1 STONE TO LOSE!

courtney965

I am 5"2 and around 10 stone size 10-12 UK womens clothing. I'm wanting to get down to 9 stone does anyone have any advice? I regularly do gym classes 4 times a week and recently started replacing breakfast and lunch with a protein shake I make myself with some added fruit/healthy fats then I have my main meal after the gym. The only problem is when I have a 'cheat meal' I go completely off the rails for roughly 2 days and feel 10x worse and disappointed All advice welcome ... Thanks

Sued0nim

stick to a calorie defecit, aim for 0.5lbs a week, include all foods in your diet so that you don't crash & burn and 'cheat'

if you do go over just log it and move on .. doesn't matter

don't replace food with drink

999tigger

Weigh and log all your food and return a consistent calorific deficit.
Unless you can maintain the deficit with the cheat meal (unlikely) then ditch it.
Cheat meals only cheat yourself.

personally I prefer real food to protein shakes, but thats up to you.

courtney965

rabbitjb wrote: »

stick to a calorie defecit, aim for 0.5lbs a week, include all foods in your diet so that you don't crash & burn and 'cheat'

if you do go over just log it and move on .. doesn't matter

don't replace food with drink

Thank you for advice. For example for breakfast I sometimes have oats, banana, protein powder and a tablespoon of peanut butter blender to ensure I include all foods so its not just a drink itself. However, sometimes I eat the porridge separate with banana instead of drinking it. I ensure I include all foods and don't miss out carbs, healthy fats, etc

courtney965

Thank you 999tigger I find that I can go 6 weeks without cheating or even being fazed by junk food but as soon as I have the smallest thing that's it for me.

midnightryder92

In my honest opinion got by your picture you seem in perfect proportion the weight you are seems perfect you seem like a very active person so being that weight will benefit you in the long run and help to stop illness sorry it's not the answer you wanted xx

courtney965

Thank you so much a lot of people tend to say I don't need to drastically lose weight but I would feel better within myself I think with being very short I feel frumpy. Xx

midnightryder92

I completely understand I am 5ft 5in so not much taller than you really some times it helps by finding clothes that make you look taller helps I have a very short torso but im all leg so by wearing skinny jeans it makes me look taller and slimmer hope this helps xx