5'5 gals! Show me your progress!!

5'5'' & 1/2 here!

SW 212
CW 178
GW 150 for now. i dont wanna be tiny, but i do wanna be healthy.

my current goal for pictures in 175. BUT.... i'm going on vaca, and dieting is on hold. going to eat maintenance for about 3 weeks, and see what happens.... maintenance for 160.

5'5"
SW - 185
CW - 172
GW - 150

Began MFP May 24, 2012 and loving it!

So I hit day 365 today... YAY!!! (sorry, I'm a little excited) so one full year. I have managed to lose 48 lbs and keep it off... I don't think that I have lost anything in like the last 3-4 months, but at the same time, I didn't gain any either, so that is a good thing. I shared photos for the first time today, so I figured that I would share them here too. I started around 188 lbs and am now at 140 lbs, give or take 2 (depending on the day). I am very proud of what I have accomplished and I hope to keep it up in the future. Congrats to everyone here on their success so far, and all the best on your success to come

just joined this bad boy and hoping to shed some serious pounds!

SW: 155
CW: 145
GW: 115-120

Hoping to loose some flab and gain some ab

anybody on here a big boned 5'5 gal? I'm 5'5 but I don't know if I'd be able to get below 160.... That's my goal for now and then I will reassess once I get to the 160s.... My first goal had been 145-155 but then I up'ed it to 160... what do you ladies think?

I am, and I'm shooting for the same initial goal of 160 even though I have much further to go. The smallest I've been as an adult was when i lost down to 157 from 194 around the age of 22, and I could wear any sz 10's and a few sz 8's. I have a large frame that is fairly muscular, and I'm working out more consistently than in previous weight loss attempts. I'm curious how my body shape will differ this time around. I would love to get down to 130 (or less), but the last time I weighed that I think I was in grade school. So basically, my plan is to reevaluate when I get to 160. Good luck to you!

^^^^^what she said. I'm 5'4" and fairly muscular. Anything below 160 and I look like I have been starving myself for months lol. My body is shaping up differently this time around (currently at 201 and in a size 12) so we'll see if the goal weight changes :-)

5'5- Started 31 days ago

SW- 185
CW- 174
GW- 135

A long way to go but its working

Those massive bangers must have been hard to exercise with too! :P

Massive congrats to everyone and may it continue well

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The left image wasn't quite at my largest [185 pounds], and the right is at my thinnest, about 140 or so. I gained back a bit last year, I feel as though I became more curvaceous and less teenager-y. Regardless, I want to get down to 135 pounds.

Like most, I knew my weight was an increasing issue (literally) but the kick up the rear I needed to get started came as I started looking to work in the sports industry. Spending time with uber-fit almost super-human rugby players makes being the fat wobbly one even more embarrassing. Then I signed up to do a charity abseil off the roof of Murrayfield Stadium (Scotland's international rugby ground). I ticked the box and hoped, rather than knew, that I was within the weight limit.

That was in February although the abseil itself was not until April. That gave me plenty of time to lose some weight, right? Wrong! Although I cut back a little and walked and cycled a little more often, it was all just a 'little'. The diet proper started two weeks before the abseil and I signed up to MFP the week after that.

Anyway, the numbers:
SW: 236 (16st 12) - a UK size 18/20 and pushing upwards (@ start of diet proper, prob 240+ at the start of the year)
CW: 184 (13st 2) - a UK size 14
TW: 151 (11st 1) - the top of my healthy BMI range (I know BMI is flawed but using this as a guide - will see how I feel when I near/reach there)

And the photos - aka "My Year in Lardy Butted Humiliation" guest staring several professional rugby players

January: 240ish before even the pre-diet


April: 227 two weeks into the diet proper. Taken at the abseil. I'm the fat cow with the chunky calves! Having to climb to the roof of the stadium, including up ladders and ducking under beams, with the head coach and a pro player BEHIND me was beyond humiliating (although, of course, they are far too kind to have ever said a word)



August: 190 and actually weighing less than the players I'm pictured with!! HURRAH!!!


Another one from August and not featuring any rugby players (I'm sorry) but without the billowy top so gives a better indication of progress



My marks of progress:
Well, being around so many rugby players and being mortified at being heavier than so many of them, my weight chart has rugby players and their weights down the side. I started off being as heavy as some of the 'lighter' forwards (forwards being the big beefy ones that take part in the scrum) and some of the heavier backs, the 6ft plus pure muscle running and tackling machine ones.

I was never as heavy as the really tall blonde guy (he's 6ft5 and all muscle), but I am now over a stone lighter than the player in the abseil photo and a few pounds lighter than the other blonde player. The only players left that I'm heavier than are a few of the shorter whippets, like the one in the top photo (8lbs to go for that target).

Yes, I was so overweight that now being lighter than some really big muscly men is an achievement I'm very proud of!

The boobage is still an issue though. They won't go away!!! I've lost 8 inches off my waist, 8 inches off my hips but only 8cm off by bust. Hoping, that it'll simply be the last place the weight goes from. I may not weigh more than many rugby players any more but I still look like I've two rugby balls stuffed up my t-shirt!