weight loss per month

What are your stats? What goal did the site give you? Personally I think this site gives calorie goals far too low but what works for one person doesn't for another.

I found out that I lose better and generally feel better eating more. I eat my BMR worht of calories a day and than usually about 50-75% of my exercise calories (I enter less time than I actually do as I don't have a HRM at the moment and this site tends to overestimate calories burned). I do a ton of walking at work but don't count that.

I've averaged out at 1lb a month. I started on 174lbs in November 2010, hit a plateau mid-way through 2011 at 155lbs, gained almost half of that loss back trying to work out where I was going wrong, worked it out towards the end of last year and now I'm back down to 157.4lbs, so almost into new territory.

Of course, it's all individual. I net 1300 calories a day and burn anything from 0 to about 700, but everyone is different.

So far I've lost 8 pounds/month average. I only started in January though.

Like some of the others I only started 1 January 2012 with 110lbs to lose. I lost lots of weight (water) at the start then it slowed to between 1-3lbs per week. MFP recommends that I eat 1560 cals to lose 1.5lbs/week and so I've been sticking roughly to this 'net' amount whilst aiming to eat back about 50% of my exercise cals (MFP is VERY generous on cals so I too knock a few minutes off my total before adding it to my diary). I try and do exercise for 30 mins/5 days a week although sometimes it doesn't rack up as many cals as MFP recommends because it's cardio (walking, dancing) and light callisthenics (crunches, press-ups).

I did originally try losing 2lbs/week but felt I had some hungry days and was in danger of binging after work so I re-set it to 1.5 and allowed myself a healthy snack in the afternoon which is working well. Ironically, I seem to lose 2-3lbs some weeks anyway! Others I may stay the same or lose 1lb, but it's all good!

It seems to be working steadily for now and I haven't felt hungry or head-achy like I have in previous diets so it's manageable long-term. The beauty is that MFP asks you if you'd like to recalculate your cals/goals when you've lost a significant amount of weight, so I'll reduce mine in line with their recommendations til I reach my goal.

Good luck with setting your goals - let us know how you get on! :bigsmile:


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Mine has been up and down started with just 3lb a month loss for first few months, (june, july, august) dropped wheat end of august 2011 so sept was a big loss (16lb - 7lb first week of low carb, no wheat), then I was managing to lose 5lb a month and joining the 5lb a month challenges for a couple of month (oct, nov) then Dec/Jan it slowed down to 2lb a month, 3lb feb, and not sure what March will be but only got about 5lb to go to original goal (133lbs: 9st 7)... so another 3lb would be good for this month as its a 5 week month!