JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS - ROUND 53

Round 53 (#17)

I typically don't set goals because I find myself sabotaging them. Stupid, I know, but it's true. Challenge goal:
9/15: 135.8, date with restaurant food.

9/16: 132.4, felt very hungry all day yesterday so I ate veggies and fruit and soup. Kept my mouth busy and maintained a deficit.

9/17: 134.8, girl day yesterday which included wine, and 2 restaurant meals.

9/18: 134.6, recovering…

9/19: 132.8, main meal was during my break at work, 3:30-4:00. Munched on a salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, and red onion tossed with ACV.

9/20: 134.4, date last night

9/21: 134.4, another date night. Posting very late and catching up on everyone’s posts.. Been super busy.

9/22: 132.8, good deficit for the day. I’m always amused how quickly restaurant meals blow me up, yet the recovery time takes 2 - 3 days.

9/23: 132.8

9/24: 133.2, I was Hangry after work. Plain yogurt and 100g of avocado was the healthy option, but still falls under LNS...

ROUND 11 FOR ME - Female 58 yrs old –My name is Donna 5’ 5” Midwest USA


WEIGHT LOSS IS NOT LINEAR.
THIS I KNOW – WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN.






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. His current weight is 276.8 .
2. Weight Goal this round: 177.0 (2.0 lb. loss)
3. No Bingeing (new attitude on food outside of my home and socially)
4. 20-50 Net Carbs Daily. 1277 Calories Daily.
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:
Highest Weight EVER: 253 (2014/2015)
Original starting weight on this current journey : 235 lbs. on 1/11/18

R43 EW= 195.6
R44 EW= 192.4
R45 EW= 191.4
R46 EW= 186.0
R47 EW= 186.8
R48 EW= 185.4
R49 EW= 182.8
R50 EW= 180.8
R51 EW= 179.6
R52 EW= 179.0
R53 EW= 176.0


R53 SW= 179.0 EW= 176.0


Day/Weight/Comment

9/15 – 180.0 Hello everyone! As I get nearer to my weight loss goals I am transitioning this round to 20-50 net carbs per day with the intent of staying in a fat burning mode. I am keeping my calorie goal the same which is 1277. My original goals when I started my journey in January 2018 was to lose 8-10 pounds per month . My newest goals are to lose 1.5 pounds per week, 6 pounds per month. I am carrying a bit of water weight from a travel day earlier this week. However, at my general weight I am 30 pounds from my complete goal weight with approx 60 pounds lost. My ticker will reflect this when I shed the water back off. Yesterday I stayed within calorie goal but went quite a bit over on my carb goal. As my business slows down I find I am walking a lot less and will have to build in more planned exercise and intentional walking. In the end, my hope is to reach 145 pounds by Valentine’s Day. I am building in an 8 pound cushion as I expect to gain a bit of water weight when transitioning to higher carbs and calories. My final goal would be to weigh about 153. I then intend to keep my carbs and calories in a maintenance level to help keep my T2D in control or in remission. I would love to hear everyone’s exact plan for their weight loss and fitness goals as we go along. I know a lot of great ideas may come of these readings. Good luck everyone on this round!

9/16 - 178.8

9/17 - 179.4

9/18 - No weigh. Out of town.

9/19 - 178.6

9/20 - 177.0 A great big thanks to everyone for sharing their overall plans to reach their goals. Whether it’s 10 day goals, mini goals or overall goals and plans, I learn so much. Hugs to you all.

9/21 - 176.4All I can say is wow. Just 3 years ago I weighed 253. I worked hard to lose 18 pounds which I kept off, but the health and fitness came to a complete stop when I began caring for my terminally ill husband. Dialysis every other day (nearly 100 miles away each way) and so many specialists with heart lungs etc. (all over 100 miles away each way also) kept me away from my home, my children, my home business and my own goals. But I would not change a thing. It was such an honor and a privilege to be able to be the one to help him through this to “the other side”. After 2 years of legal stuff, getting my business back on track, comforting my children & grandchildren and getting the dynamics of the family back in order, I decided to get back on the health and weight loss journey and start working toward my original goals. My starting weight this time was 235 in January of this year. The road is not always easy, and the diet I chose was something I “bumped into” on the internet when I looked up modern low carbs diets out there. I have had a lot to learn about the diet and about fitness in the modern age. What I’ve learned is that even with all my slip-ups and personal disappointments, this can be done. Thanks again for all the support. My children are grown now, out on their own except for my disabled son. Thanks to all of you for giving me the support that my dear Leonard would have given had he been here. I want everyone to know that I am not sorry I quit smoking even though it led to all this weight gain (which brought on many health problems like diabetes, thyroid and even contributed to my breast cancer). One battle at a time. I beat the cigarettes a decade ago, I beat the cancer 5 years ago, I had a couple of last years with my devoted husband. Now I am beating down this weight, diabetes and thyroid one…pound….at….a…..time. My weight was down again today. It makes me feel so hopeful that I can get back to being “Me” “Me was a nice lady, a good mother, a good wife, a hard worker and a person who took good care of herself and cared about good diet and fitness in her life. I miss her. So I’m on my way to see her now. When I embrace her completely, I will never let her go again.


9/22 - 176.0 I feel like the comeback kid every round. @AR10at50 is right. This is hard. But this IS the time that I will get to my destination. I’m feeling pretty good about my diet & exercise plan in this very moment. Last night I hand sewed more of my favorite blouses to make them smaller (I haven’t used a sewing machine since Jr. High). Inside out the stitches look pretty horrid, but you can’t tell on the outside so I am very pleased. All these clothes are temporary anyway. I’m on my way DOWN. I have long travel days every round. Sometimes I am not perfect in the moment, the meal or even for the whole day. But I've proven to myself that it cannot derail me. My NSV is that I willingly and HAPPILY get back on track.

9/23 - 176.6 Out to dinner last night with friends. Had a lasagna dinner (oh no!) but I boxed half immediately and took it home for my son so the damage wasn’t too bad for either one of us. A small dish of icecream at the restaurant completed the meal. I probably should have skipped that. @jerier is so right about restaurant meals blowing you up. I was immediately bloated and still feel that way a bit today. After dinner I walked briskly for 1.5 miles burning off more calories than the icecream. The scale only fluctuated slightly this morning and my glucose did not test badly either. Parsley & lemon water for me today. Thanks Tish!

9/24 - 176.0 Down 3 pounds this round which exceeded my goal but it was a rollercoaster round for sure! Congratulations to each and everyone of you. All the weight loss successes, the NSV’s, the good choices made, the moments of strengths, the exercise and movement accomplishments of all levels, the changed attitudes on overall health and the sheer determination that everyone had. I have read some sort of victory in every post. I am proud of us all. See you all in round 54.

7th time 

My goals are 10,000 steps a day, try to control late night eating, and have my weight lower at the end then the beginning! Hopefully this is the round I go to the first digit of 1. Wanting to go to onederland

Day/Weight/Comment
Starting weight for round 200.9
9/15 200.1 so close
9/16 200.3 I need to work on this better.
9/17 200.5 We are going the wrong way. Luckily it’s not much yet.
9/18 200.8 I am being lazy in my diet and eating semi-junk food. Don’t know why I don’t just push myself over this. Need to get back to clean eating. After not drinking pop for months had a bottle for the last three days. At least it is gone now.
9/19 202.1
9/20 201.4
9/21 201.1
9/22 201.0
9/23 201.1
9/24 202.4 Disappointed in myself. Need to stay focus. Just have been so busy - but, that is not a valid excuse to not eat better.

Gain 1.5

@quiltingjaine - I missed responding to your earlier comment

Next time take a small bite of the cookie and chew and savor, take another small bite if necessary and decide if it’s worth it. If not, just throw it away. Why did it take me 60+ years to realize I could throw food away?

By bite two, my cookie was mostly gone. It was a small cookie and my bites aren't exactly petite. The first lesson for me is to take smaller bites!

R1: Lost 1.7 (SW 196.8 EW 195.1)
R2: Lost 0.7 (SW 195.1 EW 194.4)
R3: Gained 3.7 (SW 194.4 EW 198.1)
R4: Lost 2.8 (SW 198.1 EW 195.3)
R5: Lost 1.1 (SW 195.3 EW 194.2)
R6: Lost 0.8 (SW 194.2 EW 193.4)

SW: 188.7
GW: 186.5
EW: 188

9/19 -188.7- really happy about this. Let's take it down more! Next mini goal weight is 185.0 (but GW for this challenge is 186.5).

9/20- 188.3- woohoo! I didn't do as well yesterday as I wanted to but today went really well so hopefully the scale delivers

9/21-187.9- The scale kept showing me different numbers. I usually weigh myself twice to account for random error. But the two numbers were off (187.9 then 187.1) and so I decided to do it again somewhere else and got no straight answer (188.1, 187.5). Just went with the first number I originally got. Seemed most likely to happen. At least they were all lower than yesterday's number

9/22- 187.2- So my little brother went on the scale and his weight was showing to be 79 pounds but he's a little more than 100 so I think I need to buy a new scale but my weight seems probable since I did really well yesterday. Not sure so I will purchase a new scale but for now it might be okay. But I am a LITTLE concerned since it was doing weird things yesterday as well. Also, I'm going out to eat today with family so I'm not sure that scale will be good to me tomorrow but I'm determined to get right back to eating right after. This will be hard for me because I tend to feel bad about myself after eating badly like I let myself down but I need to get out of that habit because some days won't be perfect. That's life. No need to feel bad about it if it's not an everyday occurrence.

9/23- 189.1- I know this is a fluctuation and I saw it coming. Going to do really well today to help the scale go down for tomorrow!

9/24- 188.5- Not as great of an ending as I hoped for BUT I'm not too mad because at least it's still less than my SW. And at least I didn't gain like I have in the past once lol I need more fiber or something. I took a shot of apple cider vinegar today so hopefully that helps lol

Good afternoon


Mâle, 48yo

Round 49: SW 186 EW: 184.53 (1.47 lbs lost this round)
Round 50: SW 184.53 EW: 178.79 ( 5 .74 lbs lost this round)
Round 51: SW 178.79 EW: 175.92 lbs (2.87 lost this round)
Round 52: SW 175.92 lbs EW: 171.96 lbs (3.96 Lost this round)
Round 53: SW 171.96 lbs EW: 171.51 (0.45 lbs lost this round)

Total lost so far (all rounds) : 14, 04 lbs

My goal for this round: to see number 6 : To go Under 170 lbs

Day/Weight/Comment
9/15- 171.06 lbs (0.90 Lost) good start !
9/16- 172.62 lbs (1.56 gain) same pattern : good start- regression slowing down and hopefuly good finish
9/17- 173.06 lbs (0.44 gain)
9/18- 171.74 lbs (1.32 lost) back on track
9/19- 170.41 lbs (1.33 lost) yes!
9/20- 169.75 lbs (0.66 lbs lost) Cool i'm finally Under 170 lbs
9/21- 169.97 lbs (0.22 lbs gain)
9/22- 170.19 lbs (0.22 lbs gain)
9/23- 170.85 lbs (0.66 lbs gain) definitely its not my best round
9/24- 171.51 lbs (0.66 lbs gain)

See you

12th Round for me: Female 65, height – 5’
I was away on holidays for the last round. Did not gain anything : smile Now that we’re back for the winter, I want to get in the routine of going to the gym and planning meals. I’m hoping that will kick up the loss and I can make it under 150 by Christmas. Round 53 – SW 159.8, goal this round – under 159
Ultimate Goal Weight – 128

Day/Weight/Comment
9/15, Saturday – 159.8 Just got home on Thurs. so am still tired. Yesterday spent most of it catching up online – so bad for snacking. Today want to hit some bigger projects (a little canning, yard work) but still get in a nap. I find I can lose a whole week to tiredness after a trip – mindless eating and getting nothing done. Often I’ve maintained weight or lost on the trip but gain the first week back. Determined not to do that this time.
9/16 , Sunday – 159.2
9/17, Monday – 159.8 Ugh, Sundays our meals are always erratic so I feel like I haven’t eaten much but if I count it up I’m usually way over. Today it’s back to the winter routine with ladies’ a cappella group this evening. Usually I try to houseclean on Mondays but today the guy is here installing a new furnace so if it gets chilly I’m going shopping
9/18, Tuesday – 159.6
9/19, Wednesday – 159 I don’t feel like I deserve this but will take it. Got a Zap My Cravings email from Shrink Yourself last night and it stopped me in my tracks – so only had dessert not snacking all evening. I did Shrink Yourself for about 6 months a number of years ago. That is where I learned that you have two kinds of hunger – physical hunger and emotional hunger – and how to tell the difference. Of course the cravings come from emotional hunger. So the Zap My Cravings is going through a set of questions that help you realize what the real source of your craving is. I think I got the email because I was cleaning out old stuff and revisited their site a few months ago. I just might do it again. The emotional eating is always what does in my progress.
9/20, Thursday – 159.4 Last day of my “week-after-trip tiredness” and feel pretty good considering the ice cream last night. Usually I just eat ½ cup when I have it so the calorie count is not too bad but last night I’d kept going on clearing off the garden until late and felt I deserved more. Too much fat at night always makes me draggy in the morning. Looks pretty nice out today so back at it. I have so much yard work to do and company coming, it makes me feel overwhelmed (the real reason for the ice cream, I’d say). I guess I need to sit down and realize I won’t get it all done unless we have a very late fall and then prioritize the jobs. Also need to decide how much of my life it deserves so everything else doesn’t get shoved aside and then turn into its own emergency.
9/21
9/22, Saturday – 159.2 Made it to the gym yesterday, felt good to be back.
9/23, Sunday – 159.4
9/24, Monday – 159.4 Well, I didn’t gain which is amazing considering the evening munchies till the last few days. Today went to the gym again and no snacking the last 3 days so should see some results next round.

R49/My 10th EW: 170.6 (-0.4) AW: 171
R50/My 11th EW: 172 (+1.4) AW: 170.6
R51/My 12th EW: 167.4 (-4.6) AW: 168.9
R52/My 13th EW: 170.0 (+2.6) AW: 169.5
R53/My 14th EW: 170.4 (-0.4)

Day/Weight/Comment
9/15: 170.8
9/16: 170.8
9/17: 169.8
9/18: 171.4; workout!
9/19: 170.4
9/20: 170.8; workout!
9/21: 170.4
9/22: 170
9/23: 169.4
9/24: 170.4 (-0.4)