is anyone else just trying to lose a little bit of weight?

Hello, yes I started with a goal of about 14lbs, I have lost 7lb so far (in roughly a month). MFP put my calories at 1200 a day but I worked out my BMR and TDEE and adjusted my goal to 1311 from this so that I am at a 20% calorie reduction. Being fairly close to goal now it seems to be slowing down. I need more motivation to exercise - I am a lazy so-and-so!!

Very similar you you, I'm only trying to lose 2 kilos (lost 1 already). I've been warned that 1200 kcals is too little and can cause losing muscle... Anyway, feel free to add me if you want. And good luck!

Hi, I've got 12lbs to go. A year ago it would have been more but I wasn't introduced to MFP until August. My goal is to reach 125lbs or 120lbs depending on where my lovehandles are when I reach it. My other goal is to tone up and lose inches (or to reach a size 3/4). Feel free to add me and I wish you luck on your weight loss!

I only have like 10 I want to lose. I've recently decided that I am not weighing myself every week, i'm just going by how I feel! I think maybe when we get so close to our goal weight the scale doesn't want to show any progress? I had been doing GREAT for like a month, my clothes were fitting, I was working out a ton, eating REALLY clean, and feeling like I was making progress, I got on the scale and NOTHING. I was so disappointed I convinced myself I was in "starvation mode" even though I dont' believe in it, and had an AWFUL weekend. I know i really wasn't in starvation mode though, because I had lost inches. Clothes that hadn't fit in a year were fitting. So I decided I'm not going to torture myself like that anymore, I'm just going to eat at my goal, exercise a lot, incorporate some strength training, and hopefully my clothes will continue to tell me I'm doing good! I will keep my scale check ins to 2x a month instead of once a week and not take that number too seriously.

I want to lose anywhere up to 10 lbs. Well, really, I want to lose whatever fat that is left on me that totally obscures my super-cool delts and makes my thighs look huge. I've been at it for the past 20-25 years, and did not know it. Well, I did not have cool delts, but I always had un-cool thighs.

As a girl I thought I wanted to be thinner (see thighs). Buzz. WRONG.

What I wanted to be was FIRMER (again, see thighs, now, closing to 40, see belly too). Buzzinga! Firmer, not thinner. Folks see that you are in a normal weight range, they think you ain't got no problems. Buzz. WRONG. Firmer is not self-indulgence. It's health and vibrancy, and being the Ageless Goddess.

My first priority is to stretch every day. Stretching is absolutely crucial and easily falls by the way side. BAD.

Calories, I need to be below 1,600 on the training days, below 1,300 on non-training days, and once a week I really gotta drop to about 1,000, but I am voracious, so I mostly don't do it.

Training, I gotta lift heavy and keep cardio short and HARD. And, of course, I need to walk in the great urban outdoors or swim and relax in the steam room for as many hours as I possibly can.

Above all, I gotta start sleeping more. Hard order. Family, work, all the stuff. Still, gotta work myself up to 8 hours one of this days.

Wow, great to hear that there are other people out there like me. I used to be a very happy and fit 125 and Whammo! 5 years at 4 pounds per year and I have teetered on the edge of 150! Scary to see that in print. I'm 5'4", not a huge frame and a pear shape, which stows the weight in the places you just don't want it! As with others of you, I have a day job sitting on my fanny and with work, family and running kids around there is not much time for working out. I miss it, but 5am just seems an impossible goal to achieve for when I can work out. Need a solid 8+ hours sleep or immediately catch whatever cold is hanging around. As with my mother, my knees are starting to bother me and I see her rheumatoid arthritis looming over my head. Good inspiration to lose! Like many of you, I don't need to be skinny, but heading on the down side of 45 I'd like to be firm and fit. Thanks MissKitty9 for starting this Message and I'd be happy to 'friend' any and all of you, as I need all the help I can get and would love to help pump up others. This is my 2nd try with MFP after a false start in early September. Friend warned me that its the toughest month of the year to try to start anything and that October 1, after all has settled down is much easier. so I've decided to start planning now.

Good luck to all!

I've only got about 7lbs left to lose, everyone feel free to add me! Already lost 53! x

Hello, I am like you, just trying to loose 10 pounds and finding it really difficult for some reason. I am gaining weight, slowly, instead of loosing it! This has never happened to me before so I am perplexed and confused. I'm still plugging away because I know the exercise and dietary changes are good for me anyway. We just have to stay motivated!

Hi there, I'm trying to lose 10 pounds and every single day is a challenge. I'm also diabetic, which makes things ridiculously slow going, but I'm plugging away! Feel free to add me

Hello, I am like you, just trying to loose 10 pounds and finding it really difficult for some reason. I am gaining weight, slowly, instead of loosing it! This has never happened to me before so I am perplexed and confused. I'm still plugging away because I know the exercise and dietary changes are good for me anyway. We just have to stay motivated!

Ditto. Same old 10lb but nothing is shifting and scales keep going up a few pounds then down 1 or 2, its a cruel world and hard to stay motivated as i often find myself wondering why put myself through this week after week :sad:

SAME! Lost a few pounds just by changing my diet and have 15 more to loose and it just won't come off! Luckily I haven't lost my motivation yet, just becoming discouraged. New to this too so feel free to add.

I'm not new to MFP, but I realized I finally needed to drop the 10 pounds I gained after being in a new relationship (eating out and socially drinking way more). I've always been relatively fit and could eat whatever I wanted, but all the dining out and wine flights finally caught up with me!
For me it's focusing on calories alone to drop the weight.. I've maintained my gym habits (4-5x/wk) of yoga, zumba, strength, cardio/circuits for the past 5 years. I'm 5'7" and 1200 is too low for me, I've been happy and able to drop weight if I eat/drink about 1500-1600/day on the days I work out. The other days I try to stick to 1250-1300. In the 8 weeks I've been actively tracking, I've lost 6 pounds. And that's with several nights of going out for events, traveling out of town for the weekend, etc. Hoping slow and steady keeps working!

Yes! It's pissing me off! *ready yourselves for my much needed rant!*
I ONLY have 2-3" on my waist and hips that I want to lose but the fat doesn't seem to shift! Argh! Annoying. I've been trying to lose it for 12 months now. I've been coming in and out of plateaus but it just doesnt go. =( In the amount of time I've tried losing one dress size, people have reported losing 10! It makes me so sad. =( I would sell my freaking soul to lose this last dress size. I tried everything. I put myself through hell and had to fight to come back JUST so I could lose it. I would lose weight then gain weight then lose weight then gain weight. Nothing seems to happen! I've been at the same weight for 12 months! Argh! I need miracle.

Feel free to friend me Miss Kitty. I'm in the same boat!!