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Nice work! Keep at it. On the days where you feel challenged, focus consciously on thinking about your goal and how good you will feel when you hit it and how much you want to avoid further health issues. You got this!

Reached my goal. Reading my old posts is very satisfying. Crazy to think who I used to be. Thanks for the help all!

Woot! I was pre-diabetic and no longer am due to my weight loss and lifestyle adjustments. Fab.

Here's a weird one. So I caved and gorged a ton over last weekend. Real bad. Gained like 6.5 or so pounds over the weekend (yeah, real bad). So I went up to around 177. This week I've played by the rules, and today I'm at around 172. That's weird to me. I've seen water weight fluctuations like that but not from food…

Congrats Jacob! Impressive. I try to do the same and at least get to 1500. I binged a bit last week, which was bad. In the past when I ahd a bad week I'd just give up. Now i'm trying to stay focused and stay on track. Joe, I lost more like 3.3 lb/week. I think that was okay considering how overweight I was (30 lbs or so)…

UPDATE: 175 now, so I gained back about 3 pounds. I stopped counting calories and tracking everything I was eating for a few weeks. Since I gained weight I'm going to start tracking food again. I'm pretty comfortable at my current weight, so in a bid to lose the next 10-15 pounds in a healthy fashion I'm going with very…

So I started trying to lose weight 6.6 weeks ago. I've lost 22 pounds, which I think is about 3.33 a week. I'm a man, 5'8", athletic build generally besides the gut, weighed 194 on May 6 and am now 172. I've been doing HIIT and weight lifting and I am definitely considerably stronger and I can go longer and harder in my…

Well, it's working in the sense that I'm losing weight and am happier with how I look. As to sustainability - valid concern. I'll let you know in a year. :-)

I don't eat when I'm not hungry, so some days I only eat 700 to 1000 calories. I know this isn't ideal but it's been working for me so I'm sticking with it.

UPDATE Weight loss has trailed off nicely and now I'm in a fairly consistent pattern. 179 now. Very pleased. Eating about 1700 calories a day. I'm not eating back exercise calories though. I may start doing that once I plateau. Thanks for the advice everyone!

That's the big one for me too. I've only dropped 15 lbs or so but I've been doing a ton of weights and cardio so i feel way better. I can workout hard in the morning, be active all day, and then go play a club sport and still have a ton of energy. Such a huge quality of life improvement. Also clothes fit way better.....but…

Oh for sure. I still have a long way to go and I'm being cautious about not getting overly confident, but I'm very happy with the results so far! More important than the aesthetics - I'm really into sports, and now I can play longer and harder than I used to be able to so I'm having way more fun. This is great. What a huge…

9 days later, another 3 pounds. 181! Yessssssss. Lifting weights and doing HIIT as well. Feeling good.

I'm just not even really sure what you're saying. Are you saying water consumption doesn't effect how much water weight you hold?

How does water and sodium consumption factor in?

1250 is what MFP said 2 lbs/week would be, so I dialed it back to 1.5. Now it has me at around 1500, which I think i'll try. I hope it's not water weight! I consume absurd amounts of water every day but maybe you're referencing a different type of water weight?

Thanks. What would be a "sensible amount"?

I'm not ignoring it! I took in everything everybody said and I am taking that into consideration. As some people mentioned, early weight loss can be dramatic and then level out. If mine doesn't level out soon I will certainly adjust my caloric intake upward in light of the advice I've received in this thread.

Thanks for the input everybody! I think I'll stick with the current calorie deficit for another two weeks and if I start to feel any adverse physical consequences or if my weight loss doesn't slow to 2 lbs/week than I will start adjusting the deficit.

Thanks for the input! I set the MFP goal to 2 lbs/week and this is the caloric deficit it gave me. I guess it's wrong? I don't mean to argue with you guys and I really appreciate your input, I just want to make sure that this is actually too aggressive of a plan before I pull back the throttle. Like I said, I've read that…

I eat carrots, celery, a TON of almonds (probably about 1/5 of my daily intake is almonds), spinach, egg whites and tuna and I end up feeling really full at the end of each day despite an aggressive caloric deficit. I think how you eat matters too. I don't let myself get hungry during the day. I know when I'm going to get…

Thanks for the information. However, I'm not sure I saw anything that defines what excessively rapid weight loss is. For a newcomer, is 4 lbs/week too much for the initial stages? I imagine this will eventually fall to more like 2 lbs/week as the "low hanging fruit" (so to speak) is picked. I understand it's easier to lose…