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Started at 425 -- down 120 now to 304, but need to reach 220 to actually be "healthy" for my height, weight, and frame. Well into my first Century loss medallion for TOPS...would like to achieve and KEEP the second Century by this time next year, but the going can be slow!4
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jim_pipkin wrote: »Started at 425 -- down 120 now to 304, but need to reach 220 to actually be "healthy" for my height, weight, and frame. Well into my first Century loss medallion for TOPS...would like to achieve and KEEP the second Century by this time next year, but the going can be slow!
You will get there. It is kind of hard to judge how long the end part will take when you drop to 1 pound a week. Even before then though it definitely gets slower. It was kind of a shock when I saw my projections for year 2 and I lose 60 pounds less overall than I did in year 1. Starting year 3 I would have dropped to 1 pound a week and it would have taken most of the year to lose my last 40. All of that is changed with my upcoming surgery so I don't know how it will all play out now.1 -
I havent gotten too much into predictions/projections, right now I just track and collect data. I can definitely see how as you get towards the end your ability to maintain deficit is gonna decrease. Right now I think who cares, if I get down to 275 or 250 and maintain, I was 430. I understand perspective changes as you change though. Just work the system and it will take care of itself.1
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I havent gotten too much into predictions/projections, right now I just track and collect data. I can definitely see how as you get towards the end your ability to maintain deficit is gonna decrease. Right now I think who cares, if I get down to 275 or 250 and maintain, I was 430. I understand perspective changes as you change though. Just work the system and it will take care of itself.
I would have hated to have any type of predictions early on. I started my spreadsheet toward the end of my 6th month and it was around month 10 that I started predictions. I started needing them for things like following up with the plastic surgeon and travel planning. Trying to determine how mobile I would be based on my weight helped me decide what kind of vacations to plan.
Lately I have been obsessed with it because I am on a deadline but under normal circumstances I try not to think about it too much so I definitely agree with your working the system approach.0 -
Numbers Day
Weekly Scale Results :1.6
Weight Change By Deficit : 2.48
Masking: 0
3 wk RoL: 2.67
6 wk RoL: 3.17
I will look at my SS some more a little later and see if I feel that 6 week rate of loss means I might be able to relax a little this weekend. That number is higher than my target by .42 pound per week. The 3 week is in line with expectation though. I need to spend some time with it and go back over my projections carefully.0 -
Number update today:
1. Today will be day 77 of walking at least 5 miles & 11,000 steps a day.
2. My streak on MFP is 116 days.
3. I am down 20 pounds.
4. I have walked 577 miles since April 20, 2019.
(No change in weight from last week. Daily weight fluctuated all week, but no loss from the total. It might be because the kids and I added in some basketball and I'm holding water from that. That's the reason I'm going with anyway. I know I did not over eat.)4 -
Americanbabydoll wrote: »Number update today:
1. Today will be day 77 of walking at least 5 miles & 11,000 steps a day.
2. My streak on MFP is 116 days.
3. I am down 20 pounds.
4. I have walked 577 miles since April 20, 2019.
(No change in weight from last week. Daily weight fluctuated all week, but no loss from the total. It might be because the kids and I added in some basketball and I'm holding water from that. That's the reason I'm going with anyway. I know I did not over eat.)
Seems like a good explanation. Sometimes there does not seem to be one but as long as you are sure you are in a calorie deficit the scale will eventually give you a new low.
Some people eventually form nearly predictable patterns. You sway for a bit and then you start a "whoosh" and in a day or so you hit your new low.2 -
Weigh day today, I have officially lost 3st!!! I’m only 2st away from my goal weight. I kind of feel like I’m losing it too quick??3
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TwinThompson wrote: »Weigh day today, I have officially lost 3st!!! I’m only 2st away from my goal weight. I kind of feel like I’m losing it too quick??
That's brilliant, I'm not sure what your time frame has been but if you're worried perhaps you could switch to a 0.5lb a week target as you get closer.1 -
TwinThompson wrote: »Weigh day today, I have officially lost 3st!!! I’m only 2st away from my goal weight. I kind of feel like I’m losing it too quick??
If you would like we can help you evaluate your recent rate of loss trend to help guide you. Sometimes it is harder to see amidst weight fluctuations and whooshes.0 -
I lost 7 pounds in August, 264.8 to 257.8. I walked 162.43 miles and 358,834 steps as tracked by my Fitbit.2
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Americanbabydoll wrote: »I lost 7 pounds in August, 264.8 to 257.8. I walked 162.43 miles and 358,834 steps as tracked by my Fitbit.
That is 4 & 1/2 week rate of loss of 1.58 pounds per week which means your average daily deficit was 790 calories. Not really high if your goal is 1.5 pounds per week. you would need to add 250ish calories to your day to drop back to 1 pound per week.2 -
Checking in with my monthly numbers update. August was a great month for me. I attribute most of my success to running, which I started early this month.
1/1: 386.6
2/1: 368.8 (-17.8)
3/1: 360.6 (-26.0)
4/1: 348.9 (-37.7)
5/1: 341.0 (-45.6)
6/1: 332.6 (-54.0)
7/1: 322.9 (-63.7)
8/1: 317.7 (-68.9)
9/1: 306.2 (-80.4)7 -
Checking in with my monthly numbers update. August was a great month for me. I attribute most of my success to running, which I started early this month.
1/1: 386.6
2/1: 368.8 (-17.8)
3/1: 360.6 (-26.0)
4/1: 348.9 (-37.7)
5/1: 341.0 (-45.6)
6/1: 332.6 (-54.0)
7/1: 322.9 (-63.7)
8/1: 317.7 (-68.9)
9/1: 306.2 (-80.4)
You my friend are a super hero 🦸♂️🦹♂️🏋️♂️2 -
TwinThompson wrote: »Weigh day today, I have officially lost 3st!!! I’m only 2st away from my goal weight. I kind of feel like I’m losing it too quick??
If you would like we can help you evaluate your recent rate of loss trend to help guide you. Sometimes it is harder to see amidst weight fluctuations and whooshes.
How do you evaluate?? (Sorry for late reply, I’ve been MIA for my birthday week lol)0 -
TwinThompson wrote: »TwinThompson wrote: »Weigh day today, I have officially lost 3st!!! I’m only 2st away from my goal weight. I kind of feel like I’m losing it too quick??
If you would like we can help you evaluate your recent rate of loss trend to help guide you. Sometimes it is harder to see amidst weight fluctuations and whooshes.
How do you evaluate?? (Sorry for late reply, I’ve been MIA for my birthday week lol)
No need to apologize. The beauty of a message board is that you reply when you get a chance.
With 2st left to lose you definitely do not want to be losing faster than about 1 pound a week so all you need to do is compare a recent result with one from about 6 weeks ago.
If you are losing more than 1.2 pounds per week multiply the result times 3500 and then divide it by 7. Take that result and subtract 500 and it will tell you how many more calories to eat each day on average.
Or you can give me a recent result with the date and one from about 6 weeks ago with the date it happened and I can do it for you... I think it has been well established I like doing the math.
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That is a loss of 15 pounds over 42 days for an average weekly loss of 2.5 pounds per week. Your average deficit over the 42 days was 1250 calories. This is too fast with 2st (28 pounds for anyone else reading) to go.
Ok so what you do not want to do is overcompensate so can you give me your weight and the date for 6 weeks before July 19th? My concern is that you might have been retaining water the week of the 19th and it is inflating your loss. I prefer to be thorough in these situations because if you start eating more calories on bad info it could slow down or stall your progress.0 -
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TwinThompson wrote: »
That is a loss of 29 pounds over 84 days. This averages to 2.41 pounds per week.
You haven't lost too fast for that long because you were losing about 1 percent of your body weight per week. It was not unsafe but considered aggressive by some.
Since your goal is 211 you can just drop to 1.5 pounds per week which means you should start eating a little more now. Based on your 12 week results you can add about 400 calories to your day.
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TwinThompson wrote: »
That is a loss of 29 pounds over 84 days. This averages to 2.41 pounds per week.
You haven't lost too fast for that long because you were losing about 1 percent of your body weight per week. It was not unsafe but considered aggressive by some.
Since your goal is 211 you can just drop to 1.5 pounds per week which means you should start eating a little more now. Based on your 12 week results you can add about 400 calories to your day.
Thank you! I’ll have to start making more of an effort when I’m at work, I do nightshift and tend to be too tired and skip meals when I get home.
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Date Waist Weight
11/4/2018 61 425
11/28/2018 413.6
12/29/2018 394.2
1/31/2019 380.6
2/23/2019 367.2
3/30/2019 354.8
4/27/2019 342.6
5/25/2019 329.6
6/27/2019 318.2
7/27/2019 309.6
8/31/2019 46 303.6
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@jim_pipkin Awesome progress!
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As mentioned before, I have spreadsheets of my data. One of those spreadsheets includes historical data for the inches I've lost. In the beginning (2012), I didn't take that many measurements. Since 2018, my precision has increased, but what I can compare between 2012 and 2018 is a smaller subset of those inches. I take my inches monthly (inches move so much more slowly, especially now). In 2012-2013, I took them more frequently as I lost the first 80lbs then, and in 2013-2014, I measured pretty frequently as I was actively lifting. 2015-2016 has zero data as I was focused on the health storm going on in my life that year. And 2016-2017, I was relearning how to eat and eat in a calorie deficit with new food rules in place, plus moving, so there was largely no data here. This is also the year that I'd gained 20lbs trying to figure out the best things to eat in the new rules given ( no gluten, plus all the other foods I was allergic too).
But through it all, I still kept tabs on data. In 2018, when I decided to finally get to goal (I'd taken a recomp break right after losing the 80lbs to do the heavy lifting, so I'd never made it to goal), my data collection habits had increased 10fold. I knew a lot more about what to do, etc, etc.
Anyway, this little history lesson of mine is really to say that the numbers I'm presenting now are not entirely the whole, but they are the only historical data I have to match from now to then.
Since 2012, I have lost 101.3 inches across my body (7 data points). Between Feb 2018 - Now 2019, with more data points, I've lost 30 inches overall (12 data points).
As I near the end, I am reminded of the beginning. When I thought everything was insurmountable. When I thought I'd never make it. Yet, here I am. Through scale fluctuations and all! Some of my yearly trends look insane, too.
Stay frosty, folks, and keep slayin' your goals!5 -
@dhiammarath Thank you for your post about your journey of numbers - it's just what I needed to read today as I ponder my progress. You've also inspired me to start a spreadsheet because I so need another (Ha-Ha-Ha!). I might even throw in a pivot table or two, just because. Just because, because, well, it sounds like a positive action.
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@hansep0012 You are welcome! I wish I had kept better data back in the early years, but it is what it is. Nowadays, I am fastidious about my data. Luckily, I have always been an every day weigher, so I have that historical daily weight data over the last 7 years.
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This is very interesting information.....on June l I weighed 350 and now I am at 315..... is this ok?.....I want all of this extra weight gone so badly....yesterday was day 100 logging and dieting and it was the first time I went over my calorie limit....beating myself up over it accomplished nothing....back on track today!...thank you so much for this group of fitness pals!0
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »This is very interesting information.....on June l I weighed 350 and now I am at 315..... is this ok?.....I want all of this extra weight gone so badly....yesterday was day 100 logging and dieting and it was the first time I went over my calorie limit....beating myself up over it accomplished nothing....back on track today!...thank you so much for this group of fitness pals!
@conniewilkins56
June 11 was 76 days ago
You have lost 35 pounds since then at an average weekly rate of 3.22 pounds per week.
This means you have created an average daily deficit of 1612 calories.
I would seriously consider slowing that down a little now. I know you want it off quickly but remember you will be doing this for quite some time and supplying your body with ample nutrition is important too. I also recommend that you get regular blood work done if you are not already.
It was about at your weight that I dropped to 2.75 pounds per week for my rate of loss. This would mean that you add 250 calories per day to your eating. Basically the 100 calories you thought you were over yesterday was still 150 too low. lol
I stayed at 2.75 until I reached 285 and then I dropped to 2.5. I always stayed just slightly under the 1 percent rule which is still aggressive but only moderately.1 -
Thank you!1
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I am sorry but I misquoted my loss......may 28 I weighed 350 now I way 315 which I have weighed for ten days.....does this change the calculations?....thanks so much for helping me with this!0
