Short girls (5'4" and under) with a significant amount of weight to lose! (40+)

Hey everyone,

I'm 5'0" and I currently weigh 175. I know there is another short girls thread, but most of them seem to already weigh 120.

So anyway, I need some big time motivation. Weekly weigh ins, advice, encouragement, etc....and I'm betting that some of you out there could do the same.

So how about it?

Good morning ladies!

Jul.  23 - 167
Jul.  30 - 167.2
Aug 06 - 167.6
Aug 13 - 165
Aug 20 - 165
Aug 27 - 163.2
Sep 03 - 162.4
Sep 10 - 160.6
Sep 17 - 160.2
Sep 24 - 158.00 - YES!
Oct 01 - 157.40 - not very much but I'll take it!!
Oct 08 - 155.20 - 2.2 loss
Oct 15 - 155...
Oct 22 - 154.8 - I'm finally seeing the scale go down after TOM and my new exercise routine
Oct 29 - 154
Nov 05 - 152
Nov 12 - 151.8

At this point I will take ANY loss! ha!

Welcome bak halizabeth! and welcome to the new ladies! =)

Start Weight - July 23rd- 222.2

Last Week: 186

This Week: 185

Total Weight lost since June 6 55lbs

Hope to get into a good exercise routine this week alternating days of couch to 5k and walking the dog and the eliptical machine.  Still have yet to start on the weights as I keep waiting for my husband to join me, but I guess I just need to do it without him.

just joined up last week, didnt get a chance to post again all week, very busy at college! but the great news is;

last week 162.0

this week 159.8

yay! delighted!! and i have just started cycling to and from college which is 40 mins each way so hopefully its a good result again next week

i have a really good incentive to loose weight this time as me and my boyfriend are going to india for a month in janurary, makes these cold irish mornings a little easier to bear!

well done everyone and best of luck for the following week

Quick little note of happiness was able to wear one of my rings today.  Very soon the day will come when I can wear my wedding rings again.

:)

Way to go ladies! 

Hey pbear123:  My wedding ring is getting really loose.  I'm going to have to have it sized down soon!  Congrats on the 55 lb. total weight loss. 

omg I logged my food today and even though I knew I went over I didn't think it was that bad; 3500 today.  It is helpful to realize how bad I was to help me do better tomorrow.

I have been trying hard to log did everything today so far.  Probably first day in a month I have logged the full day

Arrgghhh, I have the worst water retention this week, I look like someone has inflated me! It serves me right for not drinking more than a glass or two of water a day this week and eating loads of salty foods (I know, I shouldn't be adding salt to my cooking..... but ..... I just can't help myself!). So mini goal - to drink a 2 litre (I guess thats in the regiion of 4 pints??) bottle of water at work each day.

Late weigh in - scales playing up again....

Last Week: 166.2

This Week: 166.2

So maintained this week. Not a gain atleast but these 160's just dont seem to want to budge.

My diet has gone a bit awry recently though, although I had a few overindulgences at the weekend (fish and chips, chocolate and a packet of biscuits) in recent weeks I seem to have slipped into over restrictive mode. I have been eating little more than soup, a few pieces of fruit and a few dry ryvitas. Some days I'm guessing I probably consumed little more than about 700 or 800 calories, even on swimming days when I know I'm going to be burning close to 1000 calories. Yes I know this is bad and I know the 1200 calorie rule but I do sometimes have this devil on my shoulder which whispers in my ear....Food = Fat. I was borderline anorexic when I was 17/18, weighing around 92lb and I can't deny that starving yourself can be addictive and sometimes something will trigger me off and I'll start restricting again. I think there was some reason a week or two ago that I replaced my main meal with soup, having also had soup for my lunch which I do everyday and since then its gradually ended up being a daily thing and I've started feeling reluctant to eat a proper meal even though I know in my 'rational head' that I really need to increase my calories or my metabolism is going to suffer and make my weight loss struggle even harder. So anyway, today is usually treat meal day, I do my shopping after work and have something nice for tea before swimming so tonight the soup is staying in the cupboard. Tomorrow I am going to have a healthy main meal, probably grilled salmon with raw veg (I have eaten my veg raw since I was little) and try and get myself back on track. I am a bit concerned that I might see a slight gain, I'm not sure if I've done my metabolism any damage but hopefully only a few weeks won't have done much harm and I should get things back to normal fairly quickly.

Sorry I'm late for weigh-in, ladies.

Last Week:  176.0

This Week:  175.8

I'm doing horribly and have all but given up.  I.... I don't know what to write.  I'm really freaking depressed.  That's all.

Hang in there beckabooey.  We all go through  ups and downs in life.  Go back to your profile and read why your here.  I read it was very motivating.  You have lost 20lbs already that is a big deal.

So hang in there girl you can do this!

beckabooey:  Don't give up!! Whatever funk you are in, I'm sure it's temporary.  I know you aren't crazy about exercise, but have you tried going for a nice walk? Walking always makes me feel better.  Hang in there, OK? 

Hello all!

I'm really feeling good about the weight loss this time. I tried calorie count a few months or so ago...but I quickly gave up--even though I KNOW counting and weighing in is the best thing for you when are trying to lose weight.

I don't have a weight in for this week (I didn't weight myself Wednesday), but I have been hovering around 179. In March I lost 7 lb, from 187 to 180, but I have  been stuck here for awhile. I was able to maintain without writing everything down and gyming 2-3 times a week, but I really wanted to kick things back into gear.

A few weeks ago I decided to get back into things. Now I am logging EVERYTHING I eat (even "free" stuff like splenda) and making it to the gym for a solid 30 minutes at least 4 days a week, usually 5. I started using weights last week--in hopes of getting more results.

Anyway, reading everything has helped me stay motivated. So...thanks!

I hope to have a weight for next Wednesday!

Beckabooey I know EXACTLY how you feel....depression is so crippling and destructive.

But you can't be doing that bad, atleast you still lost!

I have felt like giving up so many times and feel like I'm never going to reach my goal....I'll always be the fat girl. I sometimes actually resent my body and feel like MY own body is dictating to me how I should look and what I should weigh and I get really angry at it. But then I just think back to the success I've had so far, however small it may seem when I'm with my defeatist mentality, and I think if I give up now all that work I've put in would have been for nothing, and however slow and frustrating the process - and I get SO frustrated its unbelievable, but it IS working. God its slow but its working!

I do think the process is so much harder when you suffer from depression and self esteem issues, it seems like you have so many battles going on at once and its easy to end up feeling like you have no fight left but I think about how I'll feel when I have reached my goal and thats what gets me back on the wagon keeps me going.

Beckabooey and Linz78 - I am with you both in finding it really difficult to stick to things, and I feel like giving up a lot of the time. We just have to fight through it - and in the end it doesn't matter if it takes six months or two years. I'm treating every week where I don't put anything on as a success at the moment, as before I started this I hadn't maintained for about two years, I'd crept slowly up. We can all do it - we just have to keep our heads down, try hard and cut ourselves some slack in the weeks where things don't go perfectly. (I haven't even weighed in this week because I'm so bloated I know that going on the scales will totally depress me).

I wanted to post, but I decided to just use my journal to vent, since I can't give support to the group at this time I don't feel right taking it.  When things change I will rejoin.  :) 

I'm not looking forward to weighing in this week, I feel sure I'm going to see a gain.....I feel fatter. Oh well, keep plodding on.....

Just a note of modivation hang in there everyone there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I think that when we post our weigh ins this week, we should also include a goal we have for ourselves that's not food or weight related.

Sounds like a good idea lynners :)

The time is now the time is right, to take my fat and weight in my hands and say enough is enough!!!!  a quote I got written down from the last time I was on my weight loss journey thought I would share.