How Much Weight Do You Have to Lose to Get Excited About It?

It IS possible for your clothes to fit differnt by only losing one pound! Just because the number on the scale is staying the same doesnt mean that your body isnt changing. You may have lost some fat, but gained some muscle! I have lost 11.5 pounds so far this year and I am THRILLED! I have been happy with every pound lost! I weigh myself once per week. Monday mornings before I eat or drink anything. That way I know that it isnt just fluctuations with food. Another good way to measure progress is the measuring tape! Take measurements from all over your body! Your neck, your waist, your upper arm, your calf, your ribcage, your bust, your upper thigh, right above your knee... anywhere that you can think of! Repeat those measurements one month later. You may see inches melting away even when the pounds arent. This will help to encourage you! For other ideas, I highly recommend www.sparkpeople.com It is totally free. It has lots of great tips for everything involved in losing weight and maintaining once that weight is gone. That website is the only reason I am able to sit here today and tell you about the weight I have lost thus far! Congrats on the start of losing weight! Keep it up!

Well with running, your not only burning fat, but toning up as well... Good for you! I always hear people asking how to lose weight without working out. They want to use only a diet, which in the end won't help them at all. So keep up the workouts. Do you have a workout buddy? A friend is a good motivator. You can also join a gym that offers classes, if thats in your budget. I like to switch it up from cycling, kickboxing, latin dance, or yoga. If a gym is too much, then try riding a bike, or rollerblades to give you a variety. And last, make sure you eat a well balanced meal, but keep it low in calories. Everything thing is good in moderation. Let us know how it goes! =) Thanks for sharing =)

I'd probably have to loose 10 lbs before I could get excited about it. As I've been working out for about a year I've actually gained more weight. I know some of it is muscle, but it's also due to bad eating habits. What can I say I love junk food!

When I loose a pound, I always picture a pound of butter coming off my body. That is alot of fat! I would love to be able to run. My knees are shot and they kill even when I take long walks~ which I try to do alot. If I loose 5 pounds and keep if off, then I get excited. Then I have the motivation to go for the next 5 pounds. Sad it is so much easier to put it on than to take it off.

Diet is what is really imporant with weightloss Pigglies. I have found that diet and exercise is what will keep the weight off. For me to see a difference I like to see say 10 pounds of weight loss but that is me. I think 5 pounds is great too! I am planning on doing workouts here soon myself so I can start to get healthy again. I want to lose at least 50 pounds by the end of this year! I found this to be very helpful online you are more than welcome to check it out. http://tiny.cc/cdqUy Hope this helps and happy mylotting to you as well:)

I think that any weight you lose and successfully keep off is something to be proud of! Even if it's a pound, or half a pound, if you can keep it off, that's success. I think small goals are easier to achieve and can keep you motivated. Congrats on what you've done so far, and good luck to you in the future! :D

One pound is a great start. You are doing it right, slowly and by exercising not by all the B.S. diets out there, Keep it up. You get there.That's why it is great to play strings, you can play and exercise at the same time.

This is what I want to have, motivation... i never have one and if I have then I never success either. 1lbs is a good start... later you will loose more if you keep doing on what you are doing now. Wish you good luck

5 pounds would be great. 10 Would be better. I know the first few are only water and can come back really easily. I would be much happier to lose 10 that way I would now that at least 5 of the pounds lost would be fat, and not just water. Losing 10 pounds is really hard though I have to say. But if I lost 10 I would be really, really happy.

Hi, Pigglies I would probably be happy with 5 pounds. But my real problem is not really my weight but that my body is not toned. I mean, I have fat upper arms and a tummy that is squashy. I think running is good and it's great that you lost a pound. Hey, that is an achievement. Have a nice day!

I agree with you, about five pounds of weight loss is enough for me to start getting excited. I fluctuate throughout the day and throughout the month by at least 2-3 pounds, so five is a good threshold number to know that I've really lost a bit of weight. I haven't weighed myself in a few days, and I was hoping that I'd lost a bit, but I don't feel that confident about it, just in the way my body feels. I'll check tomorrow morning though. Wish me luck!

I think at my current weight, I would have to lose at least 20 pounds before I would really get excited about it. I think this would be the point where my clothes would start to get loose and I would actually start to feel a little bit better. I think, feeling this way, is one of the things that really stops me from throwing myself full force into a diet. I need to be able to celebrate each pound coming off, but my mindset is just not there.

I can lose a pound and I am happy. I have such a hard time losing weight that any amount is an accomplishment for me. I don't care if it's water weight or fat. It's still weight. LOL

I would feel better if I could lose 10 pounds. I had lost 17 pounds but now I can not seem to stay motivated to stay on a diet. I go to the gym at least 3 times a week. But, I have found out just exercising will not make you lose weight. You have to also diet along with exercising and if you do both you will lose the weight.

I would vote for the five pound amount myself. I am hard to impress. I would like to lose even more than that, but five would be a nice start. You may have lost more than a pound of fat, you may have gained muscle and shed some water weight as well. Good Job.

If I could loose any weight I would get excited about it. Because any thing helps you get healthy, and into the clothes you want to wear