I kind of think I'm throwing in the towel...

Well... it is entirely up to you of course but how do you think you would feel if you stuck with it and got down into a healthy weight range?

You don't have to be super thin - as long as you are healthy and comfortable --- be where YOU want to be.

I'm 5'4" with a medium frame and all the charts say I should be around 120lbs. Not gonna happen. That is FAR too thin for me and I know it is. I know I would look and feel unhealthy that thin. I know a lot of other women on this site who are the height that I am and have far lower goals. I'm happy and content with 143-145lbs. No need to be thinner. Do what is comfortable for YOU.

If you feel comfortable at 160 then that's where you should stay... Good luck! You have done great so far!

You lose fat in different places at different times.. I'm 10 lbs from my goal weight and STILL have fat thighs... have you taken measurements with a tape roll? Maybe you have lost, and just don't realize it because they still look big compared to the rest of your body? That's how it is for me.. they still look large, but my pants are SO much looser.

154 shows the average weight of other people of your Age, Height, Weight and Gender would describe as their ideal weight. Medical weight shows 114-150. So if you are going for 160 you are not far from average of others. Don't give up just keep pushing through. I always gave up but I decided to challenge myself and have lost 36 pounds in one year. Set small goals for yourself so you won't get discouraged and if you work out then don't just go by the scale cause like me right now, I am at a plateau according to scale but I am still losing inches. I am 41 years old and high risk for heart disease and cancer. I intend to beat this and to make a difference in my family by them seeing me taking care of myself so that hopefully they will too. I am a grandmother of 4 and I intend to be chasing them around when I am in my 70's.

From what I understand of how our bodies work, you are much more likely to keep your weight off if you lose a small amount each year than a big amount all at once. So why not put yourself into maintenance for a while until you feel ready to lose some more. You may find you want to lose more in 6 months or a year or you may not but the possibility of doing so is always open to you at any time.

Oh and I read somewhere that thigh fat is always the last to go! (It was for me so that was kind of nice to read.)

Scientific explanation:

If you lose more than 10-25 pounds and/or 10% of your body weight (different studies use different criteria but 10-25 pounds is often 10% of people's body weight), your body has something called the famine response. IOW, it thinks there is a famine. So it tries to get you to survive by trying to get you to eat. Ghrelin levels rise and that increase our appetite. This is often the point that people fall off their diets. Whether you stop dieting or keep going, in people prone to obesity, once they get to maintenance, their body then does everything it can to get them to refeed back to their original weight plus about 10 pounds as a cushion for the next famine.

If you lose a little at a time, you don't invoke the famine response. Your body is willing to accept this lower weight. Keep it for long enough and your body has a new setpoint and now you can lose another 10-25 pounds / 10% of your body weight without invoking the famine response.

Now in real life, it's not this exact. And most people want to lose all their excess weight and they want to lose it now so they ca't do this. But there are people out there who have lost over 100 pounds over a 5 year period and kept it off. Keeping that kind of weight loss off is really rare but understanding about the famine response explains why they could do it.

Since you don't want to lose it all right this second, you can take advantage of this scientific knowledge to maybe lose 20 pounds every so often until you get down to a normal weight for you. (Which, if you are muscular might technically be overweight but you'd still look hawt!)

I forgot to add that there are a lot of health benefits to losing just 10% of body weight.

And that in some studies overweight people (by BMI) had better health than normal BMI people. Not that I'm going to go out and gain some weight just to have an overweight BMI, but it shows that sometimes we think of these things too rigidly. Like a friend of mine who argues all the time that if you have a BMI of 25 or higher you just aren't healthy; only people with a BMI of 24.9 or less are healthy. (Don't get me started on the misuse of statistics going on here.)

I am 5,5 and my final goal weight is between 170 and 180. Thats right a range. And the charts say 150 is the most i should weigh. I dont care about charts 170 is where i look and feel the best. I am incredibly healthy and fit when i am there. Do what is best for you!

I have taken measurements and in about 2 weeks lost overall about 7 inches but my weight remains the same. I don't worry about the numbers on the scale so much anymore. Eating healthy and staying in shape are more important to me than the numbers on the scale now. I do stay within my calorie goals for the most part too.

From what I understand of how our bodies work, you are much more likely to keep your weight off if you lose a small amount each year than a big amount all at once. So why not put yourself into maintenance for a while until you feel ready to lose some more. You may find you want to lose more in 6 months or a year or you may not but the possibility of doing so is always open to you at any time.

Oh and I read somewhere that thigh fat is always the last to go! (It was for me so that was kind of nice to read.)

Scientific explanation:

If you lose more than 10-25 pounds and/or 10% of your body weight (different studies use different criteria but 10-25 pounds is often 10% of people's body weight), your body has something called the famine response. IOW, it thinks there is a famine. So it tries to get you to survive by trying to get you to eat. Ghrelin levels rise and that increase our appetite. This is often the point that people fall off their diets. Whether you stop dieting or keep going, in people prone to obesity, once they get to maintenance, their body then does everything it can to get them to refeed back to their original weight plus about 10 pounds as a cushion for the next famine.

If you lose a little at a time, you don't invoke the famine response. Your body is willing to accept this lower weight. Keep it for long enough and your body has a new setpoint and now you can lose another 10-25 pounds / 10% of your body weight without invoking the famine response.

Now in real life, it's not this exact. And most people want to lose all their excess weight and they want to lose it now so they ca't do this. But there are people out there who have lost over 100 pounds over a 5 year period and kept it off. Keeping that kind of weight loss off is really rare but understanding about the famine response explains why they could do it.

Since you don't want to lose it all right this second, you can take advantage of this scientific knowledge to maybe lose 20 pounds every so often until you get down to a normal weight for you. (Which, if you are muscular might technically be overweight but you'd still look hawt!)

That would explain why having lost around 30 lbs and at 128 lbs I feel hungry ALL THE TIME. That's about 20% of my body weight, even though it's not a lot compared to how much others on here have lost.