Does Weight Loss Slow Down the More you Lose?

Answer 1

Yes and the slower the better as it stays off longer. You body has to adjust. Good luck and keep up the good work :-)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Of course it does. At first you lose some fat, some water and a tiny bit of muscle. Soon the water loss stops. If you lose weight you burn less calories each day as you are effectively doing less work/carrying less weight around. After the first few weeks you don't reallyt want to be loosing more than 1-2 pounds a week anyway as you only want to lose fat (not muscle). If the weight loss has slowed down to less than this, you could have hit a "Plateau" which is your body desperately trying to fight your efforts. The way around this is simple - more exercise. Even if you are doing alot already, do MORE just for a couple of weeks til you break the plateau. Then go back to usual.
A slower weight loss is better though as you are less likely to put it back on. Exercise should always be a part of it too

Answer 4

Short answer: yes
Long answer - I need a whole webpage !!! :)
Well, there are different methods (more or less accurate) to determine if a person is overweight or underweight.

One of them is BMI (body mass index) - a ratio between weight and height. It is a mathematical formula that correlates with body fat, used to evaluate if a person is at an unhealthy weight (given a certain height). BMI value is more useful for predicting health risks than the weight alone (for adults ages 18 and up).

For women, an ideal weight range (meaning low risk) is represented by a BMI in a range of 19.1 – 25.8.

Now, closer you get to that "ideal weight", harder it is to lose weight. It's like an "innertial" effect of your body, which needs time to adjust to a new weight.

Time is an important factor in reaching your ideal weight.
Don't give up! And have patience!

Answer 5

Yes. However, it depends on how you are losing weight. I you are cutting out calories and increasing exercise, you metabolic rate should stabilise as you get close to your ideal healthy body weight. There is an optimal rate you should achieve for your age and weight. You really cant increase it naturally and that is why as you get closer, the wight loss goes down.

Answer 6

Yes most people find that because in the early days when you lose substantial amounts of weight--- a large percentage is water, as you proceed there is less water to lose and dieting becomes more difficult.
Do not give if you are overweight you will most likely be made miserable because you will be robbing yourself of your true health and beauty potential

Answer 7

Yes because if you're only dieting, the body adjusts it's metabolic rate and slows it down. That's why it's best that diet be combined with exercise or weight training to keep the metabolism in high gear.

Answer 8

Yes, if you are dieting very aggressively the initial weight tends to fall off, but once you get to a certain stage it does star to slow down. I went from 114kg to 98kg in about 6 weeks, from 98kg to 95kg it took about 4 weeks. I did not change my diet it just tends to slow down. Don't become despondent, just keep going and you will reach your goal, I also find exercise does help a great deal.........

Answer 9

yes it does, i joined weight watchers in march and for a while i was losing 7-8 pound a mth without trying that hard but now ive lost 36 pounds im really struggling, im the same weight i was 3wks ago. your body adjusts to what your doing so you always need to step it up a bit to keep going

Answer 10

Yes. The heavier you are the faster you will lose at first. When you get closer and closer to what you should weigh, the weight will come off slower if you don't change your eating and exercise habits. As you lose weight you need to eat less and less and exercise more and more to keep it coming off.

Answer 11

If you moved 10% of a pile of dirt that weighed 300 pounds, that would be 30 pounds.

If you moved 10% of a pile of dirt that weighed 200 pounds, that would be 20 pounds.

If you moved 10% of a pile of dirt that weighed 100 pounds, that would be 10 pounds.

Do you see the correlation with weight loss?