs per week and you will have all the support you need.

Also, FYI, posts and advice regarding unhealthy and dangerous weight loss is against the forum rules. If you set some realistic goals you will have plenty of people behind you.

Best of luck with whatever you decide.