5 ft 1. Need motivational pics
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Loving this thread. I am 40 and struggling with emotional eating and a busy life. Anyone near my age pls send me a FR (with a line explaining where you find me). Thank you xxxx2
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I posted the below in September 2016 in another shortie thread. Sorry if some have seen it before and about the size of the pics. It motivates me to remember how far I've come. I've bolded my CW and included a few new pics as of 1.1.17. All other info remains the same:
Hi everyone! Fellow shortie here 5'1".
SW 192-195 lbs
CW 134 lbs Revised CW130 lbs
GW 125 (maybe, it varies)
Before 2013, I never really worked out consistently and my eating was atrocious. My diet has evolved over the years through trial and error and think I have finally found my "thing". I eat HFLC. It's not for everyone but clicks with me.
As far as exercise: Currently, I do free weights with SL 5x5 and a little cardio mixed in (very little). I began with mostly cardio when I started my journey years ago and only began implementing heavy lifting faithfully in March 2016. The changes to my body have been more than I ever thought possible!
The below picture is around 195lbs in 2013:
The below are from September 2016 134lbs:
January 2017 at 130lbs:
It's taken a long time to get to a place I'm comfortable with myself. I'm okay to stay here. I no longer go by a specific weight as a motivator and have slowly reduced weighing myself to once or twice per week. I still log my food and exercise daily.
Good luck all!
Eta: take lots of progress pics! The scale may not move but the pics will show the difference.9 -
Hey ladies! I'm not quite as short at 5'3" but I wanted to add that most average height/average build people don't understand the difference being fun sized makes. It's not just weight its composition and sometimes less waist definition and less leg length makes a small person uncomfortable and feel bigger. The general low end healthy weight is 100 lbs for 5ft tall and for every inch over 5 feet you add 5 lbs. So 115 is probably my lowest at 5'3". That seems crazy to someone taller but if you look up celebrity stats average for people like Michelle Rodriquez or Sophia Bush is 5'5" and 125lbs which fits that model perfectly and most of those ladies look good! Not to skinny but plenty of slim waist and curves!
For reference I started
SW 175lbs
CW 130lbs maintaining over a year!
GW somewhere around 120 but I'm super happy at 130! At 140 I start feeling pudgy, lol.
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I don't have any "befores" but you can see some "afters" in my profile. I started around 150lb, size 10. I am now a 0-2.0
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While I am at 5'3", I was at 144 lbs at one point and got as far down as 130 and stayed there for a while and couldn't get much lower with the exercising that I was doing and what I was eating while tracking calories. After being at that weight for so long, I changed what I ate to be mostly whole foods, so whole grain toast or pasta, fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, meats etc. I stay away from processed foods most of the time. I do still have a dark chocolate square on a nightly basis to take care of my chocolate craving. I generally do not drink alcohol unless it is a social occasion. By eating in this way I was able to lose that extra 10 pounds. I don't feel that I am missing anything from a food perspective. Now I am at 120 lbs plus or minus a couple of pounds on a consistent basis and am pretty happy with that. I've been maintaining since February with my highest since then being about 124 lbs around the holidays. Imbibed in more processed foods during this time.
Hope you are able to find what works for your! Good luck!1 -
Thank you ladies for sharing your stories! Hopefully one day I will be back to post my own.
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My friend is loosing weight, she is 5'2'' and was 205lbs when she started loosing weight. Now she is 173 lbs. There is a video on YouTube where she describes her experience with scale not showing any progress, but eventualy numbers started dropping again. Check out her story, maybe it helps you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upDIzGrphw0
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I'm just starting but here's my quick stats (my phone is dying)
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5'1 sedentary to light active?
(On my feet from 9-3 but only about 2500 steps)
Highest Weight: 155 maintained for 3 years after birth of 2nd
Start Weight: 140
Current Weight: 134.4
Goal is 5# loss per month
UGW: 105
Seriously I was 155 the day before giving birth and didn't even loose 6 pounds when I had her which is what she weighed 0.o1 -
I'm 5'0 tall and the first pic I was around 170ish and the second pic I'm around 130ish. I gained a few pounds since the second pic and I'm back on here trying to lose them and then some more. I've been going up and down many years but 170ish was my all time highest. This time around I would like to reach my initial goal weight and hopefully lose more after that too.5 -
This is a great thread! I'm 5ft 1" and weigh about 142. I would like to weigh 115. I've overhauled my diet and starting to lose. I'm 51 yrs old so I need to exercise to keep my metabolism going.0
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SW 280
CW 180
GW 140
i dont have any full length pics cause ... im always the one taking the pics LOL everyones weight and frame and muscle build works for them differently. at 180, i look like i weigh 140ish- which is a good actual weight for me and im super happy with. getting less than that makes me look too thin and emaciated. im in no rush to get to 140. when it happens it happens. i lost the first hundred pounds in a year and a half.
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »SW 280
CW 180
GW 140
i dont have any full length pics cause ... im always the one taking the pics LOL everyones weight and frame and muscle build works for them differently. at 180, i look like i weigh 140ish- which is a good actual weight for me and im super happy with. getting less than that makes me look too thin and emaciated. im in no rush to get to 140. when it happens it happens. i lost the first hundred pounds in a year and a half.
you look like a completely different person. Amazing in both pics, well done!0 -
Top during ... July 2016 ish, about 64kg.
Bottom ... current (Feb 2017) at 56kg.
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