Goal!! So excited this morning

firstsip

You need to make sure you are losing fat and not muscle going forward. If you still have too much belly fat at that weight, you have lost muscle. Add some strength training to your workouts. You might find this group interesting at this stage of your Journey

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress

Thanks for the link. I didn't think the body resorted to eating muscle when there is a fat store to deplete. I agree that strength training would be beneficial but that will just tone the muscle under the fat, not spot reduce. I don't think I still have belly fat because I've lost muscle instead...I think I still have belly fat because I'm turning 43 and my body stored more belly fat and holds onto it longer do to hormonal changes in peri-menopause.

Take that initial response to heart...when you diet you lose both fat and muscle...even though you have fat stores, your muscle is a very expensive commodity and generally too expensive for fat stores to provide enough energy to preserve it as well as perform your other functions...if you aren't using it, your body assumes you don't need that very expensive commodity and it burns muscle for fuel...if you haven't been doing resistance training, your ratio is greater than if you had been but you lose muscle in either case. I would strongly suggest you read that link and at this point eat a very modest calorie deficit and start a resistance training program to work on body composition and preservation of LBM.

Absolutely this. Among the great things about muscle is the necessity for calories to maintain it. Eating more results in increased muscle growth, or at least the ability to maintain on to it more at a deficit. If you ate at 1200 for 7+ months and didn't do any strength training, your remaining belly fat is almost certainly attributed to shed LBM.

Pick up some weights. Gradually up your calories. Be amazed at what can happen with your body.

angie007az

Way to go Lori, you rock.

cdahl383

Congrats that's awesome!

Flab2Fab27

Congrats!!!

elisa123gal

That is great! You should be proud of yourself..wtg.

PHr34k0wt

Hurray!!! You're so close to my goals!
I started at 180 in march 2011, And met 140lbs this September!
My goal is also 130lbs, I'm 5'6"

reddaddie

Awesome! that "belly" may be loose skin if so it should tighten up over the next few months, making you look better without changes in the scale, just something to keep in mind as you move forward. keep up the good work!

ashandstuff

Congrats!!!