2017~~52 Pounds in 52 Weeks Challenge

2011juju · April 2017

Week 16

Starting weight: 205 on 1/1/2017

Goal weight:160 by Christmas 2017

Current weight:186.7

Total weight lost: 18.3 pounds

This week weight lose: 1.2 pounds

This week's successes: temptations was everywhere!!!!! birthday cake, ice cream !!!!!! walking every day !!!!!! getting in around 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day!!!

This week's challenges:: Drink more water!!! Stay on track!!!! Stay out of junk food!!! don't go over calories.

tammierlewis · April 2017

Start 1/1/2017

Starting weight: 161
Goal weight: 120
Current weight: 147

Weight loss this week: 0

This week's success: No gain. Resisted the ice cream.

This week's challenges: Started getting lax about logging and thinking about what I'm eating and when. Time to refocus and pick up the pace.

swingsnatchlift · April 2017

Challenge SW: 12/29/16: 216.0
CGW 6/15/17: 186.0
GW: approx. 157.0 (based on initial goal body fat of 23%)
UGW: 18-19.5% body fat (18% is 148.0 at 5'9")

Weight loss method: Weighing, measuring and logging all food. Ensuring I have enough protein and good fats for satiety. Kettlebell and lifting workouts. My goal is 122g of protein each day and 25g of fiber. Workouts consisting of kettlebells and lifting. I also try to incorporate HIIT and Tabata as well.

Week 16
1/5/17: 213.0, -3.0
1/12/17: 211.2, -1.8
1/19/17: 209.6, -1.6
1/26/17: 208.4, -1.2
2/1/17: 206.8, -1.6
2/9/17: 205.2, -1.6
2/16/17: 202.8, -2.4
2/23/17: 202.6, -0.2
3/2/17: 201.2, -1.4
3/9/17: 198.2, -3.0
3/15/17: 196.6, -1.6
3/23/17: 195.2, -1.4
3/30/17: 193.6, -1.6
4/6/17: 192.4, -1.2
4/13/17: 191.4, -1.0
4/20/17: 189.2, -2.2

Challenge Loss: -26.8, 52% of the way there and 25.2 to go!. If I keep going, I may meet my initial goal by the 52 week mark (would be 60 pounds lost and a weight of 156 and hopefully below 23% body fat). Now that is some motivation to not screw things up and to keep going!

This past week's challenge: My husband not being supportive and telling me I'm self-absorbed for weighing my food.

This past week's successes: Very consistent logging. Still weighing everything, despite what my husband says/thinks. Ate a fair amount of Easter candy on Easter Sunday (intentional), but got right back at it and didn't let the excess calories on one day derail me, which is my historical pattern (all or nothing, perfectionism, etc.)

My upcoming week: A lot going on with my kids (soccer starts, dance competition, etc.) and more substitute teaching assignments. Meal planning, drinking enough water, planning my workouts/sticking to the plan, and adequate sleep will be important. My exercise routine has been spotty, but I've been getting my steps in (I've average 11k per day so far in April) and the consistent activity goes a long way in keeping my TDEE up. However, I really need to do a better job of fitting in lifting and kettlebells because otherwise I start to feel squishy.

catvlmack · April 2017

Starting weight: 197 (206)
Goal weight: 145
Current weight: 180.25
Total weight lost: 16.76 (26)
This weeks successes: managed to maintain this week even though I couldn't track at all. Yay!
This week's challenges: got my sister in law staying so we keep outing out and stuff, gonna try really hard, I miss feeling healthy and losing.

Theo166 · April 2017

Starting weight: 296 (Jan 1)
01/29 - 280.0
02/26 - 271.0
03/26 - 261.8
04/03 - 262.0
04/09 - 258.5
04/15 - 254.7
04/23 - 254.1

Weekly loss = 0.6 lb
Total loss = 42 lbs
52 wk goal: <220

blackbutterfly621 · April 2017

Need to lose the weight I gained and more feeling depressed about it

Starting weight: 236
Goal weight: 170
Current weight:236
Total weight lost:0
This week's successes: goal planning
This week's challenges: more walking and less fatty foods

PrincessMom08 · April 2017

I know it's almost the end of April, but I am jumping in feet first! Hope that's okay with everyone! We've hit some big struggles over the past month or so, so I'm restarting everything this week!!! Let the games begin!

Starting date: 4/24/17
Starting weight: 218
Goal weight:130
Current weight:218
Total weight lost:-
This week's successes:-
This week's challenges: Restarting everything! Reset my goals and dates. Time to get back on the saddle! Looking for new foods to try.

Brutalism · April 2017

Hey, everybody! Dieting for 46 days with a cheat day on my birthday (in the beginning of the month). Weightlifting for 4 days a week. Only a calorie deficit for now, no cardio. I'm having a surgery on my chest in May. I'll put two-three cardio workouts after my weight training, after I recover (I'll not be training for about a month, sadly). Wish everyone luck and the strenght, that is needed, to reach your goals. Here's my stats:

Starting weight: 308.6 lbs (140 kg) on myfitnesspal - March 11, 313 lbs overall (142 kg).
Goal weight: About 260 lbs (118 kg). Eventually a six pack (The heavier I reach this goal - the better).
Current weight: 291.5 - April 22
Total weight lost: 17.1 (After I started using myfitnesspal)
This week's successes: Still strict with my diet. Staying under (on) my calorie goal. Lost 5.3 pounds (2.4 kg)
This week's challenges: Had some problems with my back this week. Hope it's okay tomorrow, so I can do a few more workouts before the surgery.

Toxtethogrady · April 2017

Starting weight: 231
Goal weight: 186
Current weight: 218.5
Total weight lost: 12.5
Weekly loss: 0
This weeks successes: Somehow staying the same weight despite overdoing it over Easter.
This week's challenges: On nights from Thursday for a week so a change of treat day

LoraineGB · April 2017

Starting weight: 217.8
Current weight: 193.0
Goal weight: 185
Method: CICO

This week's successes: Lost 0.8
This week's challenges: not always good choices, spent a lot of the week hungry

Seema3110 · April 2017

Hi,

i recently started watching what i eat & trying to lose weight since last 10 days. Today is my 11th day. Here are my details.

Starting weight: 192.14
Goal weight: 120
Current weight: 186.18
Total weight lost: 5 lbs
This week's successes: was able to resist rice & wheat & other grains.
This week's challenges: was unable to resist chocolates. cheated for chocolate.

Pdjackson · April 2017

Starting weight: 309
Goal weight: 230
Current weight: 294.5
This week: -2.5
Total weight lost: 14.5
This week's successes: Good workouts
This week's challenges: keeping it going as we're back into a full week

JetWan · April 2017

Starting weight: 213.8 lbs
Goal weight: 165
Last week weight: 188.2
Current weight: 185.8
This week's loss: 2.4 pounds
Total weight lost: 28
This week's successes: Still doing 10,000+ steps per day & Staying 100% on-plan.
This week's challenges: Get more sleep and increase water.

RayvenSkye96 · April 2017

Starting weight: 198 lbs
Goal weight: 146
Current weight: 168.2
Total weight lost: 29.8
This week's successes: Worked out everyday this week

This week's challenges: Ate too much at a birthday party yesterday, but forward on today!

junodog1 · April 2017

Week 16

Starting weight: 226.4
Goal weight: 175
Last week weight: 210.3
This week weight: 206.8
This week loss: 3.5
Total weight loss: 19.6

Weekly yada yada yada
The temperature continues to rise. We are not hitting 90 yet, but it's close every day. That's normal. The problem is the state is on fire. Now Florida on fire is nothing like the big wildfires in California or other parts of the western United States, but explain that to someone who has just had their home burn. Schools are open, but some students cannot be transported due to road closures. People are being evacuated. There is no natural relief in sight. We are in a terrible dry spell. Due to the topography and vegetation where I live, we could not get a big fire, but my heart goes out to those who are stricken. Have defensible space around your homes! http://www.firewise.org/wildfire-preparedness/be-firewise/home-and-landscape/defensible-space.aspx?sso=0
http://www.readyforwildfire.org/Defensible-Space/
I'd love a tree shaded house in mid August, but I love my house more.
Don't know why I chose this to rant on this week. I am not directly impacted, but I fear for some friends of mine.

This week's successes are all over the place:

Not killing anyone at current job while going to work every day
Not turning the neighbors escaped pig into bacon (two hours of pig wrangling in the dark)
Reaching out to someone to explore a new job at a prior employer.
Shopping at Aldi for the first time now that I heard they take credits cards - OMG their produce is so nice.
And the obvious one - still on track losing a pound a week.

Checking on last week’s challenges:

Tuesday to Friday get to work by 8:30. Let's try baby steps. HA HA HA HA - They are lucky I even went last week.

Keep making a point to log water. did good. feels good too

Do two fitness blender routines. Level not important. Nope

Walk the 2 mile street at least twice. Yep.

Woo Hoo! I found two new challenge groups. No more setting my own challenges.
This weeks challenges

This week I am going to eat daily recommended servings of Fruit and Veg
Time one mile walks and try to make improvement
and a personal one - take at least one box of stuff to Goodwill.

I have a mental challenge too. The daughter that crashed her car a couple weeks ago is coming to live with us for a week while her car is in the shop. She'll be using our car to get to work. Having her back in the house is a delight, but will be stressful because she is a 22 year old girl who thinks she knows everything.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. ~Saadi

A good thought to start the week on.

Edited for spelling

Shutyerlips · April 2017

I'm relatively certain I forgot to log last week...whoops!

Height: 6'0"
Starting weight:206 (Feb 11th)
Goal weight:170 (but then add 15-20 lbs of muscle over time)
Current weight:186
Total weight lost:20 lbs.
This week's successes: Keeping at it and remembering to eat on a normal schedule.

This week's challenges: Finding time and motivation in the moment to exercise. I'm going through a motivational slump. It's not severe or anything, it's just part of the cycle. I needed a break, so I took a break. I continued to research foods and workouts that I wanted to try, and integrated them into plans so I had something to go off of. That's been nice, but now that I want to get back to it, I find I'm lacking momentum. I can't justify spending time exercising and attempting to obtain my goal. Logically I know what I need to do, but I think emotionally, I'm disconnected from it at this point. So I've got to force myself to engage for a couple of days to get over this hump. I know my goals. I'm not afraid of success or failure. I truly enjoy how exercises feel, and how it feels to push the limits of my body. I'll be using baby steps to get back on track. 10 minutes at a time (max) for the first day (3 or more times), 10 minutes minimum for the second, third, and fourth days (2 or more times each day), and then my new work outs can be integrated. I expect to take about 2 weeks to get fully back up to speed, but won't be upset if it takes 4, as long as I'm still trying. That's all I really want. I just want to prove to myself that I'm worth trying constantly for, for the rest of my life.

On a side note, I thought I'd share a little something I learned with anyone who's actually reading this. I've been paying an insane amount of attention to the scale. Not because I'm monitoring my weight intensely, but because I wanted to learn what my body and habits looked like for weight changes throughout the day. Each of these things I observed, I also googled to check out if it was just me or not.

I learned we exhale an average of 20ml of fluid in every breath while we sleep (we inhale some, how much is depending on our environment), which can be as much as 2 lbs of fluid lost overnight.

Using the restroom can be a loss of anywhere from .5-2.5 lbs for #2, and an astonishing 1-3 lbs for a #1!

Weighing after a shower, before getting dressed, you can still be carrying from .5-1.5 lbs of water on your skin and hair, even if you already dried off.

The clothes you wear can weigh anywhere from 3-8 lbs (or more if you wear tons of stuff),

And finally, the food you eat has weight, and the water you drink has a ton of weight. It's about 4.5 lbs per gallon. And depending on how much salt you are eating, and how much vegetable you are not eating(fresh veg makes you shed sodium and water weight), you could just keep that water in.

The whole point of me sharing this is to share how much our weight can fluctuate through a single day. I just shared the ability to fluctuate in weight 20 friggin pounds! In one day! That's why they say "DON'T TRUST THE SCALE". While it might be a useful tool to catch a snapshot of your progress, ultimately, it doesn't really help. Your mood and energy level is the best indicator of improvement. For body size specifics, measuring your chest, belly, hips, arms, legs, neck, wrist, and ankles is much more useful. I know it's not as easy as stepping on a scale, but that's why you only do it once a month. I keep using the scale too, but I'm so happy to understand the limitations of that method. Hope I was helpful for someone!

junodog1 · April 2017

Shutyerlips wrote: »

The whole point of me sharing this is to share how much our weight can fluctuate through a single day. I just shared the ability to fluctuate in weight 20 friggin pounds! In one day! That's why they say "DON'T TRUST THE SCALE". While it might be a useful tool to catch a snapshot of your progress, ultimately, it doesn't really help. Your mood and energy level is the best indicator of improvement. For body size specifics, measuring your chest, belly, hips, arms, legs, neck, wrist, and ankles is much more useful. I know it's not as easy as stepping on a scale, but that's why you only do it once a month. I keep using the scale too, but I'm so happy to understand the limitations of that method. Hope I was helpful for someone!

I know that weigh changes during the day, but you gave me some new stats. That's why my only weigh in is first thing after using the potty and buck naked.

Cifucanguess · April 2017

Starting weight:266
Starting weight for challenge: 237
Current weight: 222.6
Goal weight: 185

Total weight lost: 43.4

Midway June 26th (goal 211 lbs):

This week's successes: Starting back at the gym even though it is just walking the track
This week's challenges: Not letting this week's weight loss make me lazy and drinking plenty of water

Chalmation · April 2017

Starting Weight: 178.2 (Jan 28)
Goal Weight: 130
Current Weight: 166.2
Total Weight Lost: -12

magslante · April 2017

Starting weight: 226.4 lbs
Goal weight: 155 lbs
Current weight: 198.4 lbs
Total Weight Loss so far: 28 lbs

This week's success: I hit my first mini goal - I now weigh 90kg (under 200 pounds)!!! My next goal is to get to 84kg (185.2 lbs) which is what I weighed before I had my 2nd child.

This week's challenge: Spent the week-end away and my focus has slipped a little, e.g. snacking after dinner has sneaked back in.

This week's quote: "Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus."

2017~~52 Pounds in 52 Weeks Challenge

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