Maintainers Weekly Check In - April 2019

12346»

Replies

  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    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: 207.6
    April 21: 209.7
    April 28: 211.5
  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    The May weekly check in thread is now posted!
  • ItsAJourny
    ItsAJourny Posts: 69 Member
    Name: Bella
    Age: 60
    Height: 5'5"
    Total weight lost: 37 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 6 months
    How long in maintenance: 2 months
    Maintenance weight range: 127-132
    Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): NA

    Average weight recorded from January: 134 (was not in maintenance yet)
    Average weight recorded from February: 131.8
    Average weight recorded from March: 130.7

    Week of...
    April 7: 129.6
    April 14: 130.0
    April 21: 131.2
    April 28: 130.6

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Was feeling ill (or allergies) early in the week and didn’t exercise or sleep much. Weight went slightly up. Felt better by the end of the week and it feels great and weight stabilized again. Have a great week everyone!
  • ExistingFish
    ExistingFish Posts: 1,259 Member
    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: 115.5 (t:115.7)
    April 19: 114.4 (t:115.1)
    April 26: 113.1(t: 113.8)
    April 30: 115.5 (t:115.0)

    Between Surgery the 26th and ovulation sometime recently, my weight has been up. It is finally coming back to normal around 115, which makes me happy.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 12,945 Member
    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: 143.1
    April 15 - 21: 143.7
    April 22 - 28: 141.7

    Success of the week: I did great the week before vacation.

    Struggle of the week: I was stressed getting ready for a river trip.

    Overall, April still went well.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,951 Member
    No run for me today while I'm resting my ankle. I'll see the doc in the morning and hopefully she'll give me the go ahead for the HM in 2 weeks. The ice and rest seems to be helping so I thought a little liesurly walk with Ein (the Corgi) for his 3rd birthday was a good way to test it out slowly. We walked 1.25 miles. I hated to miss my long run when the weather was so nice. I feel like I am probably being overly cautious, but this close to a race I don't want to do anything to make it worse. I keep telling myself that one missed run isn't the end if the world. And so far I have only missed one run. Friday and Saturday are rest days anyway.
  • sharondesfor935
    sharondesfor935 Posts: 89 Member
    Name: Sharon
    Age: 58
    Height: 5'2"
    Total weight lost: 33 lbs
    Time it took to lose: 3 months [+ the weeks that I've been trying to maintain]
    How long in maintenance: 5 weeks
    Maintenance weight range: 120-130
    Start weight December 2018:153.5.

    Average weight recorded from January: 148.0
    Average weight recorded from February: 138.8
    Average weight recorded from March: 130.9
    Average weight recorded from April: 123.7

    Week of...
    May 5: 120.8

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I did much better this week at allocating my calories. Yesterday morning when I woke, I was carrying only 13 calories forward from the week into the weekend. That works perfectly for me, since I'm a weekend exercise warrior, and I typically will expend at least 500-700 calories each, Saturday and Sunday.

    🤓 Geek alert: I actually did my spreadsheets last weekend, and had fun with them. While not everyone appreciates the power of a good regression analysis, I do find them invigorating. 🤓 No, I didn't bother doing it myself, I just used Excel's trend line feature. I'm crazy, not stupid. 😜

    With my current exercise level I need to be eating around 1500 calories per day (which sounds like a really scary commitment when your BMR is 1080.) I was having a lot of trouble with this, mentally and emotionally, until I found a little trick that works for me. Using my rolling 7-day average from the MFP Nutrition tabs has taken the scare factor from Defcon 5 down to Defcon 1. This way I'm never more than one day "off" on my nutrition. Even if I'm a couch potato today, my rolling average will reflect that tomorrow and I can accommodate it in my eating. Likewise, if it's a beautiful day (and I miraculously have a babysitter), I can spend as long as I like on my bike or walk, and know that I can eat those calories down over the week without freaking out about it. Stress relieved, mind reassured.

    Yes, I understand that this should have been a logical conclusion (and is, in fact, the basic premise of maintenance eating), but I needed to see the numbers. A psychiatrist would probably have a clinical diagnosis for that. 😂

    So next challenge: what do I do now that I'm down at the bottom of my maintenance range? Move my range? My goal was basically to be within the top half of the normal BMI range. I'm there. I don't really want to allow myself to gain ten pounds; I don't really want to lose more weight. Should I just decrease both the top and bottom end of my maintenance range by five pounds so that my current weight is in the middle?