Yeah, this last bit is absolutely the hardest. I figure I've got between 10 and 20 lbs left to lose, but I really can't tell how much (I have more muscle now than I did years ago, so maybe I won't reach the same weight as before). And from what I read, weight loss really is s-l-o-w compared to earlier losses when one is heavier to start with.
For me, what is frustrating is that over the last few years, and particularly in the last 18 months, I have so severely chipped away and almost entirely eliminated the bad stuff from my diet. I can't eat gluten (I get sick) so that automatically eliminated bread etc. (no wheat/rye/barley). I realized that I don't do well with starches, so they're 98% gone. I no longer eat sugar except occasionally in a dessert or something. But no daily use of it. I no longer add salt to anything. I've got a pretty good handle on the small portion sizes. I am SOOOOO good and disciplined compared to previously, and I exercise fairly regularly with weights and cardio, but my weight and fat levels seem utterly stuck where I am no matter what I do. I know I've lost SOMETHING, fat probably, because I bought several pairs of jeans a few months ago, and now they are almost falling off (yaay!!!). Yet the scale is stubbornly the same. And looking at myself without clothes, ICK, still the same fat in the middle. I'm vaguely thinking my goal body weight might be about 130 to 135 lbs. because that's what I weighed from about age 21 to 36, and when I look at photos of myself from those ages, I looked so slim and I'd love to be like that now! But maybe it will be 140 or so because I have more muscle development now. Who cares?
What is frustrating is trying to figure out how to get weight/fat loss moving again. I'm mainly attempting to get to a body shape, not a particular weight. I want all the mid-section fat to disappear. Whatever weight that is, I don't care. But the frustrating thing is that it's so hard to get anything to change. I think I'm a skinny fat person....I'm 5'8" and don't look all that overweight in most clothes (awful in a swim suit, though!). But on my Tanita Fat Scales I measured 37.9% fat this morning, and on my hand held fat analyzer I measured 29.5%, so what gives, which is closer to reality? At my chiropractor's office I got on his $5,000 professional Tanita fat scales and I measured pretty close to my own Tanita scales measurement of 37% approx. I see women who look very obese with fat % lower than mine, so I can't figure this out. All in all, it's very frustrating. How do people do it? :-(
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