How Quickly Can You Lose 10lbs of Fat?

In my last post on Tim Russert and George Carlin, I wrote about how losing just 10lbs can make a huge impact on your health.

It's amazing what reducing the size of your waist and dropping excess body fat can do for limiting many health problems including heart disease.

So, how quickly can you lose 10lbs?

The standard answer is 1-2lbs a week. In this scenario it would take 5 – 10 weeks or about 2 months.

A more accurate estimation would be using 1% of your total body weight as a weight loss benchmark per week. For example if you weigh 165lbs, you should shoot for a weight loss of 1.65lbs per week.

Obviously, some weeks will be better than others, but in the end you should average about 1%.