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Anonymous
10 lbs in one month is not unreasonable, but you need to qualify it.
you can lose 10lbs of (mostly) water weight relatively quickly, but it's easy to put it back on.
1 lb of fat is 3500 calories, so losing 10 lbs of fat in 30 days is running you at almost negative 1200 calories per day. that means just living (daily metabolic activity) plus exercise totals 1200 calories per day above what you take in. that is a bit tougher.
without throwing you into a really rigorous exercise plan paired with a borderline starvation diet, a more moderate goal would probably be about half that. 5lbs in a month is about -600 calories per day, which is not that huge a transition.
i'd recommend something more qualitative for a goal: how about buying a smaller pair of pants that you'd like to fit in and trying to get into those after a month or two? you have a goal, and that's good, but it's also pretty vague. you don't say you're training for sport or for a purpose, so i'm assuming you're doing it for general health/appearance reasons.
i think too many people focus on "losing x number of pounds" rather than on something more tangible: looking and feeling better. i would recommend against becoming a scale slave and focus on improving your opinion of yourself and focusing your goals there.
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