Slow start? or How much weight should I be losing at once?

My partner and I bought a scale. We own a scale and it sits in our bathroom. Ugh! 

My sister inspired me to focus on my weight loss. She has lost over 100 pounds on Weight Watchers. She looks amazing. I know that one thing Weight Watchers focuses on is  losing  a consistent amount of weight over a long period of time. My sister actually got a "ticket" for going too fast, and losing too much weight too quickly. Now, she is a busy 25 year old woman, so her group leader told her that it didn't really matter. Occasionally losing weight fast is okay, especially for her. But in general "they" (the nutritionists and researchers in weight loss areas) have found that if you lose weight more slowly you will keep it off longer. 

I think this raises a question of causality. If you lose weight slowly, it usually means you have changed your lifestyle. Where if you lose weight quickly you may be doing a crash diet or diet pill, or some such thing. 

Obviously along these lines I would like to lose weight and keep it off. I would also like to lose some weight now so that it shows and I feel great! The women I know who did Weight Watchers lost 2-4 pounds a week for the first few weeks. Once I started writing this I realized that in the back of my mind that was my goal as well. Honestly, it is not happening. 

I have a graph in the bedroom that I am marking my and my partner's weight loss on. In the past two weeks I have lost one pound a week. 1 pound!? WTF?!

I told my partner "So it will only take 80 weeks to lose all the weight," I was being sarcastic, obviously, I thought. His response, "Great honey!"    Seriously!? 80 weeks is a year and a half! 

I really want to lose the weight in less than an year and half. Or at least get a good 20 pound head start. 

I think this goes to show how supportive my partner is. :0) 

It also raises the question of expectations and goals. My goals are to blog more, eat better, move more. They are all lifestyle things. I have a goal weight, but not a goal time period. That seemed like too much pressure. But the changes I have made are not getting me where I want to go fast enough. 

I don't have answers right now. I will try a few more weeks and see what happens. I have room for improvement in just what I have been attempting. I can work out more days of the week. I can eat better still, there are still days where my choices are a bit dubious. Then I can decide if maybe I need to put more pressure on myself for results in a certain time table.