I am not sure if this is the right forum for me, but since I am 145.5 I figured I'd post here. I still have quite a bit to lose to get to my goal, but I am struggling to get out of the 140's, too.

I was on a plateau for a few weeks and then, DISASTER hit. I was invited to a Paula Deen potluck. Paula Deen! Sheesh, it's like my friends are conspiring against me. So I went off plan for the day, ate a little, and the next day - I had LOST weight. The extra calories must have knocked me off of my plateau? It was weird. Since then it has been going steadily downwards, but agonizingly slowly.

I am so glad to be able to fit back into some of my clothes again, but there are still more clothes I can't wear in my closet than clothes I can. And the Holidays are coming. O_o

I'm in the same boat cmwelp, the lowest I've ever been as an adult was 132 and I was hard to maintain. I was also around 138 for a couple of years until knee surgery caused me to gain 15 lbs. I'd love to be abe able to maintain around 128 but we'll see what happens.

Welcome shr1nk1ngme and congrats on getting through that plateau. I really never understand how they work!

Does anyone have to fight with their friends in order to stay within their plan? One of my friends got really miffed that I didn't want to go to a buffet with her. While I was sure I could control myself, it was more of a cost thing. Why would I pay $20 for a little bit of food when I could go to Panera and pay $8 for the same amount (and know how many calories are in it!)? She was actually the only one who wanted to go to the buffet in the group...

She was VERY angry about the whole situation, but I put my foot down and refused to budge. Apparently she trash talked me the entire time with the friend who DID go with her...

My friends are always going to food-related events. Lately I haven't been going at all, same reason as you, Sontaikle. I figure, why pay a $20 fee for wine and cheese tasting and then eat only a Medifast bar and a few broccoli sticks? So I just don't go. Nobody gets mad at me, but I can tell they think I am just too committed to my diet plan. I'm thinking, I am having so much success; all it takes is a little indulgence to completely derail me and sometimes I don't get back on track for YEARS. Why chance it? When I reach my goal weight and I go on maintenance, then we can talk about all-you-can-eat buffets and wine & cheese tasting.

I've been turning down certain events too. It just seems so silly to spend all of that money! You're lucky though that your friends don't get mad at you; I seem to have a few friends that just either don't care about my progress or are resentful.

I'm lucky that most of my friends now see my progress (It seems like ever since I hit 150 people noticed a lot more) they're more willing to accomodate me if I want to go somewhere where there are low-calorie options, etc. Fortunately most restaurants have this so I don't have to be picky.

It's just a few friends here are there that will suggest buffets or places where I just don't even want to be tempted. If everyone else wants to go, I will (or I'll just decline and meet up later) but most of my friends will say "Oh hey Nicole looks awesome now, let's go somewhere healthy!" and then the one friend who wanted to go to a buffet or something will get annoyed :?:

Recently I went to cold stone with some friends and didn't get anything as it would have put me over my calorie count for the day (didn't know we were going! I would have allowed for it if I knew! :dizzy:) and my friend would not shut up about it! She said I must think I'm "better" than everyone else. :mad:

It's just so frustrating. I'm not trying to be "better" than anyone—I'm just trying to be healthy.

Today I weighed in at 139! How weird, yesterday I was at 141.5. I think it's probably water weight, and I won't be surprised to weigh in at 140+ again tomorrow (yes, I'm a daily weigh-er). But it's a small victory, so I thought I'd post here and say, this just MAY be goodbye 140's! For good! (Crosses fingers) :)

Does anyone have any advice on getting the scale to move? I've only been stuck this long one other time (wayyyy back at 180) and it's been exactly two weeks since I hit 146. I'm not sure if I should just ride this out and see what happens or try changing things up.

I know it's not really a long time, I just really haven't gone this long without losing before. I'm doing everything: exercising, sticking to plan, etc. I eat 1200 calories so I'm not sure if it's even safe to lower my calories (I wouldn't feel hungry if I did though; sometimes it's a struggle to get that last 200 in). Has anyone safely lost by eating 1000 or 1100 calories a day?

I'm six pounds from a healthy weight at this point, should I just expect slower losses now?


I've never been through the weight loss process before so I'm a total newbie when it comes to all of this. I don't know what the heck to expect :joker: I just have my earlier experiences in this journey to go on.

WOOO! When I went to bed last night the scale read 143! I was so super happy! I was wondering what it would say, because I had gotten up yesterday and put on a pair of jeans expecting it to be a tight fit but had no problem buttoning them up. That just made me extra super happy all day long. So I wasn't surprised to get on the scale and be below 145! Which has been a rare occurrence. I've been hovering in the 147-148 range lately (ugh, talk about frustrating!)
I signed up for fitocracy at the beginning of the month though and it's REALLY helped me stick to working out more. Especially my october challenge with one of my groups (a group of military wives and GFs) and trying to get to #50 on the 3fatchicks group (just checked and I'm currently at #45! Didn't expect that!) I also recently (just this week) changed my eating pattern so I'm having light lunches and snacking a little during the day, and then having a typical dinner, instead of trying to watch all my food all day. Guess I'll keep with this and see if it keeps working!

~Katy

I weighed in at 142 this morning! It felt pretty good, should be able to hit my goal of 140 by Nov. 11th. I'd like to make a goal of being at 130 by valentines day but I don't know if that's to ambitious over the holiday season. I've been losing pretty slowly, like 1 lbs a week.

Kakers - another person with the exact same stats as me :)

I hit 139 in maybe early June, but then went up to 140-141 and am stuck there. When losing the weight (down from 180 in January) I was measuring everything and doing dancercise most days; have to admit that now I just eyeball my food quantities and don't do the dancing, just my mini-trampolining. If I want to get out of the 140's, I had better get back to my routines that used to be successful.

Alongside that, I take comfort in the fact that my eating is in good control, not waaaay crazy like it was before I started counting calories. I'm hoping that if I just ramp up the effort to what I used to do when more motivated, I can leave the 140's behind for good and stay around 135.

Good luck to all of us trying to welcome the 130's!

Woke up to 142 on the scale today! Very surprised after my party yesterday. Granted I was too busy to eat real food after breakfast but the cupcakes and chips and copious amounts of alcoholic jello I thought would more than make up for that.

Not expecting to see this number as a regular thing but HOPING it's part of the trend! :) I'd be happy to be at 142 for a few more days.

Lisa- I think 130 is definitely reachable by Valentines, even with the holidays! You just have to not let yourself go TOO overboard indulging in holidays yummies, and make sure to stay active and working out. We can be in it together! :) My family makes alllll sorts of fudge and home made caramels and cookies at christmas omigosh. But we can both at least not gain through the holidays :)

~Katy

I'm down to 141! So close to being in the 130's! I feel like I'll be there in 2 weeks.

I just crossed over to 139! See you guys in the 130s very soon! Buh bye 140! Never to be seen again, ahhhhh.

I'm new to the featherweights board, and new to this thread, though not new to 3FC. :) My original goal was 140, but I can see 9 more pounds won't cut it, so I lowered the goal to 130.
Anyway currently 149...trying to get out of the 140s!!

Welcome GlamourGirl!! Congrats on the impressive lost

I havent been budgeting my calories well enough and I've been going over by like 100-200 a day, I got to get it in check!

Thanks LisaTcan! At this point, I'm starting to what a difference an extra 100- 200 cals a day can make in weightloss. The closer I get to goal the heard it gets!

144 today... Whoooo! Watch out 130s, here I come!

GlamourGirl - I've noticed my weight loss has slowed down incredibly ever since I hit the 140s, which is frustrating when I had months of 7 and 8 pound loses :joker: but I guess slow and steady wins the race :)

Congrats on getting unstuck sontaikle!

I want to go to the gym..but I have to much work to do. I think I'm not really going to work out until my grad school applications are finished. Priorities I guess!

GlamourGirl - I think 200 cal a day really does make a difference! I drop at 1200 but not at 1400..however eating only 1200 is really hard for me.

Just escaped the 140s a few days ago, and you can do it too!!

I'm new to featherweights. Damn, can't believe I'm posting in this forum lol hehe :)

Also have a few pounds to go, would like to hit the 130's this November month!!

Welcome melodymist!

LisaTcan - good luck on getting into grad school! I always loved it a lot more than undergrad :)

melodymist - welcome to the featherweights!


The scale was bouncing between 142 and 143... 140 is the healthy BMI for my height. I'll be so ecstatic when I hit that! Plus, you know, I can say I lost 60 pounds then too ;)

Thanks sontaikle, i'm excited to go the admissions process is just so stressful!
Down to 140..despite the fact that I overate this week!

I've been not feeling well since the weekend before halloween so I haven't been as active as I should be. Getting so frustrated by feeling sick!! I'm holding steady around 145-ish though so at least I'm not really going up. I hate being sick. It's just NOT ok by me!

~Katy

143 again. Pretty good considering it's my TOM.

Uh...wow! I've been so focused on trying to get down to a healthy BMI that I totally missed the part where I hit a healthy weight range for my large-framed body. I hit that 4 pounds ago!!

This is...HUGE!! I've never been considered at a healthy weight. It's been so crazy to put my info into all of these and see "healthy" instead of overweight or obese!

According to lots of calculators and charts, I can weigh between 131-147 pounds and be considered "healthy." I want to get down to 135 at least, possibly maintain 133-135. I'm still not setting a real "goal" right now as I want to see what happens when I lose more. I really like my new, curvy hourglass figure too much to start losing it, so I might stop sooner if that starts to go.

This also explains why it's been getting more difficult to lose the weight. I'm getting close to "the end" :joker:

Congrats on being a healthy weight sontaikle!! I'm jealous that your an hour glass!
I'm an apple so even though I'm a healthy weight I'm not happy with my shape.

I'm at 140, hoping to be joining the 130's thread soon! I bought some new jeans at a
thrift store today, they're size 29 but I don't want to spend money on jeans til I hit a 27.

Hi all! After recently coming back to 3FC, I've been reading random posts on the "new posts" screen, but thought I'd like to find one where I'd fit in to hopefully chat regularly. I'm officially at 143, but did see 142 on the scale for the first time this morning - but I always wait to see if it sticks around for another day before claiming it, lol.

Welcome untamed!


141 again today, although the scale was bouncing between 140 and 141!!

I know this whoosh can't last forever, but I would love to get into the 130s from it :joker:

I got stuck at 145 and I seem to be stuck at 140 now too, I just keep going from 140-141. Errr, going to try to stay at 1200 this week and see if my weight will budge.

Lisa we can get in the 130s together! :cheer:

Come on scale! moooovveeee :joker:

I hope so!! Grrr, the scale is stuck!!

Woke up to 143 again today, hopped back on the scale before hopping in the bath and saw 142!! Only took me having a stomach bug with a fever yesterday but beggers can't be choosers. We had our work thanksgiving lunch on Thursday and I ate chocolate cream pie half the day, so I guess being sick was my payback for not being smart about the holiday intake!!

~Katy

Woke up to 141 today! Must remember this time my appetite shrank from a stomach bug to continue to keep my portions small. Even if something is just so yummy I can't help but want to gobble it down until I have to unbutton my pants.

~Katy

Up a pound today but I know I didn't drink enough water yesterday for my intense workout. doh! Not making that mistake again today :)

weighed in at 140.0 today! So mad at the scale for not just letting me have 139.8 or something :-) haha. Soon it will, though!! Just so glad to be back to this point where being back in the 130's is IMMINENT!!

Good luck everyone! Hope you guys are all meeting your goals!!

The scale was teasing me today. It was bouncing between 139 and 140. So close!

cmwelp - so closeee! You can do it! :cheer:

Hey cmwelp and sontaikle!! Congrats you're so close!!
Um, really weird but the same thing happened to me! Bouncing back and forth between 139 and 140.

I think this will be the week for all of us!! So excited to get to the 130's thread.

ps hope you're feeling better kakers :) congrats on the loss

ladies!! just hit 139.0 today, double and triple-checked just to make sure i wasn't seeing things :-) hahaha. Unfortunately though, it's JUST IN TIME for thanksgiving--so i'm going to try to be good, because 139 feels AMAZING!!

Lisa & Sontaikle--this is absolutely our week!! Now time for the chain reaction for you guys to hit it, too :-)

Congrats cmwelp!!! I'm still stuck at 140, I won't lie I'm pretty jealous ;)
Hopefully sontaikle and I are close behind you.
Happy Thanksgiving!!