Maintainers weekly Check-in December 2017
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kalchthaleri wrote: »Name: Ingrid
Age: 46
Height: 5'4
Total Weight lost: 213 lbs.
Time it took to lose: 3 years
How long in maintenance: 11 months
Maintenance weight range: 128-135
Average weight recorded from January: 135
Average weight recorded from February: 132
Average weight recorded from March: 132
Average weight recorded from April: 132
Average weight recorded from May: 132
Average weight recorded from June: 130.6
Average weight recorded from July: 131.5
Average weight recorded from August: 128.75
Average weight recorded from September 128.24
Average weight recorded from October: 125.87
Average weight recorded from November: 123.62
Week of December 1: 123
Week of December 8: 127.5
Week of December 15: 125
Week of December 22:
Week of December 29:
Struggles/successes of the week:
Better week. Still up from November, but lower than my weight goal over all. It’s just hard.
Food exercise and eating this week.
You are doing great, are you trying to be below your maintenance weight range?2 -
Name: Jen
Age: 46
Height: 5'2.5"
Total Weight lost:145lbs
Time it took to lose: 2.75yrs
How long in maintenance : Since 4/14/17
Maintenance weight range: Would like to stay under 122 at morning weigh-in.
January avg weight trend: 126.8lbs
February avg weight trend: 126.1lbs
March avg weight trend: 124.6lbs
April avg weight trend: 122.9lbs
May avg weight trend: 123.4lbs
June avg weight trend: 122.6lbs
July avg weight trend: 122.3lbs
August avg weight trend: 118.9lbs
September avg weight trend: 119.1lbs
October avg weight trend: 118.6lbs
November avg weight trend: 118.8lbs
Trend week of...
24th November: 118.1lbs
1st December: 117.6lbs
8th December: 116.8lbs
15th December: 116.7lbs
Successes of the week: Made some better food decisions a few times this week. Tried to make an effort to bring treats home for evening instead of munching at school where I don't have time to enjoy them.
Had some pretty good workouts this week, too.
Challenges of the week: Still dealing with some compulsive eating. Banking did not work out, however I stayed pretty close to maintenance. Definitely shortchanged myself on sleep again!
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Name:BBJ
Age: 43
Height:5'7"
Total Weight lost: 38 lbs
Time it took to lose: 5 months
How long in maintenance: 7 months
Maintenance weight range:112-115
Fitness goal-Complete Strong Curves and rehab
Start of Jan: 148 lbs
Start of Feb: 139 lbs
Start of March: 133
Start of Apr-127.2
Start of May: 122.6
Start of June-115.0-GOAL
start of July- 115
Start of august-115
Start of sept 112
Start of oct:113
Start of Nov-111
Start of Dec-113
December 1: 113.2
December 8: 110.2
December 15: 110.4
December 22:
December 29:
Success/struggles: big weekend with parties and houseguests. Monday was a bust but I was in the gym every day after. I dropped the calories and ate clean for the week and I am about where I was last week. Working on staying strong until I leave for the holidays as I am certain that I won’t be as free while I am away, though I will do the best I can. Rehab is a pain. I just wish I could ruuuuun.3 -
Wow, I see a lot of us are staying at or below our target maintenance weight! Keep up the great work, ladies. I think something to keep in mind is weighing in underweight. I am guilty of this. I know it is hard to find that happy balance in maintenance. We are all afraid to re-gain that damn weight, however being underweight is almost as dangerous as being overweight. I must confess, I am still a couple pounds underweight, but so far my doc is OK with it. What say you? P.S. Still 116#.6
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@mk2fit I wonder if that feeling of being "afraid to regain" the weight back ever does go away?!?! It always mingles at the back of my mind. And it has also led to me pushing other things in life away.
I was severely overweight for 25 years and gained back large amounts twice during that time. I don't think the fear of regaining will ever go away, but I see that as a good thing. It helps keep me on track. Underweight is not my problem and I doubt it will ever be. Focus on maintaining a HEALTHY weight!3 -
Wow, I see a lot of us are staying at or below our target maintenance weight! Keep up the great work, ladies. I think something to keep in mind is weighing in underweight. I am guilty of this. I know it is hard to find that happy balance in maintenance. We are all afraid to re-gain that damn weight, however being underweight is almost as dangerous as being overweight. I must confess, I am still a couple pounds underweight, but so far my doc is OK with it. What say you? P.S. Still 116#.
I think as long as we feel OK and are eating to our plan, have energy, muscle etc.. that it's OK to be a little light on the "charts". I am keeping a close eye on the moving avg from the Happy Scale ap. I am a little light to my range right now but so hard to see real trends just yet... and.... Unfortunately, I am now dealing with an injury which is keeping my running in check so until I start working out again I am cutting out 200-300 cals per day off my maintenance. It's a guess because all my data for cals in includes my running 25-30 miles per week but this too is a learning experience. I am trying to think of it as **another set of information** for what level my maintenance eating needs to be when I am injured. I have been thinking about that anyway as a whether to eat more when I work out harder (daily fluctuations) or whether to keep my weekly calories at the same level without fluctuations. I tend to want to stay ahead of the game and not end up trending up but it's all new to me right now. Interesting question to pose. Thanks for letting me be a part of this team.3 -
Name: Brenda
Age: 48
Height: 5'2"
Starting Weight:194 on 9/6/2016
Time it took to lose: 37 weeks
Total Weight lost: 64 pounds on 5/27/2017
How long in maintenance: 29 Weeks
Maintenance weight range: 130 or below
Average weight recorded from...
June............129
July..............130
August.........129
September...129
October........129
November....129
Week of:
Dec 2.....128
Dec 9.....128
Dec 16...1274 -
@mk2fit You are so right. I have had to lower my maintenance range several times. I still have 10-12 pounds to go before I would be considered underweight. But it is so hard not to worry about re-gaining. It is easy to tell myself that I don't want to lose any more weight and believe it. But the idea that maybe I should gain a couple of pounds is hard to deal with. I guess because once I started counting calories the weight came off as expected, but once I tried to start maintaining I have continued to slowly lose. I guess I worry that if I try to gain back a couple of pounds when I stop trying to gain and just maintain I will slowly continue to gain. I do feel good where I am, and my running is going well. I honestly think I am eating more now than when I was fat. I'm just a lot more active. For now i will just try to make sure I hit my goal every day and not have too many days under. And next week with Christmas coming up I will try not to worry if I go over. But it is so hard not to fear gaining the weight back.4
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Name: Micmac1007
Age: 35
Height: 5’3”
Total Weight lost: 45 lbs
Time it took to lose: 9 months
How long in maintenance: 1 year, 2 month
Maintenance weight range: 117 - 123
Only started on Happy Scale in August - using the average weight recorded on the last day of each month below.
Average weight recorded from August: 118.6
Average weight recorded from September: 121.1
Average weight recorded from October: 118.4
Average weight recorded from November: 121.2
Moving Average at end of week ...
2nd December: 121.0
9th December: 120.6
16th December: 120.2
23rd December:
30th December:
Success/struggles of the week: continued to struggle with completing end of year deadline projects - that should be done now as the cut off for all projects against the 2017 budget was yesterday!
But then I got in a car accident yesterday afternoon (my first ever), so I am home bound in the snow while waiting for the claims agent to approve my rental car. Should be up and running by Monday. Just glad no one was hurt...
I can feel that my body is stressed - my legs and ribs are sensitive to the touch. I just know I have a lot of cortisol built up over the last two weeks - the “whoosh” effect should be coming any day now once I let go of the stress and water weight. Just got to take it one day at a time and focus on the big picture.
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Also, when you are rehabbing an injury and you know that there is a loss of muscle, if you want your clothes to fit the same way...I don’t want to have to lose fat again just to stay the same # on the scale. That said, I have only been in maintenance for 7 months it’s a lot of trial and error. As long as my docs are ok, I am ok being a little under. I am also ok being a little over when I know my muscles are heavier during the winter/ skiing months as my body is a tool that allows me to do the activities that I want. Such a journey.0
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Wow, I see a lot of us are staying at or below our target maintenance weight! Keep up the great work, ladies. I think something to keep in mind is weighing in underweight. I am guilty of this. I know it is hard to find that happy balance in maintenance. We are all afraid to re-gain that damn weight, however being underweight is almost as dangerous as being overweight. I must confess, I am still a couple pounds underweight, but so far my doc is OK with it. What say you? P.S. Still 116#.
@mk2fit , definitely there's the ever present awareness of regaining. Although, having been maintaining for over a year, i feel a lot mor confident in my ability to keep it off. I have quite a few experiences of loosing weight and regaining lbs lost plus some extra. But i know that in the past I've made a mistake of making the change a temporary thing, cutting out certain foods or even groups of food altogether (reference to you, "atkins diet"!), and obviously temporary change provided temporary result. So now my approach is different, it's a permanent way of eating and moderating my needs and wants. I'm not underweight by any means, and i catch myself getting upset if i see scale climbing up a few pounds and staying there a few days too many, or opposite, if it goes down some, i give myself a quick pat on the back (not literally, but still...). So at this point i would say it's not a fear so much, but realization of having to be vigilant and paying attention without fail, probably for the rest of my life, as far as i can see. I have to say, this thread is so encouraging, love to see people here overcoming their difficulties and sharing positive experiences. Thank you, everyone, for your honesty, support and participation.1 -
Great feedback everyone. Thanks! It is nice to know I am (we are) not alone in this.1
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Name: Summer
Age: 59
Height: 5'1.75"
Total Weight lost: ~32 lbs
Time it took to lose: 4 months
How long in maintenance: 10 weeks
Maintenance weight range: 99-101
Average weight recorded from October: 103.9
Average weight recorded from November: 100.9
Avg 26 Nov thru 2 Dec 99.8
Avg 3 Dec - 9 Dec 99.1
Avg 10 Dec - 16 Dec 98.9
Success/struggles of the week/month: 11 weeks in to maintaining and my first real challenge. I thought the weather and the shorter daylight would be my nemesis, but it turns out that at 59 you can run into a door with your hip and put yourself totally out of commission. sigh. Yeah. No running for a while so I am going to have to play with cals in for a couple of weeks to see what the trends are. Expect the next couple trends to be up. Trying to look on the bright side and maybe a couple weeks off running after hitting it hard since July will allow all those little aches and pains to heal up totally too. It will also be informational for me to see what my intake needs to be without working out hard.2 -
@mk2fit You are so right. I have had to lower my maintenance range several times. I still have 10-12 pounds to go before I would be considered underweight. But it is so hard not to worry about re-gaining. It is easy to tell myself that I don't want to lose any more weight and believe it. But the idea that maybe I should gain a couple of pounds is hard to deal with. I guess because once I started counting calories the weight came off as expected, but once I tried to start maintaining I have continued to slowly lose. I guess I worry that if I try to gain back a couple of pounds when I stop trying to gain and just maintain I will slowly continue to gain. I do feel good where I am, and my running is going well. I honestly think I am eating more now than when I was fat. I'm just a lot more active. For now i will just try to make sure I hit my goal every day and not have too many days under. And next week with Christmas coming up I will try not to worry if I go over. But it is so hard not to fear gaining the weight back.
I feel the same way the fear of regaining makes me keep losing. I know I'm at a healthy weight and battle every day with trying to eat the calories I can. I know in my head I've got to start although when I eat more I get full quickly and stop eating.1 -
Name:Pam
Age:59
Height:5'5
Total Weight lost: 185
Time it took to lose:Started Jan 1 2016
How long in maintenance:Sept 2017
Maintenance weight range:145-150 (changed since I keep losing))
Week of...
3rd December 143:
10th December:142
17th December:141
24th December:
31st December:
Success/struggles of the week:Been fighting a cold all week still manage to walk at least 3 miles a day and still lost5 -
Name:Fidan
Height: 171cm
Age: 31
Total Weight lost: 48kg
Time it took to lose: 1 year
How long in maintenance: 1 year 7 months
Maintenance weight range: 73.3kg and below
Average weight recorded from January: 72.8kg
Average weight recorded from February: 72.3kg
Average weight recorded from March: 72.7kg
Average weight recorded from April:72.5kg
Average weight recorded from May:72.7kg
Average weight recorded from June: 74kg
Average weight recorded from July: 73.9kg
Average weight recorded from August: N/A
Average weight recorded from September:74.8kg
Average weight recorded from October: 73.8kg
Average weight recorded from November: 74.4kg
Week of...
3rd December:75.4kg
10th December:72.8kg
17th December:73.6kg
24th December:
31st December:
Success/struggles of the week:
The numbers are jumping about this month. But in general I feel good about what I've done in terms of food and activity this week. I'm still not maintaining under what I'd like to be. But I don't want to dwell on numbers.5 -
@sofchak I am so sorry that you were in an accident, but very glad you are ok! *hugs*2
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Name: Diane
Age: 59
Height: 5'2
Total Weight lost: 2 pounds
Time it took to lose: 1 week
How long in maintenance: 1 week
Maintenance weight range: 195 - 193
Week of...
3rd December: 193
10th December:
17th December:
24th December:
31st December:
Success/struggles of the week: I went to the doctor and she said that all my health issues are weight related. I'm not feeling good about this.0 -
Thanks, @CoachJen71. Appreciate the kind words.
I think we are both worse for wear at the moment when it comes to lack of sleep these days. Cheers to the ability for us both to prioritize sleep better moving forward. I sincerely think sleep impacts our ability to make good decisions (willpower) throughout the day. Let’s see what a new week brings!1
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