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  • anewmein2019
    anewmein2019 Posts: 3 Member
    My high-tech bathroom scale is malfunctioning, and I really don't want to spend the money to replace it. Without a scale to monitor my weight, I don't feel motivated to spend the time to log-in all of my food. What's the purpose if you can't tell if it's working or not? My MFP life ends here *sigh*.
  • orangequilt
    orangequilt Posts: 4,718 Member
    anewmein2019 wrote: »
    My high-tech bathroom scale is malfunctioning, and I really don't want to spend the money to replace it. Without a scale to monitor my weight, I don't feel motivated to spend the time to log-in all of my food. What's the purpose if you can't tell if it's working or not? My MFP life ends here *sigh*.

    in my experience cheap scales are just as good as the fancy ones, or maybe find one in a charity shop? I agree, it's more motivating with scales, but some people just do it on how their clothes feel. Don't give up! The food logging becomes a lot easier once you have your favourite foods in there.
  • Spadhnik
    Spadhnik Posts: 130 Member
    anewmein2019 wrote: »
    My high-tech bathroom scale is malfunctioning, and I really don't want to spend the money to replace it. Without a scale to monitor my weight, I don't feel motivated to spend the time to log-in all of my food. What's the purpose if you can't tell if it's working or not? My MFP life ends here *sigh*.

    I have pharmacy superstore which has machine to weight in (need to put some coins). It’s once in a week so could be a short term option until you find a reliable scale.

    I like simple digital scale! I store weight in my fitness so I don’t need scale to store it. This function in my current scale is not used anyways!!!

    And of course don’t give up yet!!!!
  • Spadhnik
    Spadhnik Posts: 130 Member
    poolycod wrote: »
    I'm interested in the challenge, but looking to drop body fat rather than just weight. Started out at 85kg and 25% BF. I'd like to get sub 15% BF

    19 Oct - 82kg 17.7% BF
    26 Oct - 81.8kg 19% BF

    2Nov -
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    My current calorie goal is 1810 calories and I'm training 4 resistance sessions, 3 cardio sessions and 3 karate sessions p/w.
    I'm a 44yr old male 175mm tall.


    I started with similar weight as yours and I am just 160cm 🤭
    You are doing really well!!
  • Quinn_Baker
    Quinn_Baker Posts: 292 Member
    Yas!!
  • emilyarmfield27
    emilyarmfield27 Posts: 1 Member
    Count me in I started 1/10 but just seen this😯
  • poolycod
    poolycod Posts: 12 Member
    edited November 2018
    Update
    19 Oct - 82kg 17.7% BF
    26 Oct - 81.8kg 19% BF

    2Nov - 81.2kg 19.9%BF
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    weight is going down nicely, even after a bit of a slip on Halloween and pinching the kids sweets. I’m a bit disappointed with the body fat gain if I’m honest. Don’t know what is going on there, working hard in the gym and getting my protein goal hit most days. If it is still increasing next week I’ll have to look at cutting carbs a bit more I think.
  • betty728
    betty728 Posts: 2 Member
    I want in please.
  • Spadhnik
    Spadhnik Posts: 130 Member
    mittenswillet wrote: »
    Count me in too, this is just the type of challenge I need right now.

    Oct 22 - 107kg
    Oct 29 - 106 kg

    Nov 05 - 106kg
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    Not happy with myself this week....I rested on my loralls and it got me nowhere fast. COME THE F""k on! Start pulling your weight, eating right, and get this done!!! The more you screw around the longer this will take, You want to look good for summer, and you want to wear summer clothes, not cover your weight because your embarressed (and also swelter in the heat)

    Push has come to shove............

    I have same feeling! I am now tired of wearing shirt below my hips... and tired of checking shirt on the back when I stand up 🙄

    My main goal is to go 2 pant size down by next April. It’s going to be tough but I am surely going to try!

    Just recheck your exercise plan, eating plan and keep going!!! We can do this for beautiful summer dresses n all!!!
  • mittenswillet
    mittenswillet Posts: 697 Member
    edited November 2018
    yup =) Starting swimming laps today down at the local 50meter pool. would like to try and go a few days a week. Today I swam 300 meters....it was tough. But I really enjoyed it.
  • leigh8236
    leigh8236 Posts: 44 Member
    Checking in :)
    Original weight 74.5
    Goal weight 65 kg

    Oct 01 -
    Oct 08 - 74.5 kg original weight
    Oct 15 - 73.3
    Oct 22 - 72.1
    Oct 29 - 71.9
    Nov 05 - 70.8
  • Nooneknows21
    Nooneknows21 Posts: 81 Member
    edited November 2018
    Not a great week but I have given my head a wobble and have planned the next few days 😊

    Starting Weight (from Oct 04): 235lbs
    Ultimate Goal Weight: Unsure!
    End of Challenge Goal: 217lbs

    Oct 04 - 235lbs
    Oct 11 - 234lbs
    Oct 18 - 232lbs
    Oct 25 - 232lbs

    Nov 01 - 233lbs
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  • orangequilt
    orangequilt Posts: 4,718 Member
    I lost 0.1kg this week!! Tiniest amount my scales can register, but that's 1.1kg so far lost, and 2.7kg to lose for my Christmas goal.
  • Spadhnik
    Spadhnik Posts: 130 Member
    SW - 80.5 kg (I have been 82kgs at some point before)
    Xmas GW - 76 kg or less!! (Just over 2 Kgs to loose. This will take me out of obese BMI range)
    Easter GW - 70kg (reduce atleast further 6kg by 21st April 20-9). Big holiday !!!!
    First GW - 62 kg (22kg to loose to come into healthy range of BMI. To be achieved atleast by sept 2019)

    Final GW - 58kg and run often during daily commute.

    Aug 29 - 80.3 kg
    Oct 01 -
    Oct 08 - 80.5 kg
    Oct 15 - 79 kg (This week I try to get weight under 79 kg)
    Oct 20 - 79.2kg ☹️ not a good number this time... Also I am weighing early as I am off for holiday. I don’t expect a good week too. I will start off again!!!
    Oct 22 - On holiday
    Oct 28 - 79.4kg (Gain after holiday 😖)
    Oct 29 - 79.9kg 😔 I am not sure what happened and I increased weight. I did everything almost right. Anyways, coming week, I will again try to reach the 79kg mark
    Nov 05 - 77.5kg (I think something wrong happened at last weeks weigh in with my body, I was certainly feeling less heavy.. After that weigh in, I have had an minor oral surgery which is making eating tricky. But I have also reduced carbs so less rice portion than normal. I walked my first 5K last week 🔆. Coming week, I want to come closure to 77kg. I really want to get out of obese BMI before Xmas)
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  • Retrobaker
    Retrobaker Posts: 11 Member
    Oct 18 - 280.5

    Oct 22 - 278.5
    Oct 29 - 275.5


    Nov 05 - 277.5
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    I hit the Halloween candy a little hard this week and moved very little. But today is a new day day 🙂
  • etherealanwar
    etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
    edited November 2018
    Checking in!

    Challenge goal weight: 145-148 lbs

    Oct 08 - 162.4 lbs
    Oct 15 - 160.4 lbs
    Oct 22 - 158.2 lbs
    Oct 29 - 160.8 lbs :( Damage done from my bday weekend. Chinese food and a breakfast buffet >_<


    Nov 05 - 159 lbs Very frustrated with this week, weighed exactly 159 for the past 4 days now!!
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  • Wellness_Whit
    Wellness_Whit Posts: 38 Member
    Would love to join. I am trying to go from 168 to 155 before my trip to Disney between Christmas & New Years! So far i'm almost 5lbs down! ♥
  • nikkit321
    nikkit321 Posts: 1,485 Member
    Challenge SW - 162.2
    Christmas Goal - 150
    Ultimate Goal - 140

    Oct 22 - 162.2
    Oct 29 - 163.6 (shark week)
    Nov 5 - 159.8
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    I think lowering carbs is working for me. At the very least, it's making me more mindful of my food choices.
  • 4bugsmama
    4bugsmama Posts: 2,871 Member
    10/01 (SW): 147.6
    10/08: 145.6
    10/15: 142.6
    10/22: 142.2
    10/29: 139.6

    11/05: 137.6
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    Goal weight: 134.6
  • janiceclark08
    janiceclark08 Posts: 1,341 Member
    Hi, I'm starting this challenge late, need to lose some more before new years.
    Current weight-
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    I would like to lose at least 10 pounds by end of year.
  • dangerdriscoll
    dangerdriscoll Posts: 4 Member
    edited November 2018
    I'm in! I want to get to 180lbs by Xmas, which isn't really reasonable at the rate I am going but I'll give it a try.

    I've been eating 1,300kcals a day for about 6 months and this morning I dropped that to 1,200kcals so perhaps that will do the trick.

    I was fixated on my first goal - to lose 50lbs and didn't really care about the date it happened. While doing that it was easy to do the maths in my head to tick slowly but surely down to the number... But now I have achieved that I am finding it incredibly difficult to do the sums in my head! I know I sound like an idiot but I think it's really going to help to have a round/even number as my next goal. Maybe I'll do it, maybe I won't. But as long as I keep on keeping on, in a healthy way, then I think I got this.

    02/10: 202lbs
    05/10: 199lbs - my first goal reached = down 50lbs since March 2018!! Average ~7lbs per month
    14/10: 196lbs
    21/10: 196lbs
    26/10: 194lbs
    01/11: 196lbs :|
  • MsArriabella
    MsArriabella Posts: 469 Member
    Oct 1- 178.0
    Oct 8- 175.6
    Oct 15- 175.2
    Oct 22 - 172.2
    Oct 29 - 167.0


    Nov 05 - 170.4
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  • janiceclark08
    janiceclark08 Posts: 1,341 Member
    janiceclark08 wrote: »
    Hi, I'm starting this challenge late, need to lose some more before new years.
    Current weight-196
    11/5- 196
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    I would like to lose at least 10 pounds by end of year.

  • hcdo
    hcdo Posts: 201 Member
    edited November 2018
    Oct 1- 122.6
    Oct 8- 121.8
    Oct 15- 124.6
    Oct 22 - 124.8 I appear to be going backwards. Not surprising, since I went to a food festival yesterday.... Gotta remind myself that just because it's a "special occasion" or whatever excuse I want to use, doesn't mean I have to shove food into my pie hole like the Apocalypse is coming. This time of year has tons of "special occasions" and that mindset is not going to help matters.

    Oct 29 - 120.4 I am not under any delusions that I've actually lost 4 lbs in a week. The previous number was an early-morning weigh-in after an evening of, if not exactly gluttony, certainly eating with abandon. My weight tends to fluctuate a lot, (in fact I'm up a pound and a half today from Monday's weigh in), so I just keep reminding myself to look at the trend rather than individual days' numbers. That's why I like challenges like this, so it keeps me looking at longer-term results rather than being disappointed with day-to-day fluctuations.


    Nov 05 - 123.8 Still fluctuating like mad, but at least I'm down a pound from the previous weeks of mid-October. Hopefully it will be steadier now, but my will power this time of year is nil, and the holiday treats are already out and about! It also doesn't help that today is national donut day and my boss brought some in to celebrate!
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  • CentaurusSoter
    CentaurusSoter Posts: 433 Member

    CentaurusSoter wrote: »
    I set a mid-term goal for 1 January 2019. I figured I had 100 days until then, and my mid-term goal was to get into the 200s. Figured I'd dropped 40lbs+ in 70 days, I could possibly do 40 more lbs in 100 days. If I don't hit that goal, nbd. Just gonna keep chugging along with keto. If I hit 299 early, well, it would be a nice christmas gift to myself.

    Hello past me, it’s present me. 57 days left, 23 more pounds. Good luck to future me and everyone else on their journey!
    (I was doing until New Year’s Day)
  • Spadhnik
    Spadhnik Posts: 130 Member
    nikkit321 wrote: »
    Challenge SW - 162.2
    Christmas Goal - 150
    Ultimate Goal - 140

    Oct 22 - 162.2
    Oct 29 - 163.6 (shark week)
    Nov 5 - 159.8
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    I think lowering carbs is working for me. At the very least, it's making me more mindful of my food choices.

    Lowering carbs is working for me too.... I now realised, I was in fact eating huge portion of rice!

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