How long did it take you to loose the last 15 pounds?
chickabelle
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I know its easier to loose weight in the beginning. Just wondering how long it took other people to loose the last bit of weight?
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I started out with 15lbs to lose, took about 4 months. But I purposely took it slow so maintenance would be easier. I'm now down 18, but I'm leaving for a 5 day vacation so I'll probably see 3-5 back by the end of it...0
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It took me 24 weeks (about 5 and a half months) to go from 127lbs to 112lbs (at 5'4), so an average of about 0.6lbs/week.1
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I have lost 5 lbs since the end of February. 5lbs, 9 weeks = 0.56 a week.0
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I think you can do it quicker (~1lb or more / week) if your diet is strict. You need a good amount of protein and have a rigorous weight training routine.0
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Well, for me it's not the last 15 pounds but the only one I've ever had to lose and I find it impossible, one or two pounds up and down here and there but nothing spectacular, what really bothers me is my daily calorie requirement of 1300. Does it mean that I have to eat grass five times a day? I don't do alcohol, junk, carbs, ready meals, fizzy drinks, high fat, fruits and I run 40k a week.0
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galgenstrick wrote: »I think you can do it quicker (~1lb or more / week) if your diet is strict. You need a good amount of protein and have a rigorous weight training routine.
If you have only <15 lbs to lose the recommended amount per week is 0.5lbs.
I believe this is because cutting 500 calories a day to lose a lb a week is not sustainable in the long term.0 -
arachnofobia7 wrote: »Well, for me it's not the last 15 pounds but the only one I've ever had to lose and I find it impossible, one or two pounds up and down here and there but nothing spectacular, what really bothers me is my daily calorie requirement of 1300. Does it mean that I have to eat grass five times a day? I don't do alcohol, junk, carbs, ready meals, fizzy drinks, high fat, fruits and I run 40k a week.
If you run 40k per week you should be adding back the calories for that and eating them.3 -
That's all I have to lose, probably will take me about 4-5 months. If it takes longer, so be it...0
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galgenstrick wrote: »I think you can do it quicker (~1lb or more / week) if your diet is strict. You need a good amount of protein and have a rigorous weight training routine.
If you have only <15 lbs to lose the recommended amount per week is 0.5lbs.
I believe this is because cutting 500 calories a day to lose a lb a week is not sustainable in the long term.
It doesn't need to be sustainable since it's only the last 15 pounds. I.e. You'll either go to maintainance calories or start a bulk afterwords. If you're active enough and eat back exercise calories it's pretty sustainable to lose 1 pound a week. If you're not exercising and making a 500 calorie deficit from diet alone, then I completely agree with you, it's probably better to do 0.5 pounds a week.0 -
arachnofobia7 wrote: »what really bothers me is my daily calorie requirement of 1300. Does it mean that I have to eat grass five times a day? I don't do alcohol, junk, carbs, ready meals, fizzy drinks, high fat, fruits and I run 40k a week.
With 15lbs to lose, and with a safe deficit being one that has you losing between 0.5% and 1% of your bodyweight a week, you are obviously set for either a 250 or 500Cal a day deficit in MFP.
And since your MFP food goal before exercise already accounts for the totality of your deficit, we know that you are eating back almost 100% of the steady state aerobic exercise calories you earn by running 40K a week.
Thus I just don't understand how you are ending up with just 1300Cal unless you are both extremely short and extremely light...
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galgenstrick wrote: »It doesn't need to be sustainable since it's only the last 15 pounds. I.e. You'll either go to maintainance calories or start a bulk afterwords. If you're active enough and eat back exercise calories it's pretty sustainable to lose 1 pound a week. If you're not exercising and making a 500 calorie deficit from diet alone, then I completely agree with you, it's probably better to do 0.5 pounds a week.
Losing at 0.5lbs a week (or more accurately losing at a rate of around 0.5% of your bodyweight a week) when you are in the "normal" weight range (i.e. when you do not have a high % of available fat), is one of the things you do in order to minimize the loss of lean mass.
You already mention the other two (high protein intake, lifting progressively heavier weights), so I am at a loss as to why you are willing to ignore the third (and arguably most important) component of the lean mass loss minimization strategy: smaller deficits.2 -
It's taken me 3 and a half months to lose 20lbs. (Just over a pound a week). I have 14lbs left to lose and I'm hoping it doesn't take too long! Not on a drastic diet so it will be easy to maintain too.0
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galgenstrick wrote: »It doesn't need to be sustainable since it's only the last 15 pounds. I.e. You'll either go to maintainance calories or start a bulk afterwords. If you're active enough and eat back exercise calories it's pretty sustainable to lose 1 pound a week. If you're not exercising and making a 500 calorie deficit from diet alone, then I completely agree with you, it's probably better to do 0.5 pounds a week.
Losing at 0.5lbs a week (or more accurately losing at a rate of around 0.5% of your bodyweight a week) when you are in the "normal" weight range (i.e. when you do not have a high % of available fat), is one of the things you do in order to minimize the loss of lean mass.
You already mention the other two (high protein intake, lifting progressively heavier weights), so I am at a loss as to why you are willing to ignore the third (and arguably most important) component of the lean mass loss minimization strategy: smaller deficits.
Where are you seeing that you must lose at 0.5% of your body weight to preserve LBM? You can still safely lose ~1 pound or even 1% per week without losing too much LBM. It is going to take 8 months to lose the last 15 at a rate of 0.5 pounds per week... Seems a bit long and frustrating for most people, but if it works for some, then it's not a bad way to go for those people.1 -
arachnofobia7 wrote: »what really bothers me is my daily calorie requirement of 1300. Does it mean that I have to eat grass five times a day? I don't do alcohol, junk, carbs, ready meals, fizzy drinks, high fat, fruits and I run 40k a week.
With 15lbs to lose, and with a safe deficit being one that has you losing between 0.5% and 1% of your bodyweight a week, you are obviously set for either a 250 or 500Cal a day deficit in MFP.
You even said it yourself; it's safe to lose 1% of your body weight per week. This will equate to more than a pound a week for most people. I don't know of many people that have 15 pounds of fat to lose and weigh significantly less than 100 pounds...0 -
The last couple of pounds took me a bit longer than at the beginning when the pounds seemed to melt off. The closer I got to my goal the harder it was for me. But I did it and so can you!1
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It took me 12 weeks to lose 17 pounds. These last 5 pounds I've been losing in tiny, tiny increments.0
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28 weeks...about 1/2lb a week...0
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15 weeks and 38 pounds lost! In the begining it was falling off like nothing. Now I am losing the recommended 2 pounds a week. Sometimes a little more but I havent lost less then 2 pounds yet. Hopefully, it doesnt slow down :-)0
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galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »It doesn't need to be sustainable since it's only the last 15 pounds. I.e. You'll either go to maintainance calories or start a bulk afterwords. If you're active enough and eat back exercise calories it's pretty sustainable to lose 1 pound a week. If you're not exercising and making a 500 calorie deficit from diet alone, then I completely agree with you, it's probably better to do 0.5 pounds a week.
Losing at 0.5lbs a week (or more accurately losing at a rate of around 0.5% of your bodyweight a week) when you are in the "normal" weight range (i.e. when you do not have a high % of available fat), is one of the things you do in order to minimize the loss of lean mass.
You already mention the other two (high protein intake, lifting progressively heavier weights), so I am at a loss as to why you are willing to ignore the third (and arguably most important) component of the lean mass loss minimization strategy: smaller deficits.
Where are you seeing that you must lose at 0.5% of your body weight to preserve LBM? You can still safely lose ~1 pound or even 1% per week without losing too much LBM. It is going to take 8 months to lose the last 15 at a rate of 0.5 pounds per week... Seems a bit long and frustrating for most people, but if it works for some, then it's not a bad way to go for those people.
Whether you stay at 0.5% or can increase to 0.7% or 1% (or even 1.5%) depends on the amount of free fat you have available.
0.5% for "last" 15 is under the assumption that the last 15 are at "normal" weight, I.e. your fat % is already low.
So yes, you do have to factor in a loss rate that keeps you motivated, as long as that loss rate remains safe.
But what I find particularly interesting about % loss discussions, is how many people feel frustrated, and/or want to get it over and done with quickly. Especially when there is no medical need for the weight loss.
They want to get what over and done quickly?Their life?
Or are they just on a diet for a few weeks and plan to revert to their old behaviours that were working so well for them as soon as they're done?
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MRivera422 wrote: »15 weeks and 38 pounds lost! In the begining it was falling off like nothing. Now I am losing the recommended 2 pounds a week. Sometimes a little more but I havent lost less then 2 pounds yet. Hopefully, it doesnt slow down :-)
If you have a lot to lose then yes it does come off quick...but it will slow down as you lose.
I lost 1lb a week for months...until I hit my 15lb mark and I changed it to 1/2lb a week on purpose...reverse dieting.0 -
I know what are you talking about. I’m facing the same problem now. It took me close to 1 year to lose the initial 30 pounds, 200 down to 170 for 5’9”, 31 yr old male. But I got stuck since then, I lost only 10 lbs in the second year, and got 5 back at the end of it. Now I start to think it will take me another year to lose the last 15 lbs. My goal is to get to 150 lbs. But one fortunate thing is, I somehow had this idea that it would take me 3 years to lose 50 lbs at the beginning, so I’ve been extremely paitient in doing this, going to gym 5-6 days a week also. So far it transformed me not only in body shape, but in mind as well. It’s been the most wonderful thing since I was born, it’s part of who I am now. At the end, my theory of me losing weight so slow is I’m growing substantial amount of muscle during the process. And that’s true I can tell. I also adapted Keto Diet 1 year ago. It’s been working great for me. Good luck with everything, all the hard work will be paid off eventually.1
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I lost the first 60 pounds in about eight months. Then I stayed at that weight for a while. I was at the top of my healthy BMI and I was fine there but I wanted to lost that last 15.
Took me nine months because I was truly hungry and had trouble sticking to ANY deficit at all. I would never have been able to set it and stick to it at "Lose 1 pound per week." It was all I could do to create a 250 daily deficit.
The good part is that it was an easy transition back into maintenance eating. Just a few days of increased hunger when I added in those calories, and then I settled in.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »I think you can do it quicker (~1lb or more / week) if your diet is strict. You need a good amount of protein and have a rigorous weight training routine.
Not everyone can do that. I am pretty active and work out every day but still maintain around 1650 calories a day. To lose one pound a week, I would be at 1150 calories a day. As it is, I am always hungry despite eating proper foods. 1 lb a week is too aggressive when you have little to lose.1 -
During my active weight loss phase the last few pounds came off at the same rate as the rest, at about a pound a week (I was doing ADF at the time so my calories did not follow the 'normal' pattern).
Now in maintenance a few years, I'm in a short weight loss phase to get rid of some vanity weight/creep. I started January 2nd and set my goal for .5lb a week. I'm currently down almost 7lbs. Some of that is water weight, some of it is due to an intentional increase in fiber and subsequently better/more regular digestion movement and then 2ish pounds of that is actual fat loss, give or take.
I have around 6 pounds to go and expect to hit that late April/early May. I started at 1,400 calories and I'm now down to 1,350ish.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »I think you can do it quicker (~1lb or more / week) if your diet is strict. You need a good amount of protein and have a rigorous weight training routine.
Not everyone can do that. I am pretty active and work out every day but still maintain around 1650 calories a day. To lose one pound a week, I would be at 1150 calories a day. As it is, I am always hungry despite eating proper foods. 1 lb a week is too aggressive when you have little to lose.
Yep, I maintain at around 1,600 calories. .5lb a week is about as crazy as I get lol.1 -
So why is it harder to lose the final 15? All I want is to lose 20.....1
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