any other not-that-heavy girls trying to lose more weight?

Hey...why not try to lose inches, not weight...your BMI is healthy right now. You will look and feel better if you maintain your current weight, but turn any fat you have(which I cant imagine you have to much) to muscle. Weight bearing exercise is your best bet. Then you can even eat more, becuause your metabolism will increase...muscle burns more calories then fat. I am 5'9 and 138 right now. I don't check my weight regularly...just my inches.

Hey...why not try to lose inches, not weight...your BMI is healthy right now. You will look and feel better if you maintain your current weight, but turn any fat you have(which I cant imagine you have to much) to muscle. Weight bearing exercise is your best bet. Then you can even eat more, becuause your metabolism will increase...muscle burns more calories then fat. I am 5'9 and 138 right now. I don't check my weight regularly...just my inches.

Not sure if this was directed towards me, but I have lost inches. Despite being the same weight, I bought some SIZE TWO jeans last night for the first time ever! I'm sure there was vanity sizing involved, but it still felt good :bigsmile:

I'm glad to see this post as well. I'm 5'7 147lbs. I would like to be down to 130. My eating is definitely getting in the way. This weekend's goal will to be work out twice & stay away from the junkfood along with increasing water consumption. I wanna look hot in the bikini in March!

I'm 5'10 and I weigh 151lbs. I just had my third baby five months ago. I've lost about 45lbs since I had my daughter. According to my BMI I'm right in the middle of the normal weight range. With clothes on, you can't tell I had a baby, and I've have THREE of them in the past 4 years. Still, that isn't good enough for me. I want to look PERFECT without clothes on, I don't want any inch on my body that needs to hide. I, too, do get obessive over this - but in a positive way. I manage everything that I eat and I push myself to workout harder each time. I have about 25lbs left to loose or so, which will put me at 125lbs. Just to put it in prospective for you, I'm currently in a size 5. My normal size, not pregnant, is a size 3. I'd like to be even more tone than a size 3. I don't want to be scrawny skinny, I want to keep an athletic tone, so maybe fit into a size 3 comfortably and a size 1 for them tight jeans that look good on your butt. However, yes, I am there with you. I don't necessarily NEED to loose the weight, but I WANT to loose it. I think its important that we all have eachother for support, because our goals are important and although it is nice to hear that we "aren't 'fat' and don't need to loose weight" it won't help us achieve our own personal goals. You can add me if you'd like, I completely understand.

I'm not sure if I even fit into this but I've never been obese, just overweight.. well okay, maybe according to today's standards I've been obese. 176 was my heaviest I recall actually checking.. who knows, may have weighed more. I have lost 30 lbs since. But I have 30 more to go, so maybe I'm not right for this?? I'm about 5' 2". Currently weigh 146, want to weigh 116. I wish more girls my size and the size I want to be would post photos so I can get an idea. I feel I have a larger frame for my height though.. so I feel like 116 won't look that bad on me. We'll see.

I'm 5'3 and 156lb right now and that is considered 'over weight' for my BMI but I also just had a baby in Feb. and trying to work off the baby weight is really hard the second time around as I'm finding out I want to be 130lb, it was perfect for my bone structure and I looked great at that weight...when I started here I was 160lb so I'm making progress but ppl who have more weight to lose than I do that I know as friends keep making snide comments about it and they don't understand, I may not be 'fat' compared to their calculations but it's 'fat' to ME. kinda sucks sometimes.

Sorry to tell you but it's jealousy. I was once 175 @ 5'4" and I had friends that were taller and between 115-120 and they would tell me that I did not need to lose anymore weight. How would they know right? They had never seen me smaller. I feel like they couldn't stand anyone being smaller or around the same weight. So keep going until you feel comfortable. And if you feel like you need to gain or drop a few pounds after you reach your goal, then so be it. I gained a ton of weight with my pregnancy so now I am back at square one. If anyone tells me that I don't need to lose more weight once I reach my first goal of 145, I will ask them 'have you seen me smaller?' Of course the answer would be "no". And my response would be 'Then you don't know what I'd look like!'. Sometimes you have to shut people down.

hi and welcome new folks! you don't have to ask if you belong here, if you have to ask, you do, and if you don't have to ask, you also belong:flowerforyou:
I had a big binge weekend but I did squeeze in my gateway to 8k, one more week and I am running for 50 mins straight! Hard to believe since the couch to 5k days was June, when I struggled to run for 10 minutes straight!
I am going to weigh in tomorrow but I should be able to eat well and get back on track. My December Challenge was to work in some 30DS. I can't believe it is almost December!

Well today's weighin has me 18lbs over my goal weight. I have surgery in January so now I really have to push myself. I'm going to cut out all carbs except whole wheat bread, brown rice, baked white and sweet potatoes.

the monday weigh-in was 112, so not even more than usual, as I am usually down to goal weight, 110 by Friday.
I did the 30DS last night because I was about out of calories and wanted pizza but I ended up going over on cals anyway. And now I worry I will be too sore for my 50-minute run-last week of Gateway to 8K!
how are the rest of my NTH girls?
Someone mentioned wondering what a certain weight and height looks like and I remember there was a website mentioned on one of these threads, something-mirror. I can't remember! does anyone have the link? It was pretty cool but it was just getting started and there weren't alot of pics or any, for some hight/weight combos. I wanted to upload my pics but I never did.

Thought I'd say hi to this thread! I'm 26 years old, 5'3 and currently 63.5kg (139lb). Hoping to get down to 56kg (123lb) as that's where I feel most comfortable.

I had a lot of success doing the recommended 1200 calorie thing before my dreaded eating disorder took over and I became obsessed with getting my calories as low as possible. I know how stupid that is, but eating disorders just seem to cancel out all rational thought processes. I'm working really hard to recover and get back to that 1200 calorie limit and do what's right for my body. I think this is a really great thread, congratulations girls on all the success you've had so far!