SW: 257.6 (3/15/17)
CW: 246.7 (5/13/17)
STGW: 239.1
LTGW: 165

What is working-- eating consistent meals, especially breakfast.

What is not-- I've had too much sodium and not enough sleep or steps in the last week.

My Starting Weight: 407 lbs (1/1/2017)
My Ultimate Goal Weight: 250 lbs (First long-long term goal)
My goal date for loosing 100 lbs is by Jan 2018
I'm targeting 2 lbs per week
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Next Milestone: 345 lbs (by end of May)
Current Weight: 354 lbs
Total loss: -53 lbs
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Current problems: Emotional/stress eating. I work in theatre, and have been getting home late from rehearsals. I do a good job tracking during the days, but when I get home from rehearsals, I can't stop myself from grazing in the fridge or cupboards. I have yet to join a gym, because gyms scare me, and I feel like I don't know enough to be there... but I think that might be my next move in June.

SW: 311 lbs
CW: 282 lbs
UGW: 144 lbs

Currently I am about 6 weeks out from going to California. I have increased my workouts and decreased my calories. This is a temporary push toward looking my best on vacation. After that I will take a week long diet break where I eat at maintenance and resume my normal workout schedule of 4 days a week.

So my mini goal is 270 by June 26th. That's right at 2# a week.

SW: 300lbs
CW: 288.3 lbs
GW: 175 then maintaining/building to 200 and 10-15% body fat

Loss Last Week: 5.29
Total Loss: 11.7 lbs

Short term goal: 284 by June 1st

What's Working:
Tracking calories. Pretty new to MFP but I have found CICO is simple and if I track my calorie and keep my net under the goal I lose weight. I am losing to fast IMHO and should eat a bit more but I still feel good and have energy so not pushing it.

What's Not:
I dont like big meals that I need to work out more to burn. Did it on mothers day with wife and not doing that again.

Notes: Starting to feel a bit better. Walks are easier and have increased speed or distance since starting. Weight is dropping at good rate. More energy than before. Overall I feel like I am achieving something,

My Starting Weight: 224lbs
My Ultimate Goal Weight: 110lbs
My goal date for loosing 100 lbs is My birthday in July 2018
Which is about 2lb per week

Next Milestone: getting under 200, hopefully by my birthday this year
Current Weight: 212
Loss last week: 1.1 lb
Total loss: 12 lb

What's working, what's not:

Working: Cutting out fast food, heavily processed foods, and ice cream. What's not working- I've always hated fruit, and the days I eat fruit make me want to quit. So, I think I'm going to stop trying to become a health nut overnight, and just focus on eating things I like.

SW: 327 lbs
GW: 175ish (main goal is to significantly increase my health; once I reach 175 I'll re-evaluate)
GD: January 2019
CW: 315 (-12 lbs)
STG: lose 20 pounds by July 1

What's working:
Still measuring portions and tracking food in MFP
Planning and prepping foods
More and more water

What needs improvement:
More time in the gym; made it a couple of days, but need to be more regular
Need to find ways to work in more veggies and protein

SW: 407 lbs (1/1/2017)
UGW: 250 lbs
CW: 351.6 lbs (-2.4 lbs since last week)
Total Loss: -55.4

Short Term Weight Goal: 340 by the end of June.
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What's working: Thanks to an event at work this week, I doubled my step goal 4 days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday). I also am willingly waking up earlier to work out and make breakfast or walk to work more often. The finale of the event yesterday brought a huge buffet with it, and I made smart decisions to not over-eat.
What's not working: I forgot to drink water a lot this week... too busy to get back to a sink or water cooler. Also still stress-grazing when I get home late at night. And there was probably too much alcohol in my week... mostly last night.

SW: 300lbs - 136 kg
CW: 286.16 lbs - 129.8 kg
GW: 175 then maintaining/building to 200 and 10-15% body fat

Loss Last Week: 2.14
Total Loss: 13.84

Short term goal: 284 by June 1st

What's Working:
I have a food scale and it's helping me tighten up my tracking. I like being looser on macros on weekends. I still stayed within net goals after exercise but my god was pizza good after walking 5k in the morning to "pay" for it.

What's Not:
Restaurants and sodium. Finding the calorie count on foods not listed in MFP and the sodium is a pain. The other issue is even if I can find the values sodium at restaurants is insane. 1 bowl of Udon pushed me 300 over my daily sodium limit.

Notes: 5 km in less than an hour this weekend. I know its a horrid time but I am still proud. Haven't walked or ran that far that fast in likely over 10 years! Leg did throb at end of walk for good 20minutes but pools open up in a week and I'll be able to walk/swim in pool with less impact on leg.

SW: 325lbs
CW: 269.8.6lbs
GW: Initially 180lbs and then I'll decide from there how much lower I might want to go.

Loss Last Week: -3.8lbs
Total Loss - 55.2lbs

Short term goal: I'm going to carry on with aiming for 10lb increments so new goal is 270lbs by the end of May. 270lbs come and gone. So I'll aim for 260lbs by the end of June!

I was surprised by the size of my loss this week. I'm usually a 1.5 - 2.5lbs a week kinda girl. I suspect some of it is water weight from the indulgences the week before and possibly the fact that I've been ramping my workouts out up a bit - so getting a slightly higher calorie burn than I was before.

Water drinking has been slipping a little over the last few days so I need to get that back on track. I'm out to dinner tonight for a birthday celebration. I've already decided what to eat and tracked it in advance so I'm feeling pretty confident about that!

Rhonda 57 year old female

Update for this week
Starting Weight:256 lbs. (01/20/2017)
Ultimate Goal Weight: 150 lbs
My goal date for losing 60 lbs is September 15, 2017 (going on a cruise - only 20 lbs to go!)
My goal date for losing 100 lbs is January 2018

Next Milestone: 200 lbs (by end of June)
Current Weight: 216 lbs (05/22/17)
Loss this week: -1.0 lbs
Total overall loss: -40 lbs

This was my wedding anniversary week so I went off my normal eating habits somewhat. But, I was still was able to lose one pound so I am happy. I was afraid it would be a gain. I am finding that it is easier to get back on track than it was in the past. My mindset has changed so much and this site has really helped with that. Thanks everyone for your encouragement and support. It means the world to me.

congratulations, Terry! You've come a very long way and are doing great!

Date - Weight - LbsLost - WeeklyLossAvg -TotalLoss
01/02 - 307 - 0 - 0 - 0
01/09 - 307 - 0 - 0 - 0
01/16 - 300 - 7 - 2.34 - 7
01/23 - 296 - 4 - 2.75 - 11
01/30 - 293 - 3 - 2.8 - 14 Jan Loss: 14
02/06 - 293 - 0 - 2.34 - 14
02/13 - 292 - 1 - 2.15 - 15
02/20 - 288 - 4 - 2.38 - 19
02/27 - 286 - 2 - 2.34 - 21 Feb Loss: 7
03/06 - 282 - 4 - 2.5 - 25
03/13 - 278 - 4 - 2.64 - 29
03/20 - 278 - 0 - 2.42 - 29
03/27 - 287 - -9 - 1.54 - 20
04/03 - 281 - 6 - 1.86 - 26 Mar Loss: 5
04/10 - 275 - 6 - 2.14 - 32
04/17 - 272 - 3 - 2.19 - 35
04/24 - 270.5 - 1.5 - 2.15 - 36.5
05/01 - 269.5 - 1 - 2.09 - 37.5 Apr Loss: 11.5
05/08 - 265.5 - 4 - 2.19 - 41.5
05/15 - 263 - 2.5 - 2.2 - 44
05/22 - 260.5 - 2.5 - 2.22 - 46.5
05/29 - 257.5 - 3 - 2.25 - 49.5 May Loss: 12

I am very happy with my 12 lb loss for May! I hit my readjusted goal to get under 260 by today!


Goal 1 - 285 by March 17 Vacation (GOT IT - 278)
Goal 2 - 260 by May 26 (Formerly July 1) (GOT IT - 257.5)
Goal 3 - 220 by November 13 (Formerly Christmas 2017)
Goal 4 - 199 by February 2nd Vacation 2018 (Formerly March 16, 2018)

Overall Goal Lose 108 lbs. 49.5 down 58.5 to go

Recent NSV - Starting to be able to tuck my shirt into the 40" pants they were alittle to tight at first hahaha. And...I found out that I can run!

What is working:
Eating healthy foods and cooking healthy and fun dinners.
Sweating my *kitten* off once per day.
Water Water Water Water!

What isn't working:
Everything is still working well for me this is great I feel like Im in cruise control now.

SW : 24 st 7lb
CW : 22st
GW: 14 st 7lb (then reassess)
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Old small goal : below 23 st by end of April - MET!
New small goal : below 22 st by 12th June.
Loss this week : -2lb
Total loss since SW: -35lb

What's working- I'm finding the Fitbit a good motivator. I know I'm moving more than I would without it. I also know that when I was logging calories manually that I was underestimating apparently.

What could be better - I'm going to try to meet my daily step count every day this week!

I've moved my usual weigh in from a Monday morning to a Saturday morning. I'm finding Monday mornings a bit hectic so Saturday is easier as it is family day and my husband isn't rushing about getting ready for work.

SW: 407 lbs (1/1/2017)
UGW: 250 lbs
CW: 346.4 lbs (-4.8 lbs since last week)
Total Loss: -60.6 lbs

Short Term Weight Goal: 335 by the end of June.
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What's working: for most of this week, I did really REALLY well. I packed my lunch every day, so food was properly portioned, and that limited snacking and grazing. I amped up my H2O intake, and also pushed harder each morning in my workouts. A lot of stressors have disappeared from my life thanks to events completing, and I think that has helped too.

What's not working: Yesterday was a pizza party with my last class that I taught this semester. Definitely overdid it, so I had a small weight gain today. I'm worried that this weekend (being Memorial Day in the U.S.), I'll be tempted to binge again. So really going to try to curb that. I've also been doing some meal delivery services (Blue Apron, etc) and a lot of their meals are sodium-heavy... so going to try to start cooking more of my own meals this week, instead of relying on the boxed kits.