June 2021 Monthly WL Challenge
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@Skittles2183 I’m in a funk too. It was all fun and games at first losing tons of water weight. But I hit the wall, and the negative self talk is getting louder. I’ve gone a week without a loss, and I was grumpily coming here to record my stats.
But I’m going to keep going. At least not quit yet. No matter what I KNOW that my current menu is waaay better than what I was stuffing myself with. I’m just going to take it one day at a time. My next goal is to get to a 20 lb loss. I can do it.
You can too. Help me stay on track, we’ll plug along together.1 -
SW: 325
CW: 313
GW: 308 for June
LTGW: 190
Weigh-ins Tuesday’s
6/8: 313
6/15: 306.4
6/22: 306.4
6/29
Total for June:
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@FancyIsMyName
You are right we can do this. I have tracked my food the last two days and I'm going to keep tracking. today my goal is to drink more water, plus walk for 30 mins as well track my food again.
We got this, its ok to have bad days but like you said don't quit2 -
Cheesy
SW: 330
CW: 264
GW: 259
LTGW: 235 for a BMI of 35 per the doc
Weigh-ins Thursday’s
6/3: 265.4
6/10: 262.8
6/17: 259.2
6/24: 258.8
Total for June: -6.6
Weight finally settled out a bit, and has been 258-259 for the week. I think I’m solidly in the 250s, for the first time since 2009 maybe?
People are noticing, so this rate of loss is definitely faster than it’s been the last year or so. I’ve had to buy all new pants and whatnot too
The weightloss clinic doc wanted me to try intermittent fasting one day a week. It hasn’t been the easiest. The fasting is easy enough, I skip enough meals that two in a row is ok. But the “you must” factor of it is too restrictive, and that’s causing problems for me. I don’t think it’s going to be sustainable for me, and that violates one of my rules for me. I have a rule that I won’t do anything to lose weight that I won’t do long-term to maintain that weightloss. Plus, I’m not sure why they want me to, since I’m losing 1-2 pounds a week, and that seems plenty fast to me. I’ll finish out the month trial as I had agreed to, maybe, and talk it over with them. But let me tell ya, I’m glad I have an arsenal of tools to manage binge urges and to recognize physiologic urges to binge, because intermittent fasting definitely triggers that urge, understandably. I *know* that restriction isn’t a good idea for me, I don’t know why I agreed to try it. I also know that I can drop this advice if I choose. That’s ok too. This weightloss doc doesn’t know everything about my situation. But she seemed to have a reason based upon my metabolism. I will have to talk it over with her.
My friend’s birthday is tomorrow, and she chose a Mexican restaurant to celebrate tonight. It’s about the first time I’ve been to a sit-down place since the pandemic started! I’ve looked through the menu and have chosen two dishes, pre-logged them as best I could, and added my “restaurant overage.” It’s an entry I made close to my macro percentage goals, and I add it in to up the calories 33% if I’m not able to weigh/ measure/ or look up the foods at a restaurant. I have one to up the foods 25% if I’m able to count/weigh/measure or otherwise more accurately guess the calories. It’s to account for the differences in ways restaurant meals are prepared (I have no idea how much oil they use to cook the meats, how much sugar is in the sauces, etc), so I add a buffer of calories. I used to travel a lot and eat out a lot, this is one way I keep on-track when eating out the majority of my meals when I can’t control how I prepare the food.
The restaurant is a family owned mexican place, so they don’t have nutritional info online. I found entries for the entrees I wanted on MFP, choose ones that were the higher end calories and the macros added up to the calories listed, and seemed reasonable to me 🤷🏼♀️ Best guess. They both were about 1,000 calories. So then I added my “restaurant overage” entry from my foods for an extra 331 calories, the closest I could get to 33%. I’ll go back tonight and delete the one I didn’t order, and adjust for if I ate half, or seemed like a bigger or smaller portion or whatever, or ordered something completely different. If we order an appetizer, I’ll tally the entire meal’s calories, then use that to multiply the “restaurant overage”
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250’s for the first time since 2009 is a huge accomplishment. It’s really encouraging as seeing some old paperwork made me realize how long I’ve been this size.
That’s a great idea about restaurants.
At this point I don’t think I’d be able to handle a very strict IF. I have had low days in Calories which I feels build a bank for a bad day. But I know if I had to skip two meals, I would be completely obsessed and distracted all day.1 -
36 / 5"6
My Numbers:
SW: 318
CW: 287
GW:282
LTGW: 154
Weigh-ins: Fridays
6/4/21 = 287
6/11/21 = 290
6/28/21 = 290
6/25/21= 289
Total WL/G for the month= 0lb2 -
Way to go @Gnawcraft! It’s been a hard month, but you’re still here, still doing the work, still checking in. You’ve got this!1
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Thank you
I've gotten rid of the treats now at least haha! 2 -
Stacie 38, 5'4"
SW: 298 (281lbs joined MFP)
CW: 215
GW: 212
LTGW: 135
Weigh-ins: Fridays
6/4/21 = 215 🤗
6/11/21 =215.4
6/18/21 =216
6/25/21= 216.4
Total WL/G for the month= +1.4
I'm hoping this is muscle, I've been pretty active lately. I guess the next couple weeks will be telling. It's been slow going the last couple months. I really hope i get out of 200s by end of August 🤞1 -
@StacieBugPrude Keep going!1
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@StacieBugPrude, you’re 80+ pounds down! Amazing!! Your body will naturally take breaks to recomp and rest along the way. Keep focus on the habits that have worked best to help you lose that 80+ pounds. These maintenance breaks are a good time to practice long-term maintenance, and to look at those habits and see which ones to keep, which to tweak, which to stop. You can’t control the scale. You *can* control your behavior, your habits.
I’d love to know what has brought you so much success this far! You’re amazing!!2 -
My Numbers:
SW: 341.8
CW: 328.8
GW: 319
LTGW: 150
Weigh-ins: Friday’s
6/4/21 = 338.4
6/11/21 = 336.6
6/18/21 = 333.4
6/25/21= 330.6
Total WL/G for the month= 310’s!
I met my June goal of being in the 320’s! Now to start a new goal, for July - the 310’s. Such a long way to go that I think setting monthly mini goals is a good way to try and stay encouraged. Leaving on vacation tomorrow so hoping I can at least maintain what I’ve lost so far!2 -
SW: 325
CW: 313
GW: 308 for June
LTGW: 190
Weigh-ins Tuesday’s
6/8: 313
6/15: 306.4
6/22: 306.4
6/29: 303.8
Total for June: 303.8
Thanks ladies!!1
