Any 5" woman have success stories and or pics?

5'2" and flirting with 140lbs here...I used to be very active (running between 30-50K/week) but a hip injury put me out of commission for a while...So I'm also maybe not the motivation you were looking for, haha, but I hope to soon be!

It can be very frustrating when the scale only moves a pound after SO MUCH hard work, but it's important to remember that that single pound means a lot on our small frames.

Keep it up!

5'1, very small frame, started at 150 May 2012, now 105

I am 4'11 and 37 y/o. I started at 160 lbs. possibly a little more. I am now 121.6 lbs as of my last weigh in. I started Jan 30 2013. I cant believe Im posting these before pics but here goes lol.

I am due to be in a wedding this coming March....

Me in my dress on Nov 2012, before losing ANY weight (I hate this picture) in a size 16/18



Me in my dress when I bought it in a size 12 in June 2013 at 138 lbs



Me in my now TOO BIG dress that needs to be altered! This was taken about 2 wks ago- I now wear a size 6/8 jeans. The dress will need to be altered down to a bridal size 10 (im guessing).



Me buying size 6 jeans!

i m 22 and 5.2' :frown: I weigh 130 lbs :sad: wanna get rid of 20 lbs more..boost me up guys

5'3" here, started at 193. I started my dedication at 185 and am down to 160. Current goal weight is 140, maybe less. Would love some friends to keep growing and losing with. =]

I'm very similar! 5'3 1/2 (gotta get that half in;) ) and started at 192. I've been doing IF and MFP for a week and am down to 187.5. My goal is 139! Let's do it together!

I"m 5"1 and went from 195 lbs to 125 lbs and have now maintained for 18 months.

Last pic is from August 2012 at 118 lbs

Here's a recent pic at 125 lbs



You can see my success story here http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1150652-updated-success-story


I've since had a tummy tuck and feel wonderful.

My wife recently weighed 156 lbs.. They had a 6 week fitness challenge at our gym.
We went to the club every day and either did body pump, zumba or spin.. I did not do zumba.
She lost 13 lbs but her whole body changed.. her upper body
and biceps look fantastic. Body pump is what really changed her as she went from 1-2 classes to 4 a week.

Just have a plan and stick to it. For women its mostly resistance trainng that will make a change. She could
do no push ups now can do 15 at a time.

5'3'' here as well. Started at 161 lbs (after baby) and now at 140. Hoping to get to the 120 weight of my early 20's.

5'3" here, started at 193. I started my dedication at 185 and am down to 160. Current goal weight is 140, maybe less. Would love some friends to keep growing and losing with. =]

I'm very similar! 5'3 1/2 (gotta get that half in;) ) and started at 192. I've been doing IF and MFP for a week and am down to 187.5. My goal is 139! Let's do it together!

Hi I'm 5'1 - not new to weight loss but this is a new start for me with MFP. Would love to do it with you both.

I'm 5"2, started at 196lbs, currently maintaining between 110 - 115lbs.

I'm 4'11, 135lbs to 114lbs, 35 inch waist to 27 inch and took 4 months

I'm just shy of 5" tall. I was always athletic and muscular in high school and generally weighed about 125 (which is overweight according to the BMI charts). I got married and had a baby and by the time I was 28, I weighed in at 169lbs. It was the heaviest (non-preg) I had ever been but what bothered me the most was how terribly uncomfortable I was all the time. I was wearing my husbands large t-shirts and going up in jean sizes. I was wearing an 11/12 at the time.

On 7/13/13, I started dieting. I already ran 3x a week and had been running for months but my weight hadn't gone down at all. It really is 90% what you eat! I started out at 1350 cals a day and I did eat back my exercise cals. I lost 10lb the first month and decided then to weigh only once a month. s time went on, I lowered my calorie intake to 1240 a day and only eat 1/2 of my exercise calories back. As of this morning (12/11/13), I weigh 140.8. I now am in a size 6 jeans. I run 10-15 miles a week and my running times have really improved. I still have at least 20lbs to lose but I'm thankful that I'm over half way there! 5 months in and 28.2lbs down. Hoping to be at my goal of 117lbs by my birthday in late April.

'm 5' 1
Before Stats: 9-4-13
Weight: 133 (It was 137 for a while but I just started counting the day I started getting serious)
Waist: 30.5
Hips: 39

During Stats: 12-1-13
Weight: 116
Waist: 26
Hips: 36

YOU can do this! If you have a bad day or week don't dwell on it! Make today a new day!

but what bothered me the most was how terribly uncomfortable I was all the time.

This is exactly me. My friends didn't understand why I wanted to lose weight, and weren't especially interested/supportive, because I didn't LOOK that bad. But I tried explaining to them how frustrating it was to have a mental sense of how much space I took up, versus what was happening in reality.

For instance, I'd be reading in bed and try to reach for something, and actually couldn't reach it because my stomach was preventing me from bending that far. Or going to slide into a tight space and having my hips scrape, when I felt like I could have slipped through no problem.

The worst was when photos would pop up on Facebook, and my shirt would be tucked in around my belly rolls, even though I was sitting up straight...no thank you!