**Fit and Fun-sized**(5'4 and under) WEEK 1

I did it! I exercised for 30 minutes (Jillian 30 day shred plus walking) on Thanksgiving!

Really needed it after all that food.

I completed the challenge yesterday as well - just didn't have time to post until now. 35 minutes on the treadmaill. Great job ladies!

I have to admit - I let myself have a free food day yesterday. But I am back on track today.

I completed Burn Circuit 2 (38 mins) of ChaLEAN Extreme yesterday and will do the interval workout tonight. Surprisingly I have love a total of 3.5 lbs since starting ChaLEAN Extreme almost two weeks ago! I usually never lose this quickly - especially with strength training. I tend to build muscle quickly and lose fat slowly so I was expecting to gain weight before losing anything. I'm not complaining - just shocked!

Hey all! :happy:

Yesterday I did my 50 minute run and then had a free food day!! I didn't pig out as much as I normally would because runs like that really suppress my appetite.

This morning I did 45 minutes between the stair stepper, elliptical, and cross-trainer (15 min each so I don't get bored). I did it before breakfast so it was fasted.
This afternoon I will go back to the gym to lift (legs) for about 45 minutes.

I'm back to eating low-carb (15%) and I'll be eating about 1400 calories today. It's a little less than I'd normally eat with 90 minutes of exercise but I have plenty to live off of from yesterday!

I am so in!!!


I am 5'2"
I am 33 years old.
I was 170 had a major health scare a little over a year ago. My husband found me on the floor of our bathroom unable to move. They think I had a mini-stroke. My blood pressure was 191/124 when the ENT's got here. I got to spend the night in the ER. It was SUPER scary. I have 3 children and I did really well last year losing weight until March. I am looking for new motivation now that my bp has settled down.
Currently (after thanksgiving mind you) I weigh 156
My doctors goal for me is 110.
My goal is at least 120 by I am going to shoot for the moon (110) I haven't been that weight since I was 13.

I will do my check-in on Sunday and can't wait to find out what the challenge is for NEXT week!!!!!!

Hey all! :happy:

Yesterday I did my 50 minute run and then had a free food day!! I didn't pig out as much as I normally would because runs like that really suppress my appetite.

This morning I did 45 minutes between the stair stepper, elliptical, and cross-trainer (15 min each so I don't get bored). I did it before breakfast so it was fasted.
This afternoon I will go back to the gym to lift (legs) for about 45 minutes.

I'm back to eating low-carb (15%) and I'll be eating about 1400 calories today. It's a little less than I'd normally eat with 90 minutes of exercise but I have plenty to live off of from yesterday!

While I know everybody's different I was wondering how long it took you to begin seeing the definition in your body and what kind of resistance training did you do? Your back looks awesome? I don't have a lot of weight to lose but I really want to see definition in my body but unsure of the best approach.

Thank you! I change my resistance training depending on my goal during that specific cycle...size, strength, endurance. It took about 9 months for my back to go from fairly undefined to that picture I have up now. I consistently train to failure or extreme fatigue regardless of the program. It's not really about how you get to failure, just that you get there. You have to work the muscles really hard to force adaptations to occur.

well gang i didn't do so well and it kinda continued through today. i did do well by logging everything so at least i have that accountability.

i am back to work tomorrow so i know that will help keep me on track. i'm a little freaked out for our weigh in sunday but i can't shy away from it.....that's how i got here in the first place

it's cool.....ya'll have a great weekend andi'll see you soon!!! :flowerforyou:

Ang

I am still trying to figure out what works for me in terms of diet and exercise. If I set my profile to Lightly Active, with my height of 5'1" and weight of 130, it calculates a BMR of 1650. With a net of 1200 calories, that is only a 0.9 lb weight loss a week. I generally don't eat my exercise calories.

I have been eating 1200 calories and doing 45 minutes of intense cardio at least 3 times a week with moderate exercise on the other days with one day off. I actually had started out with my calories lower, but have since increased them to 1200. I have been doing this since the beginning of October and have only lost 5 pounds. I haven't been perfect, but I have been pretty consistent and I seem to be at a standstill. It seems like when I exercised less intensely and frequently and probably eating fewer calories than 1200 (doing WW points), the weight came off.

What are you other Fit and Fun-Sized people doing to lose weight? Does it seem like being short and 30 pounds or less to goal presents special challenges?

wow marilla, there's way more of us than i thought! cool!! :happy:

I am still trying to figure out what works for me in terms of diet and exercise. If I set my profile to Lightly Active, with my height of 5'1" and weight of 130, it calculates a BMR of 1650. With a net of 1200 calories, that is only a 0.9 lb weight loss a week. I generally don't eat my exercise calories.

I have been eating 1200 calories and doing 45 minutes of intense cardio at least 3 times a week with moderate exercise on the other days with one day off. I actually had started out with my calories lower, but have since increased them to 1200. I have been doing this since the beginning of October and have only lost 5 pounds. I haven't been perfect, but I have been pretty consistent and I seem to be at a standstill. It seems like when I exercised less intensely and frequently and probably eating fewer calories than 1200 (doing WW points), the weight came off.

What are you other Fit and Fun-Sized people doing to lose weight? Does it seem like being short and 30 pounds or less to goal presents special challenges?

Over the years I have tried several different ways of eating (different ratios of C:P:F) and calorie amounts. I've never eaten 1200 calories, though. I just never had reason to, as I lose on 1500 cal/day. The lowest I'll drop to is 1400 if I'm just lifting for 45 minutes without any cardio. My BMR was tested in a lab at 1,310, so eating 1200 cals would result in a big deficit even if I wasn't exercising. As a small person you have to be careful with dropping your calories too low...your BMR already isn't very high, and suppressing that through chronic starvation will result in a really difficult time losing weight. At 1400 cal/day, I can lose over a lb per week and I'm 5'0 and 130.6 lbs. I do have higher than average muscle mass though.