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Re: The NEW selfie thread with no rules
☘️ Irish mothers… “joanne have you lost weight? Here eat a proper meal … I gained 9lb in 5 days 🐷
Re: 🌺🌼 July Daily Weigh-in and Logging Challenge☀️🌸
I'm Becca, 53, 5'6".
My continuing goals: Drink more than 64 oz of water, 25+ grams of fiber, 100+ grams protein.
For July I'll add 2 gym days per week.
On June 30th I weighed 289.5
7/1-284
7/2-285.2
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Re: JULY 2025 Monthly Running Challenge
@John772016 Hope the toe is better soon. Could it be Gout?
took a rest day yesterday and managed a small mile for my streak in the rain. Such strange July weather but I guess mother nature will do what she likes.
@tarun_yadavA 😂🤷♀️😂 I can't help myself.🙂
Re: Intermittent Fasting
I did IF from 2019 to around early 2022. I found it quite helpful as a way to structure my eating day, making it much easier to hit and not exceed calorie targets. The most useful part for me was knowing, from accumulated experience, that I really would eat my last bite at 7 pm, thus allowing me to lavishly love and savor every single calorie in my quota up until that moment. No guit or question as to whether I was entitled to that last piece of chocolate or if it would lead to binging - I rarely binged after 7 pm and so the whole IF thing gave me confidence and a track to run on to truly enjoy all my food and not wonder, for instance, if I'd be hungry later because - yes - I'd be hungry later but it didn't matter, because I wouldn't eat LOL And after a month of IF, I started waking up with no hunger pangs and rarely felt hungry at all - it was paradoxical. THe more time-restricted my eating window was, the less hungry i was the rest of the time.
Eventually I found that I did not need (or enjoy) morning restrictions, so IF gave way to a simpler approach: no more food after 7 pm until the next morning. I have now stuck with that for years and found it effective. I think people just differ a lot as to how much structure they need. Having that structure fits me well.
In addition to the basic calories in - calories out formula, I do think there is some incremental increase in weight loss from IF. This is a controversial topic. Others believe differently; they're entitled to, but I'm also entitled to my view, and I have 6 years of IF or IF-like experience to back it up. It seems to me that going to bed on a truly empty stomach has incremental weight loss beneifts in addition to calories. Small difference - not like losing 50 pounds instead of 30, maybe more like losing 32 instead of 30. But the difference is there. imho. I've come to believe that going to sleep on a truly empty stomach has lots of real benefits that people who don't schedule-eat don't really know about.
lgfrie
Re: WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2025
Had a whole post and poof it went bye bye..
The next generation of beach bums
They love it!!!
Re: What's Your Most Recent NSV
Had to order new pants from Amazon this morning because my khakis are two sizes too large, and I had to sinch up my belt yet another hole just to keep them up (they are way too big now I look ridiculous…).
briscogun
Re: 100 day Challenge #23 May15.25 – August 22.25
Hi everyone.
I am Dawn. I live in SE British Columbia Canada. I am 5'2" (or 5'3"?) and 64 years of age. I have done a bunch of these 100s now, I have lost count lol. I was sitting at 130 for quite awhile, trying desperately to get into the 120s, but gained little by little over the last couple of years. My "ideal" weight should be between 110-118 for my height, BMI, and stuff. At this point I just really want to get back into the 130s.
Week 1 Start Weight: 144.4
Week 1 Goal: 142.4 (seems lofty, but I was at 143.0 for two days in a row at the end of the last 100)
Week 1 Actual Weight: 144.2- Hit 142.6 this week, the day before the end of our week, which was so close to my goal.
Week 2 Start Weight: 143.2
Week 2 Goal: 142.4 - Trying for the same goal as last week
Week 2 Actual Weight: 143.0 (Once in 100 days Ribs eaten, hit 142.2 this week)
Week 3 Start Weight: 143.6
Week 3 Goal: 141.8
Week 3 Actual Weight: 139.6 - Hit 139.0 this week.
Week 4 Start Weight: 139.6
Week 4 Goal: 138.0
Week 4 Actual Weight: 141.8, saw 139.0 again.
Week 5 Start Weight: 141.2
Week 5 Goal: 138.0 - trying for that again
Week 5 Actual Weight: 141.6. Hit 138.4 this week.
Week 6 Start Weight: 139.0
Week 6 Goal: 138.0 - sticking with this goal, I got very close in week 5
Week 6 Actual Weight: 141.4
Week 7 Start Weight: 140.2
Week 7 Goal: 138.0 - I just keep plugging that one in. I have to start somewhere for my September goal of 130.0 right?
Week 7 Actual Weight: 138.4
Week 8 Start Weight: 139.8
Week 8 Goal: 138.0 - I just keep plugging that one in.
Week 8 Actual Weight: 140.4
Day 57—07/10— 138.0 - I have been out in the garden picking my dinner for later tonight. Nice to see that number this morning, it blinked on 137.8 until settling. In a rush now lol, I took too much time in the garden.
Day 58—07/11— 137.0 - Yahoo to that number! I ended up leaving my second job at 5:30 last night (I have already told the owner that I won't be working there past September). His young wife once in awhile decides to stay and make it a 10-12 hour day for herself. Normally she leaves. It is a small restaurant, barely enough for 1 person such as myself. She had a very busy day and made lots of tips, I guess that she wanted more. I wasn't into it, I had already cleaned up everything from her busy day and she took the only table that came in. I said "you are staying?" She said yes, so I said "okay, I am leaving then, bye". I was home in a flash and got to work on those last 3 rows of 9 in the potato garden that were overcome with tall weeds and bindweed wrapped so tightly around the potatoes. It is done!!! Well worth leaving work for. If leaving work caused me stress it was soon eliminated with digging, lunging, squatting, untangling and re-hilling : - )
Day 59—07/12— 136.4 - Wow. Well, I was going to take something different out of the freezer for tonight's after work dinner, but seeing how that what I have been eating all week is netting this type of result I will have the same thing: 1/4 cup of beans (white kidney which I portioned into the freezer), .75 cup of rice, green onions from my garden, dill from my garden, cucumber, bell pepper, tomatoes, 3tbsp sour cream. I have been having 6 water crackers and 3-4 tbsp of hummus as an appetizer. Overall, this combo has me going to the bathroom before my weigh in, so that is definitely a factor unlike in some previous weeks where I didn't. Still planning on indulgent unhealthy/bad food for my Monday night with a couple of cocktails. It would be great to have a buffer.
Day 60—07/13— 137.4 - Up a pound, but it was to be expected for several reasons. My plan was to cut the grass during my afternoon break, but it was 32c according to the radio and downtown where I live is often 3-4 degrees hotter than the airport where the temperature comes from. Lots of pavement soaking up the heat so that between 4 and 5 o'clock it is the hottest part of the day here. I did manage to move everything and get the lawnmower out and ready to go, but that was it. When I got home from work it was still hot, but I had to get the grass cut so that I could put the sprinkler on my parched garden. I was outside quite late, and my last bite of dinner was at midnight and by 5 after 12 I was comatose and in bed. I am one of those people who gets comatose after a meal, which is probably why I am more of a grazer than meal eater except for dinner. I had to eat it or I would have been way too low on calories for the day. Working in the heat always does a number on my weight (body terrified and holding on to fat?) except for last Tuesday when I immersed my body in my neighbour's kiddie pool. 136.4 might have just been a fluctuation anyway. Weighed before coffee and bathroom trip this morning. Today, and for the next month I will be into cherries for my all day food at work, strawberries are finished and cherries are in season.
Day 61—07/14— 138.6 - Up 1.2 pounds from yesterday, up 2 pounds from the day before. Sigh. No change in my eating or activities (calories in/out). I did however weigh much earlier, and before the bathroom. Those 2 things make a big difference right? Indulgent dinner night tonight, with cocktails. My only non "school night" of the week. Many things on my list for this morning before getting ready for work.
Day 62—07/15—
Day 63—07/16—
Week 9 Start Weight: 138.0
Week 9 Goal: 135.0 - Not really a weekly goal, just putting this in until I hit it.
Week 9 Actual Weight:
