I often read threads in this forum where people are disappointed with their weight loss. People compare themselves to others and feel that their loss is not good enough or not fast enough.

Apart from the fact that everyone is different and their body is different people often forget to look at things such as starting weight. Someone that weighs more will initially lose weight a lot more quickly than someone who does not weigh as much. As people get closer to their goal weight the loss slows down and it gets harder.

So instead of focussing on the number of lbs or kgs or stones lost rather look at the percentage of your body weight that you have lost.

For example a person weighing 400lb may drop 100lb very quickly. That is a fantastic achievement, but lets look at it another way they have lost 25% of their body weight. Another person may have "only" lost 60lb. Lets say their starting weight was 290lb - that is almost 21% - still amazing.

So why not do the calculation and see how much you have really lost. It may make you feel heaps better.

My stats.

Starting weight 74kg or 163lb

Lowest weight 50 kg or 110lb

Total lost 24 kg or 53lb

Percentage of weight lost 32%

If you had 100 pounds to lose and you lost 80 of those 100 pounds, then you would have lost 80% of your excess weight. In short, take the weight you have lost and divide that number by the total amount of weight that you have/ had to lose. If you have lost more than what you set out to lose, then you have lost more than 100% of your excess weight. Does this help? ;-P

I think that is what I did??? Although I had a typo...I *needed* to lose 68 lbs to get to a normal BMI, I lost 77. I read the Original Post to be asking how much of your total weight have you lost. So that would be the weight I've lost divided by my starting weight...no? I now weigh about 2/3 what I did when I started..another way to look at it! I've lost a third of myself. And 5-6 pants sizes (seven if you count the odd pair of size 6 capri jeans I got last weekend!!). Also 2 ring sizes and a shoe size. Oh, and my pants got longer before I started dropping sizes! A 16" Tiffany heart necklace that was very tight now hangs perfectly.

Woot!!!

:-)

Starting weight 250 lbs

Current weight 199 lbs

Total loss 51 lbs, 20.4%