Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 50

quiltingjaine wrote:

@tiabirdie56 The raucous party was at my house on Sunday! WTH???

@quiltingjaine, Lol, Yeah we both can not party like that for a while.

@allmannerofthings, Thank you. My jaw is beginning to relax. Today, I've eaten foods that I don't need to chew a lot. I hope that you can figure something out for what's going on. I know wearing your bite guard is difficult during the day. I tried that once; EVERYONE needs to speak with you.

/Weight/Comment
8/16- Did to much outside, and made my face swell I am having a hard time cutting down from steroids. Walking helps alot!
8/17- My steps were down today. Lack of sleep has been hard on me. I start my cut backs again so I don't take one steroid today and then tomorrow I take one they are very hard on me. I can hardly wait to be done with them.
8/18 - Still having a rough day! Goal for tomorrow going, outdoor a long walk! I don't know if cutting back steroids is making me swell n my face. But I have to go Monday to the doctors.
8/19 Feeling a lot better today. Walking steps 11,258. Eating healthier today.

8/20_ Went to the Cancer Hospital today had an appointment with my team doctor, I am doing 100%. She said I owe to keeping up with my normal day, Started my treatments the end of June and today included no symptoms at all. My test EEG brain waves was perfect which means no seizures. Now I am done there ,until November for MRI. I am very fortunate.
8/21- Been doing great for walking , I have been trying to push harder each day. I went on my treadmill today kept
going just like before I had surgery in March. I have to get my weight down again, hopefully next week once
I am finished my steroids.
8/22 Trying to get my steps up, did lots of walking today. Eating healthy!
8/23
8/24
8/25

ROUND 8 FOR ME - Female 58 yrs old 5’ 5” Midwest USA

………We are fierce and so we fight………


Goals: 1. To be an inspiration to my 22 year old Autistic son who started his weight loss journey on May 1, 2018 weighing 308.4 . (He weighs in about once per week- 10 days)
2. Big Goal this round: Break the barrier and hit 179.8 (3 lb. loss)
3. No Bingeing
4. No “cheat days” only occasional “Earn Meals” which are easier to recover from.
5. 10,000 steps per day. Mixed modes of exercise.
6. Lots of water, green tea daily, apple cider vinegar before carby meals.
7. Check my blood sugar daily for improvements.

MY STATS:
Original starting weight: 235 lbs. on 1/11/18

R43 SW= 193.8 EW= 195.6 +1.8 lbs Gain
R44 SW= 195.6 EW= 192.4 -3.2 lbs Loss
R45 SW= 192.4 EW= 191.4 -1.0 lbs Loss
R46 SW= 191.4 EW= 186.0 -4.4 lbs Loss
R47 SW= 186.0 EW= 186.8 +0.8 lbs Gain
R48 SW= 186.8 EW= 185.4 -1.4 lbs Loss
R49 SW= 185.4 EW= 182.8 -2.6 lbs Loss
R50 SW= 182.8 EW= TBD

Day/Weight/Comment

8/16 - 182.6 YESTERDAY’S STATS: 14 Net Carbs. 1269 / 2442 Calories Out. 8,771 Steps and 3.71 total miles. 12/13 (250) fitbit steps hours. Intermittent fasted 16:8

8/17 - 179.8 Whoosh……. Wow! Imagine if it really stuck! YESTERDAY’S STATS: 14 Net Carbs. 1061 Calories In / 3308 Calories Out. 15,370 total steps and 6.5 total miles for the day 13/13 (250 fitbit steps). I intermittent fasted 20:4

8/18 - 182.0 Keeping it honest here. This is YESTERDAY’S STATS: 260 Net Carbs. 2753 Calories In / 2817 Calories Out. 15,311 total steps. 6.48 total miles for the day, 13/13 (250) fitbit hours. Intermittent Fasted for 20:4

8/19 - 181.6 YESTERDAY’S STATS: 16 Net Carbs. 1224 Calories In / 2779 Calories Out. 12,222 total steps. 5.17 Miles. 13/13 (250) fitbit hours. No specific exercise. Just a hard working day. Diet perfectly on point with no hunger. Intermittent fasted 16:8

8/20 - 181.6 Went on a bingeing rampage! YESTERDAY’S STATS: 215 Net Carbs. 1980 Calories In / 2727 Calories Out. 17,285 total steps. 7.32 total miles. 13/13 (250) fitbit hours. Only fasted about 12

8/21 - 181.2 YESTERDAY’S STATS: 8 Net Carbs. 907 Calories In / 2508 Calories Out. 7,410 total steps. 3.14 Miles. 13/13 (250) fitbit hours. Fasted 16:8. I know it’s wrong but I tried to make up for the binge day by keeping my numbers so low.

8/22 - Out of town on business (no scale) YESTERDAY’S STATS: 11 Net Carbs. 1102 Calories In / 2414 Calories Out. 11,156 total steps. 4.73 total miles. 13/13 (250) fitbit hours. Fasted 16:8. Managed to find some walking time once I arrived at the hotel. Time limited for first day of trip and made fairly good food choices even while in a hurry and traveling. No business dinner today so my choices were wide open (which helped). I feel like today was a pretty good day. Keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow’s choices and schedule. Still feeling strong. Missed a day somehow in this round, so I backtracked on my records and have corrected the imputs.

8/23 - Out of town on business (no scale)
8/24 - Out of town on business (no scale)
8/25

8/16-285.5 Well, 5 lbs down from starting weight a whooole lot more to go. Really wishing coworkers would stop bringing goodies. I've been pretty good about it, just trying a small portion.
8/17-284.7 Yay! tomorrow probably won't look so pretty...going out to lunch today.
8/18 283.6 that's a surprising loss
8/19 284.4 there's the pizza for dinner showing up.
8/20 - 283.8 did pretty good today
8/21-283.4 not so good today, over calorie goals.
8/22- 284.0

8/16 59.4 kg
8/17 58.6 kg
8/18 58.1 kg
8/19 57.9 kg
8/20 57.6 kg
8/21 57.3 kg
8/22 57.5 kg
8/23 57.3 kg
8/24
8/25

Round 49: My ninth round
OSW: 186.6
UGW: 130

R42 SW 186.6 EW 182 (-4.6) (Round goal achieved)
R43 SW 181.8 EW 182.6 (+0.8)
R44 SW 181.5 EW 183 (+1.5)
R45 SW 181.2 EW 181.2
R46 SW 180.6 EW 178.8 (-1.8 Round goal achieved)
R47 SW: 179.8 EW 179.6 (-.2)
R48 SW: 178.8 EW 178.0 (-.8)
R49 SW: 178.0 EW 180 (+2.0)
Round 50 goal: 176.8

Day/Weight/Comment

8/16

8/17 179.8

8/18 178.6

8/19 Did not weigh. Losing mojo. Need a good night’s rest and an attitude adjustment.

8/20 178.6

8/21 179.0

8/22 180.0

8/23 Away with bestie. No weigh in

8/24 Away with bestie. No weigh in

8/25 Away with bestie. No weigh in

*Non-digital scales*
8/16 72kg - almost within cals yesterday, walked 12k steps, but no other exercise. Skipped my run this morning as I needed the extra hour in bed after a bad night. Work takes priority this week before holidays
8/17 - 71 whoosh! It could be 70.5, but I don't want to get overly excited yet. Within cals yesterday, walked 11k steps and went for a short run this morning, only 20mins as per my 5-10k plan.
I had been planning to only eat back half my exercise cals back, but I struggle with that.
8/18 71kg despite some self sabotaging emotional eating yesterday. I ended up not logging.
Today is a travel day, only a short flight, but the whole trip still takes about 5hours and then sister's birthday party
8/19 holiday back home til 26th - 72kg on parent's digital scale. I'm not going to log food this week and just be mindful where possible. I will over eat, I know that and that's ok. I really want this holiday to be not stressful - logging unknown / never-logged / homemade foods would stress me.
I had a lovely time last night with lots of snacks and some drinks, but managed to go for my run today and will make more of an effort to get my 10k steps in. Moving to earn more cals is my strategy while here.
8/20 .. 72kg, weighed after breakfast, had wine and lots of snacks last night and already many baked goods today.
8/21 .. 72kg, i was starting to wonder if something is wrong with these scales, every time i step on them they show 72. I've not been logging and haven't moved much. But I found another scale in the house and it showed the same. I'm off for my run now, so will get more steps in today.
8/22 ..no scales
8/23 .. no scales. did my run on 21st plus boxing class in the eve. But didn't manage to hit my step goal, then had a carby dinner and wine. 22nd was spa day with my friend, had a lovely massage and then walked around the city with stops for ice cream&prosecco. Also had a big dinner, should have scales again on Friday, but today is another birthday and then dinner plans with more friends.
8/24 ..
8/25 ..

Female, 44 yo, 169 cm
R50 (second round for me:)
R49 results: starting 63.2kg, end 61.7 kg (-1.5 kg )

Target for this round is to go below 60 kg...59.9 would be an absolutely great result

Day/Weight/Comment
8/16 - 61.3 kg, yesterday had a very disciplined day after seing the morning weight slight increase. Low carb diet respected, 1 hour of yoga and no food after 18:00. Today I have a party , hope to keep drinks under control, We will see tomorrow morning the damages.
8/17 - 61.6 kg, small gain that is no surprise considering the 2 large beers that I have yesterday. I am happy there is no significant damage, back on track today & no party plans
8/18 - 61.1 kg, clean eating, no food after 18:00 and unfortunately no sport as my class was canceled.
8/19 - 60.7 kg, clean eating, low carb, yoga done and no food after 18:00. Had however a glass of white wine and I am happy that I didn't see it in the scale
8/20 - 60.8 kg, relatively clean eating but snacking too much, this is my challenge during the weekend, take few nuts, a cube of parmesan, again few nuts and didn't resist to a dry martini in the evening. So while I kept it under 20 carbs I think that I pushed a little bit on the calories side. On the positive side I have done my circuit class and started at home some arm exercises that I plan to do daily on top of the gym. Hoping to see my hidden muscles:)
8/21 - 61.4 kg, totally unexpected. I had a clean day , 21 carbs, 1100 cal and 3 liters of water + 1 class of TRX. I do not really understand what went wrong. I even was full of energy and cleaned my kitchen till 10 pm (my 14 yo son loves to cook and experiments in the kitchen but I need at least 1 hour of deep cleaning after he prepares something). I think that I was on the extreme side of energy as I was not able to sleep till 1 am and even after that I can remember that I moved from one side to another all night and now of course I can barely keep my eyes open. Hope tomorrow is a better day!
8/22 - 61 kg, this is annoying somehow but that's life. Clean day yesterday, low carb, stop eating around 17:30, played tennis for 1 hour, drunk all my water. Still 3 days to go, feeling that my goal is still achievable
8/23- 60.6 kg, yoga, low carb, stop eating @17:00. Now I just need to stay strong
8/24
8/25

Round 22 start weight - 151.40
Round 23 start weight - 145.80
Round 24 start weight - 147.60
Round 25 start weight - 141.60
Round 26 start weight - 141.90
Round 27 start weight - 146.20
Round 28 start weight - 143.20
Round 29 start weight - 140.90
Round 30 start weight - 137.90
Round 31 start weight - 137.90
Round 32 start weight - 140.00
Round 33 start weight - 138.80
Round 34 start weight - 136.50
Round 35 start weight - 138.80
Round 36 start weight - 137.30
Round 37 start weight - 139.20
Round 38 start weight - 137.60
Round 39 start weight - 138.00
Round 40 start weight – 137.50
Round 43 start weight - 141.20
Round 44 start weight - 142.60
Round 45 start weight - 141.10
Round 46 start weight - 136.00
Round 47 start weight - 136.60
Round 48 start weight - 138.40

8/23 - back off holidays after a wonderful time in very sunny and hot France but diet wasn't great - way too much good wine, cheese and bread in that country! Not yet weighed - save that joy for tomorrow! Although in all fairness looking forward to getting back to "normal" eating as a bit "fooded" out and bloated. Back to the gym tonight and hoping my PT won't suggest a body fat measure - the result is likely to read "Pure Cheese" rather than a percentage! Blood donation next week too so likely to donating red wine rather than blood!!! However a great few weeks, kids off school for another week and a half then they head back to school - ho hum.....

Anyway, back to normal food and water intake today and for the rest of this round, will face the scales tomorrow morning and then the long UK bank holiday weekend including a day out with the girls plus a family BBQ ..... Could be an excuse to not start back on plan till next week but trying to not let it!

8/24
8/25

Info:
Day/Weight/Comment

8/16: 70.1 - Okay okay, I've been putting off posting here today because the number is higher than I would like. Pretty sure it's just a fluctuation, completely normal and nothing to worry about. I say: worrying. Anyway, an okay day yesterday. Ate fine, but had a packaged wrap for lunch and Chinese takeaway for dinner. Both salty and would which pretty much explain gain on the scales this morning. Takeaway is always hard to account for, so I hope that I've over estimated, but I could well have underestimated. Also did a bunch of scraping wallpaper glue off the walls which probably would burn some of those potentially extra calories but I have no idea how to log those, so I've not bothered. Can't believe I'm over half way through my maintenance week already.
8/17: 69.6 - Well, that's more like it, very much on track to maintain well this week. Difficult day yesterday, spent quite some time being very nervous about the interview I had today (it went well I think) and so food thoughts were not my top priority. Drank plenty of water in a hope of sorting out the saltiness of the previous day. Food wise, a slightly odd day. Not hungry at all in the morning, so had a protein bar I keep in my desk for snacks at around 10:30 (way later than normal). Then ate leftover takeaway with some rice for lunch, which felt like it should've been more filling than it was, but was enjoyable to eat. Then was ravenous when I got home and so ate what ended up being a modest sized dinner fairly early then wasn't very hungry for the rest of the evening. In fact I had to munch on a packet of crisps to get me close to my goal allowance. Still a little under, but only just.
8/18: 69.9 - A late weigh in, so was probably a little lower, but I stayed at a friend's so didn't have scales until I got home. I was expecting it to be a bad day yesterday with dinner and wine at my friend's, but then we skipped dessert as we weren't hungry and ended up only a little over my goal.
8/19: 69.0 - (I actually started writing this yesterday, but then we were in the car and I can't look down in the car) I mean I'm happy, but at the same time, I know that it's a down flux so I'm not going on that. Besides, still supposed to be maintaining. Anyway, ate my lazy food and was expecting to be a little over, then dinner again was very small and then I was under what I wanted to have to for the day. Ate some crisps trying to bump up the calories, but still ended up under. I also spent about 4 hours painting our hallway and was completely shattered by the end of the day. Week at maintenance completed. I'm actually going to push going back to deficit one day for tomorrow as we have a BBQ and I'll probably go over anyway, so I might as well make it planned. Also, easier to start deficit for me on a Monday.
8/20: 69.4 - Went for a BBQ for lunch yesterday. I'm 100% certain I have under logged because there was lots of nibbles that I have no idea how much I had. However, we also did some playing football with my boyfriend's nephews and some diy in the evening, so burnt some more calories than I'm probably accounting for too. I also didn't eat anything other than lunch, so although it was all my calories for the day, it was also all I ate for the day. Avoided all the things that I didn't really want eat (cheese on my burger, bread, baps), to save room for the food I really did want (meat, meat, & more meat). So I felt like I managed the situation reasonably well.
8/21: 69.5 - Back on the deficit. Forgot all my tricks to actually make a filling lunch and so had breakfast and lunch that were way too few calories and so I was ravenous all day (not making that mistake again today). When I ate dinner, I managed to have that "full, but also really hungry" feeling in my belly which was not very fun. I'm going to arbitrarily blame carbs because I had significantly less than I normally do. So I then had a slice of bread and felt much better. Judo in the evening, which I didn't eat back barely any of the calories for and yet I still felt overfull when training. All in all just a bit of a toughie yesterday trying to get back into the deficit.
8/22: 69.5 - Much better yesterday. Still hungry during the day, but ate enough when I got home to not feel starving in the evening. Was right at the bottom of my calorie range even though I was expecting to be higher up, so I'm calling it a win. Especially as I was able to have icecream 🍦(yaaaas). Did some housework as our house is a complete mess right now (with the decorating). Hoping to see a little movement on the scales again soon, but I'm trusting the process and staying the same is always better than going up. Lets go!

8/23: 69.8 - This number does not express the amount I went over my goal yesterday. Even over my maintenance number too. It was all going fine until my partner cooked dinner and I actually ate it all. When he cooks I normally budget more calories than normal, but I know that if he cooks way too much food (which happens occasionally), then I'll leave some for the next day. That didn't happen. Instead I ate all the food, felt really very uncomfortably full afterwards. And then the dessert too. When I wasn't hungry. And it was delicious. Uuuuugh. Tbf we ate late as we were playing with puppies (and burning calories running after them ), so that probably contributed to the over eating, but still. Made sure I spent the rest of the evening tidying and doing more housework so should've burnt some extra calories doing that. Probably not that much of a difference, but still something. Actually got over my steps target yesterday too!

8/24: