JUST GIVE ME 10 Days - Round 49

Notes: Taking my starting weight as my first day weigh in as I finished round 48 while away and wasn't able to weigh in for the end of my last round.

--Catch up for the end of round 48--
Not good. Not good at all. Actually not 100% fair. Yes I was eating a little more than normal, but looking at Friday I didn't go stupidly over, and Saturday (unlogged) I only ate two meals, did lots of walking, and dancing. But there was a lot of drinking. A LOT of drinking. Ugh. Anyway, friday and saturday where okay, it was hangover day that really killed it:
8/06: 71.6 - Yesterday was not good. Riding back on a motorbike for 4 hours, on a hangover, was not good. We went and had a breakfast buffet around half 10. A terrible decision, not just for the waistline, but also the wallet. I used to be able to eat enough at these to almost make it worth while, but neither me, nor my boyfriend were able to eat enough for that. But we did eat enough (and slow enough) to mean that lunch was not necessary. Then the dreaded dominoes for dinner, of which I ate way too much. After the weekend I've had, and the salt in that dinner, I am not at all surprised with the jump in weight. Pretty sure most of it will be water weight, and will settle away soon. I will be tracking the next couple of days closely to see how it comes off.
8/07: 69.8 - Erm, well that went well. Going to really mess up all my stats, but further proof that one day a diet does not ruin. A really odd day. Normally I would've been at judo in the evening, but I wasn't feeling well (I'm still not feeling well today) so didn't go. In addition my tummy was all over the place, so tried to stick to something blander foodwise, and plenty of water. I'm expecting it was all that greasy and salty food over the weekend playing havoc so hopefully it'll now have passed. I'm certainly feeling better in that respect. Went over calories, but not massively. Reasonably happy with the day. Hopefully will be able to get down to the 69.3 again in the next couple of days.
8/08: 69.5 - Still recovering from the weekend. I'm expecting the scales to stop moving quite so dramatically now. Yesterday was generally good. Dinner was significantly smaller than I was expecting and so stayed well within calories besides snacking on nutella and peanut butter. Looking forward, I'm hoping to get to 69 dead before the end of this round. Then I've decided I'm going to take a diet break. I really feel that I need one. My last few weeks have been all over the place, and I think that some time not eating at a deficit will really help me refocus. I'll probably go for a week and see how that goes.
8/09: 69.5 - I always forget how filling, for how few calories, a stir fry is. Kept my calories low, and meant I was able to enjoy a mini milk and a carrot cake slice, and still be under my lower target. After a tough couple of days it's nice to have a super low day that I felt completely comfortable with.
8/10: 69.5 - Still here. Another great day yesterday! Super low breakfast and lunch meant that I could enjoy all the meat at the BBQ for dinner (which we were having even if it was raining a little bit). Passed on the bread meant that I could enjoy a welsh cake for dessert (yeeees) and still be under calories. And the nice mini milk put me slightly over lowest value, but still way within target.
As an aside: I've been feeling super tired all week, trying to work out if it's a cold, hay-fever, lack of sleep, a result of my deficit, catching up from the weekend, or something else. Hopefully it'll pass.
8/11: 69.5 Was just hungry. I was over calories, and I'm not quite sure how. I just grazed on food and was still just hungry. Not great.
8/12: 70.1 Judo, only coaching, so didn't get nearly as much exercise as normal. Friend's BBQ afterwards, which I ate way too much at, much more bread and cheese than I normally eat. It was a poor party and damnit, even thought it wasn't very warm we went into the pool anyway. So I got some swimming in, and lots of jumping around in the water, trying to convince ourselves that it wasn't massively freezing cold.
8/13: 69.7 Okay, from yesterday I have decided I am having that week diet break I'd been promising myself. The last few weeks I have been binge cycling days on and off. Stress of life is mildly getting in the way and I think that just a week of more calories will make me be able to refocus, knuckle down and push for those lower numbers. Of course, first day on and I'm below calories even though I ate cake and had a cheesy sauce on my pasta, but I'm going to try and balance it out over the rest of the week. Pretty sure I'm going to be adding my extra calories in by increasing the size of my lunches. It'll be interesting if this completely negates my hunger pangs at about 5ish. Anyhoos. Change of pace for me. Already interesting in the difference this'll be.
8/14: 69.4 - Ugh, getting enough calories is hard. It's a strange shift from going from "If I eat this, I'm not going to have any calories left for dinner" to "I need to eat this, and then add even more into dinner". I ended up about 500 kcals under yesterday, thanks mostly to Judo calories that I forever struggle to eat back. Old habits die hard as I spent time staring at calories on the side of the pizza box I was looking at yesterday, trying to find the yummiest, at the lowest calories (at which point I remembered maintenance, and picked purely on flavour instead). I also had cake in a vague effort to eat back some of those exercise calories. I also noticed a distinctive lack of afternoon hunger pangs, so a larger lunch does really make a difference.

8/15: 69.8 - A little over my allowance yesterday, went to my parents for tea, so wasn't really in control of the food, however I knew they were making fish pie and it's always surprisingly low when I make it, and seeing as I've completely stolen my dad's method of making it, it's probably in the same ball park. Still getting used to maintenance. My lunch was low generally (and I forgot to season, so it was also pretty bland) and would've been a perfect meal if I was still in deficit! But knowing that I did have a pasty for breakfast (I was running a little late) and snacked a little throughout the day.


Round summery:
Well a little bit up and down, even though officially I've lost 1.8kg this round, at least 1.3kg of that was inflated from the previous round. However, 0.5 down for the last two rounds isn't awful. Not as fast as I'd like, but a loss is a loss. Considering I've also started a diet break this round, I wasn't overly looking for a big drop for this one. Especially as, tbh, I've been finding it really very hard to keep up with it this round. Life has been getting in the way. We're about to be getting a puppy and we said that we'd paint the hallway before he came (next friday), and then I have a job interview on friday morning. And I need to apply for some more jobs before then. And suddenly work has become busy so I'm more tired when I get home. And I've not done a big shop for a while (and I really need to) so our fridge is fairly empty which is making lunch difficult to make and yeah: Adulting. It's going "well"

SW: 255, Aug 2014
CW: 162
GW: 150

Round 43 - No loss Round 46 - No loss
Round 44 - 3 lb loss Round 47 - 1 lb loss
Round 45 - 1 lb loss Round 48 - No loss

Round 49
8/06 : 165 to start
8/07 : 165 no comment !
8/08 : 165 ditto
8/09 : 164 Yay ! Down a pound !
8/10 : 164
8/11 : 162 Well, I guess I can’t complain anymore !
8/12 : 162
8/13 : 162
8/14 : 162
8/15: 162 All in all a good ten days !

I’m in again for another round!
Round 48 - Lost 7 pounds (178.8)
Round 49 - Goal - 2.8 (176.0) or more would be great

Weight on 8/5 -178.8


8/6 - 179.0 almost forgot to post today!

8/7 - 179.0 so hard to get motivated today. Should have been at the gym this morning by 5 or at least out for a run by 6. Neither will happen as I’m just too tired. Need to just shut up and suck it up! I will take a gym bag to work and go for a run after work. It’s called my punishment, running in the heat for not doing what I’m supposed to do when I’m supposed to do it!!!

8/8 - 179.0 - Lordy I’m exhausted. Ran, lifted and Walmart all before 6 a.m., on my feet at work for 10 hours, home for chores, cook dinner and finally a moment to post. I thought at 54 and an empty nester life wasn’t supposed to be so crazy!!!

8/9 - 180.0

8/10 - 180.2 - Honestly I wasn’t even going to post. Actually just thought of throwing in the towel. I hate hate hate gaining and feeling disappointed. But I guess that is the point of this challenge....accountability with the good the bad and the ugly! I know it wasn’t even a gain of much but that’s the way this ole gals mind works. Alas, y’all won’t get rid of me. Determined to hang around and see this through!!!! Thanks y’all.

8/11 - 179.6 - Hanging in there.

8/12 - 180.0

8/13 - 180.0

8/14 - 179.8

8/15 - 178.2 - did not make my goal but given this Yo-yo round, I’m okay with how it ended.

Total lose this round .6

Current weight: 217.6
49 Goal Weight: 214.6
UGW: 130ish

Round 48: SW 221.2 EW 217.6 (-3.6)

Day/Weight/Comment
8/06: 218.4 rough night and now morning. I don't feel good and I did not sleep well.
8/07: 218.8 umm these numbers are going the wrong way lol.
8/08: 217.0 YES!!!!! I needed this! WOO HOO!!
8/09: 217.0 I didn't gain, I'll take it!!
8/10: 217.4 Not a huge deal, nothing went as planned yesterday so whatever.
8/11: 216.8 I am so excited, the loss is great but I haven't seen this number in quite a while.
8/12: 216.4 Nice, really surprised I had cake yesterday lol!
8/13: 217 I'm eating cake, I'm happy lol. Seriously though not upset, totally expected that. I just love me some cake!!!
8/14 216.2 Yippe! Still enjoying my cake, this is awesome. Weightloss without deprivation of desserts.
8/15 216.4 I will take it! See ya next round!

My goal for this round is to maintain around 158.5. We will be in Amish country this weekend and I'm planning to enjoy the food and wine.

Female, 54, 5 ft. 6in.

OSW: 186 (March 2018)
UGW: 145-150

End R40: 171 (-3)
End R41: 170.5 (-.5)
End R42: 168 (-2.5)
End R43: 165 (-3)
End R44: 163.5 (-1.5)
End R45: 163 (-.5)
End R46: 160 (-3)
End R47: 158.5 (-1.5)
End R48: 159 (+.5)
End R49: 157.5 (-1.5)

Day/Weight/Comment

08/06 - 158 - I'll be darned, I was starting to wonder if my scale couldn't get below 158.5.
08/07 - 159 - I'm starting to wonder if 1200 calories a day are my maintenance calories??? Maybe this is why I got stuck at this weight 11 years ago? I have continued to weigh/measure my food and I'm always close to goal on my carbs, protein, etc. Until my vertigo is resolved, I don't feel comfortable increasing my activities, so I guess I'll just have to see what happens over the next couple weeks.
08/08 - 158 - OK, I'll take it...again.
08/09 - 157.5 - Woohoo, I'm glad to see this go down a little before we head out of town tomorrow. This gives me a little more wiggle room for the inevitable uptick on Monday.
08/10 - 157 - Away
08/11 - Away
08/12 - DNW - Just got home today. My weigh in tomorrow won't be pretty, but it will be worth it!
08/13 - 159 - Not as bad as I thought, although more may show up tomorrow. Tomorrow will be back to work and back to better eating habits.
08/14 - 158.5 - I was happy to see this number this morning.
08/15 - 157.5 - After the last couple weeks struggle, I am so glad to see a drop this round. Thank you to everyone for their likes and hugs and advice. This challenge is what has kept me going through my plateau. On to the next!

ROUND - 49

8/6 - N / A
8/7 - 190.0
8/8 - 189.4
8/9 - N / A
8/10 - N / A
8/11 - N / A
8/12 - N / A
8/13 - N / A
8/14 - 189.6
8/15 - 190.4

My official weekly weigh in, is Tuesday evening @ TOPS, so my ticker tape will reflect that loss.

My daily weight is on my home scale, so I can monitor how my week is going.

My ultimate goal is 175lbs, so any loss is a good loss.

@Deviette i'm completely with you on the adulting! I do well for a week and then completely drop it the next. Also, you're at my current goal weight. I'm trying to catch up to you. The next two rounds will be difficult, but I might just get there in Sep 🙂

OSW 180.2
Round 40 SW 180.2
Round 41 SW 179.6
Round 42 SW 179.8
Round 43 SW 179.2
Round 44 SW 179.0
Round 45 SW 178.0
Round 46 SW 181.4 (post vacation start)
Round 47 SW 179.4
Round 48 SW 178.2
Round 49 SW 177.8

8/06 177.8// My goal for this challenge is to get down to the 174’s. My lowest weight last challenge was 175.4 and I know that I’m retaining a lot of water today. I have a lot planned for this week but I know that I can stay under calories and hydrate.
8/07 175.4// This just shows that the weight from yesterday was just water weight, this was my last weigh-in and I’m hoping to decrease this number. This week ended up being a little chaotic and I have plans to do some sort of work-out every day/evening.
8/08 176// A little disappointing, but I’ll just do better today. I drank a lot of water yesterday, but went over my calorie goals.
8/09 175.6// a loss is good. We’re going out to dinner tonight for a graduation celebration. The place specializes in grilled cheese, so I’m going to try to get a more plain grilled cheese as a treat and then eat a salad. I’m not expecting a loss tomorrow, but I’m trying to be good other than dinner today.
8/10 175.6// Holding steady which is better than a gain.
8/11 No weigh in
8/12 No weigh in
8/13 177.8/ This is exactly where I was last Monday. I’m bummed about it but certain that I’m just dehydrated. I can tell my rings are fitting a little tight and I probably didn’t hydrate well enough this weekend. NSV: I did a 10k on Saturday and worked out every day last week.
8/14 175.5/ I knew it was water weight. I’m attending a fundraiser tonight so I’m not quite sure what I’ll be eating for dinner, I should have plenty of calories left. I’m looking for a loss this week since last week was essentially a maintain. I will be drinking plenty of water today since that seems to be a problem.
8/15 176.0// This is okay, but not what my goal was for the challenge. I probably had a bout 8 cups of water yesterday, but I seem to do better with closer to 11-13 cups per day. I’m eating at home tonight so I’ll be able to accurately track all of my calories.

My next round target is to hit the 173s during the challenge.

Seeking lower bodyfat%

My name is Tish.
Height: 5'7.5"
USW: 253
MFPSW: 240
CW: 186.4
GW: 179
FGW: 150
*It's easier for me to think 10lbs ahead at a time*
{Round 34- lost 2.8 lbs}
{Round 35 - lost 2.4 lbs}
{Round 36 - lost 1 lb}
{Round 37 - lost 5.6 lbs}
{Round 38 - lost 1 lb}
{Round 39 - lost 3.4 lbs}
{Round 40 - lost 3 lbs}
{Round 41 - lost .8 lbs}
{Round 42 - lost 3.4 lbs}
{Round 43 - lost 1.4 lbs}
{Round 44 - lost 1 lb}
{Round 45 - no wgt loss}
{Round 46 - lost 3.6 lbs}
{Round 47 - lost 1.4 lbs}
{Round 48 - lost 1.8 lbs - EW 186.4}

Day/Weight/Comment

•8/6 - 186.2 - Early weigh in. - This morning, I reviewed my weigh ins from the last round. My weight was all over the place. 188.2, 187.8, 187, 186.8, 186.4, 185.6, 185.2. That is not usual for me. I'm expecting that my weigh ins this round will compensate for the weights I bypassed. Those lovely increments. Today's weight for example. We shall see. 9 more to go. 186 was my weight in early 2015. I was doing very well on the way to my goal of 150lbs, when I decided to try eating grains again. Bad, bad idea.
•8/7 - 186.6 - Early weigh in. Maybe I am through with the 186's now? 186.8, 186.4, 186.2 This weight completes the increments set.
•8/8 - 185.6 - Okay. Let's count'em down. I was here and .2 last round so, maybe I skip .8 altogether? If so, one to go and one to revisit.
• 8/9 - 185 -

•8/10 - 185.4- Lol, there it is. If no point 8 this week, then this set is complete. A VERY carby day yesterday, courtesy of some pre-made store bought meatballs. 52g carbs, 41g net carbs
•8/11 - 185.4
•8/12 - 185 - again, lol
•8/13 - 185.8 - fluid retention yes, but also there is the point 8! Completed 185 set.


•8/14 - Did not weigh this morning and holding on to a lot of fluid. Omigosh, losing track of the days. I didn't realize that tomorrow is the last day of round 49. That 10 days went so fast! So fast that I haven't had a decent amount of sleep 4 nights in a row. Three were just my "normal"
but yesterday, smh. MY DAY, by Tiabirdie56. I was already to the point of overtired and I decided to strip everything off my bed, wash it and disinfect (? not sure if that's truly possible) the mattress. Errands to run, dinner to make, now its 9pm. Really tired, I DO NOT want to finish what I started in my bedroom. Told my son that I was considering sleeping on the sofa now. It's 10:30pm. I go to the bedroom at 11pm, with rags, mops, bucket. Yeah, it was that kind of cleaning I wanted to do. Dust the walls, wipe down the door frame, wipe down the window shades, windows, dust and polish furniture, wipe down the mattress and foundation, dust and wash the floors, make the bed. Four and a half hours later, shower, lie down, can't sleep. 5:30 am I finally got to sleep, but it's fitful, because Grands are coming and today, I wish they weren't. So now it's 9am, (no coffee yet btw, and I NEED COFFEE! sev-er-al cups) the children are here and as usual, for 2 and a half hours they are continually wanting food. SMH. Are anyone else's Grandchildren like this? Still no coffee, getting irritable because I am tired. I make breakfast for myself. What I wanted, a 3 egg omelet with spinach and a small portion of beef smoked sausage. What I ate: 1 scrambled egg, 2ozs beef sausage, 1 small strawberry, 1.5 ozs cheddar (which I did not want but I had to eat something) What they ate: DGD- 3 eggs, 2/3 of a cheese stick ( she decided she didn't like it - ?) apple juice she brought from home, 1 oz beef sausage, 2/3 pint of strawberries. DGS- One of my eggs (yes, I cooked 2 for myself, lol) 1/3 pint of strawberries, cheese stick, juice brought from home. Then they discovered goldfish crackers in my cabinet, so they ate some of those and DGS also ate broccoli. How long were they at my house? 5.5 hrs. When they left, who came? The other 2 Grands and my niece for 2.5 hrs! So Niece and Grand niece proceed to eat my spicy peanuts and I hand over my bag of pistachios, so they continue their munch-a-thon Grand nephew only wants something to drink. Now I am talking with Neice and preparing 3lbs of green beans to blanch and freeze. I ask her if she wants some for their dinner tonight. I bag 2lbs, but think about how much the children like green beans, so all go home with her. Now it's time to make dinner. I'm so exhausted now that I don't even feel it. Not quite the end of MY DAY yet. Hope I sleep tonight.

•8/15 - 185.6 - Still tired and retaining fluid. I did get a solid four and a half hours sleep. Then another 1.5? maybe after a period of wakefulness. 0.8 lb lost this round


Seeking lower bodyfat%