Is my weight loss too slow?

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Body fights back to its set point — resists loss thinking starvation's coming. I bumped protein and vary calories daily (range 1300–1800). Hit my macros and work out 3–4 times a week for fitness, not the scale. Helps keep momentum.
 
Stalled forever at 46 and in peri. switched to mechanical eating instead of tracking (fat science podcast inspiration). two months in, broke the stall, lost like 4 lbs, feeling way better w/ more energy. scary at first but it worked.
 
wow, that transformation. confidence shows through way more than the weight. happy birthday and serious respect for putting in the work.
 
Yeah, weaker appetite cut could be good - lets you hit nutrition targets, keep muscle. Losing too much muscle makes maintenance a nightmare later.
 
The initial loss being water-weighted is the standard pattern - the rate settling lower doesn't mean the mechanism is slowing, just normalizing. Most people see a real slowdown in months 2-3 and then a more gradual but consistent line after that. Higher early loss is actually a favorable signal, not a misleading one.
 
Slow pace on GLP-1 often comes back to calories being too low rather than the medication not working. When appetite drops dramatically, it's easy to undershoot - and that's when muscle loss picks up and metabolism adapts downward. At 12 months and 58 lbs, the slow and steady pattern is working. Check protein is actually hitting 100g+ before anything else.
 
Random weigh-ins on different schedules make the trend invisible - daily at the same time and a 7-day rolling average is the standard. Weight variation within a week from water, food volume, and hormonal cycles can be 3-5 lbs and masks real progress.
 
The HIIT addition at a plateau is a legitimate lever - intermittent high intensity stimulus drives different metabolic adaptation than steady-state. Shifting focus from weight loss toward muscle composition means the scale may stall further while body composition improves, which is the right trade when the last pounds are slow.
 
Weight loss with depression and disabilities in the mix reads differently than the fast-loss posts - they usually have more capacity for meal prep. Progress managing both at once is slower by design. The rate isn't a sign something is wrong.
 
A very slow period after 9 months at higher doses is frustrating but consistent with what a lot of people experience - the effect levels off and pushing higher doesn't produce proportional results. Clean eating and walking is the right foundation. Are you also doing any resistance work? That can sometimes restart movement when the scale has stopped.
 
The heaping cups problem is one of the most consistent calorie estimation failures - people think they're measuring and they are, but a heaped half-cup of something dense is 40-60% more than level. Weighing by grams for a week is the only way to know what you're actually consuming.
 
Technically speaking, losing half a pound weekly falls squarely within a healthy range. Might be worth checking whether expectations are set a bit too aggressively.
 
What's your weight sitting at currently? Some ups and downs are totally expected, and that calorie level is extremely low, so you'll keep trending down regardless.
 
But that wasn't your situation, you weren't at 15mg and hadn't tried the advice laid out across so many other posts yet. Went ten months myself without losing anything. Recently got properly focused again and it's helping the same way it used to.

Grief makes everything so much harder, but pushing up to 15mg while actually tracking, adding fiber, all of it, will show whether it can actually help. This stuff simply doesn't do the work by itself, that much I've learned the hard way!!
 
This doesn't read as slow to me at all! If the pace does slow down further, just keep bumping the amount up.
 
Therapeutic doses usually arrive around week 12, so you've only been at one for about 4 weeks. 12 pounds in 4 months is a perfectly healthy rate. You didn't gain it overnight, and it won't come off overnight either. Many of the insane 'I lost 50 pounds in 1 month' posts come from very obese people. I lost much faster when obese than when overweight, since higher weight means higher TDEE. For scale, 50 lbs off a 500 lb person equals about 15 off someone at 200. I shed roughly 100 lbs in eighteen months on these meds, while tracking calories, weighing my food, following a heavy lifting protocol and getting around 10k brisk inclined steps daily. I am now 3 years in. Hitting the gym 4x could mean many things: around half the folks at my gym walk gradually on a level treadmill for half an hour.
 
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