Share your Numbers
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Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
Highest Weight (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
Started MFP for the 3rd time Oct 27 2021
Oct 31 2021 Weight 258.6 lbs
May 31 2022 Weight 210.0 lbs
LW 6/05 207.8 lbs
CW 6/13 207.2 lbs
Loss 0.6 pounds
Loss from 10/31/21 = 51.4 lbs
Loss from 5/22/19 = 69.6 lbs
Overweight BMI (203 lbs) lose 4.2 lbs
Healthy BMI (169 lbs) lose 38.2 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 62.2 lbs4 -
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Look at you go, ABD! Going to be in onederland soon!4
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@lauriekallis first I'll be "Overweight" then I'll be in onederland. Two goals I am very much looking forward to.😁
Also the weight on my driver's license is 200 lbs. 😂 🙄I have been lying to them for so many years.🤐🤫🤥 I renew it in Dec next year and should be able to proudly give my correct weight. 😎😊3 -
Know what’s really sad? When you have lied about your weight on your drivers license but now actually weigh less! 😀2
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Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
Highest Weight (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
Started MFP for the 3rd time Oct 27 2021
Oct 31 2021 Weight 258.6 lbs
May 31 2022 Weight 210.0 lbs
LW 6/13 207.2 lbs
CW 6/16 206.4 lbs
Loss 0.8 pounds
Loss from 10/31/21 = 52.2 lbs
Loss from 5/22/19 = 70.4 lbs
Overweight BMI (203 lbs) lose 3.4 lbs
Healthy BMI (169 lbs) lose 37.4 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 61.4 lbs
@Yoolypr by the time I go to renew it I'll weigh a lot less. I might actually be at goal by then if my progress keeps up. 🤔3 -
Well done, ABD!
Okay...up again...almost 7 pounds in 30 days (no sudden waterweight bump recently so I think this is a fair representation of where I am at). This despite my net calories being well under maintenance most days. I'm not too terribly distressed and am finding the numbers interesting. This is what happens when I'm eating somewhat intuitively - mostly meals that I know and trust and applying some restraint most days - plus a couple of binge days and a couple of strict days, and a week with a house guest. I have tracked religiously.
I've had MFP goal set to "maintain" and have counted my exercise calories logged through fitbit. Hoping that would give me the most accurate data since my days can be quite different.
I don't want to do the math required to try to establish accurate TDEE or exercise calories burned numbers, but clearly they are less than the MFP guidelines. So, next week I think I'll set my daily goal as 1500 (MFP currently suggests 1488 to lose .5 kg per week) and I'll continue to count my exercise calories - but will manually subtract half. My goal will be to establish a maintenance guideline. Once I have accomplished that for a few weeks, I'll begin deducting small amounts to start SLOWLY losing again, without triggering any "disordered" eating spells.
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Why wait until next week? I can clearly see that the MFP/fitbit numbers don't jive with my scale weight. So I'm starting the 1500 calories plus half of exercise calories today 4
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I am having SOME difficulty processing SUB 2K net calories and weight increase. So I guess you DO need to adjust the extra cal above baseline!
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I am having SOME difficulty processing SUB 2K net calories and weight increase...
I keep thinking that I will lose/maintain eating at this level - because MFP says I SHOULD be. But it's not working. I'm pretty sure of my logging - I use a scale for everything of appreciable calories - and fitbit numbers for exercise rather than guessing.
When I was losing in chainsaw mode I ate between 1000 and 1400 calories per day (a pretty high deficit according to MFP - but I suppose not according to my body ) and walked a fair bit - 15000 to 20000 step average for ??? maybe nine months - then joined this group and started trying different things because I just couldn't continue that way. 1 -
Can't continue this way won't work for too long right? So adjustment has to happen. Remember the fluctuations though. Even ABD had a time period where her numbers weren't flowing down regularly. Point being that unless you're in a large deficit then the numbers won't flow down.
If I understood what you said and using made up numbers as an example
If you *WERE* aiming for 2000 Cal + 100% exercise Calories and on average GAINED as if you were eating 400 Cal above maintenance -- these are all things you can estimate.
Well, you would need to trim about 900 Cal off that combination. 400 from the overage and no more than 500 or so for the actual deficit.
So how would I go about that? Depends I guess on how much extra that Fitbit is giving you in terms of activity in general. I would look at my averages over three weeks and aim to get my 900 Cal 50-50 between the base and variable level.
And I'm fairly sure that that's exactly what you're doing anyway. Just: no HUGE (ACTUAL) deficits. Just sane (ACTUAL) ones!1 -
Back from vacation, it's been a while!
Age: 41
Height: 167cm - 5'6''
SW: 177.8 kg - 392 lb - 64.5 ΒΜΙ (May 2020)
GW: 74.4 kg - 164 lb - 27 ΒΜΙ
LW: 78.0 kg - 172.0 lb - 28.3 ΒΜΙ (May 20th)
CW: 76.9 kg - 169.5 lb - 27.9 ΒΜΙ
Variance: -1.1 kg / -2.4 lb / -1.41% TBW (in almost a month tho)
OL: 100.9 kg - 222.4 lb - 36.6 BMI - 56.7% TBW in 793 days
Weight class projections:
Obese class II: Reached - 21.05.2021 - 401 days.
Obese class I: Reached - 25.09.2021 - 526 days.
Overweight: Reached - 19.03.2022 - 704 days.
Goal (74.4kg): 2.5 kg - 5.5 lb - 20 days.
Two major milestones passed while in Zakynthos. 100kg OL, and a sub 170lb TBW.
Frankly I thought that the delicious food we ate had a bad effect on me, and I was ready to bite the bullet when I came back and start over. Sure enough, when we returned on Monday, the next day saw my scale read 81kg, or 3 more than before my vacation started.
Luckily, all of that (and more) was apparently water retention from the slightly saline water in the island, as well as the excess amount of food. In three days, I was back to normal, and then some!
Moral of the story is probably to not pay too much attention to the scale itself, or rather to not overcompensate for rapid changes in weight due to rapid changes in lifestyle. Humans are weird, and our bodies are doubly so.
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Awesome @Dante_80 - looks like you made some good choices of vacation food and got plenty of exercise. That's the way to do it!4
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Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
Highest Weight (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
Started MFP for the 3rd time Oct 27 2021
Oct 31 2021 Weight 258.6 lbs
May 31 2022 Weight 210.0 lbs
LW 6/16 206.4 lbs
CW 6/17 206.0 lbs
Loss 0.4 pounds
Loss from 10/31/21 = 52.6 lbs
Loss from 5/22/19 = 70.8 lbs
Overweight BMI (203 lbs) lose 3.0 lbs
Healthy BMI (169 lbs) lose 37.0 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 61.0 lbs2 -
Nice outcome, Dante!
And ABD...humming along as you do!2 -
You kids are AWESOME and I love to see da progress!!!! And yes. Rapid changes have to be evaluated as to etiology!1
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Numbers do lie, or rather do require some interpretation!
So last night there was a "slight" hamster 🐹 meltdown 🤬 pretty much traced to an extremely frustrating day where several un-anticipated issues were added to the "to solve" pile and had to be priority farmed out for solving.
***Kitten*** sales🤬, Yooly needs to take her hubby and me and put us together.
Suffice it to say that the frozen double chocolate creme pie (830g size) was on sale at 25% off this week only!
It is a tasty pie. Very tasty. 1/8 of pie is 350 Cal. Ànd about 105g. The pie with bottom tray started at 866g. I started with a slice that wasn't quite a quarter---not helping here that the pie got thawed just after midnight with me having a good 1350 Cal room to hit maintenance calories after the aforementioned day.
But my drive wasn't quite a quarter. And it was good. And I was "nibbly". So I had to straighten it out, of course! 😹
The pie is in the fridge now at 299g.
So that would be 567g of pie, which is a bit more than a quarter!!!🙀
And incidentally about 1900 Cal of intent, which even on a 3500 Cal maintenance day is a bit of a load to absorb 🤷🏻♂️🤔
But, of course, the polite reference to this morning's results is.... tummy ache!!!!!🤣😹🤣😅
So it is obvious that 1900 Cal of pie leads to a 1.2lb weight loss, right????????🤔
Maybe I should get Garfield to formulate a pie plan of action for me!!!!!!!😅3 -
PAV, if I sent you and hubby to the grocery store no sale, clearance, discount item would be safe! That’s how I gained a lot of weight. Hubby bought all the irresistible sale things which he could eat with impunity. No weight problems for him. Unfortunately I would share the goodies and got fatter by the day.1
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Okay - my only question is - what is the name of this pie (exactly) and the name of the store where you purchased it? I'm pretty keen on the idea of weight-loss inducing double chocolate pie! That is even better than those no sugar Jello chocolate puddings! 1
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Laurie... you're supposed to be smarter than that, right???????
It is 2800 Calories for the 830g pie.... just saying!
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lol...I was not sincere, PAV. I have tried this pie - a month or so ago - when I stumbled across it. I picked it up for my son/daughter in law who are big fans of cream pies. It is pretty good.2
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No need to even eat the pie...just eat a prawn or two that's been left out in a sunny spot for a few hours and wait for the inevitable 'tummy ache'. As a bonus you may get a really severe case of 'tummy ache' and lose a quarter of your body weight. Don't try this when you're about to go wild camping for a week.
What is it about men and bargains? As my mom always used to say...there's no such thing as free food. It all contains calories...2 -
Oh I wish your mom wasn't so right, Bella!
I hope you're feeling better.1 -
Thanks Laurie but luckily it’s not happened this trip..happened last time we were camping. I’ll never eat a prawn ever again! 🤢🤢🤢2
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Bella_Figura wrote: »What is it about men and bargains? As my mom always used to say...there's no such thing as free food. It all contains calories...
Men perhaps reverting to hunter-gatherers? Hubby would buy anything that’s discounted and the try to figure out how to use it. Absolutely cannot be trusted in a grocery store alone. I usually follow behind him repeating NO NO NO NO NO.
Mercifully hubby and son eat it all with not much ill effect. Hubby weighs less now than he did at 18. 🤯2 -
Ha! According to the men I know it is the femmes who are bargain hunters! I admit, I'm sales motivated, but not *fake* sales motivated 😡🤬😡 those just annoy me and they are way too prevalent1
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Good progress this week.
Age: 41
Height: 167cm - 5'6''
SW: 177.8 kg - 392 lb - 64.5 ΒΜΙ (May 2020)
GW: 74.4 kg - 164 lb - 27 ΒΜΙ
LW: 76.9 kg - 169.5 lb - 27.9 ΒΜΙ
CW: 76.1 kg - 167.8 lb - 27.6 ΒΜΙ
Variance: -0.8 kg / -1.8 lb / -1.04% TBW
OL: 101.7 kg - 224.2 lb - 36.9 BMI - 57.2% TBW in 800 days
Weight class projections:
Obese class II: Reached - 21.05.2021 - 401 days.
Obese class I: Reached - 25.09.2021 - 526 days.
Overweight: Reached - 19.03.2022 - 704 days.
Goal (74.4kg): 1.7 kg - 3.7 lb - 13 days.
Exactly 800 days out, and coming closer to the goal I set a looong time ago. Will have to re-evaluate when I do reach it, but we'll cross that river when the time comes.
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Great progress this week, Dante. They'll have to tie you down soon so you don't get blown away by those ocean breezes next time you are visiting an island 3
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Oh my...I wrote a big long post and then lost it
so a short version:
I ran out of cash/credit in April = running out of a supplement that is good for me all over. Hopefully that sudden change also had a hand in my weight creeping up and up and up despite reasonable calories in/calories out levels. And, the best part, delivery of said supplement is expected today (actually it was the delivery notification that wiped out my post with, of course, some help from me).
Hopefully my next "numbers" post will be something that makes me smile.
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