Anyone wants to loose less than 20 pounds?

I now have 5 lbs to go having lost 11 lbs so far. This might take me another two months. When I reach that I want to focus more on strength training. . I feel a lot better in my clothes although still too much tummy fat so that has to reduce as can't be healthy. . I'm off to Italy for 5 days soon and worried that I will succumb to all the beautiful food and the diet will go out of the window. I need to be able to do some exercise whilst out there somehow. My friend adores her food and I am worried with drinking too my resolve with crumble. It's going to be challenging to avoid piling it in and piling it on.
Any tips helpful in the land of pizza and pasta and gelato?! Fruit should be plentiful as I am staying at a farm house but so are their home made cakes!

Italy 🇮🇹 + food = +4lbs up
Ugh .... but totally worth it 😀

Yes ! Trying to lose 10 pounds . I am active too, but I snack. Salty snacks are my weakness . So it’s a battle. I’m down 3 lbs so far .

japonessa wrote: »

Me too! I'm 5'5", 147 and want to lose about 10 lbs, if not a little more. It shows a lot in my body because I'm already fairly muscular. I think bc it's not 100 lbs I want to lose, it doesn't seem that urgent -- that it's something I can set aside. But, how long have I been setting it aside for? A long time. I'm trying to take smaller steps as of yesterday and just log in my intake. That seems to work for a lot of people and I think just realizing how much I'm shoving down my pie hole could make me think twice about how the numbers WON'T be to my advantage. So, I'm looking for motivation, advice, a safe place, and some buddies on similar boats to cheer on. I live in NYC where the food is great, can be incredibly cheap, and is a lot of times the center of social life. I consider myself a fairly confident woman, but no one is safe from a little body dysmorphia in this city.

Hey! Also from NYC here- I have 15 lbs til goal weight. Agree NYC food is amazing! Ive had to shift to healthier food and smaller portions. I also go to the gym like a fiend!
Happy to be buddies!

Italy great and I paused the diet.... the impact I put back 4 lbs in 5 days! So big set back for me but I've lost 3 of them now so still plus 1! So now have 6 lbs to go to goal. Strength training going ok and quite enjoy it...I'm a middle aged woman (late forties) so I've had to tell my very young PT to rein it in a bit otherwise legs shot for a week and I can barely get down the stairs in the morning! Lol. I don't regret Italy 🇮🇹

I have 15 pounds to lose. It's slow going!

I'd like to lose 20lbs. Same 20lbs I've lost about 12 times before. It keeps creeping back I'm having trouble with motivation. I seem to be fine until I come home from work and then its like a need a "drink" except my "drink" is a bunch of processed carbs!

emajarrett wrote: »

I'm finding the sudden drop in temperatures here making me hungry but I've read that unless shivering the body doesn't need any more calories.... shame! Trying first soups of the season. I'm too struggling with these pesky 7lbs. Just want them gone. Going to be challenged with birthday dinners out next week and lots of cocktails etc..... I'm not logging any exercise at all as I find I just eat back calories. Does anyone use MFP premium and is it worth it?....

Don't use premium and don't see the need for it personally. Mfp is designed so you eat back your exercise calories, but sometimes the burn is inflated so I always ate them back with caution, around 50% of them.

However if you're finding it hard losing weight even though you're not eating them back it would suggest you are eating more than you think so if you don't already, start using a food scale and log your intake as accurately as possible.

Enjoy your time in Italy, I adore pasta and I wouldn't not be enjoying it if I was there , Italian cuisine is my favourite I would minimise any gain by eating around half the portion of pasta and keeping bread to a minimum - hard to do when its fab mind you!! even if you do go all out and enjoy, you'll only gain a few pounds most likely, and in the grand scheme of things that's not bad. Then when back to normality its back to calorie deficit.

Stick with it, because although it might be slow going you will get there in the end

Ruth

I’m also looking to lose less than 20 pounds. More like 12-15. From what I’ve been reading I may be eating back too many calories from exercise deductions. I work out 5-6 days a week. Sometimes I really wonder why! Maybe if I get down to my goal weight I’ll try to adjust up or down. Good luck with your goals!

Yes, in the exact same boat 19.6 to go major sweet tooth factored in large chocolate chip cookie today, worth it