Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.
So I have been doing A LOT of reading on dieting, weight loss, and such and one statistic that keeps popping up is that regardless the diet or plan you are on, serious dieters should be lossing on average 2 pounds a week.
Now, does everyone else out there know and acknowledge that this 'reasonable' amount of weight is based on someone a) starting a diet (therefore shock to the system to be without food, and b) that the 'average' is based on a 200 pound person? The actual amount of weight loss is suppose to be proportional to those two characteristics, therefore, not everyone can see the same results.
I know, I sound really stupid - but I have felt really bad for the last few days since my weigh in and loss less than the reasonable amount of 2 pounds. Actually, proportionally, I did better. Yeah :)
Now, does everyone else out there know and acknowledge that this 'reasonable' amount of weight is based on someone a) starting a diet (therefore shock to the system to be without food, and b) that the 'average' is based on a 200 pound person? The actual amount of weight loss is suppose to be proportional to those two characteristics, therefore, not everyone can see the same results.
I know, I sound really stupid - but I have felt really bad for the last few days since my weigh in and loss less than the reasonable amount of 2 pounds. Actually, proportionally, I did better. Yeah :)
It's more to do with what kind of sustainable weightloss is healthy than what you SHOULD be losing.
You shouldn't feel bad if you lost less, especially if you're under 200lbs. The most important thing is that you're going in the right direction!