133 and don't need to lose weight? I beg to differ!

Hey, havent weighted myself for about a week now , last time I checked I was at 119lbs =D
115lbs is now my offical stopping then I`m going to tone up (and probably gain some weight from muscle).
I`m weighting myself tomorrow morning when I wake up and will post my results. I dont treat the weekends like my week, I eat usually the sameish but chose abit less healthier things to eat(though they are still healthy) and I `m not as active though active.
I make weekends more relaxed with a treat to keep my temptations in control.

It is a beautiful day out today , too bad I`ve been in all day cleaning XD.

I found akinda before photo of myself , it isnt the best and is about at 133lbs. Trying to find a better one so maybe I can post one up and a after photo.

Good luck everyone and keep the great work up!
Have a good healthy day also! =)
 
I really feel like giving up on making the stupid scale move. It seriously seems impossible right now.
 
Hey I'm really glad I came across this post! I know exactly how you feel, everyone tells me I shouldn't loose weight but there are some flabby bits I would really like to get rid of. It's mainly toning for me but I know you need to loose the fat for the muscle to really show.
I'm using summer as motivation so I can feel really confident in my bikini :D
Good Luck!
 
Hey. I am 5'3 and 135 lbs. I was at 143 on March 1, so im doing all right. My goal weight is 122 by the summer . Im glad i found this forum and everyone keep updating! What kind of exercise routines is everyone doing? Or diets?
 
Diets never do work for me. I just try to eat as healthy as I can and incorporate exercise into every day- it is a lifestyle change after all, right? :)
 
I have to agree that everyone keeps telling that "you're great now" or "you don't need to loose more" or "you are at a healthy weight".
And have you seen my thighs rubbing? my love handles? my flobby arms?! there's a different between being "normal" and being "lean and fit".. and that's the extra bit people keep telling you off for.

At 5"2' and 115 lbs, I am normal, okay. but do I look lean and fit? no. I'm short, so every extra lbs shows while a taller person can carry a couple lbs more without looking that different. So I won't judge anyone trying to go that extra bit. As I won't judge those that don't.
And by no means, do I mean becoming a size 0 or even 00. :) just making that clear since people can get susceptible.

Good luck to all you gals (and guys) .. If I ever bother finding my camera, will put up some pics of my progress. hope to see yours too!
 
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ugh

Here I am, the one who started this stream, and I'm NOT doing well.

About 2 weeks ago I started having regular panic attacks. HELLO??

I mean, almost daily panic/anxiety attacks. So obviously this completely took my mind off of any kind of fitness goals. I am back at 135 pounds. I am not changing my ticker though...because I haven't had an anxiety attack the last 2 days so I think I can get back on track. I'm just bummed because it's May, it's nice out, and I had so wanted to be into the 120s by now. :(

But I guess this high-pressure thinking is what brought on my anxiety, so I'm going to be nice to myself, get a good sleep, and start again.
 
Calm down hun ! what's making you stress so much? come on, vent it out =)
Is there anything you could do to keep the stress off?

I understand tho, been very stressed lately too due to negative replies from universities I'd apply to and still waiting for late replies and generally not knowing how life will be in a few months.
I end up going out to eat too much: had a 1600 kcal min dinner yesterday, not sleeping well hence too tired to exercise, want to eat a piece of cake... =/ hence not been losing any weight lately or rather, very slowly.

Need to find a way to manage stress better !
 
Hi Sinui,

Any idea about the university thing yet?

Well, the panic attacks have simmered down - way down - to the point where I usually can stop it before it gets crazy. I'm not too sure if it was any one thing causing them. I think it has been just so many different things on my mind and causing overload.

All last week I went for walks in nature and then jogged home. They weren't long jogs, and they weren't everyday, but they were most days, and they felt good.

I leafed through my copy of 'Skinny Bitch' a couple of days ago and decided to try the diet in the back of the book. It's a 4-week diet. It's a diet I could never stick to for the rest of my life, but I think I could do it for 4 weeks. So I'm going to, as a last resort way of losing SOME weight before my wedding dress fitting. I'm going to also keep up with the exercising.

Anyway, this diet is vegan...yes, vegan, which is why I could never do it forever. I am a vegetarian who eats seafood (pescatarian?) normally, but like, it's 4 weeks. 30 days. Read the article on the '30 Day Challenge' on . It explains why almost anything is possible if you think of it in terms of only doing it for 30 days.

Yada yada, don't take my advice, as I have yet to succeed! :D lol...
but at least I haven't given up.
 
This is a great thread, thanks for starting it!
I am 40 yo, 5'2" 130 lb.

People don't even bother telling me I don't need to lose weight anymore, they start sharing weight loss ideas with me instead!

My bikini picture looks worse each year. Not that I go out in public in it, but let's just say I have a lot of "before" pictures and only one after...which is really a before picture because I don't look like that anymore.

The Saturday before last, I was 133, my highest in about eight years. The worst feeling is my gut hanging out more each year - I need to do some serious toning in addition to weight loss.
I started South Beach two Saturdays ago (5/10), but have had about as many cheat days as good days. Still, I managed to lose 3 lb, unless that was just water weight.

The worst thing is that the same day I started SB, I was riding my son's dirt bike (bad idea), crashed it and tore my ACL and MCL. Now I am in a knee brace and on crutches, awaiting surgery. So much for my high aspirations of bike rides this summer to help battle this growing bulge. :nopity:

Maybe it will at least get me out of the mindset that if I exercise for 1/2 hour, it's somehow OK for me to binge later that day. I will really have to be careful now that I can't be as active. I'm trying to make myself at least do a little weight lifting and what I can of my pilates video.

Anyway, good luck to everyone and thanks for posting!
 
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Welcome, BikePotato. :)

We are all in this together - weight loss is hard.

I thought I'd share my small bit of success with you all. I mentioned starting the 'Skinny Bitch' diet, which isn't really a diet at all - they advocate going completely vegan - something I likely could never stick to, but boy, is it working so far!

Because it eliminates butter, cheese, eggs, and any kind of animal product (even casein and whey), it is steering me towards what is left! :D Because there are so many foods containing animal products that I now cannot have, I am reaching for more of the things we should be eating more of ANYway - fruits, veggies, whole grains, beans, etc. Also soy...however sometimes I wonder if it's wise to eat so many soy products. (The topic of vegetarianism/veganism and what people should and should not eat can be controversial and probably should be saved for another stream - I'm not telling anyone what to eat! :) )

But I will say that I But I've been doing it since May 19 (6 days now) and I weigh about 132, but I didn't weigh myself for a couple of weeks prior to starting so I'm not sure how much I was at the start. I'm pretty sure I lost at least 2 pounds in 6 days.

After 30 days I will more than likely go back to my old ways of being a "vegetarian" who eats seafood and SOME dairy (cheese, ice cream now and then, eggs -- but I've been off milk since 1997.) The only thing with this is that more 'diet breaking' foods will then be allowed. So I'll have to watch it.

Exercise is still something I am trying to do MOST days. I'm doing pretty good!

How's everyone doing?
 
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Hi Sinui,

Any idea about the university thing yet?

Well, the panic attacks have simmered down - way down - to the point where I usually can stop it before it gets crazy. I'm not too sure if it was any one thing causing them. I think it has been just so many different things on my mind and causing overload.

All last week I went for walks in nature and then jogged home. They weren't long jogs, and they weren't everyday, but they were most days, and they felt good.

I leafed through my copy of 'Skinny Bitch' a couple of days ago and decided to try the diet in the back of the book. It's a 4-week diet. It's a diet I could never stick to for the rest of my life, but I think I could do it for 4 weeks. So I'm going to, as a last resort way of losing SOME weight before my wedding dress fitting. I'm going to also keep up with the exercising.

Anyway, this diet is vegan...yes, vegan, which is why I could never do it forever. I am a vegetarian who eats seafood (pescatarian?) normally, but like, it's 4 weeks. 30 days. Read the article on the '30 Day Challenge' on . It explains why almost anything is possible if you think of it in terms of only doing it for 30 days.

Yada yada, don't take my advice, as I have yet to succeed! :D lol...
but at least I haven't given up.
Click to expand...

Yep finally got the answer after a month! (3 months overdue answer)
I see you've done some progress with your vegan diet =)
SIGH how I wish I had the determination to follow something like that!
I could never become vegan, even for a few weeks and I don't even eat meat much! like 1-2 week. But cheese? yogurt? egg? fish?

I also wonder about the soybean/tofu: since it's protein. Basically the idea behind the vegan diet being to avoid protein. but then again, I'm not sure.

*stares at her broccoli and green beans* ...

...

PEH! >.<

good luck ! ... and god you're strong.
 
Sinui - haha, yeah I don't want to do this forever!
But I can't believe how easy I'm finding it. It's nice to be able to enjoy a meal that doesn't have cheese in it. The no-dairy thing is working fine for me. I will eat fish again for sure after this is over. Eggs I will go back to eating in moderation.

My weight loss has kind of plateaued at 3.5 pounds though. I attribute it to not exercising enough. I'm going for hikes with short jogging spurts almost daily but they're not really getting the heart pumping much.

If I could just push past 130 I'd finally feel like I made some REAL progress!
 
Now I feel absolutely adamant. I'm against my dietitian. She wants me to maintain around 135. I say that's a no-no. I'm 5'4" and currently weigh 147.0 lbs. and have come down from 171. I think I would feel comfortable around 115-120 lbs. I think my dietitian's absolutely wrong after what I've read from everyone here. I think I'll keep going.

WillLose60
 
Okay sounds like the featherweight club.... something I had found on another forum...

I am not sure but after losing some weight here, I am starting to worry that I have that "pear shaped" figure. I don't mean to sound rude by it, if other's have it, I just really don't want it. I never had those "HIPS" in HS or throughout 18-22, I think they've really grown just in the last couple of years here, besides the weight. :cuss:

I have changed and continue to SLOWLY change how I eat and what I am eating. I now eat everyday, throughout the day. I am supposed to be eating about 1400-1600 cals/ day, but I found that eating that and being soooo close to my goal that I'd only drop a pound every two weeks or none. So slow. So I backed off on the cals. Now I eat about 1100-1300 / day.

With that said, I also will NEVER completely cut out Sweets. I thoroughly enjoy them! ;) But I am very strict right now with my intake. As I do tend to binge. Last Binge, was last Friday.

Ever since I started on this forum, I see changes from day to day. It's Great! Very Motivational!!

I also Do NOT believe in BMI, as I have come to understand that it does NOT take your muscle & bone mass, sex, or Frame into account.

Here's the twist from all of you...I am not 5'anything, I am 6'.

Obliques, Stomach, and Thighs are my BIGGEST problem area's. Of course the first places I put weight on, and the last to LEAVE!!! :smash:

Okay so my first pic is of me at 15, this is basically what I looked like throughout my entire life until I started gaining weight at about 20/21... I don't know the weight, I just know that at 17, I was about 125-130 lbs at least.

Second Pic, is of last summer, I was about 162 lbs. ( I believe this to be my biggest)

Third Pic is of last Boxing Day, December 26/08, where I stepped on the scale at 155 lbs.

The Fourth Pic is for the start of a Challenge on here, the dates there, I was 150 lbs.

The 5th Pic is from May 29/09 just last week, I am workin on the 6 pack, so soon hopefully. I am now wavering from 136-138 lbs.

I wish everyone the best of luck!!! I know we can do this!!!! WOOT!! :party:

P.S. I am now 24. ;)
 
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Welcome, RunningGirl!
WillLose60, I don't think your goal is unreasonable. Maybe your dietician is just trying to give you a more easily achievable goal? Of course, I'm only going by my own body type and experience, but I have a very small frame and not a lot of muscle, so even at 120, I would still have fat to lose.

I'm down to 124.5 today. Not too bad considering that I've been laid up on the couch for 2 1/2 weeks after knee surgery. I guess my lack of exercise convinced me that I'd better really watch what I eat. 120 would be a good mini-goal for me, 115 is my tough goal - why does that extra 5 lb seem to be so difficult? I think it's just in my head that I haven't weighed that in 13 years, so it seems impossible, but I know I can do it if I really try.

How is everyone else doing on their goals? Good luck everyone, and enjoy your summer!
 
Hello all!

I'm new here and glad to have found a thread like this. I'm 26, 5'8 and 133lbs as of this morning. In college I hovered in the low 120s and was much more comfortable there. I've begun seriously cutting back carbs, as carbs are always my weakness, and hope to see some results soon.

Looking forward to following everyone's progress!
 
Hey everyone! I too, am tired of everyone saying how great I look. I am 4 foot 11, and very petite all around. I have a small frame so every extra pound shows. I weigh 110 lbs right now, and apparently my ideal weight is between 95-103 lbs. My goal is to be 100 lbs, as I feel flabby.

I have done this before... at my heaviest I was 130 lbs, which doesn't seem like alot, but you would be suprised. I lost 35 over about 6 months and was my fittest at about 95 lbs.

I had alot of emotional things happen to me over the last few months, so I let myself go and gained 10 lbs. I have been on a new plan now for a week, but haven't weighed myself yet. My plan is to lose the 10 lbs over 10 weeks... if it happens sooner, then great.

This group is great and I'm tired of people telling me to be happy where I am when I can see the flab and don't feel like myself. I am being healthy about it, eating lots of protein, veggies, and fruit, (and good carbs). I'm working out at the gym 4 days a week, and I just got a new job waitressing which is very busy... I"m probably burning as many calories there as I am at the gym. I don't feel as if my goal is unrealistic. I'm not trying to be perfect, I just want to be comfortable with my weight!

I will probably weigh in over the weekend to see how the first week has gone.
 
I want to lose 5 pounds and be 125 at the end but it seems difficult to me now in the summer. I feel more exhausted and i can't really avoid ice-creams and frozen deserts. What do you drink to stay cool in the summer? I would also like to be part of this club and gain some motivation from each other.
 
I'm 5"3/4, and weight 136 at the moment, my BMI is healthy, but i still feel like i could easily loose at least another 10/15 pounds and not be too thin. I'm still a little doughy and i have a tummy.
 
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