Okay! This is it! How Can I Drop Last 10lbs in August?

lauraleighsm

Well, I lost 5 pounds in a week from proper tracking. I track it ALL now and I eat pretty healthy, and I'm not starving. I work out almost every day and I eat almost all of my exercise calories back. Since this is my first week of truly tracking I suspect the next 5 pounds will be more gradual, but I'm shooting for 10 pounds in a month because I have spent the past year trying to lose 10 pounds. It's calorie deficit. I want to knock it out and finally get it done. Then I'll move my calories back up to maintenance.

You lost 5lbs in a week because probably at least 3 of it was water. I appreciate the underlying point of this post about accurate logging. But if you truly understand your caloric needs and were logging accurately on top of it, you'd realize how outlandish a legitimate loss of 5lbs of fat or even body mass in one week is. You would've been creating a deficit of 17,500 calories over the course of the week.

If you actually did this and are within 10lbs of your goal, you have way more important things to worry about than the number on the scale such as undereating, overexercising, and loss of lean body mass. You do understand that the closer you are to your goal weight the more important it becomes to lose gradually, assuming your body composition has also improved, to retain muscle. There is a difference between goal weight and goal body composition, people rarely understand the weight that corresponds with their goal body composition or even the best methods to get there. I understand "wanting it done" but at what cost, feeling sluggish, losing definition, letting the scale dictate how you feel? You honestly can't keep up such a humongous deficit, even 10,000 calories, over the course of weeks without some ill side effects.

I'm 5'0 and am eating around 1500 calories a day of nutrient dense foods. I absolutely feel wonderful. A smoothie with wheat grass in the morning, a snack of greek yogurt with organic flakes, quinoa with veggies usually for lunch (or something similar), another snack (almonds, a small sandwich etc) and a protein for dinner with vegetables. I save enough to have a crunchy snack (organic potato crisp) before dinner. I do cardio usually 3 times a week and a muscle workout twice a week.

Once I'm down to 120 (not a very low weight for my height at all) then I'll up it. My measurements currently put me in an unhealthy BMI.

It's possible to lose 10 pounds in a month, at least for me, in a healthy manner.

Morninglory81

My first 20 lbs I was able to drop by eyeballing. That being said things came to a crawl and it is because I didn't have an accurate measure of the cals I was consuming.

The closer you get to goal the more important it is to know and control your intake. Weigh measure and LOG all your cals for 4-8 weeks than if still no results you have something to look at so you know where things need to be tweaked.

wilsoje74

Thanks to most posts. And for the other, who in the heck cares what I posted before??? This is today and this is what im posted TODAY. Yesterday doesn't matter people - it's what we do today and what we are gonna do in the future. I am trying to lose this gd weight and I AM doing everything right! Even messing up with cheat meals! Having cheat meals is still doing it right! My problem is patience okay! And yes I want a quick fix - doesn't everyone??? Like i said before, I've lost 15lb in 4 months. Why can't I lose 10lbs in 7 months now? Im impatient and frustrated. I just need people to push me to keep going! THAT IS WHY I MAKE MY POSTS AND ASK QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!! YEAH WOOHOO!!!! YA YA YA YA YA YA!!!!!!! CALL ME CRAZY< CALL ME WHAT U WANT!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! LMFAO!

Doing everything right and trying hard would include logging, you can't just eyeball your calories.

mlove351

I would have to say 10lbs by August is very aggressive and probably unrealistic. I also have been fixated on the scale to but I suggest don't. Measure your efforts by how you feel physically and how your clothes feel ( I need to take this advise as well...lol). I notice with me if I get to fixated on the scale it can be demotivating so consider the little things that make a big difference ( i.e how fast you can run now or how heavy you can lift weights -use those as bench makers to keep you motivated). You don't want to compromise your health by trying to do a quick fix. Put it like this, it took a while to put the weight on its going to take some time take off - the healthy way. So .5 to 1 pounds is more realistic per week. Good luck and congrats on your efforts so far

Fatlorenzo

I guess 2lb per week when you have lot to lose, and 1lb when you've only a little to go

CrankMeUp

You already pretty much posted this exact topic in the beginning of June.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1015460-how-do-u-lose-the-last-10lbs

You've also posted various threads asking for help. Why don't you actually try listening to some of the advice? I don't think you're trying ANY of what people are telling you over and over again.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1025775-feeling-like-a-piece-of-loser

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1022146-is-it-really-that-simple

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1038088-am-i-making-a-big-mistake-missing-lifting-sessions

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1039255-attention-hypothyroids-what-do-you-eat

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1037543-are-you-maintenance-if-u-go-over-cals-once-a-week

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1020746-do-body-comp-results-take-longer-than-weight-loss

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1014974-since-i-suck-at-macros-should-i-quit-heavy-lifting

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1015944-macros-for-heavy-lifting-to-lose-weight

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1008346-ladies-5-9-eating-1300-1500-cals

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1008310-as-long-as-some-sort-of-deficit-you-will-lose-right

I am really glad we are friends now...

this.

CrankMeUp

DO you own a digital food scale?

use it.

Factory_Reset

DO you own a digital food scale?

use it.

QFT

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Topsking2010

You already pretty much posted this exact topic in the beginning of June.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1015460-how-do-u-lose-the-last-10lbs

You've also posted various threads asking for help. Why don't you actually try listening to some of the advice? I don't think you're trying ANY of what people are telling you over and over again.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1025775-feeling-like-a-piece-of-loser

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1022146-is-it-really-that-simple

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1038088-am-i-making-a-big-mistake-missing-lifting-sessions



You're a beast!!!!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1039255-attention-hypothyroids-what-do-you-eat

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1037543-are-you-maintenance-if-u-go-over-cals-once-a-week

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1020746-do-body-comp-results-take-longer-than-weight-loss

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1014974-since-i-suck-at-macros-should-i-quit-heavy-lifting

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1015944-macros-for-heavy-lifting-to-lose-weight

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1008346-ladies-5-9-eating-1300-1500-cals

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1008310-as-long-as-some-sort-of-deficit-you-will-lose-right

You're a beast!!!

GuybrushThreepw00d

laxative diet.

JudieJudes

You followed the advice for two whole weeks?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

JudieJudes

laxative diet.

Don't talk *kitten* e :laugh:

NonnyMary

i find it pretty impossible realistically if someone is almost down to thier goal weight and they want to lose 10 pounds a month when severely obese people cannot even expect that except in the first month or so of dieting.

I think the OP is asking for something that is impossible.

EmilyJackCO

I have taken the advice from other people and I have done it for more than 2 weeks - got nothing!!! I've been trying this last 10lbs thing since freaking January! Obviously these things don't work for me because i've got no results. That's why im always on here looking for more info. If I lost weight within the 2 weeks of taking/practising the advice given, THEN of course im gonna continue with it. I should at least lose 1lb from 2 weeks of practice, but nope! Sooooooo, I need to try something different and I have yet to find that different advice.

I was trying to lose the last 5 pounds since February. I actually listened to the advice and followed it to the best of my ability, and guess what? It worked. In 6 weeks. Also, it takes longer than 2 weeks for changes to take effect, but that third week, I lost 2.5 pounds. So maybe you should have a little patience. And measure, weigh, and LOG!