Maintainers weekly Check-in February 2017

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: 140.4lbs

Success/struggles of the week: All Ok this week and my trendweight is gradually coming back down nicely. I've also done well exercise-wise this week. Excitingly, I have a PT session booked for this evening to look at how I can progress further with lifting - really looking forward to that!

@icemom011 Why don't you just swap to reporting your weekly weight on a Friday instead? I'm exactly the same - my weight is always up on a Monday as a result of the weekend, so even though I record my weight daily I only "officially" count it on a Friday - it really helps psychologically!

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Thanks, @fidangul! What are you calling next month's thread?

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: 124.9lbs
24th February:

Success of the week: I'm late checking in. I put my weight in from today for last week, and will just do it again this Friday for this week. It's been rough, lately. I cut too hard and over-exercised trying to cope with Christmas, and I finally wore out from it and switched to eating TDEE for a little while. Trying to keep to a max of 15-20K steps a day and learn to be content with what calories I get from that.

FIL had a stroke, and I went to stay with him for most of school break. I pre-weighed and measured some food I packed, but I guessed at the rest, and since I am still terrible at sizing up portions I expect my weight will go up somewhat. (And also from glycogen.) Letting go a little from the control of the scales and the Fitbit.

Going to try to focus more on strength training and hunger cues, and still looking for that hobby.

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: 108.6 lbs

Success/struggles of the week: I finally averaged slighty higher in my sleep time this week. Baby steps.

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: 143.4

Success/struggles of the week: Did great all week and blew it on Saturday. I need to work on that. (At least this week it was only one day).

Sherry

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: 126.4


Success/struggles of the week: I had a good week. I had a couple of weigh-ins that were under my range, but my trend has stayed in range all week so I think I'm good. I did have a couple of days where I was more hungry than usual, but I was also less busy so I think it was really boredom. I have been trying to eat about 200 calories more than what my fitbit says I'm burning as my own data says that I am burning 200-250 calories more per day than fitbit shows. I hope to get to a point where I don't worry about how much I eat each day, but since so far every time I have thought I was maintaining I dropped more weight and I don't really want to decrease my activity so I will have to make sure I'm eating enough. I'm just looking for the sweet spot. My average for February seems to be about 126.5 which is in my range. I'm hoping that my March average will stay in range as well and not drop below 126.

Here's my monthly report:

Total Weight lost: 36#
Time it took to lose:5 months
How long in maintenance: 3 months
Maintenance weight range: 157.5-162.5

Simple average daily weight:
Jan 2017 (31 days) -- 159.8
Feb 2017 (27 days) -- 158.7

Moving 7-Day Average Weight as of:
6th February: 159.2
13th February: 158.4
20th February: 158.6
27th February:158.6

Success/struggles of the week: Injured my right hip on 2/6 doing deadlifts and took 2 weeks off from lifting to allow the hip to heal.

Resumed lifting 2/20 and was already "out of shape." Actually developed DOMS in my glutes & quads after doing squats this past week and I almost never get sore while lifting.

Also suffered an incident of self-induced food poisoning (something went bad in my frig) on 2/17. Suffered extreme cramping and lost 3# overnight after prolonged bouts of vomiting and the runs. Quickly gained the weight back but it was awful.

Having a hard time getting the motivation to getting back into lifting after the hip injury and food poisoning. Find I need to "force" myself to do it, as opposed to actually"wanting to do it" before.

After 8 months of controlled eating and working out, it's getting old and I'm finding it harder to stay motivated. It's all in my head of course but it's so easy to back slide. So, just trying to stay motivated is my struggle now.

On the positive side, I just got my 3rd DXA scan in the past 6 months and I continue to lose BF while slightly increasing LBM and maintaining weight at 160 +/- 2.5#. BF# has gone from 20 to 16 to 14% during this time period.

DXA scans tend to give higher BF results than given by other methods of measurement. My last hydrostatic test results were at 16 and 12%.

FWIW, I think that the DXA result is on the high side and that my body is closer to 12 than 14% based on my 6 pack (which is visible while relaxed, not tensed) and my general muscle definition.

Going to get another hydrostatic test done in March to see how it compares w/the earlier hydrostatic test results and w/the DXA scan results.

The results in terms of absolute numbers should differ between DXA and hydrostatic but the trend in both showing reduced BF should be confirmed. So, I would expect the next hydrostatic test to be at 12% or less (at around 10% would confirm the trend).

We'll see . . .

Name: Stephen
Weight Lost: (Jan-Dec 2016): 77 pounds
Maintaining since January 1, 2017

6th February: 182.8 pounds (trend)
13th February: 182.2 pounds (trend)
20th February: 182.6 pounds (trend)
27th February: 183.4 pounds (trend)

Going in for annual physical tomorrow (Friday). It has been 65 pounds since the last visit...

What did they tell you to heal the fissure

Nitro made me feel too dizzy . I am on diltiazem but not done yet . This definitely is very slow going .