I think that's going to vary a lot by how much weight someone has to lose and how strictly they work the plan.
Oh definitely. Also, how old they are, if they work out, and even down to if they have the type of metabolism that lets them lose easily once they start trying (or if they are the opposite).
A member celebrated reaching 100lbs in my meeting today. It took him 5 years but he stuck with it and he's not done losing yet. So 100lbs in 5yrs works out to about what... half a pound per week? ...maybe less? (not very good at math). I just mention this because lots of people get discouraged with their weight loss journey because it doesn't come off as fast as they would like but this guy never gave up. During the long process, he has not only lost the weight but he's learned valuable lessons as well, like how to make healthy choices and how to recover after having a bad day or bad week. So I just wanted to say that sometimes when the scale doesn't tell us what we want to hear, we shouldn't give up.
That is SO amazing. 4 years ago my husband was doing WW on his own (I wasn't willing to change my eating, boo on me) and was losing .2, .4, gain .4, lose .6, .2, gain .2 (and so on). He felt that those were "bad" losses, and after a year or so, he quit.
And, bet you can guess...put all the weight and so much more right back on. (to be fair, it did turn out that during that time he was developing a pituitary tumor that normally causes BIG weight gains, so the losses were actually *extra* good, considering)
This time he KNOWS that ANY loss is good! And that story was very powerful.
During our first time through WW together (preparing for our wedding), a Lifetime member shared her (also Lifetime) father's thought on the relative expense of getting to goal. The father said that if someone were to come to you and ask you how much you would pay to be at goal...would the total amount you would offer be *less* than what you'll end up spending with WW to get to goal? Probably not.
And doing the cost of our Monthly pass for that man's 5 years...isn't actually THAT expensive. it really opened my eyes! So THANK YOU for sharing the story!
You forgot about us!
. Love my heart rate monitor. Keep up the great job sounds like you'll need to go shopping soon.
I'm so sorry I forgot. I keep forgetting about the trip report I'm still writing for Universal, too.
The nurse told me that one of their staff members has lost some weight and is no longer on pain meds or bp meds and is also no longer pre-diabetic. That's encouraging to hear.
Just keep going! It hasn't been long at all; maybe your body just needs to catch up to itself. *ETA...I'm going by the amount you've lost just since March...assuming that's your total loss...I might be wrong though! forgive me if it's been much longer than that*
At our last meeting, there were *scads* of people telling about having their medications lowered or stopped completely after they lost weight! I think that most of them ,if not all, were *at least* at their 10% and many were beyond that once the medications changed, so keep plugging away!
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