Maintainers weekly Check-in February 2017
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@Trina2040 phew - that's made me feel a little less jealous! The price to pay, I suppose?! I still think I'd swap it for all my rainy, grey and cold though.... I'm all thermals, hot water bottles and casseroles here LOL!1
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Name: Lori
Total Weight lost: 148
Time it took to lose: 2 1/2 years
How long in maintenance: 9/20/16 first day of weight within maint range
Maintenance weight range: 150-155
Jan avg 154.3
2/5 152.8
2/15 156.8
Just got back from a rare 4-day mini trip. Lots of good eating and now I'm paying for it! Oh well, some of it's water weight and some I'm sure is real weight. 155 is the top of my maintenance range, so I'll follow my plan, eat at a deficit for a couple of weeks, then I'll get back where I want to be.2 -
Last month average 114
week of 2/5 113
week of 2/12 114
Gained that silly pound back. Good grief, a couple of years ago, that would have been normal. Now it is a struggle. Leg/hip injury healing nicely. I hope I will be able to get back to running next week. @Trina2040 nope, not going to move south. Too hot!
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@girlgroves & @mk2fit It is too hot in summer (90s & almost 100% humidity) and that's always when the air conditioner dies, but if I lived in the frozen north I'd never stop eating. I hate the cold! All those casseroles are just too yummy.2
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@Trina2040 casseroles = running, lol2
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This week's update:
Name: Mandy
SW: 196lbs
GW: 140lbs
Total Weight lost: 4 stone (56lbs)
Time it took to lose: 16 months
How long in maintenance: 7 months
Maintenance weight range: 137 - 142lbs (although aiming to lower this range a little over time so that 140 is my max)
Average weight recorded for January: 141.9lbs (not bad since I started the month at 144lbs!)
Week of...
27th January (for ref): 141.2lbs
3rd February: 141.6lbs
10th February: 140.6lbs
17th February:141.6lbs - again!
24th February:
Success/struggles of the week:[/quote] all OK this week, and slowly getting back to a more comfortable maintenance weight. I've got a big weekend ahead though so hoping I don't blow it too badly. [/quote] Well - guess what? - I spoke too soon! I totally blew it on the weekend, ate out 3 days on the trot and then struggled to rein it in again at the beginning of the week. I feel like I should know better by now
I won't be doing that again for a while.....
@mk2fit casseroles totally = running!!
+ running = good way of getting warm!
Have a good week everyone x
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Total Weight lost: 85lbs
Time it took to lose: 9 months
How long in maintenance: 2.5yrs
Maintenance weight range: 165-170lbs (6' M)
Week of...
End January: 168.0lbs
10th February: 171.8lbs
17th February: 172.0lbs
Success/struggles of the week: Many struggles and excuses...
Haven't reset back to routine from travel last week and am taking in too many calories for the amount of activity I'm doing. Not liking the trend. Been injured last half of this week so isn't helping.
Next week will be more travel so I don't expect to get into a real rhythm of decline until late February. Training for a 5 or 10k mid March so that'll be my motivation to get back on track. Weather is warming up so once I'm out running and walking daily the weight should fall off.
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Name: Stephen
Weight Lost (Jan-Dec 2016): 77 pounds
6th February: 182.8 pounds (trend)
13th February: 182.2 pounds (trend)
20th February:
27th February:
Trend dropped by 0.6 pounds this week; goal weight is 185 pounds, so I'm still running a little low, as I'd like to stay between 183-187. Averaged 3,400 calories/day eating this week; will up it to 3,500/day.
Have settled in with alternating days of 60 minutes of cardio and 60 minutes of bodyweight/strength training, plus 30 minutes/day stretching. Also getting about 60 minutes of walking each day as well.
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I have noticed that a lot of us are obsessing over 1 or 2 pounds. After losing so much weight, you would think we would have this and those little pounds would just not bother us. What if we all pledge to weigh ourselves once per week, or even better, once per month?
I am pretty sure water weight does not last more than a couple of days, so no excuses there. We are all supposedly on maintenance which means we probably know what we are doing and what works for us. Need you all be reminded that CICO actually works? Eat less, exercise more. Let's all get moving!! Exercise more, eat less...you know how this works.
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CoachJen71 wrote: »Name: Jen
Total Weight lost:135+
Time it took to lose: 2.5yrs
How long in maintenance: I declared it at 140 last January, but that was too high for a petite lady. So not really in maintenance quite yet.
Maintenance weight range: Would like to stay under 125 at morning weigh-in.
Ongoing struggle: I still need to learn to trust my body cues, be content with eating just enough, and stop asking food to be more than just fuel. Life after work is just filled with getting steps and eating food to fill my evening. Really need to make peace with having fewer cals to work with. Contentment and an attitude of gratitude (and maybe a hobby) are the order of the day.
Week of...
30th January: 127.1lbs
Week of...
3rd February: 126.9lbs
10th February: 126.5lbs
17th February:
24th February:
Success of the week: I got a great evaluation at work, so that was lovely. Still having trouble with my afternoons and evenings being all about steps and snacks. I may go craft store browsing in search of some hobby stuff to keep my hands busy.
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I have noticed that a lot of us are obsessing over 1 or 2 pounds. After losing so much weight, you would think we would have this and those little pounds would just not bother us. What if we all pledge to weigh ourselves once per week, or even better, once per month?
I am pretty sure water weight does not last more than a couple of days, so no excuses there. We are all supposedly on maintenance which means we probably know what we are doing and what works for us. Need you all be reminded that CICO actually works? Eat less, exercise more. Let's all get moving!! Exercise more, eat less...you know how this works.
Rant over.
I totally agree with your post. I've been guilty of this lately and it all boils down to water weight from carbs/salt and eating too many calories for given activity level. Period.
For me the trend primarily bothers me as I've been reminded several times in my life it's a slippery slope when things start moving upwards on the scale and haven't had as much motivation to resist it. I need to be more accountable and follow the simple cico routine. Simple.1 -
What if we all pledge to weigh ourselves once per week, or even better, once per month? I am pretty sure water weight does not last more than a couple of days, so no excuses there. We are all supposedly on maintenance which means we probably know what we are doing and what works for us.
so instead of using a trending weight app (Happy Scale, Libra) or web site (trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com) to evaluate the trend of your daily weight ins, you would rather deny yourself data points and trust the luck of the draw that the two "spaced apart" samples you will chose will be more representative of reality than the complete daily data set?
You have no way of knowing if this Wednesday and next Wednesday are a local high and a local low respectively.
Or just the opposite.
The same applies to any random Thursday, Friday, and Saturday too.
Or are you only going to choose days that you didn't go out to eat the day before?
What if you go out every single day next week?
What if TOM rolls around?
Isn't it much simpler to weight every day and throw the number in an app, especially not as fixated and upset with numbers as in the past?
Heck, my problem half the time is to remember not to eat or drink before I weigh myself!!!!
/back to lurking
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Name: Trina
Total Weight lost: 50ish lbs
Time it took to lose: 15 months
How long in maintenance: 2 years (March 2017)
Maintenance weight range: 128 - 132
Average weight recorded January: 130.3
Week of...
6th February: 130.3
13th February: 131.3
20th February: 130.5
27th February:
Success/struggles of the week: All good here! Back on track with gym this coming week. Do to advanced old age (ha ha) there's surgery in my future but not for a while yet, so good news there. Staying calm and carrying on.2 -
What if we all pledge to weigh ourselves once per week, or even better, once per month? I am pretty sure water weight does not last more than a couple of days, so no excuses there. We are all supposedly on maintenance which means we probably know what we are doing and what works for us.
so instead of using a trending weight app (Happy Scale, Libra) or web site (trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com) to evaluate the trend of your daily weight ins, you would rather deny yourself data points and trust the luck of the draw that the two "spaced apart" samples you will chose will be more representative of reality than the complete daily data set?
You have no way of knowing if this Wednesday and next Wednesday are a local high and a local low respectively.
Or just the opposite.
The same applies to any random Thursday, Friday, and Saturday too.
Or are you only going to choose days that you didn't go out to eat the day before?
What if you go out every single day next week?
What if TOM rolls around?
Isn't it much simpler to weight every day and throw the number in an app, especially not as fixated and upset with numbers as in the past?
Heck, my problem half the time is to remember not to eat or drink before I weigh myself!!!!
/back to lurking
I have to agree with @PAV8888 here. I love to gather the data points to watch the trends up and down so I do weigh in every day and track them on TrendWeight.com. Watching the trend is what keeps me from getting too wound up tight about every little blip on the scale. I actually like the math now, who knew? PS. I hate math.
If someone prefers some other method that's awesome too. Sorry @mk2fit! Love you!4 -
What if we all pledge to weigh ourselves once per week, or even better, once per month? I am pretty sure water weight does not last more than a couple of days, so no excuses there. We are all supposedly on maintenance which means we probably know what we are doing and what works for us.
so instead of using a trending weight app (Happy Scale, Libra) or web site (trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com) to evaluate the trend of your daily weight ins, you would rather deny yourself data points and trust the luck of the draw that the two "spaced apart" samples you will chose will be more representative of reality than the complete daily data set?
You have no way of knowing if this Wednesday and next Wednesday are a local high and a local low respectively.
Or just the opposite.
The same applies to any random Thursday, Friday, and Saturday too.
Or are you only going to choose days that you didn't go out to eat the day before?
What if you go out every single day next week?
What if TOM rolls around?
Isn't it much simpler to weight every day and throw the number in an app, especially not as fixated and upset with numbers as in the past?
Heck, my problem half the time is to remember not to eat or drink before I weigh myself!!!!
/back to lurking
I have to agree with @PAV8888 here. I love to gather the data points to watch the trends up and down so I do weigh in every day and track them on TrendWeight.com. Watching the trend is what keeps me from getting too wound up tight about every little blip on the scale. I actually like the math now, who knew? PS. I hate math.
If someone prefers some other method that's awesome too. Sorry @mk2fit! Love you!
I agree too. I actually like math. I figure the more data points the better.3 -
Name: Kylee
Total Weight lost: 8 kg, 17.6lbs
Time it took to lose: 3 months
How long in maintenance: 2nd month started this year
Maintenance weight range: revised 57 - 59.5 kg, 125.5 - 131lbs
Average weight recorded from January: 58.2 kg , 128.3lbs
Week of...
6th February: 57.6kg, 127lbs
13th February: 58.5kg, 128.9lbs
20th February: 57.5kg, 126.7lbs
27th February:
Success/struggles: I am getting better at making low cal muffins, I had no idea rolled oats could replace flour. Still a struggle to keep away from sweets. So I have just been trying to make my sweets better and getting my execise + step count back up, it seems to be working. Husband now has a garmin too so now we are competing against each other. Loving that he now is wanting to be a healthier him.
I also like weighing daily if I didn't I'm sure that weight would pile on. The garmin dash board gives me a seven day average easy no maths except for converting to pounds.0 -
What if we all pledge to weigh ourselves once per week, or even better, once per month? I am pretty sure water weight does not last more than a couple of days, so no excuses there. We are all supposedly on maintenance which means we probably know what we are doing and what works for us.
so instead of using a trending weight app (Happy Scale, Libra) or web site (trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com) to evaluate the trend of your daily weight ins, you would rather deny yourself data points and trust the luck of the draw that the two "spaced apart" samples you will chose will be more representative of reality than the complete daily data set?
You have no way of knowing if this Wednesday and next Wednesday are a local high and a local low respectively.
Or just the opposite.
The same applies to any random Thursday, Friday, and Saturday too.
Or are you only going to choose days that you didn't go out to eat the day before?
What if you go out every single day next week?
What if TOM rolls around?
Isn't it much simpler to weight every day and throw the number in an app, especially not as fixated and upset with numbers as in the past?
Heck, my problem half the time is to remember not to eat or drink before I weigh myself!!!!
/back to lurking
I have to agree with @PAV8888 here. I love to gather the data points to watch the trends up and down so I do weigh in every day and track them on TrendWeight.com. Watching the trend is what keeps me from getting too wound up tight about every little blip on the scale. I actually like the math now, who knew? PS. I hate math.
If someone prefers some other method that's awesome too. Sorry @mk2fit! Love you!
I agree too. I actually like math. I figure the more data points the better.
I have to agree too. I know I started off obsessing and worrying over every little fluctuation when I first hit my goal weight and went into maintenance but over time seeing them actually reassures me that I'm doing ok. I like having the data - because of it I now know that I can fluctuate anything up to 4lbs a week, but that by Friday I'm mostly on track again. If I only weighed once a month and saw that I was 4lbs up I could easily think I'd put on a lb a week...... and that really would worry me! Daily weighing and weekly recording is working well for me personally.2 -
@PAV8888 and @Trina2040 my point was weighing daily can be obsessive, which, of course, a lot of us are. PAV8888, lol, I'm pretty sure TOM is not one of your issues. Mine, neither. I stand behind my suggestion of weighing once weekly or less often; doesn't mean I do it. Love you too, Trina!2
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Name: PAV8888
H: 172cm (5ft 7.7") A: 51
Total Weight lost: >120lbs
Time it took to lose: ~30 months
How long in maintenance:
Late August 2016 I hit my lowest weight (scale 154.9lbs, trend 156.2lbs) and while waiting for a hernia operation, recently repaired, coasted into maintenance. Haven't, quite, decided yet whether and how I am going to continue losing fat.
Maintenance weight range: For now, I would like to stay at or below 159.9 lbs scale and 157.7 trend.
Average January Scale Weight: 156.8lbs.
TW January 31: 156.8lbs
Week ending...
4th February: S:156.7 lbs T:156.8 lbs
11th February: S:157.1 lbs T:157.0 lbs
18th February: S:156.4 lbs T:156.7 lbs
25th February:
Ongoing struggle: To try and lose more, or not to do so? To be involved with MFP less, or to increase involvement!
Success of the week: Had my 20th 30K step day since getting a Fitbit in February 2015. Have been averaging a lower step count than six months ago, so it felt good to stretch a bit.6 -
@PAV8888 Hello lurker (your words not mine!) 1
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Name: Tina
Total weight lost: 60ish lbs
Time it took to lose: ~8 months
How long in maintenance: > 1 year
Maintenance weight range: 108-114 lbs
Average weight recorded from previous month: 109 lbs
Week of...
6th February: 109.6 lbs
13th February: 109.2 lbs
20th February: 108.4 lbs
27th February:
Success/struggles of the week: I'm trying to clear out my food before I move out of my living space this summer so as to not have food go to waste, but there always seems to be something new, cheap, and/or tasty for sale. MFP's Food and Nutrition and Recipes boards give me so many ideas. Haha. I'll see how I manage this week, and if I need to, I'll start meal planning.0 -
Name: Kathryn
Total Weight lost: 70 pounds
Time it took to lose: about 10 months. I have actually dropped about 10 pounds below my original goal.
How long in maintenance: Started maintenance July 25th, but still trying to actually maintain.
Maintenance weight range: 126-130
Average weight recorded from previous month: 127.1
Week of...
6th February: 125.4
13th February: 127.8
20th February: 126.4
27th February:
Success/struggles of the week: I had a few low activity days this week because of the weather, but I still did good with my eating. I am down a bit from last week, but still in my range so I think I'm ok. So far I will have a week or so that I think I'm maintaining and then my weight will drop so it remains to be seen if this is maintenance, but I am hopeful that I will be able to maintain here and not drop any further.1 -
Name: Nikki
Total weight lost: 30 pounds
Time it took to lose: 2 years (maintenance was hard for me, kept bouncing up)
How long in maintenance: 5 months
Maintenance range: 140 - 145
Average weight recorded from previous month: 144.1
Week of...
February 6: 142.8
February 13: 144.6
February 20: 140.6
February 27:
Success/struggles of the week: Gluten is evil. Avoiding gluten is hard. Took me 3 weeks but I think I have gluten completely out of my system and am feeling good. Ran a Cupid 5k Saturday with a friend, complete with chocolate, and gave away the piece of chocolate that contained pretzels. I'm becoming a gluten natzi, but that's what has to happen.1 -
Name: Sherry
Total Weight lost: 41 pounds
Time it took to lose: 2 years (focused on fitness and developing good habits, not speed)
How long in maintenance: Haven't officially made it, but I'm SO close.
Maintenance weight range: 138-140
Average weight recorded from previous month: 142.4
Week of...
6th February: 142
13th February: 144.5
20th February: 143.2
27th February:
Success/struggles of the week: Did great all week and blew it on Friday and Saturday. I need to work on that.
Sherry1 -
Name:Fidan
Total Weight lost: 48kg
Time it took to lose: 1 year
How long in maintenance: 9 months
Maintenance weight range: 73.3kg and below
Average weight recorded from previous month: 72.8kg
Week of...
6th February: 72kg on the dot
13th February: 72.5kg
20th February: 72.5kg
27th February:
Success/struggles of the week:
Same as last week. I'm beginning to see a pattern here from previous months. Let's see how I'll be ending.
It's our last weigh-in for the month next week. Hopefully we'll end it fabulously!!!2 -
Name: Lori
Total Weight lost: 150 (at lowest wt so far)
Time it took to lose: 2 1/2 years
How long in maintenance: 9/20/16 first day of weight within maint range
Maintenance weight range: 150-155
Jan avg 154.3
2/5 152.8
2/15 156.8
2/21 155.2 Still waiting for the rest of the post-vacation Whoosh!0 -
My name is Irina.
Starting weight 220 lbs.
Current 151 lbs.
Took about 8 months to lose
Maintaining for 3 months
Would like to stay within 148-153 lbs range for now. Maybe eventually try to go down a little more or aim for recomp.
Week of...
6th February: 154.6 lbs
13th February: 153 lbs
20th February: 153.8 lbs
27th February:
Success / struggles of the week: same hings mostly, working on cravings control at night. Also, my weight goes up on Mondays usually after eating out on the weekend, and then it takes a few days to go to normal, but since I'm not averaging it over the course of a week, I'm kind of stuck reporting higher numbers. Well, i guess it's my own shortcomings. Not much exercise last week either, and the weather is beautiful, just time constraints.0 -
mk
Average weight January: 114#
Week of 2/5: 113#
Week of 2/12: 114#
Week of 2/19: 114#
On the money...3 -
Name: Stephen
Weight Lost (Jan-Dec 2016): 77 pounds
6th February: 182.8 pounds (trend)
13th February: 182.2 pounds (trend)
20th February: 182.6 pound (trend)
27th February:
Weight trend seems to be holding steady in the 182-183 pound range, with which I'm fine.
Good news is that I have my annual physical next week, and got my lab results back for that. Highlights are a reduction (from one year ago) in glucose (99 to 89), and an increase in HDL cholesterol (56 to 103) while total cholesterol is at 156.7
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