How many pounds do you expect to lose weekly?

I'm maintaining but if I work out harder or do not eat enough to maintain, i could lose anywhere from 1/2 A LB to 1 lb.

How much were you losing per week when in fat loss mode? How long to lose 64 pounds?

Well according to the goals section I can only lose 0.9 lbs a week, and thats only eating 1200 calories a day. I only have 14 pounds to lose so I don't expect to lose more than a pound a week really and this is my fourth day of cutting down and I have lost 0.8 so it predicted it about right.

What I do intend to do though is every third or fourth day to go over my calories and probably upto my actual calorie expenditure so that I don't go into starvation mode and my bodily cleverly reduce my metabolic rate.

Also hoping that as I am starting back at the gym it will make a difference.

I have an underactive thyroid and am on high levels of thyroxine, I can go high if I am not careful and then the weight drops off but I don't like the palpitations etc that go with it. I can normally tell in myself if I am stable and I have always been right when my bloods came back - so follow how you feel and good luck with the loss x

Ideally I'd like to lose a pound or so. I'm not a slave to the scale and weigh in when the mood hits me. I've lost 35 lbs, am 9 lbs from goal and am fine with it if I dont lose much, or at all from one weigh in to the next. As long as I dont gain & I have a loss at next weigh, I'm ok with it.

Thanks everyone. I'll keep an eye on it. This is my first time at dieting, and I don't really understand how you can lose "water weight". Not heard this term before. Can anyone point me in the direction of an article which explains this? Thank you.

"Water weight" refers to excess fluid held by your body tissues. When you weigh yourself, you're seeing the total sum of everything in your body: organs, bones, fat, and fluids included. So while the scale measures your total weight, it's not the whole picture; when most people say they want to lose weight, they really mean that they want to lose excess fat. And it's the fat that should be lost at a reasonable rate, which is that rate around 1 lb/week that people are talking about.

Right when you first change your diet, depending on what you're changing, it's very possible to release excess fluid quickly. Water retention depends on a variety of factors, everything from very high sodium intake to not drinking enough fluids to sore muscles. If your new lifestyle changes something that was causing you to hold water, then you can see a sudden drop in the number on the scale.

Fat is lost at a slower rate that varies widely from person to person, but people generally agree that somewhere between a half-pound and two pounds a week is reasonable (depending on how much excess fat there is). So once you drop that initial excess fluid, the rate of loss measured by the scale will slow down as it is then showing loss of actual fat tissue.

Generally speaking, when you see very rapid gains or losses, it's probably due to water weight. Watch for a general trend in order to find the actual fat loss. Hope that helps!