Success Stories for the last 10-15 lbs

snehad123

Hi everyone!
I love reading all the success stories to give me the boost to workout harder!
Its taking so long for me to lose the last 10 lbs. So I am looking for some motivation and tips from you wonderful people out there.
Please post your pics if you can

Thanks in advance!

cafisher0404

Following as well... I've gone from 184 to 138, and want to lose about 10-15 lbs more as well, it's a struggle

bbarber96

Following....

ticiaelizabeth

I too, am here just to follow. Working on the last 10 and it's a serious exercise in patience!!

dramaqueen45

Took me about 6 months to lose the last 10, and after slacking off over the holidays and the general stress of life I'm back up 7 of those. But I think once the warmer weather hits it will fall off again. In reality I wanted to see the goal number at least once and then I was fine with just maintaining in a 5 pound range. It's just that I've been 2-3 pounds over that range for the past 2-3 months, and if I don't get back down I'm afraid it will just continue to creep upwards.
So the last 10- here is what I did that helped- changed up my exercise routine- just did different things; I also raised the intensity and started doing a lot of intervals. I started watching macros and I also only ate half of my exercise calories back (before I could eat most back). I stopped with the BLTs (bites, licks and tastes). Those can really add up, especially if you come home, you're very hungry and start making dinner- at least I tend to have a bite of this and that. To help stop with that I would eat something high protein before a workout and something high in fiber as well (such as a cheese stick and an apple). And then finally to lose those last 5 pounds I stopped eating back any of my exercise calories.
I will say that maintenance has been a bit tricky. I started eating back exercise calories once I got to my goal, thinking that "well now I should just maintain" but no, I lost 3 more pounds over a week or two without really trying. So it's been a juggling act- I'm just trying to stay with overall generally healthy choices, but sometimes it gets hard when the stress of life kicks in and you start to slip back into old habits. I think the key is to know that for someone like me I just have to keep an eye on it and then if I get over my "maintenance range" I will go back to a deficit (which is what I'm trying to do now).