Are any of you 5'4-5'6 and plateauing at ~130 pounds?? :D

I'm 5'5 (cw: 133lbs), and have never ever managed to get below 128...I always got discouraged in the past...I notice that so many women around my height tend to plateau in their 130's as well, that's why I'm calling on y'all!

This time I'm determined to get to my goal (120lbs or size 4...whichever comes first). A friend of mine who successfully overcame the 130 plateau told me that it's the most difficult plateau to overcome (and she knows her stuff since she was obese once). So we should start a group! That way we can keep motivating each other to reach our goals...let's see who gets to push through their plateau first...then we can share tips and all that stuff!

It has been a long time since I have been able to post on here but I have been working very hard at eating right and exercising. I am 6 oz away from my goal of 125 lbs!!!

My current stats:

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 125.6

Bust: 36"

Waist: 27"

Tummy: 32"

Hips: 37"

I feel so much more energetic, hopefully I can keep my healthy lifestyle up!

Original Post by kellybarnes78:

Does anyone know how long it takes to change your set point once you've lost the weight? Like how long do you have to stay at a particular weight for it to re-set?  How do you know what it has re-set to???

THANKS!

does anyone have an answer or insight to this question???????

Kelly here's some info about the set point:

http://www.thedietchannel.com/Change-Your-Wei ght-Set-Point.htm

My strategy is to get my weight to a bit lower (5#'s) than I want and try to keep it there until it stabilizes. Hopefully, that will reboot the whole system.

Congratulations Dimisushi!

Thanks Jocalo!  Very good article :)

hi all!

I know this may sound silly, but for as long as I have been a member on CC (over a year) I still really have no idea what the burn meter is!  Can someone explain what it all means exactly???  I never really paid attention to it, I just log my food and exercise and don't pay any attention to what it means.  I hope to learn and maybe it will help me :)

THANKS!

i posted here a while ago but i just wanted to say I MADE IT!!! past 130! im down to 123! my lowest weight! its just shedding off too, im so excited ^_^

That's AWESOME, spakle_!!!    Good job!  I'm so jealous.  I haven't been doing so great because I've been so busy and just don't make the time in my schedule for working out.  I'll get there, though...eventually! 

Congratulations!

How are you doing it Spakle? Exercise, calorie counting? I have hit the 130 wall and I need to get around it. I'm not getting below 130, even though I made steady progress until then. Anybody have any ideas? I'm thinking about going on a juice fast to shake my body out of this rut. I will not go below 1200 a day or anything crazy, I'm just really frustrated and need ideas.

I'm 5'5" and the hardest weight to get past for me was 145, i'm now at 140 and want to get to 130 or at least a size 6-7.  I need ideas to help me loose the weight i want to do it before September!

I'm 5'6, 30-yrs old.  My pre-baby weight was around 130.  Now, my body seems to want to be more around 140, though I work out much more regularly than I ever did before having my son.  I figure I have a good 5 lbs of muscle that I didn't have before, but my weight goal is 125.  I have such a hard time sticking to my daily calorie goal of 1400.  I constantly go over and don't know how to be more regimented with myself.  I work out five days/week, but can't stick to a proper diet.  Though I eat healthy, I still eat too much.  For those of you who overcame the 130 plateau, how did you do it?  How do you get yourself to stick to eating a certain amount of calories each day?  And, how many calories are you eating to lose weight?  Please advise.

Thanks!

Tanya

Original Post by tanyahenkel:

I have such a hard time sticking to my daily calorie goal of 1400.  I constantly go over and don't know how to be more regimented with myself.  I work out five days/week, but can't stick to a proper diet.  Though I eat healthy, I still eat too much.  

I'm the same way. I'm very active, I eat healthily... but I rarely can stick to 1400. My average over the last few weeks has been around 1600. I try not to let this bother me too much. It just means that the weight is going to shift a little slower, is all. As long as you're creating a deficit (and if you're moderately active, you probably are), then that's all that counts in the long term .

Ugh... same way here.  I can't seem to break 128 (I'm 5'6).  I'm not even really that concerned about changing that number, I really just want to get rid of the muffin top.

Miso_soup,

You are right, I need to be patient.  I just want the scale to move!  OK, I'll start weighing in with you girls today so I can be held accountable.

6/23/09: 140 lbs

Goal: 125 lbs

I'll take my measurements tonight and report back.

well jocalo...i must say the first thing is patience. it took me a few months and even though some days i was discouraged because i was doing such intense workouts everyday and the scale wouldnt budge, i just kept at it, and eventually the scale went from 131...to 130 and then steadily going down from there. i know one thing that helped was i upped my calories from 1200 to 1500...im only 20 so i believe 1200 still wasnt enough, and i started to get hungrier so I just ate more. the weird thing though, is that my workouts are now less intense, but im still losing weight steadily. i dont know how that works but i have no complaints! (i still make sure i get in a good sweat). i also used to workout everyday but now i skip working out on the weekends and i havnt gained any weight, i thought i would but i just keep losing.

Thanks Spakle!

I wonder if my calories are too low...I'm hitting about 1300 a day and exercising 5 days a week. I think I'll bring up the running to every day again maybe that will move the scale. I know that I will get to time when it seems like 5 pounds come off in one day. it's just so annoying not feeling in control of when that happens. I think I will post my daily calorie count here too. I haven't been logging regularly, so maybe I'm wrong about my intake. Can't wait to get to that high burn you are talking about. It will be much lower now than when I was your age, but I have some really good (mostly still hidden) muscle under my last five pounds and I know it will help me burn more efficiently when I get to my goal. My arms are looking really good. I am avoiding the batwing horror, but my tush is still not as north as I'd like it to be.

jocalo: lol @ batwings! I think you're calorie intake might be a little on the low side for your level of activity. Maybe try upping it by 100 or so and see if that makes a difference?

So, to my update. I didn't post last week, because the scale showed an increase of 0.4 to 127.40 (from 127 the previous week), and I was mad about it, hehe. 

But... this morning when I weighed myself, the scale said...124.6! I don't quite know how this can be: 3lbs in one week seems like a LOT given that my calorie intake usually hovers around 1600 per day. I am pretty active, but my deficit probably averages around 500 per day (some days a little more, some days a little less). So it's kind of mysterious. BUT... the gain of 0.4lbs the previous week didn't make any sense, either (same average calorie intake and deficit) - so I'll just go with it for now (and not be surprised if I see another gain next week!).

WEEK FOUR 

weight: 124.6 (-2.4 from week 2)

waist: 28" (-1 inch from week 2)

belly: 32.5" (-1.5 inches from week 2)

hips: 37.5" (-1 inch from week 2)

thigh: 21" (-1 inch from week 2)

chest: 34" (no change)

Of all of these, I'm happiest about my belly! My belly is the bane of my existence, particularly because I have v. small breasts (34 'nearly A'), and my belly often sticks out further than my chest, argh! 

Hi,

I haven't been here in a while.  Still having trouble getting below 130. Today, I did circuit training, i worked every part of my body and then I ran on the treadmill at a speed of 6.3 for 30 mins.

I'm not taking anymore courses, so I am able to workout everyday now. I hope I'll be able to lose the weight before I go to school in Hawaii.

I was shooting for 115lbs but then I checked the body fat calculator and think it would be healthier to be 120 at 5'6.

I don't count calories. I am a vegetarian so I eat vegetables and fruit everyday. I don't eat bread and pasta at all.  I've tried to quit rice cold turkey but i can only limit it to twice a week.

Perhaps, I may be taking in more calories than what i'm losing at the gym. Recently, i started drinking more water than fruit juice, eat a plum or veggie/fruit smoothie for breakfast, and eat one solid meal after a workout.  I had palak paneer which is curried spinach w/ cubed cottage cheese, a couple of sliced tomatoes,cucumbers, and basmati rice.

Hey All,

hope I can join you.  I put on about 35lbs in a job I hated.  I quit the job a while back rather than go on anti-depressants, and the weight is slowly going back to normal.  I'm going on a holiday in September (where an ex-boyf will more than likely join us after having done a tri-athlon) so I need to be super-toned and HOT! 

My stats are:

• highest - 146
• current - 134
• goal (1 Sept) - 120
• short term goal (31 July) - 129
• age - 35
• average loss = 2lbs per week. 

I'm hoping to get there by:

1. swimming 45 minutes 4 days a week (swim race 1.5k on 1st Aug);
2. elliptical 30 minutes daily; 
3. sunday morning bike ride : 40 miles;
4. 4 times a week alternating upper body and lower body weight work-outs for 30 minutes;
5. 1800 cals daily (which is maintenance for me at my current weight, but I can't do less without starting to gnaw my desk);
6. cutting out sugar completely (it upsets my stomach anyway, and puts me to sleep so better off without); and
7. consuming as much protein within my 1800 cals as I can - gotta get toned and firm. 

I'd really appreciate help with numbers 4 and 6 of strategy - on both getting protein into the diet and on firming up the flesh.  Even when I was at 120-125 before there was a lot of wobble and slack thigh. 

I'll repost here on 31 July with my progress, and would love to hear if anyone else is aiming for similar goals and how y'all are getting on.

Thanks guys, and good luck to y'all.

wow, that's alot of variety in your excercise routine. Good luck! And I know how you feel about  impressing the ex. Great way to say, "look what you're missing."   

My mom has an elliptical machine but I never use it.

I go to the gym everyday to run on the treadmill and for circut training.

I really would like to increase the time/miles I am on the treadmill.

I find it tedious to count calories, I just stick to vegetables, tofu, fruit, granola, and rice. No bread, pasta or cheese. I am a vegetarian trying to go vegan.

My main issue has not been excercise but eating too much. I have always ate healthy but i have to learn to eat smaller portions, control my appetite, and just recently I have taught myself to drink ONLY water.

I am 132 and would like to get down to 120 by the time I go away to college in Hawaii.

Welcome Agaac!

Be careful of over training. I've done it and it stops progress. I also had to bump up my calories to 1500 to see results because I was stressing my body into conservation mode. I still can't get the scale below 130, but it is all getting toned. Weight training is the best way to make your shape look firmer and better fast, just be careful not to eat a bunch of calories, cause it will fluff you up if you are not careful. I have to count calories carefully, because relying on my hunger scale makes me think I'm eating the same amount of food even when I'm eating more.

Just got back from vacation on east coast. Usually my hubby and I gain weight on this trip, but this year I think I lost weight. The trick is to add enough activities to the vacation to counter the inevitable, what I eat on vacation, stays on vacation, delusion that I suffer from yearly. I ate like a horse, but we swam, kayaked, I went on a couple of runs, and we walked/ran all over NYC. It helped that we weren't being smothered by humidity. The weather was stunning and my run time was much better than it is in Los Angeles. I also went to a farmer's market with my MIL and picked up tons of fruits and veggies so I wouldn't be stuck with bad choices.

Going to the gym so I will weigh in later.