Ladies, how long did it take you to lose your first 10lb?

[stosa]

@emilythunder Whats your weight

 

[emilythunder]

@stosa 120lbs

 

[stosa]

@emilythunder Nice! And do you eat 2000 plus daily

 

[emilythunder]

@stosa I try to eat enough but sometimes I'm not that hungry. I tend to eat more on workout days ... my stomach will growl

 

[stosa]

@emilythunder Ah ok whats your average intake

 

[simsodep8388]

@regadoo I have found that being super strict during the week but less strict on the weekends is much slower than trying to be consistent. If you look at Saturday, Sunday, and half of Friday, that's 2.5 days of loose counting - 2.5 lenient days is actually a bigger percentage of the week than you might think. And if you're not being very accurate, you could very easily negate the 4.5 days of strict counting.

I totally get not going insane doing strict counting 24/7 though. I think you can a) continue doing it this way but recognize and accept that it will take longer or b) maybe only do one day of lenient counting, like only Saturday.

At your current stats, because you're not super tall and you are already at a relatively lower weight, it's going to take way more consistent tracking - or just accepting it'll take longer.

Edit to add, the closer you get to your goal weight the less likely you'll be able to avoid strict counting. You'll know when you start to plateau.

 

[aweome]

@regadoo Took me 8 months to go from 5’ 127 to 117… started off losing 2 lbs the first month, then each month I lost a little less, then 2 months of plateau, then another few ounces. Would love to get to 110, but I foresee that taking more than the next 8 months.

 

[regadoo]

@aweome Wow our stats are similar! What did you to go lose those 10lbs?

 

[aweome]

@regadoo I had gotten a stationary bike about a year ago, and at the end of January, I told myself I would get on it and do at least a 20-minute class on the app 5 days a week. Gradually progressed to 30min and then 45 or 60min classes. My fitness tracker says I lose about 200-300 calories in a class, and that’s really what I did the first 6 months. I’d already been intermittent fasting for years without any results.