Your milestones and progress - accountability
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My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 270 lbs (5 lb increments till goal)
Current Weight: 270.5 lbs, 2/22
Loss this week: -2.8 lbs
Total loss: -104.5 lbs
What's Working: As always, keeping consumption down and activity up. I haven't been doing well on the 1st part, but the warmer weather and a few sunny days this week helped with the second and I've managed to get some walking in this week. And I'm very happy to see that loss this week! 0.5 lbs to lose to meet my milestone weight for this period!
What Needs Work: Still need to work on the consumption part - evenings are the hardest and I am starting to feel deprived. If I can get a good consistent exercise program going, even if its just walking an hour a day, I would boost my calorie goal up a little to somewhere between sedentary and light activity to compensate, but the one exercise I have the best success at getting myself to do is outside walking, but the weather really isn't conducive to that for any consistency just yet. Otherwise, I keep stumbling along! And I'm just too stubborn to quit now, no matter how much I slow down
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My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 270 lbs (5 lb increments till goal)
Current Weight: 272.5 lbs, 3/01
Loss this week: +2 lbs
Total loss: -102.5 lbs
What's Working: nothing at the moment. I'm feeling deprived and tired, and my will power has weakened, especially in the evenings.
What Needs Work: I realize that I'm probably at a point where I should probably take a diet break and focus on maintaining, especially as I am feeling deprived and am having a devil of a time sticking to my calorie limits. I just hate to do it because I really want to get to that 260 lb mark, and had wanted it by spring! I keep wanting to move forward, but for the last 2 months, I've been sloshing in place. Spring is coming, though - perhaps when springs gets here, I'll be better motivated to start adding exercise to the equation. And next weekend is daylight savings time, which will help a lot by giving me more daylight in the evenings. Right now, its nearly dark or is dark on most days when I get home, which makes doing anything outside out of the question. And since outside walking and working is about the only exercise i've ever been able to actually do with any consistency, I need all the daylight I can get!
Now it if will quit raining every day so the mud can dry out!
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My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 270 lbs (5 lb increments till goal)
Current Weight: 21.0 lbs, 3/22
Loss this week: -1.5 lbs
Total loss: -104 lbs
What's Working: I raised my calorie limit finally. I had just been spinning my wheels for 2 months and feeling deprived, so I raised my limit to try to take a diet break. I also have tightened up my logging this week, and its made a difference! I'll keep at this level another week to see if I level out; if not, then I'll raise it again until I can find my maintenance level, stay there for 2 weeks, then slowly lower it back down again.
My sister started calorie counting this week too, which is helping me because I'm trying to set a good example for her
What Needs Work:I needed to tighten up my logging. I was getting very sloppy and taking in more calories than I thought I was because of my "cheats" and because I was just downright feeling deprived. I tightened up this week, made myself cut back out of the halfcut teas - no calories from drinks except for milk in my coffee! - and even recording the sugar free lifesavers, and that's made a difference!0 -
I am starting over again so I am listing my new numbers
SW: 256
CW: 242
LTGW: 140
Loss: 14 lbs
What's working: Sticking to my low carb diet that the doctor put me on. It has not been as hard as I thought so far. I know there will be times when I will want the carbs. I love bread and that is my weakness. But so far I have not had any delicious bread. After I reach 20 lbs lost, I will have a cheat meal once a week. I think it is important to have something you really enjoy every once and awhile.
What needs work: I want to start exercising again, but have to wait for my doctor to release me after my back surgery. I go back to see the surgeon 4/20/18 and hope he will release me for physical therapy and some exercise.0 -
My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 270 lbs - achieved!
New Milestone: 260 lbs
Current Weight: 266.2 lbs, 3/29
Loss this week: -4.8 lbs
Total loss: -108.8 lbs
What's Working: Wow - I didn't realize apparently just how many extra calories I had been consuming! That, and I KNEW I was having water weight issues; I knew it! lol The funny part was, I raised my calorie limit by 400 to try to find maintenance, then dropped 6 lbs! My trend this week was slower, so I'm going to continue eating at the 1800 this week to see if I can get a better idea of where maintenance is. I still intend to take a diet break, but I have no idea where my maintenance limit is, though MFP calculates it should be somewhere around 2300 calories. I'll raise again next week based upon my weight loss, and then see if I can maintain for 2 weeks before starting into another deficit.
Another thing that is working is that my sister started calorie counting last week. She desperately needs to lose weight, so I'm thrilled, and I'm thrilled also that its working for her. I'm doing the meal prepping and helping her log, and its been helping me when the desire to cheat comes because I tell myself "nope, you behave yourself for Suzy's sake - set the right example, and it wouldn't look right if you sneak that reese's cup when you've had your calories for the day" lol
What Needs Work:I've learned a valuable lesson here - I'm horrible at eyeballing things and an expert at lying to myself! Keeping myself accountable to myself needs work and vigilance.1 -
My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 260 lbs
Current Weight: 267.2 lbs, 4/5
Loss this week: +1 lbs
Total loss: -107.8 lbs
What's Working: sticking to my calorie limit works, and my sister continuing with this has helped me refrain from cheats, as I find myself wanting to support her in being good and truthful in her logging, and know that I need to do the same myself
What Needs Work: this week isn't truly a weight gain, and I know it's not. I had a lot of ham over Easter weekend and did overeat both days, but not anywhere near enough to actually gain a lb of fat in 2 days. This is water weight as a reaction to the sodium in the ham, and from what I've been told, it can take as much as 2 weeks to slowly get rid of it. And I have been dropping a little every day, so I know its water weight. Though it still throws me off, however, as I was trying to establish my trend in loss to determine where maintenance was. so I'm going to have to continue with the 1800 calories/day for at least 1 more week to see if I can find that trend line!0 -
My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 260 lbs
Current Weight: 271.2 lbs, 4/19
Loss this week: +4 lbs
Total loss: -103.8.8 lbs
What's Working: apparently I forgot to give an update after staring my diet break on 4/6. Today (4/20) is the end of the diet break and I am lowing myself down today by 500 calories. I'll run at that level for a week or two and then go down to the full 1,000 calories. It's going to be a bit of a challenge as I've been slowly raising my calorie limit for over a month now, but I'm ready to start seeing some true loss in weight and inches!
I knew to expect a scale jump when I started the diet break, and I did pretty much the day after I started it- that is what the +4 lbs is. I also maintained roughly in that 271lb range the whole period. I may have been in a bit of a surplus, but its a little hard to tell as I've had a couple of high sodium days in there, and TOM is lurking around the corner.
I did find it strange though that the scale jumped 4 lbs and stayed there; everything I had read about diet breaks said to expect that jump due to water weight increase due to the extra food and carbs, but that it should settle back down after a day or two. I didn't settle back down, though
Now that the diet break is over and I'm going back on deficit, we'll see if I get the promised woosh!
What Needs Work: getting back on track. I'm fighting depression right now which is just completely sapping my energy, physically and mentally, and that makes it hard sometimes to tell myself no. That also doesn't help my stress levels which can raise cortisol which can lead to water weight gain.......thankfully, my 4 legged depression monster has reduced to a 2 legged monster over the last year and a half, but unfortunately, those last 2 legs are the hardest ones to deal with, especially the job-related leg, which is the #1 source of all my stress.
Anyway, I'm hoping spring will finally show up and I can get myself moving some! I need the exercise to help with my mood, its just that its really hard to motivate myself to get going - I've tried pleading, I've tried shaming, I've tried bribing, but so far, no luck.0 -
Best of luck to you in saying “no” and getting back on track. It’s definitely a journey. Thank you for all your motivating updates. They are super helpful.0
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My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 260 lbs
Current Weight: 266.6 lbs, 5/10
Loss this week: -3.9 lbs
Total loss: -108.4 lbs
What's Working: The 1500 limit is very, well, limiting so I've been experimenting with some success this week on delaying eating breakfast until 9 am. I have coffee with milk as I'm driving into the office, and I'll make another coffee with almond milk when I get there, and that holds me until around 9 am. I've found this is helping delay my mid-morning hunger and helps me eliminate a snack!
What Needs Work: It's been a while since I updated because I've been on a dab-blamed water weight yo-yo. I was down to 265.7 after the diet break on 4/26. Then I popped back up to 270.5 lbs last week on 5/3. It was water weight I know because I was bloated and swelled, but it was nevertheless very frustrating! Today is better, but still not back down to the 265. I'll keep plugging along!
It seems that when I get more active, I tend to gain water weight. Last week, I was very active outside, pushmowing my lawn, gardening, digging post holes, pushmowing my parents' camp - a lot of activity. And last week I had the darned water weight gain. This week has been very rainy and my church has had revival services, so I've been very sedentary this week - and the water weight went away.
I know when you are exercising that you gain water weight as your muscles repair themselves. I just wonder is it suppose to be to the tune of 4 lbs! I don't know if I'm having that sort of gain because I'm not routinely active or what, but it is very, very frustrating!0 -
My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 260 lbs
Current Weight: 272.7 lbs, 5/17
Loss this week: +6.1 lbs
Total loss: -102.3 lbs
What's Working: at the moment? nothing. my willpower is tanked, my energy levels are tanked, and I'm living with fairly constant brain fog and having a horrible time concentrating or thinking or focusing my swirling thoughts, which aren't very good thoughts, either. I'm definitely not firing on all 8 cylinders, but as usual, I still have no idea what to do about it.
What Needs Work: And the yo-yo goes back up This week was bad-really bad. Being out of town really kills my diet plans, and I'm struggling with energy levels and willpower. I blew it Saturday because I had to head up to my old house to make unexpected repairs mandated by the bank issuing the mortgage, which was an unexpected cost I really, really didn't want to spend money on, especially after the $700 bill for the termite mitigation! I took my parents to Texas Roadhouse, and went over on Saturday.
Monday was shot because of a meeting at the company HQ which had a catered lunch, though it wouldn't have been quite as bad as it turned out to be if I hadn't then got called in for storm duty. When working storm duty, you sit at a desk dispatching assessment teams for 14 hours a day, and the company caters the meals. There is no control over what you are eating, no way to actually measure, and the food is just available all the time. My willpower was absolutely shot this week, and I pretty much binged as I couldn't keep myself from picking all day I'd have half my calorie allotment shot just at breakfast. I tried to tell myself to skip a meal, but I couldn't stick to the plan. I don't know what it is about sitting in a chair all day that makes me so hungry!
I mean, I did better than I would have before - I wasn't grabbing candy ALL day long, and I managed to limit the cookies and danishes I ate, i avoided bread most of the time (except for Tuesday night when I ended up eating 2 or 3 rolls), and I didn't drink any calories, but it wasn't really the sweets that were the siren's call - it was the high carb food items. But I still went way over on food and was eating at the least around maintenance and maybe even over. so no actual loss, maybe a little actual gain, and definitely water weight gain - AGAIN.
*sigh* and I looked at my calendar and realized that TOM is nearly here and probably will make a showing in about 48 hours, which is of course contributing to the water weight gain AND the drive to eat.
Oh well - today is a new day, I'm finally back home, and we'll see if I can once again try to get back on track. But next week isn't going to be good either - I'm out of town the first part of the week for work, and then we're going on vacation Memorial Day weekend. I'll try to behave myself, but with my willpower being where it is right now, I'm not making any bets on the outcome!1 -
My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 260 lbs
Current Weight: 270 lbs 7/12/18
Loss this week: 0 lbs
Total loss: -105 lbs
What's Working: wow - its been quite a while since I updated this! Though that's pretty much because I haven't had any progress to report. I am well and truly stuck and cannot get off this stinking plateau. I'm happy that I am maintaining; its been 6 months since I had any truly significant weight change, but in that time, I have not regained anything despite vacations and family and church get togethers with lots of food, not to mention my high stress levels right now, but it is so frustrating to be spinning my wheels in place!
What Needs Work: everything. I'm tired all the time, my willpower is tanked, and I'm fighting constant hunger cravings that I know are mental and not physical. I don't know why I'm dealing with those now, after a year of dieting and losing.
I'm still under a great deal of stress and think that perhaps my years of dealing with my depression on my own are catching up to me now. I have a doctor's appointment scheduled for the end of August, and I plan to speak to her about possible methods of getting me restarted losing (methods that don't include surgery). Meanwhile, I'm coming to realize and maybe start moving toward accepting that I could use some help on the depression front - you have no idea how much of a battle that has been with myself to even consider looking for therapy; its amazing how powerful our preconceived notions can be!0 -
My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 260 lbs (this would put me below the 40 BMI mark for being morbidly obese or stage 3 obese)
Milestone: 260 lbs
Current Weight: 277.8 lbs 11/29/18
Loss this week: -1.8 lbs
Total loss: -97.2 lbs
What's Working/What Needs Work: okay, this I think I might be able to count as actual loss, finally! This week, I decided to try something different to hopefully jump-start myself again. I've decided to do a version of intermittent fasting 2 days a week. On Tuesday and today, I am cutting my calories down to between 500 and 800. The rest of the week, I'm hoping to have my normal 1500. I'm rather hopeful, considering I saw what I think is a legitimate loss. I was able to hold myself to 800 calories on Tuesday, and yesterday, stayed to 1600. Today has been a little more difficult but I powered through it and am a little hungry, but not ravenous. I'm hoping this will help me get my appetite back under control, and so far, so good! The proof will be if I can register another loss next week; I think if I see my weight drop back below 275, I can say this is working for now.
Course, when I complete on the low calorie days, MFP gripes at me for eating too little lol1
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