Maintainers weekly Check-in April 2018

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  • icemom011
    icemom011 Posts: 999 Member
    Name: Irina
    Age : 46
    Height : 5'7
    Total Weight lost: 75ish lbs
    Time it took to lose: about 10 months
    How long in maintenance 17 months
    Maintenance weight range, adjusted: 145 - 150 lbs

    Range of weight from December 143- 150.6
    Range of weight from January 144.2- 150.0
    Range of weight from February 142.2-149.0
    Range of weight from March 144.5-146.5

    Week of...
    1st April: 145 scale, 145.3 trend
    8th April: 146.4 scale, 146.4 trend
    15th April: 144.2 scale, 146.1 trend
    22nd April: 143.2 scale, 144.2 trend
    29th April:

    Success/struggles of the week:
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    Jimb376mfp wrote: »
    Name: Jim
    week:
    Success: Loss -4.4
    Struggle: Stress due to two obituary notifications to sad news, Same day had a fender bender at fault. Was way off on my normal eating, sleeping and was not hungry.

    I'm so sorry for your loss Jimb376.
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    edited April 2018
    CoachJen71 wrote: »
    Name: Jen

    Successes of the week: Not feeling at all successful this week. Yes, scale looks good but quality of life suffered. On the bright side, I enjoy having a fridge in my house again, and despite not being able to afford it, I went to the doc and had some of my medical concerns put to rest.

    Challenges of the week: School break. Was supposed to do my spring cleaning, but have been caught in the binge/walk cycle and never really did much work or working out. The financial shoe hanging over my head gets ever larger and closer, and I just feel sick about it. My poor kids are getting their own giant shoes now that they are in college and have worthless health insurance. I wish I could wave a magic wand and make those evil shoes disappear for them and everyone else.

    Coach Jen, I'm really sorry.
    I can relate. Inversely, I had a bad week weight-wise, but ate rather serenely and healthily and got exercise; (I made 2 big soups: 1 chicken-vegetable, and 1 lentil-vegetable. It's really fast, uses partly leftovers, and I feel like im taking care of myself that way. I don't cook much at all these days, so this is great progress for me.) I acknowledge the scale is not all.

    I used to binge and exercise for many years several years ago: I was super-athletic and would get tons of exercise. It took me about 6 years of regular conscious effort in different ways, to get past binging.

    To each their own path. Meditation, helped me. (Now it's popularly called "mindfulness"!) I remember, at the end of a (free, including room and board-donation only!) meditation retreat, they had chocolate cake. I was feeling really greedy with my one piece of cake, after an austere few days, of plenty of food but no cake nor big sweets, and I observed (and accepted) myself going through that intense feeling, as I ate the cake. (thoughts, emotions, physical feeling of wanting to eat the cake, how eating the cake/sugar felt, after many sugar-free days, etc.). Observing myself a few times, with compassion, as I was eating with greed, or eating to relieve stress, etc., helped me to evolve some, very slowly over much time. I'm far from perfect, but there has been real and lasting progress (so far, knock on wood). Probably being accepted by others helps too. I think accepting self can come first, but acceptance by others can help, to accept oneself I think. Everyone has their own path.

    The financial thing is no small subject either and adds majorly to stress. I read an article recently about a woman who was dismayed that her richer acquaintances were (as she was divorcing) telling her she should do marriage-repair suggestions that she simply couldn't afford (child-free vacations and weekends; therapy, etc, regular date-nights, etc.). It seems that it's worth continuing to look for solutions, even if it seems there may be few options. There are some 12 step groups (online or otherwise) like debtor's anonymous, and underearners anonymous, as well as other community and state organisations. Sometimes kind people pop up on occasion, that are willing and ready to help for no cost or low cost. I was really snowed under with something recently, and I found a topnotch professional who helped me out at a reduced rate. It was really a godsend.

    I hope that you are able to make some tiny (or big) headway in one or both of those areas. Sometimes paths can be pretty long, to get to a hopefully better place.
  • CoachJen71
    CoachJen71 Posts: 1,200 Member
    @bananasandoranges

    Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me. Yes, mindfulness is a tough one, as is compassion for myself! Early on in my journey, I stumbled across a phrase that I wrote out and stuck on my fridge. "Treat each day as a blessing and it will feel like one."

    Hard to follow, especially when my anxiety is up, but I am trying!
  • ryenday
    ryenday Posts: 1,540 Member
    @mk2fit Thanks so much. I’m still surprised with myself in the accidental mirror glimpse. I have a lot of strength and weight training to go in order to be happy with myself, but I’m going to let the weight do whatever it will naturally as long as I stay under my max weight.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Stepped on th scale this morning so I could add on to this thread and my scale is broken! Lol! My husband gave our toddler a bath last night and I think he splashed water all over it and broke it. Either that or the battery is just dead. Rats.
  • juliemargaretkim
    juliemargaretkim Posts: 206 Member
    CoachJen71 wrote: »
    @juliemargaretkim Your clothes fit despite weight gain? Unless you have an obvious new muffin top, I wouldn't do a cut. You earned that muscle, and dieting down a few pounds just to hit a number for the number's sake doesn't seem worth it to me. :smile: Trust the clothes more than the scale!

    This makes me feel so good! Thanks CoachJen! I do think I'm going to settle for five of those 10 pounds -- I'm at 130 and if I can get back to 125, I will gladly say I'm no longer trying to lose weight. And yeah, those muscles feel GREAT! Thanks for the reality check!!
  • Brendalea69
    Brendalea69 Posts: 3,863 Member
    Name:Brenda
    Age: 48
    Height: 5'2"
    Starting Weight.......194 on 9/06/2016
    Goal Weight.............130 on 5/27/2017
    Total Weight lost......64 Pounds
    Time it took to lose...9 Months
    How long in maintenance: 11 Months
    Maintenance weight range: Under 130

    Average weight recorded for Month of:
    June............129
    July..............130
    August.........129
    September...129
    October........129
    November....129
    December....128
    January........127
    February.......126
    March...........125
    April..............123

    Ending weight for week of:
    April 6th.....123
    April 14th...123
    April 21st...122
    April 28th...123

    Eating Plan...
    OMAD/TMAD
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    Name: Lisa
    Age: 54
    Height: 5'2 1/2"
    Total Weight lost: 5 kilos
    Time it took to lose: 3 months
    How long in maintenance: a few years
    Maintenance weight range: 52-54 kilos (around 115-119 lbs)

    Average weight in 2017 estimate- was not doing regular weekly weigh-ins: 56

    Average weight January: 58.9 (highest in 30 years!)
    Average weight in February 56.1 kilos
    Average weight in March 55.5 kilos
    Average weight in April 56.8 kilos (125.2 lbs.)

    Week of...
    1st April: 56.4 (123.3)
    9th April: 56.4
    16th April:56.9
    22nd April:57.4.
    29th April:56.9 (125.4)

    Success of the week:
    I got exercise every day: walks or jog.
    I tracked all food and stayed on program (WW)
    Got some more paperwork and "spring cleaning" done.

    Struggle: could get more exercise, be more active in general, less sedentary, Weight has not been where I'd like it to be. I feel better a few pounds lighter.
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    fidangul wrote: »
    My emotions and mood has had enormous effect on my eating and day to day activities...I can only hope that I can pull myself together and take control of my weight.
    ...And I lost my login streak which really annoyed me.

    Anyway...

    I’m going to list some positive factors that I can conjure up
    - back on MFP.
    - I’m not sure if I’m eating 100% mindfully. But I am trying to make better choices.
    - I’ve got my fitbit back and will be trying to use it.
    - Trying to keep busy.
    - Trying to sleep better

    Goal- to hit maintenance range before summer

    I think emotions and mood must have a lot of effect on many of us. They often do for me. Are you doing CBT on your own or with a counsellor? How is tracking going?
  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    edited April 2018
    Name: Stephen
    Age: 58
    Height: 6'2"
    Total Weight lost: 78 lbs.
    How long in maintenance: 16 months
    Maintenance weight: 180-185

    Average weight recorded from January: 179.5
    Average weight recorded from February: 181.2
    Average weight recorded from March: 181.1

    Week of...
    1st April: 181.5
    8th April: 179.6
    15th April: 182.2
    22nd April: 182.2
    29th April: 184.6
  • psychod787
    psychod787 Posts: 4,099 Member
    Name: Dalon
    Age: 36
    Weight lost: 220+
    Time 2 years
    Time in maintanace: 11 months
    Trending last week: 177.3
    Current weight this am 179

  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,731 Member
    I've lost 51lbs by last November & have been trying to lose 8-10 more lbs but most days I am more satisfied eating at maintenance so I'd like to settle my mind & just maintain & stop stressing about it.I don't mind losing some more tho. I'm 5'4 & started at 196-198. I've been maintaining at 147-149
    April 27: 147.6
  • victoria_1024
    victoria_1024 Posts: 915 Member

    Name: Vicky
    Age: 35
    Height: 5' 2.5"
    Total Weight lost: 85
    Time it took to lose: 1 year
    How long in maintenance: 2 years
    Maintenance weight range: 124-127
    Average weight recorded from 2017 (12months): 126

    Week of...
    1st April: 129.2
    8th April:
    15th April:
    22nd April:
    29th April: 127.2

    Success/struggles of the week: I’m thrilled to be back to the top of my maintenance range after hovering in the low 130s for a couple months. I am hoping to keep eating at a deficit until I reach 125 and then slowly start eating more. Honestly when I hit 134 and realized I would need to actively try to lose the weight, I struggled with sticking to it. The first 6 weeks of weight loss felt like a battle. But now the past 2 weeks have felt so easy. I don’t feel the urge to eat constantly like I did all the time in the beginning. And I feel really good about losing 7 lbs in 8-9 weeks.
  • juliemargaretkim
    juliemargaretkim Posts: 206 Member
    Name: Julie
    Age: 60
    Height: 5'3"
    Total Weight lost: 21 lbs. (WAS 30 lbs.)
    Time it took to lose: Started FOR REAL August 2016, lowest weight recorded May 2017
    How long in maintenance:
    Maintenance weight range: would like to be 120-125


    Average weight recorded from January: 132
    Average weight recorded from February: 132
    Average weight recorded from March: 130

    Week of...
    1st April: 130
    8th April: 130
    15th April: 129
    22nd April: 130
    29th April: 129

    Success/struggles of the week: Just a quick check-in -- I'm glad to be in the 120's, even if it's only by a pound! I hope next week to weigh in at 128. Great to have this thread to keep us working!
  • icemom011
    icemom011 Posts: 999 Member
    Name: Irina
    Age : 46
    Height : 5'7
    Total Weight lost: 75ish lbs
    Time it took to lose: about 10 months
    How long in maintenance 17 months
    Maintenance weight range, adjusted: 145 - 150 lbs

    Range of weight from December 143- 150.6
    Range of weight from January 144.2- 150.0
    Range of weight from February 142.2-149.0
    Range of weight from March 144.5-146.5

    Week of...
    1st April: 145 scale, 145.3 trend
    8th April: 146.4 scale, 146.4 trend
    15th April: 144.2 scale, 146.1 trend
    22nd April: 143.2 scale, 144.2 trend
    29th April: 144.8 scale, 145.6 trend

    Success/struggles of the week:

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