Is it normal / healthy to lose ~10 lbs in the first week?

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Hey everyone! Like many of you, I recently decided to commit to making some healthy lifestyle changes in the old fat and diet department. Losing weight is so overwhelming as a simple google search flood with you with legitimate and illegitamte information.

I appreciate this sub existing. Now that things have "clicked" with caloric intake / outake, I'm really coming to understand how I can get to a healthier weight.

Some background: I'm a 43 y/o male, 5'10, and have been hovering around the 192-195lb mark for the last year or so. I've never considered my relationship with food unhealthy. I don't binge or anything, but I just ate whatever I wanted. I love mexican food. A lot.

So I orderd a fitbit and have started tracking all of my meals. I typically take a 30-min walk 1-2 times a day with the dogs. I landed on shooting for a 3-500 calorie deficit for the day and have been eating a lot of Snap Kitchen meals for lunches and dinners, but let myself have a cheeseburger and a few restraunt outings throughout the week so long as I don't over do it and track my intake. My deficit has actually ranged from ~600-1000 over this time just due to more exercise on some days / less caloric meals. To be clear, though, I haven't really ramped up my exercise much compared to the past.

Anyway, I realize it's common to lose a bit of weight up front and then plateu, but I lost just under 10lbs in the first week. I weigh myself at the same time every morning wearing roughly the same thing (pajamas). I use a smart scale that tracks my weight and estimates my body fat %.

Is this normal / healthy? I realize it will start slowing down, but that seems like a lot. I'm a little hungry throughout the day, but don't feel like I'm starving myself or anything. Here are the calories in / out and weight loss over the last week:

	Calories In	Calories Out	Deficit	Weight	Fat %
11/30	1575	2724	-1149	192	22.5
12/1	1990	2623	-633	190	22.4
12/2	1936	2809	-873	187	22.3
12/3	1886	2657	-771	186.2	22.1
12/4	2353	2988	-635	185.8	22
12/5	2363	2372	-9	184.4	21.7
12/6	1573	2633	-1060	182.2	21.6

Any advice or input would be very much appreciated! Happy to hear if I should make any adjustments, keep doing what I'm doing, or any other tips.

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