has anyone lost 4/5 stone?

Hi Mairead,
That's my goal somewhere between 4 & 5 stone.
Started at 15.4 aiming for 10.7.
Start date 01.08.2013 lost almost 2 stone to date.
It has been full on commitment so far with exercise not really watching my diet just yet.
Here's what i have being doing:

Weekly month 1
3 X 45 minute Aqua aerobics
1 X 60 minute Pilates

Weekly month 2
3 X 45 minute Aqua aerobics
1 X 60 minute Pilates
1 X 30 minute treadmill 5.5km per hour
1 X 30 minute weight machines (3 set 15 reps 25lbs)
5 X 25 minute 30 DS shred

Weekly month 3
3 X 45 minute Aqua aerobics
1 X 60 minute Pilates
2 X 30 minute treadmill 5.5km per hour
2 X 30 minute weight machines (3 set 15 reps 25lbs)
5 X 25 minute 30 DS shred ( first 2 weeks)
4 X 30 minute 6wk6pack (second 2 weeks)

Trans-atlantic translation: 56-70lbs

Yeesh...that's what I'm looking to loose! It sounds a lot kinder in lbs than in stones and lbs for some reason!

Good luck!

14 pounds = 1 stone. 2.2 pounds = 1 KG.

Hi,

I've lost 4 stone.

The first three dropped off in about a year and since then it has been slowing down and each pound is harder to shift. I'm at 136lbs and got about another stone to go. I've been on MFP for 2.5 years.

The trick with losing a large amount of weight is finding something you can stick to and stay enthusiastic about. It is going to take you a long time so you have to commit to the long term and not expect quick results.

For me it went a bit like this
stage 1 - sign up to MFP and add loads of friends
stage 2 - reduce intake dramatically to create calorie deficit. For me, I'm short and small built so I went for the recommended 1200 cals per day.
stage 3 - learn to love exercise and incorporate it into your daily routine.
stage 4 - learn how to maintain at a healthy weight without having to worry about ever morsel of food I eat
stage 5 - demolish that last stone (this is where I am now)
stage 6 - maintain at goal weight

Hi!

I started at 18 st 13lbs and got down to 14 st 11 lbs in just over six months by attending a weight clinic. The clinic, while fantastic too me focused on large weight losses in a short time and I discovered something really important about myself. I never realised before and this may sound ridiculous, but I am a perfectionist. As a sloppy untidy person I never realised it about myself before. I am extremely hard on myself and when the big weight losses stopped coming and as I slowly burnt myself out in the gym trying harder and harder to maintain the massive weightloss, I realised that loosing weight wouldn't solve all my problems and I began to put it all back on.

Two stone back up and I got worried I'd see 18 st one the scale again before I knew it but I realised that I had the tools to loose the weight. It would just take a long time and I'd live with that. I am now focusing on loosing a pound a week and if I loose two...or god forbid three well then damn thats a good week. As long as I am not going back up I am winning!

Honestly, you want a quick fix. There is none. Diets do not work. You make a lifestyle change and that incorporates healthy living for the foreseeable future and an exercise routine that becomes part of your life. Not too extreme or to little. Pick something you enjoy and do it four times a week and go for a walk on your day off! It's a different way of life your after!

Hi. I'm currently bang on a 4 stone loss. My goal is 5 so 1 more to go

Good luck with your goals it can be done if you want it enough.

I have lost 3stone 9lb since March so hoping to hit 4 stone lost in the next month or so. I'm 5'10. Good luck ????

So far I've lost about 4 and a half stone but it's taken me about a year and a half