Slow & Steady Wins The Race

OMG...that's too funny, I just replied to someone disappointed with a pound a week weight loss with your title...slow and steady wins the race! :flowerforyou:

Congrats! That is inspiratation.

Congratulations!

I think everyone agrees with this. I started MFP in January and have lost about 5lbs per month. and this year long journey (which will probably take me that long to get past my plateau) has helped me change my eating habits. Habits can only be changed over a long period of time.

It is official. Since beginning to buckle down on my weight a year ago, I have lost over 30 lbs and am back to the weight I was when I graduated high school! I flipped through some old pictures of me last night. Gross, embarrassing, and I never want to see them again. Now at 130 lbs, I wouldn't mind losing another 5 (125 or under, what the heck!), but my main job is to never let myself get back to that place again. Lesson learned? Real weight loss happens over a long period of time. Mine was a little over 2 lbs a month! Slow going, but obviously worth it in the end! Happy losing!

Hi Smaem, first off I want to say congratulation on your loss. Keep up the good work.

Do you only track your scale weight or do you track both your scale weight and body fat percentage?

Scale weight loss and fat loss aren't the same thing. For a healthy weight loss it's recommended to lose between 1 to 2 pounds a week. This is not talking about scale weight, it's talking about fat loss. Scale weight is easy to lose. A person can lose 5 pounds of scale weight in an hour, but they can't lose 5 pounds of scale weight in an hour.

Losing 1- 2 pounds of fat a week, equals to 4 to 8 pounds a month. Some people loses less than a pound of fat a week and that's okay. Some say lose 1/2 a pound to 1 pound a week and that's still fine.

You've lost 1/2 a week.

If you were tracking your body fat percentage and did the math, you could have found out if your 2 pounds scale weight loss was 100% fat or maybe the results or more pounds of fat loss. For all you know, you could have loss 3 pounds of fat, although you have just lost 2 pounds of scale weight.

I do my weigh in every month. I track my body fat percentage, pounds of fat and inches loss. This month I have lost 2.6 pounds. In 30 days, I've lost 2.6 pounds, but guess what? Although, my scale showed a 2.6 scale weight loss, I lost 3 pounds of fat.

Fat is what I want to lose. I don't care about scale weight loss. Fat loss makes a person lean. Scale weight loss can still have a person fat.

If you aren't tracking your body fat percentage, please do so, to see the difference between scale weight loss and fat loss.

I've lost 2 lbs. in a little over a month, but each lb. lost is just that much sweeter

Mine has been slow going too, but I maintenance not gain on my off days, or weeks sometimes. Congrats on your weight loss