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  • keyo11
    keyo11 Posts: 23 Member
    Name: Lyn
    Height: 5'2"
    Original Starting Weight: 316
    Starting Weight (7/7): 296 lbs
    Goal Weight (7/31): 285 lbs

    7/7: 296
    7/10: 293
    7/17: 290.6
    7/24: 288.6
    7/31: 287.2

    Loss/gain for the week: -1.4 lbs
    Loss/gain for the month: -8.8 lbs

    Struggles or successes of your week: Finally getting all my water in. Missed my goal by 2.2 lbs. Not going to beat myself up because the month was still a loss. Kinda suspect the sodium explosion yesterday will account for some of that. Next time I'll be more careful. Especially on the day before weigh day! :)
  • Cheesy567
    Cheesy567 Posts: 1,186 Member
    edited July 2015
    Name: Cheesy
    Height: 5'10"
    Heaviest weight: 330 lbs
    MFP Start Weight (5/26): 318 lbs
    July 1st weight: 294.8 lbs
    Goal Weight (7/31): 287 lbs

    7/3: 293.6
    7/10: 291.3
    7/20: 292.6 (missed Fri weigh-in due to travel)
    7/24: 287.8
    7/31: 284.8

    Loss/gain for the week: -3.0lbs
    Loss/gain for the month: -10 lbs

    Struggles or successes of your week: Kept my eating on-plan despite ongoing MG flare and being home-bound much of the week. I had set up my diet plan to continue losing even without physical activity, and it's working :)

    I think a stall will be coming around 280 pounds-- that's a number that my body has always stayed at naturally in the past. It will be interesting to see if I keep losing right through it, or if I'll stall out at it...


  • MimiOfTheLusciousLawn
    MimiOfTheLusciousLawn Posts: 2,212 Member
    Cheesy567 wrote: »
    I think a stall will be coming around 280 pounds-- that's a number that my body has always stayed at naturally in the past. It will be interesting to see if I keep losing right through it, or if I'll stall out at it...
    I spent years at about 285 before gaining and have wondered the same thing. We will break through this time!

    I don't weigh in until Sunday so will finish July and start August then! Is that cheating?!!
  • Cheesy567
    Cheesy567 Posts: 1,186 Member
    MimiOfTheLusciousLawn wrote: »
    I don't weigh in until Sunday so will finish July and start August then! Is that cheating?!!

    Nope! It's all about the weightloss, not the calendar!
  • ScrAgnX
    ScrAgnX Posts: 368 Member
    Stalls are typically mental blocks (getting lazy on tracking, thinking you can't do any better, etc.). I know you can both blast through those weights and never skip a beat. I reached and breezed through the point that I got to last time; and I'm sure it's because I now have more faith that the Calories In < Calories Out method works.

    I wish I knew before that "starvation mode" doesn't really exist; I had taken a break on my last diet to let my metabolism kick back up, but I ended up backsliding (all the way and past my starting point). I had stalled (probably) because I wasn't tracking all my food properly, or had gotten too consumed with building points and not losing weight (different site that gives bonus points for "healthy activities").

    Keep up with the good habits you've got going, and you'll do great.
  • broekte
    broekte Posts: 102 Member
    Name: Ted
    Height: 5'11"
    Heaviest Weight: 395 lbs
    Starting Weight (6/29): 328.6 lbs
    Goal Weight (7/31): 317 lbs

    7/6: 326.8
    7/13: 325.0
    7/20: 323.4
    7/27: 324.0
    7/31: 325.0

    Loss/gain for the week: +1.0 lbs
    Loss/gain for the month: -3.6 lbs

    Struggles or successes of your week: I am moving the wrong way! Time to pick it up for the August challenge.

  • MimiOfTheLusciousLawn
    MimiOfTheLusciousLawn Posts: 2,212 Member
    Name: Mimi
    Height: 6'0"
    Highest Known Weight: 409
    Original Starting Weight (1/12/15): 402
    Starting Weight (6/28): 324 lbs
    Goal Weight (7/31): 310 lbs

    7/2: 326
    7/9: 316
    7/16: 316
    7/23: 314
    7/30: 310


    Loss/gain for the week: -4 lbs
    Loss/gain for the month: -16 lbs

    Successes/Struggles: The heat and humidity have been better, hence a better loss! I finished out the month with 162.1miles and 381,000 steps.
  • leesamahree
    leesamahree Posts: 27 Member
    Name: Lisa
    Height: 5'3"
    Starting Weight Overall beginning of June 2015: 315

    Starting Weight (7/1): 296.6 lbs
    Goal Weight (7/31): 286 lbs

    7/6: 294.2
    7/13: 292
    7/20: 290
    7/27: TOM (too chicken to weigh)
  • leesamahree
    leesamahree Posts: 27 Member
    Name: Lisa
    Height: 5'3"
    Starting Weight Overall beginning of June 2015: 315

    Starting Weight (7/1): 296.6 lbs
    Goal Weight (7/31): 286 lbs

    7/6: 294.2
    7/13: 292
    7/20: 290
    7/27:
    7/31:287.6

    Loss/gain for the week: 2. 4 lbs
    Loss/gain for the month: 9 lbs

    Struggling with sleep. Not getting enough and it's affecting everything
  • violet456
    violet456 Posts: 674 Member
    Name: Samantha
    Height: 5'4"
    Starting Weight (7/04): 313.20 lbs
    Goal Weight (7/31): 305.0 lbs Approx. 2lbs/wk

    7/4:313.20 lb. Came back from vacation and gained back any loss and then some. I'm at my highest non pregnancy weight. I haven't showed the gain on MFP hoping to be down a bit before logging it here.
    7/11: 311.4
    7/18:309.0
    7/25:310.6
    8/1:307.8

    Loss/gain for the week: 2.8 lbs Loss
    Loss/gain for the month: 5.4 lbs

    Struggles or successes of your week: It was a pretty good week. Resisting craft service was particularly hard this week. This last we went away and I ate a lot of crap food. It will show next week I'm sure. Or at least will have less of a loss.

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