Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 37

4/8: 142.6, Lord I sure could use A LOT of motivation. Fell down the rabbit hole in the summer of 2016. No excuses because I have little patience for them. 20 months and 20 lbs later I feel exhausted and disappointed.

4/9: 143.6, gotta love that beer and restaurant backlash. Didn’t have enough calories today, under 1000. My only indulgence was 1 glass of wine. Got busy and suddenly it’s 8:00

4/10: 140.8, Buh Bye water weight. Today was a struggle to consume enough real food calories. I’ve been overly busy at work and home and I’m making a herculean effort to avoid processed frankin-food and the “Mile High pie” my coworker brought in to share with us. I wanted to shake her and ask “have you any idea how difficult it is to stay on track with your amazing looking pie in the break room?” Gold plated problems. Le sigh...

Original Starting Weight: 333 (2015)
Rd. 37 Starting Weight: 221

Rd. 36: -2 lbs.

Day/Weight/Comment
4/8: 221lbs. Ate 2200 calories and walked for 30 minutes.

4/9: 220.5lbs. Ate 2100 calories. 35 minute workout.

4/10: 220.5lbs. Ate 2400 calories. Walked 10000 steps and worked out for 45 minutes.

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4/17

Just give me ten days:
SW:106.9kg- 235lbs GW:75kg - 165lbs

First full round!

Targets:
Sober April - (FAILED! But it was a family 40th wedding anniversary party so...!?)
Less than 196lbs by end of April
Daily food goal is 2000 calories

Day - Weight - Comment
4/8 - 95.1kg - 209.6lbs - Had a family party to attend and it was a big occasion, lots of beer, food and there was no way I was able to keep track of it, it happens oh well! Probably find the food weight drops off in a couple of days! Had an output of 3095 calories mainly due to me working on the Saturday walking up and down the floors doing some upgrades, used the stairs instead of the lift! End of this round I will be happy with 204lbs... hopefully. (Weigh time 7:00am)
4/9 - 94.4kg - 208.1lbs - 2050 calories vs 2255 expenditure, had a nice even day of eating while I was working on Sunday to balance out the craziness of Saturday night, this is mainly just food and water weight but if it happens again I’m not going to moan! (Weigh time 7:30)
4/10 - 93.7kg - 206.5lbs - 1884 calories vs 2668 expenditure,I got a day off for all the weekend work so I literally did nothing but go and grab a couple of pairs of jeans from the shops, how I managed to drop again yesterday I don’t know but keep it coming! Surely not another drop tomorrow?! Not exercised in 6 days, was going to cycle to work today but RAIN (UK) killed all hopes of that.
4/11- 93.7kg - 206.5lbs - 1879 calories vs 2944 expenditure, the drop ends with a nice even number, normal day back in the office for me, very disciplined with my food as a normal day is, lots of water, went and watched the football in the evening, didn’t cycle again because of that god damn rain! On target for 92.5kg/204lbs by the end of the round hopefully.... stay strong and don’t give up people!
(Weight time 7:30am)
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4/17

I'm in! Round 10 for me

Male, 22, 6ft3’

HW: 133.4kg/294lbs (31st October 2017)
Overall loss (start of round) – 20.6kg/45.3lbs

4/8: 111.9kg/246.7lbs - I struggled to post last round as I was so busy but fluctuated below and above what I finished on, but was a tab frustrated not to make a loss overall but I am very happy it didn't go up!! Good start to this round, hoping to drop some more tomorrow.
4/9: 110.6kg/243.8lbs - Oh my god wow, I have not been this light in a very long time. Went for a 14km run on Saturday and a 4km run this morning and worked on my speed/pacing however my shins were causing me quite a lot of discomfort. Let us see if I can keep this weight off!
4/10: 110.6kg/243.8lbs – Well it didn’t go up? 8km run this morning and my shins were on fire, eurgh. Now just to plod through the day, gym tonight and hopefully a drop tomorrow!
4/12: 111.0kg/244.7lbs – I forgot how much my weight fluctuates… or how dodgy my scale is. Today is a rest day – also didn’t go to the gym last night as I was feeling so drained!
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4/17

In for my seventeenth round

I'm 37 years old from UK and 5'11

Pre challenge loss 24.00lbs

R21 SW 274.50 EW 268.00 (-6.50)
R22 SW 268.00 EW 267.50 (-0.50)
R23 SW 267.50 EW 264.75 (-2.75)
R24 SW 264.50 EW 264.75 (+0.25)
R25 SW 264.75 EW 268.50 (+4.00)
R26 SW 269.25 EW 268.50 (-0.75)
R27 SW 269.25 EW 262.50 (-7.25)
R28 SW 262.50 EW 255.75 (-6.75)
R29 SW 255.75 EW 254.50 (-0.75)
R30 SW 254.50 EW 249.50 (-5.00)
R31 SW 249.50 EW 247.50 (-2.00)
R32 SW 247.50 EW 252.25 (+4.75)
R33 SW 252.75 EW 242.75 (-9.50)
R34 SW 242.75 EW 236.25 (-6.50)
R35 SW 236.25 EW 235.75 (-0.50)
R36 SW 235.75 EW 233.50 (-2.25)
R37 SW 233.50 EW ———————

Loss to date (measured start of round) - 65.00lbs

GW end of round - 228lbs

04/07 - 233.50lbs
04/08 - 235.25lbs
04/09 - 234.25lbs
04/10 - 233.50lbs
04/11 - 232.25lbs
04/12 -
04/13 -
04/14 -
04/15 -
04/16 -
04/17 -

Round 37. Male 6'1" age 46

389 lbs start of the official journey 5/1/2016
SW: 269.6 (-4.4 lbs from last round / -119.4 lbs from start weight)
GW: 265ish
End GOAL: 220ish

Day/Weight/Comment
4/8 270.5 Expected because started back to gym after almost week off water going back to the muscles I'll take the weight over the back pain
4/9 272.1 And the water keeps coming I should start a thread and freak out over it or I could just keep following my plan and work out
4/10 270.0 Tweaked my back again at the gym not as bad and was at the end of work out so another no gym day
4/11 269.0 Another off gym day but still going down it is my deload week anyways so need to recover
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4/17

Nothing works unless you have a sustained calorie deficit over time. Anything will work if you have a sustained calorie deficit over time.

Motivation is overrated. What you need is education, willingness to eat less, a good plan, and discipline to stick to it.

According to Big Fat Myths: When You Lose Weight, Where Does the Fat Go? which is an interesting perspective on "diet" 148oz / 9.25 lbs of food/water/oxygen a day but depending on how efficient everything processes we don't operate on a perfect 24 hour cycle to use all that so you get those fluctuations. I think that is semi comforting to keep in mind we are not robots and CICO doesn't operate at perfect 24 hour scale either.

HW: 234
MFP SW: 215

R36 SW 213.4 ( -.8 this round)
R37 SW 212.6

4/8 - 210.8
4/9 - 211.6
4/10 - 209.6. I didn’t feel well and didn’t eat as much yesterday as normal. I really want that weight to stick though!
4/12 - 212.4. Oh come on! For real! This has to be mostly sodium from what I ate yesterday. But for real?!? Okay, I keep trudging on.
4/13
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4/17

I’m glad I started using the Happy Scale app consistently. I really do like weighing daily now because it has taken away the anxiety I used to feel weighing in only weekly. And the app gives you a Moving average so even when the scale bounces up I see my moving average is trending (super slowly) down. It is also pretty cool to compare specific days of the week to see if I weighed in on just Wednesday’s for instance I would maybe be more disappointed. But I know the scale jumped this morning because of some specific foods I ate that had quite a bit of sodium and I’ve been sick.

Starting weight 230, goal weight ONEDERLAND (Would be happy there)- ultimate goal, 180 lbs.
Height- 5'11"

R36 SW 223.2 EW 222.2- 1 pound

Day/Weight/Comment

4/8 222.2
4/9 221.0 I was surprised but happy about this. Lower sodium intake.
4/10 221.2
4/11 220.8. The ten pounds from 230 to 220 makes a difference in my activity level.
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4/17

round 27 SW 227.8 EW 219.4
round 28 SW 219.4 EW 215.0
Round 30 SW 215.4 EW 212.0
round 31 SW 211.8 EW 208.8
round 32 SW 208.8 EW 206.8
round 33 SW 206.8 EW 201.8
round 34 SW201.8 EW 200.8
round 35 SW 202 EW 197.7
round 36 SW 197.7 EW 196.4
Goal: Take permanent residence in ONEderland
Day/Weight/Comment

Goal for this round, 2 pounds
4/8 195.0 Starting strong!
4/9 195.6 Monday.. Monday
4/10 195.4 take what I can get !
4/11 195.4
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