what's your target weight stark? one pound a week looks all right to me.
I was 230lbs after eating all you can in Nov & December

I'm at 213lbs now (sorry I'm using Google to convert the weight)
My target will be another 5 kilos.
I wasted a month because I had to figure out what worked best this year, it's always different each year for me so far... however I'm not going to do the bulking thing again, I'm not good at it.