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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Motivated primarily by size of stomach and how well professional wardrobe fits.  Losing is very slow for me--I'm lucky if I get .5 pounds a week!--so if I relied on the scale I'd be too depressed.  I am slowly scraping off the extra weight, bit by bit.  Excited to *finally* be a normal BMI--I've lost 11 pounds in the past 9 months, and would like to lose 5 - 10 more, if possible.  [/quote]

When you're not that heavy, it's harder to lose larger amounts--so people say .25-1% of your body weight per week is typical sustainable long-term weight loss.  If you're 120 lbs that's somewhere between .3 - 1.2 lbs a week.  But if you're 220 that's  1.32-2.2 lbs a week.  I prefer the percentage approach because it acknowledges you're often going to lose less quickly as your weight goes down.[/quote]

PP who lost 75 pounds over a year here and while the pounds came off easier at the beginning when I was 250, it would be really hard to lose more than a pound a week once I got down to the 200/210 range.  You may be overestimating how easily weight comes off for overweight people.  The whole upper end of this projected weight loss scale seems fraught to me -- I also can't really imagine a 5 ft 7 person weighing 120 lbs losing 1.2 pounds a week in a healthy way, but YMMV.

My understanding is that you don't want to lose weight in a "Biggest Loser" manner anyway -- slow but study while effecting life changes is better for your body anyway.[/quote]

Well the range is just that--a range and it is pretty slow long-term weight loss given that people consider 1-2 lbs a week 'slow weight loss.'  If your starting weight was 220, you probably would lose the 1.32-2.2 lbs a week at first; as you lost some weight you might plateau at the lower end of the range (or dip below it) for a while. I've also heard recommendations that  for substantial weight loss (e.g., roughly greater that 50 lbs) you lose at that rate for 6 months and then hold a plateau for 3 months, and then lose again.

I wouldn't typically recommend that a 5'7'' person who weighs 120 lbs lose any weight as they have a normal BMI so the weight loss rate doesn't apply. [/quote]

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