Same weight I use to be but look different

Are you strength training as well as including cardio in your exercising?

I have lost almost a stone in weight (14lbs)...well I'm a little smaller but I definitely need to lose more.

14 lbs is not a ton of weight. So yes, you will be only 'a little smaller' - sounds about right..From your profile picture (if it is you) I'd say you look fine.

You should do weight training and eating plenty of protein to build up more muscle tissue, if you maintain your weight whilst doing this you will start seeing your shape change. If you haven't done much exercise maybe start by doing something like the 30 day shred (it is on youtube) or buy it on amazon, lots of people have had great results with it.

Don't try to "lose more weight." Work on body composition instead. Exercise including strength training, with good nutrition and way more protein than MFP suggests. Dieting alone will not get you the body you want, because you'll lose muscle with the fat if you're not eating right and exercising.

Like others have said, it could be because you lost some muscle in addition to fat so your body composition is different this time. When you gained weight, it was likely mostly all fat, but then when you lost it by eating at a deficit you can lose muscle too so you can end up with more fat at the same weight. Follow the suggestions of strength training and getting enough protein and give yourself time and you will see some improvements! I wouldn't even pay attention to the scale at this point. I'd also start eating closer to your maintenance calories!

There could be changes in your body. For me, I am down to a weight Iw as before my wedding but, I have noticed some of those clothes I bought then still dont fit me correctly enough to wear. DIFFERENCE is, I have had a baby since then and lost a bunch of the muscle tone I used to have under the insulation. SOOOO....I have to gain the muscle back I lost and lose the fat that is now in its place.

As we age, out bodies change, for one reason or another. Start weight training or something to build muscle and that will help. GOOD LUCK!!!

If that is you in the picture you look young and your body shape may still be changing (btw you still look amazing). I know my body totally changed between the ages of 18 and 23. Even though I weighed the same amount, my small troll belly moved up and became a nice chest and I ended up with a curvy figure compared to the troll that I was.

Just a thought.

Keep up the good work!

Losing weight without exercise DOESN'T ensure that the weight lost was mostly fat weight.

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Can I ask how I could incorporate strength training into my day without going to the gym?
I'm not a member and cannot afford it
Thanks

Do a google search for body weight exercises. It's a great way to start. There's a $1.99 app for a smartphone for "Be Your Own Gym," too.

Also, if any friends have a gym membership, many times they can take a guest. Ask if you can tag along once in a while.

You look good from what I can see in your profile pic. Just do some strength training and you will be good.
Always remember that diet alone isn't enough for the (baby fat) areas that will need some exercise.

Eat good and some strength and core workouts. If you don't want to pay for app just search some youtube videos. Ab Ripper X from P90x is everywhere.

I never lose weight the same way. Especially because I haven't worked out the exact same each time I've lost weight. If you're lifting, or doing more of one exercise, you could be targeting different muscles than last time, and therefore, your body looks different. A yoga body is much different than a runner's body - different muscles targeted, different exercise...

Honey if you're not exercising and you weigh the same as you did in the past but your weighing fat tissue as opposed to muscle tissue you will look different and you will be larger.
Muscle mass is more dense than fat (so it appears to be smaller than a mass of fat) It's like not a cup of water is 8 ounces and a glass of soda is eight ounces. Its like a sack of flour is 10 pounds and an infant is 10 pounds. They're shaped and make of entirely different things.
So just exercise and you'll lose a ton.

It sounds like you might be like me and not like to exercise. lol. I found an app called Workout trainer by skimble and its free (some are paid but you don't have to pay to use the free exercises). You can pick from thousands of exercises and it will count your calories and you use it on your phone so you can just be by yourself and it shows you how to do the exercises and you can pause and start over any time you like. It's a really solitary thing but you can learn lots of moves. And if it hurts you're doing it wrong or too much.

I think this is the same thing, but I can't say for sure since I just googled it.
http://www.workouttrainer.com/


Either way, just find some sort of exercise you like to do, even if its just walking and you'll start to look like you used to.. and better yet, do what you used to do. If that's impossible (for me it is) then do something you never have but Can do. like yoga or something simple.

And after time you might actually start to weigh more than you used to but be smaller!!

Oh and now I see that someone else suggested the same app... cool.. at least you know its good.

I wish it that was me in the pic!! I'm in my late 20s also!

Good to know, I was going to step into Mommy mode and say take that profile picture down, you look like you are 16!