Maintainers Weekly Check In - February 2019

missperfectpitch

Name: missperfectpitch
Height: 5'4"
Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
Maintenance weight range: 108-111.5
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 109.8

Average weight recorded from January: 111

Week of...
February 2: 111.3 (trend 111)
February 9: 110.6 (trend 110.8)
February 16: 111.1 (trend 110.9)
February 23: 110.1 (trend 110.4)

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I'm definitely more pleased with both my trending and average weights this week as compared to the past several weeks (when I was at the high end of my range). Approaching the middle of the range again, and hoping that it'll stay around there. I've been slacking off a bit in the effort that I'm putting into my workouts, so I'm going to try my best to put more effort into my workouts instead of the bare minimum.

Faebert

Name: Faebert
Age: 40
Height: 5’6
Total weight lost: about 50lbs
Time it took to lose: on and off 3 years. First 30 in 4 months and then gradually reduced goal weight
How long in maintenance: 21 months
Maintenance weight range: 115-120
Average weight recorded from 2017: 121
Average weight recorded from 2018: 114.6

Average weight recorded from January: 117.4

3 February: 119
10 February: 117.25
17 February: 117.25
24: February: 117.75

Successes/struggles: Bit of a struggle to keep up activity and not graze this week due to being off work, but managed some good exercise wins towards the end of the week - more progress with running, a really strong bootcamp class - and so turned around a bad start to the week. The sun is shining here in London and that is having a massive impact on my mood - hopefully spring has sprung!

Wishing you all a great week x

pkweier

Name: Pam
Age:60
Height:5'5
Total weight lost:200
Time it took to lose:Started 1/2016
How long in maintenance:Started 9/2017
Maintenance weight range:130-135
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months):

Average weight recorded from January:131.75

Week of...
February 3:131
February 10:131
February 17:131
February 24:130

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Was happy to see my weight down as I ate out 5 evenings. I made wise choices and brought half home we shall see if it catches up with me later this week.

nooie19

Name:Elaine
Age:50
Height: 5 ‘3”
Total weight lost: [/b]30 pounds since January 2018[/b]
Time it took to lose: ten months to reach goal weight of 133 pounds
How long in maintenance: 3 months
Maintenance weight range: 128-132
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): I don’t know. I started at 159 pounds and ended at 132

Average weight recorded from January:

Week of...
February 3: 129 pounds moving average 129
February 10: 127.5 moving average 128.6
February 17: 129.5 moving average
February 24: 130 pounds moving average 129.6
Successes: Ate a healthy breakfast every day. Ate a healthy lunch 4 out of 5 work days. Stuck with twice a week yoga. Went to Chick Fil A for dinner with extended family and chose a salad with grilled chicken.
Challenges: Caved in to emotional post dinner snacking most nights this week. Also struggled to fit in six days of exercise but scraped in five. Got in two yoga classes, one long walk, two stationary bike workouts but one was only 15 minutes the only time I had on a busy day. Gained a pound after gaining two pounds last week.
My biggest learning based on this week is that maintenance is just more of what I’ve already learned from my weight loss. There will be tough weeks and there will be setbacks. But the point is to keep on doing what works. Keep on weighing in every week, keeping a food log every day, planning ahead for exercise and meals, make adjustments as needed, and most importantly, DON’T GIVE UP or bury my head in the sand. So thank you group for giving me a forum to NOT go into denial and stay accountable. I still have a deep-seated fear that I will gain the weight back. But every time I’ve done that, it didn’t just happen overnight. It happened because I stopped trying and then pretended it didn’t matter. This time I’m not giving up over a few small setbacks.

mph323

Name: Marti
Age: 68
Height: 5'3"
Total Weight lost: ~50 lbs.
Time it took to lose: 22 months
How long in maintenance: 12 months
Maintenance weight range: 103.5 - 107.5
Average weight recorded from 2017 (12months):118.5
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 105.2

Average weight recorded from January: 106.6

Week of...
February 3: 105.8
February 10: 104.9
February 17: 105.6
February 24: 105.5

Success/Struggles: Yay, one year maintenance anniversary! So weird - for the past 5 days my weight has been 105.1, exactly. I got suspicious this morning and got on the scale with two 5 lb. weights, and it read 111.1, so it doesn't seem like a problem there. And yet...

Wishing everyone a successful upcoming week!

sofchak

mph323 wrote: »

So weird - for the past 5 days my weight has been 105.1, exactly. I got suspicious this morning and got on the scale with two 5 lb. weights, and it read 111.1

I’ve done the same exact thing when that’s happened! Definitely confusing to see the same exact weight several days in a row!

Just curious though - did it read 111.1 or 115.1? If it read 111.1, you may have a calibration problem still since you had added 10lbs of extra weight... unless I read that wrong...

stephenearllucas

Name: Stephen
Age: 59
Height: 6'2"
Total weight lost: 65 lbs.
How long in maintenance: 2 years
Maintenance weight range: 180-185

Average weight recorded from January: 199.5

Week of...
February 3: 197.7
February 10: 198.3
February 17: 200.6
February 24: 201.9

mph323

sofchak wrote: »

mph323 wrote: »

So weird - for the past 5 days my weight has been 105.1, exactly. I got suspicious this morning and got on the scale with two 5 lb. weights, and it read 111.1

I’ve done the same exact thing when that’s happened! Definitely confusing to see the same exact weight several days in a row!

Just curious though - did it read 111.1 or 115.1? If it read 111.1, you may have a calibration problem still since you had added 10lbs of extra weight... unless I read that wrong...

Haha - you're right! Maths before coffee should be against the law! The weights i was using are 3 lbs. each. I just weighed myself and I weigh 106.5, so it doesn't seem like the scale is stuck. Can't wait for tomorrow's weigh-in

w8goal4life

Name: w8goal4life
Age: 68
Height: 5'6"
Total weight lost: 30-35 lbs since 2011
Time it took to lose: 6 months
How long in maintenance: 7 years (less a couple of months during lapse between caloriecount.com and MFP)
Maintenance weight range: 115-120 pounds
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 114

Week of...
February 3: 114
February 10: 114
February 17: 114
February 24: 114

Successes: Holding Steady at 114. I don't have one of the digital scales that weigh in tenths of a pound. I've been at this for a long time and continue to track CICO and exercise daily to maintain.

Rapid change in temp today from 46 degrees F to 31 with a wind chill of 15. Grilled chicken outside at noon...and now snow covered, so my exercise was indoors, yet again. Today's virtual hikes had me in Miami South Beach and Singapore. Looking forward to spring in western NY so I can get back outside.

icemom011

Name: Irina
Age : 47
Height : 5'7
Total Weight lost: about 80 lbs
Time it took to lose: about 10 months
How long in maintenance: 2 years, since November 2016.
Maintenance weight range 140-145 lbs

Range of weight from December/2017 143- 150.6
Range of weight from January/2018 144.2- 150.0
Range of weight from February 142.2-149.0
Range of weight from March 144.5-146.5
Range of weight from April 142.2-149.6
Range of weight from May 143.8 -150.6 ((
Range of weight for June 145.6-152.6 ugghhh, that was a rough month!
Range of weight for July 141.8- 147.0
Range of weight for August 141.6-146.8
Range of weight for September 141-147.2
Range of weight for October 142.6-150.2
Range of weight for November 142.6-149.6
Range of weight for December 141.2-150
Range of weight for January/2019 144.2-151.8

Week of...
February 3: 145.6 scale, 147.3 trend
February 10: 145.8 scale, 146.3 trend
February 17: 144.4 scale, 146.2 trend
February 24: 145 scale, 146.1 trend

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: good week for me, pretty stable except a couple of days when the weight went up a bit. I find that Libra is very quick to bump the trend numbers up because of the silly fluctuation, but way too slow to go back down after it returns to normal. It's kind of annoying. Weather is beautiful, using bike for daily commute to work, which makes up my exercise for the workdays. Finally was able to squeeze in a decent 32 mile ride yesterday, so happy about it. I use my old mountain bike to commute, so if feels great to ride road bike. I wish i had more time to do what i want (and what i need to do as well).

ItsAJourny

Name: Bella
Age: 60
Height: 5'5"
Total weight lost: 37 pounds
Time it took to lose: 6 months
How long in maintenance: just started (sort of)
Maintenance weight range: 127-132
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months):

Average weight recorded from January: 134 (currently 132 since I lost 4 pounds in Jan)

Week of...
February 3: 132.4
February 10: 132.0
February 17: 131.8
February 24: 131.2

Successes/struggles: Happy to be towards the end of my first month of maintenance and doing well. Yoga 5 times this week and downhill skiing yesterday with my 19 year old son. Feeling stronger physically each month and happy. I hope to continue this trend! This week maintenance seemed so much easier than losing weight.

mtaratoot

Name: It's ME!
Age: About a year older than I was last year. (middle aged)
Height: Just short of 5' 7"
HEAVIEST weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
Total Weight lost: 30 pounds
Time it took to lose: ~6 months
How long in maintenance: Since July 2018 -- but with some fluctuation outside of goal range.
Maintenance weight range: 142 - 148 (and not sure that's the right answer)

Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 163.8
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 150.7

Average weight recorded from January: 148.4

Average weight Week of...
January 29 - February 4: 146.5
February 5 - 11: 146.9
February 12 - 18: 147.4
February 19 - 25: 145.6
February 26 - March 4:

Success of the week: My scale stayed within my maintenance range six days this week (last Tuesday was the only bounce out). My trending weight has continued to stay in my maintenance range for over four weeks -- since January 26. It had been out of my goal range since December 2 before that.

Struggle of the week: My scale weight was over my maintenance range one day this week. I got to less than half a pound of my ultimate goal weight, but bounced back up this morning.

In reality, I am doing just fine.



Thanks to everyone for the encouragement and support.

kgirlhart

Name: Kathryn
Age: 50
Height: 5'3.5"
Total Weight lost: ~80 lbs
Time it took to lose: 2 years 3 months
How long in maintenance: I called maintenance in July 2016, but I continued to slowly lose until December of 2017. I have been in maintenance since December 2017
Maintenance weight range: 118 - 122 lbs

Average weight recorded from 2018: 118.8

Average weight recorded from December: 116.9
Average weight recorded from January: 115.9
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Week of...
February 3: 116.4 scale/ 116.0 trend
February 10: 116.0 scale/ 115.8 trend
February 17: 115.0 scale/ 115.7 trend
February 24: 115.4 scale/ 114.9 trend

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: My weight was kind of low this week. But it is back up to 115.4 this morning after dropping as low as 113.4 on Friday and being in the 113-114 range all week. My trend dropped down to 114.9 which is lower than my set maintenance range. But my "healthy" weight range is 106-142, so I'm not worried about it. I'm not trying to go lower, but I don't think that I am too low either. I feel good and I think I look good. I wouldn't even think much about it at all because I know that weight will go up and down, but it causes others to worry about my weight. I still find it kind of surprising that when I was over 50 pounds over weight no one was ever concerned about how much I weighed, but being 7-10 pounds above the underweight range is a cause for concern. I feel good about how much I eat and about my activity level though.

HarperAnn6

Name: Harper
Age: 40
Height: 5'1
Total Weight lost: 50
Time it took to lose: one year, four months
How long in maintenance: about 19 months
Maintenance weight range: 117-122
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12months): 121.7

Average weight recorded for January: 119.8

Week of. . .
February 3: 121.8
February 10: 122.8
February 17: 122
February 24: 123

Success / Struggles: Not too much to report -- daytime eating has been okay, but I've been snacking at night. I really try not to eat anything after dinner, but I've been "carbing it up" in the evenings. I've been up late working on all sorts of projects, so I've been hungry. Going to make sure I do projects and tasks upstairs -- away from the kitchen -- for the next few nights! Usually, this strategy helps me "reset" my evening routine.

In a few months, I will be in year two of maintenance. I still always find myself battling the same habits: eating standing up, snacking in the evening, eating when I'm stressed, and eating at the computer. I've come to expect these habits will come up from time to time, but I wish they would just magically disappear!

heibel75

Name: Mel
Age: 43
Height: 5’6”
Total weight lost: 65lbs
Time it took to lose: 2 years
How long in maintenance: 1 month
Maintenance weight range: 130-135lbs
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 145lbs

Average weight recorded from January:

Week of...
February 3: 13lbs
February 10: 132lbs
February 17: 133lbs
February 24: 132lbs

stephenearllucas

The March thread is now posted!

hippiesaur

Age: 25
Height: 167.5 cm (5'6")
Total weight lost: 18.6 kg (41 lbs)
Time it took to lose: ~2.5 years total (the last 4 kgs was 1 year...)
How long in maintenance: 1 month
Maintenance weight range: 57-59 kg (125-130 lbs)
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 59.4 kg (131 lbs)

Average weight recorded from January: 58.2 kg (128.3 lbs)

Week of...
February 3: 58.2 kg (128.3 lbs)
February 10: 57.7 kg (127.2 lbs)
February 17: 57.6 kg (127 lbs)
February 24: 58.7 kg (129.4 lbs)

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: The scale went up a bit more this last week but I'm still within my weight range, so it's alright I was a bit sick and I couldn't workout for like 2 weeks, but I overate for 2 days and the water weight didn't want to leave so easily, so my weight is still a bit on the high side, but I tried no to freak out when I saw I gained 1.5 kg in 2 days, so I guess this is a success...

ExistingFish

Name: Existing Fish
Age: 30
Height: 5'0" (153cm)
Total weight lost: 36.5lbs (16.6kg)
Time it took to lose: 6 months
How long in maintenance: 5 months
Maintenance weight range: 117-123lbs
Average weight recorded from past 5 months: 121.7

Average weight recorded from September: 122.6
Average weight recorded from October: 120.4
Average weight recorded from November: 120.8
Average weight recorded from December: -
Average weight recorded from January: 123.1

Week of...
February 1: 123.0 (t:121.9)
February 8: 121.0 (t:122.5)
February 15: 119.3 (t:121.6)
February 22:118.4 (t:120.2)
February 28: 119.9 (t:119.6)

mtaratoot

Name: It's ME!
Age: About a year older than I was last year. (middle aged)
Height: Just short of 5' 7"
HEAVIEST weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
Total Weight lost: 30 pounds
Time it took to lose: ~6 months
How long in maintenance: Since July 2018 -- but with some fluctuation outside of goal range.
Maintenance weight range: 142 - 148 (and not sure that's the right answer)

Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 163.8
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 150.7

Average weight recorded from January: 148.4

Average weight Week of...
January 29 - February 4: 146.5
February 5 - 11: 146.9
February 12 - 18: 147.4
February 19 - 25: 145.6
February 26 - March 4: 144.9

Success of the week: My scale stayed well within my maintenance range every day this week. My average weight has continued to stay in my maintenance range since January 26. It had been out of my goal range since December 2 before that.

Struggle of the week: While I am maintaining quite well, I'm maintaining about two pounds above my ultimate goal weight.