Fellow shorties needed for support and motivation 5'5 and under :)

Late joiner: I'm 5'3 3/4, mother of a two-year old, and after his birth, I was at my highest non-pregnant weight, 167. Prior to pregnancy I was 125-130. I started trying to lose weight 2 years ago and got down to 150 ish. I restarted in July 2016 and got down another 5 lbs before stalling and eventually gaining 2 lbs back. In January of this year, I decided to give it another go.

SW: 147
GW: 125
CW: 139

I want to be 130 by the end of May.

I eat a relatively low carb diet, run a bit, and do body-weight strength training.

Straight 5 foot tall here. Would love to get to my goal of 125 by mid June if I can keep at it. Anyone feel free to add me!

I'm 5'3" and 192 . My ultimate goal would be 125ish. Although my current goal is to get to the 170s. I have a chronic illness so I'm not able to work out as hard as I used to, so I'm slowly figuring out new ways to lose and trying to find less intensive workouts.

Anyone who has a fitbit can add me, my email is bhumes001@gmail.com

JAStars102 wrote: »

Hi! I'm 5'3" and 156. I started on MFP at 200 last August, but my heaviest that summer was 208. I'm looking to not be overweight for the first time in my adult life. My real goal is to be able to wear a bikini for the first time ever, but I tell people I'm doing it for my health (still partially true) to sound less conceited.

Haha, I always tell people I just want to be healthy, feel better, have more energy -- all true -- but I also just want to wear a bikini, shorts, etc without feeling self- conscious. My vanity is very motivating lol.

Allgaun wrote: »

NOT being sarcastic
I find it funny that some posters current weight is way below my goal weight. It makes me rethink my goals, I must be setting them way too low (high?)

I think a lot has to do with body composition. I know I look and feel good at 120 - 130, so my goal is 125 to account for fluctuation. If I get under 120, I start to look too thin and have headaches/ low energy. But a lot of women my height (5'3 3/4) are fine at 115 or even lower.

That said, some women my height look/feel good at 140-150 or whatever. There's nothing wrong with a higher goal if that goal works for you and your body composition

4'11 here, 37 years old. Started at 140, goal is 120. My dream goal is 105 but I know I'll never get there again. My highest was 145 and I got down to 97lbs at my thinnest, that was 10 years ago. No specific plan, but I was obsessed with cardio and lifting. Kept it off for a year or 2. Then I had some medical issues that stopped me from weight training and I just slowly got out of the healthy eating habit. Got up to 140 about a year and a half ago, got disgusted, and lost 20 lbs...then gained it all back since. The last few months have just been horrible. I hate the way I look and I hate buying clothes. I could barely fit into my work pants and just reached a breaking point. Almost all my weight is in my stomach and face, and there just isn't any way to hide it. They just don't make attractive clothes for people with a large waist but average-to-thin legs, hips, etc. And I've been cursed with a small chest so I don't even have that to help balance it out, haha.

So anyway I joined MFP (almost 2 weeks) and hope to stick with it. The food part is getting easier -- my big problem was I was a fast food junkie and now I am cooking every night. I still try to fit in some treats on the weekends though by limiting my calories elsewhere and exercising a little extra. I wish I could do more weight training -- I have lupus and arthritis and 3 artificial joints and just can't do what I used to. I do the elliptical 6x a week.

Anyway, that's me. Feel free to add, especially if you also have chronic health issues and want a weight-loss buddy.

As for late night snacking...brush your teeth! I know it sounds silly, but something about doing that and being all minty fresh and ready for bed deters me from eating so late. Also, I find doing something to keep your hands and mind busy works too. My sister crochets while watching tv. I (sadly) play games on my cell phone.

Hey everyone! I'm 5'1.5 and currently at my heaviest of 215

I'm 5'2" and I weigh 109lbs, not sure if this is the healthy weight for my height? Also I have been 5'2" for quite a few years now and back then I only used to weigh about 104lbs so I wanted to try and get back to that weight but I'm not sure how many calories I should consume a day in order to do that, and I don't know what exercises I can do?

The scale finally moved! I'm down 2.4lbs since my last weigh in. I changed up a lot of things over the last week and a half, so it's hard for me to know if it's because of the changes or did my body finally decide to release so to speak. I made a conscious effort to try and get more protein in and be mindful of carbs, I've eliminated the BodyPump class I was doing 3 days a week and replaced it with a C25K workout following a dance class (still lifting heavy 3x/wk on alternate days + boxing), I was sick with a cold for maybe 2 days but that didn't really change my food intake...but did cause me to miss boxing one day - so not quite sure if any of that played a significant part in the scale finally moving. I felt like I actually worked out less, and ate more; and on top of that it was TOM so I didn't expect to see the scale budge at all, if anything I wouldn't have been shocked if it went up!

I'm gonna stick with the same routine this week and see how it goes.