The rapid loss also feeds my current frustration. It isn't unusual for one pound of loss to take double the average and some others to seem really quick. Now that I am aiming for about a pound a week, that could be two weeks of seeing no progress even if I am going to lose at the rate I want over the long haul. When I was losing a pound every couple of days, taking twice as long as average was still under 5 days. I keep telling myself it is perfectly normal for the scale to hold steady every now and then even though I am in calorie deficit. But it better start moving soon before I start pulling my hair out...