When talking about getting on the scales, something I’ve heard a lot, both here and elsewhere, is that around 1.5 pounds a week is a healthy pace for weight loss on average. Any more than that and it’s probably not super sustainable in the long run. I know of course that every body is different, but this seems a relatively popular logic.
The question I had was about applying this same type of logic to body measurements - in other words: is there an average amount of “inches lost” that can be considered a good pace?
I assume of course that if you have a higher bodyfat percentage, you have more inches to loose, so it would presumably have to be a rolling scale, maybe to the point where something like this isn’t possible, but I was just curious what other people found in their own health journeys, when it came to the “pace of inch-loss”.
Personally (m27), over a couple of years, I’ve dropped from 19 to 17 stone, but there have been many setbacks and plateaus in that time, and I only started body measurements 6 weeks ago when I signed up for the Jo Wicks 90 day plan. 6 weeks in, I’ve dropped 4 pounds to 16.10, but I’ve shifted from a 45.5 chest to a 42, same for waist, and a 44.5 hips to a 42. I’ve also gained about an inch and a half on my arms and roughly maintained on my legs.
How does that kind of pace compare to everyone else? Obviously, body measurements have a significant margin of error, but that’s roughly 3.5 inches in 6 weeks, or just a smidge under 0.6 inches per week.
As I say, I’m not trying to establish a hard and fast rule here, just curious?
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