Has Calorie Coach Forsaken me?

I have just started and already my goal date and the calorie coach date are in conflict by a difference of 5 months?!  I cannot believe them both.  My calories each day are just short of my goal, and the burn meter shows that I am using them up as planned . . . Why is the calorie coach telling me it will take sooo much longer to reach my goal then the planned date?

The calorie coach says the date that you SHOULD lose all the weight by, losing 1-2 pounds a week only. You can set your planned date to what you want, but he'll work in a healthy way.

 I am planning for 2 pounds per week, meeting the goal in July (25 weeks from now).  It says December.  So far in two weeks I have lost 5 pounds.  I doubt that rate will continue, but calorie coach has me reaching my goal of 48 pounds in December after 44 weeks .  . ?

Have you updated your weight log?  That's where the calorie coach gets it's information.

I have been updating the log as I loose weight.  My scale measures to the tenth decimal . . . so I can see some minor amount of loss every few days.

Still according to the calorie coach I would only be loosing .25-.50 pounds per week to loose 48 pounds in 88 weeks . . .

I've noticed the same thing, as I continue to put my current weight in the date gets closer to my goal date. I'm assuming Calorie Coach guesses on the low side so we don't get disappointed or have expectations that are unattainable.

Ah, that might explain what I'm seeing.

I've failed so many times, I deliberately set out to make my goal easily possible.  So I set my goals to lose 32 pounds in a year (by 1/23/09)

Calorie Coach says I'll make it by Sept 5.

Obviously, if it's right, I'll be thrilled, but I'm giving myself the room to take as long as I need to do it successfully, as long as I take 10-15% off my current weight within the year.  According to the literature I see, that much is enough to give me some real medical benefits.

Then I can set other goals. 

My calorie coach says we do not yet have enough data to verify your goal what does this mean?

you probably need to update your current weight.