How much did you lose?

[Saiyara]

So after you began low carbing, how much did you lose after:

your first 2 weeks...

your first month...

your second month...

[craney]

After the first 2 weeks I had lost 13 pounds. At the end of the first month I had lost a total of 16.5. After 8 weeks I had lost 23 pounds. Boy, I wish every two weeks could be like the first two. Good post. I am looking forward to reading others' experience.

[Charran]

It's been so long for me that I have a hard time remembering exact amounts. I never did have the big losses that some people talk about. I think the first week was maybe around 5 pounds. The first month 10 for a total and then maybe if I was really lucky about 5 a month after that.

[med234]

After 2 weeks: 6lbs
After 4 weeks: 10lbs
After 8 weeks: 14lbs
After 16 weeks: 17lbs
After 32 weeks: 30lbs
After 64 weeks: 36lbs
After 128 weeks: 35lbs

It gets harder!

[BaronE]

Only been at it for 3 weeks...down 12 lbs..

[deborah c]

It most surely does get harder. The first two months were wonderful started at 255 lbs. and it just melted off now I have been "at This" for 16 weeks. Guess I can't complain I have lost 41 lbs, but this past 4 weeks have been soooooo slowwwww, lucky to get a lb. off a week I'm giddy when a half lb drops off! The only salvation is a pair of pants that I could not get over my hips now fit.. THAT is what is keeping me going, those pants. But I keep telling myself, over and over again this is a way of life, I can't go back to eating that junk even when I'm slim 5 years from now (HOPE thats a joke). We are all different with the same goal - to be healthy ,sexy and wise , not necessarily in that order. Hang in there!

[Judynyc]

I don't recall my first weeks or months but I can give you my overall timeline.

My average weight loss per week was 1.5 lbs
It took me 9 months to lose 75 lbs and get into Onederland.
It took me 15 months to lose 100 lbs.
It took me 20 months to lose 114 lbs and get to my goal weight of 160 lbs.

I'm maintaining my weight loss(118 lbs) now since Dec, 2005.

I wish you the very best on your journey!! :thup:

[Greenwitch]

Well, I'm officially 2 weeks as of this coming Wednesday,I think. All I know is that by middle of last week I was down enough to register 330 on my scale, and I know I was over 340 when I started. So my guess is, if I use 340 as my starting weight, in the first two weeks I've dropped at least 11 pounds. I do know for sure that I was retaining a lot of water, so that left with the first woosh.

I'd kill for 10lbs per month.

I'll settle for anything I can get. LOL! :agree:

[bubbasbabe]

I love reading the successes !!

I've been on it for 2 weeks and am down 8.4 !!

Lori

[snburch]

First 2 weeks - 11.5 pounds

First month - 18 pounds

Second month - 26 pounds

Third month - 36 pounds (I'm only 2 weeks into my third month)

[susansmk]

I'm just beginning my second time around, but I can tell you my first time stats! (Okay, I'm anal...I keep an Excel spreadsheet with my stats.)

First two weeks: 15 pounds (Can I just tell you that was the BEST weigh-day ever?)

First month: 20 pounds

Second month: 30 pounds

After 28 weeks (roughly 7 months), which was the time I fell off the wagon HARD, I had lost a total of 51 pounds. Now let's see if I can do it again!!

[SRabbit]

Unfortunately I don't have the exact breakdown, but I've lost 41lbs since Christmas (lost 10 and then started Atkins 1/26, lost the other 31 since then)---I'm happy with the results, I must say!!!

[med234]

(Okay, I'm anal...I keep an Excel spreadsheet with my stats.)



LOL!
Do you mean some people don't?!?

[will12]

i am in exactly one month now today and have dropped 26 pounds.

[mmf503]

your first 2 weeks... 11 pounds

your first month... 12.5 pounds

your second month... 21.5


I got off to a slow start for some reason but I seem to be picking up momentum. When I'm on plan faithfully I lose about 10-12 pounds a month.

[med234]

I got off to a slow start for some reason


I think i take the prize for slowest loser, but i comfort myself with those sayings that the slower you lose, the slower you gain it back!

[j13]

I think i take the prize for slowest loser, but i comfort myself with those sayings that the slower you lose, the slower you gain it back!

It really doesn't matter how fast you lose it, it matters *that* you lose it, and *that* you become healthier. I've lost at least 161 lbs so far (~14 months), I lost very quickly at first, and have lost much, much more slowly recently. But I have, indeed, continued to lose consistently. I have to say, though, that threads like these, to be honest, really kind of make me wary...it seems to lead naturally to people comparing their losses to other people's, which is both unfair (because your body isn't anyone else's, and it *will* react differently than anyone else's) and often counterproductive (because people can think they're doing something wrong if they're not losing as fast as someone else, or can be discouraged because they think they're cursed for their rate of losing, or get arrogant and go off plan because they're losing so quickly).

Anyway, the way I look at it is that today I'll do my best to eat well and exercise to the best of my ability. Beyond that, I surrender all control over the results on the scale.

-j.

[med234]

It really doesn't matter how fast you lose it, it matters *that* you lose it, and *that* you become healthier.
... people can think they're doing something wrong if they're not losing as fast as someone else, or can be discouraged because they think they're cursed for their rate of losing,-j.

Thanks, J.
You are absolutely right.

[Calianna]

I have to say, though, that threads like these, to be honest, really kind of make me wary...it seems to lead naturally to people comparing their losses to other people's, which is both unfair (because your body isn't anyone else's, and it *will* react differently than anyone else's) and often counterproductive (because people can think they're doing something wrong if they're not losing as fast as someone else, or can be discouraged because they think they're cursed for their rate of losing, or get arrogant and go off plan because they're losing so quickly).

I hope we're seeing enough variety of stats on here that it's clear that this is a definite case of "your mileage may vary".

Any one individual's results are going to depend on several factors, including, but certainly not limited to such things as start weight, how much you have to lose, how metabolically resistant you are, how "perfectly" you're following the plan, etc.

[I'd give you my stats, but I didn't keep records - not to mention that I started this after I'd already been off sugars for 3 years, and had already lost about 50 lbs from that. I can tell you though that because I didn't go from the standard "scarfing down every carb in sight" to strict induction overnight, I didn't lose much at all the first two weeks - maybe a pound or two.]

[MizKitty]

After 2 weeks - 13 lbs
After 4 weeks - 13.5 lbs (I kinda stalled out right away, but...)
After 8 weeks - 23.5 lbs

So the moral of THAT story is - hang in there!!

[WildCherry]

People lose more faster when they are bigger, I've noticed that people who started out at 180-200 only lost around 15-20lbs in a month, and if you're bigger you'll lose a bit more unless you've stalled right off, As others have said here, It can be a great disappoint ment seeing how much others have lost in 2 weeks,and then compare yourself, you have to realize that ALL bodies, shapes and forms will stall, and will either speed up or slow down....

I'm only 1 week on it,and i'm not even sure how much i weigh right now, but 2morrow is the big weigh day.....

[TheBetty]

This thread was great incentive to take a long look at my progress over the past 5 years. So I documented it in my journal for my own edification and am posting it here. Hope this helps. :wave:

Date -- Total Loss in Pounds
02/02/2002 -- -0
05/20/2002 -- -36.5
07/22/2002 -- -39
07/31/2002 -- -40
08/10/2002 -- -41
08/26/2002 -- -41.5
08/28/2002 -- -43
09/06/2002 -- -43.5
09/07/2002 -- -44.5
10/12/2002 -- -45
09/28/2004 -- -57.5
10/01/2004 -- -58.5
10/25/2004 -- -62.5
10/26/2004 -- -63
11/03/2004 -- -64
11/11/2204 -- -64.5
11/22/2004 -- -66
11/24/2004 -- -66.5
12/23/2004 -- -71.5
01/03/2005 -- -73
01/12/2005 -- -78
01/13/2005 -- -79
04/07/2005 -- -81.5
04/08/2005 -- -83
04/18/2005 -- -83.5
12/05/2006 -- -61.5 (regain of 22 pounds)
02/14/2007 -- -75.5
02/21/2007 -- -77
02/22/2007 -- -77.5
02/24/2007 -- -80
03/08/2007 -- -81
03/13/2007 -- -83
03/20/2007 -- -84
03/21/2007 -- -85
03/22/2007 -- -85.5