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2017~~52 Pounds in 52 Weeks Challenge
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Starting weight: 217.8
Current weight: 207.6
Goal weight: 185
Method: CICO
This week's successes: Within goal everyday
This week's challenges: alcohol
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Starting weight January 1, 2017: 188.6
Goal weight: 136.6
Current weight February 19, 2017: 179.6
Total weight lost over 6 weeks: 9.0 pounds
Successes: I have gained a new perspective at 50+ days logging. The continued streak gives me the structure to stay on track, even when I go over on calories or don't get in the amount of exercise I want for the day. Logging allows me to realistically judge the magnitude of my errant days and I'm able to recover knowing that a couple hundred extra calories is not going to ruin my progress. It also allows me to notice how the effect that different macros has on my day-to-day progress.
Challenges: Finding the right mix of calories, macros and exercise to match my needs. Eating enough fruits and vegetables and real food has been a challenge this week. I am perimenopausal and so I don't get a regular TOM so it could be hormone fluctuations, but I have had wicked sugar cravings this week, which I have given in to more often than not. My actual low weight this week was 179.0 but after a carbathon yesterday, I have retained a bit of water overnight and am back up 0.6 pounds.
Question: How many of you eat back your calories? How many have set a daily limit based on (average TDEE) Total Daily Energy Expenditure, or If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) way of eating?
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Starting weight: 225
Goal weight: 180
Current weight: 214.2
Weekly weight lost: 1.8 bs
Total weight lost: 10.8 lbs
This week's successes: Surviving.
This week's challenges: Didn't exercise enough.
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Starting weight: 294 (Jan 4)
1/14 - 281
1/22 - 280
1/29 - 280
2/05 - 276
2/12 - 275
2/19 - 272
This week's loss: 3
Total weight loss: 22
52 wk goal: <220
Last week's successes: Logging, staying in calorie budget
Last week's challenges: no exercise
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Im in. Need to carry on, had too many blips over last 5 years..
Starting weight 279
goal weight 168
current weight 242
total loss 38
successes- longer/ higher level on recumbent and treadmill
challenge- alcohol in the house
i record my exercise cals but only eat back @ 100.. but i do try and vary cal intake high and low so body doesnt get used to one level.. bit like carb cycling i guess7 -
Question: How many of you eat back your calories? How many have set a daily limit based on (average TDEE) Total Daily Energy Expenditure, or If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) way of eating?
I eat back some, but I try not to eat back all of them. I think it depends on the day. Sometimes I have to eat them all back, or find I have to exercise more because I have made choices I am not proud of. I figure as long as I am really trying I will find a balance I can work with at some point. All we can all do it try. As long as you are happy with your results do what is working for you. Everyone is so different!0 -
I know I am late, but I would like to join.
Week 7
SW:260
GW:146
CW:245.4
Weight loss so far: 14.6 lbs
52 week goal: weigh under 200 lbs8 -
Starting weight: 272
Goal weight: 222
Starting date: 2/20/2017
Finish date: 2/20/20185 -
Week 5:
Starting weight: 256.4
Last weight: 244.0
Current weight: 243.2
This week's loss: 0.8
Total loss since 1/2/17: 13.2 lbs
This week's success: Made it to they gym 3 times this week, exercised at least 60 minutes 5 days this week.
This week's challenge: Family in town, lots of dinners out and crappie food around....lots of temptation. Lots of stress and very little sleep. Finding time to exercise with guests in my house and constantly on the go. Fighting the urge to just give in when people keep pushing you to eat and drink and telling get you to forget the diet for today.
Next week's goal: gym 4- 5 days this week, take another spin class.....that was fun! Make sure I drink my water and focus on healthy cooking and being prepared for the day with food options.
This was a tough week for me. My mom is visiting! Now I love my mom more than I can express and I love spending time with her but she can be a handful! She is super supportive with my diet and exercise program, but doesn't want me to miss anything so she talks me out of exercise with the promise that we will be home early enough for me to do some exercise later ( but we never are), she keeps telling me how proud she is of me and my commitment but keeps offering me food that I shouldn't eat. But I know she is doing her best. It is my life and my choice to change my lifestyle and diet, I need to remember to just say no to the temptation and keep reminding her that this is Important to me, and I won't miss anything. Dont mistake my comments for aggrivation or blame at her, she is my biggest fan and I love her, I am so enjoying my visit with her!!!!! I wouldn't give up my time with my mom for anything! It is just hard to focus on my diet and program when I am running around with her and not thinking and focusing. All is good, I will survive unscathed!!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!!!!!!9 -
Week 7
Starting weight: 226.4
Goal weight: 175
Last week weight: 219.8
This week weight: 220.7
This week's loss. Up, not down, .9 pound
Total weight loss: 5.7 1.3 pounds off the mark.
This week's successes:
Hmmm, successes…. I have to be positive here. Well first I am not worried about the increase. I felt it Thursday night. For some reason I started retaining water. My ankles were swollen at the end of the day and did not go back to normal overnight. Yesterday I weighed 222 and the bloat was horrible, today however it has started to reduce. I think I’ll make my 218.4 mark for next week.
I had a great week in another challenge group. I did all my activities, and I made and ate beets. I have always hated beets. But thanks to @PoisonDartFrog ‘s suggestion I bought golden beets, sliced thin and roasted with olive oil, onion powder salt and pepper. They were not bad. I still have some beets left so I think I will try just roasting them – not chips – and use the feta as you suggested. I don’t know if I will ever try the mess that is red beets.
I visited over Saturday and Sunday with my mom and sister. On Saturday I had a walk at night to and on the beach for over an hour and a half. I found a satellite going across the sky for my sister to see. Sunday was another beautiful day. We went to St Augustine; unfortunately a lot of other people also thought it was a good day to be out in the old town so we did not stay very long. Over the weekend we consumed less than a bottle of wine; that was a success. We usually have a glass with dinner and one or two after in the evening; it is easily a bottle a day with us girls for a weekend.
This week's challenges:- Get the bloat off and weigh in at most at 218.4 next Monday.
- Drink 64 oz. of water every day - make sure the blot comes off. Plus that is one of my group challenges for this week.
- Do at least one foot massage this week – because they are awesome and free.
- Get my group videos challenges done by Thursday.
- Finalize my taxes and submit. I want that refund
Here are the beets – and the Manhattan I had to make for the girls so they would try my cooking.
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Starting weight: 213.8 lbs
Goal weight: 165
Current weight: 201.8
Total weight lost: 12
This week's successes: Doing a good job of staying on plan. Since it's the TOM I didn't expect to lose anything much less 3.6 lbs.
This week's challenges: The longer I'm on keto the less I want veggies. Working on this.3 -
Total weight lost over 6 weeks: 9.0 pounds
Question: How many of you eat back your calories? How many have set a daily limit based on (average TDEE) Total Daily Energy Expenditure, or If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) way of eating?
Good job @meganac69 on your progress to date.
To answer your question - I do not typically eat back my exercise calories. But my cardio exercise is usually in the light categories – like walking. If I have rigorous exercise I will eat back some of the calorie burn calculated. I usually follow the popular suggestion to only eat half.
Last time I lost a significant amount of weight – about twenty five pounds – I did it quickly. And the results were horrible. It showed up the most in my hair. It became brittle as it grew out and looked like crap. Isn’t the point of weight loss to look and feel better? It is for me. (Plus the whole health thing) Worst of all was that what I gained back is all yucky, flabby fat. I am not going to lose quickly again and I am going to keep my tone as I lose. I look for muscle progress too.
For now, with a lot to lose I only track calories closely. I am pure CICO at the moment.
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How do I join this challenge?1
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Starting weight on January 11th: 289
Current weight: 260.4
This week's loss: 5.3
Total weight loss: 29.3
This week's successes: My new fitbit arrived and I have increased my walking.
This week's challenges: We have an overnight stay planned for tomorrow at a hotel with an amazing restaurant. It was my husband's gift to me at Christmas, before I decided to start the MFP regime. We decided to go ahead with it. My goal is to avoid having the special treat deregulate my weight loss progress. I will no doubt have to work extra hard afterwards.
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Challenge starting weight: 238 12/26/2016
Goal weight: 186
Current weight:233
Total weight lost:-5
This week's successes: No loss this week, but I went off track with Chinese food birthday dinner this weekend. I am sure my loss is there, just buried in this high sodium and too many carbs bloat!
This week's challenges: Get back in with my carb cycling plan. Realizing that one day off plan isn't the end of the world!7 -
Starting weight-182
Goal weight-145
Current weight-165
Total loss-17lbs
This weeks success was not gaining weight this weekend while traveling. I would have liked a loss but glad for no gain.
Goals would be to drop some weight this week and to stay on calorie goals. Drink more water!4 -
Total weight loss: 29.3 <---- so awesome!
This week's challenges: We have an overnight stay planned for tomorrow at a hotel with an amazing restaurant. It was my husband's gift to me at Christmas, before I decided to start the MFP regime. We decided to go ahead with it. My goal is to avoid having the special treat deregulate my weight loss progress. I will no doubt have to work extra hard afterwards.
You are on one heck of a roll already. Just stay away from rolls at dinner.
I love going out to eat and being able to order something I would never make at home because it is too complex or because my husband really wouldn't enjoy it. Hopefully the amazing restaurant will have something to entice you that is healthy and different from what you normally eat at home. Some things I look for are fish in parchment, buffalo, almost anything in a wine sauce. This is a special occasion and if you average your calories over the week you can be naughty and still stay under your limits.
You should post food porn when you return!
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Week 1
Starting weight: 272
Goal weight: 220
Current weight: 270
Total weight loss: 2lbs
This week successes: Joining this challenge
This week challenges: Sugar cravings9 -
Starting weight: 216
Goal weight: 164
Current weight: 209.6
Total weight lost: 6.4
This week's successes: Getting over my 2 week mental funk and self-sabotage! I'm so over myself.
This week's challenges: staying the course... life is busy... but there is always time to exercise for well-being. Log log log...and enjoy the journey.
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