November 8th, 2014
angelic843
Posts: 252 Member
Guess I'll start today.
Scale is still up (Hopefully from salt/water). It isn't as high, but it is not trending downward either. Frustrating, but I will keep on keeping on!
Today I have an unusual Saturday off. I currently work one full-time and two part-time jobs.
I am an elementary school music teacher (full-time) and I teach private music lessons and work for my family business (catering and working vendor fairs) part-time. Most weekends the vendor fairs have me out of town: Pittsburgh or Philadelphia PA, Roanoke or Richmond VA, Morgantown WV, etc
What do you fine folks do for a living?
Scale is still up (Hopefully from salt/water). It isn't as high, but it is not trending downward either. Frustrating, but I will keep on keeping on!
Today I have an unusual Saturday off. I currently work one full-time and two part-time jobs.
I am an elementary school music teacher (full-time) and I teach private music lessons and work for my family business (catering and working vendor fairs) part-time. Most weekends the vendor fairs have me out of town: Pittsburgh or Philadelphia PA, Roanoke or Richmond VA, Morgantown WV, etc
What do you fine folks do for a living?
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I'm a stay at home mom, homeschooling my 13 year old daughter and my 10 year old son. Keeps us busy, and there's not a lot of "stay at home" in my schedule, lol.
I posted something in the challenge that I was interested in discussing here as well. Direct paste from there:
Just logged my weight. It was a little sketchy this week, as Halloween hit my nighttime munchies hard, but fortunately I rebounded with a 1.8 loss. Whew! Although, in all fairness, that brings me back to my current weight on MFP, which is a couple of weeks old.
How do people deal with logging weights on MFP? I generally don't log a weight unless it's a loss, and it's been consistent for a few days. My weight seems to surge downwards for a week, and then hang out for a while. I regain some of the weight lost, and lose it again a couple of times, and then have a new surge. I'm totally okay with this pattern, but will be a bit more stiff with myself during a challenge.
So, during this challenge, I will weigh myself on Saturday mornings, to keep up in the game. This is a new thing for me, a weekly weigh in, so it will be interesting to see how it goes. I anticipate a steadier loss, as I will be more vigilant, but it's interesting to see how it affects me mentally. Will I feel more like I'm "on a diet"? I think maybe. But will I be more motivated to continue losing? Probably.
Caroline0 -
Right after I posted that, I saw a reference to the Whoosh Effect. Wow! That's it for me! That's. Exactly. It. Here's an MFP thread, if you're interested.... http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/7976880
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Hi folks!
I work for my city's environmental agency, doing mostly admin stuff but a little bit with the policy and sustainability group. I like it a lot, but I sit on my butt most of the day.
I only log my weight when it's a loss. If I saw a gain of more than 5lbs, I think I'd log it just so I could see it go down again, hah.
Sometimes I experience "whooshes," but it seems like most of the time I'm fairly steady slowly downward (at least when I'm working at it). Sometimes, it'll be like a mini-whoosh. I weigh most days just because I'm curious about the up and down trends (I usually only log once a week at most), and it often hangs out around the same weight, maybe up or down a few ounces, and then one day I'll weigh in and it'll be a pound or a little more. That's usually when I log, but with being a part of a challenge now I should stick to logging Saturday or Sunday.0 -
Right now I am a SAHM working part time at home. In the UK I was a Primary school teacher and I have hopes of one day getting back to it.
I used to weigh in and log it whatever happened once a week. But then I hated those times when it was going in the wrong direction so I stopped and started just logging losses. But then I had a period of a few weeks where I had a bigger gain and then subsequent weeks the losses still didn't get me down to where I was before the gain. I decided ignoring the gains was pointless for me, I was trying to play mind games with myself but logging it or not it still happens so I might as well just record what happens so I am always up to date rather than pretending or playing catch up. What I do still do though is have a 3 day weigh in time period lol. Usually my WI is Saturday. But I will check on Fri and if I get a loss then, but not such a good one Sat I will record Fri's number. Or if I do not get a loss for Fri or Sat I will give it till Sun then whatever is the best number I will record. The things we do!!0 -
I weigh daily but I log it weekly on a Monday. Though this week I have logged it daily as I logged my 6lb gain and ended up logging it on the way back down too because I didnt want congrats threads for a 6lb loss all of a sudden when I hadnt earned it. I also do measurements on a monday and keep them in my phone. I am having body fat measured soon using calipers and will probably repeat every 3m. Ive also done photos at 2.5 stone and am probably gonna do them every stone. I know, Im too anal for my own good
Im back to 38lb lost now so actually half a lb down on where I was before I went off the rails last weekend and still not at my official weigh in on monday. I tend to lose big numbers at the weekend so keeping fingers tentatively crossed for my big 4-0 by monday. If I dont hit it I may log a midweek weight if it means my 40 shows up. After that on to 3 stone!
I am an Emergency department nurse, have been for ten years. I both love and hate it. I work 12 hours every saturday and sunday and am home all week with my kids. Closest I can get to being a SAHM whilst still earning enough to live0 -
I am also a stay at home mom with very little staying at home being done. Five kids and volunteering at school and keeping up with the house along with emergency babysitting for numerous people keeps me hopping.
I weigh everyday and log it on weightchart.com. On Mfp I only log my weight when it is a loss and I have sustained it a couple of days. I don't log the ups because like someone said I don't want congrats for something I didn't really do when the weight goes down again.
Angelic- all I can say is keep going. Even though the scale isn't moving and it is frustrating as hell. I go in cycles too where I don't lose for awhile then suddenly have a really good week or two. I was so frustrated the last three weeks(I am sure many of you got tired of me whining about it ) when nothing changed and the last two days when I weighed in I was down a total of 3 lbs...making me at my official 90lb loss. I actually saw a one in the first digit very briefly after my ride this morning before I ate or drank anything.
Back in March I had unofficially set a very far fetched goal of being under 200 by Christmas and now it is looking like I may meet that even before Thanksgiving!0 -
I do computer simulations and analysis. Sitting at a computer all day makes it tough to get any exercise in. Especially since it's been getting dark right after dinner. I have been walking my dogs with a flashlight, but my neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks so I feel like I'm risking my life walking on the side of the road in the dark.
I also only log weight losses and not gains. I usually stay around the same 2-3 pound range and then all of a sudden after a couple weeks, drop down 3-4 pounds at once. Then I'll hover there for a couple weeks until the next drop off.0 -
I weigh daily to feed my curiosity and log if it is downward. If I stay up or have a gain that looks like it is more than water retention, then I will probably log the new weight.0
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I tend to stagnate or even go up slightly during the week then drop a bunch at the weekend. I also tend to lose 1lb one week then about 3ish the week after so aiming at 2lb a week it all evens out0
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I'm self employed. Mostly providing services for photographers, tutoring software, designing workflow and backup, teaching and doing retouching, print collateral and website maintenance.
I log once a week. I weigh myself Thursday, Friday, and Sat - sometimes Sunday and simply log the best day even if I go up.0 -
I'm on social security disability and unable to work. In my previous life, I was an Early Childhood Special Education teacher. I worked with kids aged 2 to 4 yrs old who had developmental and/or physical disabilities.0
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I just wanted to let y'all all know that I could access this forum publicly from the internet without logging in and see everything above. Just in case someone thought it was more secure. I did it completely by accident.
Anyway, I'm an Office Administrator/Administrative Assistant/Receptionist. In another lifetime, I was an Executive Secretary to two SVP's and one VP in a major financial corporation, but I've basically done administrative support is some form or fashion since my 20's (I'm 38 now).
My position is sedentary, boring, and very unstimulating. On the rare days my skills and time are used well, I love my job. I just have entire sets of skills that I don't get a chance to use here, but I've been here over 8 years now, and I like the people I work with...
As for logging, to be honest - and to warn you might be a TMI/ick factor - a lot of my weigh ins stem from whether I'm able to use the facilities properly. I have a condition that sometimes makes a "download complete" difficult for me. If I attempt to weigh in, and haven't been able to complete my downloads, I usually won't log it.
I've gained crazy water weight about three times now without being able to drop the previous water weight (by that point, I'm sure some of it is converting to real gains...)... And not being able to go to the restroom properly compounds this, so you can imagine my frustration of late.
I've gotten down to around 245 twice in the last six months or so, but seem to stick around 252-257 or so... I don't even remember what the scale said this morning. I try not to weigh in every day unless I'm aiming for a logging due date. If so, I usually weigh each day Thursday to Sunday. Because I'm more successful in a "real" weigh in when I have time to start my mornings properly on a weekend... LOL
Anyway... I do log gains when it is more than a pound or three. If it is 5 pounds, I definitely log it, because when I work to get that crap off again, but gods, I've earned it, even if I have lost the same 5 pounds a dozen or 5 dozen times, I still worked it off and earned it (unless it was a weird water weight thing...in which case I'll yo-yo a bit usually and can tell)... In fact, I need to keep my up from last week and then my MEH from now so that when I get back down below 250 again, it will be a WIN!
Happy belated Saturday, now Monday, everyone.
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My usual weekend drop did the trick so I hit 40 today so I have to say if by end of the week I hit my 3 stone i will log it.
How on earth can you see this without logging in. I find that disturbing0 -
Try logging out then clicking on this link... See if you can access it.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10018179/november-8th-2014#Item_120
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