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[quote=Anonymous]I think OP should stop focusing on the number on the scale and instead ask what about her appearance she isn't happy about. She's a healthy weight, but she seems unhappy about it. She has this idea that losing 10 lbs overall would fix it, but what if that's not it?

I'm 5'5" and 130 lbs. My weight is fine. But if I don't do dedicated ab exercises frequently, I lose muscle tone in my midsection and don't like how it looks. Now, I can diet myself down to 120-125 and sometimes I do that if, say, I am going to be running around in a bathing suit somewhere. But I'd rather do a 20 minute ab routine 4 days a week at the end of my regular workouts and still get to enjoy the occasional after dinner sweet, some sodium in my diet, and not have to limit myself to 1200 calories or less. So I do the ab workouts! My pants fit better and I just like how my body looks this way, and it's less of a sacrifice (for me) than a more rigid diet.

Sometimes fixating on the scale gets in the way. If you're a healthy weight and already getting plenty of exercise and have a healthy diet, maybe just focus on targeting any body issues that bug you with a different kind of workout.[/quote]

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