Had an extra long workout this morning. A storm knocked over a tree next to my apartment last night, blocking the road. When I left for a run this morning, I was able to get around the tree (it was blocking cars, but not a person on foot), but when I got back, maintenance workers were cutting it up and no one was allowed in the area. So, even though I could see my apartment, I ended up having to take a twenty minute detour to get home.

Aug 3
Excersise:no
Calories:yes
Tracked:yes

Back on track today, weighed myself this morning and was already down 1lb of the two I gained. Just need to stay focused and stress less lol.

Username: emmclean
Weigh in week: Week 1
Weigh in day: Saturday
Previous Weight: 185.6
Todays Weight: 185.2

Not much but it's something, considering I went on my hen do last weekend I'm really pleased! Still hoping to hit 179 by the 1st September (wedding day) but my exercise routine has all but stopped which is slowing things down, I took my gym bag in every day this week and by 7pm realised that I hadn't stopped even for a lunch break and then had to get home to crack on with wedmin. Need to try and get up early and go before work I think, I used to really enjoy that but my brain is so busy during the day now I"m sleeping like a rock!

August 4
Exercised?: Yes. Track setup and tear down.
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes

Drone racing today. Time trial. Flew OK. Getting used to changes in equipment.

Apart from that, pretty normal weekend day (lots of little jobs to do round the house).


Daily Strength challenge

Challenge for August 04 is lunges ()

3 sets

• First set 10 or 15 each leg (if 10 is too easy continue to 15).
• Second set 6 or 9 each leg.
• Third set 5 or 8 each leg.

cjscoey wrote: »

Aug 3
Excersise:no
Calories:yes
Tracked:yes

Back on track today, weighed myself this morning and was already down 1lb of the two I gained. Just need to stay focused and stress less lol.

@cjscoey. Just remember weight loss/gain is never linear. Each day has different water levels.

The best strategy for me (after much trial and error) was to weigh daily, but only note the average of the last 7 days. When I did this, weight started to follow a linear path and would track what I had actually be doing with diet and exercise.

Weight management is not rocket science. Eat less than you use and you lose weight in the long run. The hard bit is estimating what you eat and what you use.

Calories in is not an exact science. Reported calories per serving can vary by as much as 10% even if you weigh the serving. Best we have is a good guestimation.

Calories out is also more art than science. The metabolism adapts to the available input and can do subtle things like reduce heating by a not noticeable amount, or implore you to move less. This is why tracking your progress over a long time is so important. This way you can calculate a closer TDEE than the guestimates from sites like MFP or SailRabbit (http://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/).

Safest approach I found was to be conservative on output and generous on input. This way you tip the scales in your favor.

Eating satiety inducing foods (fat, protein, fibre laden carbohydrate) helps keep the input calories down without feeling like starving. Avoiding processed carbohydrate (anything that removes the fibre - juicing, husking, milling) can make a big difference. Plenty of high fat, high protein foods that are sweet. Whole fruit and vegetables (not juiced) is also good.

Best of fortune.

Username:ShareASmile
Weigh in day: Saturday
Week 1
Beginning weight:163.8
Current weight:166

Ugh! Okay, this was a bad week to start. Don't lose faith in me, gutbusters! I was at the beach with my family and didn't exercise much at all. Also, though I tried to watch what I ate, the tropical drinks, pretty much did me in! 😒 I'll be much better next week!!

lolakinks wrote: »

Hi everyone, I'm Ezgi, living in İstanbul/Turkey. I'm an academician and masters student. I'm 28 years old. My height is 164 cm (5'4.5'') and my starting weight for this challenge is 85 kg (187.3 lbs), which I weigh myself on July 27. I will weigh myself on Friday. I try to take 1200 cal and walk 6-7 km per day. And also I want to swim 3 days a week. My goal weight is for this challenge is kinda big, but I'm really motivated for it. I want to be 79 kg (174.1 lbs) by the end of August. I bought a smoothie blender, I'll make healthy and nutritious smoothies every day (probably evenings because it's hard to make dinner because I have no energy in the evenings). I had drunk alcohol and had eaten junk food almost every day until 2 days ago. I'll eat/drink them rarely.

Good luck everybody!

Merhaba Ezgi. Another Turk on board! I'm from Izmir, went to college in Ankara,worked in Istanbul, and moved to USA almost 14 years ago.

Kilo verme ve saglikli olma yolunda kolay gelsin! (Translation for English speaking friends: Good luck on this adventure of losing weight and getting healthy.)

Username: jaygirl3
Weigh in day:sunday
Beginning weight:209.6
todays weight: 208

metubal wrote: »

So, do we have anyone who's entering our weekly weights in a spreadsheet? If no, I'm volunteering to do it.

@metubal. I am currently entering weight for Gutbusters (when I can). When I am a little behind because of my work schedule, Ashley ( @AB0215. ) picks up the slack.

I will private message (PM) you about this. Would be extremely grateful for the assistance.

Username: Lydiakate1995
Week 2
Weigh in day: Sunday
Last weeks weight: 309lbs
This week’s weight: 308.5lbs

August 4
Excersied:yes
Calories:yes
Tracked:yes
I am not loose weight as much as i want i am loosing the inches. So in this aspect dont ger discoyrage if u didnt loose the weight u should of lost but maybe u lost inches instead. I have learn this week because i kept beating my self up. So stay strong and contiune doing the best u can! As I am learning from the has fit tribe jist keep moving.

craigo3154 wrote: »

lolakinks wrote: »

Username: lolakinks
Weigh-in Day: Friday
Weigh-in Week: 1
Previous Weight: 85 kg (187.3 lbs)
Current Weight: 84.2 kg (185.6 lbs)

Until last two days I was going well. Even I saw 83.6 kg (184.3 lbs) but then stress and depression...

@lolakinks. Stress eating is always a hard one.

Best tips are:

1. It is going to happen, be prepared, have good non-calorie dense comfort food available (so if you do binge, it's at least on stuff that will do the least harm).
2. Recognise when you do stress eat so you can try make a conscious decision to perform another action.
3. Try work out the triggers for stress eating and make plans on how to avoid the triggers.
4. Be kind to yourself when you find you have been stress eating. It is never the end of the world (or even the diet). Just forgive yourself for it and get back to plan as if it had not occurred.
5. Try get enough sleep. Make sleep a priority (more important than TV, social media, MFP, rage cleaning the house, etc...). Schedule extra time for it.
6. Schedule a reward for yourself for making an ever increasing time interval without stress eating. Something you want to do or a treat or the like. Reward good behaviour (work far better than punishing bad behaviour).
7. Set progress by what you can CONTROL, not by outcomes. 7 days without stress eating is something you CAN control and is a good goal. Losing 1lb a week is something you CANNOT control and is a bad goal. Work for behaviour modification, not body modification results.

All the best.

Thank you so much

Username: WishfulThinning18
Weigh in week: Week 2
Weigh in day: Sunday
Previous Weight: 318.8
Todays Weight: 316.6

Sad it wasn't a bigger loss. I know timing of this weigh in wasn't great either. Super bloated.UGH.

It's better than gaining though! And still motivated to stick with it.

I'll be posting my weight Wednesday this week--out of town until then.