Unhappy With Weight Loss Goals

hopefully will be able to tell you in 3 stone time . but you need to be careful or you will end up ill in hospital if you loose to much

How tall are you? You can't have much more left that you can lose without making yourself ill...
I think you should change your goals to non-weight-related ones, for example sign up for a half-marathon or something, so that you are focussing on your fitness instead of your weight.

it's hard to tell from photos, but looking at your profile pics, i would guess that you have gone past the point where i would describe you as thin and into the point of looking fragile. i know some people like to look that way but to me it looks unhealthy

your food diary also looks very very low too, to the point where i wander how much energy you have during the day. you log an ok amount of exercise in there but not huge amounts, how do you feel after doing 30mins cardio? does it wipe you out?

you are probably going to get a few responses telling you you have an eating disorder which i think is a little strong but it's worth asking yourself how you feel on this level of intake rather than what the number of the scale say if you keep on being unhappy when you reach the next goal weight, i think you really need to think about what is going to really make you happy, not just the numbers.

(if you are not happy with the way your body **looks**, my own personal guess is at this point you should stop trying to loose weight and trying to gain muscle which, at your size, will make way more difference to the way you look than losing more pounds. be prepared to eat more and gain a little weight but it will be muscle weight that looks *good*. google around for pics of the difference weight/strength training can make to a female body, not the old muscle popping body builders ones but the bikini/fitness class models like jamie eason etc)

You certainly shouldn't weigh any less than 8st7 then sweetheart - if your clothes don't fit, buy ones that do! With the amount of weight you've lost, you should be celebrating the body you've got now, so go out and buy something that's flattering for your shape, and that you like. Not being able to do more than 30 mins of exercise suggests that you aren't feeding your muscles properly. Maybe you could speak to a doctor or nutritionist? I think you realise that there is the potential for a problem, and the reason you aren't happy is probably not anything to do with your weight any more. If you can work out what it is, you can really work on your self-esteem! I'm doing CBT with a counsellor through work, but I'm in the military, so I understand how you feel about not wanting your colleagues to know.
I'm 5'6", and currently 9st. I'm not entirely happy with my shape, (well what woman is?) but I know that it's a sensible weight for me now, so I'm going through my wardrobe and selling loads of the stuff that doesn't fit or flatter, so I've got a bit more money to buy stuff that does. Small steps...

I'm not a professional by any means but from looking at your pictures in my opinion you're teetering on being too thin. If you're not happy with the way you look you may want to try getting healthy rather than any thinner. It would improve the way you look, feel, and how your clothes fit. Also, you said you didn't feel like you could (or needed to) speak to your colleagues and I can understand that. However, if you continue on the path you're on you could very well end up with a full fledged eating disorder and how will that look to the colleagues? All I'm saying is you need to be very careful because it sounds like you're on the flip side of what got most of us overweight originally and that can be just as unhealthy in its own way.

The OP also has some full length pics hun, and one stone is 14 pounds.

Please talk with your doctor - it sounds as if you might have serious control and image issues that are manifesting in dieting. This is dangerous. I have two friends who did themselves very serious long term physical damage with this - act now.

Don't go there. I seriously mean it and just, please, don't do it to yourself. I've been there, last spring. I've successfully lost a bit over 30 pounds and I've gotten myself at the lowest healthy weight for my height. And instead of being happy to finally be thin, I've freaked out and just wasn't happy - I kept on losing, and the more I lost, the harder it was to lose, so I made my rules more and more strict. I ended up being quite underweight, messing up my period and I am still struggling with hair loss.
It all backfired, I started to binge on a vacation like a crazy person (seriously, I can't even go close to describing to the terrible feeling of greed I felt when I have given up on my boundaries. I could have eaten 5 to 6 toasts, same amount of croissants etc. for breakfast and I would still feel legitimate hunger, not just a craving. I lost a sense of fullness for several months).
And when I got home and freaked out over how much I have gained, even bulimia came in. Needless to say, it was a low point for me, and it was even worse because everything else in my life was (still is) going so great at that time and I wasn't even able to enjoy it at times.
Now I came here again to do it healthily, but I'm still struggling a lot. I am terrified of feeling hungry, and I have to eat all the time so I wouldn't binge. Hunger scares me so much, even though it doesn't have to always mean a bad thing, I'm subconsciously so afraid that it's starvation time all over again.

Please, don't do it to yourself. Learn to love your body when it's healthy. Maybe set different goal, eat at maintenance and build some muscle instead. But please, remember, losing more weight isn't worth it. I had to learn it the hard way, and I hope you won't have to.

you look beautiful!

i agree with some others on here...try changing your mindset. fitness is more important than weight...i would also suggest some weight training. check out this link...which would you rather look like?

http://fortiusfitness.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/skinny-fat.jpg

What are you unhappy with? When you look in the mirror, what's wrong? Maybe some muscle building will help you be happier. Throw the scale away, it doesn't mean anything. No one sees it but you.

^ I'm curious about the above questions too. Are you literally unhappy with the number the scale says, or are you unhappy with your body composition?

Im literally unhappy with what I see in the mirror. I have flabby parts which im trying to tone. I hate the numbers on the scales as they seem so high. Im unhappy when I see people who are smaller than me and alhought I hae lost so much weight i still done look like them. Im unhappy about the fat that I still cant fit into a uk size 8 when i really should be able to at my weight. Seriously the list goes on.

I am going to speculate two things. This is my opinion only:

1) If you aren't yet, you should lift heavy. I'm guessing you either didn't lift weights while dieting, or you did, but didn't lift heavy ones. This will drastically improve your body composition.

2) There's a possibility that you have body dysmorphic disorder and you may wish to see a professional or at the very least, take some screenings for it to see.