Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 52

@SheilaBoneham Good for you on the stubborness. Your resolve has taken you from 218.2 to 141. Good Job!

@melortez Welcome! You are doing great!

@tiabirdie56 You're right about the weight dropping back off after the mishaps. Thanks for keeping me out of a panic. I'm not perfect but it is becoming a lifestyle, slowly but surely, to eat healthier and with fewer carbs for glucose control. In the general scheme of things, every good choice I make still pays off. I continue to appreciate all of your guidance.

@angelawiedmaier Welcome to the best group challenge on MFP. I look forward to travelling on our journey together!

@jccimc63 Lol on the location of the scale.

@quiltingjaine Welcome back! You have been missed! Congrats on the 134 weight AFTER A CRUISE!!!!! You are an inspiration.

@abowersgirl Thanks for the support!

In for my 9th Round!

Round 44 End Weight = 165.8 (5.2 lbs lost)
Round 45 End Weight = 164.9 (0.9 lbs lost)
Round 46 End Weight = 159.6 (5.2 lbs lost)
Round 47 End Weight = 157.2 (2.4 lbs lost)
Round 48 End Weight = 155.2 (2.0 lbs lost)
Round 49 End Weight = 151.2 (4.0 lbs lost)
Round 50 End Weight = 149.9 (1.3 lbs lost)
Round 51 End Weight = 146.2 (3.7 lbs lost)

Stats = 5'4 female, age 48
Highest Weight = 172 lbs (June 18, 2018)
Initial Goal Weight = 139 lbs (last weighed this is 2013)
Ultimate Goal Weight = 129 lbs (last weighed this in 2011)

Round 52 Goal: Reach the "normal" BMI weight range, 144.9 or under
Exercise Plan = The Betty Rocker 90 Day Challenge (in weeks 7-8 of 12), run outside 3-4 times a week, get 8,000-10,000 steps/day
Nutrition Plan = Continue to limit gluten, dairy, sugar, diet soda, alcohol & eat non-processed foods, protein/fruit/veg at every meal, complex carbs at breakfast and post workout meal, drink plenty of water.

9/05 = 146.2 (no change from yesterday) Yesterday was a rest day in my 90 day challenge, much needed too! Today will be day 45 exercises and I had thought to get a short run in but my legs are giving me all the NOPES! So will have to wait another day for that. Only 2 more days left for this forecast-ed horrible heat wave, bring on Fall, I want the cooler weather It makes exercising so much easier and I love running in cool temps. I'm excited for this new round, welcome to the newbies and welcome back to everyone else...."Every day is a new chance to change your life."

9/06 = 145.9 (down .3 from yesterday) Super busy day yesterday and didn't get my workout in until after 8 pm. I had hoped it would've been cooler by then but I was still a super sweaty mess after. This one was a hard workout, but felt so accomplished after completing it. Today is day 46 of 90 (halfway completed!) and is yoga which I love. This morning I noticed that I am feeling lighter in spirits as well as lighter in weight, being overweight had really affected my moods. I'm so happy to be feeling happy again

9/07 - 146.6 (up .5 from yesterday) Annoying, but not discouraging. Just normal, weird scale fluctuations, I'm used to these by now, but I would like to see it going in the other direction Patience. I'll wait for the scale to catch up and continue on kicking *kitten* with my workouts and making healthy choices with my eating. I also track with a weigh trending site and it had my trending weight yesterday a 149.03 and today 148.79, so even when the scale fluctuated up today, my trend is that I am still losing weight. "It does not matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop."

9/08 = 146.6 (no change from yesterday) Super late weigh-in today, great sleep in and there is a chill in the air this morning, such a nice change! I swapped my workout days and took yesterday as a rest day, so I've got a good challenging workout scheduled for today instead. I've been really low on my water intake the last couple of days, which is not normal for me, so need to focus better on that today as well. I'm still hoping even with the scale fluctuations this week, to make my goal of being in the "normal" BMI range within the next few days. I need to drop 1.7 pounds this round to accomplish this, totally do-able! Have a great weekend, everyone!

9/ 09 = 146.2 (down .4 from yesterday) So, the scale has settled back to the number I started this round on. Now hopefully it will start dropping again! I completed day 48 of 90 exercises yesterday and will do day 49 today which will complete week 7. Excited to start week 8 on Monday, I want to get through this!!! 90 days is hard, I will be sticking to 30 day plans from now on I went clothes shopping yesterday to a store I shopped for summer clothes in back in June before I started losing weight. I was a size 10 on bottoms and a size large for tops then and yesterday I was a size 6 for bottoms and a size small for tops. Super happy with this progress! I only bought a couple of things though because I still have a bit more weight to lose and these won't fit for too long hopefully. I also scored a dress, at a discount store, for my 15th wedding anniversary in October, it's a gorgeous Michael Kors black dress, original price $110, marked down to $29 - Bananas! Love it when that happens

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Ready to start my third round. This is a great challenge program. One day at a time!

Final Goal 190

9/5 - 284 lbs Up and down last challenge. Hit my goal 4 days in then went camping for five days and totally blew it. I cannot stay on this roller coaster and use getting off my routine as an excuse for return to terrible eating habits. Working on that through these challenges. Good stuff to keep me accountable. I almost didn't want to post anything as I am so disappointed for letting myself get so far off track these past few days. Key word here (ALMOST) I will stay accountable and keep working on it.

9/6 -279 (-5lbs) Well here comes the fluid drop. Good start to recovery from last week. Staying away from night snacking. My bad time as is with a lot of us it seems. Drinking lots of fluid today. Hate plain water so I go with Zero everything flavored water. Not bad.

9/7- 278 (-1lbs) Late getting to post today butHeading in the right direction again. Staying strict on my extreme low carb to get that hunger monster back in check. Evening snacking is still a problem for me. Seems to get the munchies every night and have to really work at not going for that snack. I would like to see that problem ease up and go away.

9/8 275 (-3lbs) Ok just one pound away from my challenge go this round. Now to just keep the scale pointed in the right direction instead of up, down, up, down.......

9/9 274 (-1 lbs) Yeah Goal hit! Bittersweet as that was my last round goal which I attained and then broke, but I'll take it and hopefully now will continue to drop before the end of this challenge round. Once again during the next challenge round I will be away camping for four days. This time I am determined to NOT go crazy and off this protein diet. Hope you all are doing well this weekend on your challenge.

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Male - 5' 10" - 52 years old \ Original Start Weight 182 lbs in May 2016 \ Goal Weight 165 lbs

Late Start - February 2nd - 168 lbs End of Round - February 7th - 168.8 lbs
Round 31
Start Round - 02/07 - 168.8 End of Round - 02/16 - 167
Round 32 - My 3rd Round
Start Round - 02/17 - 167.4 End of Round - 02/26 - 167.2
Round 33 - My 4th Round
Start Round - 2/27 - 168 End of Round - 3/8 - 167
Round 34 - My 5th Round
Start Round - 3/9 - 168 End of Round - 3/18 - 166.6
Round 35 - My 6th Round
Start Round 3/19 - 168.4 End of Round 3/28 - 166
Round 36 - My 7th Round
Start Round 3/29 - 166.6 End of Round 4/7 - 167.8
Round 37 - My 8th Round
Start Round 4/8 - 167.2 End of Round 4/17 - 167.2
Round 38 - My 9th Round
Start Round 4/18 - 167.8 End of Round 4/27 - 167.2
Round 39 - My 10th Round
Start Round 4/28 - 167.6 End Round 5/07 - 169.4
Round 40 - My 11th Round
Start Round 5/08 - 169.6 End Round 5/17 - 167.6
Round 41 - My 12th Round
Start Round 5/18 - 168.6 End Round 5/27 - 167.6
Round 42 - My 13th Round
Start Round 5/28 - 168.6 End Round 6/06 - 166.8
Round 43 - My 14th Round
Start Round 6/07 - 166.6 End Round 6/16 - 168.4
Round 44 - My 15th Round
Start Round 6/17 - 169 End Round 6/26 - 168.8
Round 45 - My 16th Round
Start Round 6/27 - 169 End round 7/06 - 168.4
Round 46 - My 17th Round
Start Round 7/07: - 169.4 End Round 7/16: - 169.0
Round 47 - My 18th Round
Start Round 7/17 - 170 End Round 7/26 - 169.4
Round 48 - My 19th Round
Start Round 7/27 - 169.6 End Round 8/05 - 170.4
Round 49 - My 20th Round
Start Round 8/06 - 170.2 End Round 8/15 - 170.2
Round 50 - My 21st Round
Start Round 8/16 - 169.8 End Round 8/25 - 169.4
Round 51 - My 22nd Round
Day/Weight/Comment
8/26 - 168.8 Garden and beach yesterday
8/27
8/28 - 170.2
8/29 - 169.0 Treadmill 30 minutes last night
8/30 - 168.4
8/31 - 168.8
9/01 - 168.4
9/02 - 168.8
9/03 - 169.2
9/04 - 169.8

Day/Weight/Comment
9/05 - 169.2
9/06 - 171
9/07
9/08 - 169.2
9/09 - 170.2
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This is my first challenge! Excited to see all the posts/ideas.

Goals:
1) drink at least 10 cups of water
2) take a daily multivitamin
3) 10,000 steps
4) slowly increase activity

Mindset: I want to lose 50 pounds total, but since every big goal needs smaller goals, I'm going to try to think of it as losing 5 pounds 10 times. So I'm going to think in 5 lb increments and my goal will be to get to my next benchmark goal each time.

SW: 190.3

Day/Weight/Comment
9/05 - 190.3 - well I just thought how yummy the baby carrots were that I just ate! On my way to adjusting my food thinking!
9/06 - 189.6 - did some reps with my hand weights yesterday and 45 min on elliptical. Slowly but surely...oh and also, I just ate homemade soup for dinner and I'm still hungry!!!
9/07 - 189.3 - about 30 min on the elliptical today - negatives - cheated with a few boneless wings...sigh; positives - good water intake, vitamins
9/08 - 188.9 - had lots of activity today - over 15,000 steps woohoo! Brought snacks with me, but treated myself for dinner to my favorite sorta cheat meal - sloppy joes with 90% lean ground beef, healthy life whole wheat buns, corn on the cob and baked beans; fair water intake - could have done better...
9/09 - 188.2 - did a 30 min circuit training workout this evening - I know I will feel it tomorrow! Still struggling to get all my water intake in...feeling hungry - workouts always do this to me...
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-68.3 lbs in 982 days, ONLY 18 days until my 1,000th day!
(1 lb every 14.4 days on avg)_
-45 since Sept 27, 2017 (347 days)
(1 lb every 7.7 days on avg.)

* Health!!! Focus on health!
Note to Self: Push on to True Thin-ness. Aren’t you curious? If it’s too much, you can slowly add back some. Do it! See how it feels. Don’t give up. Take 6 months. Take a year. It doesn’t matter how long...REALLY!!
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Round 34 to Round 51 from 179.4 to 160.2 lbs
-19 lbs in 18 Rounds!

Round 52: my 19th!!
SW 160.2 BMI:24 Trend: 160.3 Loss/wk: 0.8
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You. Will. Be. Healthier. Than. You. Ever. Thought. Possible. Really!!
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9/5 160 24, 160.3, 0.8
Making little changes... feeling great!
9/6 159.2 NEW LOWEST WT!
BMI 23.9 (.1 away from 23.8!!!)
Trend 159.8, Loss/week 0.8
Cutting out little bits of foods, all tracked, that I’d gradually added in to increase deficit for the final 5-10 lbs. hopefully that will be low enough. If not, 145 is my “final answer”! LOL
9/7 159.6 BMI: 23.9 Trend159.7 Loss/wk 0.8
9/8 160 BMI: 24 Trend/Loss: same
The 160’s again salty hummus? Doing what I should be, but need more sleep!

9/9 160 23.9, 159.7, 0.7
Regrouping...lots going on, but now subsiding to usual. I expect a drop back down in 2-4 days. Not stressing.
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R52 GW: 159.2

Goals:
Steps for September > 8,500
Sep 1: 16,658, 5.0 miles, elev: 1,000’
Sep 2 11,458
Sept 3 20,845 5.37 Miles elev 500’
Sept 4 11,936 3 Miles, 19:32, 18.28, 17:30
Sept 5: 9,233
Sept 6: 8,154
Sept 7: 14,334
Sept 8: 8,744+ (phone died)

2. Goal for September:
10-day trend decreasing, maintaining, or not going up > .2
Status: 8/9 days

3. Lengthen BMI Streak < = 24.1
Longest streak so far: 40 days!

4. Get BMI to 23.9 or lower...

5. Re-Enter & STAY in the 150’s!!! Was there three days last round and 3/5 so far this round!

I’m excited!! Ready to put a 10-day “push” on!! Hoping my waist will whittle

Next Mini-Goals: I am going to shoot for over time...
159.1 (BMI 23.8)
158.5 (BMI 23.7)
158.3 (-70lbs) by Sept 27
157.8 (BMI 23.6)
157.1 (BMI 23.5)
155 by 1/1/19

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 230.00 (-3.50)
R38 SW 230.00 EW 228.50 (-1.50)
R39 SW 228.50 EW 229.50 (+1.00)
R40 SW 229.50 EW 223.50 (-6.00)
R41 SW 223.50 EW 229.50 (+6.00)
R42 SW 229.50 EW 231.75 (+2.25)
R43 SW 231.75 EW 223.50 (-8.25)
R44 SW 223.50 EW 223.50 (-0.00)
R45 SW 223.50 EW 219.50 (-4.00)
R46 SW 219.50 EW 217.50 (-2.00)
R47 SW 217.50 EW 215.25 (-2.25)
R48 SW 215.25 EW 215.50 (+0.25)
R49 SW 215.50 EW 211.75 (-3.75)
R50 SW 211.75 EW 209.50 (-2.25)
R51 SW 209.50 EW 207.75 (-1.75)

Loss to date (measured start of round) - 90.75
GW end of round - 199lbs - last push before holiday; I know I only have 10 days but I'd love to be as close to this as possible

Good luck for this round guys!!! xx

09/04 - 207.75
09/05 - 207.50
09/06 - 206.25
09/07 - 205.25
09/08 - 205.75
09/09 - 206.75
09/10 - 204.75
09/11 -
09/12 -
09/13 -
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9/05
9/06
9/07 - 85.5 kg (188.4 lbs)
Probably I didn't have enough water, I know that my weight is higher.
9/08 - 86.7 kg (191.1 lbs)
OK (Deep breath). Yeah, that's the number, I've not seen this much for a long time. I upset myself. I ate a veggie burger and drink beer and wine yesterday. Social drinking and eating... Actually most of the days I'm ok until evening. But after evening, I ate pizza, burger, pasta and drink alcohol etc. I should find something healthy in the evening. And also yesterday afternoon I binged because I don't feel good. However I went to the gym in the morning before breakfast, I think it's good.
9/09 - 86.1 kg (189.8 lbs)
Yesterday was also good until evening, but I drank alcohol again. Food is not bad. But alcohol has so many calories. However, I walked 15K steps. But also, yesterday night I got sick and lost so much water. I'm still not sure which one is my true weight.
9/10 - 86.2 kg (190 lbs)
Yesterday I was sick all day and couldn't move. Diet was kinda ok, just ate a little much in the evening again... But that was really ok than before. Because of being sick I still feel dehydrated and cannot drink enough water, I should have some new habits for that. And also I should start logging my food, I don't know why but I still don't want it. At least I'm in this challenge.
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female, 44 yo, 45 yo 168 cm

R49 results: starting 63.2kg, end 61.7 kg (-1.5 kg)
R50 results: starting 61.3 kg, end 59.8 kg (-1.5 kg)
R51 results: starting 60 kg, end 61.8 kg (+1.8 kg)

Target: back to everything below 60 kg, 59.9 would be great!!!
need to be stronger in the weekends, no travel planned in the next 10 days

9/05 - 61.3kg, back to the same point as 20 days ago:( Good girl yesterday, low carb, 1 h tennis, dinner around 19:00
9/06 - 60.7kg good girl, not very low carb but quite small quantities of food, 1 h yoga, stop eating @ 17:00
9/07 - 60.5kg, relatively low carb if you exclude the cake , circuit training, stop eating @ 16:00
9/08 - 60.6 kg, tried a little bit cake again based on the idea that if no effect on yesterday weight, no effect today. wrong conclusion...
9/09 - 60.4kg - i was expecting bigger damage from late dinner and wine but i kept it quite light overall plus a class of spinning that gave me same space
9/10 - 60.8kg...I need a challenge on how to get over the weekend without raiding the fridge from 5 to 5 min
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