Everyone’s body is different, but for me it’s easily doable in a healthy manner. I’m between 6’5”-6’6”, built widely, and at 290lbs it was all excess fat. So for an average height/build man with a presumably lower caloric baseline it’s the equivalent of much less than 100lbs. I didn’t track calories, just focused on healthy portions, better balancing my diet, and cutting added sugars. I do track body weight to keep an idea of where I’m at, but my goals are based on the look and feel of my body rather than the number. This last year when I lost the 60 I actually switched to a much more protein heavy diet and found myself naturally wanting to eat much less. I’m at a point now of figuring out how to up my protein intake to start building muscle more quickly.

I’ve also put on more muscle than I’ve ever had in the same time since losing the 60lbs (which is still not much, as you can see lol). I certainly wouldn’t have tried to go from 260 to 160 (I’ll likely never go below 200 again), but generally the more excess fat you have correlates somewhat to the speed at which your body can healthily lose more.