MYNIPPON

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:

1. It is always more difficult to lose weight.
2. The lower our weight, the more difficult it is to lose it.
3. 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.