I need help losing weight

allieromero · June 2016

I am 19, 5'2 and currently 112lbs. However, a year ago I was anywhere from 103-105lbs very easily. I could maintain that with ease but I gained weight when I came to college. I need some tips on how to lose 9-12 lbs and any success stories for those with similar stats like mine. What kind of diet did you do? What types of exercises and how often did you do them? Thank you... I really need help

Maxematics · June 2016

I'm 5'3" and 109 pounds; I weighed 139 pounds at this time last year. All I did was eat at a calorie deficit and exercise almost every day. C25K three days per week and weights the others. Now I'm doing a resistance training/cardio hybrid program. I still run in the park when the mood strikes. I walk a lot too. To be honest though, the deficit is the most important part of it. You don't have to ban any foods, you just have to eat at a deficit of around 250 per day. Don't try to lose more than half a pound per week, as you don't have much to lose to begin with.

Hawthornemom · June 2016

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

dlkfox · June 2016

Hawthornemom wrote: »

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

Wow. That's a lot of "no" and woo. Ignore it.

Set MFP to lose a half pound a week with a sedendary lifestyle. It is going to give you 1200 calories because of your height. (I am also 5'2" but I have 75 pounds to lose.) Any exercise you do will burn additional calories and you can eat some of those back or choose not to and lose faster -- but it is better to lose slower and eat more. You can also save some exercise calories during the week to enjoy a large meal with friends on the weekend. At that point you'll be paying close attention to your weekly average, which is what I do.

Good for you for catching your weight gain early! But because you have little to lose, expect a modest loss each week, which might be masked by water retention any given week. This is totally normal and to be expected so don't be upset. You didn't gain it all in a week, after all.

I highly recommend getting a food scale and logging everything you eat and drink every day. Even talk to your college food service director to see if they can provide you nutrtional information. Use the most accurate entries in MFP...not all entries are good.

The skills you will be learning on MPF will serve you well in your life. It's all about calories in and calories out (CICO). Once you reach your maintenance weight, you can continue to monitor your calories on MFP.

Best of luck to you.

Maxematics · June 2016

Hawthornemom wrote: »

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

Half of this wall-of-advice contradicts itself. OP, there is no need to do ANY of this. Wow.

queenliz99 · June 2016

Hawthornemom wrote: »

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

I like to know who awesomed this post!!

tamrachristensen · June 2016

No fruit mentioned???

BruinsGal_91 · June 2016

Hawthornemom wrote: »

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

Eat fewer calories than you burn. There you go. Fixed it for you.

Seriously OP, you don't need to take any of that 'advice'. It's all woo and bro-science.

thiosulfate · June 2016

tamrachristensen wrote: »

No fruit mentioned???

No one needs fruit. Many like it, however.

dlkfox · June 2016

queenliz99 wrote: »

Hawthornemom wrote: »

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

I like to know who awesomed this post!!

Seriously! LOL

FitnessGirl11mfp · June 2016

Hawthornemom wrote: »

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

No. Just no!!

OP all you need to do is eat at a deficit. Buy a food scale and weigh and log everything. Also, being that you don't have much to lose, keep in mind that the most you should lose is .5 lbs a week.

zoeysasha37 · June 2016

Hawthornemom wrote: »

Few suggestions. No eating after 7 pm. Eat breakfast around 10am. No junk, no pasta, no chips, no sweets, no ice cream. Watch it on bread, one serving a day. Don't go crazy on yogurt. What to eat- eggs- all ways, veg omelet. Tomatoes ,fruit, avacado (half of one ) nuts (1/4 cup) hummus -few tbsp, Fish. Salad, edamame, chicken, all vegetables - toss raw either olive oil, salt /pepper and roast them at 425 for 20 min, including potatoes. Put this on salad. Salad dressing - lemon juice and olive oil. Walk, move. Weight will fly off. Cheat one meal once a week. Put scale away and check in every 4 days. This is not a diet, it's a healthy way to eat. Diets will crush your metabolism. You are a healthy weight now, be careful not to be obsessed being too thin. That is a rabbit hole you really don't want to hop in. Excersize, try kick boxing . Splurge try peanut butter and marsh mellow sandwich- high protein low fat food. Pop a probiotic everyday. Nothing processed ever. Cook. You will not be hungry if you max out on vegetables and add protein. Do not eat those protein bars , very fattening. Look at food labels, if it says 24% sugar do not eat it. No frappachino. No soda. Boil water and make iced green tea/ huge pitcher, toss in 4 bags. Green tea increases ones metabolism. You will be your goal weight soon.

Disregard all of this. This info is incorrect

diannethegeek · June 2016

marinashakeel · July 2016

Hi. I am 128 lbs and 5'0. I'd like to get down to around 100 lbs. Add me if you'd like.

godlikepoetyes · July 2016

I think, because you maintained the lower weight easily before, it might be helpful for you to figure out what changed. Are you very stressed? Stress alone can cause weight changes. Did you start moving less? If so, then you may just need to add that movement back in and give things some time. It is true that you will lose weight if you stay in a deficient, but with so little to lose, it may be very hard for you to cut your calories by very much.

Here are some questions to ask yourself--Did you start eating some particular foods that seem healthy but maybe have a lot of calories and you don't realize it--like yogurt and granola? Have you started snacking at night, when you never did this before? Have you started eating donuts for breakfast instead of oatmeal? Have you been eating on the go?--this one can really add up. It has become customary to eat everywhere, anytime. "Grabbing" something on the way out and eating in the car, or library, or wherever, can push your weight up without your realizing it. Then the next thing to do is to track for a week without making changes so you can find out how much you're eating. Then you can address your food with more information in hand.

I say all this because you are already at a healthy weight and you are very young. I'd hate for you to focus too much on ten-ish pounds. This is what I did at your age. Now I wish I'd just focused more on healthy choices. But I didn't and I set out on a path of yo yo dieting and deprivation that made me miserable and wrecked my health. If I had focused on movement when I was your age, and made exercise a part of my life FOREVER, I would have been ahead of the game all these years--chances are I would have never gained all this weight in the first place.

Whatever you do, please be kind to yourself. If you treat yourself, and others, with kindness, it will make all the difference in your life. I know this sounds fluffy and maybe silly, but it's the lesson I've learned the last couple of years. I wish someone had stressed this to me way back when.

Be Well.

sonia9240 · July 2016

Wow girl that's skinny . How much u wanna weigh.. Well I hope u don't get Anemia cause that's bad ..

I need help losing weight

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