Okay! This is it! How Can I Drop Last 10lbs in August?

Well, I lost 5 pounds in a week from proper tracking. I track it ALL now and I eat pretty healthy, and I'm not starving. I work out almost every day and I eat almost all of my exercise calories back. Since this is my first week of truly tracking I suspect the next 5 pounds will be more gradual, but I'm shooting for 10 pounds in a month because I have spent the past year trying to lose 10 pounds. It's calorie deficit. I want to knock it out and finally get it done. Then I'll move my calories back up to maintenance.

You lost 5lbs in a week because probably at least 3 of it was water. I appreciate the underlying point of this post about accurate logging. But if you truly understand your caloric needs and were logging accurately on top of it, you'd realize how outlandish a legitimate loss of 5lbs of fat or even body mass in one week is. You would've been creating a deficit of 17,500 calories over the course of the week.

If you actually did this and are within 10lbs of your goal, you have way more important things to worry about than the number on the scale such as undereating, overexercising, and loss of lean body mass. You do understand that the closer you are to your goal weight the more important it becomes to lose gradually, assuming your body composition has also improved, to retain muscle. There is a difference between goal weight and goal body composition, people rarely understand the weight that corresponds with their goal body composition or even the best methods to get there. I understand "wanting it done" but at what cost, feeling sluggish, losing definition, letting the scale dictate how you feel? You honestly can't keep up such a humongous deficit, even 10,000 calories, over the course of weeks without some ill side effects.

I'm 5'0 and am eating around 1500 calories a day of nutrient dense foods. I absolutely feel wonderful. A smoothie with wheat grass in the morning, a snack of greek yogurt with organic flakes, quinoa with veggies usually for lunch (or something similar), another snack (almonds, a small sandwich etc) and a protein for dinner with vegetables. I save enough to have a crunchy snack (organic potato crisp) before dinner. I do cardio usually 3 times a week and a muscle workout twice a week.

Once I'm down to 120 (not a very low weight for my height at all) then I'll up it. My measurements currently put me in an unhealthy BMI.

It's possible to lose 10 pounds in a month, at least for me, in a healthy manner.

Thanks to most posts. And for the other, who in the heck cares what I posted before??? This is today and this is what im posted TODAY. Yesterday doesn't matter people - it's what we do today and what we are gonna do in the future. I am trying to lose this gd weight and I AM doing everything right! Even messing up with cheat meals! Having cheat meals is still doing it right! My problem is patience okay! And yes I want a quick fix - doesn't everyone??? Like i said before, I've lost 15lb in 4 months. Why can't I lose 10lbs in 7 months now? Im impatient and frustrated. I just need people to push me to keep going! THAT IS WHY I MAKE MY POSTS AND ASK QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!! YEAH WOOHOO!!!! YA YA YA YA YA YA!!!!!!! CALL ME CRAZY< CALL ME WHAT U WANT!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! LMFAO!

You already pretty much posted this exact topic in the beginning of June.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1015460-how-do-u-lose-the-last-10lbs

You've also posted various threads asking for help. Why don't you actually try listening to some of the advice? I don't think you're trying ANY of what people are telling you over and over again.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1025775-feeling-like-a-piece-of-loser

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1022146-is-it-really-that-simple

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1038088-am-i-making-a-big-mistake-missing-lifting-sessions



You're a beast!!!!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1039255-attention-hypothyroids-what-do-you-eat

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1037543-are-you-maintenance-if-u-go-over-cals-once-a-week

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1020746-do-body-comp-results-take-longer-than-weight-loss

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1014974-since-i-suck-at-macros-should-i-quit-heavy-lifting

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1015944-macros-for-heavy-lifting-to-lose-weight

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1008346-ladies-5-9-eating-1300-1500-cals

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1008310-as-long-as-some-sort-of-deficit-you-will-lose-right

You followed the advice for two whole weeks?