Daily check-in Week 2 ~ April 13th - 19th
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Week 2, Day 3 - Have definitely got to get better at checking in. Saw a decrease in my weight this week and know that it's because I've been consistent with logging what I eat and trying to stay within my calorie range. I need to increase my cardio this week so that I can burn more calories. I've been getting the water in and that's a good thing.0
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That is a serious victory, emotional binge eating is something a lot of us do, and don't have the willpower to stop, so awesome job!Fizzgig168 wrote: »I was all set to binge. But I didn't. I put the chips away, didn't eat anything else until dinner, and skipped the usual pasta side dish I make with steaks for dinner. I was still over my calories at the end of the day, but I'm trying to look at it as a victory and stay positive, focused, and on-track. Tomorrow will be better.
@MayorGrimby I have a friend that feels she HAS to weigh every day, I don't like to weigh every day because I know it's going to go up/down/same and drive me crazy. Maybe trying weaning yourself off, weigh every other day then after a few weeks every 3 days, etc.?
I've been mostly under calories, I wish I could sneak more in that hits all my macros, but eating with diabetes is a PITA, I can't just pick up some milk or a piece of cheese (sugar spikes), and if I pair it with anything I'm over another macro (usually fat).0 -
Week 2 day 3, after a stressful weekend I'm back to the exercise routine. I started doing T25 again yesterday, I did it 5-6 times a week last fall for about a month and I lost 7lbs, then I slacked off thru the holidays and the 7lbs came back. So I'm hoping I can stick with it this time.0
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@ACSL3 Thank you so much for your words of encouragement! It helps so much to have someone else tell me that it's a victory, too, if that makes sense.
@MayorGrimby I really understand your frustration. I get very discouraged if I have more than a day or two with no weight loss. I won't tell you what your logical brain already knows, but I do have two tips that might help: One, you could try taking your measurements and checking those as well as your weight. Sometimes you're losing fat but not weight because of muscle gain or water retention. Tracking your measurements might help get you over your "static weight days." Two, there are some nifty apps that will track trends in your weight loss, so that even if you haven't seen a loss for a few days (or on those dreadful days where you get a small gain spike), you'll still be able to see that your overall trend is downward. I downloaded Libra a few weeks ago, and it's been helping me a lot to not get so hung up on the days where I don't lose.
@strong_curves 40-60 minutes of exercise five days a week is fantastic! Especially if you're getting up that early to do it! Even if you're going over on your food, you're clearly making good progress and that's fantastic. Go you! I always get binge cravings like mad about 5 days before my period starts. It's tough. Maybe try paying extra attention to getting your protein in, so you feel less hungry? Or stock up on snacky foods that aren't going to wreck your calories, like Special K baked chips? However you do it, good luck!0 -
@maicap22, I tried to train myself to like black beans a while ago. I think it was working as I was eating more of them as time passed. I hadn't fully liked them but I disliked them less if that makes sense. Then I got distracted by something and stopped. Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Thanks! I think though it's working because I am beginning to eat more fruits and veggies and less bread and peanut butter. I am still on my 4th day though so hopefully this continues. I like that I feel fuller longer, maybe because of the fiber. I also find that I crave less sweets since eating more fruits. They are sweet but more nutritious and less in calories than what I am used to.0 -
Week 2, Day 4
I'm trying very hard not to give up. Have MCL issues in one knee - had been OK but major flare up on the weekend, so couldn't get to Yoga or Reformer classes. Also, business trip and eating out = not good for my weight loss. Time to get back on track and stay focused. I know this isn't a quick fix but I'm really upset about this set back.0 -
SW (8/19/14) 237.7
CW (4/2/15) 195.2
GW (7/4/15) 175.2
UGW 165
4/16/15: 194.4
Total Loss: -.8 19.2 to go
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Week 2 Day 4 Check-In!
This morning I got a mile on the treadmill and did Legs (my favorite) and some abs0 -
Week 2 day 4 borrowed my husbands fitbit for the day. I got on the elliptical and apparently only did a little over 300 steps, I'm not certain it counted them all. But I'm working hard to lose this weight. Anyone have some good workout routines that are working? Gym or home either one would be great!0
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MayorGrimby wrote: »Week 2, Day 3:
I am also feeling a bit of frustration today. I've been under calories every day, weighing my food, going to the gym, standing at work instead of sitting, drinking only water, etc... but the scale just won't cooperate. My logical brain knows that I shouldn't weigh myself every morning and that weight fluctuates, especially after a change in workout regimen or if my period is coming on. But my emotional brain just wants to scream at the scale or at myself. I start to panic that maybe I just can't lose more than 10 pounds. In previous weight loss attempts, I lose about 10 pounds then the scale stops moving or starts going up and then I quit. I really don't want that to happen again. Maybe I should just throw my scale away or ask my husband to hide it. Okay, end rant.
BOY can I relate!!! The scale and I have a love/hate relationship. If the number is up, I feel discouraged all day, but if I stop weighing, personally, I tend to go off the rails. It's taken a long time, but it helps to disassociate for a bit. Take the scale numbers as just numbers, not a reflection of the effort you are putting in... hang in there!strong_curves wrote: »Check in time! I'm still working on getting the food under control, I tend to go over my cals every day, not too much but still this girl needs to get a grip! Even with weighing I still go over. LOL
The good thing is I'm still on my workout kick, every Mon - Fri I try to get 40-60 minutes of exercise in so that means getting up at 5:15 but hey, its worth it. I'm looking a smidge smaller and the scale has only gone down 2 lbs! I stepped on the scale today and noticed I'm now down (consistently I should add) to 153.2 so I need to update the spreadsheet.
The end of this week will be hard because its my lovely TOTM... this is where I usually fail at eating and go insane. I'm going to try my best to keep on track.
Hurray for the work out kick!!! Such a good mental boost, too! Re: TOTM - Forewarned is forearmed... Good for you for seeing that it's coming.
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Still kind of hanging in there food-wise. Scale number hasn't moved in awhile and it's frustrating. Also about 5 lbs higher than I care to be. Haven't been the most disciplined with food lately, so that's definitely a factor.
Aiming to buckle down tonight and tomorrow to weigh in on Saturday.
Hang in there, everyone!!!!
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@taelor2 I work out at home, treadmill and videos from youtube. Right now my favorites are fitnessblender and Jillian Michaels. Next week I'm going to be adding a bit more strength training, I treated myself to the Bowflex 552 adjustable weights.
@Fizzgig168 When I first started getting up that early to workout it was torture, now that I'm 2 months into it it's gotten so much easier. The only thing is I have to start off on the treadmill, that walking really wakes me up and then I can do the 2nd half of my workout. My favorite totm snacks are popcorn and chocolate but I'll look into the special K sun chips. Thx for the suggestion.0 -
MayorGrimby wrote: »Week 2, Day 3:
I am also feeling a bit of frustration today. I've been under calories every day, weighing my food, going to the gym, standing at work instead of sitting, drinking only water, etc... but the scale just won't cooperate. My logical brain knows that I shouldn't weigh myself every morning and that weight fluctuates, especially after a change in workout regimen or if my period is coming on. But my emotional brain just wants to scream at the scale or at myself. I start to panic that maybe I just can't lose more than 10 pounds. In previous weight loss attempts, I lose about 10 pounds then the scale stops moving or starts going up and then I quit. I really don't want that to happen again. Maybe I should just throw my scale away or ask my husband to hide it. Okay, end rant.
I can identify 100%! I just want to yell at the scale sometimes! I've been good, stayed under/at my calorie goal, exercised, drank plenty of water and sometimes it still won't budge. Oh if only the weight came off as easy at it went on!0 -
Week 2, Day 4:
Feeling much better today than I did yesterday. Sometimes you just need to vent to put things in perspective. Thanks for the responses, @Afura @Fizzgig168 @focused5 and @Lindsayannb ! It's nice to know I'm not the only one having a love/hate relationship with the scale! I am proud that after being so frustrated and in such a funk yesterday, I did not feel any temptation to run to junk food. As a total emotional eater, that is a big thing for me. Happy Thursday, everyone!0 -
I'm tired. Maybe it's Monday, maybe it's me, maybe it's Maybelline. I walked roughly 2 miles yesterday, and did 100 sets of lunges. After sitting at my desk for a few hours I was achey! I've brought clothes so I could walk after work, at least a little! Though I just realized I have nothing defrosted for dinner/tomorrows lunch. Dag nabit.
Maybe it's Maybelline, hahah
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Someone got it! Today isn't going well, got more interupted sleep than I did the previous night, already got into a cranky spat with my manager (he's a really good guy, he has his cranky moments too). Couldn't get away from the phones to get a morning snack (I had two glasses of water to help) so by lunch I was starving, but I'm really tired. Still raining out, so I'm going to take a bit of a drive after work to go to the larger mall to walk instead. 0
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Doing awesome this week. Ate like a piggy last weekend but jumped right back in Monday morning and have eaten out twice and made excellent choices. Yeah getting down to the "wow haven't seen that # in 5 years" doing a little dance.0
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I have really been struggling to stay on track. My nephew's birthday was last Saturday. We had pizza, cake, ice cream... Sunday a friend I hadn't seen in AGES showed up at my door step and we had a few drinks. Monday was a work food day for an upcoming birthday. There was cake and icecream at work again today, another food day tomorrow, and a food day next week. Sometimes I think i'd be better off staying home!!
I have managed to resist, for the most part. I have been walking the dogs, which helps... My scale finally moved a little this week, too. It's true what they say, weight loss is not linear...
I guess I just have to keep on keeping on!0 -
So far so good, but I'm still working off weight I gained from our vacation least week. So mad at myself. Once I start eating yummy food like I did it's so hard to go back. Plus I figured out that for every week I backslide it puts me behind THREE WEEKS on my weight loss journey. 1 week being on vacation eating, 2nd week working off some of the gained weight, and the third week finishing up losing the vacation weight gained (provide I do good getting it off) SO NOT WORTH IT. Yes we had fun and it was great sitting outside in downtown historic Savannah enjoying outside eating but I need to come up with a better game plan. Well giving up is not an option. Lessoned learned.
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Feeling pretty good today. No more easter candy in the house which is definitely helping. Have work this evening, which can be good or bad. Sometimes I eat like a pig there, and sometimes I'm pretty good at controlling myself. Lots of standing and walking around which is a plus.
Hopefully can get a workout tomorrow, pending when I wake up. Have work tomorrow at 3 so we'll see.0 -
Hey all! Checking in and trying to avoid some major stress eating - some life developments today that are largely good, but still stressful. I had my grad school plan all set out for the fall next year, and I was all pumped and ready to go to Wisconsin. But today, I got an 11th hour offer of admission from Yale with full funding. I don''t know that it changes anything, but it is one more thing to think about that I wasn't really counting on thinking about. I really just want to pile into the poutine.
(might cross post this, so if you see it elsewhere, it is because I am a little too frazzled to write up something novel
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LogicalDaydreamer wrote: »I had my grad school plan all set out for the fall next year, and I was all pumped and ready to go to Wisconsin. But today, I got an 11th hour offer of admission from Yale with full funding.
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LogicalDaydreamer wrote: »Hey all! Checking in and trying to avoid some major stress eating - some life developments today that are largely good, but still stressful. I had my grad school plan all set out for the fall next year, and I was all pumped and ready to go to Wisconsin. But today, I got an 11th hour offer of admission from Yale with full funding. I don''t know that it changes anything, but it is one more thing to think about that I wasn't really counting on thinking about. I really just want to pile into the poutine.
(might cross post this, so if you see it elsewhere, it is because I am a little too frazzled to write up something novel)
Wow!! That's a good kind of stress!!! Congrats, congrats!!!!!!!!!!!
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5th day of good eating today. I hope I can endure till the day ends to call it a win. I always never get through more than 3 days since I fell off the wagon, which is already 2 months ago. If I manage to pull this through the whole week, I may have a possible chance of continuing this for more weeks to come.
I am very positive today since I am still full from the salad, fruit and oatmeal I ate earlier.
Still no improvement in exercise dept, but I think I can deal with that later. I always have to deal with my eating first before my exercise routine. One step at a time. 0 -
It is raining again here, I got up at 6 before it started, fed the ducks and got in a short walk before the rain hit. Found it very easy today to get in my 120 oz of water so that made me happy0
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Week 2 day 4 borrowed my husbands fitbit for the day. I got on the elliptical and apparently only did a little over 300 steps, I'm not certain it counted them all. But I'm working hard to lose this weight. Anyone have some good workout routines that are working? Gym or home either one would be great!
Fitbit can be hit or miss with the elliptical. I have one and it works well for me, but I generally put the crosstrainer on the elliptical at a high number, so I'm doing more of an up/down motion rather than front/back. My dad puts his on his shoe because he does more of a front/back with the crosstrainer low - then after he syncs it with the website he manually adds in double the number (since it's only picking up on one stride when its on his shoe). Hopefully that makes sense and I didn't confuse you lol
I've been doing better since starting this challenge and I have all of you to thank of it! Knowing I have to put my weight on the spreadsheet really helps me. Also, I have my physical fitness test for the Navy coming up and if I fail the weigh in then I fail the whole thing. While they wouldn't kick me out (I've never failed before) it could greatly hinder my next promotion in rank. This challenge may just be a big part of helping me get to a point where my weight is low enough I won't even have to worry about my Navy weigh ins anymore - recently they've been so stressful for me (am I going to pass, what if I don't pass, etc)!
Hope all of you are doing well and it's been great catching up on everyone's day/progress 0 -
Checking in for Friday, April 17. I had a gain over last weekend (emotional eating, much?) and am only now back down to my starting weight... Kinda frustrating but trying to push through. Working on a meal/plan of eating to help give myself some framework.
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Week 2 Day 5 Check-In!!
I got 1.03 Miles in on the treadmill in addition to Arms and Abs!
Scale was up today, not too happy about that but I keep telling myself it's muscle I am gaining not fat!
Have a great weekend everyone!0 -
Checking in for Friday, April 17. I had a gain over last weekend (emotional eating, much?) and am only now back down to my starting weight... Kinda frustrating but trying to push through. Working on a meal/plan of eating to help give myself some framework.
But you are back down to your starting weight and that's wonderful. Keep it up, you can do this!
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Did my weigh in today for the week and haven't lost anything. It's actually good news considering I've been slacking a lot. Tomorrow is my birthday so know it is going to be another bad weekend. Oh well, Sunday I start over again. Hope everyone has a great weekend planned!0
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Did my weigh-in today. Lost about half pound, which is pretty good considering how much Easter candy I had this past weekend.
Today will be a good day. Work again for 9 hours. Will pack tuna, grapes, and string cheese for dinner. Plus maybe some crackers. Feel pretty good. Hopefully work is as nice as it was yesterday.
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