Petite girls r u struggling w last 10 pounds??? 5'1" - 5'3"

How exactly do you know what the last 10 are? Is it just some arbitrary number you make up? I lost my last ten almost by accident, and now need to gain 2 and maintain....

Very difficult indeed. Im 5'3 and down to 117. My goal is 113. But its becoming quite the process. This is the only thing i hate about being short.

im 5.0 tall and i weigh 130 and im 11 so girl youre doing great i feel fat but i bet you feel great ugo girl

Hi everyone..I'm new here. I'm 26, 5'-2" and weight 134 pounds (down from 149 pounds in 3 months). I gained almost 20 pounds last year after I got married and finally in July I decided to get back in shape. I lost 15 pounds with the help of trying to follow a modified version of vegetarian atkins diet...basically cutting out carbs like all breads, cakes etc and absolutely all rice and starting weight training and interval training 4-5 times a week. However the past month I have been stuck on 134..fluctuating between 133 and 135 and it sucks! I dono what I'm doing wrong.!! Actually - I think i eat too much dark chocolate......so all my hard work goes to waste Do any of you guys who have lost weight also eat dark chocolate or is it totally sabotaging my weight loss??

Im dying! Im 5'3" 130 with a goal of 115. I was losing weight at a steady constant pace since July, and hit a plateau for the last 3, soon to be 4 weeks. The last 15 is killing me!

5'1" and 113 ... Goal weight is 108-110 and I've never been able to get there! Grrr!!

Im 5'4" and 150lbs. Structurally, I am very muscular. I wear a size 7 jeans and a size small top. To give an idea what I wear. People guess my weight at 130 but I am 150 and at my smallest, I was 135 in a size 3. That may not match up with other women (as Ive been told) size wise, but I am very muscular, like I said. I was 135-140 when I was 31 and it seem like overnight I gained 10lbs, and I have been eating right and working out and lifting weights as well for a year to combat this 10lbs and I haven't lost a single pound. I dont know what happened and I am very in tune with fitness and I have tried every trick I know to cut weight and not a single pound will budge. My only other thought is that its hormonal. Women start to drop in progesterone in the early 30s and lose it as the years climb. Estrogen and progesterone need to stay in perfect balance and when one or both is out of alignment, the seesaw begins.

"When a woman’s body no longer produces enough progesterone (the hormone needed to equalize estrogen so that, with a healthy diet and exercise, the body’s metabolism will respond and weight loss can occur), she has entered a state of “estrogen dominance”. Estrogen dominance causes an increase in what is called “thyroid binding globulin”. When this globulin, basically a group of proteins, is present, the thyroid gland becomes dysfunctional, meaning we can diet and exercise with a vengeance and still not lose the weight."

"While estrogen and progesterone are the ringleaders, there are other facilitating hormones that may be acting as their cronies – most often, insulin and cortisol.

Many women in their thirties experience never before known food cravings and the target of those is sweets. There is a very significant connection between estrogen and progesterone levels and insulin.

Insulin is the hormone (yes, it’s a hormone) made in the pancreas. This long thin organ is neatly tucked away under the left side of our rib cage and controls blood sugar levels. When insulin is released into our blood stream, the blood sugar level drops instantly. If too much insulin is released, the blood sugar level overshoots and drops too low. This sudden drop in blood sugar may leave us feeling weak, queasy, shaky, sweaty and craving sweets.

Of course, we’re all familiar with the concept of “low blood sugar”, but here is where things start to compound. As the body’s production of progesterone decreases and circulating estrogen becomes dominant, insulin is released more rapidly and more often. So we are both unable to properly metabolize calories and, at the same time, taking more in. The seesaw has begun to spin.

And we’re not even done yet.

Enter cortisol, aka the “stress hormone”, produced in the adrenal glands that sit right above the kidneys. When you are under stress and have high levels of cortisol, your body is physiologically unable to go into a weight loss mode. Elevated cortisol levels make the body believe that there is danger ahead. Your body is programmed to conserve all your fat reserves for impending crisis.

To summarize, even if your progesterone-estrogen seesaw was perfectly level and unbothered by the effects of increased insulin levels, stress-produced cortisol would still be throwing up weight-loss roadblocks at every step of your journey."

So look...its not just about diet, exercise, and water intake....after a certain age, generally the early 30s the hormones are raging a war against you and you're severely outnumbered. It just seems like, for me, it had to be more than just my physical output because I was trying so hard.
If it is hormones, I dont know what to do. Im not medicating myself, Ill just keep trying and hope for the best

I used to have a very bad perception of eating and at 5'1, getting down to 105lbs (which is actually considered healthy for my size), required starvation and an unhealthy obsession with exercise. Past that now and on the road to developing a healthy mind and body, but 1200 cals still seems a lot for me to consider ever getting down to that size again..
I exercise often and have been eating within that consumption and doing all the things to speed up your metabolism (water, eating breakfast etc) but still staying at 115'+. I want to be healthy and stick to this but its very disencouraging. Need some realistic advice...

Can totally relate. I'm 5"3, used to be 113 lbs at the lightest weight. Highest is 139 lbs. I have been hovering around 130 - 135 for the past 2 YEARS. Would really want to go down to 120 lbs.

I'm 5'1" & weigh 139lbs. Wanting to lose about 10 more pounds. I've lost went from 167 to 140 very easily. But going below 140 has proved very difficult. I'm guessing I need to start watching what I eat more closely & increase my intensity in my workouts.

UPDATE: I'm now 136lbs. I was stuck at 140-139 for over 4 weeks, then started HIIT training & ate about the same. The weight has finally dropped at a steady pace. I used to work out on the bike, elliptical, or treadmill 20min a day & now I do HIIT 15mins 5X week + yoga 3X week & have seen fantastic results.

You are not the only one! I am 5' In college I was 110 soaking wet and now I seem to fluctuate between 130 and 135 lbs. Miserable! Check out dieting and exercises for your body type endomorph, mesomorph etc. That is the only thing that seems to be working at this time for myself. Good luck to all of the petite ladies!

I'm 5'2". My highest weight was 148, currently I'm at around 138. I have the same problem others have mentioned, my body "likes" to be about 140. It's hard to push past that. My goal right now is 130.

I am 5'2" and I am finding it very hard to keep that last 10 pounds off again, seems like no matter what I eat or how much exercise I do it creeps up, and 10 pounds is alot to petite girls ..its like 20 pounds to taller people....*sigh*....I don't know what the issue is? I havent changed anything... i've gone from 110 in March to 119.6 today!!! Its very discouraging as I spend everyday at the gym, I feel like this is a big waste of time if I am still gonna gain weight...why should I bother ...anyone else out there having the same issue ?

YEEEEEESSSSS! I lost it once, It crept back on, and now it is take FOR_EV_ER!

I understand the struggle...those last few vanity pounds are hard to lose! I started out at around 158 (at 5'1, yikes) and have maintained 98 pounds for a long while now...the first forty pounds went off pretty quickly, but it took me double the time to go from 110 to now!

I actually had to bump up my calories...I hadn't been losing at 1500-1600 so I bumped to 1900-2100 for the last ten pounds (combined with heavy lifting). It came off slowly but surely. Just remember it may take time but it will happen!

I understand the struggle...those last few vanity pounds are hard to lose! I started out at around 158 (at 5'1, yikes) and have maintained 98 pounds for a long while now...the first forty pounds went off pretty quickly, but it took me double the time to go from 110 to now!

I actually had to bump up my calories...I hadn't been losing at 1500-1600 so I bumped to 1900-2100 for the last ten pounds (combined with heavy lifting). It came off slowly but surely. Just remember it may take time but it will happen!

I'm in the same boat too! That's amazing that you had to bump your calories up that much to lose the last of the weight - very impressive weight loss!!