Any Shortie women 5'0 -5'2 success stories?

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Hi everyone! I am 5'1 and I am looking for supportive friends. I am 23 and applying to graduate programs. I have worked very hard this past year and have lost a good amount of weight through eating healthy and working out 4/5 times a week. I started around 118 and I am currently 105. I am pretty much wanting to just maintain this weight and keep doing what I have been. If I happen to lose a little more thats fine but focusing on toning and weight lifting. Goal is to stay at 102-105 which is a healthy weight for my height. add me if you would like. I am super positive and love to give advice when I can.

hi everybody i am 5'0 .. and currently weigh 126lbs.. i started my journey at 152lbs .. i have been on this journey since may 2013.. i am going slow but i will reach to my goal weight one day!

63 inches here. 148 ---> 112 at my lowest. now im a comfy 121.

Remember, we fall off sometimes but as long as we get back on. Support from MFP always helps. reading goals, stories, and fitness joureys like yours always motivates me. I wish you well.

Fellow shortie here , please add me

I'm 5'1" and was 185 at my heaviest 3 years ago. I lost 50lbs through WW but have gained 10 back since I started lifting weights a year ago. I have finally accepted that the tape measure is your BFF if you lift - seeing the scale creep up made me discouraged until I began logging measurents instead of watching the scale.

5'2" at age 38. I've fluctuated between 158 (highest & size 12) and 122 (lowest & size 2). Right now, I'm at 145 and aiming to lose 20 again. I've been on the slow but steady loss trajectory since last fall, when I was at my highest weight. Unfortunately, at our heights, there isn't much wiggle room with calories. So, you have to be able to be patient and happy with stalls and slow losses. I've found over time I tend to average about 1/2 lb per week, when I'm staying on track. I aim to average about 1200 calories most days and that makes up for the days when I go over (1-2 days/week, at 1500-2000 calories). I don't feel hungry on the lower calories if I focus on higher protein and "whole" foods. Good luck!

Not so triumphant, but I started out at around 255 (I didn't have a scale at that point), and I'm now down to 228... almost 30 pounds down since December! So, a little over 2 months there. I lost that weight like so.

-Low carb, high protein, high fat. So basically my diet looks like this: BACON FOREVER, eggs, salad/veggies, avocado pudding... that kind of stuff. Before I went paleo, I made choices of desert in moderation but I am very bad at moderation, so it had to be extreme or nothing.
-Paleo (so goodbye wheat and dairy products for now. Probably wheat forever... sigh. With the possible exception of beer.)
-NO liquid calories. None. No pop. No coffee. Well, I make the exception for homemade apple juice.
-My calorie goal is lower than MFP's suggested goal, because I'm trusting my body to tell me when it's full, and sometimes it says it's full on 450 calories, and then I'm like 'welp, okay', but then I don't feel bad the next day if I indulge in my paleo deserts.
-I don't eat out nearly as often as I used to.

Exercise! As a 255 pound woman, I was out of shape so I had to build up to being able to do the simplest things. I couldn't do a knee push-up. I couldn't do a chin-up. I couldn't run for 5 minutes. So I started with wall pushups, and static holds. I couldn't hold a plank for 10 seconds at that point, but that wasn't stopping me from holding it for 8 seconds. I got into the habit of doing 20 wall pushups at work every time I used the washroom, which was such a small change in physical activity it was almost silly to not do it. Now I've build that up to 30 wall pushups, 30 squats, and a 30 second plank. So I end up doing these reps a couple of times a day. After a month had passed, I tried doing pushups again, and now I can do knee pushups easily, and regular pushups... about 10 reps... and I've pushed my plank to 180 seconds. It's just about getting into the habit of doing something you don't NORMALLY do to get past the horrible stage. Don't run into a gym and hurt yourself if you're badly out of shape. There's next to no resources online for tackling being so out of shape you can't even do the basic thing.

NOW I've joined a gym, and am excited to find out things like, I can deadlift 185 pounds, or do a chin-up as long as I use the assisted machine. The point is, challenge yourself by doing something you wouldn't usually do. If you already do cardio, great! Try picking up some heavy things. Plus you earn some of your calories back, if you want them.

The exciting thing about being a short woman is that even 10 pounds looks like a crazy weight loss! I saw myself in the mirrors at the gyms, and while my clothes fit way differently and in theory I knew this already... I was flabbergasted by how much smaller I've become. From 30 pounds+working out (which probably means I've lost more fat in favor of muscle mass built from the strength training), I have lost a good 4-5 inches off of my hips, 6 off of my waist, and heaven knows how much off of my bust. Heh. So for us smaller people, the loss SHOWS.

The jeans don't lie. But it's still nice to be able to look and see it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go squeeze my magnificent arms.

i am 5ft 2 and was a uk size 22-24. i lost approx 2 and half stone and got down to a size 16. i maintained for 2 years but have put about half stone back on over this last christmas (too much chocolate!) so i joined here 4 weeks ago. ive been losing a steady pound a week but i have mobility issues and can't exercise so im happy with this.

I knew someone who was able to lose 40 pounds. She was 5'0" and she worked out five days a week, and was a mom so she had her kids all the time. She ended up at about 115.