Maintainers Weekly Check In - April 2019

stephenearllucas

1. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability and support.
2. Copy the form below by copy-pasting and edit to suit your personal schedule, then fill in your information and post each week.
3. Have a successful month, whatever your maintenance/health goal(s) may be!!

Name:
Age:
Height:
Total weight lost:
Time it took to lose:
How long in maintenance:
Maintenance weight range:
Average weight recorded from 2018:

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

Week of...
April 7:
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week:

JennJ323

See you in April

MeadowRae

Name: Rae
Age: 31
Height: 5'7"
Total weight lost: 35
Time it took to lose: 1.5 years
How long in maintenance: 1 year
Maintenance weight range: 140-150
Average weight recorded from 2018: 145

Average weight recorded from January: 149
Average weight recorded from February: 151
Average weight recorded from March: 153

Week of...
April 7: 155
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I've gained a bit of weight over the winter and I'm trying to get back to my comfy range between 140-150. I struggle the most with drinking wine in the evening and also eating pizza/bread when my husband does. Looking forward to staying accountable with you all! I don't weigh myself every day, but I will try to get to a scale to use it each week.

Jimb376mfp

Name: Jim
Age:71
Height:5’8”
Total Weight lost:197.8 (SW 376.2)
Time it took to lose: 5 years,
From 1/17/13 to 3/29/18.

How long in maintenance: Since 3/29/18.
*Maintenance range:179-184
Average weight recorded in 2018 180.

Average weight recorded 2019:
January 178.6
February 177.2
March 178.8

Weigh In
4 April 178.6 (-.4)

Success/struggles of the week

Success: One year on Maintenance below GW.

Struggle: Getting back to my exercise routine.

ItsAJourny

Awesome and very inspiring! Have a great week!

JennJ323

Name: Jenn
Age: 34
Height: 5’2”
Total weight lost: 32lb
Time it took to lose: approximately 18 months
How long in maintenance: I reached my goal weight about a year ago, but kind of bounced around for a while.. it's taken til now since the beginning of the year to be getting consistent weigh-in's in the range I want to be in. So, I'd say only within the last couple weeks I've officially been in maintenance
Maintenance weight range: 124lb-127lb
Average weight recorded from 2018: ----

Average weight recorded from March: 124.6

Week of…
March 31: 125.2
April 7:
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:


Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I had a hard time getting to the gym this week, only made it once.. did a few lunch time workouts, just couldn’t find the motivation to really get into it this week. I had a lower calorie week, but I found that having so many calories leftover at 8pm lead me to over-snacking.. so I gotta watch that. I need to up my calories during the day so I don’t feel the need to mindlessly snack at night. Glad I stayed within my range though, even after enjoying a few treats.

sofchak

Name: Sofchak
Age: 36
Height: 5’3”
Total weight lost: ~25 lbs
Time it took to lose: 9 months
How long in maintenance: 2+ years
Maintenance weight range: 122-127
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 124

Average weight recorded from January: 128.5
Average weight recorded from February: 127
Average weight recorded from March: 127

Week of...
April 6th: 128

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week:

Struggle - officially out of my maintenance range again, but I suspect water weight from the half marathon and TOM soon.

Onto the successes! I have three for this week -

1. Completed my Half Marathon 3 minutes faster than last year on the same course. Weather was mostly good though it started to downpour as I approached the finish line.

2. Rode my bike to and from my job (9 miles round trip) for the second time since moving to the city and I really enjoyed it. Makes me glad I moved closer. Looking forward to this warmer weather so I can make it a habit. My goal is to fill my gas tank only 1x a month as I plan to walk/bike everywhere in the warmer months.

3. Peanut butter is my weakness. I’ve learned to have control if I buy the single serve cups at 250 cal each. This week, I bought a full jar (very small one) and managed to use it the entire week for dog treats without even once indulging in the jar personally. I am back to single serve cups for now because I didn’t want to stretch my luck, but it’s good progress to make these truces with food.

Have a great week, everyone!

ExistingFish

Name: Existing Fish
Age: 31
Height: 5'0" (153cm)
Total weight lost: 41lbs (18.6kg)
Time it took to lose: 6 months*
How long in maintenance: 6 months
Maintenance weight range: 112 - 118lbs
Average weight recorded from 2019: 120.1lbs

Average weight recorded from January: 123.1
Average weight recorded from February: 120.3
Average weight recorded from March: 117.0

Week of...

April 5: 115.3 (t:116.2)
April 12:
April 19:
April 26:
April 30:

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
Average weight recorded from February: 110.8
Average weight recorded from March: 110.6

Week of...
April 6: 110.2 (trend 110.4)
April 13:
April 20:
April 27:

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I had one weight at the high end of my maintenance range (today), but that was expected as I had Thai food and a couple of desserts last night. I'm a little over one year of maintenance now, and weight fluctuations are not bothering me quite as much as previously, which I count as a success.

I'm a few months into my maintenance strategy of doing slight deficit/surplus weeks depending on the week, and it's going well so far. My food routine (for lack of a better word) has evolved in a way that banking calories long term for multiple different weeks is now my norm. This is a result of several reasons why I'll be eating out/going out more often than I previously did - a friend (who also loves food) will be in town for a few months; a "restaurant club" of sorts with some old friends; and my favorite fancy doughnut shop has decided to do a pop-up at work where they'll be coming in for a week at a time over a few upcoming months, with different flavor offerings each day (so, naturally, I plan to get a doughnut every day each week that they're there). Therefore, I've gotten a bit more organized/efficient and have been using a Google sheet spreadsheet to auto-calculate surpluses and allot them to several upcoming weeks where I anticipate a surplus will be useful. For example, over April and May, I've got two planned surplus weeks for the doughnuts at work, and one planned surplus week for when I'll have a dinner one night at a 20+ course tasting menu restaurant.

jlbrandt09

Name:Jessica
Age:41
Height:5.85
Total weight lost:111
Time it took to lose: About a year
How long in maintenance: couple of weeks
Maintenance weight range: 155-160
Average weight recorded from 2018: 172

Average weight recorded from January: 160.9
Average weight recorded from February: 163
Average weight recorded from March: 157.7

Week of...
April 7: 158.3
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: This is my first week on Maintenance. I'm learning a lot on what I can eat and not eat. I'll eat the items I can't eat but will only eat them on occasion. What's worth eating as well. I kept below 160 so far. I'm pretty conscientious about what I eat now. So far the motivation is there to maintain. I hope to keep it down below 160 as much as I can. My struggle this week is to incorporate exercise.

reversemigration

Name: Ben
Age: 50
Height: 6'
Total weight lost: ~55 lbs
Time it took to lose: 9 months
How long in maintenance: Since ~ December 2018
Maintenance weight range: 166-171

Average weight recorded for December:165.8
Average weight recorded for January: 167.3
Average weight recorded for February: 167.2
Average weight recorded for March: 166.5

Week of...
April 6th: 164.5

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: It was a successful week, both in maintenance and in general, though I feel that balancing calories may have occupied my mind a little too much. The family is out of town this weekend, and I decided to bank enough calories to eat lots of pizza and dessert while watching a mindless movie last night, as well as for a party at clinical tomorrow night (I'm tempted to call calorie banking IF, or intermittent feasting ). My daily net was probably a little too low (more than 500 calories per), but that's partially due to a good exercise week in which I ran 4 miles more than usual and had several 20K step days. I'm still a bit under range but I expect that to nudge up by Monday.

I do feel that it took up a little too much of my attention over the week, particularly in terms of building up last night's splurge in my mind as a "reward". Either I need to get better pizza, or better yet, not make the opportunity to splurge the focus - instead, just have it fit into other happy things that are going on. This seems more the case with the party tomorrow night. The food's not the focus, but having lots of extra calories banked lets me enjoy what's there while also enjoying everyone's company.

Mini-success: I just noticed that I have over a year streak of logging. Consistency has always been hard for me, so that's a little win.

Have a great week, everyone!

Hammig74

Name: Jamey
Age: 45
Height: 5’10”
Total weight lost: ~42 lbs
Time it took to lose: 3 months
How long in maintenance: 4 weeks
Maintenance weight range: 163-165

Average recorded weight for December: 190
Average recorded weight for January: 182
Average recorded weight for February: 170
Average recorded weight for March: 164

Week of...
April 7: 161.4

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: so far, none, really. But I know they’ll creep up. I’ve gained and lost the same 30-40 lbs for years. I want to maintain my weight for good. I find that the long-term maintainers here have a few things in common: they measure and track everything they eat, they exercise regularly and they weight themselves often. I’m looking forward to learning more from everyone on here!

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: 23 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
Average weight recorded from February: 117.8
Average weight recorded from March: 117.8

Week of 7 April: 117.75
Week of 14 April:
Week of 21 April:
Week of 28 April:

Successes/struggles: It’s been a good week! Managed to get in plenty of exercise with two great boot camp classes, two 10k runs and some home workouts. Eating enough to fuel my activity and finding more balance in maintenance. Have a couple of weeks off work now for the Easter break and I’m a bit wary of struggling without routine but I’m feeling positive and motivated to keep making progress.

Have a good week everyone x

pkweier

Name: Pam
Age:60
Height:5'5
Total weight lost:200
Time it took to lose:Started 1/12016
How long in maintenance: Sept 2017
Maintenance weight range:130-135
Average weight recorded from 2018:

Average weight recorded from January:131.75
Average weight recorded from February:130.75
Average weight recorded from March:132.1

Week of...
April 7:135.6
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week:Friday and Saturday have been bad days. I was running around 131 all week. I gave into my emotions Friday/Saturday. I put my Henry who was my 23 year old cat down, he was always by my side my alarm clock in the morning and so much more. I will miss him. It's a new day I need to get back on the wagon again and get my head on straight.

stephenearllucas

Name: Stephen
Age: 59
Height: 6'2"
Total weight lost: 56 lbs.
Time it took to lose: 1 year
How long in maintenance: 2 years, 3 months
Maintenance weight range: 190-195

Average weight recorded from January: 199.5
Average weight recorded from February: 200.9
Average weight recorded from March: 203.6

Week of...
April 7: 205.6
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:

jan110144

Name: Jan
Age:74
Height: 5'7"
Total weight lost: 50
Time it took to lose: 6 months
Maintenance weight range: 130-136
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): Kind of N/A since the bulk of the weight loss occurred in the last 5 months of the year.

Average weight recorded from
January: 134.2
February 132.7
March 132. 5


Week of ...
April 7{ 132.3
April 14
April 21
April 28

Struggles: Still having occasional days of uncontrolled eating (binge is such an ugly word )

Success: But ... have held a very stable weight for the last two months. Still, would like to get to the point where my days that are significantly over plan are intentional. Am trying to pay more attention to sleep and also to making sure that I am eating enough (my suspicion is that the bad days stem from being overly tired or overly hungry). The good news is that the weather has FINALLY started to improve, which means more time outside in the sunshine!!

erjones11

Name: Eric
Age: 49
Height: 6’
Total weight lost: 85 pounds
Time it took to lose: 4 years
How long in maintenance: Since September 2018 (7 Months)
Maintenance weight range:155 – 165 150-155
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 180

Average weight recorded from March 2018: 202
Average weight recorded from April 2018: 195
Average weight recorded from May 2018: 184
Average weight recorded from June 2018: 180
Average weight recorded from July 2018: 172
Average weight recorded from August 2018: 165
Average weight recorded from September 2018: 160
Average weight recorded from October 2018: 159
Average weight recorded from November 2018: 159
Average weight recorded from December 2018: 159
Average weight recorded from January 2019: 155
Average weight recorded from February 2019: 155
Average weight recorded from March 2019: 154

Week of...
4/6/2019: 153.4 pounds

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Good week counting calories overall. I got my biometric screening for work including blood tests back. All my markers are dead center of the healthy ranges from glucose to cholesterol, BMI and Blood pressure. Not bad for 1 50 year old who has been overweight is whole life.

Now calculating my exercise at 100% of what MFP says, up from 50%. Hopefully will stabilize the loss as I continue to work on recomp. I don’t think I should push below 150.

Working to eating write at my allotted calories in the coming week 1980 plus 100% exercise.

Fun fact I was 202 pounds a year ago March, which for me at the time was close to my goal at the time of just getting under 200. Wow, what a good year for my health!!!

nooie19

Name: Elaine
Age: 50
Height:5’3”
Total weight lost: 33 pounds since my highest weight, but 30 pounds since my last round of weight loss
Time it took to lose: 10 months to lose 25 pounds
How long in maintenance: 5 months since I’ve been calling it maintenance, even though I lost five more pounds very gradually. February 2019 was the first month of not gaining or losing from beginning to end.
Maintenance weight range: 127-132
Average weight recorded from 2018: I don’t know. 2018 was the year I lost 30 pounds.

Week of...
April 7: 131 moving average 131
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:

Successes: Kept up my streak of no late night snacking. Back to my lunch salads at work.

Challenges: Slacked off this week on exercising. Walked to my Sunda yoga class but skipped the other one. I was fighting a cold which gave me an excuse to not exercise. No more excuses this week!

mtaratoot

pkweier wrote: »

Name: Pam

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week:Friday and Saturday have been bad days. I was running around 131 all week. I gave into my emotions Friday/Saturday. I put my Henry who was my 23 year old cat down, he was always by my side my alarm clock in the morning and so much more. I will miss him. It's a new day I need to get back on the wagon again and get my head on straight.

I am so sorry to hear about Henry. I miss my buddy every day. I know how difficult this is, and I know it will affect you at random times for quite a while. What a good kitty life, though -- 23 years of love. When you miss Henry, think of all the good times whether it's chasing moths or laying in a sunny window. You'll even the annoying things. So sorry to hear this sadness. You will get through it, but it's not easy.

mtaratoot

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 recorded from February: 146.3
Average weight recorded from March: 143.2

Average weight Week of...
March 26 - 31: 143.2
April 1 - 7: 143.6
April 8 - 14:
April 15 - 21:
April 22 - 28:
April 30:

Success of the week: Commuted by bike three of four days this week. Replaced a rear tire on the bike which is a bit of a pain because it has a roller brake and internal hub shifter cable that both have to be disconnected. I seem to be maintaining my weight right near my goal even though the seven day average is slightly up today (scale weight jumped up Tuesday and again today).

Struggle of the week: I'm feeling pressed for time lately as I prepare for some river trips and at work have to pack my office into boxes this week so they can paint over the weekend and then unpack. I have several special projects with short time frames, and I now have less time to get it done. Warning to self: Stay mindful of emotional eating!

pkweier

Thanks mtaratoot this is not the first time I had to put a fur baby down they were hard also. Henry was the longest time I had a pet which I think is making him the hardest.