I am definitely finding the last 10-15 pounds to be hardest. I think there was more room for error when I weighed a bit more!

What is helping me is changing up my workout routine. I like cardio, but I was finding that my heart rate just didn't get up enough to really burn calories doing things I'd been doing all year. So I recently bought Insanity (Beachbody was having a sale). And I'm going back to lifting weights (took some time off because I pulled something), but a different program than before.

For foods, grain and legume dishes have worked best for me. (I am a vegetarian.) It is hard to make beans and rice, or lentils and barley, with super high calories, as long as you are careful about oil. But because those types of dishes have so much fiber, I find them quite filling even at lower calorie values.

I have been using my fitness pal for about 2 months now and I am having the same trouble not losing weight at all. I feel trimmer and some of my clothes fit looser but to lose those last 5-10 pounds is taking forever. good advice to be more accurate when logging food and meals.
Any other tips are greatly appreciated!

Thanks

i'm coming up on my last 5 pounds...well my DH said i need to drop 10 more to have a 5 pound "cushion".

I began to seriously change what i ate in January 2016 and now the goal is very close. I don't weigh anything or measure at all, i've never had a problem dropping the extra pounds.

My challenge is "maintenance".....everyone says it is easier to lose than to maintain the loss. That's been a huge issue for the past 10 years. Scary.

Girls I'm 5" and hoping to drop 10lbs in 5 weeks. Could do with all the friends/support as possible so please add me

i'm not measuring or weighing foods but have been trying for accurate "guesstimate" logging, began with NYeve resolution goal in January 2016 and am now at 124 with a goal weight of 115.

If you have an open diary to your friends and wish to give & receive encouragement, feel free to add me.

The weight has been falling off and what i've mainly cut out is sweets and desserts and increasing my fat & protein.

Good Luck for the summer of 2016 and all of us can Do This!!!

I'm also in this camp and struggling! Food is my weakness. I've been on and off MFP for years and I'm finally in a place where I'm not overly concerned about my weight, but I would like to drop some fat. Doing well in the excercise department but need to start logging again. As someone else said going to up my protein and fat and cut back on carbs/sugar. Would like to be a bit leaner by the time I go away in August. Need lots of encouragement lol

My last 10 lbs have been extremely hard to lose. I went from 165 to 155 within 2 years but have stayed right around 155 for about 2 years now! Still trying to reach 145!

I'm up 15 pounds from where I want to be. For the third time. I'm finding maintenence to be very elusive. So first off, drop the 15 I regained, then revamp the maintenence plan.
Would love to hear any successful strategies for maintenence.
Also, ideas for shaping up skinny fat. At home type things work best for me.

Does anyone else find when they work out a lot their weight doesn't budge or even goes up!? I often find this and it's really frustrating. When I focus on food and only do small amounts of exercise like walking I loose weight. But when I log and work out hard my weight just hovers around the same. I am also hungrier so tend to eat my exercise calories back. Maybe that is the key but its just mildly frustrating!

Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. 32 years old, 5'3, currently at 130 wanting to get to 115-118 and be healthy. About a year ago I was prescribed adderall which suppressed my appetite so much and I dropped weight pretty fast but I didn't eat meals really. A lot of processed food cause the calories were still in a deficit. Anyway now the adderall doesn't do what it used to for my appetite, and I put most of the weight back on. So, I want to do this healthfully! I tell myself that it's not possible to lose weight without restricting my calories significantly, but I have to change that belief. I like fast immediate results and when I don't see them I get discouraged. So, in feeling like I am in it for the long haul this time. 1500 a day limit, and I am tracking everything.

Please share your progress all, as it is motivating!! Good luck.

bananabeannn wrote: »

Oh and, I just need to feel like I can do this. My sense of mastery/accomplishment is a little in the pits and I would really like to feel like I've got this. I am considering learning to run, since that is something I find difficult to accomplish. Anyone here run? I workout and have decent stamina, but running...I hate it.

Fellow running hater here *waves*

I read something recently in a behavioral study which amounted to positive self-talk winning over strategies such as imagery/visualization. Essentially, the participants who told themselves "I can do better" actually did do better.

I thought I'd use it myself, but I modified it - "I can do a little bit better" and hey, presto! it has worked so far!!

Hey! I'm 5'6" & 29yo. Started at 165 lbs at the beginning of the year. Made it down to 150 last week. Goal weight is 140lbs.

It was my goal to hit 150 before I left for my 12 day vacation on Friday. Since hitting 150 I've allowed myself a little more wiggle room (aka several crazy over days that seem to average out to maintenance for the week) I'm planning on not logging at all on my vacation, but make healthy choices (I'll be in Italy, so we'll see. I'm not missing our on pasta & Gelato just because of a couple pounds!)

By giving myself those weeks of relaxed/higher calorie eating, I know I'll be more focused & ready to slay those last 10lbs (or maybe slightly more...) when I return from vacation. I know myself well enough to realize that I need this break both mentally & physically. I plan on recalulating my calories at my current weight, continue strength training & not eating my exercise calories. MFP currently has me at 1320/day. If I could get a job that gets me moving & off the couch that would be wonderful too...

I should start by giving some props - wow, @KiyaK , that was incredibly helpful! So simple, but I've never had that perspective before. Thanks for posting about the maintenance calories. I think that's going to shift my gears a bit.
I'm 5'4", 145 and trying to get off 10lbs because I think I can easily maintain 135 (I was lower but that was tough). I maintained 135 for a while (and pictures of my myself from then don't make me sad. Lol), but then we moved and then baby... You get the drift. Before pregnancy I was hovering between 140 and 145, so the preggo weight has been long gone (he's 3 and I lost it in the first six months or so - I was over the 200 mark! Yikes, milkshakes and Chick-fil-A!), but now I'm so ready to get the 10lbs off that I was aiming for before that! And it's weird because the weight is all in my midsection. For the first time in my life I actually like my legs, I just hate my stomach - used to be the other way around. In fact, a lot of my pre-pregnancy pants fit better in the legs than they did before, but I still can't wear them because of my tummy. Yes, they're about four years old, and I probably need to ditch them anyway.
My biggest issue, as @she_creature has described is that it's really hard to be mindful of food with the distraction of a pre-schooler around. It's a grab-n-go situation. I've cooked for the week and stuffed the freezer before and, I'm really not sure why that didn't work. Perhaps I need to cook a few different meals to choose from? It got very boring, very fast, and I started looking at his frozen chicken nuggets like they were little beef filets with black truffle cream sauce. I cannot understand how that happens. And he didn't eat them, and I hated to waste them, and they don't reheat well... Ugh. I just didn't stick to it.
I've rejoined the gym, and little one goes to the childcare and loves it, so that's not a problem. It's snacking and not eating well. Dinners are great - the hubs cooks the best salmon, steak and shrimp I've ever had, he's a great support. But during the day... those snacks sneak in. A bite here, a nibble there. Soon, I've had the equivalent of an hour on the elliptical without even realizing it. And these ridiculous snacks haven't brought me any joy whatsoever. Seriously. Chex Mix and Teddy Grahams?? Why am I doing that??
So I'll be journaling the heck out of my food in the next few months and hoping that I won't eat the snacks because I'll be too embarassed to enter them into the food journal. 1200-1500 range. I have been trying to lose a few for a cruise, but that's now upon us and happening in a few days, so my midsection will be my midsection. I wonder if trying to lose for an event is too much pressure and is a set up for failure, and that's probably why I didn't take it very seriously. I need to get my head in the game that this is for the long run. But I'll have fun nonetheless! Journaling starts upon return! Good luck to all of you, you're my inspiration, so thank you!!

natnicks319 wrote: »

can any of you ladies help me out on my post?

Where is your post?