WWYD to get rid of these last 15 lbs? Please help

lambertj

I'm 46 yrs old, 5' 4", currently teetering between 131 and 133 and am getting very frustrated. I currently use a combination of the stairmaster and the treadmill to log about 5.5 miles, 5 to 6 days a week and my diary is public. I only weight train my legs (once a week) due to a rotater cuff sprain (but have been cleaned to start weight training fully the first week in March and I still want to lose between 10-15 lbs (goal weight is 120). Can someone in the know please tell me what I need to do going forward to get these last 15 lbs off? I'm stumped at this point as to what I could be doing differently. Two weeks ago I was so happy to see the scale read 131.1 but the next week it crept up by 5 oz each day for a weekly gain of 1.5 lbs, now it seems to be creeping down by .5 oz a day (yes I weight in daily and enter it as a food note in my diary). I am very honest in my diary entries and I use a Polar HRM so my calories burned are accurate. I also use a tape measure but have only lost about 1" off my belly and hips. Please help. Thank you

hiker282

Losing is still losing. If you're still dropping inches, screw the scale and just focus on making your body look the way you want it to rather than trying to make yourself weigh what you want to. Much better to be a lean and strong at 131 than to be skinny-fat at 115.

lambertj

Its very frustrating to be doing this for over 100 days and only losing 1 inch I really need advice on how to make my body better, more lean, less body fat, suggestions?

Sweet_Potato

It's really tough when you're short. If you're sedentary, you MUST stick to 1200-1300 calories a day, burn a lot of calories with exercise, and not eat those exercise calories back. Lately I've been eating most of my exercise calories, and as a result have been GAINING a pound a week despite having a calorie defecit and exercising.

sfh0wrd

I'll probably just come off as a crazy, but I've been trying to get below 145 since 2009. Can't do it for more than a day, and have been sitting at 148-150lbs for the past year. Even when being consistent with my calories and exercise.

Well, I gave up wheat less than a week ago, and now I'm 146.8. Not corn, potatoes, oatmeal, or beans. Just wheat. It still eliminates a lot of (mostly processed, pre-packaged) foods, but not to an extreme way like Atkins. Like I said, I'm not trying to sound crazy... but you should check out the book "Wheat Belly" if you are at all interested. And you can try anything for a few weeks, right? If it doesn't work for you, all you've done is not eaten wheat for a couple weeks. There are worse things--- like eating cabbage soup!

If the numbers on my scale aren't enough to convince you, how about the fact that I've lost half and inch off my waist and a FULL inch from the "spare tire" since last Thursday?

lambertj

I've heard about wheat belly but I don't eat wheat due to IBS issues anyway

sfh0wrd

I've heard about wheat belly but I don't eat wheat due to IBS issues anyway

Well, there you go! Not eating wheat has really helped with my IBS too.