Looking for MFPers who have lost 10-30 pounds...

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  • frankconnell19
    frankconnell19 Posts: 12 Member
    Hello grkski, thank you for your post. I used to cycle centuries 20 years ago. Short story, got out of shape 20 years ago. Weighed in January 1, 2022 at 268. I'm down 33 pounds in 42 days. I walk 2 miles a day and can't seem to get beyond that. Your post caught my eye because you're 64 and I'm 65. Thanks for the inspiration.
  • meghs35
    meghs35 Posts: 2 Member
    fullbodiedred150 wrote: »
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    In December of 2020, my husband and I were both unhappy with our pandemic weight gain and decided to do something. So starting on January 1, 2021 I was determined to lose the 12 pounds I had gained.

    I knew that tracking every single food/drink that I consumed would be key to my weight loss, but I didn't want to focus just on my weight-- I wanted to focus on health and fitness and knew if I did so, the weight would drop off. So I synched MFP with my Apple Watch to track my exercise and with my Withings Body Composition scale so that minor blips of weight gain due to water wouldn't sidetrack me or make me feel like "I'm doing everything right and it's not working so I might as well just have pizza."

    Working with a nutritionist (I am a heart transplant recipient and as such provided with a nutritionist for my after-care), I set a daily calorie goal as well as macro goals for protein, fat, carbs, fiber, sugar and sodium. I also set a daily goal of drinking at least 70 ounces of water. And I set a weekly goal of 5 hours of exercise.

    For most of my adult life, I cringed every time someone would use the phrase "lifestyle change." To me, it seemed like a new marketing term for the word "diet." But at some point in Q1 as I hit my goal of 12 pounds, I realized that I had actually made it through the lifestyle change and into the actual lifestyle. I no longer had to "remember" to log my food or to weigh every day-- it was just a part of my daily life. I no longer had to find new ways to motivate myself to stay on track or to exercise-- I just did it. And it felt great!

    Those first 12 pounds came off so easily that I just kept going. Here are my year-end stats:

    •36.2 lbs lost
    •Decreased my BMI from 30 (obese) to 23 (healthy)
    •Decreased my fat mass by 35%
    •Increased my lean muscle mass
    •Went from a size 12 to a size 4
    •274 miles hiked/walked/run
    •24,802 vertical feet gained
    •215 hours spent exercising
    •Competed in seven 5k’s

    Because I'm smaller, have increased my muscle mass, and improved my cardiovascular condition tremendously, I can now eat more calories than before... but the foods I'm eating have not changed. This is my life now and I absolutely love it.

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    Awesome results!! can you please share you stats, daily calorie goal and macros you followed . Thanks so much
  • farmspiders
    farmspiders Posts: 4 Member
    I love your enthusiasm. I too started around 238, lost 50 and am struggling to get rid of the next 35 ..148 being a target weight for forever. I'm 62 yrs old and I know I can be the best version of me by the end of this year. Let's do this!
  • marzecbrothers
    marzecbrothers Posts: 3 Member
    MattMooToo wrote: »
    Well thats a bit of a shame for all of us 50 or over. Why the ageist attitude. Awful way of making your over 50’s premium members feel involved and engaged.
    I’ve lost 3 stone but can’t join in because I’m 51 🙄

    You could start your own post for 46 on up. Not all experiments are inclusive. He picked a demographic for what he wanted to know.
  • greeneyes2129
    greeneyes2129 Posts: 3 Member
    I am 41. I have lost 32 pounds, but still have a ways to go! MFP is the ONLY tool that has been consistent! If I slack off using it, I stop losing(and actually start gaining weight back).
  • AndieBro1005
    AndieBro1005 Posts: 1 Member
    My starting weight was 275 lbs and I am down to 249 and counting. When I stepped on the scale this morning, I was so excited to see that I'm officially in the 240s. I am insulin resistant and have been diagnosed with PCOS and Type 2 diabetes. I have been doing a lot of research into how to reverse insulin resistance and am currently on a low carb diet (under 100 a day, just went to under 50 a day) and working my way into a keto diet. I have been yoyo dieting for years. Not understanding PCOS has made it very difficult to lose weight and now that I'm finally understanding how my body works and what helps it work more efficiently, the weight is just dropping off as long as I stay on track. I have learned that it takes a few days to come back from a cheat weekend (Easter was filled with good food, no candy though!) and seeing that on the scale was a good push to stay on track.
  • imruss
    imruss Posts: 8 Member
    Hi. I am over your age range (53) but I want to let you know. I started MFP in 2015 and lost NOTHING until three months ago when I really hunkered down and counted EVERY THING I ATE on the app. That is what I had to do. I have lost 28 lbs. in 90 days (2.17 lb a week) just like the app calculated I would. I bought the premium membership because you deserve some support for this great app. I have 18 lbs. to go and it looks like that will be in August. Thank you all.
  • jasonferguson925
    jasonferguson925 Posts: 3 Member
    Just about to turn 50, lost 30lbs since January
  • JaysFan82
    JaysFan82 Posts: 853 Member
    I'm down 50 pounds since Feb.24 2022. I can't believe it! I track my entire days worth if food the day before so that way there aren't any surprises. Plus I swim laps 5 days a week. I also walk to and from the pool for extra exercise.
  • lancedevon
    lancedevon Posts: 1 Member
    I just started on may 3 at 281 so far today I am down to 263
  • JaneAero
    JaneAero Posts: 95 Member
    edited June 2022
    Hi, Im 62 , started on May 1st this year and 5 weeks later Ive lost 15lbs.
    CICO and eating smaller meals.
    Start weight 16st. (224lb).
    Now 14st.13lb. (209lb).
    Target weight 9st. (126lb).
    Eating 1200-1500 a day.
    Walking 5 miles daily.
    Cycling 5 miles stationary bike daily.
  • StDominicBarberi
    StDominicBarberi Posts: 11 Member
    fullbodiedred150 wrote: »
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    In December of 2020, my husband and I were both unhappy with our pandemic weight gain and decided to do something. So starting on January 1, 2021 I was determined to lose the 12 pounds I had gained.

    I knew that tracking every single food/drink that I consumed would be key to my weight loss, but I didn't want to focus just on my weight-- I wanted to focus on health and fitness and knew if I did so, the weight would drop off. So I synched MFP with my Apple Watch to track my exercise and with my Withings Body Composition scale so that minor blips of weight gain due to water wouldn't sidetrack me or make me feel like "I'm doing everything right and it's not working so I might as well just have pizza."

    Working with a nutritionist (I am a heart transplant recipient and as such provided with a nutritionist for my after-care), I set a daily calorie goal as well as macro goals for protein, fat, carbs, fiber, sugar and sodium. I also set a daily goal of drinking at least 70 ounces of water. And I set a weekly goal of 5 hours of exercise.

    For most of my adult life, I cringed every time someone would use the phrase "lifestyle change." To me, it seemed like a new marketing term for the word "diet." But at some point in Q1 as I hit my goal of 12 pounds, I realized that I had actually made it through the lifestyle change and into the actual lifestyle. I no longer had to "remember" to log my food or to weigh every day-- it was just a part of my daily life. I no longer had to find new ways to motivate myself to stay on track or

    Those first 12 pounds came off so easily that I just kept going. Here are my year-end stats:

    •36.2 lbs lost
    •Decreased my BMI from 30 (obese) to 23 (healthy)
    •Decreased my fat mass by 35%
    •Increased my lean muscle mass
    •Went from a size 12 to a size 4
    •274 miles hiked/walked/run
    •24,802 vertical feet gained
    •215 hours spent exercising
    •Competed in seven 5k’s

    Because I'm smaller, have increased my muscle mass, and improved my cardiovascular condition tremendously, I can now eat more calories than before... but the foods I'm eating have not changed. This is my life now and I absolutely love it.

    My new heart feels really happy about it as well!a6rxwdc7eohb.jpeg
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    You are so inspirational thank you. I lost a lot of weight similar to you in my late 40s and was also a size 4 at 48. Unfortunately I then got cancer in my spine. I have fully recovered but my recovery took many years. I have gained so that I am just over 180lb and a size 12. Just started my fitness journey again, I love weight training and walking so my old self and your new weight loss is just like my own journey. I am now 53 but I am confident I can get where I was. I am on HRT and ut makes me feel fantastic. My husband also got back in shape this years and he also inspires me.

    Congratulations and well done on regaining your health and looking and feeling fabulous ❤
  • PlentyofProtein00
    PlentyofProtein00 Posts: 3,669 Member
    15 to 20 lbs weightloss. 44 yrs old.

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  • atrgemini
    atrgemini Posts: 50 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10851891/looking-for-mfpers-who-have-lost-10-30-pounds/p1
    Hi all and welcome to the end of the year - or as I've taken to calling it, #20tattoo.

    Last night before bed, I came back. I came back here, really, because it was where this all began and I wanted to try to capture the feeling of these stories of inspiration. I was a little sad to see that there hasn't been any activity since July, but was happier to see that there were new stories being added - congratulations to you all on your journeys! It makes me so happy to see such beautiful and confident souls out here repping their progress. I was having a discussion with a coworker this week about yoga, and she indicated that she's so much more motivated by group work and fitness classes; I know the importance of sharing community really drives motivation for many.

    This year has passed for me in the blink of an eye since that first post in January of this year (link embedded) where I was finally getting somewhere in my journey. So much has happened and there has been such rapid and drastic change in my life. I picked up my life and moved to Virginia to work for a non-profit without the slightest clue in the world about where I was going. The work I’m doing is gratifying, wholesome, and gives me purpose but I am frighteningly alone on the East Coast after living in California for nearly all of my 33 years of life. I ran my half-marathon in May of this year in 2 hours and achieved a 15 year low in weight at 197.5 pounds – essentially what amounts to 80 pounds. In April, shortly before the marathon, I looked at myself in the mirror one day and realized that it was time to stop running. Figuratively and literally – I had progressed enough in therapy to address and face my transgressions as a person and I realized I didn’t like being… skinny fat. I realized, too, that I didn’t really have a goal. So, I made my goal to get ripped, and basically cut all of the cardio completely out of my routine (outside of 2 or 3 miles of running a day). I also started eating normally again, with essentially no restrictions.

    I have some neat photos and some pretty specific data to share that is encouraging and illustrates this, but most importantly – I just wanted to say that I’ve stuck with this thing and never gave up on it; I haven’t voluntarily missed a single day all year and amidst all of the change, it’s the only constant I still have. I’m approaching 18 months of a complete 360 mental and physical change and feeling pensive, mostly because the new year is almost here and I’ve been sad and discouraged by how slow progress has felt just in the way I look – even though I have plenty of data to show how my body has changed since May 2022. I’m hoping to establish a long-term goals and progress blog somewhere here in the next week for community support, simply because after my conversation about yoga and community exercise – I want to give back, to celebrate, to encourage, and to receive such from a group of like-minded kin. I have missed this amidst all of the change.

    Below, I have 2 graphs: one showing my all-time stats for MFP, and one showing a 1-year trend line for weight. At first glance, it really does look like I’ve made no progress between December 2021 and December 2022. If you look again though, you’ll see that my all-time low was right there sometime in April – which was when I started my strength training.

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    Taking it a step further – I’ve been working hard to calculate as close to exact body fat percentage measurements every week since then, or at least on a regular basis. I’ve attached the data here to illustrate that even though my weight is nearly the same as it was in December 2021 – look how the distribution has changed. I have nearly the same number of pounds of fat, but I’ve added over 20 pounds of muscle. Honestly, I likely would have added much more and/or shed fat, but I had to switch to a cardio regime from September to the end of November because I tore my rotator cuff pushing myself too hard. It’s been hard convincing myself that I’m actually really pushing hard for a real body configuration and not just gaining weight – hence the science using as an accurate a method as I can on my own.

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    I believe in the power of this community and I would love to hear how your 2022 journeys are going. This time of year, New Years Eve resolutions are big, but ideally? Now is the time to reinvigorate and reinvest; you shouldn’t need a resolution with the support of your community and commitment to your goals. Finally, here is a comparison photo showing December 2021 to December 2022; who did it best? Cheers…. I’ll be in touch with a blog/group link soon, for anyone with similar interests or shared goals... I think we're almost ready for #2020me!

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  • benedictine888
    benedictine888 Posts: 7 Member
    38 year old, 5ft 8 here in Australia who had a stern talking to from my family doctor at the beginning of October 2022 (by this time, I was approx 230lbs).

    Was diagnosed pre-diabetic in 2017 shortly after our son was born (at that time was around 240lbs). One year later, that had bloomed into full type 2 diabetes (HbA1c in 2018 around 7.5%). I made some changes to diet and lifestyle, but they lasted for all of two to three weeks. Thought that taking medication would be enough to get me over the line (with no other changes to diet and lifestyle).

    Then COVID hit at the end of 2019 and the binge eating, lack of sleep, no exercise routine hit me hard. A trip to the GP in the midst of the pandemic in 2020 saw me come back with worse HbA1c numbers than the first one, up to 8.8%. My medication was increased to the maximum dose and my GP at the time said to me that I needed to be active more (where I could) and watch my diet.

    I didn't listen to him again and my next set of blood work came back in September 2022 which prompted that stern talking to from my GP. Said to me that I was on a continually higher trending set of numbers (my fasting HbA1c numbers continued to increase up to 9.9%, but based on my blood glucose testing, I was seeing estimated HbA1c numbers of 11-13%). The way I was going, I would need to start insulin injections within the next year or two and that if I wasn't careful, I could have issues with eyesight and with my limbs in the future too. Then came the kicker, did I want to be around for my son in a decade and be healthy too? My answer was yes.

    My liver was approximately 175% the size of a normal man's liver so he said that I had a severely engorged liver that was likely full of fat. Did I want to be on even more medication? Hell no.

    So I started on my journey cold turkey that very night. At the time, I didn't think about re-activating my MFP account which I had created back in 2015 when I had my first health kick (which failed after a knee injury 6 months into it). But I started weighing the food on my plate that night and reducing my portions. A couple of weeks later, a work colleague suggested that I use MFP again to really kick start me back into achieving my health and fitness goals. It's worked.

    What else did I pick up in these last two months? A set of Withings smart scales and a Garmin Fenix 6X Sapphire along with incorporating home cardio/resistance workouts and resistance training at the gym with a personal trainer along with tracking my food intake again on MFP since late October 2022.

    I've gone from 230+lbs down to 198lbs and the weight has stayed off. My body fat percentage has gone from over 30% down to around 20% in two months. While I've lost muscle and fat mass in the process, I've lost way more fat over the last two months than muscle. My blood sugar is now back to being at the threshold between normal and pre-diabetic again and my goal over the next year is to entirely reverse my Type 2 diabetes completely such that I am off medication for good.

    While I'd ultimately like to get down to around 175lbs, if I can keep adding to my muscle mass and continue with additional fat loss, I'd be happy to settle for somewhere around 185lbs and remain there for the rest of my natural life. Other side benefits, I'm no longer Grade 1 hypertensive first thing in the morning anymore (150/100). Instead I'm now regularly at 120/80 or lower first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
  • SPT5687
    SPT5687 Posts: 16 Member
    Hey MFP community. 35 yr old male here (turning 36 in two weeks). I'd gotten very lax with my fitness/weight and decided it was time to lose some serious lbs. and get back into athletic shape.

    I'm currently 66 days in and have lost a total of 36 lbs so far. I've still got a ways to go, but have been doing really well, holding myself accountable, and tracking my calorie intake and exercise as well as all my biometrics.

    Currently I'm down from ~245 lbs to just under 210 lbs. From 34% body fat down to ~24%. Muscle mass from 67% up to 72% (I've technically lost muscle due to calorie deficit but overall composition has increased). Already seeing big changes... happy with the progress but not fully satisfied yet, though I can now see the finish line ahead of me.

    Here are some pics from when I started to where I was about a week ago (I got COVID so that set my progress back a bit, but still an obvious change):

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  • tquindt01
    tquindt01 Posts: 1 Member
    After suffering a heart attack on July 9th,
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    , despite regular exercise and a fairly healthy diet, I was forced to adopt a low sodium, low fat, low cholesterol, plant-based diet. As MFP syncs with all of my fitness apps (Samsung Health, Garmin, Strava, etc.) it is crucial to not only track my nutritional needs for exercise, but it's now critical in general. Since July, I have gone from 227 lbs to 200 lbs and I have no plans to stop. A few tips, replace your table salt with potassium choride (Mortons, Frenchs, NuSalt, etc.) It tastes a lot like regular salt, but will greatly reduce your sodium intake. One word of caution however, is some blood pressure medications can cause you to retain potassium, so if you are on one of these, check with your physician as too much potassium can also be dangerous. MFP is a great way to monitor your food intake to ensure you get the correct nutrition before you put it in your mouth. pxt646anvn72.jpg

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  • atrgemini
    atrgemini Posts: 50 Member
    edited December 2022
    @tquindt01 The tip on potassium salt is useful, I'll have to look into that. I'm taking Losartan HCL myself but I could have gotten off awhile ago as my blood pressure is a nonfactor these days. I will likely have my new GP re-evaluate come next year.

    @SPT5687 that's quite a strong cut; I remember the days between 220 and 197 fondly - I think that was my most successful cut overall, but still only 23 pounds across 90 days. I like to eat. Way to go!

    @benedictine888 one interesting note I'd like to share is that I work at CivicaRx, the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. I'm currently part of the team that's kick-starting providing generic insulin to Americans for 33 dollars a vial. It's very exciting work to be a part of - I'd like to think that finding purpose in my work for people of this community has been a huge part of my commitment to my fitness goals as well because it provides me purpose. Check us out sometime! www.civicarx.org - I also wanted to ask, what is your opinion on the withings devices? I use a standard scale and calipers/tape but I'm getting tired of having to need someone around to help me with measurements.
  • redoux33
    redoux33 Posts: 20 Member
    psxgaming402 wrote: »
    Lost 150 lbs, and have maintained a consistent weight of approx 165-170 lbs largely in part of this app. It's has made me much more food smart and I use it daily for every meal.mfg7j56ej500.jpg
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    WOW! DUDE!
  • aCountryVegan
    aCountryVegan Posts: 23 Member
    I am still wondering why the agist post. I am 65 and have lost over 100 pounds with the help of MFP, but I guess I do not matter since I am old and lost too much weight. MFP you can do better than this.
  • BartBVanBockstaele
    BartBVanBockstaele Posts: 623 Member
    aCountryVegan wrote: »
    I am still wondering why the agist post. I am 65 and have lost over 100 pounds with the help of MFP, but I guess I do not matter since I am old and lost too much weight. MFP you can do better than this.
    More people think that way, or so it seems. It has clearly received very few reactions in a year's time.

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