5'0'' with 20 lbs to lose

Hi valleemic, I'm 5'1" and have about 30 pounds to lose. I was really good about food and exercise and lost 20 pounds but have gained it all back when I got lazy and bored with my workouts. It's nice to see someone else on here that's as short as I am. What kind of workouts are you doing now?

I'm 5'2.5 which I round to 5'3" and I have 50lbs to lose.

I've also been successful previously and then let my bad habits creep back in. I was down to 130lbs (my goal weight) in 2006 and between getting more into my career and having two kids, I've totally let myself go.

The good news is that we know HOW to do the weightloss thing... Bad news is sticking to it?

Anyhow, best of luck. I'll friend you!

go to the Sparks diary counter - I bet you are allowed up to 1600 calories a day. But I do prefer myfitness pal. It is more user friendly and I can track fitness as well. But over the long haul - a realistic way of eating - rather than "diet' to get to your weight lost - denial etc. I find simply tracking what I eat - not excluding junk food - leaves me averaging 1400 calories a day. It fluctuates day to day which is normal day to day eating. In two weeks I lost 1.5 lbs. So this sounds pretty normal to me. However, fitness pal did assign 1200 calories a day to me. I also am slowing incorporating fitness which makes fitness pal increase there associated calories

I hope you adopt some life long eating patterns - not the quick and dirty weight loss journey.

Hi valleemic. I'm 5' nothing and struggle to lose weight and keep it off. It's even harder now I'm 52. It's crept on gradually over the years. I started putting on weight in my thirties and reached 146lb. Then, in my mid thirties, 15 years ago, via Slimming World, I got down to 132lb and looked good. However, since then I've crept up to (on the 1st July) a massive 185lb. I decided enough was enough and am now focussing hard. In the last seven days I've lost 4lb, but a long way to go.

Being small we need fewer calories to maintain, so exercise seems to be the only way to lose a lot of weight in a healthy way. Even at 1200 calories a day, I'm only going to lose 1lb a week if I'm lucky, and we all know that weight loss slows as a diet continues.

Happy to support fellow shorties!

I have to admit I have often wondered about CrossFit, I get nervous about hearing about all the injuries there though. I've seen some amazing results from my friends doing it though.

Hi, In Marji and I'm starting my serious weight loss goals. I've always wanted to lose weight but didn't have much drive until recently. I am 5'6" and I would like to lose almost 100 lbs. I know this is going to take time and honestly I am nervous about the journey. I hope to keep the strive and would love to meet more people with common goals and can be mutually supportive. I have a couple friends that are also changing habits and my boyfriend is supportive of my choices but I would like to communicate with more people in a similar position as me. I'm open to messages and hope to hear from some of you soon.

I am 4'11" and I also let myself slide after losing 50 lbs on WW about 10 years ago. I also wanted to lose about 20 lbs. I started doing WW online and lost weight the first few weeks and then kept going up and down about 0.4 lbs then I found out about MFP and started eating at the recommended 1200 calories and started losing again. I plateaued for a few weeks a few weeks ago and used one of the other BMR calculators and increased my calories to 1500 and started losing again. Good luck on your journey!

Awesome. Adding you..
I am back (again) too. Did well with MFP and regular excercises but got a new job and became so busy that my progress reversed- so here we go again.

age- 32
height - 5'0"
weight - 118

would like to get to 100 lbs or so.

I'm 4'9". I have lost 31 pounds and have 86 more to go.