Losing the last five pounds

joowelz

Hi everyone
I am happy to report that i have lost more weight since my last forum entry and on the last 5 lbs now!

I started at 175 lbs a year ago and now weigh 161 lbs. My goal is 155-157 lbs. I am 5'6 and 42 years old, on the big boned side.

I jog (intensely) 3 x a week for 30-35 minutes and use a food scale or measuring cup for most meals. I don't eat a lot of animal flesh but fish i like.

It has taken a looong time to shed the weight and at this point, i dont want to eat any less or commit to more frequent exercise sessions. This lifestyle is it for me.

I am wondering what i can do to reach my weight goal without making dramatic changes at this point and putting in too much effort.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

emmamcgarity

How much weight have you lost the past 6-8 weeks (if any) following your current plan?

joowelz

1-3 lbs

Theoldguy1

joowelz wrote: »

Hi everyone
I am happy to report that i have lost more weight since my last forum entry and on the last 5 lbs now!

I started at 175 lbs a year ago and now weigh 161 lbs. My goal is 155-157 lbs. I am 5'6 and 42 years old, on the big boned side.

I jog (intensely) 3 x a week for 30-35 minutes and use a food scale or measuring cup for most meals. I don't eat a lot of animal flesh but fish i like.

It has taken a looong time to shed the weight and at this point, i dont want to eat any less or commit to more frequent exercise sessions. This lifestyle is it for me.

I am wondering what i can do to reach my weight goal without making dramatic changes at this point and putting in too much effort.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Congrats on your weight loss.

If you want to lose weight you have to either consume fewer calories, burn fewer calories or some combination of the 2, period. Based on the bolded it doesn't sound like you want to do that.

If you really want to lose the last 5 pounds you could increase your exercise. 3 minutes of jogging 3X a week is not much exercise. CDC recommends 150 minutes of aerobic exercise and 2 full body resistance training sessions for health a week, Doing that would take care of the last 5 pounds over time and improve health.

Good luck.

PAV8888

If you've lost 1-3lbs in the last 6-8 weeks and 14 lbs in the past 52 weeks then you don't need to do anything different than you have been doing over the next 12 to 40 weeks in order to lose another 5lbs!

Your latest rate of loss is within the parameters of your previous 52 weeks of losses which averaged about 1.6 to 2.1 lbs every 6-8 weeks.

sardelsa

If you are losing then it sounds like you just need to be patient and keep doing what you are doing