Do you ever feel you'll never get it back?

elisa123gal

I'm having one of those days where I'm starting to wonder if getting these 20 pounds off will never happen.

I've been on here for years going up and down 15 pounds.. but now i can't even go down the 15. I fear i've hit an age where it is over for me. I'm stuck being a fatter version of my young self. I'm actually mourning the loss of my other self.

sigh. i'll get over my little pity party...and I'm sticking with things and will continue to work at it.

Has anyone out there felt like this.. then succeeded? or is this it..

bogwoppt1

It is really tough to lose a small amount when you are already smallish. I have ten pounds like that.

ahoy_m8

Bogwoppt is right. The last few take patience. I'm older than you, and the math still works for me -- a 250 cal daily deficit WILL result in a 1lb loss in 2 weeks.

I have been where you are, at about your age, too. I couldn't understand why what I had always done to get "back in maintenance range" wasn't working anymore. Was it age, I wondered. I realized it was not. I changed careers and my activity was much lower. I bought a food scale and started tracking intake as accurately as I could. My logging accuracy gradually improved. It's easy to get discouraged with normal body weight fluctuations when losing slow, so use a body weight trending app or rolling average.It worked for me, and it will for you, too.

middlehaitch

You are never too old

20lbs is a tough number. Not a lot to lose, but you can definitely feel it. It is also in the realm of the most difficult to lose if you are within a healthy weight range.

I had 30 to lose during menopause. It was slow as I was going from the top of my normal BMI to close to the bottom (a weight I had been for most of my life).

It took a year. It was less than a pound a month at the end. I just stuck it out and plugged away making sure my numbers were as accurate as possible, my daily activity was a little more active, and I knocked 50 cals off my exercise feed back- I ate all the calories previously and continued to eat them all once I had reached goal.

Dig your heals in, look at what makes you yoyo those 15-20lbs, build a plan that takes you through to long term maintenance and stick with it no matter how long it takes.

Something to consider in all this, I say this because you are yoyoing, is whether being 15-20 lbs lighter leaves you with an unsatisfactory calorie goal, and accepting the extra weight is worth it so you are eating at a more satisfying level.

You may want to look at losing 10lbs, maintaining that for a while, then deciding if you want to lose the rest- just a though.

You may also want to look at recomp as a way of reshaping your body without losing weight- again just a thought.

ETA: heck just thought- you could do a mix of both thoughts and get a very pleasing out come.

Cheers, h.

youdoyou2016

Completely understand what you mean ...

I am 46, F, 5' 1", and started in the 230s. This morning I was 116.6.

For the longest time it seemed nothing was happening. Then, the scale started to move but -- literally -- I had to wear the same pants I'd always worn until the 150s. Other things shrunk, but not anything that would allow me to purchase smaller pants. Then, wham: things started changing fast.

Truly, if you keep at it and make sure you're logging is accurate, you will get there. Who knows why it went for me the way it did. It was frustrating to say the least. But at some point, I won!

ccsernica

Well, I'm north of 50 and thanks to MFP I weigh about what I did in college. You are never too old.

VintageFeline

I'm now in the last 20lbs and it does take absolute consistency all the time.

That said, I found getting from 40lbs lost to 60lbs lost the hardest. That was for a variety of reasons but now I can see the finish line I'm almost hyper focused (that said, I'm going on holiday in 3 weeks and will likely gain but that's okay!). But it may well be that had I just had 20lbs total to lose I'd have had a harder time.

Afura

Heck I got a lot to lose, and the sheer amount of time it will take for that is sometimes disheartening. But bit by bit there is success.

elisa123gal

thanks for al the great advice. i do like the idea of lifting weights and just getting smaller by doing that. I'll stick with it.. and keep chipping away.

Theo166

elisa123gal wrote: »

I'm having one of those days where I'm starting to wonder if getting these 20 pounds off will never happen.

I've been on here for years going up and down 15 pounds.. but now i can't even go down the 15. I fear i've hit an age where it is over for me. I'm stuck being a fatter version of my young self. I'm actually mourning the loss of my other self.

sigh. i'll get over my little pity party...and I'm sticking with things and will continue to work at it.

Has anyone out there felt like this.. then succeeded? or is this it..

Suck it up BUTTERCUP!

I'm older than you and I'm gonna lose 100 lbs.