Losing two pounds a week - is it realistic?

[Anonymous]

I’ve seen that losing up to 2-3 pounds a week is aggressive, but achievable and acceptable especially if the person is overweight/obese. I’m tired of being fat and want to lose weight at this rate. Has anyone succeeded in doing this? How?

[Anonymous]

Initially this is common, yes, because you are dropping water weight. Sometimes people lose 5 lbs in their first week. Long term, though, your rate of loss will decrease as you get skinnier. Also, plateaus are part of the process.

Honestly the thing to do is start. You are not going to lose any weight by planning to lose 2 lbs a week, you are going to lose weight by fixing your diet and adding activity. The rate of loss will be what it will be.

[Anonymous]

Not in my experience, but cutting enough to lose 2 lbs a week is a LOT if you're a smaller person whose baseline caloric needs aren't that high. If you're a much taller or heavier person, maybe.

[Anonymous]

I lost 15 by upping exercise (walking or elliptical) at least 30 mins a day and after meals— and taking metformin since I had high blood sugar in the diabetes range. Do you qualify for a glp2? That would be a gamechanger, of course.

Also highly recommend walking after meals. I’ve been saving lots of 7 min calisthenics or weight lifting exercises but haven’t regularly started yet.

The other thing I’m thinking of starting is ruse mushroom coffee. I need to quit coffe got other reasons but this promises to get rid of the bloat.

I’m being honest- I’m a vegetarian and have had a hard time eliminating carbs. If I did that, there’d be nothing to eat, but I’d be skinny as a rail.

[Anonymous]

Ryze mushroom coffee- autocorrect

[Anonymous]

Yes I have, but it was not 2lbs lost every week. It requires a large calorie deficit which may or may not be sustainable for you depending on your height. I am 5’3.5 and was 168 at my highest. At that weight, my TDEE was around 1800-2000. I ate between 800-1000 calories a day. This requires careful planning to maximize protein and nutrition and you must get rid of all other useless calories (drink black coffee, make sure theres no calories in any supplements you take etc). I bulked all meals with tons of low cal veggies like bell peppers, romaine, zucchini etc. I used no oils when cooking, no sugar, no junk food. At that kind of deficit you don’t have room to eat anything that does not provide maximum nutritional value.

No, I did not use glp1s or any other help - it was sheer willpower at first driven by a strong medical motivation. I’m very glad I did it this way. Seeing the numbers drop quickly helped me keep going, and I completely cleaned up my diet and got used to a whole new way of eating. Back to my high school size and weight of 107lbs at 42. Have maintained for over a year now. Medical issues have gotten tremendously better if not completely resolved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes I have, but it was not 2lbs lost every week. It requires a large calorie deficit which may or may not be sustainable for you depending on your height. I am 5’3.5 and was 168 at my highest. At that weight, my TDEE was around 1800-2000. I ate between 800-1000 calories a day. This requires careful planning to maximize protein and nutrition and you must get rid of all other useless calories (drink black coffee, make sure theres no calories in any supplements you take etc). I bulked all meals with tons of low cal veggies like bell peppers, romaine, zucchini etc. I used no oils when cooking, no sugar, no junk food. At that kind of deficit you don’t have room to eat anything that does not provide maximum nutritional value.

No, I did not use glp1s or any other help - it was sheer willpower at first driven by a strong medical motivation. I’m very glad I did it this way. Seeing the numbers drop quickly helped me keep going, and I completely cleaned up my diet and got used to a whole new way of eating. Back to my high school size and weight of 107lbs at 42. Have maintained for over a year now. Medical issues have gotten tremendously better if not completely resolved.

Sounds like you fixed your medical issues for now but developed an eating disorder. This is not healthy or sustainable.

[Anonymous]

I can't find Ryze mushroom coffee anywhere! They say Walmart carries it but no way does my local walmart in the trashy side of town have something like this.

OP to anwswer your question- depends if you are starting at 230 or 130 lbs. Answers would be different.

[Anonymous]

Some people lose that much per week with a keto diet. I'm steadily losing one pound per week, which is fine with me. You don't want to do any diet you can't stick to, or that wrecks your metabolism. I find that I feel better on a keto diet, which makes it easier to stick to for the long haul. Exercise, even just brisk walking after meals, will help the weight drop a little faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ryze mushroom coffee- autocorrect

Isn't this just hype?

You can just take an MCT oil supplement and drink more coffee for the same effect.

[Anonymous]

I’ve always heard at most you should aim for 1-1.5% of bodyweight per week and the loss will not be linear.

[Anonymous]

I think initially you can lose that much, but the closer you are to your goal weight, the slower it will get.

[Anonymous]

My husband did this but he was starting from an utter crap junk food diet with lots of soda so he just cut all that and went to a lowish cal high protein diet and th pounds just fell off.

I eat a moderately healthy diet to start and am totally incapable of losing weight. I would hav to really punish myself just to lose 1 pound a week. I did do it a couple of years ago being really strict but I put it all back on really quickly when I had to do things like go to work meetings and eat food outside the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes I have, but it was not 2lbs lost every week. It requires a large calorie deficit which may or may not be sustainable for you depending on your height. I am 5’3.5 and was 168 at my highest. At that weight, my TDEE was around 1800-2000. I ate between 800-1000 calories a day. This requires careful planning to maximize protein and nutrition and you must get rid of all other useless calories (drink black coffee, make sure theres no calories in any supplements you take etc). I bulked all meals with tons of low cal veggies like bell peppers, romaine, zucchini etc. I used no oils when cooking, no sugar, no junk food. At that kind of deficit you don’t have room to eat anything that does not provide maximum nutritional value.

No, I did not use glp1s or any other help - it was sheer willpower at first driven by a strong medical motivation. I’m very glad I did it this way. Seeing the numbers drop quickly helped me keep going, and I completely cleaned up my diet and got used to a whole new way of eating. Back to my high school size and weight of 107lbs at 42. Have maintained for over a year now. Medical issues have gotten tremendously better if not completely resolved.

Sounds like you fixed your medical issues for now but developed an eating disorder. This is not healthy or sustainable.

I am eating at maintenance now - which is around 1500 calories. It is perfectly healthy for my height. But no, it would definitely not be healthy for anyone taller. Most people think they need more calories than they actually do. This is how we all end up overweight.

[Anonymous]

How are you planning to lose the weight, OP?
I am on a GLP-1 (lowest dose) and initially lost 10lbs/month for about 3 months and it has since tapered down. Part of that is because I'm not increasing my dose, the other part is because I now have less to lose. I lost 35 lbs in 6 months and I think it will take me at least another 6 months to lose the 20 more that I need to lose unless I increase the dose which I am not planning to do.