Any other ladies out there who are 5'4.5 and weigh 145 looking to lose 20 pounds?
Myjourney2345
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Hi everyone! I lost 27 pounds last year for my wedding and unfortunately gained 10-12 pounds back...thorough good old fashion binge eating. I actually got down to 126 pounds and was losing weight while consuming 2,000 calories a day, but then I started to binge again ( it is something I have been struggling with my whole life). The good thing is that I never gave up exercising while eating poorly.
I am back on track and I am looking to get back to being 125-130 pounds again and I was wondering if some of you who have similar body stats to mine would be willing to share your caloric allowance for the day and exercise plan? I currently eat between 1400-1600 calories a day and workout 5-6 days a week (spinning 5 days a week and doing bootcamp in the morning 3 days a week).
I am back on track and I am looking to get back to being 125-130 pounds again and I was wondering if some of you who have similar body stats to mine would be willing to share your caloric allowance for the day and exercise plan? I currently eat between 1400-1600 calories a day and workout 5-6 days a week (spinning 5 days a week and doing bootcamp in the morning 3 days a week).
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If you lost weight before on around 2000 calories, why not try that level again? Unless you've reduced your activity level from then, you could probably still lose on that amount and restricting to a lower level might actually cause a binge.
I'm 5'4.5" and currently in the low 120's. I just switched to recomp a week ago (although still slowly upping to maintenance calories which is in the 2200-2300 range), but before that was eating 1800-2000 calories to lose (1871 had me losing 0.7 lbs per week, but I found it hard to keep to that level constantly). Before my switch I was doing Stronglifts 5x5 and running 3 x a week. In addition to that I was trying to keep my step count at 10k with a goal of 12k or more. Since switching to recomp, I've changed my routine to Strong Curves Booty-ful Beginnings 4 days a week and running 2-3 x a week. Still aim for 10k steps with a goal of 12k or more.2 -
I'm 5'4". Currently 150 lbs (plus an extra 3-5 because of Creatine) I'm looking to hit 135 Lbs again. When I lifted heavy that was as low as I could go without serious effort. I wore a size 4. I'm around 2000 cals a day and doing Body Beast by Beachbody. I have a hard time hitting that mark. I usually come in at 1800.0
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5'3.5" I was at 178.7 pounds in December, just weighted in at my doctors appointment this morning at 132.8. :-). My doctor says she will support me dropping to 129 but no lower as she thinks my body is lean enough.
I currently eat 1,500-1,800 a day and am training for a 10k in June and a half marathon in November. (I would have laughed at you if you told me in December I was going to run even a half mile in 2016).4 -
Wow amazing work Fatmomrun!
I'm 5'3 and currently 175. I wanna lost the last 20lbs of baby weight (just had dd2 in February). After that, I'm gunna focus on fitness goals rather than weight.
I'm struggling right now with being starving with breastfeeding and exhausted from a new baby combined with a 3 year old. I did well yesterday but cluster feeding is kicking my will powers *kitten*
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I am 5'4" and 145 is the lowest that I like to go. I have packed on muscle and lost 80 pounds and am concentrating on STRONG
My face looks too thin and wrinkles when i am under 1451 -
Hi everyone! I lost 27 pounds last year for my wedding and unfortunately gained 10-12 pounds back...thorough good old fashion binge eating. I actually got down to 126 pounds and was losing weight while consuming 2,000 calories a day, but then I started to binge again ( it is something I have been struggling with my whole life). The good thing is that I never gave up exercising while eating poorly.
I am back on track and I am looking to get back to being 125-130 pounds again and I was wondering if some of you who have similar body stats to mine would be willing to share your caloric allowance for the day and exercise plan? I currently eat between 1400-1600 calories a day and workout 5-6 days a week (spinning 5 days a week and doing bootcamp in the morning 3 days a week).
What are you doing to address your binge eating? I found cognitive behavioral techniques useful, as well as self-soothing with exercise rather than food.0 -
Wow, I'm 5'4" and am very happy at 140-145. I've lost and gained weight three times in my adult life. Keeping it off is hard. However, I know that maintaining anything under 140 would be difficult for me.
I'd say stick to what helped you lose in the first place. Make a conscience decision not to binge -- I know form experience too that it's very hard. I "binged" the other night, but I stuck to eating grapes, but putting them in a bowl and only eating those. I'm trying to re-frame my binges.
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kshama2001 wrote: »Hi everyone! I lost 27 pounds last year for my wedding and unfortunately gained 10-12 pounds back...thorough good old fashion binge eating. I actually got down to 126 pounds and was losing weight while consuming 2,000 calories a day, but then I started to binge again ( it is something I have been struggling with my whole life). The good thing is that I never gave up exercising while eating poorly.
I am back on track and I am looking to get back to being 125-130 pounds again and I was wondering if some of you who have similar body stats to mine would be willing to share your caloric allowance for the day and exercise plan? I currently eat between 1400-1600 calories a day and workout 5-6 days a week (spinning 5 days a week and doing bootcamp in the morning 3 days a week).
What are you doing to address your binge eating? I found cognitive behavioral techniques useful, as well as self-soothing with exercise rather than food.
Hi there, exercise does not seem to help me ( if anything it prevents me to ballooning up to 200 pounds). I have done therapy and the only thing that seems to work for me is completely eliminating sugar and specifically chocolate from my diet. Seriously, if I even have one piece of chocolate it completely sets me off. I rarely eat out and I eat pretty healthy food, but I also have a problem spacing my meals out, I would rather consume all of my calories until 2pm, and I don't think it is very good. I also work and go to school from home so I find that being outside the house prevents me from eating all of my calories by 2-3pm.0 -
mom2wessarah wrote: »Wow, I'm 5'4" and am very happy at 140-145. I've lost and gained weight three times in my adult life. Keeping it off is hard. However, I know that maintaining anything under 140 would be difficult for me.
I'd say stick to what helped you lose in the first place. Make a conscience decision not to binge -- I know form experience too that it's very hard. I "binged" the other night, but I stuck to eating grapes, but putting them in a bowl and only eating those. I'm trying to re-frame my binges.
Good luck!
Yes, I have learned to control my binges, by having "controlled binges", if I know a binge is coming and I really can't prevent it I allocate myself 1,000 calories worth of food and only "binge" on those specific foods. It prevents me from having massive 4,000 calorie binges.
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happymom221 wrote: »I am 5'4" and 145 is the lowest that I like to go. I have packed on muscle and lost 80 pounds and am concentrating on STRONG
My face looks too thin and wrinkles when i am under 145
I used to weight 215 pounds back in 2009, I have lost and maintained that weight loss, but I find that anytime I lose more weight and deep below 135 I start to lose control. I personally feel and look better at a lower weight. I am trying to not only focus on cardio, but also gain muscle.
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5'3.5" I was at 178.7 pounds in December, just weighted in at my doctors appointment this morning at 132.8. :-). My doctor says she will support me dropping to 129 but no lower as she thinks my body is lean enough.
I currently eat 1,500-1,800 a day and am training for a 10k in June and a half marathon in November. (I would have laughed at you if you told me in December I was going to run even a half mile in 2016).
Wow, amazing job! I will see how this week goes and if I lost too much weight I will increase my calories to 1,600-1,700 calories.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »Hi everyone! I lost 27 pounds last year for my wedding and unfortunately gained 10-12 pounds back...thorough good old fashion binge eating. I actually got down to 126 pounds and was losing weight while consuming 2,000 calories a day, but then I started to binge again ( it is something I have been struggling with my whole life). The good thing is that I never gave up exercising while eating poorly.
I am back on track and I am looking to get back to being 125-130 pounds again and I was wondering if some of you who have similar body stats to mine would be willing to share your caloric allowance for the day and exercise plan? I currently eat between 1400-1600 calories a day and workout 5-6 days a week (spinning 5 days a week and doing bootcamp in the morning 3 days a week).
What are you doing to address your binge eating? I found cognitive behavioral techniques useful, as well as self-soothing with exercise rather than food.
Hi there, exercise does not seem to help me ( if anything it prevents me to ballooning up to 200 pounds). I have done therapy and the only thing that seems to work for me is completely eliminating sugar and specifically chocolate from my diet. Seriously, if I even have one piece of chocolate it completely sets me off. I rarely eat out and I eat pretty healthy food, but I also have a problem spacing my meals out, I would rather consume all of my calories until 2pm, and I don't think it is very good. I also work and go to school from home so I find that being outside the house prevents me from eating all of my calories by 2-3pm.
If you eat all your calories by 2-3 PM, and then aren't hungry for the rest of the day, that's fine and is a variation of intermittent fasting.
But if you are ravenous later, having a limited eating window isn't for you. If that's the case, maybe you're not eating foods that satiate you? Please change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings0 -
Hello! We have similar stats. I'm 5'4.5 and my starting weight was 140. I got down to 132 the last time I used MFP, but I kinda fell off the wagon because life. I restarted at 138 three weeks ago, and I've dropped to 135-136 in that time. I have my calorie goal set to 1300, since I'm sedentary (desk job). The amount of exercise I do fluctuates each week, so I find it easier to add it back in manually, and eat back however many exercise calories I feel like I need. For exercise, I try to run 3 times per week (5-7K per run). I also do the 30 Day Shred a couple times per week.
This is working for me so far. (Granted, it's only been a few weeks... Hopefully it continues!) My goal is to get down to 120-125, then focus more on weight training to build some muscle.0 -
Yes! I'm 5'3 and about 145 lbs. I was going to aim for 1,400 cals, but this week I've been hovering around 1,500. I'm a little shorter, plus I know I can't weigh every little thing I eat so I'm allowing some room for error which is why I'm only aiming for 1,400-1,500.
I've started working out five days a week - two days heavy lifting, two days treadmill for one hour, one day walking - but it is a LONG walk - I'm up to 11 miles, I burn over 1,000 calories per my heart rate monitor. I'm training for a three-day walk that comes up in October.0 -
Feel free to add me. I'm 5'4.75, losing between 15-20 more lbs.0
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I am 5'5 and started at 164 last fall. Got down to 132, then fell off tracking and eating right. I got up to 141 and just started back with myfitnesspal this week. I currently weigh 139 and am hoping to get to 115-120 lbs. I just started full time grad school while working full time so I hope not to fall away from eating healthy again!0
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I'm 5'3 and started at 146. Currently at 130 and headed to 120. My diary is open.0
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Wow u lost 40+lbs in less than 6 months? Congratulations
5'3.5" I was at 178.7 pounds in December, just weighted in at my doctors appointment this morning at 132.8. :-). My doctor says she will support me dropping to 129 but no lower as she thinks my body is lean enough.
I currently eat 1,500-1,800 a day and am training for a 10k in June and a half marathon in November. (I would have laughed at you if you told me in December I was going to run even a half mile in 2016).
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Same here (mostly). Currently around 145-146; 5'3". 5 (have to add that half inch!)
My goal is to get to 140 and see how I feel with it. May want to drop into the 130's, not sure yet.
I mostly do cardio, running, for exercise. I haven't been able to stick to a strength training routine; I've started & fell off couple times.
I have cals set to 1421, but eat back some exercise calories. On PMS days or those "I'm ravenous" days that pop up, I don't mind upping my calories to 1600-1800, sometimes even more.
I definitely have been losing slowly because of these things, but still feel good. Got serious with counting & exercise late summer/fall and have lost 30+. I've started really pushing these past couple weeks & weight has dropped quicker.1 -
5 4 and weight 148. Trying to get down around 120 range and start training for bikini competitions. I eat 1200 to 1400 calories a day and doing LCHF0
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Hi ladies! Feel free to add me as a friend. I actually made a conscious decision to up my calories to 1,650-2,000 a day in order to avoid bingeing. I exercise so much and burn so many calories in addition to walking 6,000+ steps a day that I did not want to leave my body malnourished. I wear a heart rate monitor and have a fairly accurate estimate of the number of calories burned per workout (around 380-500 per 45 and 60 minute workout with an average heart rate of 165). I lost .8 pounds this week even while having pretty crappy food days on both Saturday and Sunday. I actually prefer to have a caloric deficit of no more than 600-700 calories a day and on the day I don't exercise I limit myself to 1,600 calories a day, while getting 12,000+ steps in. I'd rather losen 3-4 pounds a month than lose the weight quickly, starve ( and I feel terrible when I only consume 1,450-1,500 a day) and revert back to bingeing.0
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NikkiMichelleS wrote: »Same here (mostly). Currently around 145-146; 5'3". 5 (have to add that half inch!)
My goal is to get to 140 and see how I feel with it. May want to drop into the 130's, not sure yet.
I mostly do cardio, running, for exercise. I haven't been able to stick to a strength training routine; I've started & fell off couple times.
I have cals set to 1421, but eat back some exercise calories. On PMS days or those "I'm ravenous" days that pop up, I don't mind upping my calories to 1600-1800, sometimes even more.
I definitely have been losing slowly because of these things, but still feel good. Got serious with counting & exercise late summer/fall and have lost 30+. I've started really pushing these past couple weeks & weight has dropped quicker.
In my experience, a loss is a loss and the slower you lose weight the better your feel in the long run.0 -
Hi, I'm 5'3...I started at 218 pounds, I have been walking 1000 steps and sticking to 1200 cals...I now weigh 151 pounds and still want to loose about 11 pounds..but every time I up my calories I put on!0
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Hello! I'm 5'3". My highest weight was 178 in December and I'm currently at 160. I want to get back down to 135-140. I try to at least work out 4 days a week. I work 12 hour long night shifts so my days I work are tiring. Right now I'm doing a half hour of interval running on days I lift (which is 2-3 times a week) and on my cardio only day I go on the elliptical for an hour. My diet is my biggest problem. I tend to not be able to eat for long periods of time so when I can eat I'm usually starving. I'm hoping once I get my diet in check the weight will drop off. Before when I weighed 165 a few years back I was able to drop 25 pounds in 6 weeks. I wasn't calorie counting then so I can't say it was necessarily healthy. I was working out 2 hours a day and very strict with my diet. I'm just hoping now I can get to a healthy weight in a healthy way.0
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5'4.5 139.25lbs as of this morning
I haven't logged properly this week due to binges.
I have been down to 132lbs and as high as 146lbs since Xmas.
I'm going to stick to 1600 plus exercise calories when I start c25k on Monday.
Hoping to get a handle on this and remain consistent for once!!
Good luck xx0 -
5'4.5 139.25lbs as of this morning
I haven't logged properly this week due to binges.
I have been down to 132lbs and as high as 146lbs since Xmas.
I'm going to stick to 1600 plus exercise calories when I start c25k on Monday.
Hoping to get a handle on this and remain consistent for once!!
Good luck xx
Yes, I'm glad to see someone else who is consuming more than 1,500 calories a day! I was 129 pounds in January and went up to 145 pounds in April through bingeing (while still working out a lot). I too suffer from terrible binge episodes and I find that if my deficit is greater than 600 calories a day my body is triggered and I turn to bingeing. I'd rather lose .8-1 pounds per week than binge 1-2 times a week and restrict my calories to 1,400 a day for 4-5 days. I made the commitment to break this vicious cycle even if it means that my weight loss is slower. As long as I lose weight and increase my strength and endurance I am a happy girl.
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curlyblue21 wrote: »Hi, I'm 5'3...I started at 218 pounds, I have been walking 1000 steps and sticking to 1200 cals...I now weigh 151 pounds and still want to loose about 11 pounds..but every time I up my calories I put on!
Hey there, in 2009 I weighed 215 pounds and I went down to about 118 pounds in about 6-7 months while exercising and eating 1,200 calories a day (I used my scale to weigh my food). Personally, it really destroyed my relationship with food and it wasn't worth it as I was very thin, yet miserable and starving. I gained some of the weight back due to bingeing and hovered around 155 pounds for a few years before losing 29 pounds last year for my wedding, while consuming 1,450 calories a day and working out intensely 4-5 times a week (burning 400-500 calories per workout). This too wasn't enough and I started to binge again...I am doing things differently this time around.
Are you using a food scale? I use a food scale and always have, it is the only way to accurately estimate the number of calories you consume per day. And are you walking 10,000 steps and exercising?0 -
NikkiMichelleS wrote: »Same here (mostly). Currently around 145-146; 5'3". 5 (have to add that half inch!)
My goal is to get to 140 and see how I feel with it. May want to drop into the 130's, not sure yet.
I mostly do cardio, running, for exercise. I haven't been able to stick to a strength training routine; I've started & fell off couple times.
I have cals set to 1421, but eat back some exercise calories. On PMS days or those "I'm ravenous" days that pop up, I don't mind upping my calories to 1600-1800, sometimes even more.
I definitely have been losing slowly because of these things, but still feel good. Got serious with counting & exercise late summer/fall and have lost 30+. I've started really pushing these past couple weeks & weight has dropped quicker.
That's awesome! I also don't restrict even on days I go over my caloric range. If I am ravenous I'll eat more, otherwise I know that it will trigger a terrible binge episode. In the past, my mindset was such that even if I went over my calorie range by 100 calories I would say "screw this let's binge the day is destroyed", it was very black and white and led to some terrible binge episodes. Now, I celebrate every binge free day and ever day that I'm at a deficit.0 -
5'3.5" I was at 178.7 pounds in December, just weighted in at my doctors appointment this morning at 132.8. :-). My doctor says she will support me dropping to 129 but no lower as she thinks my body is lean enough.
I currently eat 1,500-1,800 a day and am training for a 10k in June and a half marathon in November. (I would have laughed at you if you told me in December I was going to run even a half mile in 2016).5'3.5" I was at 178.7 pounds in December, just weighted in at my doctors appointment this morning at 132.8. :-). My doctor says she will support me dropping to 129 but no lower as she thinks my body is lean enough.
I currently eat 1,500-1,800 a day and am training for a 10k in June and a half marathon in November. (I would have laughed at you if you told me in December I was going to run even a half mile in 2016).
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To fatmomrun, What type of exercise and eating habits you have now that help you lose that much weight ??0
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