5'4. From 165 to 136! Pictures!

bellturtle

I lost weight on my own before I found MFP but it took forever. It took me two years to go down from 165 to 152. When my dad got me an I-phone for Xmas I downloaded the MFP app. It helped me lose sixteen pounds in about five months. Right now I am maintaining my weight, and I haven't been as diligent about tracking my food since my Iphone got stolen. The best thing about MFP is the nutrition facts. I thought I was eating healthy before, and I didn't know why I wasn't losing weight. As soon as I looked at my daily intake and how little nutritional value I was getting, it really opened my eyes. Running helped a lot, but I still think changing intake is the most important thing.

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Before and After!

jrich1

try that

fatgirlslove

you look AMAZING!

cutiekaylaa

Great job!

solflyer81

Congratulations!!! Epic achievments! I also thought i was eating healthy....and couldnt understand why i wasnt losing when i worked out in gym 5 days a week for like 2 hours. This website is definitely an eye opener.

deenaspell

Yay! You look great! I'm 5' 4" and 158 right now. My goal is 140. Can't wait to post skinny pictures myself!

ANeWcRe8N

You look great! I'm currently where you began lol.

SiltyPigeon

Wow!!! You look awesome!! Congratulations!

spaingirl2011

You look great! I'm also 5'4 and 160 pounds with a goal of 135. This is great motivation!

suavequeen

You look awesome! I am 5'3 and started at 168lbs... Progress was slow too until I started MFP too! I hope I do just as well as you did. I will continue to work hard to achieve my goal...

rocketpants

Wow!! :flowerforyou:

＊Nikki＊

you look amazing, x

Autumn15

Great job you look wonderful...I to was exercising but it wasn't until I combined it with being aware of everything I was eating that I started seeing great progress.

shashaz2002

Congratulations!

daniey89

Great job you have done so well!!

alyssamiller77

Wow looking really good, congratulations on the awesome results!

Britt2Fitjrny

You look amazing! I'm 5'2 started at 175 currently at 146 and my goal weight is 135 (as of right now). Definitely inspiring!

paulielb39

great job! keep it up girl

CoraGregoryCPA

Awesome! You look awesome! Congrats! I need to be at 135 to be considered not "overweight" according to the BMI scale. I've been working out consistently since February and I thought I was eating "healthy". I started running about 4 weeks ago. I started using MFP about 2 weeks ago. This is a great app. I am very honest and I see why I'm not losing the lbs. However, I think running is starting to change that!

EightDMB

Congrats, that is wonderful. We are about the same height and I started at 163. I have about 10 lbs to go to get to 135. Your pictures are so inspiring to me! You look fabulous!!! What helped you lose the last 10 lbs. I'm biking and doing Zumba, but I've seemed to plateau.

iwish123

congratulations ! I am the same height and cannot wait to get to where you are, inspiring .

MrsT99

Great stuff, I'm 5 4 currently at 147 from 175 had put my target at 140 but I think I might try to get the BMI closer to 22-23 and say 135, I'll see how I look at 140 though. You look great.

I'm now just into the BMI overweight range and back in healthy at 145.7. I look forward to posting finished pics....

theprettyone1010

You look beautiful! Congratulations

bellturtle

Thank you y'all! Really inspiring. The last ten pounds were hard. I had to admitt to myself that my activity level was sedentary because I was a student sitting in class all day, and when I did that and changed my settings on MFP I realized that as a girl who is only 5'4 I need to realize that I only really need 1200-1400 calories a day if I am not excercising. I tried to think of being almost short and female as a blessing instead of a curse, because my boyfriend easily gets away with eating 2,000 calories while maintaining a healthy weight.

So I tried to run at least every other day or at least walk all the way home from work. I also always tried to keep my net calories around 1200-1300 most days, and to do it without feeling like I was going to shank somebody I had to make sure I ate well. I tried to eat a salad at least once a day as a meal. I love mixed greens with turkey, cranberries, walnuts, cucumbers and basalmic vinegar. I also know that running can make me extremely hungry, and I was running a lot before MFP but I was eating waaaayyy too much to compensate.

The biggest thing that helped me lose weight besides MFP was the movie Food Inc:

http://youtu.be/5eKYyD14d_0

I took a Biology and Society class on Food and realized how much Genetically Modified corn and soybean oil is in all processed food, and I just couldn't eat the stuff anymore. I had bad cravings for Taco Bell when I first started dieting, but after watching this movie and realizing that its basically dog food... I didn't want it anymore. In the class we researched the ties between processed food and cancer, diabetes, ADD (which I have), as well as heart disease, poor working conditions, and toxic chemical exposure..<br />



I also learned about the concepts of bioaccumulation and biomagnification, which provide a good reason to not eat meat very often, or at least go organic. Biomagnification is the increase of a chemical in an organism (bioaccumulation) which is greater than the chemical concentration found in the environment. We are at the top of the food chain, so all the toxic chemicals in the environment get magnified exponentially each step below us. For example, you have pesticide sprayed corn with a .20 (parts per million) DDT concentration, a cow eats said corn and its meat now has 2.0 DDT bioaccumulation.


So when we consume that cow tissue we accumulate all the toxins that cow has ever consumed, breathed, or been injected with. It exponentially magnifies that corn .02 DDT into a 20.00 DDT concentration in our body. It gets deposited in our fat tissues because it is fat soluble. This makes it and harder to get rid of and metabolize than water soluble chemicals (think THC). Fat has a purpose, and it will hang on to help dilute toxins. So if you are eating somerthing lower on the food chain like fruits and vegetables, especially organic ones, it doesn't have as high of a concentration of toxins as a chunk of meat.

-http://science.jrank.org/pages/893/Biomagnification.html
"Fresh evidence from the largest study to date to investigate dietary habits and cancer has concluded that vegetarians are 45% less likely to develop cancer of the blood than meat eaters and are 12% less likely to develop cancer overall." -http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/01/vegetarians-blood-cancer-diet-risk


"Among middle-aged men meat eaters were four times more likely to suffer a fatal heart attack, according to the study." -http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/12/garden/personal-health-new-research-on-the-vegetarian-diet.html?scp=4&amp;sq=vegetarians and obesity&amp;st=cse


I am not a vegetarian, but I try to eat organic when I consume meat. Because its expensive, I don't end up eating it that often. As you can probably tell, I became extremely mindful about food but I was a lot nicer to myself and not obsessive. My mindset was really messed up before I did MFP, I would criticize myself constantly and eat in a state of high stress which put a lot of weight in my stomach area. I looked pregnant constantly. Then after stressing about my weight I would be super strict with myself and run a lot and then repeat the cycle. Being consistent is the hardest challenge in my life, but it is the thing that helped me lose weight the most. Shocking my body by starving it then binging was freaking my metabolism out. Wow, jeez - maybe I should write a book or something, I had no idea I had that much to say.