For someone who is 5 feet 8 inches tall, 125 lbs is a weight that is toward the low end of the healthy BMI range. As I improved my eating habits and increased my workout time and intensity, over several years weight started to go down but what I have noticed is that the pace has slowed down. For example, when I first started this at around 140 lbs, it was so much easier to get down to 135 but to go down from 130 to 125 was even harder. And for over 5 months now, I have been at 125 plus or minus a pound or two. And this is despite the fact that I continue to eat the same calories and workout is also unchanged.
Mila Kunis had to drop as much as 20 pounds of weight from her already low 115 lbs to act as a ballet dancer in the movie Black Swan and she said that it took her as many as five months. Yes, with very precise control on what to eat and dancing pretty much all day, she accomplished this, but she says that once the shooting for the film was over, she gained the weight back in mere five days.
The conclusion from this is that:
- It is always more difficult to lose weight.
- The lower our weight, the more difficult it is to lose it.
- As our weights go down, we burn fewer calories (we now need fewer calories just to go about our daily lives because the body has lower weight to carry around) and that means that just to maintain it, we need to workout even harder and eat less. Indeed, your overweight friends might tease you that you can eat anything you want and not workout, but the reality is that skinny people gain weight so much faster.
Jhony // Nov 29, 2012 at 5:42 pm
I’m sorry, there’s really no such thing as a safe diet pill. They alsmot all contain stimulants that can damage the cardiovascular system, and then there’s Alli, which can give you explosive diarrhea, so I don’t think you want that pill either. Diet and exercise should work perfectly fine. I think you’re probably either not giving it enough time (you should give it at least a month before you decide you’re not seeing results), or you aren’t dieting or exercising right.As for your diet, you should be eating high protein, high fat (saturated not trans, and no that’s not unhealthy), low carb, low sugar. Keep your calorie intake around 1500 a day, carbs around 100-150 g a day, and as little added sugar as you can manage. Make sure to eat lots of fruits and veggies too.And you need to push yourself when you exercise. A nice easy pace won’t do anything. You have to get sweaty, tired, and work hard. If you don’t feel tired when you’re done, if you’re not out of breath, you’re not doing it right. And you need to do both cardio and weight training, but on different days. Try and work out for at least an hour, 4-6 days a week.