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Happy Birthday PAV! 🎂🎉. All you kiddies are growing up.2
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Wow - all you December babies. This is some tricky month re controlled eating for you all.
Hope your day was beautiful yesterday, @Americanbabydoll, glad you received a lower scale number as a belated gift!3 -
Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
HW (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
SW (Oct 30 2021): 258.6 lbs
Goal around 145 lbs
LW 12/19/21: 243.8 lbs
CW 12/20/21: 242.4 lbs
Loss = 1.4 lb
This Time Loss = 16.2 lbs
Overall Loss = 34.4 lbs
Overweight BMI (202.2 lbs) lose 40.2 lbs
Healthy BMI (169.3 lbs) lose 73.1 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 97.4 lbs2 -
Good on you! Losing weight over feasting season. 🎉3
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Good on you! Losing weight over feasting season. 🎉
I admit that I was the grinch who cancelled the holidays except for three meal / feasts: one each for birthday, Christmas and New Year's back in 2014.
poor mom was only "allowed" to make stuffed cabbage leaves (with meat, rice and bacon inside) and... bacon outside once. The turkey... did not come with the two meat, rice, nuts, dried fruit and grand marnier stuffing... I actually don't quite recall whether we made one?
Had a steak restaurant birthday meal, a single large plate for Christmas dinner more heavy on the turkey and carrots and less on the mashed potatoes. Both were around 2K for the meal I would assume--MFP has now erased the old data so I can't double check my (very) fallible memory--and a galla buffet for New Year's which would have been in the 4-6K range and which was the only day where I had a visible weight up-tick. And I only "remember" all this because I recently looked at my weight trend back then.
The big one at the time was that I didn't let the usual cookies and chocolates into the house and / or immediately re-gifted any that came in. That plus running 1000 Cal deficits only resulted in slow down of loss (if that) as opposed to any upticks at the time. But I also note that I did have the "reserves" at the time tot made the 1000 Cal deficits a very reasonable rate of loss.
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Happy Birthday you lovely December babies!1
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A few years ago I was diagnosed with OCD - I'm sure none of you have noticed!
Losing control is a big red flag for me, so I started planning what I'd eat for Christmas all the way back in early November.
Over two weeks ago I finalised the menu choices for breakfast, lunch and dinner for each day from 23rd to 31st December.
Good job my husband loves me!
Then I created a MFP recipe for every single dish (both the ones I'm likely to choose and the ones I probably won't choose - just in case....)
Last week, I logged my main meal choices for all 9 days into my MFP diary. I logged everything I was likely to eat - I didn't omit a single condiment, lick, taste or sip. Then I logged some booze - making a guess at what I was likely to drink from lunchtime to bedtime. Finally I logged a modest amount of 'treats' - mince pies, panettone, few squares of chocolate, few toffees, few cubes of turkish delight, a palmful of peanuts, some parmesan shortbreads etc. etc.
While all of these are guesses, and the reality will differ from my planning, I hope I'm not a million miles away. I've added in 1000 calories a day as a contingency, and when my Christmas-run-up deficit is factored in, and my likely TDEE, I reckon I'll be over-maintenance by about 5,700 calories in total for the period 18th - 31st December (so about 1.7 lbs of genuine weight gain).
My plan is to review my MFP diary every day, and correct the draft entries with my actual intake. I don't intend to be grinchy and have my jeweller's scales beside my plate, but I DO intend to discreetly weigh, measure, and pre-portion a few things for myself while people are occupied elsewhere.
This level of planning stops my hamsters from going into a tailspin...
But what's the betting I come here on 1st January and bemoan that my plan went completely up the swanny and that I've gained 10lbs....3 -
I do not want to know what I have most likely already gained this month…..eating healthy again is going to be a treat!…..2
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I have regained about ten pounds this year, and I am not surprised because 1) my thyroid quit, and 2) I eat when I am stressed and nervous and upset, and I am all of those and have been all month long, and right now a lot of the other methods that I would use to cope that aren't food are either not available or not good enough to handle the whole "do I get surgery or not and OMG what if it grows and I can't eat at all" anxiety I'm dealing with. It's either put up with gaining a few pounds back or give myself a benzo dependency, and I'd rather gain the weight, cause I know how to lose it.6
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I admit Alexandra that out of all the reasons for a 10lb gain.. your reasons seem less unreasonable than most!!3
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As promised in my other post... yearly stats and a progress photo (taken last week). The before pic was taken in march (i dont have one earlier in the year that is the same pose and/or appropriate to post LMAO) I've been maintaining this month purposely, so these stats are not going to change much before the end of year.
overall loss of 54 pounds as of this morning
6" off bust
8" off waist
10" off hips
(average jeans size) Size 16 to 10
(average fitted T shirt size) XL to a M
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Congratulations on the weight loss! It does make life better in so many ways.2
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Way to go @callsitlikeiseeit!!!! Awesome progress.
Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
HW (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
SW (Oct 30 2021): 258.6 lbs
Goal around 145 lbs
LW 12/20/21: 242.4 lbs
CW 12/22/21: 241.8 lbs
Loss = 0.6 lb
This Time Loss = 16.8 lbs
Overall Loss = 35 lbs
Overweight BMI (202.2 lbs) lose 39.6 lbs
Healthy BMI (169.3 lbs) lose 72.5 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 96.8 lbs2 -
Congratulations, Callsit and you too American Baby Doll. Staying on course through the holidays?! Wow!4
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Ugh…I got on the scales again this morning….let me put it this way, “ I have a lot of work to do after Christmas”… I am out of control!3
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Connie at least you a) got on the scales b) came here to 'fess up c) know you need to do something about it in the new year.... all those things are positives, and show that while you've strayed from the straight and narrow path, you're still within striking distance of it. You WILL find your way back, and we'll be here to cheer you on.4
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Thank you, and yes I will….I am counting the days until I start eating healthy again!….2
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This week's stats:
SW (17/3/21): 96.0kg/211.2 lbs (BMI 40 - category 3 obese)
LW: 68.6/150.9 lbs (BMI 28.6)
CW: 68.0/149.6 lbs (BMI 28.3)
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Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!!
The last few days I've been playing around with the same pounds.
12/20/2021 242.4 12/21/2021 242.6
12/22/2021 241.8 12/23/2021 242.2
12/24/2021 242.0
That would make the 5 day average 242.2. So for December I've lost 8.8 pounds. From Oct 31 to now 16.4 pounds & from my all time high in 2019 34.6 pounds. I'm still happy with it & staying on track.
Overweight BMI (202.2 lbs) lose 40 lbs
Healthy BMI (169.3 lbs) lose 72.9 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 97.2 lbs4 -
Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
HW (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
SW (Oct 30 2021): 258.6 lbs
Goal around 145 lbs
LW 12/24/21: 242.0 lbs
CW 12/26/21: 244 lbs
Gain = 2 lb
This Time Loss = 14.6 lbs
Overall Loss = 32.8 lbs
Overweight BMI (202.2 lbs) lose 41.8 lbs
Healthy BMI (169.3 lbs) lose 74.7 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 99 lbs
This morning I saw a 2 pound jump on the scale. It says 244.0, I know I didn't over eat (even if I went over 1350 I always had exercise cals to cover and still was under) so I did not actually gain that weight, but I did have a lot of carbs and sodium the last 2 days. I'll go back to watching those numbers better and should see it drop back down soon.3 -
Good clear thinking, @Americanbabydoll. Those water gains can chip away at the spirit...hope your spirit is still proud of your accomplishment over Christmas. That is most impressive!3
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Do you weight once a week, or once a day but just record/report weekly?
I like weight trend apps. Not that they don't have issues too (of course they do); but, they react less to transient changes and highlight long term changes a bit more.
I am wondering if I should dare the scale on boxing day 🤣1 -
I weigh daily but only post losses on here. I see the fluctuations so I know how it goes. I use Libra to track the daily weights. I also keep a spreadsheet of daily weight, cal eaten, carbs, sodium, water intake, steps and miles. Looking at the sheet sometimes I can see the trend of higher carbs & higher sodium equaling a "gain" the next day.2
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OK: then we know you've GOT this!
I jumped on the scale... closed my eyes and jumped off again!
Almost 3lbs "up" from yesterday! 
La-lal-la-la-la 3 -
Scale was up only .2 of pound this morning. I am 😳.3
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HW (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
SW (Oct 31 2021): 258.6 lbs
12/26/21: 244 lbs
12/27/21: 243.4 lbs
Loss = 0.6 lb
Going in the right direction already.4 -
La-lal-la-la-la
My motto for today also.
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Got on the scales and passed out!….then I kicked the scales, cried, screamed and adjusted my crown….I can and will continue my journey!2
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Current weight of today is 202.4. Trending is 204.4. Down this year from a high of 215 trending. I didnt change anything about diet. Not sure why the swing this year. Clothing seems to fit the same. @PAV8888 any thoughts?4
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psychod787 wrote: »Current weight of today is 202.4. Trending is 204.4. Down this year from a high of 215 trending. I didnt change anything about diet. Not sure why the swing this year. Clothing seems to fit the same. @PAV8888 any thoughts?
Hey Dalon: Season's Greetings Mr. Florida! Are you on a secret cut? Have you been pumping your iron the same as before? Are you feeling peckish? Is your average resting heart rate up or down? And are you unhappy, or happy with the results?!?!?!?!
Clothes within 5-10lbs... not sure if they're a reliable indicator especially in the XL (I assume given your height you're using XL) sizing. Are you even more shredded and showing more vascularity than before? Sounds like a good year?
My own COVID track has been 3-4lbs down over the first five or six months... followed by 7-8lbs up over the next fifteen or sixteen... so I would almost sign up for a -10) 2
