Plateau Woes

Sometimes more exercise is counterproductive as it makes hunger worse. Try just dropping some non protein calories. If you are doing low-carb, try bumping the carbs up a little bit maybe lower fat if fat calories are a bit high. That's dependent though on whether your body and brain runs better on carbs or fats

133lbs and 5’7”

BMI 20.8

Healthy BMI range is 18.5 to 24.9

BMI is controversial and not the be all and end all of metrics.

Have you calculated your body fat percentage? (I use Health Status body fat % calculator). To my knowledge there is no 100% accurate body fat % calculator. I like this one because it calculates using 4 different methods. https://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/body-fat-percentage-calculator/

Are you working on body re-composition?

Is it possible 133lbs is the ‘right’ weight for you?

What do you expect to be different at 125lbs?

To avoid heartbreaks.... water weight manipulation/management (which is what a fast and substantial loss due to dropping carbs would be), is legitimate scale weight.

But it is not a change in adipose tissue.

Such management is mostly a temporary on and off water weight change based on recent carb intake changes and can best be considered "borrowed" instead of permanent.

Enjoy it for what it is: a temp boost and fun while you deal with longer term changes

sorry I’m going to kick your “I don’t want advice” request in the teeth.

I was 125 on my wedding day. When I started losing weight at 56, (5’7” like you, and over 225) I honestly didn’t expect to be successful. I kept blowing through goals. So I thought “wedding day weight will be the perfect goal!”’

I got within a couple of pounds. I was skin and bones, tired, mean, and determined.

It wasn’t until a trusted (and much revered and loved) trainer texted me a photo of myself from behind with the simple comment “stop losing or I’m dropping you” that I realized …

125 at “this” age was waaaaaay different than 125 at “that” age The weight sits on you differently What looked thin back in tha day now looked like a worn out, underfed, nag horse.

In my pursuit of that wedding day goal, I had dropped muscle I had fought to gain. I literally looked like a grandaddy longlegs.

I’m not telling you what to do. if 125 is your goal and you’re “light” and happy there, then so be it but I will say, having weighed in at 148 this morning , I’m wearing the same clothes I did at 127, I’m curvier (nice curves), I've got great muscle, and I’ve got kids young enough to be my grandkids scratching their heads and clearly reading their faces thinking,”did she just do that? Wasn’t she in the class before this, too? Didn’t I just see her in the gym? In the pool?”

Task a trusted spouse, partner, friend, family member, trainer or whatever to take photos of you when you don’t know it. Look at those photos. Evaluate those photos. Be honest with yourself. Is your goal appropriate or is it some number you pulled out of your bottom like I did? Are you on a potential path to an eating disorder and rationalizing it by “feeling lighter”?

Ok will get off my high horse now, but take it from someone your height, unless you’re really young, 125 is probably going to age you instead of the result you’re looking for.

And BTW, my wedding dress swims on me. And I’m 23 pounds higher than on my wedding day.

Well explained. There’s so many people here chasing poor choices, it’s hard to tell sometimes.

I wonder how you look? 5 7 and 133.. and you workout.. which means you are fit. Is there a chance you look pretty darned good now, and there's a thought it your head that you have to weight 125?

There's no shame in readjusting your goal weight. I totally understand how you don't want to eat less if it is hard now. You have to live your life. Maybe flex your calories or take a day off from dieting once a week and see if that jumpstarts a loss?

I've done that in the past.. the more I exercised and ate perfectly.. I never lost. When I ate a few meals off and took days of rest from exercising I started losing again.