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How much weight have you lost and how long did it take?

AmandaDutra
AmandaDutra Posts: 38
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm just curious to see the average amount of time it takes for people to lose their weight, I understand that obviously everyone's weight/goals/etc are different.



Here's Mine:

6 weeks - Sinus infection for 10 of those days though, so I was taking it easy.
4lbs LOST :D


SW: 150
Height: 5'7
GW: 130
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  • offthedeependay
    offthedeependay Posts: 435 Member
    started last April,2011.started at 240,current weight 160, so 15 months to lose 80 pounds
  • kayl3igh88
    kayl3igh88 Posts: 428 Member
    I've been doing this since April, so 4 months to lose 18.6lbs (the .6 counts) but I plateau'd for 1 of those months right at the 200lb mark!
  • vizamy
    vizamy Posts: 60 Member
    25 kg in about ten months.
  • claresusan
    claresusan Posts: 121 Member
    31 kgs (68 pounds) in 6.5 months - thrilled about it!! :smile:
  • jayhawkX
    jayhawkX Posts: 48
    Well this time around I have lost 38-ish pounds and it as taken me a few weeks.

    The last time I lost weight I managed to lose 187 pounds in 10 months. But I gained it all back and then some.
  • sezziejm
    sezziejm Posts: 147 Member
    started 19th feb '12.....63.8lb lost
  • douglasmobbs
    douglasmobbs Posts: 563 Member
    Started my weight loss Jan 2012. 151lb lost so far, about another 10 or so to go.
  • Vipecap
    Vipecap Posts: 166 Member
    9.5 months for 115lbs there abouts
  • Anayalata
    Anayalata Posts: 391 Member
    40lbs in 5 months.

    Total was 60lbs in about 18 months (didn't stick with it the whole time though)
  • SaltyPlusSweet
    SaltyPlusSweet Posts: 65
    In 3 months I did 20lbs. Was going thru a rough break up though.
  • junepinktigger
    junepinktigger Posts: 88 Member
    start weight 254 in march 2012.

    height 5ft 7
    current weight 227.2
    there is a 13 inch loss on waist. the scales dont move every week, but in over all average its 1.6lbs loss per week, been 17 weeks so far and total 27 lbs loss :)
  • AmandaDutra
    AmandaDutra Posts: 38
    Wow, all of your results are incredible! It totally makes me feel bad about how little ive lost over the last month and a half! I notice inches gone too though, so I am sure that counts for something... right?
  • tinawharrison
    tinawharrison Posts: 123
    40lbs since the 5th Jan! Flipping hard work too but lots more to lose! :smile:
  • tinawharrison
    tinawharrison Posts: 123
    Wow, all of your results are incredible! It totally makes me feel bad about how little ive lost over the last month and a half! I notice inches gone too though, so I am sure that counts for something... right?

    Inches count more than weight! Scales are evil!! :laugh:
  • smimo
    smimo Posts: 34
    think of your loss in hamburger pounds... if you loose 2lbs a week... well thats feeding a family of 8 :)
  • jayhawkX
    jayhawkX Posts: 48
    think of your loss in hamburger pounds... if you loose 2lbs a week... well thats feeding a family of 8 :)

    That's funny…
  • AmandaDutra
    AmandaDutra Posts: 38
    LOVE the hamburger reference. I might even have to share it with some friends :P So cute!
  • junepinktigger
    junepinktigger Posts: 88 Member
    for long enough i wasn't even getting 4lbs in a month, i am getting small losses now i am going to the gym, spinning, swimming, circuits, and treadmill at home,

    where as before that i would be fighting the loosing battle of scale movement, but inches were coming off, i have done 13 inches waist, 4 bust sizes, 6 inch hips, 2 inch each arm, and 3 inch each thigh,
    i also take a selection of pictures on the 25th of each month, :)
  • jocelind
    jocelind Posts: 2
    started april and now am down 14 pounds! trying to lose 30 so almost half way! :D
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    Back in 2009 before MFP I weighed close to 170lbs. & was considered obese at my 5'2" frame. It was the time also that I was diagnosed with PCOS & type 2 diabetes. Then started this journey on my own (I haven't yet discovered MFP on that time) & lost 15 lbs. but went plateau for the entire 2010. May last year I again lost 5 lbs. that puts me out of the 150 lb. mark then one month later when I discovered MFP. October-November 2011 when I reached my goal weight of 125lbs. (my current weight) then come January when I lost again & went down as low as 115lbs! While its still considered normal for my height but since I'm medium framed so I really looked too skinny with that weight so I decided to undergo weight gaining program.

    All in all it took me 3 long years to finally got to where I am now.
  • SmartWhatever
    SmartWhatever Posts: 718 Member
    82 lbs lost in 7 months!
  • tinyjaz
    tinyjaz Posts: 75 Member
    Well this time around I have lost 38-ish pounds and it as taken me a few weeks.

    The last time I lost weight I managed to lose 187 pounds in 10 months. But I gained it all back and then some.

    Glad I'm not the only one! Lost 137 pounds in 10 months but after a few years managed to gain 73 back!
    This time around I've lost 20 pounds in 9 weeks. Good Luck.
  • grizbear1225
    grizbear1225 Posts: 10
    It took 18 months but I have lost 161 lbs....
  • WandaVonDunajew
    WandaVonDunajew Posts: 183 Member
    I was more or less lazy compared to you guys. Started my journey on the 17 th of January, so until now that's 7 months. I only lost about 18 pounds, but I did have a march-middle of june "break" (developed lumbar disc hernia, had a paralyzed leg). I only re-started working out less than a month ago and I dropped another 6 pounds.
  • amnsetie
    amnsetie Posts: 666 Member
    11lbs in 110 days, hey that's a lb every 10 days, not bad.
    also half way to first goal.
  • SJScobie
    SJScobie Posts: 63
    Hiya

    Been on MFP for 90 days and lost 24lb! still 34lb to go :) x
  • thebigcb
    thebigcb Posts: 2,210 Member
    21pounds in 100 days. And I am so so much fitter, faster, stronger
  • Vivijeanne
    Vivijeanne Posts: 14
    I have lost 20 pounds in 4 months but actually lost 28 as I was in hospital for a week and gained 8 pounds that I have also lost again

    Good luck everyone :)
  • AllyCatXandi
    AllyCatXandi Posts: 329 Member
    I've lost 27lbs since last November, with my starting weight at 150lbs. I have been on two holidays during my weight loss experience - gaining 4lbs on the first and 7lbs on the second. Which were setbacks, but I've lost the weight from both trips and have only 3lbs to go until my goal :D
  • BitteOrca
    BitteOrca Posts: 74 Member
    8.5 lbs in roughly 2 months. halfway done!
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