JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS | Round 7

06/12 - 205.9. Yesterday was the first day that I've tracked my calories using MFP. I did pretty well, had about 150 calories to spare. I'm not following any specific diet, just eating what I would normally eat, which is a vegetarian diet, and watching my portion sizes, making sure to measure when needed. Today's weight is actually 3 ounces more than yesterday's weight. Hopefully it will start going in the opposite direction by the end of this 10-day challenge. Oh, and I exercised today. I did a beginners step aerobics dvd.

06/13 - 205.7. Down 2 ounces. Yay for the downward trend! Today I had a crappy day at work and I ate more chocolate than I should have. Stress is a food trigger for me and I need to keep that in mind and make a point to change my behavior (turning to food) next time. I logged all of my meals today using the MFP app. No exercise today. I'm going to attempt to get up at 5:15 am tomorrow and do step aerobics before work. We'll see how that goes.

06/14 - 205.8. Not the direction I was hoping for. I know from past experience with weighing myself every day that my weight fluctuates up and down during the week. On a good note, I did get myself out of bed at 5:15 am and worked out.

06/15 - 205.1. Yes! Now I have to keep this up. Didn't get up at 5:15 am this morning. I was tired all day yesterday from getting up early. I'm going to try exercising after dinner tonight and see if that works better for me. I've tracked all my food and today I started tracking my water intake -- 9 cups so far today.

06/16 - 204.6. I did a little happy dance this morning when I weighed myself. Last night I worked out, did one of the 2-mile Walk Away the Pounds DVDs, and that worked out better for me. This challenge is forcing me to evaluate what I'm doing as far as exercise and eating and tweaking as I go along. I like that. In the past, I'd never put a lot of thought into my weight loss attempts. I would just try to eat less or count points or sporadically exercise, and that's probably why I've failed in the past. This 10-day challenge keeps me focused and accountable, which is a good thing.

06/11 starting weight 144.6

06/12 143.4
06/13 142.8
06/14 143.0
06/15 143.0
06/16 142.8
06/17
06/18
06/19
06/20

nitial 6/11/17 /final goal weight: 156.4 lbs | 98 lbs (?)--not really sure (sm. boned & petite)
Start/goal weight for this round: 156.4 lbs | 155.4 lbs

4'11", female, 55 years old

06/12 156.4 Felt lucky to get that! I finished my last food pretty late...
06/13 158.0 Figured I had gained after stressful day, yesterday & then out of control eating. I'll do better before
this round is done.
06/14 157.4 Stuck with my meal plans, yesterday.
06/15 157.4 Was okay with this... stayed right at about 1200 calories, yesterday
06/16 158.8 Uh oh... heading the wrong way...
06/17
06/18
06/19
06/20
06/21

Try this again.
Round 6 Total -.6lb
6/11=198.8
Goal: To beat last round total lost.

06/12=199.0
06/13=196.4!
06/14=195.0!
06/15=195.6 Wasn't as careful with what I ate yesterday. Working outside in the heat, a lot of snacking.
06/16=196.2 Had the last two days off. Need to commit more to cooking than fast food.
06/17=197.4 Late Chinese buffet dinner.
06/18
06/19
06/20
06/21

Round 1 for me!
6/12: 269 Couldn't bare to put 270lbs but I probably weighted more than that! Feeling pretty bad I let myself get to this point! I have never walked this much in one day in months! Feels great! NSV worthy!
6/13: 267.8 Surprised I lost that much weight, I might have overate on my calories a little! Teeehee!
6/14: 266.8 I had a little more snack than I should have had, but I must have been able to burn enough calories as to where it did not matter! Went for a walk this morning in heels, definitely going to have blisters on my ankles. Gonna go for another walk, as well. Nothing is stopping me anymore!
6/15: 267.8 Welp! I ate something my boss brought back for me, and my heels were too busted to get a good walk in. I am extremely ready to get a 30 minute walk in after work! Looking at my weight loss so far, the gain could have been worse!
6/16: 265.6 WOW! Super excited to see that! Now I can start showing weight loss on my ticker, had to lose the extra weight I gained. Two coworkers gave me their leftovers, I split it between myself and my twin. Did not eat anything else because I wasn't too sure what the calories were. Walked but not as much as I wanted to. Starting to feel confident!
6/17: 263.0 Holy crap. . .starting to think I am not taking enough calories in? This is probably just water weight, but I can't believe how happy I am to see that number! I thought that I would still be dissapointed, that even though I have saw that number before and been on this path before the number wouldn't make me feel good. Lie! It does! Had a coworker's chicken tender leftover and decided that since I have no clue how many calories were in it, that was dinner! Walked for 15 minutes My boss bought me a Jimmy John's cookie..YUM! But I am saving it for when I have calories to afford! Meeting someone today after talking to them for weeks, so excited I got to lose this much weight before hand!
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Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!! To making it count!

Starting weight 6/11 - 134.5
Goal for 10 days - 132.5

06/12 - 136.1
I'm a little disappointed in myself. I maintained my weight Friday and Saturday (weekends are usually hard for me to eat within calories). Then last night was just a free for all. I went 1100 calories over for the day and it shows on the scale this morning. I've never weighed myself on a Monday. Back at it today though. Workout planned at 8:00!!

06/13 - 136.4
Well that went the wrong way ... had a good day though. Good workout and avoided temptation of food and beer at an impromptu get together with neighbors.

06/14 - 135.3
Good food day yesterday, just under 1200 calories. No time for my workout. Getting wo in first thing this morning!

06/15 - 134.9
Good day for exercise, bad day for food. I was around 700 calories over my 1200 net goal. To be exact, I was 3 full calorie beers, 1 m&m cookie and 1 serving of potato chips over I'm hoping it doesn't catch up to me tomorrow because I have to weigh in for my biggest loser group.

06/16 - 134.4
Finally less than the day before this started ... but now the weekend. I have at least 3 meals out (my oldest son is graduating from high school tomorrow). I am more motivated than usual to stay strong this weekend, it will be interesting to see how it goes.

06/17 - 134
Moving in the right direction, but today is graduation day, dinner out and no exercise ...

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06/19
06/20
06/21

Round 2 SW: 71.9 Kg
Round 3 SW: 71.3 Kg
Round 4 SW: 70 Kg
Round 5 SW: 69.7 Kg
Round 6 SW: 69 Kg
Round 7 SW: 67.6 Kg

06/12: 67.6 Kg
06/13: 67.4 Kg
06/14: 66.8 Kg
06/15: 67.2 Kg
06/16: 67 Kg
06/17: 67 Kg
06/18:
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06/20:
06/21:

6/12 - 243.0
6/13 - 243.2
6/14 - 244.4 - Not worried. I've seen swings as much as 3 lbs per day. Seems to be affected by how much sleep I get.
6/15 - 242.8
6/16 - 243.8
6/17 - 243.4 - Back to the gym for the first time in months - the doc cleared me and I was doing my first set within 10 minutes.
6/18
6/19
6/20
6/21

SW - in March - 182.3
GW- going to get to 150 and evaluate from there.

06/11 - 160.0lbs - coming in from round 6

06/12 - 161.2lbs - TOM gets the blame for this one as I know it wasn't my activity level and food yesterday.

06/13 - 161.6 - I know I ate under maintenance calories yesterday...so once again it's all TOMs fault LOL. My rings are tight and my feet are puffy...so I'm sure the water will shed when TOM leaves. Because I weigh every day I know this is a typical fluctuation in my cycle.

06/14 - 160.8lbs - on the way back down...the 150's are calling me!!

06/15 - 160.6lbs - not bad considering I did some quality control on the oatmeal cookies I made for today's school fair bake sale....and finished my kid's fries last night...must have been the 14000 steps that kept me in check.

06/16 - 159.6lbs - HELLO 150's!!! Worked my butt off at our School Fun Fair yesterday so even the bites of brownie and gelato I shared with my kids didn't make a difference (17000+steps and lots of lifting)

06/17 - 159.8lbs - still in the 150's.

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Round 3 - 140.6
Round 4 - 142.6
Round 5 - 141.4
Round 6 - 143.6

06/12 142.2 No alcohol yesterday and under carb limit
06/13 142.8
06/14 142.4 Stayed under 1590 calorie goal
06/15 141.0 Only had 1100 calories and under carb goal. However protein is too low so need to focus on that.
06/16 141.6 Too many carbs from late night snacking on chips. Why do I sabotage myself!
06/17 141.8 My husband is the cook in the house and our meals are rarely healthy. So I try to make the best of it on a daily basis. Instead of 3 slices of pizza last night, I had one slice and a salad. Had too many drinks though so too much calories, carbs and sodium yesterday.

Starting weight 148
Goal weight 132
Ultimate weight 130

06/12 - 135.4
06/13 - ... no scale, but being mindful
06/14 - ... no scale, but homeward bound
06/15 - 134.2 woohoo!!! It helps to have mindful eating even when there is no scale lurking around the corner. Plus, I am home and getting back into my usual workout routine. Winner
06/16 - 133.6 don't think it's going to stay there. But love the downward direction of the scale. Logging and mindful. And getting back into my workout routine at home.
06/17 - 134 I am very happy with where I am at. This is a great reinforcement to keep up what I am doing.
06/18
06/19
06/20
06/21

SW:188
GW: 135

10 day challenge goal-set a base line for future challenges.

06/12 - 188 lbs
06/13 - 187 lbs I ate okay today and worked out twice. Water walking in the am and treadmill and weights in the pm. I am looking forward to positive results!
06/14 - 186 lbs ate good today even went to dinner with family and did okay. Mowed the lawn this morning and then did my cardio/weight training in the afternoon. Blew away my steps goal for the day.
06/15 - 184 lbs thankfully I have the time this summer to commit to myself! I water walked this morning for an hour and now off to do my regular cardio/weight training. I think monitoring my food has made a large impact. I have really been focused on serving size instead of mindless eating.
06/16 - 185 lbs planning on doing cardio and weight training along with organizing the basement. I figured I should log this before I forget. Here's to another healthy day!
06/17 - 184 lbs Yesterday ended up being date day didn't eat healthy or exercise, but made it under my daily total. This morning I did cardio for 30 minutes walk and run combos before finishing off with weight training.
06/18
06/19
06/20
06/21

I'm in! This challenge kept me motivated for the past month. Hopefully at the end of round 7 I will achieve my overall goal weight of 49kg.

Round 4 start weight 52.8kg/end weight 52.7kg
Round 5 start weight 51.8/end weight 50.8kg
Round 6 start weight 50.7kg/end weight 49.6kg
Round 7 start weight 50.0kg/goal 49kg

12/06 50.0kg
13/06 49.7kg
14/06 49.3kg
15/06 49.4kg
16/06 48.9kg
17/07 49.9kg not sure what happened as I didn't have a lot to eat yesterday...

06/11 starting weight 144.6

06/12 143.4
06/13 142.8
06/14 143.0
06/15 143.0
06/16 142.8
06/17 143.2
06/18
06/19
06/20

SW : 140.5
GW 06/21: 138.5

Day Weight Comments

06/12: 140.5 lbs. Feeling excited - day has gone well so far with staying on track
06/13: 140 lbs. Just realized my home scale only measures in 1/2 lb increments... not going to be as precise as most of you folks!
06/14: 140.5 lbs
06/15: 140 lbs
06/16: 140 lbs
06/17: 140 lbs .... hmmm. Not gaining, but goal wt is looking overly optimistic! Lots of garden work today, stayed within calorie goal.
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