2021🌟30-Pound Challenge🌟

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  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 208.9

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: .9 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”

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  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 208.9

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: .9 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!

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  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 210

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: 2 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰


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  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 209.3

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: 1.3 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗

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  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 208.9

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: .9 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.


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  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    I'm not sure why I go so long without posting here. Maybe it's embarrassment that I'm going the wrong way and I've backslid horribly in taking proper care of myself. I'd hate to see what my A1C is right now. I'm eating my emotions and stress. Hello, carbs! I've always had a touch of FOMO (I had to look this up the other day because I had no idea what it meant, hahahaha) during the holidays, which was bad during the latter years of my marriage, went away for awhile after my divorce, and came back with a vengeance a couple of years later. This year the FOMO is aggravated by feelings of helplessness, futility, resentment, and a major sense of "This is not the way my life was supposed to be!" Some of those feelings will ease up after the holidays are over, but some will not. Ah well. Just keep plugging along, I guess. Sorry for dumping.

    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: 0.0
    Weight change in December: +0.8

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/9/2021 - 184.4
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2283/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/10/2021 - 184.8
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (1933/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/11/2021 - 185.0
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :+1: (1165/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :+1: (I went Christmas shopping today - walked through 2 malls looking for something very specific. Finally found and bought on Etsy. Sigh)
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: (Not sure Christmas shopping counts as "me time," but I did see a friend and we chatted for about 15 minutes. I'll take it.)
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/12/2021 - 185.0
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2711/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/13/2021 - 185.8
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2681/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/14/2021 - 186.8
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member

    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -0.6
    Weight change in December: +0.2

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/14/2021 - 186.8
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (1840/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/15/2021 - 186.2
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -
  • AshesSquared
    AshesSquared Posts: 135 Member
    Height: 5'5"
    Before birth: 182 lbs
    SW: 169 lbs
    GW by end of year: 140lbs
    GW in general: 130 lbs

    December Check-ins:
    Dec 1 check-in: 149 lbs
    Dec 2 check-in: 146.8 lbs
    Dec 16 check-in: 145 lbs

    I know I won't get there, but let's see how close to 140 I can get before the new year!
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -1.8
    Weight change in December: +1.0

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/14/2021 - 186.2
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2027/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: (The chorus went caroling tonight, on a wagon, through *the* neighborhood to be in at this time of year. It was pretty much a disaster in that it was not a good performance and I'd like to know who chose that music. LOL)
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/15/2021 - 185.0
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    seilidhe wrote: »
    I'm not sure why I go so long without posting here. Maybe it's embarrassment that I'm going the wrong way and I've backslid horribly in taking proper care of myself. I'd hate to see what my A1C is right now. I'm eating my emotions and stress. Hello, carbs! I've always had a touch of FOMO (I had to look this up the other day because I had no idea what it meant, hahahaha) during the holidays, which was bad during the latter years of my marriage, went away for awhile after my divorce, and came back with a vengeance a couple of years later. This year the FOMO is aggravated by feelings of helplessness, futility, resentment, and a major sense of "This is not the way my life was supposed to be!" Some of those feelings will ease up after the holidays are over, but some will not. Ah well. Just keep plugging along, I guess. Sorry for dumping.

    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: 0.0
    Weight change in December: +0.8

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/9/2021 - 184.4
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2283/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/10/2021 - 184.8
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (1933/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/11/2021 - 185.0
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :+1: (1165/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :+1: (I went Christmas shopping today - walked through 2 malls looking for something very specific. Finally found and bought on Etsy. Sigh)
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: (Not sure Christmas shopping counts as "me time," but I did see a friend and we chatted for about 15 minutes. I'll take it.)
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/12/2021 - 185.0
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2711/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/13/2021 - 185.8
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2681/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/14/2021 - 186.8
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -

    Sei, you are among friends…. And this is the perfect place to vent!! 🥰. The holidays are so full of crazy expectations of perfection and over abundance of everything delicious. I am barely hanging on to the wagon myself. This is our safe and truthful place. Weight loss is like a rollercoaster. Sometimes you’ve got to get to the top of the hill before the free fall.

    I’m here for you!

    Jill 🥰
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 211.5

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: 3.5 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️

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  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 211.3

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: 3.3 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9842 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 18…211.3 baby steps 🥰

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  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 211.8

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: 3.8 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9842 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 18…211.3 baby steps 🥰
    December 19…210.6 🙂
    December 20…211.8🤨 Made Christmas cookies all afternoon. My daughter had friends over to decorate cookies. It was fun but exhausting. Stood on my feet for so long!


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  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -1.8
    Weight change in December: +1.0

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/15/2021 - 185.0
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1: (2027/1247)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: (The chorus went caroling tonight, on a wagon, through *the* neighborhood to be in at this time of year. It was pretty much a disaster in that it was not a good performance and I'd like to know who chose that music. LOL)
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/16/2021 - 185.0
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: Trivia tonight with my daughter.
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/17/2021 - 185.0
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/18/2021 - 186.8
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/19/2021 - 186.0 (This can't be right).
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/20/2021 - 188.8 (Oh geez!) Yeah... It's been a *kitten* show week in every way. No just diet. Everything.
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -1.8
    Weight change in December: +1.0

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/20/2021 - 188.8 (Oh geez!) Yeah... It's been a *kitten* show week in every way. No just diet. Everything.
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/21/2021 - 189.2
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:


    12/22/2021 - 189.4
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: The chorus sang at the zoo tonight. Sadly, we were on stage for all but 15 minutes the zoo was opened, so I didn't get to walk around.
    🥤 - :-1:
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    x0v6apaz8vqw.jpg



    12/23/2021 - 189.6 (Definitely going the wrong way here... Something's gotta give. It's looking like my sanity may be among the first to fall....
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 211.2

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: 3.2 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9842 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 18…211.3 baby steps 🥰
    December 19…210.6 🙂
    December 20…211.8🤨 Made Christmas cookies all afternoon. My daughter had friends over to decorate cookies. It was fun but exhausting. Stood on my feet for so long!

    December 21… 212.1
    December 22….211.8
    December 23.…211.2 still hanging in there! The family is all home for Christmas, and I’m headed to the grocery store for the last time before Christmas… fruits and veggies to balance out the chocolate. Happy Eve of Christmas Eve!

    December 24
    December 25
    December 26
    December 27
    December 28
    December 29
    December 30
    December 31
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    seilidhe wrote: »
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -1.8
    Weight change in December: +1.0

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/20/2021 - 188.8 (Oh geez!) Yeah... It's been a *kitten* show week in every way. No just diet. Everything.
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/21/2021 - 189.2
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:


    12/22/2021 - 189.4
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :+1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: The chorus sang at the zoo tonight. Sadly, we were on stage for all but 15 minutes the zoo was opened, so I didn't get to walk around.
    🥤 - :-1:
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    x0v6apaz8vqw.jpg



    12/23/2021 - 189.6 (Definitely going the wrong way here... Something's gotta give. It's looking like my sanity may be among the first to fall....
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -

    Beautiful photos! ❤️
    Sei, don’t stress yourself out… December is the month to get a little… or a lot…. Crazy. January we’ll be back in the right headspace.
    Sending you hugs from Michigan🥰

    Jill
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 211.2

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December weight lost so far: 3.2 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9842 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 18…211.3 baby steps 🥰
    December 19…210.6 🙂
    December 20…211.8🤨 Made Christmas cookies all afternoon. My daughter had friends over to decorate cookies. It was fun but exhausting. Stood on my feet for so long!

    December 21… 212.1
    December 22….211.8
    December 23.…211.2 still hanging in there! The family is all home for Christmas, and I’m headed to the grocery store for the last time before Christmas… fruits and veggies to balance out the chocolate. Happy Eve of Christmas Eve!

    December 24… Merry Christmas Eve!
    December 25….Merry Christmas!
    December 26…213.4

    December 27
    December 28
    December 29
    December 30
    December 31
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -1.8
    Weight change in December: +1.0

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/23/2021 - 189.6
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/24/2021 - 189.6 (This was the night of our Christmas celebration. My son came down from Phoenix as it was basically the only day in the next two weeks or so that he was not doing something related to work. We had dinner, opened gifts, and went for a long walk through Winterhaven, a local neighborhood famed for its holiday decorations. I got a new laptop for me {woohoo!} so I'll be back here more regularly, plus tickets (for my girls and I) to see a special showing of one of my favorite movies, "The Princess Bride," with a live Q&A with Cary Elwes... and those tickets include a meet and greet with Mr. Elwes... SQUEEEEE! My children get me. Hahahahah! All I had to say to them (besides the shocked exclamation of "M*****F*****! For all three of us?" which they caught when they recorded my opening the gift - and said recording was shared by one daughter and my son, and by friends of theirs.... what the heck???) was "As you wish..." My kids get me. Of course, they're already teasing me about how awkward I was when I met Kevin Smith (the actor who played Ares on Xena, not the director) and how I have do better this time."
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: - I stayed up late after Ais went to bed. Just listening to music and playing on my phone. I was so tired, but needed the decompression time.
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/25/2021 - 191.6 - Christmas Day was quiet. Music from Music Choice on the tv and just kind of hanging out. Meg came over, brought her dog with her too. Kindra (one of the girls' friends) came over later on. I was peopled out by the time dinner was finished.
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1: More decompression time after everybody left and Ais went to bed.
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/26/2021 - 189.7
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -

    Hope all of you who celebrate the Christmas holiday had a wonderful day, spent with those you cherish. Wishing everybody a prosperous, healthy, and happy New Year! May only good things come to all of you.
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 214.6

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December so far: 6.6 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9842 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 18…211.3 baby steps 🥰
    December 19…210.6 🙂
    December 20…211.8🤨 Made Christmas cookies all afternoon. My daughter had friends over to decorate cookies. It was fun but exhausting. Stood on my feet for so long!

    December 21… 212.1
    December 22….211.8
    December 23.…211.2 still hanging in there! The family is all home for Christmas, and I’m headed to the grocery store for the last time before Christmas… fruits and veggies to balance out the chocolate. Happy Eve of Christmas Eve!

    December 24… Merry Christmas Eve!
    December 25….Merry Christmas!
    December 26…213.4
    December 27...214.6
    December 28
    December 29
    December 30
    December 31
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -1.8
    Weight change in December: +1.0

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/26/2021 - 189.7
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/27/2021 - 191.2
    😅 - :+1: (barely)
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:


    Sigh.... Hey, Jill (@jm216 ), are we going to try a redo in '22? I'm in if you are!
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    seilidhe wrote: »
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: -1.8
    Weight change in December: +1.0

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/26/2021 - 189.7
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/27/2021 - 191.2
    😅 - :+1: (barely)
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:


    Sigh.... Hey, Jill (@jm216 ), are we going to try a redo in '22? I'm in if you are!

    Absolutely! I’ll get it going tomorrow… so ready for a 2022 fresh start!

    🥰
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 212.2

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December so far: 4.2 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9842 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 18…211.3 baby steps 🥰
    December 19…210.6 🙂
    December 20…211.8🤨 Made Christmas cookies all afternoon. My daughter had friends over to decorate cookies. It was fun but exhausting. Stood on my feet for so long!

    December 21… 212.1
    December 22….211.8
    December 23.…211.2 still hanging in there! The family is all home for Christmas, and I’m headed to the grocery store for the last time before Christmas… fruits and veggies to balance out the chocolate. Happy Eve of Christmas Eve!

    December 24… Merry Christmas Eve!
    December 25….Merry Christmas!
    December 26…213.4
    December 27...214.6
    December 28…212.2 better. 🙂
    December 29
    December 30
    December 31
  • AshesSquared
    AshesSquared Posts: 135 Member
    Height: 5'5"
    Before birth: 182 lbs
    SW: 169 lbs
    GW by end of year: 140lbs
    GW in general: 130 lbs

    December Check-ins:
    Dec 1 check-in: 149 lbs
    Dec 2 check-in: 146.8 lbs
    Dec 16 check-in: 145 lbs
    Dec 28 check-in: 146.2 lbs

    The in-laws are still here for 5 more days , so I don't expect any weight loss. My one goal is to drink my water. I can get serious in January more easily if I at least stay hydrated.

    Merry Christmas, everyone!
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    The 🌟❄️ January Log in and Weigh in Challenge❄️🌟 has just been created for us under the Challenge category under Community. I can’t wait to see you there!

    Jill❤️
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: +4.8
    Weight change in December: +5.4

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/27/2021 - 191.2
    😅 - :+1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/28/2021 - 190.4
    😅 - :+1: (was out for over an hour on the Loop today. Walking. My only real exercise (besides the walk through Winterhaven on Friday night) in weeks.
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/29/2021 - 191.6
    😅 - :-1: (spent the day "babysitting" my youngest who had her wisdom teeth out late morning - 31 years old and first time under anesthesia)
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/30/2021 - 191.4
    😅 -
    📔 -
    🥅 -
    🏃🏻‍♀️ -
    🚴🏻‍♀️ -
    📚☕ -
    🥤 -


    On my way to the new challenge. See you there!
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    Woot! Woot! I’m here. Thanks, Jill, for getting this started. The new year brings the additional challenge of trying to recover from my weight slide back to sometime in 2020. Although I basically maintained throughout most of 2021, I totally fell off everywhere mostly between Hallowe’en and now. Alas.

    My goals include (from most difficult to easiest):
    🥤Drinking more water than diet soda
    🥅 Staying within my calorie limits
    📚☕Making sure I get some “me time” each day
    😅🏃🏻‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️ Exercising daily (at least 20 minutes total - not necessarily measured with a fitbit or other app since I don't have a fitness watch and I'm not allowed to carry my phone with me at work.)
    📔 Tracking every meal
    ⚖️Weighing daily is a given for me, so this will be the easiest one for me.

    Highest Weight: Maybe somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2022) =
    Current Weight (January 1, 2022) =

    01/01/2022 –
    01/02/2022 –
    01/03/2022 –
    01/04/2022 ¬
    01/05/2022 –
    01/06/2022 –
    01/07/2022 –
    01/08/2022 –
    01/09/2022 –
    01/10/2022 –
    01/11/2022 –
    01/12/2022 –
    01/13/2022 –
    01/14/2022 –
    01/15/2022 –
    01/16/2022 –
    01/17/2022 –
    01/18/2022 –
    01/19/2022 –
    01/20/2022 –
    01/21/2022 –
    01/22/2022 –
    01/23/2022 –
    01/24/2022 –
    01/25/2022 –
    01/26/2022 –
    01/27/2022 –
    01/28/2022 –
    01/29/2022 –
    01/30/2022 –
    01/31/2022 –
  • jm216
    jm216 Posts: 3,965 Member
    🌲December Challenge🌲

    Highest weight: 234
    Current weight: 212

    September weight lost: 6 pounds
    October weight lost: .2 pound gain
    November weight lost: 5 pounds

    December so far: 4 pound gain

    ❤️My new December goal is to maintain. I’d love to lose a pound or 2, but maintenance is more achievable during This crazy but fun month.❤️

    December 1—208 pounds…Here we go!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14,495 steps
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 2—206.3 pounds…My daughter and I did another college campus tour yesterday, so we walked EVERYWHERE! 🥰
    Talk about a calorie burner!
    🌲Logged
    🌲weighed in
    🌲8953 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories 🤨

    December 3—208.1 pounds… there it goes up…Popeyes chicken sandwich, mashed potatoes, and Mac and cheese last night for dinner. I know better than to eat that much at night. Feeling stuffed this morning and needing to drink a gallon of water to quench my thirst. Logged it…Acknowledged it… and moving forward. Making a big salad for lunch! 🥗 Happy Day 3!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9887 steps… so close to 10K
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 4…209.2…Took my daughter to an awesome all-day campus visit with seminars and tours in Bowling Green today. Feeling happily exhausted. She really loved this school.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲18326 steps… 7 miles is walking.. 🥰
    🌲Logged water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 5…207.. 🥰🥰🥰 Yesterdays walking saved the day!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲7784 steps
    🌲Did not log water
    🌲Ate over calories

    December 6…209…time to get back into full swing and not just “go through the motions”.
    No more overeating Christmas chocolates!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲10,022 steps
    🌲Ate just over calories… getting closer.

    December 7…207.8… getting my good habits back together… feeling more in control… my next challenge is to break the 207 barrier. My stretch goal by New Years Eve is 200 pounds… but I’ll be happy to see 205. Gonna push through this. Making veggie taco soup for dinner tonight. Meal planning and drinking lots of water helps so much! Happy Tuesday! 😁
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8146 steps
    🌲 Ate over calories… was doing great until the Christmas chocolate snacking kicked in. Having a tough time keeping the portion under control. Must drink more water at night.

    December 8…208.4…today it’s a wrapping gifts day… and a quick shoveling of the light snow we got last night. ❄️❤️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8,450 steps
    🌲Ate well-over calories. 🤨
    🌲Logged water

    December 9… 209.9… thank god that I shoveled yesterday, or I’d be over 210 today. The positive is that all of the kid’s gifts are wrapped. Happy Thursday!!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲6583 steps
    🌲Just over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 10…208.9…It’s Friday… so I work today, then I’m off for the weekend! Must continue to keep portions in control…. “Jill, of course you can eat some chocolate 🍫… not ALL OF THE CHOCOLATE…”
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9491 steps
    🌲Well-over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 11…210…washing comforters at the laundry-mat today 🧺 It’s so crazy windy and 50 degrees out! Very weird weather!
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲11,348 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 12… 210… Time to refocus! My goal for today is to be right at or under my calorie goals for today. 🥰
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲8746 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 13…209.3…Moving back in the right direction. 🥗
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9770 steps
    🌲Ate over calorie goal
    🌲Logged water

    December 14…208.9..Lunch salads are definitely helping. Slow and steady progress.
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲14053… it was so warm I cut the grass in the front yard!
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 15… 210.2… finished cutting the grass
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9911 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 16… 211.5🍫🤨
    🎄Logged
    🎄Weighed in
    🎄9035 steps
    🎄Ate over calories
    🎄Logged water

    December 17… 211.5 back to lunch salads and a chocolate protein shake for a snack.
    Today I bring it back under control. 🧘‍♀️
    🌲Logged
    🌲Weighed in
    🌲9842 steps
    🌲Ate over calories
    🌲Logged water

    December 18…211.3 baby steps 🥰
    December 19…210.6 🙂
    December 20…211.8🤨 Made Christmas cookies all afternoon. My daughter had friends over to decorate cookies. It was fun but exhausting. Stood on my feet for so long!

    December 21… 212.1
    December 22….211.8
    December 23.…211.2 still hanging in there! The family is all home for Christmas, and I’m headed to the grocery store for the last time before Christmas… fruits and veggies to balance out the chocolate. Happy Eve of Christmas Eve!

    December 24… Merry Christmas Eve!
    December 25….Merry Christmas!
    December 26…213.4
    December 27...214.6
    December 28…212.2
    December 29…213.9
    December 30…214.5
    December 31…212.0

    December is done and dusted!
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    seilidhe wrote: »
    Woot! Woot! I’m here. Thanks, Jill, for getting this started. The new year brings the additional challenge of trying to recover from my weight slide back to sometime in 2020. Although I basically maintained throughout most of 2021, I totally fell off everywhere mostly between Hallowe’en and now. Alas.


    Sigh... I thought I managed to delete this since it obviously belongs in the new challenge.

  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
    🕎🕯️🎄🎅🤶🍾 December Challenge 🍾🤶🎅🎄🕯️🕎

    Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
    Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
    Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2021) = 186.8
    Current Weight (December 1, 2021) = 186.0

    GOALS:
    😅 - Exercise at least 20 minutes per day
    📔 - Track everything I eat/drink
    🥅 - Stay within my calorie goal (according to MFP 1247/day)
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - Walk any distance
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - Get more bike time in
    📚☕ - Make sure I get some "me time" each day
    ⚖️ - Lose 3-5 pounds and keep it off instead of bouncing around like a pogo stick
    🥤 - Up my water consumption (H2O)/lower soda consumption (Diet Dr. Pepper)

    Weight change since beginning of challenge: +4.8
    Weight change in December: +5.4

    🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄🐶🐴🐲🦄

    12/30/2021 - 191.1
    😅 - :-1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :+1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    12/31/2021 - 192.0
    😅 - :-1:
    📔 - :-1:
    🥅 - :-1:
    🏃🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    🚴🏻‍♀️ - :-1:
    📚☕ - :-1:
    🥤 - :-1:

    1/1/2022 - 191.6
    See ya in the new challenge