Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 221

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  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 2,887 Member
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    musicsax wrote: »
    Machias1949 wrote: »
    @shoranani, I find these are good snacks that are also filling:
    1) hard boiled egg- 75 calories
    2) chip dip carrots & 2 tbsp. Hummus -about 100 cal.
    3) 2% cottage cheese 16oz & fruit (my favorite blackberries) 100 cal
    4) air-popped popcorn 3 cups 100 cal.

    Oooh, cottage cheese and fruit! Only ever had it with pineapple, never thought of adding my own and I'm going to try it! Banana I think will be very filling.

    My favorite cottage cheese is pre-made up north (nothing good in Florida IMO) is cucumber and dill. I really need to work on replicating it using the plain cottage cheese, so I can have it where ever I am. It is also really hard to find as not many stores sell it.
  • RenaPink11
    RenaPink11 Posts: 343 Member
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    huango wrote: »
    RenaPink11 wrote: »
    Round 221
    trainer. HOLY COW! ... cost of $760 a month for 3 hrs a week.

    That's INSANITY!
    You can purchase an entire gym with just 2 months of that.

    That's what we did during covid.
    I couldn't jeopardize my high-risk husband, so we bought a small set of gym stuff for home:
    - cage rack
    - 1 set of weights, plus lots of dumbbells
    - treadmill, Nordic stepper, heavy bag.

    I used to love working out at the gym,
    because home stuff would distract me:
    - do a load of laundry
    - take out stuff from freezer to defrost for dinner
    - walk the dog, etc.

    But now (since February), I'm liking just walking down the stairs, do my work-out, and be done, without having to leave the warmth of my home.

    We actually have a nice set up at home but for whatever reason, I’m more disciplined at the gym. I don’t stick to finishing my workout when I’m home. But yeah, I was like uhhh that’s way too much for me to spend.

  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 2,887 Member
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    LisaPower123 wrote: »
    @SModa61 I have never noticed fancy cottage cheese in Canada. I like mine with dill pickles & everything bagel seasoning.

    @Lisapower123 Ooooo That actually sounds really good. That one I like is made by Hood Dairy and it is a New England area product. https://hood.com/products/cottage-cheese/savory-cottage-cheese/cottage-cheese-with-cucumber-and-dill Apparently there is onion added as well. Just not in the title.
  • quiltingjaine
    quiltingjaine Posts: 5,954 Member
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    @musicsax and all I used to chop assorted vegetables to mix into cottage cheese for lunch. Fresh peaches in cottage cheese are also delish!
  • quiltingjaine
    quiltingjaine Posts: 5,954 Member
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    Female 5’1” Age 73 years
    Started Keto WOE 7/17/17 (mid-Rnd 10)
    *Travel - no scale part of the time
    HWE 197.0 (2/2008)
    Weight on 1/17/17 174.5
    OGW 137 (set by WW 2008, WW goal 1985 was 126) UGW was 125 (HS weight 1968)

    👍👍This is NOT A DIET. It’s a LIFESTYLE👍👍
    Rnd 7 167.0 to Rnd 17 155.5
    To Rnd 27 146*
    To Rnd 37 139.0
    To Rnd 47 133.5*
    To Rnd 57 131.5
    To Rnd 67 128.0
    To Rnd 77 125.0
    To Rnd 87 121.0*
    To Rnd 97 121.0
    To Rnd 107 122.0
    To Rnd 117 116.0
    To Rnd 127 117.0
    To Rnd 137 117.0
    To Rnd 147 116.0 🙌
    To Rnd 157 115.5
    To Rnd 167 119.4
    To Rnd 177 118.3
    To Rnd 187 120.0 AW 119.6
    To Rnd 197 121.5 AW 119.15
    To Rnd 207 123.5 AW 125.0
    SW RND 208 124.5 AW 125.25
    SW RND 209 124.5 AW 125.7
    SW RND 210 124.0 AW 124.4
    SW RND 211 126.0 AW 126.11
    SW RND 212 127.0 AW 126.45
    SW RND 213 126.5 AW 127.9
    SW RND 214 127.0 AW 126.37
    SW RND 215 126.0 AW 127.4
    SW RND 216 127.5 AW 127.4
    SW RND 217 126.5 AW 127.15
    SW RND 218 127.5 AW 127.45
    SW RND 219 127.0 AW 127.95
    RND SW 220 128.0 AW 127.25

    We ALL have good rounds and bad but that is part of life. Don’t stay away, stay accountable. We don’t judge, we support.-Jpv,2/13/19

    What we need to succeed is a sustainable way of eating, not a DIET we go on and off.

    People say keto/LCHF isn’t sustainable. I’ve been doing it for over 5 years with amazing results!

    This is NOT A DIET. It’s a LIFESTYLE.

    We are unstoppable not because we do not have failures but because we continue on despite them. - paraphrase of original quote by Beau Taplin

    Up and down - just riding the waves of life. 🌊 🏄‍♀️ (My new mantra-3/19/22)

    "Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda

    SW RND 221 127.5
    4/22 127.0
    4/23 127.0
    4/24 127.0
    4/25 127.5 Panda Express entree and one spring roll?
    4/26 128.0 at 4AM, up about 6 times during the night to get rid of 4# of water I took to bed! No TMI x 2, drank at least a gallon of water + coffee + Coke Zero. Told a friend I would come to water fitness this morning but need some bathroom action before that. I haven’t been to WF since COVID when they shut down the world.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 2,887 Member
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    Looks like we are all going to be eating cottage cheese more often after today and all the ideas. :P
  • fmfdfa2020
    fmfdfa2020 Posts: 980 Member
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    Thank you @quiltingjaine for another round!

    💪🏋️‍♀️🤸‍♀️🎵💃👗👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💗🌻🏖🙏

    Heaviest Weight Ever: 186.0
    186 / 185 / 184 / 183 / 182 / 181 / 180
    179 / 178 / 177 / 176 / 175 / 174 / 173 / 172 / 171 / 170
    169 / 168 / 167 / 166 / 165 / 164 / 163 / 162 / 161 / 160 👉 159

    Stick to Plan:
    • Calorie cycle for a weekly average of 1200 to 1500 (with a maintenace day thrown in every now and then.
    • Exercise: Row, Walk, Bike, Weights, Dance, Jazzercise, Kayak, Hike
    • Water: Shoot for 80oz per day
    • Binge-Free & Sugar-Free for 100 days (46 days at the beginning of this round)
    • Reduce added salt
    • Lots of veggies and protein, some fruit (very little processed foods or simple carbs which I hardly ever have)
    • I need to figure out a way to get more fiber, especially from grains.
    If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started, I so desperately wanted to be where I am now.

    Last Weight - Round 221 on 4/19: 169.6
    Round 221
    Previous Days' Notes:
    4/22: DNW Walk/Bike✅ Water✅ Calories✅ I'm not weighing for a few more days. I ate at maintenance for two days and at my low end of my calorie range yesterday. I was looking thru my summer clothes that I haven't worn for at least 7 or 8 years and the tops look so small. I'm small boned but did I really wear those? I'll have to revaluate my goal weight when I get closer because I think I'll be shooting for something a little higher. But figuring that out will be a good problem to have that I look so forward to!
    4/23: DNW Walk/Bike✅ Water✅ Calories✅ I'm still not weighing. I can just tell I will weigh more after eating chili for days. I didn't cook any dry beans and used canned, so full of salt. I ate at maintenance for a couple of days, and then my lower calorie range the past 2 days. I'm going to weigh tomorrow and hope to still see the 160's.
    I reread my post from yesterday and it sounds like I'm saying I could now wear the summer clothes from 7 or 8 years ago - I WISH! I was trying to say ;) how small they look, and they do not fit me yet, and do I even want to get that small again. I think a lot of people have a certain weight that's stuck in their head as their ideal weight to get back to. Mine is 115, which is what I weighed when I wore these clothes. I need to reevaluate that when I get closer because I don't think I'll want to go that small again. We shall see....
    4/24: 168.8 Bike✅ Water✅ Calories✅ I am so happy to see this number this morning. It's been 7 weeks today that I started my 100-day binge-free and sugar-free challenge. I've lost 11 pounds. That's 1.5 pounds per week. I had just binged for 2 days prior to starting the challenge on March 6 so lost the first 2 pounds of water weight fast, so it's more like 1.3 pounds per week, either way I'm extremely happy. My calorie cycling weekly average was 1350 even with a few maintenace days averaged in. I rowed, biked or walked most days. And I feel so much better! I have definitely learned from all of you that losing weight is not a down-hill hike, you have valleys and hills, and booby-traps the entire journey. :)
    4/25: 169.0 B) Bike✅ Water✅ Calories✅ I've eaten on the low end of my calorie range for the past 3 days. I'll go for the higher end for the next few days. I'm going to make succotash today. It was the meal my Grandmother always made us - with cornbread and cole slaw, of course. :) I froze a little ham to pull out as a starter for beans. Then I just add corn and lima beans. That's it. I cook it down a lot. I just love it but I'm sure this goes way back to my Grandmother making it.

    4/22: DNW
    4/23: DNW
    4/24: 168.8
    4/25: 169.0

    4/26: 169.6 :p Ugh! Bike❎ Water✅ Calories✅ On a positive note, I haven't jumped back to the 170's. I wish I had not weighed for a few days like I've done recently. I like not having to watch the up and downs. I did think I would drop today. However, my average calories have been too low for the past 4 days. I had planned to go to the higher end of my calorie range yesterday, but didn't. I end up doing IF unintentionally by not eating until Noon because I'm not hungry in the mornings and I stop eating at 7pm. I'm also finding that I get full faster since I've been binge-free for 50 days (who is this person??!) So, I do wonder if the too few calories is affecting my weight dropping, or the soup I made yesterday may have been considered high carb?? and it's water weight. Or too much salt in the chicken broth (it wasn't low sodium). I'm going to make sure I do eat at my higher calorie range the next few days. I ended up making soup instead of succotash. I used very lean stew beef I bought from a local farmer. I added lots of celery because it was starting to go bad so used the entire stalk, potatoes, kidney beans, lima beans, corn, carrots, tomatoes and chicken broth. It was 156 calories per cup. I tried an alternative flour for the first time to wheat flour to make cornbread muffins for my husband. He doesn't eat wheat. He said they were good. I didn't eat any :)
    4/27:
    4/28:
    4/29:
    4/30:
    5/01:

    Bingeing is why I'm where I am now. I want to see the results with 100 days of no bingeing. I'm not talking about going over calories from overeating a little, I'm talking full-out bingeing. And that's not just on bad foods, even when I'm eating well, I'll binge. This will be extremely challenging but if I stick to it (and stay off sugar and simple carbs to stop cravings), there is no way I'm not going to see consistent weight loss during these 100 days (not to mention the health benefits)! Part of this challenge, too, is if I do have a slip, that I don't revert back to old habits of bingeing for days/weeks/months. I will acknowledge the slip, celebrate that it didn't derail me, and just keep on keeping on.
    I want to see what happens when I don't give up!
    100-day Binge-free Challenge starting March 6…
    *=1 successful day / ⭐=10 successful days / ^=1 oops Day
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐*

    100-day Sugar-free Challenge starting March 6…
    *=1 successful day / 💚=10 successful days / ^=1 oops Day
    💚💚💚💚💚*

    Breaking the salt habit (replace with spices and herbs) starting April 16. Plan: 10 days 1/2 tsp, then 10 days 1/4 tps, then 10 days 1/8 tsp, lastly no added sugar (maybe?)
    ✳= 1 day 1/2 tsp added salt / ✴= 1 day 1/4 tsp added salt / ☑= 1/8 tsp added salt / ^=1 oops Day
    ✳✳✳✳^^✳✳✳^
    I decided to start at 1/2 tsp for 10 days because I was having a hard time getting started. To my surprise, I've had salt left over each day - yay!

    100-Day Weight Tracking to remind me that fluxations are normal and that you can stay at a certain weight for days/weeks but it will eventually come off - so be patient and stick with the plan!
    March 06 - Day 00: 179.6 Day after 2-day binge
    March 07 - Day 00: DNW
    March 08 - Day 00: DNW

    March 09 - Day 01: 177.5 2-pounds water weight gone. Day 1 Tracking
    March 10 - Day 02: 177.9
    March 11 - Day 03: 177.0
    March 12 - Day 04: 176.7
    March 13 - Day 05: 176.8
    March 14 - Day 06: 176.0
    March 15 - Day 07: 175.9
    March 16 - Day 08: 176.0
    March 17 - Day 09: 175.8
    March 18 - Day 10: 176.0
    March 19 - Day 11: DNW
    March 20 - Day 12: 175.9
    March 21 - Day 13: 176.0
    March 22 - Day 14: 175.6
    March 23 - Day 15: 175.7
    March 24 - Day 16: 174.9
    March 25 - Day 17: DNW
    March 26 - Day 18: 174.7
    March 27 - Day 19: 174.3
    March 28 - Day 20: 173.8
    March 29 - Day 21: DNW
    March 30 - Day 22: DNW
    March 31 - Day 23: DNW
    April 1 - Day 24: DNW
    April 2 - Day 25: 173.2
    April 3 - Day 26: 172.6
    April 4 - Day 27: 172.0
    April 5 - Day 28: 171.8
    April 6 - Day 29: 171.0
    April 7 - Day 30: 171.8
    April 8 - Day 31: 171.6
    April 9 - Day 32: 171.6
    April 10 - Day 33: DNW
    April 11 - Day 34: 171.2
    April 12 - Day 35: DNW
    April 13 - Day 36: 171.6
    April 14 - Day 37: 171.6
    April 15 - Day 38: 170.6
    April 16 - Day 39: 170.0
    April 17 - Day 40: 170.2
    April 18 - Day 41: 169.6
    April 19 - Day 42: 169.6
    April 20 - Day 43: DNW
    April 21 - Day 44: DNW
    April 22 - Day 45: DNW
    April 23 - Day 46: DNW
    April 24 - Day 46: 168.8
    April 25 - Day 47: 169.0
    April 26 - Day 48: 169.6

    Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
    180s / 170s / 160s / 150s / 140s / 130s
  • BrenM1985
    BrenM1985 Posts: 189 Member
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    10 days

    newbie here and excited to give this a try 😊

    37/f - 4’11”

    Highest weight - 167 (April 1, 2022)
    Currently - 125.7
    Goal - 115 then reevaluate

    RND 221

    RSW: 125.7
    RGW: 123.5

    4/22 - 124.3 been focused on nutrition/macros last couple days and it’s paying off!

    4/23 - 124.3 - happy with this, especially after yesterdays loss ☺️

    4/24 - 125.5 - boo 😆 rest day and extra snacks showing here. Dialing back in today 💪

    4/25 - 125 - heading back in the right direction

    4/26 - 125 - yesterday was a great day. Calories/macros in line, an hour of exercise and 11K + steps. Was hoping for a little loss, but going to trust the process and focus on having another great day 😊

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  • SheilaBoneham
    SheilaBoneham Posts: 3,080 Member
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    🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

    HSW - 218.2 (Feb. 2015)
    2023 Goals — move more; eat mostly healthfully, no extremes. Have fun!


    📆 2015–2023
    Feb. 2015: highest weight 218.2
    2015: end weight running average 178.2
    2016: end weight running average 147.7
    2017: end weight running average 148
    2018: end weight running average 137.2.
    Extreme elimination diet (doctor prescribed) for diagnostic reasons, very low calories, then boom! Gained 40 pounds.
    2019: end weight running average 176.1
    2020: end weight running average 183.8.
    2021: end weight running average 179.4.
    2022: end weight running average 178.6

    2023 Rounds
    R209 01/01/23: end weight 178.6. Ave calories — who knows? I didn’t bother with the holidays.
    R210 01/11/23: end weight 176.2 (-2.4). Ave calories 1102. No after-dinner snacking!
    R211 01/21/23: end weight 176.8 (+.6).
    R212 01/31/23: end weight 177.6 (+.8).
    R213 02/10/23: end weight 178 (+.4)
    R214 02/20/23: end weight 178 (+/-0).
    R215 03/02/23: end weight 180 (+2 ☹️)
    R216 03/12/23: end weight 178.8 (-1.2)
    R217 03/22/23: end weight 178.8 (+/-0).
    R218 04/01/23: end weight 182.8 (+4).
    R219 04/11/23: end weight 183.4 (+.6).

    R220 04/21/23: end weight 182.2 (-1.2)

    Day, Weight, Comment

    4/22 - 181.8
    Finally, though of course I could bounce back up. I looked back at records and I’ve been hovering here (180-182) for wayyyyy too long. The only good thing about a 3-year plateau is that I haven’t gone higher, and have obviously hit a stasis no matter what I eat (within reason). Sigh. I’ve got to get a grip.

    4/23 - 183.2
    No idea. Maybe salt/water. Not calories! Boy, it’s turned really cold again. Yuck. We’re getting pad Thai for lunch/dinner, and I’m going to enjoy every bite! Have a lovely Sunday, all.

    4/24 - 181.8
    That’s better, in spite of the pad Thai, which was delish. Today will be much lighter—light bran muffin for breakfast, salad with salmon for lunch, lentils and brown rice for dinner. It’s chilly right now but should be nice for a walk in a couple of hours. Have a great Monday!

    4/25 - 182.2
    I’m getting tired of cold and rainy. I tried for a walk yesterday and got hailed on. Oh, well, it’s April in Indiana. The daffodils and redbuds are spectacular! 😊

    4/26 - 181.8
    Looks like a nice day coming up. On my way out for a dog walk, and I’m planning another faster walk for myself later, and som3 yard work. I can’t wait for warm enough weather to start planting things! 🌷 Gardening is my weight training. 😊

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