Losing the ‘final bit’ feels so hard!

[redballerina]

I’m 9stone 12, 5’8. I want to get to 9stone 6lb but I’m finding this really hard, more so mentally as I just feel so drained from always counting calories etc. I won’t be able to do it without it but after losing (most of) the baby weight, this feels even harder than it did before! Has anyone else experienced this?

My husband is currently battling 2Lb he put on during a recent holiday and finding it really difficult to shift. I think sometimes our bodies settle at a certain weight and it takes a while for them to accept a lower one. Have a read around the set point theory.

Forgive me but at your weight/height your BMI is around 21 which sounds perfectly acceptable? I lost weight by careful control of my diet in my 40's and still wanted to lose more, but my friends told me that I'd gone far enough. They were right.

You’re a completely normal weight . I’m the same weight as you but only 5 ft 3. I’m a size 10 and a normal weight

sometimes we just have to accept how we are and where our body is happy being

the other alternative is having to dig a bit deeper and cut calories further and only you know if that’s worth it

Cut the carbs. Up the protein

This. Of course your body is trying not to get underweight. All of evolution is working to keep you alive. It doesn't know where and when you live!

The last few pounds are always the hardest to shift!! It might be useful to have a diet break and maintain for a little while then revisit it in a couple of weeks.

You’re already very very slim and you will have to cut your calories to the bare minimum to become as thin as you want to be. Can’t you be happy at the weight you are?

Um what, she’s no where near under weight and nor will she be at nine stone six

Trying not to get underweight was what I wrote. Evolutionary pressures aren’t going to go lalalalala until you’re a BMI of 18. Your body wants you pushing overweight if possible. You know who survives in extremis? Short, fat women.

The closer you get to underweight the more your body will fight. Otherwise we’d all have died out eons ago!

What on earth are yoy talking about, survives in extremis, fat people. Male or female have significant health risks, obesity is the biggest killer in western society, it’s the number one cause of cancer in non smokers and number two in smokers, then there is cardio vascular, liver, disease, diabetes, stroke, skeletal issues, the list is extensive,