Lose 20lbs by Feb 1st Accountability Buddies

Last week was also a bad week for me! My first week and didn't lose any weight! However, this week has started out great Lost 4.6 lbs since Monday, and only 0.4 lbs to hit the 5 lb goal for Oct. Sunday's my weigh-in day and will
post results afterwards.

Heaviest weight: 400 lbs
Challenge start weight: 294 ( joined MFP Oct 10)
Challenge goal weight: 274
Ultimate goal weight: 198

I'm 6" ft and want to see how I feel at 198 lbs, and then go from there if needed.

Ok I want in too. 20lbs for February works for me😊

Add me I want in

I’m in! I’ve fallen off the wagon in the past week and need people to kick me up the backside to get back on it properly!!
CW: 264
I need to get back in the gym desperately, and definitely need to go Monday! I’m thinking about making it a rule on days I don’t have lectures that as soon as I wake up within 30 minutes, I need to have my butt in the gym!

JuliBiGoolee wrote: »

Weekly weigh in:
SW:211
SW beginning of this challenge: 204.4
10/7: 206.7
10/14: 203.6
10/21: 202.4
10/28: 201.6
Slow and steady, ill take it.

Awesome!

My weekly weigh in:

Initial starting weight: 180
Challenge Starting Weight: 165.4
Goal Weight: 145.4
Ultimate Goal Weight: 125

Sunday 10/07 = 163.0
Sunday 10/14 = 160.2
Sunday 10/21 = 159.2
Sunday 10/28 = 160.0

I’ve been stuck in the 160’s for a very long time. I’m not going to let this get me down! I started the T25 Alpha and completed my first week. I need to take measurements soon. My body is sore from the hard workouts but I’m sure I’ll see a difference in the coming weeks. Change doesn’t happen overnight but my mindset can stay positive.

October 1: 186.0 lbs SW
October 28: 174.6 CW.
GW Feb 1: 166.0
UGW 149.9

Lukdbestucan16 wrote: »

Am abit lost. How does this thread function for the challenge??

It’s not super organized. Most check in once a week with their progress.

Thanks for starting this motivating group, JuliBiGoolee. I'm In! I'm glad I caught the thread just in time to safely lose 20 lbs by Feb 1st. It's almost the max rate, but I trust that a good daily exercise session will keep me going when food is too tempting. I'm not sure if setting a time goal is setting myself up to fail, because I've never before done it that way when I lost weight. With prior success, I basically kept at a pattern of food and exercise and looked in the mirror a lot, haha, (to gauge progress.) It worked and the weight stayed off for years even as my food consumption varied, which I credit as I said, to daily exercise (an hour of vigorous aerobics with weights.) I think I'm just one of those people who have to exercise for life, to stay at a healthy weight - I can't starve myself thin, and I refuse to yo-yo diet. I don't count it as a yo-yo that I gained weight over a twenty year period, which is what happened when I reduced my exercise gradually to none. Result: I became obese.
I did learn in the process that past a certain composition (as per individual) the ratio of fat to muscle is such that your body burn rate can't possibly keep up with and burn what you eat, even if you eat practically nothing. That of course is because fat cells are sleepers, they don't have much metabolic demand for calories to stay alive, unlike muscle tissues which burn calories like a racehorse. It's like a tipping point. But all is not lost, it just means that to get past it we have to build muscle with weight bearing exercise, to get that ratio of fat to muscle back onto favoring the muscle side.
By the way it is true, and I've heard lots of people sadly express, they're dieting on very low calories but not losing and their doctor and or a family member thinks they're cheating on the diet. But that's just ignorance, not intentional unkindness by the critic. It's because their body composition is past that tipping point, and their diet alone just won't cut it.
So, we have to build muscle in some situations. I apologize because all this is probably really obvious to you guys, but I just proved it to myself through my experience, and I'm excited to share it. Haha.
Goood Luck Everyone! We've got this.

Dukare wrote: »

I just had a conversation this morning about trying to get more active by February, and I had the stark realization of just how quickly it will get here!

... we are hoping to start family planning then, but I want to get my life in order first. Exercising gives me happy endorphins which keeps me awake, active, energized and happy.

As much as I would love to lose 20 lb., I probably would fail. Instead, I'm just taking each day and pushing to increase my activity level and control my diet.

(Assuming I'm successful, I should become fit and lose some weight right??).

This crap is hard 😟

CW: 201 or 205 ish lbs
GW: 180 ish...more active lifestyle

It’s very possible! I was 180 at my highest and the doctor told me to lose 15 pounds before getting pregnant again after two losses. I lost 20 and got pregnant again with a sticky baby! I lost twenty pounds right away just by cutting out processed foods and meat.

Now I’m back to processed food and meat. I want to be able to get back at 125 again (my weight 3 years ago) which seems hard but I know it will happen.

One step at a time!:)

1pandabear wrote: »

Thanks for starting this motivating group, JuliBiGoolee. I'm In! I'm glad I caught the thread just in time to safely lose 20 lbs by Feb 1st. It's almost the max rate, but I trust that a good daily exercise session will keep me going when food is too tempting. I'm not sure if setting a time goal is setting myself up to fail, because I've never before done it that way when I lost weight. With prior success, I basically kept at a pattern of food and exercise and looked in the mirror a lot, haha, (to gauge progress.) It worked and the weight stayed off for years even as my food consumption varied, which I credit as I said, to daily exercise (an hour of vigorous aerobics with weights.) I think I'm just one of those people who have to exercise for life, to stay at a healthy weight - I can't starve myself thin, and I refuse to yo-yo diet. I don't count it as a yo-yo that I gained weight over a twenty year period, which is what happened when I reduced my exercise gradually to none. Result: I became obese.
I did learn in the process that past a certain composition (as per individual) the ratio of fat to muscle is such that your body burn rate can't possibly keep up with and burn what you eat, even if you eat practically nothing. That of course is because fat cells are sleepers, they don't have much metabolic demand for calories to stay alive, unlike muscle tissues which burn calories like a racehorse. It's like a tipping point. But all is not lost, it just means that to get past it we have to build muscle with weight bearing exercise, to get that ratio of fat to muscle back onto favoring the muscle side.
By the way it is true, and I've heard lots of people sadly express, they're dieting on very low calories but not losing and their doctor and or a family member thinks they're cheating on the diet. But that's just ignorance, not intentional unkindness by the critic. It's because their body composition is past that tipping point, and their diet alone just won't cut it.
So, we have to build muscle in some situations. I apologize because all this is probably really obvious to you guys, but I just proved it to myself through my experience, and I'm excited to share it. Haha.
Goood Luck Everyone! We've got this.

Thanks for sharing. Maybe this is why I’m not losing weight anymore.. I’m on a super low calorie diet between 1200-1500 a day. It’s so difficult to do. I started the T25 workouts this week to see a change. I also need a scale that shows my body fat. That’s the most important part. Again thanks for sharing and welcome!

73CL350 wrote: »

October 1: 186.0 lbs SW
October 28: 174.6 CW.
GW Feb 1: 166.0
UGW 149.9

Who keeps wooing me? : (