Losing last 8lbs HELP PLEASE!!

If you're not losing weight, you need to lower calories, simple as that. As for strength training, if you're a beginner, focus on heavy compound lifts: Bench press, bent over rows, shoulder press, squats, dead lifts, leg press, pull ups(assisted). Also, there's nothing wrong with red meat, eat it up

What I should have said was you need to increase your caloric deficit. This can be done by increasing calories burned, decreasing calories consumed, or a combination of the two.

If you're not losing weight, you need to lower calories, simple as that. As for strength training, if you're a beginner, focus on heavy compound lifts: Bench press, bent over rows, shoulder press, squats, dead lifts, leg press, pull ups(assisted). Also, there's nothing wrong with red meat, eat it up

If someone doesn't eat a certain food you shouldn't tell them to eat it. I'm the same way I don't eat red meat and it is not because I think there is something wrong w/ it.

I think of it like being stuck in the snow. When you gun your engine, the tires spin, you just get more stuck. You have to shift into lower gear, and eeeeeaaaaase your way out of it.

Eat near maintenance (.5 a week plus exercise is good, 10% below TDEE would work, too), lift heavy, and track your progress with measurements, how clothes fit, and photos instead of the scale.

I say the opposite of AGericke on your calories - when you have little to lose, you need to eat more calories. Yes you can lose 1-2 pounds a week if you are overweight, but if you are in a healthy weight range, it is much harder to lose weight and it will (and should) be much slower. Set your MFP target to lose no more than 1/2 pound a week and eat your exercise calories back. Depending on how tall you are a woman should still be able to lose weight slowly on 1700 calories a day (unless you're very short). Also maybe you want to get a body analysis test done. Maybe you are already at the right weight for you and you don't need to lose 8 pounds? I don't know, just a thought. I also recommend this blog: http://gokaleo.com/

I hope this helps!

Body Analysis! I am trying to figure out what my real "target weight" should be. Can you elaborate on Body Analysis? Like, at a doctor's office?

I don't know how you guys are replying to peoples posts individually so I'm having to reply vto you all at once lol! I'm so glad I'm not on my own and that other people are frustrated too! And yes I don't eat red meat cos I choose not to and I haven't for years somone just mentioned to reduce it to lose weight but since I don't already eat it there would be no pint someone saying that on here if that makes sense? And yes maybe focusing on measurements would be a better idea. Thanks again

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And when increasing calories just as long as the food you choose is healthy you shouldn't gain weight unless you go way over board.

Absolutely eat more! Do not eat less than your BMR!

Try increasing your protein intake and decreasing processed sugar if you use it.

Add a protein snack a few times a day...cheese and crackers or fruit. Greek yogurt. Cottage cheese and fruit. Almonds?

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I say the opposite of AGericke on your calories - when you have little to lose, you need to eat more calories. Yes you can lose 1-2 pounds a week if you are overweight, but if you are in a healthy weight range, it is much harder to lose weight and it will (and should) be much slower. Set your MFP target to lose no more than 1/2 pound a week and eat your exercise calories back. Depending on how tall you are a woman should still be able to lose weight slowly on 1700 calories a day (unless you're very short). Also maybe you want to get a body analysis test done. Maybe you are already at the right weight for you and you don't need to lose 8 pounds? I don't know, just a thought. I also recommend this blog: http://gokaleo.com/

I hope this helps!

Body Analysis! I am trying to figure out what my real "target weight" should be. Can you elaborate on Body Analysis? Like, at a doctor's office?

Good question. A body composition analysis measures your body fat, muscle mass and water weight, and can be done with various types of mechanisms such as a skin fold caliper, hydrostatic water submersion, a DEXA scan or with a bioelectric machine. Some doctors and gyms have them and they have different levels of accuracy. I just did a google search and this is the first article I found: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-body-composition-analysis.htm

I didn't consider getting tested because I thought it was too expensive. I am a 5'7" woman and my healthy weight range is 120-160 pounds, so I picked 140 as my goal weight because it's in the middle and also because online calculators that used my measurements said that 140 was good. But I was stuck at 143 pounds. Then someone told me about a service near me that offered a biolectric impedence test with the InBody 230 machine that uses 8 points of contact and is highly accurate. It was only $40 so I jumped on it. Hopefully there is a place near you. The place I went is here: http://fit-fax.com/. I was surprised to find from the analysis that I was only 21% body fat and had a lot of muscle. The analyst told me to stop losing weight.

I hope this helps!

Do a refeed, it'll help boost your leptin and aid in your weight loss.

At the risk of sounding like an idiot...what is a refeed? Never heard of it, and always looking for ways to help aid weight loss

A refeed is basically eating around maintenance calories for a day to a week, before going back down to your weight loss calories. It can be more complex if you are like a bodybuilder or athlete or something, but that's the basic idea.