Last ten pound troubles

Not only am I struggling, for a year now, with the last ten horrid pounds. Everyone around me has decided I should be the weight I am right now, and I'm sick and tired of being told "Oh you don't need to lose anymore" "I think you look fine." "Everyone says you should just stay the way you are now."

Well I bloody well don't want to stay the weight I am. I am BARELY in a healthy BMI, so my goal is hardly unrealistic. Any advice for dealing with the people in my life and of course shedding those last ten?

Thanks

Gina

160 lbs. 5'9.75" BMI 23.9

We are practically twins!  I am 5'8" 142lbs and 32.9% body fat (last time I measured, I think it is down around 29% now).

Original Post by triffid2002:

I never said my diet was perfect but based on what I am eating all of the math points to me loosing weight.  Over the past year I have tried many changes to my diet to jump start things, each for at least a month, and exercise program.  I have tried low-carb, never had cheat meals, tried increasing calories for a week or two, tried HIIT, tried low intensity cardio, tried weight lifting with low reps high weight and to failure.  The only thing left on that list is fasting morning cardio.  If you can think of anything else please let me know.  I have been stuck for over a year now so I have had plenty of time to try many things to get the ball rolling again.  

Morning cardio is good, it forces your body to use fat as an energy source. Just make sure you eat a meal with some carbs (Ideal time for fruit) and some protein afterwards to prevent losing too much muscle.

It can take a long time and a lot of trial and error. I stayed in the mid 160s for half a year, and then in the mid-low 150s for another half a year, and only a couple months ago did I manage to resume weight loss, now in the mid 140s. Some of us are just hard losers. But I only ever made a breakthrough by changing things up, and there's always new things to try. The math isn't important if you're not losing weight, you know?

Anyway, the plan that worked for me most recently was to do a daily timed carb cutoff with 1 refeed day per week on which I aimed for high intensity low-rep/high weight lifting. I eat normal carbs (~40%) until about noon, then the rest of the day is as close as I can get to 50% fat, 40% protein, 10% carbs (Allowing low-calorie veggies). I do that five days a week, then have two lifting days, the first one being 1000 cals above maintenance (3200 in my case) with more like 50% carbs, and the second one just being at maintenance with 40-50% carbs. I do low intensity morning cardio (45-60 mins) upon waking up about 3 days of the week, and the remaining 2 I do 30 mins morning cardio, and HIIT (Tabata protocol, 4 minutes) later in the day.

Not that my plan is perfect either, just a carb cutoff or carb cycling type of diet would be worth a shot if you're still stuck I think; it focuses not only on the calorie or the math aspect, but the hormonal aspect of fat loss which is often overlooked.

Lol!  Although I do prefer that my body fat was like yours @_@ then it would be normal at least!