10 lbs or less to lose success stories... How did you do it?

mdorsey2010
mdorsey2010 Posts: 55
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm not new to MFP but I've never posted so please go easy one me : ) I'm at 158 lbs, trying to get to 150 and it seems like its taking forever. I go to the gym 6 days a week (for the last 46 days) and I just don't remember it taking this long to lose weight? I've done every calculation and read all the articles about eating your exercise calories back or not and I'm so confused. I do have a heart rate monitor I use at the gym and I just received my new body fat scale in the mail. I'm 5'7, 32 yrs old , 27.7% body fat and I work sitting at home on my computer all day. Can someone please help me with what my settings should be -- do I eat my calories back or not? Those of you who shed those last 10 pounds quickly...please share what you did. Thanks in advance!

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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Bumping to read later. Been inside the last ten pounds for a month now with no movement.
  • capnjones
    capnjones Posts: 2
    Change up your diet for a week or two - cut out the bread & carbs if you tend to eat more of those, or just increase your vegetable/fruit/fiber. & also, skip one more day of going to the gym - I dropped my last 10 lbs doing this, but everyone is different!
  • mdorsey2010
    mdorsey2010 Posts: 55
    Thanks! Should I be as close to my allowable calories each day as possible or not?
  • Poyns
    Poyns Posts: 3
    There's evidence to show that the last 10lbs of weight is hardest because your body reaches a natural plateau and your metabolism 'gets used' to a reduced number of calories (it in effect becomes more efficient at using them). I've read somewhere that in addition to cardio, you should zig zag calories. This basically means tricking your body out of the plateau by having more calories on certain days and some days with less.

    Google "calorie zig zag calculator".

    I feel your pain though! I'm at my last 8lbs and my body doesn't want to play fair, especially not as I'm trying to tone up too!
  • mdorsey2010
    mdorsey2010 Posts: 55
    There's evidence to show that the last 10lbs of weight is hardest because your body reaches a natural plateau and your metabolism 'gets used' to a reduced number of calories (it in effect becomes more efficient at using them). I've read somewhere that in addition to cardio, you should zig zag calories. This basically means tricking your body out of the plateau by having more calories on certain days and some days with less.

    Google "calorie zig zag calculator".

    I feel your pain though! I'm at my last 8lbs and my body doesn't want to play fair, especially not as I'm trying to tone up too!

    Thank you so much -- it's really frustrating! Hoping I can keep up the great work and not let it get me down, I will def check that out!
  • ms_walker
    ms_walker Posts: 30 Member
    I have similar stats to you 5'8, ~160 - want to be 155 and seem to osillating between 158 - 163. While I find it annoying, I'm not too bothered about it. The closer we get to our goals the harder it is for us to have a calorie deficent that it large enough to provide weight loss (at a rate we want) and maintain a healty diet. I have found personally I need 1800 (with or without exercise) a day to feel satisfied. My TDEE is ~1900 so if I can't exercise, my weightloss rate will be really slow. Its also really important to be as accurate as possible with logging as those small things really add up so close the goal.

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