For all the people who have lost 10 lbs per month!!!

assuming that you do, as your ticker suggests, only have about this much to lose, I'd have to say your chances of healthily losing 10lb in a month are pretty negligible.

(edited to correct some punctuation and related stuff. :-) )

If your ticker is indicative of your ultimate goal and you only have about 10-11lbs left to lose, you cannot lose it healthily in only a month. The closer you are to goal, the losses and numbers, slow down and get smaller. It's okay though because it is a journey and not a race!

I've been struggling with my last 5-10lbs for awhile now. However, it is more about body composition for me at this point, so I try not to put too much stock in what the scale says.

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I lost 10lbs/month for 3 consecutive months.

I like to eat and I don't mind working out hard so I did an hour of cardio 7 times a week and then went back to the gym in the evening to do circuit training/weight lifting/more cardio 5 times a week. So 5 days a week I burned about 1500 calories from exercise and the other two days I'd try to burn around 900.

I had cheat days when I wanted to, maybe once every two weeks.

I am a BIG o'l guy at 540 LBS was close to 600 when I started and I will say I work out 6 days a week and rest on Sundays. I was at 2600 calories a day but now I am down to 2400 hundred. I found I was not eating the extra 200 calories so I dropped them. I have been loosing between 7 and 8 per week, except this last week I only lost 2 lbs. I weigh myself on Monday mornings on a digital scale i bought. I do strictly water aerobics right now between 1 - 3 hrs a day but I am going to go to planet fitness and get a $10 membership and add 3 days of more Cardio and weights. I know this seems nuts to some people but people dont know my story about how I lost everything in my life that I loved.... Wife (she had an affair), family, friends, job, ministry, & my health. I am on a comeback trail.... "i WANT TO LIVE" This is my motivation so dont worry about people who say you cannot loose 10 lbs you can! Set your face like "flint" in other words get your game face on and dont let people or the nah says tell you any thing different. All of us are on a journey and you need to find what works best for you. Oh, and as far as a cheat day... Only have a higher calorie day once every 7 to 10 days, and dont go overboard. Trust me I know.

Respectfully,

Matt

No offense meant Matt, as that is great for you, but we do not know the OP's weight. If they are pretty low in weight and not significantly overweight, it would not be healthy for them to attempt to drop 10lbs in a month. Their ticker indicates they only want to lose 10 more lbs. I only want to lose 10 more lbs. I would have to do some VERY unhealthy things to accomplish that in a month because I'm not significantly overweight.

It will probably take me the next 4-5 months to lose the weight in a healthy way and keep it off (and that is if I don't screw up AT ALL along the way). You just can't drop weight so quickly when you are smaller. Weight loss slows down significantly. The max would be about 0.5lb per week. If I set my goal to lose 10lbs this month, I would either be severely disappointed and depressed by the end OR in a hospital. :P

Thus, until the OP comes and clarifies their starting weight, we were all just cautioning against too much ambition leading to unhealthy practices. If they are significantly overweight, they might be able to drop the 10lbs in a month.

If your ticker is indicative of your ultimate goal and you only have about 10-11lbs left to lose, you cannot lose it healthily in only a month. The closer you are to goal, the losses and numbers, slow down and get smaller. It's okay though because it is a journey and not a race!

Like most others I had a look at your profile and noted that you only want to lose 22 lbs as your goal and you are basically halfway there with 10 lbs to go. So I'm going to make an assumption and while I could be wrong, I base it upon what I've seen on MFP, namely if people want to lose a 100 lbs as their goal, they usually set their ticker as 100 lbs, not 22. With that in mind you likely started out as someone who is not obese, but just a little overweight. With only 10 lbs to go, as Morkiemama pointed out, the closer you get to your ultimate goal the harder it gets to lose; and to drop 10 lbs in a month at that stage is unrealistic and likely unhealthy.

I've been on MFP for 54 days and I'm down 30 lbs, so yes I've been able to lose 10 lbs per month, but I started at 307. I have nothing to support this other than my own experience, but the fatter I am, the easier the weight seems to come off. I've also eaten pretty good and improved my sleep I get 6.5-8.5 hrs regularly. I also spend a lot of time in the gym, 4 days a week lifting, and 5-6 days doing 40-90 minutes of cardio - running, biking, step-mill, arc machine, walking, rowing - I mixed it up a lot at the start because I didn't want to pound my body too hard.

As for cheat days, I don't believe in them myself, because if I really want something whatever day it is, I eat it, as long as I can fit it into my calories. Tonight, I'm going out for some pizza and a beer, and I'm off to the gym this aft. and I'm going to put in a hard workout to earn my pizza and beer. I've found with doing this I stay on track and don't have a cheat day turn into two, and into a cheat week, etc. Plus, I like the idea of working hard to earn a meal I really like, such as pizza. It also stops the cravings, because I know I can have it, usually about once a week, I just have to earn it.

Getting back to you, you want to lose 10 lbs, I like others think that's unrealistic if you are where I think you are weight wise. But, at the same time, that doesn't stop you from eating healthy and getting the food and calories needed to fuel your body and workouts and then working out hard (assuming you are already working out) for the month and seeing where that gets you. Not to mention, when you get close to your goal weight, it's not always the scale that's the best judge, it's how you feel and how your clothes fit and how strong you are.

You are very correct and I apologize for not thinking about people who are near there goal weight or just want to loose only 10 more or 20 lbs.

to lose 10lb in a month you need to rank up 35,000 calorie deficit. That is just over 1000 per day, any cheat days will condense this down. If its only 1 month you are interested in you should be able to forgo cheat days for those 30 days. As for exercise it depends on how you feel and what you can fit in. I found 3 days on then 1 day off/light day works best, sometimes 2 days on 1 day off when too busy with work etc.