June 2016 Weight Loss Challenge

Name: Nicole
Age: 29
Height: 5'7"

Start Weight (June1): 147.6 lbs
Goal Weight (July1): 144 lbs

Weigh-ins (week of...):

June1: 147.6 lbs
June 8: 148 lbs
June 15: 147.4 lbs
June 22: 146.8 lbs
June 29:

Weight -/+ this week: -0.6 lbs
Weight -/+ this month: -0.8 lbs

Successes/struggles this week: IF is great. I feel wonderful. Energy during the day, easy sleep at night, and no bloating. Still struggling a little to control my eating though. I can pack in a shocking amount of calories in my 3-4 hour eating window. Workouts have been consistent. The biggest success is my doc upped my thyroid med dose again. It's fantastic how he goes off symptoms and free t3. My TSH is actually below the normal range at this point.

CarrieA180 wrote: »

jenlaw71 wrote: »

ugh frustrated!!

Scale hasn't moved.......I've watched my calorie intake for 2 weeks.........I'm down to a size 12 in pants.......but getting discouraged. I'm soooo close to finally breaking over to the "1" as a starting digit - but it feels like I'm never going to get there

Keep doing what you are doing! You will get there!

Thanks! I just deal with mental issues about body image - and it's almost like the scale is taunting me.......but I'm not gonna give up. I know I'll break this block eventually

mallygirl420 wrote: »

kristinann308 wrote: »

Name: Kristin
Age: 34
Height: 5'1"

Start Weight (June1): 141
Goal Weight (July1): 135

Weigh-ins (week of...):

June1: 141
June 8: 141.8 (T.O.M)
June 15:140.8
June 22: 142.4 (yesterday I was 139.4)
June 29:

Weight -/+ this week: +1.6
Weight -/+ this month: +1.4

Struggles this week: Riddle me this - Last week my fitbit workouts totaled 8.5 Hours (between 2x spinning, 2x running at least 3 miles, lunch time walks, and weight training 4-5x) IN ADDITION to getting over 10K steps a day.....today, not sure why but I am retaining weight and air and gained weight for today's weigh-in.
Oh...and I also counted calories strictly at 1500 a day or less (due to my workouts) last week using food scale....HEELLP!

Success: My regimen last week was ON POINT. Frustrates me and pushes me to feel defeated this week

You're probably gaining muscle. If you've hit a plateau, you need to do something you haven't done before. So amp up the intensity and number of weekly workouts. If you're 5'1 and 139 lbs, you could probably cut down to 1,200 calories a day, too. But make sure you eat back half of the calories you expend working out. Also, make sure the calories you're eatin are nutritious. Try and adhere to macros, eat clean, no processed food, limit carbs, avoid meat with hormones, etc. Good luck!

Thanks @mallygirl420. Appreciate it! I agree with the building muscle thing. Back down to 140 today. I think I was a bit bloated due to some extra sodium and carbs ad possibly overkill on fiber HA! I do tend to follow macros (more loose than spot on). 1200 Calories plus 1/2 workout calories MAY work, but typically follow TDEE. Working on dialing in those calories and keeping my workouts consistent. Next week is my week! :-) Thanks again.

Name: John
Age: 39
Height: 5'10"

Start Weight (June1): 193.6
Goal Weight (July1): 189

Weigh-ins on Friday

June1: 193.6
June 8: 193.6(hard work)
June 15: 191.2
June 22: 190.2
June 29:

Weight -/+ this week: -1.0
Weight -/+ this month: -3.4

Successes/struggles this week: Getting sick stopped me from doing a couple extra walks, but all in all a good week.

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

Start Weight (June1): 139.0
Goal Weight (July1): 135.0

Weigh-ins on Friday

June1: 139.0
June 3: 137.6
June 10: 138.4
June 17: 137.2
June 24: 137.6
July 1:

Weight -/+ this week: +.4
Weight -/+ this month: -1.4

Successes/struggles this week: I normally spend my afternoon in my DDD's 1st grade classroom, but her students are now on out for the summer and my afternoons are free...

Name: Lisa
Age: 47
Height: 5'2"

Original Weight: 246
Interim Weight (March 1): 235.4
Interim Weight (April 1):225.4
Interim Weight (May 1): 217.6

Start Weight (June1): 211.2
Goal Weight (July1): 205

Weigh-ins (week of...):

June1: 211.2
June 8: 208.5
June 15:206.6
June 22: 205.9
June 29:

Weight -/+ this week: -0.7
Weight -/+ this month: -5.3

Overall weight loss: -40.1

Successes/struggles this week: Once again I had a crazy schedule this week and got very little, consistent sleep. Hormone changes also impacted my energy levels and apparently my ability to remember the correct date for logging into this challenge Despite the struggles, I increased the intensity of my workouts and exercised 7 out of 7 days. I hit another benchmark this week as well.

Name: Heather
Age: 39
Height: 5'9

Start Weight (May 1): 204.4
Start Weight (June 1): 204
Goal Weight (July 1): 196
Final Goal Weight: 175

Weigh-ins (week of...):

June 1: 204
June 5: 201.6
June 12: 199.8
June 19: 200
June 26: 201.4

Weight -/+ this week: 1.4
Weight -/+ this month: -2.6

Successes/struggles this week: I guess I shouldn't have changed my goal. Lol. I'm still happy with my progress this month. I'd rather have slow progress that lasts than fast progress that comes undone quickly. The past week or so was a bit stressful and I didn't handle the stress well but I think I have managed to get the stress under control again. I'm refocusing on the basics to get back on track.

Name: tiffanylacourse (Tiffany)
Age: 31
Height: 5'4"

A couple days early, and will update if anything changes.

Start Weight (June1): 181.8
Goal Weight (July1): 174.0

Weigh-ins (week of...):

June1: 181.8
June 8: 184.4
June 15: 181.6
June 22: 180.4
June 29: 179.4

Weight -/+ this week: -1.2 lbs
Weight -/+ this month: -2.4 lbs

Successes/struggles this week: FINALLY broke through the 180 mark to 179.4 with no plans of going back!

Name: Tori
Age: 26
Height: 5'6"

Start Weight (June 1): 191.4 lbs
Goal Weight (July 1): 186 lbs
Future Goal Weight: 160 lbs
Ultimate Goal Weight: ????

Weigh-ins (Sundays):
June 1:191.4
June 5: 191.2
June 12: 190.4
June 19: 189.4
June 26: 188.3
July 1:


Weight -/+ this week: -1.1 lbs
Weight -/+ this month: -3.1 lbs

Successes/struggles this week: My eating has been about the same, if not even a little worse than usual, and my consistent exercise schedule I had going got thrown off due to just life and a little bit of laziness, but despite that the past two weeks have shown the greatest drop in weight I've had at once since I started! And I use my trend weight from Libra as my weigh in too (my actual scale weight is around my June goal of 186) so it's not some fluke water release or whatever... I don't know what caused the increased drop, but I will take it!
My favorite exercise that I did do this week was a 3 hour walk around the gigantic and old cemetery in my city that I did with my mom. We were looking for some of my ancestors from the late 1800's for genealogy research. We know they're buried there we just have no idea where so... we walked and looked. We found some too! I got my 10k+ steps in that day for sure. haha.

I've got one more weigh in scheduled for myself on July 1, and then it's on to the next challenge!

Name: Joe
Age: 61
Height: 5'10"

Start Weight (June1): 212
Goal Weight (July1): 208

Weigh-ins (week of...):

June1: 212
June 8: 210.5
June 15: 209
June 22: 205.6
June 29: 205.4

Weight -/+ this week: less than 1 lb
Weight -/+ this month: -6.6

Successes/struggles this week: I have met my goal for the month. Am no longer obese per BMI.