Has anyone under 5'4 lost 30lbs in 3 months? Needing motivat

I started using MFP on 1-6-12 and have lost 36 lbs since then. I eat every 2-3 hours (sticking with snacks around 100 calories and main meals 300-400 calories). The first month and a half I lost 22 lbs just on diet alone, now that I have incorporated excercise into the plan I continue to drop several pounds per week. My goal is to lose 150 pounds, so I am obviously still pretty big, but can definitely feel the changes with the weight loss. Good luck!

I am 5 '0' and it took me 22 weeks to lose 30 lbs.

Today is day 71 of my life change. I'm 5'1" and I've lost 26 pounds so far. I didn't anticipate loosing this fast but def. enjoy it. I try to keep my protein up and carbs lower. I also try to keep sugars down but rarely keep it under the allotted amount (I love sweet tea). I eat 1200 calories a day across 5 meals. I do ALOT of cardio (5-6 days a week/1 hour+) and do weights maybe 1-2 days a week. I eat back only a little bit of my workout calories. I still have another 40 pounds to lose so I'm sure it will slow down the closer I get..

My recommendation is water, cardio and dedication. I def notice I lose more the weeks I keep my water intake up. Cardio is a must to lose. Last record EVERYTHING. After awhile it becomes habit. (I even caught myself looking at the label of the ibuprofen bottle for calories). Everyone is different so don't compare yourself or your weight lost pace to anyone; only do the best that you can do for you and the scale will start moving. Best of luck on your weight loss journey.

I've done it but I wouldn't recommend doing it the way I did. About 3.5 years ago I went from around155-160lbs to 130lbs in 10 weeks (I'm 5'2"). I got laid off and things snowballed. I was depressed and I was super afraid of gaining weight because I'd be sitting at home with my preschooler and snacking all day. I went overboard in the opposite direction and started eating very little and after a while it bacame a game I played with myself, to see how little food I could get by on every day. Depression and boredom do strange things to people. After a while I'd basically put myself on a VLCD without any medical supervision. I didn't count calories but there were plenty of days where I'm sure I ate less than 250-300 cal for the whole day. I've since read about "wasting" (in the medical sense) and even though I don't have any of the diseases normally associated with it, that's basically what was going on with my body. It was NOT good. It was NOT healthy. I'd NEVER recommend it.

However, it was effective and I did manage to keep it off for 3 years. At least until a few months ago when again, my life circumstances changed, but this time I did the opposite and overate and *gained* 10+lbs in a very short period of time (think maybe I have an unhealthy relationship with food? sheesh!) I didn't want a repeat of the last time and that brought me to MFP. I'm doing it much more slowly this time, I've lost 9-10 lbs in about 10 weeks, with a few BIG cheats in there. It's coming off much more slowly but I'm a lot happier and MUCH healthier than last time around.

So yes, it's do-able, even if you aren't obese to begin with. I'm proof. But I do NOT recommend it. I don't know anything about your specific circumstances, goals, and plans but whatever they are, please don't do what I did. It's not worth it. I wish you the best of luck on a healthy weight loss journey!

I'm 5'2. I started my journey on December 25th so I have not been at it for 3 months yet and I've lost 28 lbs. The biggest chuck of my weight was lost in the first 2 weeks (I lost 10 lbs) and since then I've lost 1-1.5 lbs a week. So yes, it can be done but everyone is different! I eat 1200 calories or less and work out about 5 days a week. Good luck, it can be done without an eating disorder picked up along the way. Feel free to add me.

I started off last May at 167 and by the end of August I was 135lbs. I just counted calories (1200 cals/day), changed my eating habbits such as eating for comfort. I stopped drinking anything but water because I was a pepsi fanatic. I made myself move much more than I wanted to, exercising 3-5 times a week. It helped me to start drinking protein shakes. It is doable depending on how much weight you have to lose, if that 30lbs would put you at your goal then I would say that it is not very doable.

I'm 5' 4" and have taken 2 1/2 years of various diet plans to achieve the weight loss on my ticker. I have had a year of maintaining at a higher weight than I would like to be and am now working on losing the last half a stone. I hope to get there before the 3 years is up. Not a speedy weight loss but hopefully it will stay off this time.

Hi, I'm 5ft and I've managed to lose 24 lbs in 2 months. I started at about 172 lbs

I'm 5'4'' and hit 30lbs at my 50th day, but I am obese, if you are just overweight, the weight is not just going to fall off so easily, and I have slowed down from 5lbs a week down to between 1 and 2 lbs. My tips, give up all soda and processed drinks. Even non-sweetened tea at a resturant has sodium in it and carbs in it because of preservatives. Keep your sodium in check, and drink plenty of water, this will shed water weight, and that can be a lot of weight on some people. Losing weight isn't a race, if you are eating right and doing what is good for your body you will shed pounds, and if you are exercising and strength training you will be losing inches, which is what makes us look good, not a number on the scale.

I'm 5'1 and lost 37 lbs in three months. 1200 calories a day. I walk 3.85 miles a day. I also do Leslie Samsone arobic tapes at night. My doctor says I am doing well and it is healthy. I have another 32 lbs to go before I reach my goal.

Hi, I'm 5'3" and have lost 9lbs in just under 3 months. I am consuming 1400 calories per day and swimming 3-4 times a week. I am enjoying losing the inches and having loose trousers than concentrating on the lbs! 30lbs is extremely ambitious, not to mention unhealthy. Stick to a realistic goal and with good will power you will achieve it! The easiest part for me was i drank at least 4 cans of full fat coca cola per day, that was 556 calories worth! Now all i drink is diet coke and really light ribena, which is good as you still get your caffeine fix ( i was never a coffee or tea drinker). Good luck!