Can't shift the last stone.

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I've lost 4stone since DC2 was born 3.5 years ago. This has been extremely gradual. Some months I've lost a stone and then I've gone months and months without losing anything. The biggest change has been over the last year or so. I started training better in the gym and using MFP to log calories. I took up running 6 months ago too. But I haven't lost a single lb since October.
I'm 5ft11 and 10stone 5. I run about 25 miles a week.
On an average day I eat:
Breakfast - 2 scrambled eggs, one rasher of bacon, 1 small bowl of porridge (made will 13grams of oats and skimmed milk).
Snack - protein shake (good qualify pure protein, about 200 cals)
Lunch - chicken breast with veg in tomato sauce (homemade from scratch).
After school - a hard boiled egg
Dinner - chicken breast with a bit of stirfried veg
If I have a sweet tooth sometimes I have a bit of natural yogurt with honey at About 8pm.

I have just signed up for some boot camp classes and I start Monday. Can anyone see where I may be going wrong? X

Do you desperately want to be thinner? Because that is a healthy weight, a healthy diet and you sound fit- maybe that is where you are meant to be?

Yeah. I'm not big but I hold a lot of fat. I think I need to do more exercise in the form of weights etc so I'm hoping bootcamp and circuits will help that. I constantly have people telling me I've lost more than enough and I need to put a bit of weight back on but underneath my clothes is a mess :(
Giving birth twice in 14 months hasn't been kind to me lol

You certainly don't need to lose a stone. Your body is fighting against you by clinging on to every last calorie.
I will suggest eating more and moving less.
By eating more I suggest eating more fat, more plain yogurt, butter, a chicken thigh with skin on cooked in oil instead of a plain breast.
By moving less I mean drastically cutting your cardio to one or two sessions a week. Then start weight lifting. Get a personal trainer or at least someone to show you the ropes and spend three times a week, 30-45 minutes lifting weights.
You will gain muscle, lose fat and your metabolism will be sky high.
ALSO STOP WEIGHING YOURSELF. Focus on losing fat, not losing muscle.
Also, your BMI is on the lower end. If you lost another stone you would only be a couple of pounds away from being underweight. Why do you want to be so skinny? Losing weight will only make your loose skin from childbirth look worse. If i were you I would be trying to gain weight, not lose it. You need muscle to give yourself shape and look better underneath your clothes.

why on earth do you want to lose another stone? I'm about the same height and weight and am really slim

I'll post a picture now to show you what I mean

Thats loose skin and some displaced white fat you're trying to lose.
Trust me, I've lost six stone myself and ended up a saggy, wrinkly skin bag. I put a stone back on of good brown fat and solid muscle and I look a hell of a lot better.
You need to start lifting heavy. All the cardio in the world will not tighten up loose skin.
But your stomach is not ever going to look like it did before you grew two people inside of it. All these celebrities that 'snap back' have had tummy tuck surgery. The more weight you loose the worse that skin is going to look
And you look very slim and fabulous anyway. I wish my stomach looked like that, i haven't even had children and its its a B shape. Theres nothing I can do about it, but I can strengthen my stomach muscles enough so that when I tense it looks flat. If I relax I get the loose skin showing.
My size eight SIL is extremely slim and tiny everywhere but has the same stomach as you. She's also had two kids. Nothing will completely shift it except surgery or magic.

Sorry no advice but seeing your pics that's the same as how I think my stomach looks. I do a lot of cardio and have also had two kids.I know hoe you feel. I am a healthy bmi smack bang in the middle of the healthy range and I weigh less than I did pre babies but I feel fatter if you get me. Sorry I have no advice but I do understand where you are coming from and how you feel.

Thanks so much mermaid for the advice. DP is a bodybuilder (doesn't compete anymore but still trains) so I do have him to show me the ropes and I do some weight training when we get the chance. We don't get opportunity to train together much.
It's so frustrating. I'm only 23 and my friends who have had babies seem to have just popped back into perfect shape. I'm getting married in September so really want to be in the best shape possible

Another one here with a tummy just like yours OP. I'm the same weight I was pre-DC (middle of healthy bmi) but my tummy is so flabby. I do resistance exercise once a week and run a couple of times a week but the belly jiggle remains.

Interesting what you say mermaid. What's this brown fat/white fat? And do we gain the former and lose the latter by weight lifting? (Would body-weight exercises do the trick?)

Brown fat is the good fat that keeps us warm and burns calories. Its mostly on the inside. We all need brown fat. White fat is the 'bad' fat that hangs around where we don't want it! It doesn't do very much calorie wise. Weight lifting won't make you gain any fat unless you're bulking. (Where the goal is to gain size in preperation for cutting)
The goal of weight lifting is to gain and sculpt muscle mass. Unlike fat, even when its just sitting there, muscle is still burning calories.
So i recommend, to anyone, to gain as much muscle mass as possible. With as little as two or three sessions a week and good nutrition your body will become a calorie burning powerhouse.
So many women, sadly, seem afraid of having even the tiniest bicep bulge and beat themselves up running for hours and sweating in aerobic classes, only to gain everything back or still look saggy because cardio, while it is good for your cardiovascular system and fitness, is not laying down muscle. Its burning muscle and fat indescriminately. It won't raise your base metabolism very much at all.

Mermaid, if I start lifting weights twice a week, would you recommend I change my diet too?

I actually think your diet sounds really good. I would add a few more healthy carbs E.g sweet potato wedges with your evening meal sometimes instead of just veg and maybe swap your afternoon snack for a tin of tuna/cup of cottage cheese or a protein shake. I'd also swap out the chicken for steak once a week.
Also if you fancy a change protein pancakes are nice for breakfast.
www.bodybuilding.com/fun/20-best-healthy-protein-pancake-recipes.html
Thats a good site to read for tips etc. Just don't read the awful brotastic forum!

definatley stop weighing although i know its addicative.. read the tape not the scales etc etc but i cant.

either you arent eating enough, skip snacks and have much bigger lunch and add some steak or pulses/chickpeas/bean mash.

or try a cleanse/detox to see if you can break the plateau.

and water water water.

Thanks mermaid
I have a couple more questions, if you don't mind?
For the past year I've done a metafit (body weight) class - I've definitely "bulked" out. While this has definitely been welcomed on my butt, my legs and arms are now pretty bulky. This puts me off continuing what I'm doing! I don't want to get any more bulky...if I lift "heavy" will I bulk out more, or will this help me lean out? Have I become bulky from metafit cos I'm not lifting heavy enough?

Unless you take supplements you probably won't gain much more visible 'bulk'.
I'm sure you're not as bulky as you think- its just that so many ladies are starved to thinness or completely out of shape, so people aren't conditioned to seeing a normal, fit form.
Yoga can lengthen and stretch out the muscles and make them appear less pronounced.
Its all personal preference really, I'd rather do some weight lifting and have a bit of muscle, get stronger and have strong bones. Some ladies baulk at the idea and would rather have skinny thighs like bambi, which I could never achieve anyway even with diet pills and chain smoking.