I’m 5’1 and need to lose 40 pounds

[Anonymous]

How long did it take you to lose the weight if you are a similar height and similar weight to lose? I plan to work out 4x per week about 45 mins to an hour. I got my gym membership after not working our for 1.5 years. The only thing that I need to do is change my diet. Suggestions or recs for food? I used to weight around 125 in mid 2016 and I definitely felt healthier back then and know I need to stop this weight gain before it gets worse.

[Anonymous]

You may want to post this on the diet and health board

[Anonymous]

How old are you?

I'm not as short, but have found that from age 23 to 33 my plateau has increased 20 lbs. Even starving myself and working out every day I would be unable to reach that target weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are you?

I'm not as short, but have found that from age 23 to 33 my plateau has increased 20 lbs. Even starving myself and working out every day I would be unable to reach that target weight.

I’m 23. I found that during my teenage years I was eating the same and had the same habits and wouldn’t gain weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are you?

I'm not as short, but have found that from age 23 to 33 my plateau has increased 20 lbs. Even starving myself and working out every day I would be unable to reach that target weight.

I’m 23. I found that during my teenage years I was eating the same and had the same habits and wouldn’t gain weight.

I mean...that's kind of normal? I was 5'5 and 105 lbs as a teenager and into my 20s. After 30 is a whole different ballgame. You're 23 now? I'm confused by the 23-33 20 lbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are you?

I'm not as short, but have found that from age 23 to 33 my plateau has increased 20 lbs. Even starving myself and working out every day I would be unable to reach that target weight.

I’m 23. I found that during my teenage years I was eating the same and had the same habits and wouldn’t gain weight.

I mean...that's kind of normal? I was 5'5 and 105 lbs as a teenager and into my 20s. After 30 is a whole different ballgame. You're 23 now? I'm confused by the 23-33 20 lbs.

What is normal? I found that now it’s harder to maintain my weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are you?

I'm not as short, but have found that from age 23 to 33 my plateau has increased 20 lbs. Even starving myself and working out every day I would be unable to reach that target weight.

I’m 23. I found that during my teenage years I was eating the same and had the same habits and wouldn’t gain weight.

I mean...that's kind of normal? I was 5'5 and 105 lbs as a teenager and into my 20s. After 30 is a whole different ballgame. You're 23 now? I'm confused by the 23-33 20 lbs.

That was a diff poster answering

[Anonymous]

You need to focus way more on the dieting portion than the working out portion. Do workout , I’m not saying don’t. But the biggest component of losing that much weight is overhauling your diet. Eat about .75g of protein per pound of body weight. Split up the remaining calories between fats and carbs. Weigh everything you eat; you CANNOT eyeball a portion and you WILL end up overeating/undercounting your true caloric consumption. You need to start at a manageable deficit; don’t starve yourself on 1200 a day, you will not be able to adhere to it and will struggle to lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to focus way more on the dieting portion than the working out portion. Do workout , I’m not saying don’t. But the biggest component of losing that much weight is overhauling your diet. Eat about .75g of protein per pound of body weight. Split up the remaining calories between fats and carbs. Weigh everything you eat; you CANNOT eyeball a portion and you WILL end up overeating/undercounting your true caloric consumption. You need to start at a manageable deficit; don’t starve yourself on 1200 a day, you will not be able to adhere to it and will struggle to lose.

This is way too much

[Anonymous]

Too much what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to focus way more on the dieting portion than the working out portion. Do workout , I’m not saying don’t. But the biggest component of losing that much weight is overhauling your diet. Eat about .75g of protein per pound of body weight. Split up the remaining calories between fats and carbs. Weigh everything you eat; you CANNOT eyeball a portion and you WILL end up overeating/undercounting your true caloric consumption. You need to start at a manageable deficit; don’t starve yourself on 1200 a day, you will not be able to adhere to it and will struggle to lose.

Agree with all of this except the calories. at 5'1, 1200 calories is generous. I did 1200-1400 while working out (hard, running, weight lifting or orangetheory) and I'm 5'8. I lost 25 lbs in 3 months and have kept it off for a year.

[Anonymous]

I lost it slowwwwwww (6 months to lose 25 lbs). But my only diet was: only eat between 12pm-7pm, and keep portion sizes on the small end of reasonable.

Starting wait 165, current weight 140. I’m 5’2”. I don’t know if I’ll keep losing or not but I feel and look so much better. I intend to keep eating like this basically always.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are you?

I'm not as short, but have found that from age 23 to 33 my plateau has increased 20 lbs. Even starving myself and working out every day I would be unable to reach that target weight.

I’m 23. I found that during my teenage years I was eating the same and had the same habits and wouldn’t gain weight.

I mean...that's kind of normal? I was 5'5 and 105 lbs as a teenager and into my 20s. After 30 is a whole different ballgame. You're 23 now? I'm confused by the 23-33 20 lbs.

It's totally normal to have your plateau weight adjust upwards as you get older. I'm 5'5" - when I was in college I kept my weight between 115-120. By my late 20's my plateau weight had a gradually increased to 135-142. By my late 30's/early 40's my weight had bumped up even more.

I'm now in my mid 50's and 150 is about as low as I want to go. I would look positively sick if I starved myself back down to 115-120 (and I would have to starve myself to get down that low). I do work out and I'm active, in decent health, no real aches and pains so I feel pretty good. I'm just not a kid anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to focus way more on the dieting portion than the working out portion. Do workout , I’m not saying don’t. But the biggest component of losing that much weight is overhauling your diet. Eat about .75g of protein per pound of body weight. Split up the remaining calories between fats and carbs. Weigh everything you eat; you CANNOT eyeball a portion and you WILL end up overeating/undercounting your true caloric consumption. You need to start at a manageable deficit; don’t starve yourself on 1200 a day, you will not be able to adhere to it and will struggle to lose.

Agree with all of this except the calories. at 5'1, 1200 calories is generous. I did 1200-1400 while working out (hard, running, weight lifting or orangetheory) and I'm 5'8. I lost 25 lbs in 3 months and have kept it off for a year.

I'm 5'1 and trying to lose 10 pounds - goal weight 115. I've been eating 1200-1500 calories a day, weighing and tracking everything I eat, trying to keep my carbs to a lower percentage of my overall calorie intake and eating no refined sugar but otherwise not restricting. I'm doing orangetheory 3-4 times a week and a full body heavy lifting session 1-2 times a week depending on how those OTF sessions shake out. I'm losing about 1-2 lbs a week, so it is definitely slow going. I think with 40 lbs to lose at 5'1 you could follow a similar plan and start out losing a bit more per week, but the closer you get to your goal weight the harder it will be to lose. I'm 41, have a hormonal IUD and take an antidepressant that both anecdotally cause weight gain or inhibit weight loss. It's hard work!

[Anonymous]

Op here. I’m on the pill. So I would be 10 pounds lighter if I went off it. I did start gaining more weight when I went on it. From there I just kept gaining and paired with no exercise. I agree that I might need to adjust my plateau but still definitely need to lose weight. Thank you for your suggestions!!!