Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 281

BigappleBritt88

36F 5’9
SW - 175.8
GW - 155

Backstory

In 2022 I was around 157lbs with 24% bf. Was definitely in the “best shape” of my adult life then. Since then I started a new career working from home as a developer. Have moved away from my family for fiancés job. We’ve moved several times to various states in the short time span. Welcomed two puppies into the mix. Lots of changes. Lots of time spent at home. Lots of time spent away from family. Fell out of touch with friends. All of the adjustments and figuring out how to manage/handle more daily responsibilities and navigate through this phase of life has manifested into me gaining 20ish lbs and losing a lot of willpower, motivation, drive, positivity, etc that I once thrived on. Found this challenge and it has been helping me get it back. Nothing is permanent! Looking forward to working through this.

Overall Goals and Challenges

Goals
1. Focusing on behavior and mindset. Calories have been going way over for so long I need to reel the behavior back in a healthy way.
2. Don’t give up on the day when it’s challenging. Choose to make good decisions in those moments instead of giving in.
Challenges
1. Working from home makes it easy to stress eat or just eat out of boredom/habit.
2. Sleeping less (have two puppies, a 7mo and a 11mo old) makes it hard to wake up early enough to get a good workout in or at least to feel good awaking up. Feel defeated in the motivation and drive department compared to how I was previously.

Daily, Small, Attainable Goals

1. Finish 1st 27oz water before 2pm
2. Finish 2nd 27oz water before bed
3. Alternate standing and sitting at desk every other hour during working hours.

Past Challenge Stats

RND 279 : SW - 175.8 : EW - 176.4 : ⬆️ 0.6
RND 280 : SW - 175.7 : EW - 176.9 : ⬆️ 1.2
Total : ⬆️1.1

*weight taken in AM, notes on remainder of day
RND 281 : SW - 176.9

12/12 - 176.7
12/13 - 177.2
12/14 - 177.4
12/15 - 177.4
12/16 - 178.0
12/17 - 177.9
12/18 - 179.6

Gym: 3rd skip in a row

Wins: I think I can finish my water goal before the end of the night, and I did well with my stand goal for the work day. I am roughly 200cals over for the day. Tbh that isn’t bad. This past year I have been hundreds over daily. Hence the weight gain. But I remember when I was on my strict macro days, on non gym days I would either hit maintenance calories or if I was really hungry I would end up +200. Since I skipped my workout today, I’ll take that. If I can get back to 200cal deficit on gym days and between maintenance and +200 on rest days, I will be golden. Maybe I should add that to my daily goals and make it official instead of undermining myself….

Challenges: my work day challenges were better today. Main challenge was probably skipping my workout to get some extra sleep. If I go to bed on time to get 8hours I would literally need to go to bed immediately after work a lot of the time. Sometimes I just want to enjoy at least some part of my day. But I’m still happy with the way my strength training has gone in spite of the weight gain. I don’t get to work out as long or often as I would like to but I still have a good strategy going. The nutrition is where I dropped the ball this last year.

12/19
12/20
12/21

Shetlandmama

I’m in for another round
My initial weight Jan 6 2024 :289.6
Cw for round 281
Gw 2 lbs

12/12 208.3
12/13 206.1
12/14 206.8
12/15 206.1
12/16 207.2
12/17 206.8
12/18 206.8
12/19
12/20
12/21

desolate_angel

HW: 194.7 (88.3 kg) April 25, 2020
SW WT RND 247: 180.6 (81.9 kg)

END WT RND 247: 177.4 (80.5 kg)
END WT RND 248: 175.1 (79.4 kg)
END WT RND 249: 173.4 (78.7 kg)
END WT RND 250: 170.6 (77.4 kg)
END WT RND 251: 167.8 (76.1 kg)
END WT RND 252: 166 (75.3 kg)
END WT RND 253 162.9 (73.9 kg)
END WT RND 254 163 (73.9 kg)
END WT RND 255 161 (73 kg)
END WT 256: DNF
ST WT 278: 166 (75.3 kg)
END WT 278: 160.3 (72.7 kg)
END WT 279: 158.5 (71.9 kg)
END WT 280: 156.5 (71 kg)

Fell off the challenge bandwagon in round 256, managed to keep losing weight until June 12th when I hit 155.9 (70.7 kg). I fell off the weight loss wagon shortly after. Decided to start back up the day before Round 278 started.

SW RND 281: 156.5 (71 kg)
12/12- 157.2 (71.3 kg) Back on track today. An upswing as I anticipated, but honestly I feel like 156.5 was an outlier too. Husband is back from his work trip and we did some Christmas light watching tonight.
12/13- 157 (71.2 kg) Hmm, my brother and his fiancee want to go out to dinner with us tonight. They've been wanting to go out together since their engagement 2 months ago, but it just hadn't happened. I think I'll be aiming for maintenance tonight.
12/14-157.2 (71.3 kg)
12/15- 156.8 (71.1 kg) I completely spaced posting last night. Thought I was almost done with Christmas shopping at least then thought to update the list I made. We have 19 family members to shop for not counting ourselves and each of our work's Secret Santas. I had forgotten 2 family members and still not sure what they're getting. Not quite done with my Secret Santa gift and my husband still needs to get his. I have 3 stocking stuffer type things for my coffee group to finish for our meet-up Tuesday, plus my team also does something outside the Secret Santas (I work with a bunch of people whose love language is gifts). I've made a good dent this weekend, but thank goodness there's 8 more days before Christmas Eve. We did see more Christmas lights last night, and took the dog on two walks today. I think I will sleep well tonight.
12/16- 156.1 (70.8 kg) I went to North 40 to get some dog food after work since they were having 15% off everything in the store and 25% off clothing and toys. It was packed, and they were circulating trays of cookies and mini cream puffs. I am a sucker for cream puffs and had seconds. I was tempted to ask what store they bought said cream puffs from so I could procure my own stash, but wisdom prevailed.
12/17- 154.9 (70.3 kg) Whoosh! this morning. Followed by dinner out with my coffee friends tonight. I decided to eat very light for lunch in anticipation of dinner. This time it backfired on me because I stayed hungry most of the day and most of my self control went out the window at the restaurant. I think next time I'll eat a little more at lunch or have a snack before if I'm still hungry so I think with my head and not my stomach.
12/18- 155.5 (70.5 kg) 5 more days to Christmas Eve, 3.5 more days of work before Christmas. I cannot believe how quickly the month has flown.
12/19
12/20
12/21

Healthylyna2020

Round 281
I had some overnight losses that I haven’t seen in years and I am so happy the consistency this challenge gives me. My promise on this challenge was to eat real foods only. My weight has been going back and forth between 0.5kg these 3 days but i anticipated that knowing well that at a point my body will try to survive. I just hope the Christmas will be over so I can continue on the next challenge. I have not counted my calories in 2 days so i will do that today. Wishing each one a lovely 😊 weightlosing day


SW ROUND 280 : 100kg
SW ROUND 281: 98.2kg

Goals for round 281
Gratitude list 10/10 ✔️
Walk 8k 10/10✔️
Eat only real foods



I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Daily reminder: PCDR
it takes patience, consistency ,determination and resilience ~ lyna

12/11 ;98.6kg
12/12 ;97.1kg (-1.5)
13/12 97kg (-0.1)
14/12 96.8 kg. (-0.2)
15/12 :96.2 kg (-0.6)
16/12 : 95.5kg. (-0.7)
17/12 95.7kg. (+0.2)
18/12. 95.9kg (+0.2)
19/12 : 96.1 kg (+0.2)
20/12
21/12