JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS - ROUND 58

Day/Weight/Comment


11/04- Completed my first week of 10,000 plus steps.

11/05- Healthy eating, all meals planned. Walking steps 10,000 plus.

11/06- 10,250 steps in- I have pushed really hard, starting to run a little on the treadmill. Eating healthy! I remember in the month of April I could not bend down at all , could not take the bottom dishes out of the dishwasher. Due to brain tumour surgery.
11/07- 10,700 steps today, eating healthy, lots of vegetables.
11/08- Still getting my walking in hitting over 10,000, planned meals
11/09- Walking steps 12,500- just have to watch the bread had to much today.
11/10- went for MRI test today on my brain, that is the 4th MRI since The end of March waiting until the 19th to hear results. Steps 11,000 +.
11/11-went for a nice walk today, steps 10,200. Planned meals for next week.
11/12
11/13.

Round 58: My 2nd Round
F/23/5’3’’/OSW 59kg/RSW 58.2kg
Round 57 : -0.5kg

11/4 – 58.2kg Worked out for an hour in the gym yesterday morning and even today morning.

11/5 - 58.5kg (+0.3kg) Was very much expecting this to happen…ate a lot of junk food yesterday way lot more than my calorie limit…this is what happens to me every Sunday! I hate it but can’t help it…went to gym in the morning today and will be very particular about what I eat today.

11/6 - 57.8kg (-0.7kg) Wow!!! I was expecting it to go down but not to this extent!!! I am so excited about this…I was really very careful about what I ate and stayed within calorie limit and spent some extra time in the gym…should not let go of all this hard work by just binging on junk…

11/7 - 57.9kg (+0.1kg) Food and exercise everything was good yesterday…but today I might eat a lot, have parties to attend that means lot of food…cheat day today!!

11/8 - 58.1kg (+0.2kg) For all the food that I ate yesterday 200grams gain is not a lot. Now that I have had enough food yesterday, today is going to be a clean food day!

11/9 - 58.2kg (+0.1kg) I couldn’t stop myself from eating all the oily yet yummy food prepared by my roommates for dinner yesterday, will have to spend some extra time in the gym today…very disappointed with my eating habits in this round and really scared about the weekend binge!

11/10 - 57.7kg (-0.5kg) the effect of eating one banana for breakfast and 2 oranges for lunch and chicken nuggets with fries for dinner! And also lifting weights in the gym!

11/11 - 57.8kg (+0.1kg) I really started to enjoy lifting weights in the gym and I can also see the positive effects of it! Glad I started this.
11/12
11/13 – 57.7kg (target)

Female, 5' 4 1/2 " age 53
This is my fifth round. I am starting not to freak out as much over the daily fluctuations. I ended last round high, which is why I have a larger goal this 10 days.


OSW 199 (June 15 2018)
Pre-challenge start weight 177
R54 SW 177 EW 175 (-2.0)
R55 SW 175 EW 171 (-4.0)
R56 SW 171 EW 170.5 (-0.5)
R57 SW 170.5 EW 169.5 (-1.0)
R58 SW 169.5 EW ???

CW 169.5
RGW 166
UGW 140-145

Goals--
Carbs < 40-
Steps/day > 12000
Exercise/walk 6 of 7 days/week

Day/Weight/Comment

11/4 168.5 Got in 18000 steps yesterday and an extra 500 calorie deficit. This number is more like it.... I knew ending high last round would make this one easier!
11/5 167.5 18000 steps again.
11/6 168 Lots of steps, zumba & body weight exercises. Big deficit yesterday!
11/7 166 Walked, voted and then walked with friends. 17000 steps. So happy to see this number. I hope it sticks instead of bouncing up again!
11/8 165.5 So cool to have it move lower instead of the immediate bounce up! Was all ready to go out and walk this morning despite the threat of rain. And when it started raining as I drove my son to school I figured that was ok. But then when it started pouring and lightening, I decided maybe I should wait. I'm dressed and ready to go! Have a good day everyone!
11/9 165 Woohoo! Walk & elliptical yesterday.
11/10 165.5 --Weighed yesterday but forgot to check in. Friday did water aerobics and elliptical.
11/11 167.5 -- Went to football party yesterday. Stuck to the low carb options of cheese, olives, veggies, chili and a few walnuts....except for the graham cracker toffee, which I had several pieces of. Convinced I did not actually eat 7000 calories of toffee over maintenance. In fact, I was only a little over my calories, so I am hoping that this number will go back down! I did go for a walk and managed to get 12,000 steps. Was having bad cravings and bad mood--which I'm assuming was hormonal. I was glad I took the power walk, because I felt much better afterwards, and more in control when I went to the party. (I was not as good with water yesterday or today either).
11/12
11/13

Age 49
Height 5’11”
SW 97kg
GW 79kg

Round 42 lost 1.5kg
Round 43 lost 1.5kg
Round 44 lost 1 kg
Round 45 lost 0.2kg
Round 46 lost 1.7kg
Round 47 lost 0.5kg
Round 48 lost 0.9kg
Round 49 lost 2.1kg
Round 50 gained 0.3kg
Round 51 lost 1.7kg
Round 52 lost 1.0kg
Round 53 - 55 On holiday gained 4.4kg and lost 2.5kg
Round 56 gained 1 kg
Round 57 lost 2.1kg

Round 58 SW 83.2
End Round 57 GW 82.2kg

11/04 83.0kg (-0.2kg) Had a lovely Saturday, with a round of strong curves, walks with the dog and a birthdayparty!
11/05 83.1kg (+0.1kg) Had a much needed sisterday with lunch and walks.
11/06 83.3kg (+0.2kg) Expected that! Went out on a datenight with my hubby and eat way too much of all the good Thai stuff. But it was sooooo worth it
11/07 83.6kg (+0.3kg) Lost my motivation a bit, needed to eat the last piece of homedmade Dutch Applepie.... Just like @ heymossy I didn't want to weigh, and when I did, I didn't want to write it down here , but I needed the accountability, I needed to see it on paper. So it can help me to focus again!
11/08 83.3kg (-0.3kg) A day with excersize, relativation and relaxtion
11/09 83.3kg (-0.0kg) It was a hungry day.... but stayed focussed.
11/10 83.0kg (-0.3kg) Worked, ate well, hubby was home lat so between work and dinner I went on my elliptical and did a round of Strong Curves. After showering I measured myself and lost several cm's on legs and hip!!
11/11 82.5kg (-0.5kg) I've reached a normal BMI!!!!
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11/12 82.4kg (-0.1kg) A lovely Sunday full of excersize, walks and good food
11/13

Round 58 - my 11th
Moving from UK to Zambia this round
36y/ 173cm or 5'8"
OSW: 74kg May 2018 (163lbs)
UGW: updated 67-63kg (148-139lbs)
Rounds 47-58 EW: 73-70kg (161-154.5lbs)

Day/Weight/Comment
11/04 - 71kg kg No plan the last few days, so this isn't suprising. Actually, reading back, I overindulged most days in the last round.
I have no real plan for this round as I'll be traveling and settling in. I will buy food&body scales, find a gym, running routes and a routine for lunches etc in this round. It is frustrating that just 10 days have undone the last few weeks, but I will not let that discourage me.
11/05 - 71kg Finished my 5-10k programme - about 1.5 months later than originally planned, but it's done now. Will start a new programme this week, once I determined when and where I can run.
No logging today or tomorrow due to travel.
11/06 - kg No scales Travel day
11/07 - kg No scales First day in new job
11/08 - kg No scales
11/09 - kg No scales
11/10 - kg No scales
11/11 - kg No scales - Alright, so i've now caught up on the whole week. I've not logged or weighed myself since Monday. My first days in my new home and job have been great. But food, exercise and logging are challenging. Things are labelled in KJ, there is a lot of non-labelled food, many things are quite unhealthy with hydrogenated fat and added sugars. I have neither a food or body scale yet or a full body mirror, but will hopefully get at least the body scales next week.
I will start logging again tomorrow, there will be a lot of estimations until I have a food scale, but even if the calories aren't correct, logging will stop me from snacking so much. Drinking enough water isn't an issue as I'm constantly thirsty - i've already finished a 10l canister at home.
I have devised an exercise plan I can do at home, but have yet to buy a yoga mat for floor exercise I'd like to add. I tried to run on Fri and had to stop after 1km as it was too hot and breathing was hard due to heat (around 30C and no breeze) and altitude, i went from pretty much sea level to 1300m/4250ft. I also fought a cold until Fri, mainly from the flight, so I will try again this week in the morning. I plan to get into a routine with early morning exercise and running from next week.
I don't move nearly as much as in London and get stared at for walking to the office. It is hard not to keep myself busy with snacking, so i'm quite worried about gaining and feel like i already have. It's dark by 7pm so everything happens before then and the evenings are spent at home. Obviously, this will change once I meet more people to hang out with, find a gym and start driving.
Today i'm not doing anything, already walked to the shops to buy water and something to cook, had some pasta for an early lunch and will have left overs for dinner. I went out last night with a work colleague and met loads of nice people, but it became quite boozy, so also no exercise today. Would love to go for a walk, but it's so dusty and hot, no breeze or shade, so i'll give that a miss.
11/12 - kg No scales Did my exercise routine this morning, logged breakfast, lunch and a few snacks/fruit. Le'ts see if this will get me through the day. Quite bit of guess work, but hopefully I overestimated. Not sure what dinner will be, depends on if I'll have a car - the fleet manager wants me to go for a drive with him to assess my driving skills
11/13 - kg No scales

Round 58
Svetlana
Age - 50
Height 167 cm
Result of Rounds 56+57 = - 3.6 kg (-7.9 lbs.).
SW: 66.2 kg (145.9 lbs.)
GW for Round 58: 63.7 kg (140.4 lbs.)
Day/Weight/Comment
11/04 - 65.1 kg (143.5 lbs.).
11/05 - 66.2 kg (145.9 lbs.). +2 kg over a weekend, logical result of 3000+kcal yesterday. Jillian Michaels in the morning. Plan for today: 3km walk during the lunch break and Jillian Michaels in the evening. Hope these 2 kg will disappear in a couple of days
11/06 - 65.2 kg (143.7 lbs.). -1 kg. 7km run in the morning. Planning to do “six-pack in 6 weeks” in the evening. Want to see my 64 kg again asap.
11/07 - 65.0 kg (143.3 lbs.).
11/08 - 64.6 kg (142.4 lbs.). Did “six-pack in 6 weeks” yesterday evening. 7km run in the morning.
11/09 - 64.2 kg (141.5 lbs.). Jillian Michaels in the morning + 10 min AB ATTACK with Shaun T.
11/10 - 63.7 kg (140.4 lbs.). SO HAPPY!!! I’ve never seen this figure on my scales. May be I was in this weight at the time we didn’t have scales at home. I have my menu for the weekend. And I will keep to it. I even squeezed in a couple of non-alcoholic beers (thanks’ God in Germany even non-alcoholic beer tastes) and a glass of wine for Sunday. And I am planning a big “freestyle” for today (a kind of intervals – walking + running) although the weather is not great. But it is only a matter of right clothes! LOOK FOLL! THINK BEFORE EATING SOMETHING THAT SEEING YOUR SCALES SLAP-HAPPY CANNOT BE COMPARED WITH A PIECE OF CAKE. This I wrote for myself in the first place. Svetlana be consistent!
11/11 - 63.2 kg (139.3 lbs.). It is too much… Did “six-pack in 6 weeks”. Will not go to the scales. Don’t want to see below 63. Now a breakfast. Thinking to go to thermae, but not yet sure
11/12 63.0 kg (138.9 lbs.). Jillian Michaels in the morning
11/13

Started: Round 51 226.2lbs
MFP Start Weight: 255.7lbs
End Goal Weight: 180lbs

Previous Rounds End Weights/Variance
ROUND 58
Current Goal Weight: 220lbs
Day/Weight/Trendweight
11/04 229.6lbs 229.1lbs
11/05 229.2lbs 229.1lbs
11/06 228.4lbs 229.1lbs
11/07 227.0lbs 228.8lbs
11/08 228.6lbs 228.6lbs
11/09 230.0lbs 228.9lbs
11/10 No Weigh In
11/11 225.8lbs 228.1lbs
11/12 232.8lbs 228.5lbs

05/11 Had a relatively active weekend, not so many steps but plenty of strength training and rowing, calorie intake was under maintenance. Goals for today get out for a run this evening unless the weather is really bad, if it is really bad use the eliptical at home instead and stick to my calories [/b]

06/11 Got out for my run, calories were exactly spot on (never happens) so goals smashed yesterday. Goal today is to stick to calories again and get a lower body weights session in.

07/11 Left a little room in my calories for attending a work dinner this evening as it's normally 3 courses & wine and got my lower body weights in. Goal for today is to enjoy rest day.

08/11 Overestimated my calories severely for yesterday's dinner so looks far worse than it was but still has me at around a 300 cal deficit over the week if I keep at my calorie allowance the rest of the week. Today's goal is to get upper body weight in - although this will depend on how my shoulder feels later as slept funny on it, if it's not great I will just do it tomorrow after work instead and also calories to be on target today.

09/11 Ate to about Maintenance yesterday instead of my deficit, logged all and will just keep plodding. Didn't get around to getting my weights in either as was stuck at work longer than expected and hair appointment was earlier than planned. Today's goal is to try and incorporate the upper body session and stick to calories.

12/11 Weekend update: Was very busy over the weekend, didn't gt a chance to get my upper body weights in on Friday but went rowing Saturday morning, back into a normal routine at work this week so should be a bit easier to get my exercise in. Had the hangover from hell yesterday so didn't log anything but would approximate that I was around maintenance seeing as only had some toast, a pizza and some chocolate.

Historical SW (January 2017): 193
Recent SW: 187.6 (Sunday after Thanksgiving)
Challenge SW: 181.8 R 44-55 Have been in maintenance (I've been down to as low as 143.5 and as high as 148)
R56 AVE = 146.4 (EW = 146)
R57 AVE = 145.5 (EW = 145.8)
Goal for R58= 145 (in maintenance)

11/4–146.2 I was away for the last 4 days and feel pretty good about not gaining more than .4 considering what all I was up against. I’ll take this as the beginning number of this new round!
11/5—146.2 Should not have bought that peanut butter yesterday 8-) I had plenty of activity yesterday (in fact, I’m really sore), but snacked late on low fat peanut butter. Note to self: not a good idea.
11/6—totally forgot to weigh until too late
11/7—148.5 Well, so I ate like a demon yesterday, so this is no surprise. Hopefully, I can get my act together today and work it off quickly.
11/8—147.6 Whew, headed back in the right direction. Just gotta keep it going.
11/9—147.6 Drank lots of water and ate on plan, so this should drop some more soon. Going to be away from scales tomorrow.
11/10—did not weigh
11/11—149.4 OMG, I am NOT going back over 150!!!
11/12—147.2 Whew, breathe….I will be up a little for the round tomorrow, barring a small miracle, but there’s been a lot going of difficult things on in my life, and I caved to some comfort eating. I am back in control now.
11/13

Feeling super tired right now, so no long essays today...

Info:

Day/Weight/Comment

11/04: 67.5 - More than expected. Yesterday was a big day. My calorie intake looks ridiculous, but then I did have 4 1/2 hours on the judo mat. Was grading (got 20 points, woop!) and then squad training afterwards. And boy does my body feel it this morning. Everything hurts. And I seem to have gained a couple of interesting bruises (mostly on my shins). Hoping to keep under my burn going forward
11/05: 68.4 - Okay I wasn't expecting that. I mean I was, but not nearly that bad. Yesterday I went to a relative's birthday party, and there was plenty of food all the time (seriously, every time I turned around there were more nibbles, and I do have a problem with nibbles.) Dinner was curries (which I love to pieces), but I picked myself a small bowl and didn't overload it and I was honestly stuffed afterwards so I'm glad I went for the smaller size. Muscles still screaming this morning, so I'm hoping that's the reason for the enormous jump on the scales. I'm certainly feeling a little more puffy than usual, so I'm 90% certain everything is retaining water right now. Ended up slightly over maintenance calories which is annoying as so far this week I would have been in deficit every day, however it wasn't much, even with some fairly generous dinner allowance calories, so I'm still reasonably pleased with the whole situation.
11/06: 66.8 - And there it all goes. YaY! Yesterday was a mixed bag, I spend most of the day so very hungry. Mostly because I just didn't eat enough food in the morning, and then my lunch was laughably small, so I had to eat some chocolate to bump up the calories and kept myself distracted when I got home so I wouldn't want to eat all the food before dinner. Ended up keeping myself under my calorie goal, and then I went and judo-ed in the evening, something I didn't eat back any of the calories for, so my deficit for yesterday was pretty good. However, I'm not hopeful for a great day today as I look to my right and see that somebody in my office made cake and sausage roll. I'm already doing my best to not stare at it. Maybe I'll just try and maintain today and eat my deficit in cake lol.
11/07: 66.9 - *deepest sigh* I ended up over yesterday. Only just, and actually it was around my normal maintaining calories, but I really wasn't feeling 100% so I didn't do as much walking throughout the day, or any exercise in the evening, so my daily burn was much lower than normal. And yes it was all because of that blasted cake and sausage roll. And the worst bit was that it was really good and 100% completely worth the calories. I just wish I hadn't had quite as many slices as I did. But I suppose that's why I wasn't that hungry last night so I guess it's swings and roundabouts. Anyway, will be doing better today, no signs of cake or snacks appearing in the office so should be able to stick to target.
11/08: 66.6 - Another really tough day yesterday. Again I was feel really hungry all day. However, stuck to my guns and stayed mostly within range so ended up with a decent deficit at the end of it all. I am pleased to see that my stubbornness is paying off and I am dropping that weigh that's been lurking around.
11/09: 66.5 - Now if my weight could just pause there until the end of the round that would be grand. Hahaha, like that's going to happen. Anyway, another good day yesterday eating-wise. Stuck under my target deficit and even banked a few extra calories by finally donning the running shoes and going for a run. I think my pup very much enjoyed the run around the neighbourhood (he loves to run), but he pushed me hard. And has yet to learn not to run right in front of my feet, so there was a couple of times I almost tripped up on him. However, I'm hoping to get out again tonight in a vague attempt to wear him out and burn those few more calories that bring my average up. That, and I really want chips for lunch, and these rarely fit into my goals, so I'll have to work something out to bring my burn up.
11/10: 66.9 - Not at all surprised by that one. I'm blaming all those chips. Being that I wanted chips, so I has some for lunch. Aaaaand then I also has pie and chips for dinner. However I did go for a run (and to go out and buy the chips) which is the longest run I've done for some time. I looped around one bit twice because I was feeling good, and had I not been hungry I might have looped around a third time. Looks like I might need to find myself a slightly longer loop. And I paced myself so much better than Thursday. Still very slow going, but I'm so happy to actually be getting out there and going for a run. Food ended up over, but with the run (and some extra walking throughout the day) I've ended up with a very nice deficit.

11/11: 66.9 - Lots of Judo then lazing around for the rest of the day. Ate very well and clocked a big deficit for the day.

11/12: 66.9 - Fairly lazy. Took the dog out for a longish walk. Still need to work on his recall. Ate quite a lot for the day, but still ended up under overall. Had fajitas for dinner, a surprisingly low calorie meal although we did have the large wraps as opposed to the mini wraps I normally use, so was a bit larger than normal. However I didn't think much of the spice mix that I bought, so I don't think I'll be using that brand again. I feel like I'm retaining fluid, so I'm hoping that I'll get the drop for tomorrow's weight in to reach my target. Finger crossed

11/13