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The summer I was 15 is when my mom took me to the doctors for diet pills...when school started in the fall, I had gotten my hair cut,got contacs and lost a lot of weight...I didn’t look like the same person and I was probably as high as a kite...I had endless energy from the pills....I ate very little and I walked to and from school, was in marching band and went to school from 7:20 in the morning until 3:40....I stayed on some kind of pills or diet until I was in college...1
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@NovusDies Those are awesome stats! It must feel great to be there. Congrats!1
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@NovusDies Those are awesome stats! It must feel great to be there. Congrats!
It is amazing and sometimes it feels too good to be true like I will wake up and it will have all been a dream.
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being ridiculously easy and 10 being horrible but survivable I would say that most of my days were a 4, some were a 2, a few were 7, and a couple were at least a 9. However, when I consider all the good that has come from it even the nines don't seem as bad now. I would not be here though if they had all been nines or even sevens. It is so important to prioritize being as happy as you can be now. It won't always work but it will work some of the time.4 -
Thought I should actually write something. I've been around reading the threads, but I don't think I've commented in a really long time! Just hanging in there. My scale keeps doing water weight fluctuations that are unusually large (for me) but I think I'm right around 255 for real, where I've been for about a month. Work has been crazy busy and I'm working a lot of evenings. Normally my summers are dead, so my eating has suffered because I've had very little time to actually cook food. I also have a tendency to eat my feelings, so the frustration at having no summer and not even one day off this year isn't helping. I'm still doing okay, but my calorie deficit has ended up more around .5 lb per week than the 1.5 that I have it set for.3
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Well, I’ve only been weighing every couple of weeks. Life and eating have both felt a little off so I wasn’t really expecting anything good when I weighed in today.
Turns out just doing it, even if it’s weird, works! I’m officially over 50 pounds down and have entered the 200s for the first time in at least four years! I feel really proud of myself and my body right now.
I had a mini goal of turning 30 under 300 and I definitely smashed it considering my birthday is in December!8 -
emmyjaykay wrote: »Well, I’ve only been weighing every couple of weeks. Life and eating have both felt a little off so I wasn’t really expecting anything good when I weighed in today.
Turns out just doing it, even if it’s weird, works! I’m officially over 50 pounds down and have entered the 200s for the first time in at least four years! I feel really proud of myself and my body right now.
I had a mini goal of turning 30 under 300 and I definitely smashed it considering my birthday is in December!
I love it when I obtain a goal early......you've come a long way in a short time....I hope you keep beating your goals!1 -
My numbers stink!....after hitting 260 Friday morning, back to 260.4 again this morning!...SMH....I went swimming again today,went to Publix,fixed lunch and dinner,folded laundry, and ate under my calories and didn’t eat back any exercise calories!...crossing my fingers for less weight in the morning...this has gotten to the point I am going crazy!...crazier!6
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Hi everyone. 👋🏼
I’m 34 female 5’ 7”. I started at 290.5 ( to be exact ) here’s my numbers I’m not going to post them all cause there are a lot. I’ll post every other week.
4/12 : 290.5
4/26 : 289.4
5/10 : 283.5
5/24 : 281.4
6/7 : 271.3
6/21 : 266.7
7/5 : 261
My last weeks weigh in was 7/12 : 257.9
Down ward I go. Some weeks are slower then others but like a previous post said, the downward trend is what counts !
8/2 : 246.4 💪🏼👏🏼
8/10 : 244.7
8/20 : 239.4 officially down 51.1 pounds. Seems unreal. Still a ways to go but I’m going!
8/30 : 236.33 -
Finally!....259.4 this morning....I am beyond happy!...when I came out of the bathroom this morning, my husband was sitting at the kitchen counter with his hands folded praying, saying” Please let the scales go down, please let the scales go down!”... he is so tired of me whining every morning the past four weeks!...now I can whine about the next five pounds lol6
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Just don't whine if they pop back up tomorrow!
I was 222.1 on Friday, 222.5 yesterday, and 224.4 this morning, but it didn't bother me to be up 2 lbs as I was out to eating yesterday and have been eating more the last 2 days. Not over maintenance, but the extra carbs along with TOM finally showing up? 2 lbs is actually pretty good all things considered!1 -
Weekly weigh-in day for me. Fairly happy to see I'm down 5lbs from last week @ 558. 550 is within my sight now (I probably haven't been down to 550 in 5 years). Feeling encouraged and resisting the urge to try and push myself harder. Trying to keep in mind health is the ultimate goal and I don't want to derail my progress.
Hoping for another good week of weight loss.6 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »Just don't whine if they pop back up tomorrow!
I was 222.1 on Friday, 222.5 yesterday, and 224.4 this morning, but it didn't bother me to be up 2 lbs as I was out to eating yesterday and have been eating more the last 2 days. Not over maintenance, but the extra carbs along with TOM finally showing up? 2 lbs is actually pretty good all things considered!
@conniewilkins56 oops - I just realized I forgot the lol emojy after the dont' whine comment. Sorry - I mean that as totally tongue in cheek and as a joke! Though I suppose I can blame it on TOM coming down the pike; I'm always a lot more snarky in the first few days leading up to and during TOM lol
( remembered it this time! *laughs)
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Weighed in this morning and was initially bummed to see that I had only lost 0.6 pounds over the course of the last week, when I've been averaging 2-3 pounds a week.
But, then I had to stop and tell myself that hey, sometimes this happens. Plus, I'm just ending my TOM, so, I'm sure that played a big role in it, too, and I kinda did some more intense workouts this last week (at least for me, I'm still starting off "small", but I had two days where it really had me going, cardio wise).
I normally only weigh myself once a week, on Mondays. But, I'm thinking about doing it daily after reading through all of your posts every day, and just start charting. And like you've all said, watch the progress and as long as I see a decline, it's all good!
For those who do weigh daily, do you log in your weight every day on here, or do you log in a chart daily and then once a week update your MFP?2 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »bmeadows380 wrote: »Just don't whine if they pop back up tomorrow!
I was 222.1 on Friday, 222.5 yesterday, and 224.4 this morning, but it didn't bother me to be up 2 lbs as I was out to eating yesterday and have been eating more the last 2 days. Not over maintenance, but the extra carbs along with TOM finally showing up? 2 lbs is actually pretty good all things considered!
@conniewilkins56 oops - I just realized I forgot the lol emojy after the dont' whine comment. Sorry - I mean that as totally tongue in cheek and as a joke! Though I suppose I can blame it on TOM coming down the pike; I'm always a lot more snarky in the first few days leading up to and during TOM lol ( remembered it this time! *laughs)
Ha ha....I stayed exactly the same this morning!....no TOM here ever lol....you are never “snarky”...
I log my weight on here and Happy Scale every day....0 -
My number went up quite a bit this morning. I know it's water weight due to the heavy work out I did on Saturday. My body is still sore from it. One day at a time! I'm making progress and it will all even out in the end.4
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rieraclaelin wrote: »Weighed in this morning and was initially bummed to see that I had only lost 0.6 pounds over the course of the last week, when I've been averaging 2-3 pounds a week.
But, then I had to stop and tell myself that hey, sometimes this happens. Plus, I'm just ending my TOM, so, I'm sure that played a big role in it, too, and I kinda did some more intense workouts this last week (at least for me, I'm still starting off "small", but I had two days where it really had me going, cardio wise).
I normally only weigh myself once a week, on Mondays. But, I'm thinking about doing it daily after reading through all of your posts every day, and just start charting. And like you've all said, watch the progress and as long as I see a decline, it's all good!
For those who do weigh daily, do you log in your weight every day on here, or do you log in a chart daily and then once a week update your MFP?
I weigh every day, and log it both into MFP as well as into a weight-trending site (weightgrapher.com) daily. It took me about 2-3 weeks of daily weighing to get over the "omg it is going up and down" panic, and now I just view it as one data point in a bigger picture. Personally I have found it really interesting to be able to see what affects my scale weight (TOM, exercise, sodium, carb-heavy meals), and also reassuring to know that a 4 lb increase (thanks to yesterdays corned beef brisket) isn't (can't be) fat, but is just water retention from the extra sodium or food weight. I'd highly recommend a weigh trending app (commonly used ones are Happy Scale and Libra), which can help you see past the daily fluctuations and look at the longer term trend.3 -
rieraclaelin wrote: »Weighed in this morning and was initially bummed to see that I had only lost 0.6 pounds over the course of the last week, when I've been averaging 2-3 pounds a week.
But, then I had to stop and tell myself that hey, sometimes this happens. Plus, I'm just ending my TOM, so, I'm sure that played a big role in it, too, and I kinda did some more intense workouts this last week (at least for me, I'm still starting off "small", but I had two days where it really had me going, cardio wise).
I normally only weigh myself once a week, on Mondays. But, I'm thinking about doing it daily after reading through all of your posts every day, and just start charting. And like you've all said, watch the progress and as long as I see a decline, it's all good!
For those who do weigh daily, do you log in your weight every day on here, or do you log in a chart daily and then once a week update your MFP?
I weigh every morning first thing before breakfast in HappyScale but only record here. I had played with using the HappyScale trend weight as what I record here, especially on Thursday record days where my weight pops up to the highest point all week, but then I saw that the HappyScale trend is a moving average and I wanted historically static numbers, so I went back to recording my actual weight for Thursday mornings and keeping an eye on the HappyScale trend.
For me, seeing that fluctuation up and down during the week helps keep me somewhat sane because there have been times where I've put on 2 lbs of water weight over a Wednesday night to make it look like I didn't lose anything during the week when I had actually lost 2 lbs.
I was up 3 lbs this morning, but I'm not surprised - lack of physically demanding exercise plus extra food up to maintenance levels = extra water weight gain + extra food being processed in my system = temporary gain. And with this camping trip coming up, I'll probably hold onto that extra weight for the next week or two. I'm leaving myself in a deficit for this camping trip, though - I'm the one cooking so I can control the ingredients.
We'll see how much hiking I get in, though, with the best friend. Her knee is messed up so she can't go, which may severely limit my chances of getting away for my own hike unless she can find a pool or a lake she can spend some time in.3 -
rieraclaelin wrote: »Weighed in this morning and was initially bummed to see that I had only lost 0.6 pounds over the course of the last week, when I've been averaging 2-3 pounds a week.
But, then I had to stop and tell myself that hey, sometimes this happens. Plus, I'm just ending my TOM, so, I'm sure that played a big role in it, too, and I kinda did some more intense workouts this last week (at least for me, I'm still starting off "small", but I had two days where it really had me going, cardio wise).
I normally only weigh myself once a week, on Mondays. But, I'm thinking about doing it daily after reading through all of your posts every day, and just start charting. And like you've all said, watch the progress and as long as I see a decline, it's all good!
For those who do weigh daily, do you log in your weight every day on here, or do you log in a chart daily and then once a week update your MFP?
Some people use trending apps. I use a spreadsheet. I do not update MFP that often but I will if I see that it has been at least 10 pounds since my last "check in" so I can get a new calorie amount.
Some people can handle daily weighing. Some cannot. I have been both. When I started I had a bad relationship with the scale but it has improved over time. There is no right or wrong just what is right for you at the moment. I am in favor of treating anything you change like an experiment not a firm choice. An experiment has a time frame and criteria for success or failure. I believe this helps keep a person objective.3 -
Lost another .6 pounds since yesterday, so, I'm thinking I had some water retention going on
But my weight today is 350.2! I am so close to that 49, ugh, come oooon!1 -
rieraclaelin wrote: »Lost another .6 pounds since yesterday, so, I'm thinking I had some water retention going on
But my weight today is 350.2! I am so close to that 49, ugh, come oooon!
It is right around the corner.
If you can handle it the one thing daily weighing does it give you an idea for how you fluctuate and whoosh. There is no script that you can follow precisely. Your body is doing things under the hood that you can't possibly know. However, there are things that are common. Like for me it is common for my whoosh cycle to last 4 to 5 days with the 3rd day being the biggest drop day. It is just like I was expecting my weight to go up on Sunday morning because I ate out so much on Saturday. I have to live my life though and temporary weight fluctuations are nothing to fear under normal conditions. They are annoying but it is not mentally healthy to be so obsessed with fluctuations that you avoid anything food related that can cause it. Since I can retain 20ish pounds of water if I am not careful I do try to avoid compounding mine too much but that is just because releasing all that retention takes a lot of electrolytes with it that can make me feel bad.1 -
rieraclaelin wrote: »For those who do weigh daily, do you log in your weight every day on here, or do you log in a chart daily and then once a week update your MFP?
I used to log in the Fitbit app which would then auto-forward the weight to Trendweight and MFP.
But I turned off the MFP friend notifications about weight changes because I was tired of announcing to the world that I had lost the same lbs again and again!
But, whenever I would hit a new scale low on consecutive days? Then I would sneakily turn the notification function back on before inputting my weight into Fitbit... and would turn it off after the notification posted on MFP!
Of course you could just make a wall post with the same information and format and no-one would ever know it was typed by you as opposed to being automatically generated!
I am now using a Bluetooth scale with its own app which pushes the weight-ins to Fitbit which pushes them to Trendweight and MFP... it's like a little data train that starts when I press the little "add a new weight-in" button on my phone!
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Today I hit pre-quarantine weight! Sitting at 210, down from 223. Took me 4 months to put on 13 pounds and 6 weeks to take it off. 10 pounds to get to Onederland, 55 to get to a healthy BMI, 75 to goal weight!6
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rieraclaelin wrote: »For those who do weigh daily, do you log in your weight every day on here, or do you log in a chart daily and then once a week update your MFP?
I used to log in the Fitbit app which would then auto-forward the weight to Trendweight and MFP.
But I turned off the MFP friend notifications about weight changes because I was tired of announcing to the world that I had lost the same lbs again and again!
But, whenever I would hit a new scale low on consecutive days? Then I would sneakily turn the notification function back on before inputting my weight into Fitbit... and would turn it off after the notification posted on MFP!
Of course you could just make a wall post with the same information and format and no-one would ever know it was typed by you as opposed to being automatically generated!
I am now using a Bluetooth scale with its own app which pushes the weight-ins to Fitbit which pushes them to Trendweight and MFP... it's like a little data train that starts when I press the little "add a new weight-in" button on my phone!
Im logging my weight daily in my paper log and weekly in MFP.so that it will also reflect my new calorie goal if there is one. .2 -
Hi Rashel here im not new to MFP but im new to this group and i really need some accountability so i dont fall off the waggon or just quit when i hit that dreaded plateau i know is coming eventually. I started back on MFP on August 11th at my all time highest weight of 290.0 pounds. As of today (September 5th) I'm at 276.4 and I know im at the point where it will and should begin to slow down and im so scared it will stop and ill completely loose my motivation and i dont want that ! I want to be back under 200lbs not at 300 !4
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I was 360 lbs at peak, about 10 years ago. Dieting had always been an on again off again thing for me, until May 2019. I was at 320 lbs then and started what I am hoping will be my final weight loss diet. So some numbers:
Peak weight - 360 lbs
Weight at start of current diet - 320 lbs
Current weight - 158 lbs, at goal, actually a little below
Rate of loss in current diet, average - 2.6 lbs per week
Calories per day in weight loss, average 1,000 to 1,200 per day
Calories per day now, average 1,600
I have been in maintenance since about August 1, the transition has been interesting and sometimes hard. People talk a lot about weight loss, but not so much about maintenance. So I am muddling along a bit finding my way, so far so good. I do not believe I will ever be able to eat "normally", its just me. If I don't continue to control my diet I am sure the weight will come back, as it always has before. Trying to think of it as my final plateau.4 -
alligatorob wrote: »Weight at start of current diet - 320 lbs
Current weight - 158 lbs, at goal, actually a little below
Rate of loss in current diet, average - 2.6 lbs per week
Calories per day in weight loss, average 1,000 to 1,200 per day
Calories per day now, average 1,600
I have been in maintenance since about August 1, the transition has been interesting and sometimes hard. People talk a lot about weight loss, but not so much about maintenance. So I am muddling along a bit finding my way, so far so good. I do not believe I will ever be able to eat "normally", its just me. If I don't continue to control my diet I am sure the weight will come back, as it always has before. Trying to think of it as my final plateau.
Sincere congrats on having accomplished the first half.
I am not sure whether your very fast loss will make things easier or harder for you in terms of maintenance.
But I am sure that if you invest the same or more effort into maintenance and weight stability as you did during weight loss you will achieve weight management!
Some concepts for you to think on in semi-random order:
--weight range: your weight trend is not the same as daily weight daily weight changes faster than range. trendweight.com / weightgrapher.com, libra, happy scale show weight trend. 2-3lb weight trend change, for most people, is a real indication of a trend. even 8lbs change for a few days for some people is not an indication of a trend. Goal at maintenance would be to slow down weight changes and perturbations. Dampen the pendulum. Avoid big spikes up that require big spikes down to correct. Corrections should, hopefully, be in the sub 500 Cal a day range. To be honest, my biggest corrections since maintenance have been at LESS than 200 Cal a day, applied over long enough time periods. It helps avoid the syndrome of "I will start on this tomorrow"
--Calories. Numbers of 1000-1200 for rapid loss and 1600 for maintenance don't quite jive. Look at your weight loss during the last 8, 6, and 4 weeks leading into maintenance. What was your average intake? Average weight loss? Figure that whatever you were eating +500 Cal a day per lb of weight change would bring you to your maintenance. Further figure that as you eat more your TDEE for the day (maintenance level) tends to go up a tiny bit. So the final maintenance figure may be a good number of percentage points higher (as much as 10 or even 20% though either of these figures would be fairly rare)
--if you end up feeling hungrier than expected when you start eating more normally: DO NOT DESPAIR. even if it leads to slow regain. This is where the fight will have to happen and where you will have to fight both psychology and physiology. It is common for hunger to increase substantially after weight loss. Disproportionately. And when eating at maintenance it will quite probably hit you. This is NORMAL. It is not a failing. You may be looking at more than a year of having to battle this even with a small level of regain depending on how low in terms of fat levels you've ended up at your current 158 lbs. BUT THERE IS HOPE! Maintaining for 2+ years is the biggest indication bar none in terms of successfully continuing to maintain. (obviously if none of this happens to you YEAH, bob's your uncle and you're home free---but having extra hormonally induced hunger levels at the end of weight loss is not exactly unheard off)
--my own personal thing has been multiple levels of "safeguards". Continuing with the activity level I was using during weight loss and only slowly bringing it down a bit over an extensive period of time. Having food staples that are easy to prepare and which I can quickly grab from the fridge and turn into known filling for few calories meals. Continuing to log the same way I did when losing weight. Continuing to regularly weigh myself and enter the information into a weight trend app. Being ready to apply small deficits if needed to correct weight trends that are out of whack. Even continuing to be active on MFP is part of the new me who is interested in putting in the effort required to continue to maintain weight.
Putting in some effort to get something rewarding out of it doesn't strike me as a bad bargain. Yes, the initial year or two of effort may be more intense than afterwards; but still well worth it. Jump into the maintenance board and maybe even participate in one of the weight change / challenges for the month threads with other people who are maintaining.
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@alligatorob this thread (and subsequent ones that will come up) may be of some help to continue to keep you focused, if that's something you feel might be of use to you: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10808657/sept-check-in#latest1
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Rashel_kitten wrote: »Hi Rashel here im not new to MFP but im new to this group and i really need some accountability so i dont fall off the waggon or just quit when i hit that dreaded plateau i know is coming eventually. I started back on MFP on August 11th at my all time highest weight of 290.0 pounds. As of today (September 5th) I'm at 276.4 and I know im at the point where it will and should begin to slow down and im so scared it will stop and ill completely loose my motivation and i dont want that ! I want to be back under 200lbs not at 300 !
My weight loss slowed from the amazing first few weeks but remained at a pace to keep me encouraged. You can do this!
I wrote down my 3 biggest motivations for losing weight & refer to them when I get discouraged. Maybe that would help you, too.2 -
@rockconner I did something similar when I started this quest for better health. However, my list was more than 3 items. lol I included everything I thought weight loss and better fitness would improve in my life from being able to walk more than 100 feet or so without feeling like I was going to die to fitting in an airplane seat to being able to ride a bike again. I have about 25 or 30 things on my list. Reading that list helps me focus on why I really want to improve my health and fitness.
Another thing I've been doing is every 3 months I write down how my health, fitness, and life in general have improved over the past quarter. It's hard to see progress day to day. I mean, really, are you going to see a change after a day or 2 or even a week or 2? But writing down the improvements after 3 months demonstrates how much the cumulative efforts day after day really impact your life for the better. I've been on this journey for almost 17 months now. Going back to read the improvements in my life helps me reinforce the changes I've made and reminds me that I don't want to go back to the way things were before. Some of the things I wrote after the first 3 months I barely remember so it's good to have that list to see how bad things were health and fitness-wise and how much better things are currently. I still have 50 to 70 pounds to go (I've lost over 200 pounds so far & I don't really know what my "goal" weight should be), but the improvements to my life thus far have been greater than I ever allowed myself to dream might be possible.4 -
What a great response PAV! No doubt the best advice I have seen on maintenance, it is really appreciated.
I don't have a lot of time right now for a proper response, I will get back later. One comment however, you said: "Numbers of 1000-1200 for rapid loss and 1600 for maintenance don't quite jive." and I agree. I have been giving it thought and in the weeks leading into my shift to maintenance I was still losing a lot of weight, over 2 lbs a week on average. It does not make sense to me that just by going up a few hundred calories that should stop, but it has.
It is possible that pre-maintenance I was overestimating my calories, I was being very conservative with my counts, so maybe my real diet calories were lower the average could have really been 1,000, or maybe a little lower. And I am still losing a little, down about 3 or 4 pounds since the change 6 weeks ago.
My short term objective right now is to find what I think of as the bottom, the place where I no longer lose, but don't gain weight. A little longer term I know I need to change what I eat back to a more normal diet, I am still pretty much eating what I did for the last year, just more of it. Lots of veggies, yogurt, protein supplement, etc. No oil, little fat, and no prepared foods. I don't think that is sustainable longer term. For example I know I am eating too little fat. Its been almost a year and a half since I ate the same things other people I eat with are eating.
Thanks again, and I will be back when I have more time.1
