May 2015 Weight Loss Challenge

Name: Sara
Age: 39
Height: 5'3"

Start Weight (1st May): 170.6
Goal Weight (1st June): 158

1st May: 170.6
8th May: 170.0
15th May: 165.8
22nd May: On vacation/No weigh-in
29th May: 164.2
1st June:

Weight lost/gained this week: -1.6 lbs
Weight lost/gained this month: -6.4 lbs

Successes/struggles this week: Getting back on track after going a bit off the rails during last week's vacation.

Name: John
Height: 5'6"
Age: 50
Country: Canada
Starting Weight (1-05): 157.2 lbs ( 71.31 kg )
Goal Weight (1-06): 152 lbs ( 68.95 kg )
Final Goal : 135 lbs ( 61.24 kg)

1-05: 157.2 lbs ( 71.31 kg )
8-05: 157 lbs ( 71.21 kg )
15-05: 152.4 lbs ( 69.13 kg )
22-05: 153 lbs ( 69.40 kg )
29-05: 151.2 lbs ( 68.58 kg )
01-06:

Loss/gain for the week: -1.8 lbs ( 0.82 kg )
Loss/gain for the month so far: 6 lbs ( 2.72 kg )

Struggles or successes of your week:
Struggles :
Successes: Just passed my first year of logging and yes there is a big difference from where I was a year ago.

Name:Lee
Age:26
Height:5'1" (1.55m)

Start Weight (1st May):153.8lbs (10st 13.8lbs/69.8kg)
Goal Weight (1st June):149 lbs

1st May:153.8lbs (10st 13.8lbs/69.8kg)
8th May: 155.8lbs
15th May:154.2 lbs
22nd May:154.8 lbs
29th May:153.6 lbs
1st June:

Weight lost/gained this week: -1.2 lbs
Weight lost/gained this month: -0.2 lbs

Struggles this week: gave in to cravings, no exercise done thanks to half term and injured ankle
Successes this week: managed to not to any damage over the weekend (calorie wise), have been doing well with pre planning meals, which has helped to keep me on/close to my calorie limit

Name: Jamilla
Age: 39
Height: 5'4

Start Weight (1st May): 362.0
Goal Weight (1st June): 337.0

1st May: 362.0
8th May: 356.5
15th May: 357.0
22nd May: 352.2
29th May: 358.0
1st June:

Weight lost/gained this week: +5.8
Weight lost/gained this month: -4

Successes/struggles this week: retaining water like the Hoover dam!! Waiting for Aunt Flo to arrive. Not a good week at all. Hoping the month of June will be awesome!!

Name: Reyangi
Age: 44
Height: 5'11"

Start Weight (1st May): 278
Goal Weight (1st June): 270

1st May: 278
8th May: 273
Weight lost/gained this week: -5 lbs
Successes/struggles this week: Was able to wear a pair of pants I couldn't fit a couple of weeks ago and had room to spare! Also, noticed my stamina has increased. Got through more than 30 minutes of cardio without stopping or feeling like I was going to pass out. I am however struggling today with my motivation. I found myself contemplating giving up on this journey. I decided to take a body shot so that I would have some point of comparison for the future. Seeing that picture really depressed me. I knew I was out of shape but I didn't realize it was this bad. It just makes my goals seem that much more unattainable.

15th May: 271
Weight lost/gained this week: -2 lbs
Successes/struggles this week: I don't feel like I've had much success this week but I did notice a non-scale victory. My bath towel now fits around my body without any gaps. I struggled this week with motivation to get into the gym. I had great success last week when I was working out twice a day but I just couldn't find it in myself to do more than once a day this week. I feel like my rest day threw me off.

22nd May: 267
Weight lost/gained this week: -4 lbs
Successes/struggles this week: I've surpassed my goal for this challenge. Tom came this week so I struggled with my craving for chocolate and the desire to constantly eat. But I managed to control myself. Still haven't been able to get my 2 workouts per day in but I managed to lose a good amount anyway. Maybe I'll save the 2 times per day for when I hit a plateau.

29th May: 263
Weight lost/gained this week: -4 lbs
Successes/struggles this week: I definitely weigh myself too much. I got extremely frustrated after eating right and working my butt off in the gym and the pool last weekend and I wound up gaining 3 lbs. It really bummed me out so on my son's birthday I ate cake, ice cream, and cookies and didn't work out. I didn't even log in what I ate that day. The next day the scale finally moved and the 3 lbs came back off so I got back on track. I find that I'm always frustrated because it doesn't seem like the scale is moving until I log in here and realize how much I've really lost for the week. So my big struggle is staying off the scale. Besides the 4 lbs lost this week I can't think of any other successes.

1st June:

Weight lost/gained this month: -15 lbs

Must undo the damage done in April.

Name: Chris
Age: older
Height: 5'7"

Start Weight (1st May): 144.8
Goal Weight (1st June): 136.0
Ultimate Goal: 130.0

1st May: 144.8
8th May: 141.4
15th May: 140.6
22nd May: 139.2
29th May: 139.0
1st June:

Weight lost/gained this week: -0.2
Weight lost/gained this month: -5.8

Successes/struggles this week: Worked hard. Controlled my eating. I'm pretty happy! My weight was up and down all week. Made me crazy but stayed on the wagon!

Name: Madz
Height: 5'9.5"
Age: 35

Starting Weight (May1): 146.4 lbs
Goal Weight (June1): 142
Final Goal : 134lbs

1st May: 146.4 lbs
8th May: 146.0 lbs
15th May: 146.0 lbs
21st May:144.0 lbs
29th May: 143.8
1st June: 142

Loss/gain for the week: -0.2
Loss/gain for the month so far: -2.6

Struggles or successes of your week:
Struggles: keeping cal below goals. ive been figuring out a good healthy calorie goal while losing weight while breastfeeding. so ill just consider month a test month. for some reason 1700-2000 is a tadbit high. April month was good,milk supply didn't change but was feeling crappy because goal was a little too low. hopefully ill be able to figure out an optimum cal goal this coming month.
Successes: still lost some so i can't complain much.

Name: Jennifer
Age: 48
Height:5'3"

Start Weight (1st May): 141 lbs
Goal Weight (1st June): 135 lbs

1st May: 141
8th May: 139
15th May:138.6
22nd May:137.8
29th May:137.6
1st June:

Weight lost/gained this week: -0.2lbs
Weight lost/gained this month: -3.4lbs

Target weight: 125 lbs

Successes/struggles this week:

I thought my goal would be easy to meet – that the weight would come off faster with increased activity. Still, some loss is better than none, or not trying!

Congratulations to all of you who are on track to meet your goal on June 1st!

Name: Ani
Age: 25
Height: 5'3"

Start Weight (1st May): 166.9 lbs
Goal Weight (1st June): 160 lbs
Final Goal: 135 lbs

1st May: 166.9
8th May: 165.3
15th May: 162.9
22nd May: 162.9
29th May: 160.7
1st June:

Weight lost/gained this week: -2.2
Weight lost/gained this month: -6.2

Successes/struggles: I struggled a lot this month because I had a ton of birthdays and parties that included eating out/alcohol and I overindulged quite a bit. My weight fluctuated like crazy over the past couple of weeks - from 162 one day to 167 the next - it was just very stressful and discouraging. I was feeling pretty defeated until I took a look at my weekly weigh ins and now I'm feeling so much better! I can't believe I actually lost 6.2 lbs during such a rough month!