How can I lose 2lbs per week.

camachokimberly1996 · October 15

I used to be 160lbs now I’m at 154lbs in 2 months.

yirara · October 15

Hey, you lost very fast. This is a good result considering your weight is not that high to start with.

You don't provide any further information. But lets just assume your current maintenance calories are 1700. If you wanted to lose 2lbs per week you'd need to eat 1000 calories less than that. This would bring you to 700 calories per day. That's not sustainable. It's more likely you crash, binge and give up. MFP will never give you less than 1200 calories per day, btw.

tomcustombuilder · October 15

You’re not heavy enough to be shooting for 2 lbs a week. Look at 1 lb a week for losing the weight in a more healthy way.

camachokimberly1996 · October 15

I’m 5’0ft my ideal weight should be 120lbs-130lbs

nossmf · October 15

Your current weight: 154
Your goal weight: 130

Difference: 24 lbs

If you set a very moderate weight loss goal of a half pound per week, then one year from today you can reach your goal. Going slow lets you avoid (or at least minimize) crashes and sabotaging food binges, increasing your chances for success.

Yes, a year is longer than your requested goal of 3 months (2 lbs/wk for 12 weeks). But hopefully a year is very short compared to the rest of your life. And we're here to set ourselves up for success for the rest of our lives, not just the immediate future.

PAV8888 · October 15

Plus the time allows you to FIND, get used to, and embed changes in behavior that you may be engaged in solely for the purpose of losing weight.

Hey: a lot of us have been guilty of "I will do this (relatively not long term sustainable for me thing) for a while till". But guess what: if you're don't continue doing "this" indefinitely, and if "this" was truly contributing to you being able to keep to an appropriate daily energy balance, then chances are very good that you will give up some of your losses if you stop "this".

And if this "this" doesn't cut it... extra time trying to lose gives you the opportunity to come up with more and, perhaps, more long term appropriate for you "this".

Also... small budget small steps. Don't try for *actual* deficits that are larger than 20% (25% if still obese) of your *actual* TDEE.

*actual as reflected by long term scale results and long term logging. not pre-estimates or guesses.

AnnPT77 · October 15

At 154 pounds, you'd have to be very, very petite (well under 5'0"/152cm) to be substantially overweight. If not substantially overweight, losing 2 pounds a week is a Bad Plan.

Definition of "Bad Plan":

* higher likelihood of losing useful muscle alongside fat loss
* health risks, including depressing immune system
* doesn't help with learning/practicing eating and activity habits that will keep a person at healthy weight long term
* likely to depress calorie burn longer term, because our bodies can't tell "a diet" from "a famine" so tend to down-regulate body process that are important but not vital to staying barely alive
* can cause low energy and weakness, things no one with a busy life needs
* makes it hard to get minimally adequate nutrition
* can cause appearance issues like thinning hair (usually several weeks after the physiological insult) and brittle nails

There's more, but that ought to be enough.

At 160, unless super petite, 6 pounds in two months is pretty darned good, a suitable loss rate.

To lose faster, eat less, or move more, or both: That's a simplistic platitude, but it's true. Faster isn't necessarily better.

Find a path to thriving. The path to thriving and the path to very fast weight loss are different paths.

I'm saying that as someone who lost from way higher than 160 to somewhere in 130s pounds, and has stayed at a healthy weight for 8 years since. Long term maintenance is the big prize, and that depends on figuring out new, happy, long term habits that can persist on nearly autopilot.

I suggest a different mindset, just as others above have done. Give it a think.

Best wishes!

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