Men on a Mission thread
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Hi JoostvanVught and welcome aboard.
I for one can definitely use all the motivation I can get. I'll get a chart up tomorrow or Thursday hopefully and I'll use your starting weight and last weigh in for the stats.
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Hi Tim, I just realized that this is an open thread, so I tried to change my nick. Looks like it worked, should read "ToastmanvV" now, do you see that? Perhaps you can change / delete my name in your last post? Many thanks, cheers!0
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ToastmanvV wrote: »Hi Tim, I just realized that this is an open thread, so I tried to change my nick. Looks like it worked, should read "ToastmanvV" now, do you see that? Perhaps you can change / delete my name in your last post? Many thanks, cheers!
I've got your new name now. Can't edit my old post any longer, but I'll make sure to get your name right on the chart. Again, Welcome!!0 -
Hello men,
Good news - We have a new member, ToastmanvV, and he is already the top loser for the week.
Bad news - I'm in the gain column again. I honestly thought I was going to be slightly down this week. I've tried to up my walking and activity and have for the most part been successful now that Mother Nature is favoring my area with some beautiful weather. Unfortunately, I have a knee that at some point in the not too distant future needs to be replaced. My left knee was replaced in 2013. I've noticed the deterioration has taken a drastic upswing in the last couple of months. I'm wanting to lose at least 20 pounds before I go to the doctor though. My wife tells me I'm an idiot for thinking this way, but....
Oh well, here's the chart. It's only Toast and I this week. Hope you all have a great week and Happy 1st day of Spring!!
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Sorry to hear about your knee, especially when you're starting to get the itch to be outside and active with the nicer weather.
I gained several pounds this week and am at an all time high. It's disappointing but not unexpected the way I've been eating. I do have a NSV though: : I've been successful on my exercise program. Tomorrow is the end of my fourth week and I have more energy throughout the day and more endurance through the workouts themselves. I'm also recovering more quickly between workouts.
LW: 256.0
CW: 259.0
Gain: 3 lbs
I went for my first (very short and slow) run of 2019 this morning and am excited to finally have no snow or ice so I can work my way up again like I did last year. For this week, though, my focus has to be on eating better.0 -
Last weekend I had a personal record breaking fitbit streak going. I had a 34,000 step day on Friday, 24,000 day on Saturday and just under 14,000 steps on Sunday. That's over 30 miles in 3 days. After all that, I'm pretty much at the same weight. WTF!
Horstbc, do you want me to put 259 as your starting weight?
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Sure, I'll take 259 as my starting weight. It'll make my numbers look way better when I catch back up!
LW: 259.0
CW: 256.8
Loss: 2.2 lbs
We're expecting baby #3 in October, so I'm hoping to have my habits well set by then. It'll be harder to make healthy changes once I'm not sleeping much, but I hope I can continue on existing good habits.0 -
I've been eating doing a much better job of eating well for the past week, and starting yesterday, I'm trying a month of nutrisystem to help reset my eating habits. The first week significantly reduces calories (to an almost ridiculously low level), so it'll be interesting to see what kind of initial dip my weight takes in response.
LW: 256.8
CW: 252.4
Loss: 4.4
For the first week of nutrisystem, while they have the calorie intake so low, they recommend not working out. Surprisingly, I'm really disappointed to not be able to do my workout program because I was enjoying it so much.0 -
Horst, awesome loss this week. I'm really interested in seeing how well you do on nutrisystem too.
No update or chart this week. I'm at the hospital now. Daughter is finally in delivery. Her due date was Wednesday, but baby decided to wait a little extra.
Afterwards I'll be running to urgent care for myself. Been feeling under the weather and allergies are kicking my butt.
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Good morning Guys,
It has been an exceptionally tough week for me. My family was blessed Friday night with the arrival of my new grandson into the world. Unfortunately it was a pretty difficult delivery for my daughter that I won't go into details on, but everyone is now home and happy and doing great!
Saturday I finally made myself go to the doctor. It's been over 3 years since I last saw a doctor and I stupidly haven't been on my needed BP and cholesterol meds since they expired 3 years ago. Needless to say, my BP is through the roof. I'm sure my cholesterol is too, but they couldn't test for that as it required me fasting. I just went to the Urgent Care to get checked out. Also had to schedule a new primary care doctor as I was dropped for not seeing my last after such a long period (routine).
Anyways, starting on the DASH plan and incorporating the Mediterranean diet. We'll see how this goes.
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Sorry to hear about your BP and Cholesterol, tdonlin, but I'm glad to hear your new grandson is home!
Thankfully, my first week of nutrisystem is over so now I'm on the part where they give you enough calories to not feel like you need to throw up all day long. My weight loss for the week was great though.
LW: 252.4
CW: 247.2
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I am trying to get back at it.
LW: 308.2
CW: 315.8
Gain:7.6
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You got this, jmdawg!
Weighing in after week 2 on Nutrisystem, I'm down a whopping 16.2 lbs overall. It feels good to be dropping this quickly, so now I'm trying to think through how I'm going to maintain the progress once I'm off the program in another month and a half.
LW: 247.2
CW: 242.8
Loss: 4.4 lbs1 -
The major losses are slowing down, but I'm still down for a third week straight. It's a good feeling after going up for so long.
LW: 242.8
CW: 241.4
Loss: 1.4 lbs0 -
Howdy guys,
Sorry that I haven't been around keeping up with things here. I think I mentioned that I've had some knee issues lately. It's been getting worse and worse and I finally went in and saw an orthopedic surgeon. Long story short, arthritis has worsened but not to the point that surgery is yet the answer. I'm wanting to delay that until closer to retirement. I think I'll hang things up in about another 4 - 5 years. I did get back on cortisone injections and that seems to be helping. Need to give it more time to see how well my knee responds though. I'm also on a new prescription. One of the side effects though is water retention and weight gain. Over the weekend, I was down about 2 1/2 pounds and yesterday morning I was up almost 4 pounds. I'm not posting anything for myself just yet. I want to see how things eventually even out. My eating has actually improved over the last couple of weeks.
Anyways, Horst - outstanding job on the consistent losses. Jmdawg, welcome back and lets see if we can get this thing headed in the right direction together.
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Been away from MFP for a while. Need to get back at tracking my calories as exercise is fine.
LWW = 204.4
CWW = 206.2
Gain + 1.8
Tim congrats on the new grandchild!0 -
Hope you all are having a Great week!
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Welcome back, dbw! How are your knees doing, tdonlin?
LW: 241.4
CW: 238.0
Loss: 3.4 lbs
I threw my back out and haven't been able to exercise as much lately, but I'm still working hard on my eating which is keeping me on track.0 -
Checking in.
CWW = 205.7
LWW = 206.2
Loss = 0.5
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Howdy men,
I gotta make this quick. Great job to the both of you on your losses. Horst - 3.4 pounds, WOW!!
I sucked this last week. Anyways, here you go.
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Nice job Horst!
Checking in:
LWW = 205.7
CWW = 203.9
Loss = 1.8
I had a pretty good week of not overeating at dinner. Memorial Day weekend will make it a challenge to keep up for next week.
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Summer is here and I'm finally moving around more and dropping the weight.
LW 334.6
CW 332.4
Total 2.2
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LW 332.4
CW 331
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Good job, tdonlin and dbw!
I'm getting close to hitting my first sub-goal of 230. I also missed entering my weigh-ins on MFP the past couple of weeks, so this cumulative entry looks impressive (and feels good).
LW: 238.0
CW: 231.0
Loss: 7 lbs
I've already made it through one work trip this month without gaining anything back, but I have another work trip and a family Independence Day vacation trip to survive with my healthy eating intact.1 -
Hey guys hope you don't mind me joining. Finding a group based around men is near impossible on here so this looks great. Hope to keep help each other on track.
CW 261.8
Goal 200
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Howdy Gents!!
Welcome aboard Adam. It is always great to get a new member. It helps motivate me and I hope we can motivate you. You can see the chart. If you can provide me the info to complete your stats, that would be appreciated.
Horst, 7 pounds in a couple of weeks is amazing. You are rocking it, nice job!
Hope you all have a great week!
I'm continuing in the right direction at least.
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Tdonlin I haven't registered a weight on the app for last week so for this week just enter last weeks weight as 261.8 and 0 for the other two please. Good luck for the week and hopefully you will get where you want to be.0
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LWW = 203.9
CWW = 205.2
Gain = 1.3
Wrong way, but not too bad for Memorial Day weekend and a business trip to Kansas City of 9 days eating away from home.
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LW- 261.8
CW- 251
Loss- 10.8lbs
Very happy with the first week, weight loss is often good in the first couple of weeks. Hopefully I will remain on track over the coming weeks.0
