🎃🐈⬛October Daily Weigh-in and Logging Challenge🎃🌻
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Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a few months now; my favorite support group on MFP. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty).
My goals for October🍂 :
Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - BUT I am only 6 pounds away from getting out of the obese category - so setting a stretch goal to get there by the end of the month. Usually if I announce something I do it so . . . .. fingers crossed. ⚖️
Hit my orignal 1,960 mile goal. I am on a mission to get 2,023 miles in 2023, when I first started my goal was 1,960 - a good year. When I realized that I would achieve this early changed it to 2,023. 🏃♂️
17K Steps daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week 💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log daily 📝
Stay under my calorie range 🥗
Read daily 📖
Do something creative or fun daily 🧶 🖍️ 🎮
⚖️ 🏃♂️👣💦💪🧘 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Weight Loss to Date: 53.8 Pounds
September Ending Weight: 174.2
🎃👻🍂Happy October!🎃👻🍂
Oct 1: 😁 173.8 A good start 👣💦📝 🥗 🎮
Oct 2: 😁 173.4 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 3: 173.4 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮 The Hogwarts challenge that I am in has an assignment this week to run/jog for 20 minutes. It doesn't have to be in one session. Years ago, I did the Couch to 5K and jogged a 5k on my 50th birthday (a time when I was almost at my goal weight). I thought about doing that again, but when I tried earlier this year my knees couldn't take it. I thought I would try again when I lost 60 pounds - I'm not quite at 60, but close - I guess this was a sign that I should try again. Yesterday I did day one, and it was fun. Keeping my fingers crossed because I really did love it.
Oct 4: 173.6 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 5: 173.4 👣💦 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 6: 😁173👣💦🧘 📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 7: 😁172.6 👣💦 📝🥗 📖🖍️🎮
Oct 8: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🎮 Happy with that - went out for a nice lunch, had a couple beers - it might be a day lag for the uptick - but happy that it stayed the same today.
Oct 9: 😁 172 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Not a very good night sleep - couldn't fall asleep so go back up - read, knitted, played games on my phone - finally went to bed at 3:00AM, and back up 6:00AM. It's bingo night with Mom tonight so up later than usual - thinking I'll need to take a nap today - we'll see how that plays out on the scale tomorrow.
Oct 10: 172 👣💦 📝📖 🎮 First day in forever I missed my calorie goal. Just a couple 100 over, but over just the same. It is my sister's birthday today - so had cake last night at bingo which put me over the top.
Oct 11: 😠 173.2 👣💦💪📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮 I guess Monday's overage, lack of sleep, and the fact that I was over on my sodium goal yesterday got me.
Oct 12: 172.8 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🎮
Oct 13: 172.8 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🖍️
Oct 14: 😁171.6 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🖍️Well that was a nice surprise. It will probably be short lived. Going out to dinner tonight with the whole family. My sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring. She has finished her treatment and after surgery and three rounds of chemo - they think they got it all. Going out to celebrate. Going to Japenese Hibachi - am going to figure out this morning how to count it so that I can determine what I can eat for breakfast and lunch. Hoping to still stay under the calorie goal - but am sure the sodium will be over the top.
Oct 15: 173.4 👣📝📖 Won't give myself a sad face - fully expected, but was a great night celebrating. Here is a picture of the family - Unfortunately missing Allyson, we were supposed to go last wekend but my nephew and hubby were still covid positive, so couldn't go. She had a wedding this weekend, so we missed her.
Oct 16: 173.6 👣💪📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Ok, now I need to get motivated - been over my sodium goal three days in a row AND two days in a row not drinking the water - gets me every time.
Oct 17: 172.4 👣💦 📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 18: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 19: 172.6 👣💪 📝🥗 📖 🎮
Oct 20: 171.4 😁 Finally! 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️🎮3 -
deepwoodslady wrote: »@ManifestingToday Please Please never feel afraid to post your weight. Never feel fake. Remember, you are not posting for us, you are posting for YOU. Also, we are all anonymous. No judgement here. The posts are really to help you monitor and track how things are affecting you in your journey. Water fluctuations, how certain foods affect your scale, bathroom habits, hormone changes. What happens with certain workouts (weight loss? recovery fluid retention?) It really helps us make good choices. Also, reading other comments can give us really good ideas of things that we've never tried. When you are being honest, you are really being honest with yourself and we all know that we must do that to be successful. ...
Thank you, @deepwoodslady. I needed to hear this, and I'm sure it will help others too.
Happy Friday!
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Hi, I'm a 50 yo married female, 5'6", and tired of looking and feeling like I do. I’m making changes to get out of the Obese category, to look good in my clothing, and to have confidence in public again.
Heaviest Weight: 221 | Ultimate Goal Weight: 165
Starting Weight Aug 2023: 212.7 | Sep 2023: 207.1 |
October Goals:
Lose 2 lbs. | Consistently log food | Bike &/or Treadmill 4 days a week | Aim for 7 hours sleep/day
Oct 1: 205.5
Oct 2: 206.4 - A bit more sodium yesterday, and a piece of Naan. It was good, I'm just paying for it.
Oct 3: 205.4 - Going to try a different workout, and focus on me today.
Oct 4: 204.9
Oct 5: 204.6
Oct 6: 205.4 - Sodium up last night, but this will go down again. Feeling good overall.
Oct 7: 204.9
Oct 8: 204.0 - I expected 2 lbs up this morning, so that might hit tomorrow. We splurged a bit yesterday.
Oct 9: 205.4 - Yup.
Oct 10: 206.1 - Ugh. I have been off my exercise game lately. Definitely time to get moving.
Oct 11: 205.4
Oct 12: 205.1 - I am prioritizing the workouts this week. I want this number to go down.
Oct 13: 205.6
Oct 14: 207.1 - I even waited a couple more hours before coffee/meds to weigh myself, hoping sleep would trim this down. But no. Salty yummy food, I love you, and I hate you.
Oct 15: 207.8 - This morning I definitely about threw the scale. Some of this is week-before-cycle bloat (clothes are tight when they were great 2 days ago). Some I assume is still sodium related. The rest is that I dared stray from eating salad and chicken and the 10 foods I eat all the time. Tomorrow I will 100% be back on plan. Today I'm giving myself a damn break. I'm grumpy. I'm tired.
Oct 16: 208.9 - This has to be water retention. I even worked out yesterday.
Oct 17: 208.7
Oct 18: 207.5
Oct 19: 205.7 - No cycle, but at least the water retention is less. This round really damaged my mindset too. I felt afraid to post my weight, felt fake for posting because it just looks like I'm off plan when I wasn't. Just glad the number is better.
Oct 20: 205.8 - couldn't shave that .1 no matter how many times I stepped on the scale.
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🐈⬛Hello, I’m Jill. 🥰I’m 53, 5’7” and I live in Michigan.
My goals for October🍂 :
⚖️Weigh- in daily
📝Log daily
🏡 Yardwork—Fall clean up
📝 Log consistently
🦮🦮Walk and train puppies
🥗 Continue the high-protein, lower-carb, lower-fat plan- stay within calories
Starting weight January 1st: 224.5
January weight lost: 7.7 pounds
February weight lost: 5 pounds
March weight lost: 6 pounds
April weight lost: 6.5 pounds
May weight lost: 2.6 pounds
June weight lost: 1.6 pounds
July weight lost: 1.3 pounds
August weight lost: up 1 pound
September weight loss: 1.8 pounds
2023 Weight lost through September is 25.9 pounds
Weight loss goal for October: 2 pounds
🎃🐈⬛October🍂🌻
1: 199.7 Happy October 1st… here we go!⚖️📝
2: 200.4 ⚖️Ok...I've devised a plan to fight my inner snack monster
! I'm going to drink my snackiness away with water. Brilliant, right? I'm going to take my 32oz water jug and take a short walk when I get my salty cravings. Today is day 1! 
3: 200.5⚖️
4: 200.1⚖️
5: 199 ⚖️
6: 197.9 ⚖️… snacking was under control!
7: 199 with clothes
8: 198.7 🎃
9: 198.8 🎃 Only one more pound to go to reach my October goal is losing 2 pounds… baby steps.
10: 198.6 🎃
11: 198.8 🎃
12: 198.3 🎃
13: 198.6 🎃
14: 197.7 🥳 hit my goal for October! 🎃
15: 198.7…🍁 not too worried
16: 199.2… back to simpler healthier dinners. Football food needs some adaptations as well.
🐈⬛ Happy Monday friends! 👻
17: 200…👻
18: 199.4 🎃
19: 199 🎃
20: 198.3🎃
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Starting weight September 1: 141
Goal weight for October: 132.8
October 1: 136.2
October 2: 137.0 I logged 👍 Wow, my weight can really spike up quickly. On Sept 30 I was 134.8. Now 2.2 lbs higher. But this is not a surprise. On Sept 30 my mom took me out to lunch; and the mac & cheese was sooooo bad. I just had to go home and make mac & cheese to go with dinner, the proper way, with all the butter and flour and cream cheese and buttery bread crumb topping. And I ate too much of that mac & cheese. And then yesterday we had a long party with friends, and there was a ton of great food & wine. So I overdid it there. So, now back to the plan. My goal is to get back at daily logging & daily meeting my calorie goal, AND to drink lots of water. Cycle day 1 should be right about now too, so the weight could stay here or go up again. Just going to get back to the plan and try to stick with it from here!
October 3: 137.0 I logged 👍
October 4: 136.8 I logged 👍
October 5: 135.2
October 6: DNW
October 7: 135.2 Had crazy crazy days both Thursday and Friday...
October 8: 134.8
October 9: 135.0 I've been super slack with logging. But I am signed up for my very first 5K tomorrow, so that's exciting. This will be a run/walk for me. For about a month I've been working on it and now I can run up to about 3-4 minutes intermittently with about 1-2 minutes walking, for about 25 minutes. I never believed I could run for 3 minutes straight, so this is a huge improvement. Hopefully I won't wake up sick or something (there is sickness going through the house.)
October 10: 134.4 I logged 👍
October 11: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 12: 135.2 Awwww, I'm kinda disappointed.
October 13: 136.0 -Sigh.-
October 14: 135.8 Looks like today or tomorrow will by Cycle day 1... that seems to explain some things with my hunger and eating the last couple days and, uh, some moodiness, LOL! Perimenopause is interesting... I never know what's going on.
October 15: 137.0
October 16: 136.4
October 17: 136.4
October 18: 135.6 I logged 👍. Could be worse, considering I haven't been logging and I keep eating too much. I keep getting hungry and eating over my calorie goal, and then I just throw in the towel. My goal for the rest of the month is to stop with that perfectionism and to keep logging even if I'm going to be way over on calories. Also, more protein in the early afternoon might help with my afternoon cravings.
October 19: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 20: 135.0
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Hi! I’m Athena, I’m 33, divorced, and am 5’. Bring on the spooky season! 🎃
Heaviest: 164
Goal weight: 126
Starting weight: 150
Month goal: 148
💀Goals👻
🐈⬛ Drink 3 jugs of water a day
👻 Work out 4Xs a week (Priority)
🍁 Portion control
💀 Track weight
🎃🐈⬛October🍂🌻
1: 150
2: 150 🏃♀️
3: 149 💪
4: 150 🏃♀️
5: 150
6: 151
7: 149 💃
8: 149 🚶♀️
9: 151 🏃♀️
10: 150 💪
11: 151 🏃♀️
12: 151
13: 150 🏃♀️
14: 149 🧹
15: 151 🏃♀️
16: 151
17: 152 💪
18: 151 🏃♀️
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Just a friendly reminder to you all because I care about you. Please don’t forget to schedule your mammograms and do your self-checks.
My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 63 years old and from the Michigan USA. In 2016 I weighed 253 lbs. I am on a journey of health and to get back to the real me.
Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
250’s; 240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150’s
Starting Weight (from Sept 30th): 188.2
Goal: 184.2 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx
**************************************ONE DAY, ONE STEP, ONE DECISION AT A TIME************************************
Weight in blue makes me blue because it’s a gain. Weight in fuchsia pink makes me feel cheery because it’s a loss. Weight in black means no change.
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10/02-187.0-(Trend Weight 189.0)-
10/03-186.2-(Trend Weight 188.5)-
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10/05-185.8-(Trend Weight 188.2)-
10/06-188.0-(Trend Weight 188.2)-
10/07-186.8-(Trend Weight 188.1)-
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10/19-185.6-(Trend Weight 186.2)- I was hoping to see a little more of a drop but I have just went through some higher calorie and carb days on the zig-zag so luckily it’s not done too much damage. I hope to choose a lower calorie day today but we will see how the nighttime munchies get me. Sometimes I have to switch to a medium or higher day at night, last minute, because of an extra snack. However, inevitably I get to those lower calorie ones somewhere by the end of the week and must face the fiddler, bite the bullet, so to speak, and get through the lower days too. I do like the flexibility of this plan so far. Tonight I am planning some skinny popcorn for a snack so I hope that feeds the night monsters. I have to go to bed early tonight because of an early morning tomorrow to get DGS ready for school and get him to the bus stop so that should help. Just a friendly reminder: Remember, that Halloween candy is for the children! Let’s do well.
10/20-185.0-(Trend Weight 186.2)- My goal for all my challenges is to lose about 4 lbs per month. I have only lost 3 lbs these past 4 weeks so I am behind. The set-backs are hard to recover from for sure. However, I remain happy and grateful for any progress at all. My clothes are getting much looser so I went upstairs to “the wish vault” and tried on one pair of pants and they easily fit! When I hit the 170’s I may make it a project to go through the upstairs closet, dressers and totes and see what’s in there in those smaller sizes. It’s been so long I’ve forgotten much of it.
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ManifestingToday wrote: »deepwoodslady wrote: »@ManifestingToday Please Please never feel afraid to post your weight. Never feel fake. Remember, you are not posting for us, you are posting for YOU. Also, we are all anonymous. No judgement here. The posts are really to help you monitor and track how things are affecting you in your journey. Water fluctuations, how certain foods affect your scale, bathroom habits, hormone changes. What happens with certain workouts (weight loss? recovery fluid retention?) It really helps us make good choices. Also, reading other comments can give us really good ideas of things that we've never tried. When you are being honest, you are really being honest with yourself and we all know that we must do that to be successful. ...
Thank you, @deepwoodslady. I needed to hear this, and I'm sure it will help others too. Happy Friday!
@deepwoodslady Excellent advice; couldn't have said it better. There are no judgements in this thread; that's why I love it so much.4 -
Monthly Habits:
Log all my food 🥙
Work out 3x/week 🏃♀️
8 glasses of water💧
Self Care Activity 🧶
Sept weightloss: 6.7 lb.
Oct. Monthly goal: lose 2 pounds
1: 🥙🏃♀️🧶forgot to check in yesterday but the month is off to a good start 🧡
2: 🥙🏃♀️💧 feeling great and taking the time to focus on how good I feel when I take better care of my body.
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5: 🥙💧 long day at work, but instead of vegging on the couch with a snack I did my skin care routine and called out an early night. Tomorrow is a new day.
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8: 🥙🧶🏃♀️💧I hit all of my goals today ❤️ A great weekend with the family
9: 🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ hit all my goals today, even if my walk was interrupted by a sudden rainshower. Looking forward to fall activities and don't mind the rain as the trade off 🎃
10: 🥙💧 late night of fall baseball and then target runs to prep my teen for homecoming. Definitely went too long without eating and then ate an oceans worth of fishsticks. Heading to bed and starting over tomorrow
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12:🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ I will never not be humbled by a zumba class. I went to my second one today and man it was so fun, but I accidently looked in the mirror and I looked like an electrocuted jellyfish every time I waved my arms...
13:🥙🧶 went over my calories and missed some goals, but the day was good despite it and I'm excited for a whole weekend free ❤️
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16: 🥙💧🧶 I'm celebrating 30 days of consistent tracking. I'm trying to focus on what things feel sustainable, and what can make my weightloss a long term change. I love the classes at the gym, and how much easier my mornings are when I meal prep. I like that I don't feel stuffed when I'm done eating and that I can tell the difference when I've drunk enough water. I'm looking forward to what I notice at day 60 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a few months now; my favorite support group on MFP. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty).
My goals for October🍂 :
Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - BUT I am only 6 pounds away from getting out of the obese category - so setting a stretch goal to get there by the end of the month. Usually if I announce something I do it so . . . .. fingers crossed. ⚖️
Hit my orignal 1,960 mile goal. I am on a mission to get 2,023 miles in 2023, when I first started my goal was 1,960 - a good year. When I realized that I would achieve this early changed it to 2,023. 🏃♂️
17K Steps daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week 💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log daily 📝
Stay under my calorie range 🥗
Read daily 📖
Do something creative or fun daily 🧶 🖍️ 🎮
⚖️ 🏃♂️👣💦💪🧘 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Weight Loss to Date: 53.8 Pounds
September Ending Weight: 174.2
🎃👻🍂Happy October!🎃👻🍂
Oct 1: 😁 173.8 A good start 👣💦📝 🥗 🎮
Oct 2: 😁 173.4 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 3: 173.4 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮 The Hogwarts challenge that I am in has an assignment this week to run/jog for 20 minutes. It doesn't have to be in one session. Years ago, I did the Couch to 5K and jogged a 5k on my 50th birthday (a time when I was almost at my goal weight). I thought about doing that again, but when I tried earlier this year my knees couldn't take it. I thought I would try again when I lost 60 pounds - I'm not quite at 60, but close - I guess this was a sign that I should try again. Yesterday I did day one, and it was fun. Keeping my fingers crossed because I really did love it.
Oct 4: 173.6 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 5: 173.4 👣💦 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 6: 😁173👣💦🧘 📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 7: 😁172.6 👣💦 📝🥗 📖🖍️🎮
Oct 8: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🎮 Happy with that - went out for a nice lunch, had a couple beers - it might be a day lag for the uptick - but happy that it stayed the same today.
Oct 9: 😁 172 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Not a very good night sleep - couldn't fall asleep so go back up - read, knitted, played games on my phone - finally went to bed at 3:00AM, and back up 6:00AM. It's bingo night with Mom tonight so up later than usual - thinking I'll need to take a nap today - we'll see how that plays out on the scale tomorrow.
Oct 10: 172 👣💦 📝📖 🎮 First day in forever I missed my calorie goal. Just a couple 100 over, but over just the same. It is my sister's birthday today - so had cake last night at bingo which put me over the top.
Oct 11: 😠 173.2 👣💦💪📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮 I guess Monday's overage, lack of sleep, and the fact that I was over on my sodium goal yesterday got me.
Oct 12: 172.8 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🎮
Oct 13: 172.8 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🖍️
Oct 14: 😁171.6 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🖍️Well that was a nice surprise. It will probably be short lived. Going out to dinner tonight with the whole family. My sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring. She has finished her treatment and after surgery and three rounds of chemo - they think they got it all. Going out to celebrate. Going to Japenese Hibachi - am going to figure out this morning how to count it so that I can determine what I can eat for breakfast and lunch. Hoping to still stay under the calorie goal - but am sure the sodium will be over the top.
Oct 15: 173.4 👣📝📖 Won't give myself a sad face - fully expected, but was a great night celebrating. Here is a picture of the family - Unfortunately missing Allyson, we were supposed to go last wekend but my nephew and hubby were still covid positive, so couldn't go. She had a wedding this weekend, so we missed her.
Oct 16: 173.6 👣💪📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Ok, now I need to get motivated - been over my sodium goal three days in a row AND two days in a row not drinking the water - gets me every time.
Oct 17: 172.4 👣💦 📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 18: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 19: 172.6 👣💪 📝🥗 📖 🎮
Oct 20: 171.4 😁 Finally! 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️🎮
Oct 21: 170.6 😁 👣📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮2 -
Starting weight September 1: 141
Goal weight for October: 132.8
October 1: 136.2
October 2: 137.0 I logged 👍 Wow, my weight can really spike up quickly. On Sept 30 I was 134.8. Now 2.2 lbs higher. But this is not a surprise. On Sept 30 my mom took me out to lunch; and the mac & cheese was sooooo bad. I just had to go home and make mac & cheese to go with dinner, the proper way, with all the butter and flour and cream cheese and buttery bread crumb topping. And I ate too much of that mac & cheese. And then yesterday we had a long party with friends, and there was a ton of great food & wine. So I overdid it there. So, now back to the plan. My goal is to get back at daily logging & daily meeting my calorie goal, AND to drink lots of water. Cycle day 1 should be right about now too, so the weight could stay here or go up again. Just going to get back to the plan and try to stick with it from here!
October 3: 137.0 I logged 👍
October 4: 136.8 I logged 👍
October 5: 135.2
October 6: DNW
October 7: 135.2 Had crazy crazy days both Thursday and Friday...
October 8: 134.8
October 9: 135.0 I've been super slack with logging. But I am signed up for my very first 5K tomorrow, so that's exciting. This will be a run/walk for me. For about a month I've been working on it and now I can run up to about 3-4 minutes intermittently with about 1-2 minutes walking, for about 25 minutes. I never believed I could run for 3 minutes straight, so this is a huge improvement. Hopefully I won't wake up sick or something (there is sickness going through the house.)
October 10: 134.4 I logged 👍
October 11: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 12: 135.2 Awwww, I'm kinda disappointed.
October 13: 136.0 -Sigh.-
October 14: 135.8 Looks like today or tomorrow will by Cycle day 1... that seems to explain some things with my hunger and eating the last couple days and, uh, some moodiness, LOL! Perimenopause is interesting... I never know what's going on.
October 15: 137.0
October 16: 136.4
October 17: 136.4
October 18: 135.6 I logged 👍. Could be worse, considering I haven't been logging and I keep eating too much. I keep getting hungry and eating over my calorie goal, and then I just throw in the towel. My goal for the rest of the month is to stop with that perfectionism and to keep logging even if I'm going to be way over on calories. Also, more protein in the early afternoon might help with my afternoon cravings.
October 19: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 20: 135.0 I logged 👍
October 21: 134.8
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🐈⬛Hello, I’m Jill. 🥰I’m 53, 5’7” and I live in Michigan.
My goals for October🍂 :
⚖️Weigh- in daily
📝Log daily
🏡 Yardwork—Fall clean up
📝 Log consistently
🦮🦮Walk and train puppies
🥗 Continue the high-protein, lower-carb, lower-fat plan- stay within calories
Starting weight January 1st: 224.5
January weight lost: 7.7 pounds
February weight lost: 5 pounds
March weight lost: 6 pounds
April weight lost: 6.5 pounds
May weight lost: 2.6 pounds
June weight lost: 1.6 pounds
July weight lost: 1.3 pounds
August weight lost: up 1 pound
September weight loss: 1.8 pounds
2023 Weight lost through September is 25.9 pounds
Weight loss goal for October: 2 pounds
🎃🐈⬛October🍂🌻
1: 199.7 Happy October 1st… here we go!⚖️📝
2: 200.4 ⚖️Ok...I've devised a plan to fight my inner snack monster! I'm going to drink my snackiness away with water. Brilliant, right? I'm going to take my 32oz water jug and take a short walk when I get my salty cravings. Today is day 1!
3: 200.5⚖️
4: 200.1⚖️
5: 199 ⚖️
6: 197.9 ⚖️… snacking was under control!
7: 199 with clothes
8: 198.7 🎃
9: 198.8 🎃 Only one more pound to go to reach my October goal is losing 2 pounds… baby steps.
10: 198.6 🎃
11: 198.8 🎃
12: 198.3 🎃
13: 198.6 🎃
14: 197.7 🥳 hit my goal for October! 🎃
15: 198.7…🍁 not too worried
16: 199.2… back to simpler healthier dinners. Football food needs some adaptations as well.
🐈⬛ Happy Monday friends! 👻
17: 200…👻
18: 199.4 🎃
19: 199 🎃
20: 198.3🎃
21: 198.4🎃
Jill2 -
Just a friendly reminder to you all because I care about you. Please don’t forget to schedule your mammograms and do your self-checks.
My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 63 years old and from the Michigan USA. In 2016 I weighed 253 lbs. I am on a journey of health and to get back to the real me.
Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
250’s; 240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150’s
Starting Weight (from Sept 30th): 188.2
Goal: 184.2 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx
**************************************ONE DAY, ONE STEP, ONE DECISION AT A TIME************************************
Weight in blue makes me blue because it’s a gain. Weight in fuchsia pink makes me feel cheery because it’s a loss. Weight in black means no change.
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10/20-185.0-(Trend Weight 186.2)- My goal for all my challenges is to lose about 4 lbs per month. I have only lost 3 lbs these past 4 weeks so I am behind. The set-backs are hard to recover from for sure. However, I remain happy and grateful for any progress at all. My clothes are getting much looser so I went upstairs to “the wish vault” and tried on one pair of pants and they easily fit! When I hit the 170’s I may make it a project to go through the upstairs closet, dressers and totes and see what’s in there in those smaller sizes. It’s been so long I’ve forgotten much of it.
10/21-DNW-(Trend Weight DNW)- I planned on making low carb keto friendly jalapeno poppers last night for dinner. When I went to get them out of the crisper drawer I saw they were rotting and I went into a Tizzy. Low on some of my go-to foods, I began eating random things instead (not advised). None of it seemed to be filling me up. I then started on non-approved things. I don’t know if I ever got completely full (before dozing off on the couch binge-watching) but I did get satisfied. This morning I can see the bloat, no TMI, a serious lack of quality sleep which has all left me with no desire to get out the scale and step on it. I thought about going out of town to do some shopping and restock, but I am not in the mood to be faced with so much food outside of my plan. Nor do I need a restaurant meal today after last night’s full-on binge. I think I’ll just burn leaves today even though they are wet from all the rain these past few days. I thought about going down to the school for Haunted Halls, but they will have tons of goodies and baked goods there that I won’t be able to resist today. I feel like I’m on a bender and I have to be very careful.
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I just read back my comments from yesterday. I noticed I talked about fitting into those smaller pants. Was last night (my typical) self-sabotage? Probably.1
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'm Janice...54 yrs old, married 26 years with 4 kids, One 28 week old grandbaby and a small zoo I live in Edmonton.Alberta,Canada and I work for Hallmark. I am an avid cyclist...I love to walk, hike, spin class, BodyCombat and BodyPump. I sometimes teach spin classes at a friends gym. I also like to read+(audiobooks) and watch movies!!😁
9 year breast cancer survivor...Osteoarthritis in most of my joints...limited range of motion in my knees, but all bearable for now..
Highest weight:197.6
Goals:
1. Following my Les Mills October calendar
2. Yoga
3. Tracking everything
4. Journaling
Oct 1 - 152.2 - Weight won't stay here
Big race yesterday - managed 2nd place out of 102 riders...was a bit chilly but it didn't rain so that was a bonus 
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2 - 153.2 - Always goes up as soon as I eat a normal meal
3 - 153.8 - uuuhhgg - hate the week after races...
4 - 154.1 -
5 - 154 -
6 - 153.6 - WHAT??? 🤫🤫
7 - 11 - Started off super busy then ended up super sick...I am a wreck! Have had so many problems with my gallbladder - had it removed about a year ago along with 32 stones from my bile duct...but have had reoccurring stones...Choledocholithiasis off and on since...well I couldn't stop throwing up on Saturday and was rushed in for an ERCP procedure to remove more stones - this is the third time this year - but this time I had no warning signs...so done with my body...was home Sunday but not much help for dinner...my husband and kids did it all...with some direction;)
12 - 153.4 - making new goals today...need to change up something 😡
13 - 153.6
14 - 153.6 - Tried a new spin class today - power and flow - it was so fun...and wow😁
15 - 153.8 -
250 km bike today...brrrrrrr
16 - 153 - from the bike yesterday...
17 - 153.2 - uuuhhhggggg
18 - 153.8 - whatever!! Out tonight - Robin Williams Tribute Comedy show!!!
19 - 153.4 - This is my life - need to shift my mindset - just not sure how to do it!!!
20 - 154 - sad face - I too self sabotage Today is our last motorcycle trip of the year...it's getting cold and snow is in the forecast for Sunday
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deepwoodslady wrote: »I just read back my comments from yesterday. I noticed I talked about fitting into those smaller pants. Was last night (my typical) self-sabotage? Probably.
I get so thrown off when I go off plan too. I forget that the hardest part of eating healthier is constantly being "on". Mindless is so much easier in the moment.2 -
Monthly Habits:
Log all my food 🥙
Work out 3x/week 🏃♀️
8 glasses of water💧
Self Care Activity 🧶
Sept weightloss: 6.7 lb.
Oct. Monthly goal: lose 2 pounds
1: 🥙🏃♀️🧶forgot to check in yesterday but the month is off to a good start 🧡
2: 🥙🏃♀️💧 feeling great and taking the time to focus on how good I feel when I take better care of my body.
3: 🥙💧
4: 🥙
5: 🥙💧 long day at work, but instead of vegging on the couch with a snack I did my skin care routine and called out an early night. Tomorrow is a new day.
6: 🥙🧶
7: 🥙🧶
8: 🥙🧶🏃♀️💧I hit all of my goals today ❤️ A great weekend with the family
9: 🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ hit all my goals today, even if my walk was interrupted by a sudden rainshower. Looking forward to fall activities and don't mind the rain as the trade off 🎃
10: 🥙💧 late night of fall baseball and then target runs to prep my teen for homecoming. Definitely went too long without eating and then ate an oceans worth of fishsticks. Heading to bed and starting over tomorrow
11:🥙🧶💧
12:🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ I will never not be humbled by a zumba class. I went to my second one today and man it was so fun, but I accidently looked in the mirror and I looked like an electrocuted jellyfish every time I waved my arms...
13:🥙🧶 went over my calories and missed some goals, but the day was good despite it and I'm excited for a whole weekend free ❤️
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15: 🥙🏃♀️💧🧶
16: 🥙💧🧶 I'm celebrating 30 days of consistent tracking. I'm trying to focus on what things feel sustainable, and what can make my weightloss a long term change. I love the classes at the gym, and how much easier my mornings are when I meal prep. I like that I don't feel stuffed when I'm done eating and that I can tell the difference when I've drunk enough water. I'm looking forward to what I notice at day 60 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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20: 🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ hit all my goals today and had a Halloween movie night with the kids 🧡
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I know it's late in the month to show up, but I'm just now cleared for exercise and I want to make sure I find the November thread (:
I'm Ashley, or "Ashes". I'm a Midwestern gal (now Cali gal) that lost the first baby weight through these monthly accountability challenges, I came back during my 2nd pregnancy to keep an eye on weight, but logged out due to extenuating circumstances (including an unexpected cross-country move 4weeks before baby came 🙃).
Height 5'5"
1st Starting weight SW May 7, 2021: 169 lbs
{Maintenance weight since Mid Feb 2022: 140lbs}
2nd pregnancy final weight: 165 lbs; I gained exactly 25lbs which was such a shock considering how I was eating and not logging (first pregnancy I ended at 182 lbs)
New SW October 21, 2023: 154.8 lbs
GW: 132 lbs
I'm feeling pretty bullish (:3 -
Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a few months now; my favorite support group on MFP. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty).
My goals for October🍂 :
Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - BUT I am only 6 pounds away from getting out of the obese category - so setting a stretch goal to get there by the end of the month. Usually if I announce something I do it so . . . .. fingers crossed. ⚖️
Hit my orignal 1,960 mile goal. I am on a mission to get 2,023 miles in 2023, when I first started my goal was 1,960 - a good year. When I realized that I would achieve this early changed it to 2,023. 🏃♂️
17K Steps daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week 💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log daily 📝
Stay under my calorie range 🥗
Read daily 📖
Do something creative or fun daily 🧶 🖍️ 🎮
⚖️ 🏃♂️👣💦💪🧘 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Weight Loss to Date: 53.8 Pounds
September Ending Weight: 174.2
🎃👻🍂Happy October!🎃👻🍂
Oct 1: 😁 173.8 A good start 👣💦📝 🥗 🎮
Oct 2: 😁 173.4 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 3: 173.4 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮 The Hogwarts challenge that I am in has an assignment this week to run/jog for 20 minutes. It doesn't have to be in one session. Years ago, I did the Couch to 5K and jogged a 5k on my 50th birthday (a time when I was almost at my goal weight). I thought about doing that again, but when I tried earlier this year my knees couldn't take it. I thought I would try again when I lost 60 pounds - I'm not quite at 60, but close - I guess this was a sign that I should try again. Yesterday I did day one, and it was fun. Keeping my fingers crossed because I really did love it.
Oct 4: 173.6 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 5: 173.4 👣💦 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 6: 😁173👣💦🧘 📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 7: 😁172.6 👣💦 📝🥗 📖🖍️🎮
Oct 8: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🎮 Happy with that - went out for a nice lunch, had a couple beers - it might be a day lag for the uptick - but happy that it stayed the same today.
Oct 9: 😁 172 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Not a very good night sleep - couldn't fall asleep so go back up - read, knitted, played games on my phone - finally went to bed at 3:00AM, and back up 6:00AM. It's bingo night with Mom tonight so up later than usual - thinking I'll need to take a nap today - we'll see how that plays out on the scale tomorrow.
Oct 10: 172 👣💦 📝📖 🎮 First day in forever I missed my calorie goal. Just a couple 100 over, but over just the same. It is my sister's birthday today - so had cake last night at bingo which put me over the top.
Oct 11: 😠 173.2 👣💦💪📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮 I guess Monday's overage, lack of sleep, and the fact that I was over on my sodium goal yesterday got me.
Oct 12: 172.8 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🎮
Oct 13: 172.8 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🖍️
Oct 14: 😁171.6 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🖍️Well that was a nice surprise. It will probably be short lived. Going out to dinner tonight with the whole family. My sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring. She has finished her treatment and after surgery and three rounds of chemo - they think they got it all. Going out to celebrate. Going to Japenese Hibachi - am going to figure out this morning how to count it so that I can determine what I can eat for breakfast and lunch. Hoping to still stay under the calorie goal - but am sure the sodium will be over the top.
Oct 15: 173.4 👣📝📖 Won't give myself a sad face - fully expected, but was a great night celebrating. Here is a picture of the family - Unfortunately missing Allyson, we were supposed to go last wekend but my nephew and hubby were still covid positive, so couldn't go. She had a wedding this weekend, so we missed her.
Oct 16: 173.6 👣💪📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Ok, now I need to get motivated - been over my sodium goal three days in a row AND two days in a row not drinking the water - gets me every time.
Oct 17: 172.4 👣💦 📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 18: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 19: 172.6 👣💪 📝🥗 📖 🎮
Oct 20: 171.4 😁 Finally! 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️🎮
Oct 21: 170.6 😁 👣📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 22: 171.2 👣📝 Started feeling crappy in the afternoon, got progressively worse - took a covid test - postive. ☹️ Might be out of commission for a few days.3 -
October Start Weight: 239
October Goal Weight: 230
Ultimate Goal Weight: 199
October 1: 239
October 8: 236
October 15: 235
October 22: 234
October 29:
October 313 -
Starting weight September 1: 141
Goal weight for October: 132.8
October 1: 136.2
October 2: 137.0 I logged 👍 Wow, my weight can really spike up quickly. On Sept 30 I was 134.8. Now 2.2 lbs higher. But this is not a surprise. On Sept 30 my mom took me out to lunch; and the mac & cheese was sooooo bad. I just had to go home and make mac & cheese to go with dinner, the proper way, with all the butter and flour and cream cheese and buttery bread crumb topping. And I ate too much of that mac & cheese. And then yesterday we had a long party with friends, and there was a ton of great food & wine. So I overdid it there. So, now back to the plan. My goal is to get back at daily logging & daily meeting my calorie goal, AND to drink lots of water. Cycle day 1 should be right about now too, so the weight could stay here or go up again. Just going to get back to the plan and try to stick with it from here!
October 3: 137.0 I logged 👍
October 4: 136.8 I logged 👍
October 5: 135.2
October 6: DNW
October 7: 135.2 Had crazy crazy days both Thursday and Friday...
October 8: 134.8
October 9: 135.0 I've been super slack with logging. But I am signed up for my very first 5K tomorrow, so that's exciting. This will be a run/walk for me. For about a month I've been working on it and now I can run up to about 3-4 minutes intermittently with about 1-2 minutes walking, for about 25 minutes. I never believed I could run for 3 minutes straight, so this is a huge improvement. Hopefully I won't wake up sick or something (there is sickness going through the house.)
October 10: 134.4 I logged 👍
October 11: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 12: 135.2 Awwww, I'm kinda disappointed.
October 13: 136.0 -Sigh.-
October 14: 135.8 Looks like today or tomorrow will by Cycle day 1... that seems to explain some things with my hunger and eating the last couple days and, uh, some moodiness, LOL! Perimenopause is interesting... I never know what's going on.
October 15: 137.0
October 16: 136.4
October 17: 136.4
October 18: 135.6 I logged 👍. Could be worse, considering I haven't been logging and I keep eating too much. I keep getting hungry and eating over my calorie goal, and then I just throw in the towel. My goal for the rest of the month is to stop with that perfectionism and to keep logging even if I'm going to be way over on calories. Also, more protein in the early afternoon might help with my afternoon cravings.
October 19: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 20: 135.0 I logged 👍
October 21: 134.8 I logged 👍
October 22: 134.0
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October 31:2 -
Hi, I'm a 50 yo married female, 5'6", and tired of looking and feeling like I do. I’m making changes to get out of the Obese category, to look good in my clothing, and to have confidence in public again.
Heaviest Weight: 221 | Ultimate Goal Weight: 165
Starting Weight Aug 2023: 212.7 | Sep 2023: 207.1 |
October Goals:
Lose 2 lbs. | Consistently log food | Bike &/or Treadmill 4 days a week | Aim for 7 hours sleep/day
Oct 1: 205.5
Oct 2: 206.4 - A bit more sodium yesterday, and a piece of Naan. It was good, I'm just paying for it.
Oct 3: 205.4 - Going to try a different workout, and focus on me today.
Oct 4: 204.9
Oct 5: 204.6
Oct 6: 205.4 - Sodium up last night, but this will go down again. Feeling good overall.
Oct 7: 204.9
Oct 8: 204.0 - I expected 2 lbs up this morning, so that might hit tomorrow. We splurged a bit yesterday.
Oct 9: 205.4 - Yup.
Oct 10: 206.1 - Ugh. I have been off my exercise game lately. Definitely time to get moving.
Oct 11: 205.4
Oct 12: 205.1 - I am prioritizing the workouts this week. I want this number to go down.
Oct 13: 205.6
Oct 14: 207.1 - I even waited a couple more hours before coffee/meds to weigh myself, hoping sleep would trim this down. But no. Salty yummy food, I love you, and I hate you.
Oct 15: 207.8 - This morning I definitely about threw the scale. Some of this is week-before-cycle bloat (clothes are tight when they were great 2 days ago). Some I assume is still sodium related. The rest is that I dared stray from eating salad and chicken and the 10 foods I eat all the time. Tomorrow I will 100% be back on plan. Today I'm giving myself a damn break. I'm grumpy. I'm tired.
Oct 16: 208.9 - This has to be water retention. I even worked out yesterday.
Oct 17: 208.7
Oct 18: 207.5
Oct 19: 205.7 - No cycle, but at least the water retention is less. This round really damaged my mindset too. I felt afraid to post my weight, felt fake for posting because it just looks like I'm off plan when I wasn't. Just glad the number is better.
Oct 20: 205.8 - couldn't shave that .1 no matter how many times I stepped on the scale.
Oct 21: 205.8
Oct 22: 205.5
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Welcome back to the group, @AshesSquared ! Based on your previous success, I know you can do this again. Congrats on getting started!2 -
AshesSquared wrote: »I know it's late in the month to show up, but I'm just now cleared for exercise and I want to make sure I find the November thread (:
I'm Ashley, or "Ashes". I'm a Midwestern gal (now Cali gal) that lost the first baby weight through these monthly accountability challenges, I came back during my 2nd pregnancy to keep an eye on weight, but logged out due to extenuating circumstances (including an unexpected cross-country move 4weeks before baby came 🙃).
Height 5'5"
1st Starting weight SW May 7, 2021: 169 lbs
{Maintenance weight since Mid Feb 2022: 140lbs}
2nd pregnancy final weight: 165 lbs; I gained exactly 25lbs which was such a shock considering how I was eating and not logging (first pregnancy I ended at 182 lbs)
New SW October 21, 2023: 154.8 lbs
GW: 132 lbs
I'm feeling pretty bullish (:
@AshesSquared It's so nice of you to join us Ashley. So glad you are here! Welcome, congratulations on the babies and the big move to California! Let's do this!1 -
Just a friendly reminder to you all because I care about you. Please don’t forget to schedule your mammograms and do your self-checks.
My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 63 years old and from the Michigan USA. In 2016 I weighed 253 lbs. I am on a journey of health and to get back to the real me.
Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
250’s; 240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150’s
Starting Weight (from Sept 30th): 188.2
Goal: 184.2 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx
**************************************ONE DAY, ONE STEP, ONE DECISION AT A TIME************************************
Weight in blue makes me blue because it’s a gain. Weight in fuchsia pink makes me feel cheery because it’s a loss. Weight in black means no change.
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10/21-DNW-(Trend Weight DNW)- I planned on making low carb keto friendly jalapeno poppers last night for dinner. When I went to get them out of the crisper drawer I saw they were rotting and I went into a Tizzy. Low on some of my go-to foods, I began eating random things instead (not advised). None of it seemed to be filling me up. I then started on non-approved things. I don’t know if I ever got completely full (before dozing off on the couch binge-watching) but I did get satisfied. This morning I can see the bloat, no TMI, a serious lack of quality sleep which has all left me with no desire to get out the scale and step on it. I thought about going out of town to do some shopping and restock, but I am not in the mood to be faced with so much food outside of my plan. Nor do I need a restaurant meal today after last night’s full-on binge. I think I’ll just burn leaves today even though they are wet from all the rain these past few days. I thought about going down to the school for Haunted Halls, but they will have tons of goodies and baked goods there that I won’t be able to resist today. I feel like I’m on a bender and I have to be very careful.
10/22-185.6-(Trend Weight 186.2)- I’m still struggling with those night-time snacks, no matter how late I make my dinner. I’ve added more protein but could probably do even better with that. Thankfully I got through it last night. The cravings have been horrible. I’m learning that any sugar whatsoever is a big trigger for me. Even a little artificial sugar in my tea. Wow! This really is hard, isn’t it?
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October 🎃👻🔮🍂🍫🍬
1: 347.8
2: 346.4
3: 345.2
4: 344.6
5: 344.8
6: 344.8
Total week loss: 3lbs loss
7: 345.0
8: 344.4
9: 345.6
10: 346.0
11: 344.8
12: 344.4
13: 344.2
Total week loss: 0.6lbs loss
14: 342.8
15: 343.4
16: 342.8
17: 344.8
18: 344.8
19: 344.6
20: 344.6
Total week gained: 1.8lbs gained 😭I was bad a few days this week. I'm slowly fixing my wrongs.
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22: 344.2
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🐈⬛Hello, I’m Jill. 🥰I’m 53, 5’7” and I live in Michigan.
My goals for October🍂 :
⚖️Weigh- in daily
📝Log daily
🏡 Yardwork—Fall clean up
📝 Log consistently
🦮🦮Walk and train puppies
🥗 Continue the high-protein, lower-carb, lower-fat plan- stay within calories
Starting weight January 1st: 224.5
January weight lost: 7.7 pounds
February weight lost: 5 pounds
March weight lost: 6 pounds
April weight lost: 6.5 pounds
May weight lost: 2.6 pounds
June weight lost: 1.6 pounds
July weight lost: 1.3 pounds
August weight lost: up 1 pound
September weight loss: 1.8 pounds
2023 Weight lost through September is 25.9 pounds
Weight loss goal for October: 2 pounds
🎃🐈⬛October🍂🌻
1: 199.7 Happy October 1st… here we go!⚖️📝
2: 200.4 ⚖️Ok...I've devised a plan to fight my inner snack monster! I'm going to drink my snackiness away with water. Brilliant, right? I'm going to take my 32oz water jug and take a short walk when I get my salty cravings. Today is day 1!
3: 200.5⚖️
4: 200.1⚖️
5: 199 ⚖️
6: 197.9 ⚖️… snacking was under control!
7: 199 with clothes
8: 198.7 🎃
9: 198.8 🎃 Only one more pound to go to reach my October goal is losing 2 pounds… baby steps.
10: 198.6 🎃
11: 198.8 🎃
12: 198.3 🎃
13: 198.6 🎃
14: 197.7 🥳 hit my goal for October! 🎃
15: 198.7…🍁 not too worried
16: 199.2… back to simpler healthier dinners. Football food needs some adaptations as well.
🐈⬛ Happy Monday friends! 👻
17: 200…👻
18: 199.4 🎃
19: 199 🎃
20: 198.3🎃
21: 198.4🎃
22: 199.6🎃
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Monthly Habits:
Log all my food 🥙
Work out 3x/week 🏃♀️
8 glasses of water💧
Self Care Activity 🧶
Sept weightloss: 6.7 lb.
Oct. Monthly goal: lose 2 pounds
1: 🥙🏃♀️🧶forgot to check in yesterday but the month is off to a good start 🧡
2: 🥙🏃♀️💧 feeling great and taking the time to focus on how good I feel when I take better care of my body.
3: 🥙💧
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5: 🥙💧 long day at work, but instead of vegging on the couch with a snack I did my skin care routine and called out an early night. Tomorrow is a new day.
6: 🥙🧶
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8: 🥙🧶🏃♀️💧I hit all of my goals today ❤️ A great weekend with the family
9: 🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ hit all my goals today, even if my walk was interrupted by a sudden rainshower. Looking forward to fall activities and don't mind the rain as the trade off 🎃
10: 🥙💧 late night of fall baseball and then target runs to prep my teen for homecoming. Definitely went too long without eating and then ate an oceans worth of fishsticks. Heading to bed and starting over tomorrow
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12:🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ I will never not be humbled by a zumba class. I went to my second one today and man it was so fun, but I accidently looked in the mirror and I looked like an electrocuted jellyfish every time I waved my arms...
13:🥙🧶 went over my calories and missed some goals, but the day was good despite it and I'm excited for a whole weekend free ❤️
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15: 🥙🏃♀️💧🧶
16: 🥙💧🧶 I'm celebrating 30 days of consistent tracking. I'm trying to focus on what things feel sustainable, and what can make my weightloss a long term change. I love the classes at the gym, and how much easier my mornings are when I meal prep. I like that I don't feel stuffed when I'm done eating and that I can tell the difference when I've drunk enough water. I'm looking forward to what I notice at day 60 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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20: 🥙🧶💧🏃♀️ hit all my goals today and had a Halloween movie night with the kids 🧡
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22: 🥙🏃♀️ Today was the first big event I've gone to since I started calorie counting. I was worried because these often come with hours of snacking and then a big dinner and lots of desserts. Today had that, but I was able to pick what I wanted without feeling the urge to constantly go back for more. It felt like a personal victory to walk away feeling comfortable and not over stuffed.
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Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a few months now; my favorite support group on MFP. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty).
My goals for October🍂 :
Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - BUT I am only 6 pounds away from getting out of the obese category - so setting a stretch goal to get there by the end of the month. Usually if I announce something I do it so . . . .. fingers crossed. ⚖️
Hit my orignal 1,960 mile goal. I am on a mission to get 2,023 miles in 2023, when I first started my goal was 1,960 - a good year. When I realized that I would achieve this early changed it to 2,023. 🏃♂️
17K Steps daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week 💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log daily 📝
Stay under my calorie range 🥗
Read daily 📖
Do something creative or fun daily 🧶 🖍️ 🎮
⚖️ 🏃♂️👣💦💪🧘 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Weight Loss to Date: 53.8 Pounds
September Ending Weight: 174.2
🎃👻🍂Happy October!🎃👻🍂
Oct 1: 😁 173.8 A good start 👣💦📝 🥗 🎮
Oct 2: 😁 173.4 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 3: 173.4 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮 The Hogwarts challenge that I am in has an assignment this week to run/jog for 20 minutes. It doesn't have to be in one session. Years ago, I did the Couch to 5K and jogged a 5k on my 50th birthday (a time when I was almost at my goal weight). I thought about doing that again, but when I tried earlier this year my knees couldn't take it. I thought I would try again when I lost 60 pounds - I'm not quite at 60, but close - I guess this was a sign that I should try again. Yesterday I did day one, and it was fun. Keeping my fingers crossed because I really did love it.
Oct 4: 173.6 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 5: 173.4 👣💦 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 6: 😁173👣💦🧘 📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 7: 😁172.6 👣💦 📝🥗 📖🖍️🎮
Oct 8: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🎮 Happy with that - went out for a nice lunch, had a couple beers - it might be a day lag for the uptick - but happy that it stayed the same today.
Oct 9: 😁 172 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Not a very good night sleep - couldn't fall asleep so go back up - read, knitted, played games on my phone - finally went to bed at 3:00AM, and back up 6:00AM. It's bingo night with Mom tonight so up later than usual - thinking I'll need to take a nap today - we'll see how that plays out on the scale tomorrow.
Oct 10: 172 👣💦 📝📖 🎮 First day in forever I missed my calorie goal. Just a couple 100 over, but over just the same. It is my sister's birthday today - so had cake last night at bingo which put me over the top.
Oct 11: 😠 173.2 👣💦💪📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮 I guess Monday's overage, lack of sleep, and the fact that I was over on my sodium goal yesterday got me.
Oct 12: 172.8 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🎮
Oct 13: 172.8 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🖍️
Oct 14: 😁171.6 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🖍️Well that was a nice surprise. It will probably be short lived. Going out to dinner tonight with the whole family. My sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring. She has finished her treatment and after surgery and three rounds of chemo - they think they got it all. Going out to celebrate. Going to Japenese Hibachi - am going to figure out this morning how to count it so that I can determine what I can eat for breakfast and lunch. Hoping to still stay under the calorie goal - but am sure the sodium will be over the top.
Oct 15: 173.4 👣📝📖 Won't give myself a sad face - fully expected, but was a great night celebrating. Here is a picture of the family - Unfortunately missing Allyson, we were supposed to go last wekend but my nephew and hubby were still covid positive, so couldn't go. She had a wedding this weekend, so we missed her.
Oct 16: 173.6 👣💪📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Ok, now I need to get motivated - been over my sodium goal three days in a row AND two days in a row not drinking the water - gets me every time.
Oct 17: 172.4 👣💦 📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 18: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 19: 172.6 👣💪 📝🥗 📖 🎮
Oct 20: 171.4 😁 Finally! 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️🎮
Oct 21: 170.6 😁 👣📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 22: 171.2 👣📝 Started feeling crappy in the afternoon, got progressively worse - took a covid test - postive. ☹️ Might be out of commission for a few days.
Oct 23: 1712 -
I just got back from Switzerland. My husband and I were there visiting our son for five days. I am feeling re-energized to tackle my health. We didn't see any obese people there. We did see many people jogging and riding their bikes and walking, of course. Going to jump back in so that I can hit the ground running for the November challenge.
22: 208
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🐈⬛Hello, I’m Jill. 🥰I’m 53, 5’7” and I live in Michigan.
My goals for October🍂 :
⚖️Weigh- in daily
📝Log daily
🏡 Yardwork—Fall clean up
📝 Log consistently
🦮🦮Walk and train puppies
🥗 Continue the high-protein, lower-carb, lower-fat plan- stay within calories
Starting weight January 1st: 224.5
January weight lost: 7.7 pounds
February weight lost: 5 pounds
March weight lost: 6 pounds
April weight lost: 6.5 pounds
May weight lost: 2.6 pounds
June weight lost: 1.6 pounds
July weight lost: 1.3 pounds
August weight lost: up 1 pound
September weight loss: 1.8 pounds
2023 Weight lost through September is 25.9 pounds
Weight loss goal for October: 2 pounds
🎃🐈⬛October🍂🌻
1: 199.7 Happy October 1st… here we go!⚖️📝
2: 200.4 ⚖️Ok...I've devised a plan to fight my inner snack monster! I'm going to drink my snackiness away with water. Brilliant, right? I'm going to take my 32oz water jug and take a short walk when I get my salty cravings. Today is day 1!
3: 200.5⚖️
4: 200.1⚖️
5: 199 ⚖️
6: 197.9 ⚖️… snacking was under control!
7: 199 with clothes
8: 198.7 🎃
9: 198.8 🎃 Only one more pound to go to reach my October goal is losing 2 pounds… baby steps.
10: 198.6 🎃
11: 198.8 🎃
12: 198.3 🎃
13: 198.6 🎃
14: 197.7 🥳 hit my goal for October! 🎃
15: 198.7…🍁 not too worried
16: 199.2… back to simpler healthier dinners. Football food needs some adaptations as well.
🐈⬛ Happy Monday friends! 👻
17: 200…👻
18: 199.4 🎃
19: 199 🎃
20: 198.3🎃
21: 198.4🎃
22: 199.6🎃
23: 199.6
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