How much will I lose each week?
When will I get to target?

Common questions? We should say so! Easy answer? No, I’m afraid not.

How quickly depends on:

• How long you’ve been over weight -
• recently acquired weight tends to come off more quickly.
• If you have been dieting prior to joining us, particularly if it was an over strict diet. You will have had your initial high loss including the glycogen (water).
• Your normal eating habits - if you normally take sugar - you can give it up!
• If you eat a great deal of high-fat high-sugar foods normally cutting down on them will produce a substantial weight loss.
• If, on the other hand you’re general habits are reasonable sensible, you will not produce an immediate large loss.
• Activity levels are another consideration - if they are low, if you increase them (always a good idea, although keep -fit does not produce satisfactory weight loss)

There are other considerations, for example age, or alterations in normal routine.

For the purpose of this discussion, the other main one is, HOW STRICTLY YOU STICK TO THE DIET!!!!

As it takes 3,500 calories a day, in excess of bodily needs to produce a lb of excess fat, it follows that it takes a deficit of 3,500 to lose a lb of body fat!!!!

So if you eat 500 calories a day less than you normally would totalling 3,500 in a week - you lose a lb!!

If you eat 1,000 less a day, giving 7,000 calories in a week you lose 2lb!!!

This is a simplistic, but accurate description of potential weight loss. Which means that those of you who lose lb per week are in fact, having a perfectly acceptable weight loss.

In real terms, weight loss tends to be between 1 lb - 4 lb per week depending on how much a member has to lose. Plus, of course, how strictly they stick to it on a regular WEEKLY basis, not, one really good week followed by a bad week, followed by an indifferent week!

Although diets particularly, as found is measured in calories (units of energy) in all calculations the calories intake must be considered, as far as discussing speed of weight loss in concerned.