Hi. I am officially in my 30's... 31. My little sister just got engaged. So, with a wedding coming up, I have to lose about 10 pounds to look good in a bridesmaide dress. What I have discovered, is it is SOOO hard to lose weight in your 30's! I have tried every diet and have been working out like a crazy person. No matter what I do, I am 124.2. It just doesn't budge.

I am a teacher, so I have the whole summer off. So far I have been running with my dog every morning. We are up to 4 miles at about a 11 minute pace. I also play indoor soccer once a week and I lift at the gym about twice a week. Right now I just keep my eating healthy. But, I really could use some ideas about a better eating plan. Any ideas on how to help me? I really don't want to be the fat older sister anymore!

You might want to check out the featherweights forum, they deal with the issues you are referring to. I like calorie counting and I have tried other plans but CC counting works best for me. Your exercise looks good , add a lower calorie diet to it, that should help ,alhough at 124 pounds I doubt that you are that terrible to look at. Good luck !

Youre tiny, you are going to have to do more than "keep your eating healthy"

You have to be in a caloric deficit to lose fat. DO youhave ANy idea AT ALL how many calories you are consuming a day, usually? Especially gfor vanity pounds, dieting (IN MY OPINION) is 100% of the equation. Others here will argue its 90 or 80% or whatever. But irregardless, you need to nail the diet part down, and im afraid at your hieght/weight, youre prob going to have to go pretty low (calorie wise) to see any noticable changes). Thats great that you workout everyday, but the 400 cals (give or take) you burn in the gym or running dont make a dent in the cals you burn all day long, just existing. You can eat back those gym calories in the blink of an eye, without ven realizing it, and boom! There went your "deficit". Its extrememly difficult, if not impossible for the majority of women to create enough of a caloric deficit to lose fat by exercise alone. Just not going to happen.
ANd you CAN get "fat" eating healthy! you can get" fat" on broccolli and tuna fish. ITs all about calories in vs calories out at the end of the day, and EVERYTHING you put in your mouth has calories, even when something claims to be caolrie free. So, if you havent already, you need to go online and find a BMR calculator that will give you a ROUGH idea of the amount of calories you are burning in a day (really, this is just a starting number, if you dont have any idea already) Subtract 20-30% of those cals and that should put you in a harsh deficit. Or you could just subtract 500 cals from that number, to get roughly one pound of fat a wekk loss (of course its NEVER that simple and doesnt work quite like that)

Welcome, Runningaroundincircl! Do what the thin woman said.

I usually try to stay around 1,000 calories. My biggest problem is fitting into clothes. I have no butt, and my stomach is where I gain weight. Because I am so short, I usually buy smaller sizes for the length. But-then they are tight around the waste. That's really my goal-to lose 10 pounds so my clothes will look better.

I will check out feather weights. What do you do to combat hunger? What are the best snacks?