Losing 10+ lbs a month... HOW?!?!?!?!?

I don't know, but healthy you can lose up to 8lbs a month. I wouldn't want to try and lose 10-18lbs a month.

If they are really big the weight comes off a lot faster in the beginning when you first start watching what you eat and exercising. The more weight you have to lose the faster it will come off in the beginning.

When you're really heavy you lose weight really quickly. A lot of it has to do with water, excess waste, and your body finally using those fat stores. Unfortunately, it leads people to think that's a norm so when they level off to losing 4-8lbs a month they get frustrated and usually fall off the wagon.

Yeah.. usually you can only lose 10+ in a month if you've got a lot to lose, and you've JUST changed your eating habits. Doesn't last more than a few months, and people in that scenario usually have many many more months ahead.

(I'm one of those people.. will probably lose around 10-12 pounds for the first two months, but it'll slow way down to a pound or so a week after that.)

I did about 10 lbs a month for 6 months. It wasn't easy and I don't think I could do it again. I did Power 90 for 1 month, P90X, and Ran about 60-80 miles a month. I also did Insanity, If I had it to do over again I'd do 1 lb a week. It's easier on the skin. My OCD didn't hurt either.

You can lose that kind of weight on a vlcd (very low cal diet) that puts your body into a state called ketosis (which means it basically goes into starvation mode. Then the body uses it's fat reserves for energy hence the rapid weight loss. The problem is that the body will also breakdown muscle for energy, and when you start to eat normally again,(because a vlcd is not sustainable) The body will not only grab onto the fats etc from the food, but store even more because it thinks there's a threat of starvation. Remember your body has a celular memory, which means it thinks it has to be at it's heaviest to survive. And it will fight to get back to it's highest weight. The only way to change the celular memory is to maintain a healthy weight for at least a year ( in which time it will learn it can survive at the new weight) Until then, I'm afraid it's a fight to keep the weight off. Thats probably why slow and steady has better long term results. The body has time to adjust. I'm no expert, but I've done the rapid loss vlcd and put all the weight plus 14kg back on! So my view is, dont worry about how fast or slow you lose your weight, just as long as you're heading in the right direction we'll get there.

idk how it works, but i've averaged about 8 pounds a month over the last three or four months. however, at this time, I'm building muscle and losing fat (inches keep going down, but weight doesn't move much). I just take one meal at a time, literally. I'm currently using Jorge Cruise's Belly Fat Cure. I'm not hungry hardly ever, which is the main thing for me. Plus, I eat chocolate and can have red wine every day. Find what works for you, take it one day at a time, and if it stops working, try something new. One day at a time, One meal at a time, One workout at a time, One pound at a time. Good luck!

I've lost 44 pounds in 74 days but I think the only reason it has happened is that I weighed over 300 pounds and was sedentary and probably ate between 3500 and 4500 calories a day. Dropped calorie intake to 1200 to 1400 1st 2 weeks did water aerobics 1 x per day for 1 hour each time(thought I was going to die) then increased water aerobics to 1 hour twice a day for the next 2 weeks - this got me strong enough to walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes at 1.5 speed - now I stay in the same calorie range I do water aerobics 2 X day for 1 hour each with 2 pound weights on my arms on 3 pounds on my legs and I do an hour on the treadmill at a 3.0 and I do weight training 3 times a week. Addtionally I play tennis or basketball with my 7 year old for at least 1 hour per day. I don't use my computer at home any more except to update MFP. I have leveled off now and average about 3 pounds a week - I expect it to go to 2 pounds a week soon.

I started off at 375lbs, and for the first few weeks I was losing anywhere between 1-4lbs - now I'm happy to lose 1lb a week and this year has averaged out to be just that - slow and steady wins the race, even if it's a bit boring.

I have had one week where I lost 5lbs, and even now, looking back at what I did and what I ate that week, I still can't fathom out why it was so high on that particular occasion, but in all honesty I wouldn't want to sustain that kind of loss as it couldn't really be good for me.

I started really counting calories and exercising on Oct 7. I've lost 20 so far, so it averages to 10 a month. I'm 5'6" and 29 years old. When I started I weighed 237. My diarys public, so take a look if you want.

You know every one looses at their own pace. And yes while the more weight you have to loose the faster you can loose it in the beginning is true, but don't belittle someone for the amount they loose. This really gets me. People talk like oh she or he lost 15 or twenty pounds because they are really big and it's mostly water weight. BS. You don't know how hard that person has worked to get the weight off and you don't know if it's water or fat. Give the person their credit for a job well done.

Can't we just agree, people loose weight differently because each person goes about it in their own way differently (what works for them) and that each person's body is different? And be happy for them? Instead of making generic statments like it's probably water weight?

The bigger you the faster the weight comes off. Everyone is different but it does slow down. At the beginning you lose water and that helps a lot. My doctor said for the first few months it's ok to drop around 15 a month anymore than that it's getting a little scary. She also said not to get discouraged because the weight will slow down but also to get a measuring tape because you weight may be slowing down but you still lose inches!