JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS | Round 15

round 4 - 278.0
round 5 - 275.6
round 6 - 273.0
round 7 - 273.6
round 8 - 274.0
round 9 - 275.8
round 10 -277.0
round 11 -278.4
round 12 - 280.0
round 13 - 277.0
round 14 - 274.8

Starting weight 285
Current weight 274.8
Goal weight 270

Round 15

08/31--273.2
09/01--272.8
09/02--273.5 Hmm, looks like husbands 60th birthday celebration yesterday was a success.
09/03--274.8
09/04--275.4
09/05--275.4
09/06--277.6 knee inflammation. Saw orthopedic dr. and received a cortisone shot. Eventually need a knee replacement. Praying the shot will give me the time i need to get my weight down. Need to lose 40 lbs by new year.
09/07--276.3 Just resting have to wait for inflammation to subside, then look out gym, here i come.
09/08--275.6
09/09--274.2

Goal weight 130
Round 14 SW 142.6
Round 15 SW 136.6

Goal for Round 15 is to log my food every day and hopefully get to 134.

Day/Weight/Comment
8/31 136.4 - Ran for 4 miles
9/01 137 - 45 Minutes circuit training at the gym
9/02 136.2 - No exercise but lots of walking around a theme park
9/03 137.8 - Ran for 10 miles. Yesterday was a calorie disaster. Was at a theme park with $1 days on all the junk food + Chinese food for dinner. Have planned out my meals for today and will eat some of my exercise calories and not worry about it because the 10 miler burned over a 1,000 calories.
9/04 138.6 - Did a 3 hour hike with friends and family. Ate my exercise calories and even so was out of calories before dinner so I just quit eating for the day.
9/05 138.6 - Ran for 3 miles. Have my meals planned out and for the day. I really feel like I'm just slowly backpedaling here as far as the weight goes.
9/06 138.2 - Circuit training at the gym for 45 minutes. Stuck to my food plan yesterday until the end of the day when I noshed down on an Almond Joy, a Skor bar, and a huge slice of ice cream cake. DOH! My husband brings home bagfuls of candy all the time. And I was so hungry in the day yesterday. I think I'll have to eat some of my exercise calories to avoid binges like that.
9/07 137.2 - No exercise. Just felt like a rest day for once! Yesterday I consciously tried to drink a glass of water every hour in the day. Wow, I was peeing like a race horse! I'm typically really bad about drinking water and live in a constant state of dehydration. Today I've planned my meals out. Have been busy running around doing errands so haven't felt hungry yet. Not going to meet my goal weight for this round, but I am on the right path and feeling determined.
9/08 136.6 - Well, I'm at least back at my starting point for this round. If I end a little under this I'll call that a win. Did 45 minutes of circuit training at the gym and have my meals planned out for the day. Yesterday was a good day. Hunger pangs didn't kick in. I think it helped that I was busy all day and really didn't have time to pine for a snack. I'm making a conscious effect to keep drinking water.
9/09 136.2 - Well, I ended up a little under my starting weight, so I'm definitely happy with that. Have my meals planned for the day and will do a 30 min run and some gardening for exercise. See you all in round 16!

I am definitley in! This group has been such a motivation to me. Last round was really difficult between having the flu and TOM being here. I've also found it incredibly hard to do my 30 minutes of biking 5 days a week since school started back up. When I get home from work, I am completely exhausted from molding little minds all day, yet I still have to help my own 3 children with their homework, cook dinner, pack lunches, and it usually isn't until 8 that I get to sit down. I need to be able to figure out how to fit exercise back in. I thought about mornings, but I get up at 5:30 as is to get my oldest on the bus and as soon as he leaves, I wake up my youngest to get him out the door. (Staggard busing here.) When he leaves, I leave for work. Any suggestions?

Round 15 SW 178.6
Round 15 GW: 178
UGW: 125

08/31: 178.6 I am back to where I started last round. Lol

09/01: 179.6 I am at a plateau. That's okay though. I'll keep walking, eating right, and drinking my H2O.

09/02: 177 Woo Hoo!!!! I have lost 25 lbs. now, and I met my goal and then some. I met last week's goal.

09/03: 176.8 Yes!!!! A little bit more has come off. I have been walking a lot more than I ever have before. My water intake was awful yesterday because I was gone all day running errands. I need to up my game today for that. I was under my calories but not by much either.

09/04: 176.6 I am losing a bit at a time. Still had a rough day with water, but I did better than I did the day before. I ate well though and plan to go biking with my husband this morning.

09/05: 176.8 My day started off well with a healthy breakfast, and I went on a 6 mile bike ride with my husband. Then, I barely touched water, skipped practically every meal, and ate a high carb and high sodium meal last night. I must admit, the dinner and the skipping of meals was a really bad choice. Did I fall off the wagon? No, it was almost 10 at night when I finally had my dinner because I spent all day in the hospital with my Mom. My Mom in this instance is my mother-in-law for clarification. She is battling lung cancer and could barely breathe. I sent a text to check on her and knew something was wrong. My husband and I rushed her to the hospital to find out she has developed pneumonia. It was a difficult Labor Day to say the least, and she will be there for I don't know how long.

09/06: 176.4 Slow and steady wins the race. A friend of my brother's asked me to pull over yesterday. He said he asked my brother who I was, and he said it was his sister. His buddy said that is not your sister. My brother told him about my weight loss journey, and the guy just had to tell me that I was looking really good. Awesome validation for all of my hard work.

09/07: 176.4 HOLDING STEADY!

09/08: 176!!! Woot Woot!!!! I'm starting to get really excited. I think it's about how close the 175 is getting. I'm glad I'm still eating healthy even if this week has been hard with Mom in the hospital.

09/09: 174.4 OMGOSH! MIND BLOWN! I WASN'T EXPECTING THIS AT ALL DURING THIS ROUND. LOVE THE BUG WHOOSH!

Leroyoliver

SW 164.4
GW 145
R13 162
R14 158
R15 goal 156

8/31 158
9/01 158
9/02. 157.8 exercise has been harder to get in, bike ride today!
9/03 158
9/04 158
9/05 160
9/06 158 bong, bong, bong (pin ball!)
9/07 158.2 uhg!!!! Not sure what going on
9/08 157.6 much better! One more day, let's see if we can end this round one lb loss.
9/09 157. - not at round goal but 1lb lower. Past 2 rounds I lost fast, do I guess this is balancing out. I feel great though! Strong! On to the next round!

Back again! I started last round at 144.4 and finished at 142.4 so happy. I'm looking to get to 141 or below without bouncing back. I started midway through Round 2 at 153.9 on 4/29. Slow going but better than nothing. I'm at roughly .5 a week loss.

We are all champs!
Day/Weight/Comment
8/30 142.4
8/31 142 ....45 ellip and gym yesterday! Yeah me!
9/01 142 and holding... for now. 1 hr weeding and 30 ellip yesterday. Ate smart but had a late night snack, something I never do but seemed like a good idea at the time. LOL today: gym and ellip.. Happy Friday All, stay strong.
9/02 142.4 Made it to gym and an aqua aerobics class but kinda blew it later. It's ok. The scale will go back down. I'm off to the forest for a couple days so hiking will be good change from ellip. I hope to come back in the 1's. Have a great holiday weekend (for those in the States).
9/03 no scale
9/04 no scale
9/05 144.2 Well, that hurts. Rained until morning we were leaving and so we ate in restaurants which never helps. Last night on way home had Chinese. Hoping this is mostly, or all, water weight. Lemon water and maybe to gym.
9/06 142.2 That's better. No exercise since I had a phlebotomy yesterday and losing 500 cc's of blood makes that out of the question. Ate reasonably and drank some lemon water. 3 days to get in the 141's.
9/07 141.4 Yes! Reached goal for this round; now to stay here. Lots of protein yesterday and some lemon water... my fav bev. Need to get some exercise today.
9/08 142.4 Nooooo. God, my body loves this number. Well, no exercise all week. Just restricting cals doesn't do it for me. Tonight is pizza night at my house - so I don't have to cook. I'll limit to one slice and salad.

9/09 142 Well, I did hit goal for this round, just didn't stay there. It's all good. I'm down .4 for this round despite no exercise for days due to rainy camping, phlebotomy and general busy-ness blanching and freezing veggies. Thought I'd weigh more today as I made refrigerator pickled beets and ate a good portion before they even had a chance to cool. So many carbs but oh so good. Any who, basically happy and off to Irish Fest today so will get some walking and chasing 2 year old in. See you all in Round 16! To quote RL Stevenson: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I'm back!! Starting a day late on this round, we returned from our road trip last night. Much food I normally don't eat was consumed (think Poutine, Smoked meat, crepes...LOTs of wine LOL) so I know most of the reason I'm way up is that. I kept my breakfasts and lunches lighter so I could splurge at dinner....
So here goes 9 days of trying to get rid of the water bloat so I can see what the real damage was.

SW in March - 182.4
GW- 150 - I think I will re-evaluate when I get there...I'm not sure I'll be done...

Day/Weight/Comment
8/31 - no scale
9/01 - 157.4 - Results of our trip to Ottawa and Montreal. Also TOM started yesterday so this is a double Whammy. Going on a trail run this morning and will drink lots of water and get back to my regular meal routine.
9/02 - 156.8 - starting to shed some bloat. I already feel better being back to my routine for just one day.
9/03 - 155.4 - chipping away at the bloat
9/04 - 153.6 - many trips to the bathroom yesterday...shedding the vacay and TOM gains. I doubt there will be much more "easy" loss....but getting back on track with some meal prep and routine with the boys starting back to school tomorrow. Want to get to my 150 goal by the end of Sept, hopefully sooner.
9/05 - 154.0 - low energy and didn't do well with getting my water in yesterday.
9/06 - 153.4 - I have a feeling I'm going to bounce around a couple of lbs for a bit then then whoosh it out. Great day yesterday! And I've already got my run and an express kettlebell work out in today...feels great to get back into a routine with the kids back at school.
9/07 - 153.0 - chipping away
9/08 - 151.8 - YES! I think all the vacay/TOM bloat is gone...and I've started in on the real gain from my trip! Trust the process...getting back into routine really helps. Now to not let it all go as we go into a weekend. Hockey evaluations start for my boys so I'll be at the rink...say no to the fries, say no to the fries LOL

9/09 - 150.4 - Did not expect this extra drop this morning!! It looks like a huge loss this round but I started it during TOM and coming home from a vacation so a lot of it was water and junk. I do think I need to start eating more for my activity level as I will be needing to start finding a maintenance range soon.

Cheers to the weekend and I'll see you all on the Round 16 thread tomorrow

SW: 292
R14 SW: 269.8
R15 SW: 267.4

R15 GW:264.9

Special focus: Finding ways to avoid eating just because I am bored.

Daily Goals: Log all food, 3L of water, 10k steps, Multi-vitamin
MWS Goals: 25 mins Cardio, Strength Training

Day/Weight/Comment

8/31 – 267.4 I knew the scale was tripping yesterday.
Goals met.

9/01 – 266.6 Plenty of sleep last night. I did better with boredom and turning to food.
Goals met.

9/02 – 267.6 Woke up feeling not so great but hit the gym anyway and I am so glad I did.
TOM is very soon. Goals met.

9/03 – 266.6 Boing, boing. LOL Today’s meals and snacks are all pre-logged and I still have
calories to spare for adding an extra snack of veggies and fruits. Goals met.

9/04 – 267.6 Meals pre-logged again. No gym time today because they are closed.

9/05 – 266.8 Down, up, down, repeat seems to be this week’s theme. Goals met.
I had a good workout.

9/06 – 265.8 Looking forward to today’s workout. I had another good workout. Did use about 1/3 of my exercise calories. Goals met.

9/07 – 264.6 I pre logged breakfast and dinner. I have no idea what I will have for lunch but I have a couple of options that will easily fit into my calorie goal.

9/08 – 264.6 Spent most of today traveling. I won’t meet step goal, but I did great on the rest of my daily goals.

9/09 – 263.8 What?! I checked this three times. What a great way to end this round. I suspect this will bounce back up tomorrow.

10 Day Challenge ( 31of august to 9 of September) RW15
RW12--SW(245.9)
RW13--SW(240.9)
RW14--SW(240.0)
RW15--SW(240.7)
RW15 Goal weight: 238 lbs

08/31--238.6 Ok that was a huge drop
09/01--239.1 Ok back up a little bit, but make sense since it dropped too fast yesterday
09/02--238.6 Ok back down again
09/03--240.1 went well over Kcal yesterday and had chips near midnight too
09/04--240.1
09/05--240.1
09/06--238.8 Going in the right path again
09/07--240.4 grrrr
09/08--240.4 grrrr why do I always come back to this 240
09/09--238.6 Wow it went down wasnt expecting that after i felt sick all day yesterday

This was really a yo-yo challenge...and I couldnt post most of the time or read you guys
The next round hopefully will be better

This is my second round!
R14 sw 205 end 201

Day/Weight/Comment
8/31- 202.6 yesterday I was finally able to eat some food after two days of having awful strep throat. I still have it but the antibiotics is working. I can't go to the gym because now my son and husband are sick.
9/01 202.6- I officially caught my sons cold. My throat feels better but I'm still on antibiotics. Man I can't catch a break from all this sickness!
9/02- 200.8 yesterday I did lifting. Didn't have much of an appetite because of my cold and sore throat.
9/03- 200.8 yesterday I watched what I ate and didn't workout.
9/04- 202.4 ugh I'm going to blame this on the bad eating of doughnuts and lack of water. Oh and I didn't workout
9/05 204.4! Gotta love cheat days! Lol
9/06 201.8 did leg day yesterday and watched what I ate.
9/07 201.6 did back and biceps. And watched what I ate
9/08 202.4. I ate good and workouted shoulders. Wish I drank more water tho!
9/09 200.4 didn't workout yesterday but I did watch what I eat still need to drink a lot more water

Day/Weight/Comment
8/31- 229.1
9/01- 229.1
9/02- 229.1
9/03- 229.1
9/04-
9/05-
9/06- 231
9/07- 229.7
9/08- 229.7
9/09- 226.6 I have a really hard time believing this is accurate, but my scale told me it was true three times. Fully expect this to go back up, but for now, I'll be happy!