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JULY MONTHLY CHALLENGE

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  • KristinLeeD
    KristinLeeD Posts: 218 Member
    stormywxs288 wrote: »

    I’m recognizing a trend here??? I’d raise my arms and shout but I can’t raise my left arm (Dislocated) However, I’m happy for all of you, inspired by you, and hoping this trend is contagious. Listen closely and you will here the sound of my one good hand clapping.

    @stormywxs288 Sorry to hear about your arm! I hope it heals quickly and that you are feeling better. As usual, you seem to be making the best of it and remaining positive, and making us smile :)

    I agree about the 'trend' - so many are making progress in one way or another and it is inspiring!
  • KristinLeeD
    KristinLeeD Posts: 218 Member
    eggfooyamyam wrote: »
    Wow, I'm so impressed with everyone on here! You keep me so inspired, and accountable - thank you!!!

    @eggfooyamyam I couldn't agree more!
  • skctilidie
    skctilidie Posts: 1,404 Member
    I’ve had a rough couple of weeks as far as both sticking to keto and feeling very interactive here go - been insanely busy and feeling mentally down and off in general - but today’s the best day to get back on track.

    @stormywxs288 I’m so sorry to hear about your shoulder! I have one that dislocates very easily - just a reach in the wrong forward/upward direction is enough to snap it out if I don’t make a conscious effort to “set” the muscles to support it first. It’s no fun! I hope you’re recovering well.

    Be right back to actually post the month’s weights and such.
  • skctilidie
    skctilidie Posts: 1,404 Member
    SW - 209.8 (SW for keto 4/15/18 - 206.8)
    GW - 150
    End of July GW - 180

    Sunday, July 1 - 186.6
    Sunday, July 8 - 189.8

    July 1? Ouch...I'd been 184.9 two days before, but then spent all day Saturday at a beach soccer tournament and the team activities associated with it and made way too many bad food choices. July 8? Even bigger ouch. A birthday, three days with guests from out of town wanting to eat out constantly, and another all day soccer tournament where the food choices were nothing but potluck junk in that 7 days. I was so bad all week, to be honest and it definitely showed on the scale and in my bloated belly and swollen feet/ankles.
    I started working on getting back on track on Sunday, went back to fully logging today, and am back in ketosis and shedding enough water weight to be back down to 186.1 as of this morning, so hopefully the rest of July's numbers will look much, much better.

    Sunday, July 15
    Sunday, July 22
    Sunday, July 29
    Tuesday, July 31

  • cbishop7777
    cbishop7777 Posts: 86 Member
    Late to the party this week. I've had company all week and they will be here for a few more days. Last week we were out of town and came home with a small gain. Isn't that just the way it always is?? Ugh. But I'm sticking to it and trying to feed my guests well. Fortunately, my friend is gluten-free and understands my WOE, so that makes it much easier!

    Keto Jan SW: 175
    Current Weight: 158.4
    June Goal: less than 158.4
    Goal Weight: 140

    Sunday - 07/01: 158.4
    Sunday - 07/08: 159.4
    Sunday - 07/15:
    Sunday - 07/22:
    Sunday - 07/29:
    July end - 07/31
  • mommafruitcake
    mommafruitcake Posts: 32 Member
    edited July 2018
    Yay! July! Sorry I’m late! Was happy to actually make June’s goal by a HAIR. Lol.

    To finish off June. Saturday 30th
    Starting weight: 206
    End of June: 190.2
    Sunday 07/01: 189.8
    Sunday 07/08: 188.6
    Sunday 07/15
    Sunday 07/22
    Sunday 07/29
    07/31:
    July goal: 186
    End goal: 145
  • KristinLeeD
    KristinLeeD Posts: 218 Member
    I'm late posting this week's numbers - and I'm up .4 from last week. Still plugging away though. My eating has been up and down - but my working out has been consistent.

    Keto Starting Weight: 153
    Current Weight: 132
    July Goal: 128 (4 lbs)
    Ultimate Goal: 115

    Thursday 07/05: 132
    Sunday 07/08: 132.4
    Sunday 07/15
    Sunday 07/22
    Sunday 07/29
  • chinatowninchina
    chinatowninchina Posts: 1,279 Member
    everyone hangin' on in there despite the holidays, well done to us all <3
  • PaulaKro
    PaulaKro Posts: 5,775 Member
    I needed more protein to hit macros; so I crossed my fingers, nuked the stuff below for 40 seconds and got a tummy-yummy pudding-ish kind-of thing, yay! Heating egg-based protein drinks cooks the egg and the drink becomes chewable. :happy:

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  • elisabel
    elisabel Posts: 242 Member
    Hi all, I just found this challenge, I just found my way back to MFP after 3 weeks off...this time. I'm back up since my break in May and June vacation but I'm ready to come back and see some new numbers!

    Started Keto: 03/02/18
    Starting Weight (KETO): 188 (started the year at 197)
    Goal Weight: 164

    Sunday 07/01: 181.8
    Sunday 07/08: 178.6
    Sunday 07/15
    Sunday 07/22
    Sunday 07/29

    July weight goal 175 or better :smile:
  • 4031isaiah
    4031isaiah Posts: 1,253 Member
    I’m slowly coming down off of a self sabotage high carb binge. I’m moody, tired and nothing fits right now. I just bought a new battery for my scale and plan to get back at it this weekend. I will post my weigh in on Sunday.
  • chinatowninchina
    chinatowninchina Posts: 1,279 Member
    4031isaiah wrote: »
    I’m slowly coming down off of a self sabotage high carb binge. I’m moody, tired and nothing fits right now. I just bought a new battery for my scale and plan to get back at it this weekend. I will post my weigh in on Sunday.

    Hey, we all have those times so you are certainly not alone! Isn't the bloat from carbs dire, never mind you are on the right direction and you know the weight will come off, just never as fast as it goes on if you are anything like me, why is that.........so annoying!! See you Sunday. <3<3
  • ssbbg
    ssbbg Posts: 153 Member
    Good morning everyone!

    Sunday 07/01- 167.3 lbs
    Sunday 07/08- 172.7 lbs
    Sunday 07/15- 168.2 lbs
    Sunday 07/22
    Sunday 07/29

    I still think I have some water weight going on. I've been in a deficit for the last two weeks, so I shouldn't be up from my starting weight. I should be down at least a pound. (I've been hiking a lot recently, and I don't have a good feeling about which device is giving me the correct calorie burn. There is a pretty big spread- last hike I got 500-1100 calories depending on the app/device pair. I logged 500...)

  • WholeFoods4Lyfe
    WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
    Finishing out June - 06/30: 216.8

    Sunday 07/01: 215.6
    Sunday 07/08: 214.6
    Sunday 07/15: 212.1
    Sunday 07/22:
    Sunday 07/29:

    Finishing out July - 07/31:

    I have to keep telling myself a loss is a loss is a loss is a loss, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous of people posting 4/5/6 lb weekly losses.

  • chinatowninchina
    chinatowninchina Posts: 1,279 Member
    ssbbg wrote: »
    Good morning everyone!

    Sunday 07/01- 167.3 lbs
    Sunday 07/08- 172.7 lbs
    Sunday 07/15- 168.2 lbs
    Sunday 07/22
    Sunday 07/29

    I still think I have some water weight going on. I've been in a deficit for the last two weeks, so I shouldn't be up from my starting weight. I should be down at least a pound. (I've been hiking a lot recently, and I don't have a good feeling about which device is giving me the correct calorie burn. There is a pretty big spread- last hike I got 500-1100 calories depending on the app/device pair. I logged 500...)

    These devices aren't that accurate and so lots of people don't 'eat' their exercise calories, I'm not sure if you are? Also are your carbs low enough, though by the looks of things you've nicely taken off the gain from last week and in my experience with my weight it takes me at least to weeks to take off a gain that took me a couple of days to achieve, very annoying!
  • chinatowninchina
    chinatowninchina Posts: 1,279 Member
    4031isaiah wrote: »
    Today is yet another new day... I bought a new battery for my scale, installed it and...

    Sunday July 15 - 187.0

    This is actually not my starting weight. This is basically my highest weight ever... up over 20lbs from what I was earlier this year when I first joined the monthly challenges.

    It’s hard not to feel like a failure for how many times I’ve started, stopped, re-gained and re-started, but here I am... again!

    My goal is to lose about 50-ish lbs.

    You are NOT a failure! Failure comes when you don't come back and you give up. As we all know it's sooooo much easier to gain weight than to loose it but the important thing is you are back and determined and admitting to a gain, that's being a grown up! <3
  • chinatowninchina
    chinatowninchina Posts: 1,279 Member
    WholeFoods4Lyfe wrote: »
    Finishing out June - 06/30: 216.8

    Sunday 07/01: 215.6
    Sunday 07/08: 214.6
    Sunday 07/15: 212.1
    Sunday 07/22:
    Sunday 07/29:

    Finishing out July - 07/31:

    I have to keep telling myself a loss is a loss is a loss is a loss, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous of people posting 4/5/6 lb weekly losses.

    and those people are few and far between and it's not sustainable, just remember the hare and the tortoise! You have lost more than 3 pounds since 1st July, in fact since June 30th you've lost more than 4 pounds! That's excellent and it's also the way to minimise skin sag and to keep the weight off. If you look at this group we don't drop that much in a week or if we do it's because we've gained and we're back on it and loosing water weight!
  • chinatowninchina
    chinatowninchina Posts: 1,279 Member
    shirli2018 wrote: »
    Good morning all,

    Just wanted to share my biggest NSV being able to buckle my seat belt on a plane and have multiple inches left. At my top weight just about two months ago, I would extend my seat belt to the max and would be able to buckle it that way, but there was one flight that I had to really really pull hard and suck all in to be able to buckle and it was tight. I been telling myself last 6 months that I don't want to get to the point of asking for a belt extension. I'm so happy to just be "comfortable"in that tiny seat.

    Have a great week!

    Weight at end of June 231.2 lbs (-17 lbs)
    July GW 223 lbs

    Sunday 07/01 230.8
    Sunday 07/08 228.4 (-2.4 lbs)
    Sunday 07/15 226.4 (-2.0 lbs)
    Sunday 07/22
    Sunday 07/29

    That is really fantastic, I bet you felt amazingly proud of yourself and rightly so! I'm betting another NSV is having to buy a new belt to keep your jeans up, or indeed new jeans!
  • PaulaKro
    PaulaKro Posts: 5,775 Member
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    I started keto in May and lost a lot of weight the first two weeks. I thought it would keep falling off that fast, but it has trickled down to about a pound a week, which I like better.

    I only had 40 pounds to lose originally, and now there are only 25 left. So it's not far, and losing 4-5 pounds a month will get me there before year-end. Slow and steady feels so trustworthy and potentially permanent.

    For the first time in my life, I know what I want to weigh and how to do it and am confident it will happen. And that is contentment. It's so nice to love myself for what I'm doing to myself instead of hate and fear.

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