Maintainers weekly Check-in November 2017

fidangul
fidangul Posts: 673 Member
edited October 2017 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Hey there maintenance friends old and new!!! This thread is a continuation from the previous month. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability or support.

Name:
Age:
Height:
Total Weight lost:
Time it took to lose:
How long in maintenance:
Maintenance weight range:

Average weight recorded from January:
Average weight recorded from February:
Average weight recorded from March:
Average weight recorded from April:
Average weight recorded from May:
Average weight recorded from June:
Average weight recorded from July:
Average weight recorded from August:
Average weight recorded from September:
Average weight recorded from October:


Week of...
6th November:
13th November:
20th November:
27th November:


Success/struggles of the week:
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  • microwhisper
    microwhisper Posts: 84 Member
    Name: MW
    Age: 33
    Height: 5'2"
    Total Weight lost: ~20lbs
    Time it took to lose: ~4months
    How long in maintenance: 10 months
    Maintenance weight range: 110-115lbs

    Average weight recorded from January-September: 113.7 lbs
    October: 110.02 lbs

    Week of...
    4 November: 108.0 lbs
    11 November:
    18 November:
    25 November:

    Successes/struggles of the week: I feel like an a-hole complaining about losing weight- so I’m not going to do it. But I just don’t know what’s going on. Clearly I need a lot more calories ??? This new way of eating is clearly doing something quite drastic. I don’t know. I guess more avocados and olive oil and honey are in my immediate future- though what I really want is to put away half a cheesecake!
  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    Coach Jen hopefully things will get better for you hugs
  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    MW. I totally understand what is happening I'm going though the same never would have thought being in maintenance was harder than losing
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,156 Member
    @CoachJen71 Hang in there.

    @microwhisper Losing too much weight is still a problem. Lots of people will say that they would love to have that problem, but a problem is a problem. I have been surprised at how hard maintenance is. I think that the avocado, olive oil and honey are great ideas.

    @bringbackthejoy I'm sorry about the HM. Hope you heal quickly.
  • mk2fit
    mk2fit Posts: 730 Member
    @CoachJen71 At least you are still within range. Things will get better!!

    @microwhisper I had the same problem. Try not to worry too much about it; things will eventually work themselves out. It took me a year. I am still a tad underweight, but my doc is ok with it. You will find your "me" weight.
  • Brendalea69
    Brendalea69 Posts: 3,863 Member
    Name: Brenda
    Age: 48
    Height: 5'2"
    Starting Weight:194
    Total Weight lost: 64
    Time it took to lose: 37 Weeks
    How long in maintenance: 23 Weeks
    Maintenance weight range: 125-130

    Average weight recorded from...
    June............129
    July..............130
    August.........129
    September...129
    October........129


    Week Of...
    Nov 3...129

    Success/struggles of the week:
    Gained a pound so I need to start walking every day because I've really been slacking :/
  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    edited November 2017
    Name:Pam
    Age:59
    Height:5"5
    Total Weight lost:185
    Time it took to lose:Started 1/1/2016
    How long in maintenance:Sept 2017 (still trying to find maintenance range
    Maintenance weight range: 150-155




    Week of...
    5th November: 146.8
    12th November:
    19th November:
    26th November:


    Success/struggles of the week: Happy that I only lost a few ounces. I did eat some food that I did not logged and still lost. Many retirement parties and milestone birthdays this moth and next as well as the holidays so I'm trying real hard to not gain. 1 week down and didn't gain so I'm happy about that.. This week 2 more dinners out.

    I didn't make my goal of 5 miles a day walking almost was .8 tenth of a mile short cold weather and me don't mix. and now that we turned back the clocks gonna try to get out before the sun goes down.
  • microwhisper
    microwhisper Posts: 84 Member
    @kgirlhart and @mk2fit thanks for your advice and support! I’m going to take on your comments- we’ll see what next week’s scale says. xx
  • mk2fit
    mk2fit Posts: 730 Member
    @fidangul No problem. Struggles happen and you will find your happy place
  • mk2fit
    mk2fit Posts: 730 Member
    Well, I have lost track of all the monthly stuff.
    My maintenance goal range is 114-117.
    I have been holding steady at 116 for a couple of months.
    Thanks @fidangul for these threads. Please do not give up on yourself or us! The struggle is real, but you can do it!
  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    edited November 2017
    Name: Stephen
    Age: 57
    Height: 6'2"
    Total Weight lost: 80 lbs.
    Time it took to lose: 12 months
    How long in maintenance: 10 months
    Maintenance weight range: 180-185

    January: 183.9
    February: 182.8
    March: 182.3
    April: 183.3
    May: 182.0
    June: 181.2
    July: 183.6
    August: 183.5
    September: 183.2
    October: 183.5

    Week of...
    6th November: 182.1
    13th November:
    20th November:
    27th Novemner:
  • nikkit321
    nikkit321 Posts: 1,485 Member
    Name: Nikki
    Total weight lost: 30 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 2 years
    How long in maintenance: 6 months
    Maintenance range: 140 - 145

    Average weight recorded from January: 144.6
    Average weight recorded from February: 142.4
    Average weight recorded from October: 158.8

    Week of...
    October 30 - 157.6
    November 6 - 159.2
    November 13 -
    November 19 -
    November 26 -


    Success/struggles of the week:

    Hate the way my body reacts to food by retaining water. Saw 156.2 Friday but back to 159 today. Tomorrow (after weigh-in) I'll probably drop off some of it. I reacted to rice (Friday) and ice cream (Sunday), even though I was well within calories. ugh. Still a learning curve. Will avoid both this weekly and should post a nice loss next week, as I'm still trying to get back to my ideal maintenance range.
  • kristen8000
    kristen8000 Posts: 747 Member
    Name: Kristen
    Age : 38
    Height : 5'11
    Total Weight lost: 13.4lbs + 4.5lbs in "maintainance"
    Time it took to lose: about 3 months
    How long in maintenance: 7 weeks
    Maintenance weight range: 147 - 152 lbs

    Average for October 2017: 146.2

    Week of...
    5th November 144.0 lbs scale, 144.8 trend
    12th November: Won't weigh - on vacation
    19th November:
    26th November:

    Success / struggles of the week : I find that it's hard for me to eat to maintainance, unless I go out to eat. If I make food at home, take food to work, or am in control of what I eat, I tend to eat low. So, totally mental...LOL But I'm happy with the weight I am - have been pretty stable for the past few weeks. I haven't decided if I'll adjust my "range" since I"ve been under it for weeks. But I'll see what happens after a week in Cancun.

    Successes: I've been on the pill for as long as I can remember. For the last few years, I haven't had any "anything" for the TOM. Then Friday, I did. I'm sure it was the fast weight loss and the fact that I've started leveling out. 1 day I was 143.6 the next 145...stayed that way for 3 days then got "it". I'm back down to 144 now. For as long as I can remember "TOM" water weight has never been an issue...until now. So I get what everyone freaks out about. Especially newbies. I knew better - I knew I didn't gain fat - but I wondered what was causing the gain, since the scale was going down steadily over the last month.

    Well, it's only 6 days until we leave for vacation. I'm 6lbs lower than what I thought I'd be, so happy about that. And very happy with my swimsuit situation. I'm sure the Nov. 12th recording will be insanely high...looking forward to seeing how much damage I can do in 1 week! LOL

    I'll talk to you guys the week of the 19th! Have a great couple weeks!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,156 Member
    Name: Kathryn
    Height: 5'3.5"
    Total Weight lost: ~74 lbs (I dropped about 14 lbs below original goal)
    Time it took to lose: 10 months (to original goal of 135)
    How long in maintenance: I called maintenance in July 2016, but I have continued to slowly lose so I'm not really sure.
    Maintenance weight range: 120 - 125 lbs

    Average weight recorded from January: 127.1
    Average weight recorded from February: 126.5
    Average weight recorded from March: 126.2
    Average weight recorded from April: 124.9
    Average weight recorded from May: 124.9
    Average weight recorded from June: 122.8
    Average weight recorded from July: 122.1
    Average weight recorded from August: 122.5
    Average weight recorded from September: 121.4
    Average weight recorded from October: 120.9


    Week of...
    6th November: 119.2 scale/ 120.2 trend
    13th November:
    20th November:
    27th November:


    Success/struggles of the week: For the past week I focused on trying to hit 2100 calories per day using the TDEE method. I averaged 2002 calories per day so I need to bump it up just a little, but I think I did ok. My Fitbit shows that for the past week my average burn per day was 1764. I am going to continue trying to hit 2100 each day and see if I can't finally get to where I am holding steady. I see so many people talk about how Fitbit overestimates calories burned, but mine definitely is underestimating. It frustrates me because I would really like to just eat what it says I should but I do not maintain when I do.
  • Rachelmilloy
    Rachelmilloy Posts: 159 Member
    Name: Rachel
    Age: 65
    Height: 5'8.5"
    Total Weight lost: about 50 lbs
    Time it took to lose: about 10 months
    How long in maintenance: 9 weeks
    Maintenance weight range: below 153, maybe 140s...

    Average weight recorded from January: 188.4 lbs
    Average weight recorded from February: 182.2 lbs
    Average weight recorded from March: 176.8 lbs
    Average weight recorded from April: 171.1 lbs
    Average weight recorded from May: 165.2 lbs
    Average weight recorded from June: 161.3 lbs
    Average weight recorded from July: 157.7 lbs
    Average weight recorded from August: 152.2 lbs
    Average weight recorded from September: 149.4
    Average weight recorded from October: 147.3

    Week of...
    5th of November: 143.6 lbs

    Success/struggles of the week:

    Still being vigilant about my weekly calorie allotment... and still poring over my facts and figures to confirm my TDEE. Since the start of 2017, my actual loss has been 92% of my "expected loss"; however, over the last 6 weeks, including a recent whoosh, just 63%. It was a huge relief to get a whoosh because I was starting to think that my maintenance TDEE, gulp, was going to be way way lower than expected. Instead I am just amazed at how long it can take for fat losses/gains to register... hehehe, the body must have a lot of red tape complicating the process! So, I'm continuing with my plan to vary my daily deficit to whatever is tolerable on a daily basis, and possibly end up reaching the low end of my range.

    There were some sales at a local drugstore chain, and I ended up buying 32 Turtles bars (caramel/pecan/chocolate). One thing I've learned as I stock up on treats, is that it's nicer to eat them later in the day using "saved-up" calories, rather than following the "eat first/pay later" approach.

    We now have lots of snow and ice on the sidewalks, and walking is more challenging. And my feet are playing up and being a pain. I was in agony for the last few miles of my walk home last night. Despite all the misery, I noticed something absolutely delightfully hilarious: I was carrying a lot of weight from shopping, and had also stuffed a two litre bottle of pop plus 4 large tubs of Greek yogurt into my backpack: the weight was actually over balancing me and causing me to slide faster on the ice. Oh my goodness, I thought, I have officially become a "little wisp of a thing"!

    Wishing everyone a lovely week! I feel for those of you who are struggling. I know how hard it is to carry on sometimes. I hope it helps to talk about it on this thread, amongst people who understand and wish you the best. Anyway, I applaud your efforts, and that you seem to treat yourselves with the same kindness and understanding you would show others.
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,129 Member
    Name: Bon
    Age: 59
    Height: 5'1.75"
    Total Weight lost: ~30 lbs
    Time it took to lose: 4 months
    How long in maintenance: 1 month
    Maintenance weight range: 99-104

    Average weight recorded from October: 103.9

    4 November: 100.8
    13th November:
    20th November:
    27th November:


    Success/struggles of the week: Just joining here for the first time. But have been lurking reading these for a few months. I am a veteran Yo Yo dieter (can you say 45 yrs worth!) who is focusing on maintenance this time around. I reached my goal the end of Sept and started slowly adding 100 calories every other week in Oct. I am still adding and trying to figure out what a good level will be. For me the struggle is transitioning and slowly adding calories. I had thought it would be faster but adding every other week seems to give me a better database. My TDEE spreadsheet is looking to be around 1850 so I have a few more weeks to play at slow adding I think. It is really helpful to me to read all of these posts. I don't know why all my life I thought I would diet and then just be "normal". It does not seem to really work that way at all. I am also hopeful that MFP now set to maintenance this month will give me an accurate read on daily intakes. It links to my fitbit. Right now it shows BMR at about 1200 and adds about 300-600 for exercise and activity.
  • HarperAnn6
    HarperAnn6 Posts: 292 Member
    Name: Harper
    Age: 39
    Height: 5'1
    Total Weight lost: 50 pounds
    Time it took to lose: one year, four months
    How long in maintenance: four months
    Maintenance weight range: 117 -122

    Average weight recorded from May: 120 (goal)
    Average weight recorded from June: 119.2
    Average weight recorded from July: 121
    Average weight recorded from August: 121
    Average weight recorded from September: 121
    Average weight recorded from October: 120.6


    Week of...
    6th November: 122
    13th November:
    20th November:
    27th November:

    Success/struggles of the week: Success - Finally feeling better -- and done with all last month's projects. Time to refocus on healthy living. Struggles -- Getting back in the game is tricky!
  • kell0606
    kell0606 Posts: 11 Member
    Name: Kell0606
    Age: 39
    Height: 5'3"
    Total Weight lost: 20 lbs.
    Time it took to lose: 6 months
    How long in maintenance: 1 month
    Maintenance weight range: 115-120 lbs.


    March: 137
    April: 135
    May: 133
    June: 129
    July: 125
    August: 122
    Sep: 120
    Oct: 119

    Nov 6: 119.0
    Nov 13:
    Nov 20:
    Nov 27:

    Successes this week: 1 month into maintenance, and I'm still within range - woo hoo! In order to stay motivated I've given myself some fitness goals that I've started working on...not a fan of running, but want to be able to run a 5k (actually run the whole thing) and I am determined that I am going to do a pullup. I've never in my life been able to do one, so this would be major for me.

    Struggles: Halloween candy. Can't figure out if I should try and ignore it, or just work on eating it so then it will be gone and not tempting me anymore - lol.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Name: Lori
    Height: 5'7"
    Total Weight lost: 150 (at lowest wt so far)
    Time it took to lose: 2 1/2 years
    How long in maintenance: 9/20/16 first day of weight within maint range
    Maintenance weight range: 150-155

    Jan avg 154.3
    Feb avg 155.1
    March avg 155.9
    April avg 154.7
    May avg 155.4
    June avg 155.4 (2 weeks only, gone rest of month)
    July avg 155.3
    Aug avg 155.6
    Sept avg 155.4
    Oct avg 155.2

    11/7/2017 156.2

    I'm enjoying my Women on Weights class and trying new things. Last week we did the plate machines which I'd never done before. I liked it, especially the leg machines. I've also been doing back extensions on the 45 degree bench for 2 weeks. I like those and will keep them up. They seem to work my abs as much as my back. This week I did incline and decline chest press with barbell. That was cool. This week we will do dumbbells. I'm familiar with them, but am sure I will learn new things. I go to the Y 2x week for this, plus one workout on my own, so I've not been able to make extra trips to swim. That's too bad because my swimming had been improving this fall. I'm 35 minutes away one way, so it's a big time commitment. If it was 5-10 min away, I'd probably go every day!

    Oh, my FitBit One died this week, I've had it for 3 1/2 years! The bluetooth died. FB has discontinued this model, so they're hard to find. I really like this model because it's a clip on and counts both floors and steps. My hubby finally found one on eBay for a decent price. The seller had good reviews which he checked, but he didn't notice the shipping location until after he ordered it--CHINA! So that means it will take a few weeks to get here. UGH! Much to my surprise, I could hardly handle one day with out it---with shorter days and wetter weather it's harder to get out! So after getting up at 3:30am and working a long hard day as a nurse, hubby stopped on his way home from work to get me a Zip. It doesn't count floors, but at least I can keep up with my steps. I'm close to some big step and floors milestones I'd planned to reach by the end of the year, so I hope I get the new tracker in time to register enough floors.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    microwhisper wrote: »
    Name: MW
    Age: 33
    Height: 5'2"
    Total Weight lost: ~20lbs
    Time it took to lose: ~4months
    How long in maintenance: 10 months
    Maintenance weight range: 110-115lbs

    Average weight recorded from January-September: 113.7 lbs
    October: 110.02 lbs

    Week of...
    4 November: 108.0 lbs
    11 November:
    18 November:
    25 November:

    Successes/struggles of the week: I feel like an a-hole complaining about losing weight- so I’m not going to do it. But I just don’t know what’s going on. Clearly I need a lot more calories ??? This new way of eating is clearly doing something quite drastic. I don’t know. I guess more avocados and olive oil and honey are in my immediate future- though what I really want is to put away half a cheesecake!

    I hope you are still logging. It looks like you're losing 2-4 lbs a month, which means you need to add back 250-500 cals per day. There are MFP threads about calorie dense foods, so I'd encourage you to check those out. Go ahead and have some cheesecake too!
  • microwhisper
    microwhisper Posts: 84 Member
    @fitand50inSD lol “winter is coming” - couldn’t help reading that bit of your post in Kit Harington voice in my head
  • mk2fit
    mk2fit Posts: 730 Member
    @lorrpb I know how you feel. I would be lost without my fit bit. My husband says "Welcome to the Borg."
  • dingylingo
    dingylingo Posts: 13 Member
    Name: Rachael
    Age:27
    Height: 5'11
    Total Weight lost: 43lbs
    Time it took to lose: 1 year
    How long in maintenance: 6 weeks - Since my wedding day!
    Maintenance weight range: 147-150

    Average weight recorded from September: 148
    Average weight recorded from October: 150

    Week of...
    6th November: 150
    13th November: 149
    20th November: 149
    27th November: 149

    Struggles of the week: Trying not to feel like I'm still "dieting" even though I know that I have to watch everything I eat still, probably for the rest of my life, because I gain weight so fast. It's a very daunting feeling.

    Anyone else feel the same?

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