under 150lbs gets harder!

I just hit 149lbs today and I just know it is going to slow down for me! I just went and bought a Polar FT7 so I can really track my calories burned and make sure I am not going over or too under! I hope I can lose at least 1lb a week but I don't think it's going to happen!! Good luck getting the last 10lbs off...you can do it girl!

Maybe 150 for you but that weight was 215 for me!! :noway: My adult body had never weighed less than 215lbs and it has fought me tooth & nail all the way down to where I am now (199). I've had to drastically increase how much I'm eating. Yep, *increase.* I'm now netting about 1100-1300 calories each day. That means I eat about 1200 base calories plus 90-100% of my exercise cals. My body had really slowed down my metabolism to cope with how little I had been feeding it for months.

I also started sprint interval training on the treadmill. Before I was just running for a solid 30 minute block. Now that I'm jogging/walking and sprinting as fast as I can in intervals, I'm getting a better workout and I think that has really kickstarted my weightloss again. This is the first time since January I've recorded a loss 3 weeks in a row (and good losses at that! -- 5 pounds in 3 weeks. Had been losing an average of 4 pounds a month since January until now. Was previously losing about 10-11 pounds a month from September - Jan so 4 pounds a month was pretty irritating :laugh:).

yes it sucks!!! ive been stuggling with the last 10 lbs, to get to 135!!! almost there, but seems like such a long haul!!

Maybe 150 for you but that weight was 215 for me!! :noway: My adult body had never weighed less than 215lbs and it has fought me tooth & nail all the way down to where I am now (199). I've had to drastically increase how much I'm eating. Yep, *increase.* I'm now netting about 1100-1300 calories each day. That means I eat about 1200 base calories plus 90-100% of my exercise cals. My body had really slowed down my metabolism to cope with how little I had been feeding it for months.

I also started sprint interval training on the treadmill. Before I was just running for a solid 30 minute block. Now that I'm jogging/walking and sprinting as fast as I can in intervals, I'm getting a better workout and I think that has really kickstarted my weightloss again. This is the first time since January I've recorded a loss 3 weeks in a row (and good losses at that! -- 5 pounds in 3 weeks. Had been losing an average of 4 pounds a month since January until now. Was previously losing about 10-11 pounds a month from September - Jan so 4 pounds a month was pretty irritating :laugh:).

I second the advice to think about increasing calories and doing interval training. I net 1400 calories/day (calories eaten - calories burned though exercise = 1400) and I've been losing just under 1 lb/week. According to what I thought was my "lightly active" lifestyle (I'm a grad student/instructor so I walk around campus a lot and I don't own a car so I walk everywhere), I should only be losing about a half pound/week, but it has been a little more. So, somewhere in my tracking, things are working in my favor. I tend to think that it is the interval training that I do. The benefit of high intensity interval training (HIIT) is that it will elevate your metabolism following exercise more than steady state cardio.

I do high intensity interval training at least 2x/week. I like to do this with bodyweight exercises. I really, really like the workouts on http://bodyrock.tv. They are free and absolutely will kick your behind and really give your muscles a good burn. I've gotten a lot leaner and stronger since starting working out this way. For my other exercise I run with the Couch to 5K program and try to have 2 heavy weight training days.

As you get down to losing the last few pounds and you are really getting into the low body fat territory just be sure that you are eating enough to KEEP losing the weight. The thing about losing the "vanity pounds" (as I've heard Jillian Michael call them) is that our bodies don't really want to give them up. We have to let our body know that we aren't starving by keeping it fed. Not too much, obviously, but enough good food at regular intervals such that it knows that it is okay to burn the excess instead of store it as fat. That's a simplification, but you get the idea.

Edit: Somehow the part about only having one hand just slipped by me. I think you can still find a lot of exercises using only bodyweight that can really help. Lower body stuff like squats and lunges, which you are already doing. You can up the intensity by doing one-legged squats as opposed to adding weights. Or you can elevate one foot while doing a standing lunge. I don't know if you can do pushups, but there are a million versions of those. And, if regular pushups aren't an option, one armed pushups are especially intense. :happy: Do you have the option of paying for a personal training session? Someone who can work specifically with you to find exercises that you can do might be a big help.