The last 10

gleonetti

Why are they so hard?? Losing focus because I’m close to my goal. Need a reset to get my mind back on track! I’ve gotten lazy and stopped tracking, measuring, and just overall paying attention. Has this happened to anyone? You are close to the finish line and you self-sabotage?? How do you overcome it and get back on track?

smoofinator

Bumping this, because I self-sabotage too.

cmriverside

The last 10..


It's hard because the body has a rock in its glove.

The last 10 are a matter of extreme discipline, small deficit and fighting biology. Your body wants a small reserve of fat - for those lean times, when food is scarce. It doesn't know we live in time of plenty of food, it just wants a reserve to allow you to survive a famine.

You can't cut calories by very much when there isn't much to lose because hunger will overcome, see above.

So set a small deficit - 250 calories per day, max. Eat more on exercise days. Keep a good accurate food log. It took me nine months to lose the last 15. There were many days when I was 1000-1200 calories OVER my goal. It was part of the process. Hunger ~~> Eating. Log it and move on. You'll get there.

Eventually.

TanyaHooton

The last 10 (I am on my last 10 as well, going to 20 BMI) are hard because the progress is so slow it seems like it isn't happening, and it's demotivating because, well, you're already at a healthy weight and there's all the yummy things to eat.

One thing I've learned is that I don't need motivation (that's what powers up the rocket), but I need discipline (that's what keeps the rocket going). So I don't look for motivation. Instead I take pride in my discipline to log every calorie and all those steps, knowing that even if tomorrow the scale is up, the end result will eventually be down. It's a bit like saving for retirement - you do a little bit every day so that at the end you have big results.