The Feared Plateau

i havent lost anything in 3 months I've tried everything well almost so now that I think about it i gotta try that one last thing!

Hi there!
I've been losing weight since the end of December and I think I came a long way since then, because I lost weight very slowly
I'm now 5'10" and I weigh around 130-132 lbs (depending on the day that weight myself) I've been stuck on this for the last couple of weeks and I don't seem to drop any lower. I would just love to see myself drop below 130 lbs!

I'm a senior in High School and besides that I do Track & Field 5 days a week (after school) For at least 1,5 hours. That also includes a visit to the weight room every day.
I've been lowering my calories and Im now even down to 700-800kcal a day (Not NETO, just the food) I'm even getting scared of eating more than that. I notice that I try to eat as few calories as possible, but still have enough to feel good enough to go to my practice... I know this isn't good but I just don't wanna gain weight again...

Does anyone has any tips or anything?
Help?...

Eat more. You should NET at least 1200. Increase your calories, don't lower them and eat back your workout calories.

I am 5'10 and 130 seems really low. Maybe you sure just try to bulk up and tone instead of lose more weight.

This^^^^^

Get more muscle instead of losing even more. You're at the very low end of "normal" on BMI scales. Muscle gain would be great now. (And increase the likelihood of maintaining that loss!)

Everyone here is sort of right, but I completely understand what's happening to you right now, because I've had the same problem and currently have the same BMI as you (I'm 19, 5'8, 123). I managed to get down to a bmi of 17.9 recently at 1000 a day...and then I realized I had a problem. I think you're realizing that.
Now, I'm not going to tell you not to lose weight because that'd make me a hypocrite, but first ask yourself if modeling is *really* what you want, there's a dark side to that profession.
If it is, you need to get down to that weight by upping your activity and upping your cals. Not going to lie, you'll probably gain at first, I did gain a few pounds when I upped to 1500, but then your metabolism will go up again and your newly found muscles (don't worry, not bulky ones, lean ones) will burn more calories even when you're just sleeping, and your body will learn to need that many calories. If you do this right, eating healthy foods and exercising and being patient, you'll begin to lose weight at anything below around 1700 calories once more, and your body will be MUCH happier. If you don't want t up cals you have two choices: develop a full blown eating disorder by lowering your calories until you eat nothing and you still don't lose (destroying your body and mind in the process) or getting there the way the smarter models do, through by eating moderate amounts of health food and keeping their metabolism up by being active. Good luck.

Everyone here is sort of right, but I completely understand what's happening to you right now, because I've had the same problem and currently have the same BMI as you (I'm 19, 5'8, 123). I managed to get down to a bmi of 17.9 recently at 1000 a day...and then I realized I had a problem. I think you're realizing that.
Now, I'm not going to tell you not to lose weight because that'd make me a hypocrite, but first ask yourself if modeling is *really* what you want, there's a dark side to that profession.
If it is, you need to get down to that weight by upping your activity and upping your cals. Not going to lie, you'll probably gain at first, I did gain a few pounds when I upped to 1500, but then your metabolism will go up again and your newly found muscles (don't worry, not bulky ones, lean ones) will burn more calories even when you're just sleeping, and your body will learn to need that many calories. If you do this right, eating healthy foods and exercising and being patient, you'll begin to lose weight at anything below around 1700 calories once more, and your body will be MUCH happier. If you don't want t up cals you have two choices: develop a full blown eating disorder by lowering your calories until you eat nothing and you still don't lose (destroying your body and mind in the process) or getting there the way the smarter models do, through by eating moderate amounts of health food and keeping their metabolism up by being active. Good luck.

Good post!!

Eating 7-800 and doing that amount of exercise probably leaves you on MINUS net calories which is seriously unhealthy and sounds like an eating disroder to me. Being a model is not worth risking your health for.
Below 130 seems VERY low for your height so the reason you can't lose more is that you don't have anything left to lose!!

You should set your calories to maintenance and do some heavy weight training, this will make you smaller rather than lighter as muscle is more dense than fat, you won't end up 'bulky' as that takes huge amounts of training and a high calorie high protein diet. You will end up lean and toned, rather than thin but flabby. I don't know how modelling agencies work but I guess they would rather you be smaller with a higher weight instead of bigger with a lower weight.
Look up lorinalynn, she is an amazing example of how you can get smaller without actually losing any pounds.

I heard that upping your water and lowering your sodium intake will work, but honestly you need to eat more than 800 a day, it can be another 400 cals of fruit and veg if you want, anything, just up your cals, its not a fun way to live, being in constant fear "/ anyway, up your cals because your metabolism is probably too low xxx