JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS ~ ROUND 64

Female, 5' 4 1/2 " age 53
This is my eleventh round. Just realized that despite a gain last round, I not only made my goal of being 155 by Christmas, but that I kept that til after Christmas too! We have one more party Jan 5, which we are hosting. The good news is I've already tried all the food! I have 10 more pounds to reach a healthy/normal BMI, and I think I may go down a little from there. I'm thinking that my UGW is 135. I'm posting mini goals below.

OSW 199 (June 15 2018)
R54 Pre-challenge start weight 177


CW 155
RGW 152

MINI GOALS
1/31 149
2/28 145 -- Healthy BMI...I believe. But some of the calculators say 140 or 143
3/31 141
4/30 137
5/31 135 -- Final goal weight.


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


Day/Weight/Comment

2/03 -- 154 -- There we go. Back again to pre-Christmas AND pre-New Year's weight. Did 45 minutes of zumba followed by a 35 minute jog on the treadmill (too rainy to go outside). Was super tired at the end of the day, so went to bed early and slept 9 hours. Of course it might have just been procrastination over cleaning and prepping for the party we are having Saturday!
2/04 154.5
2/05 156
2/06 157
2/07 157.5
2/08 158 -- Just caught up on everyone's posts. My week has beena mess. We had our party Saturday 1/5, so I wasn't surprised I was up a little on 1/5 and 1/6, but the continued climb is irritating me! I worked out a ton yesterday. 1 hour fast walk, 1 hour strength class, 1 hour zumba, 31,000 steps. Could be the extra exercise that made today's weight high. TOM also decided to pay a visit. Seriously? Thought I was over TOM! It could, however, be the cause of cravings/bloat/weight gain. Trying to hold on this round and get back into the swing of things. Treats lying around the house aren't helping either!
2/09
2/10
2/11
2/12

Day/Weight/Comment:

01/03- Started the weekend walking and tripped over the water shut off valve on the sidewalk, had a hard fall. Worked on stretching today. Lots of huge bruises, cuts, and sore muscles.
01/04- Enjoyed a family day, went to the movies, a short walk in the sunshine and worked on crafts with the grand children. Continued stretching the bruising on my hand has not went down since Sunday.
01/05- working on getting my steps up, and doing lots of stretching.Planning my meals for next week.
01/06- Five years today - logging my food, on MFP.
01/07-My steps are going back up, 10,000+, healthy eating, back on track.
01/08- Hit over 10,000, planned meals.
01/09
01/10
01/11
01/12

🌺SW:194 GW:140🌺

Hello! Newbie/1st rounder. I'm 40yrs old and I'm literally the biggest I've ever been (including being pregnant). My goal is to lose 3-5lbs each round. Today I went to spin class and I'm day 3 of intermittent fasting which really suppressed my appetite. I'm focusing on drinking more water and CICO. Oh a looking for "pals" so feel free to friend me.

Day/Weight/Comment
🌷01/03= 191.4
🌹01/04= 191.2
🌻01/05= 191
🌸01/06= 190
🌺01/07=189.6
🌼01/08=189.6
🌹01/09
🌻01/10
🌼01/11
🌺01/12

CathieMW
Round 64-My first round!

Day/Weight/Comment
01/03 - 170.7 lbs - I’m 62 and live in southwest Missouri, USA. Wife of a country boy. Raised in the city, now a country girl. Mom of two adult girls. Grandmother of two. Very happy to be part of this group.

01/04 - 169.9 - My 40th wedding anniversary is August 11! That’s 31 weeks away. I would love to get down to the weight I was on my wedding day. I think it was around 125. That would be a great present to my husband and myself. If I lose a pound a week I can be 138.9. Even that would be awesome.

01/05 - 169.2 - I over indulged today. It’ll probably show on the scale tomorrow. But then again, I was holding onto some water weight and I think that is gone today. Ok, I have no idea what to expect in the morning! I also didn’t work out today. I had to work extra and run errands. I have to work on making my myself a priority.

01/06 - 169.2 - Held steady! That'sgood. Goals for tomorrow are to drink 80 oz water, reach my step goal of 8500, complete my strength workout, stay under my calorie goal, and log everything.

01/07 - 167.7 - That was a nice surprise this morning! Didn’t get my strength training done, but met my other goals. I have the hardest time drinking enough water. I tend to reach for my coffee with mocha creamer. I like some herbal teas so I’ll add that as a goal for tomorrow. I will replace one coffee with an herbal tea.

01/08 - 167.3 - Not my best day. I did my strength training, met my step goal, and drank my water. I didn’t go over my calories but I could have made healthier choices. Didn’t have any herbal tea.

01/09
01/10
01/11
01/12

@deepwoodslady I will sure do that. I most likely won’t have the number until the middle of next week since it will be a complete bloodwork versus the A1C test that you can get back in 10 minutes.

I am on Metformin also. I am going to be interested to see with weight loss and moderate exercise if it went down. My genetics aren’t doing me any favors.

36yo/, 173cm / German living in London, UK, currently in Lusaka, Zambia
2019 SW: 72.8kg (oops)
GW: 62-67kg depending on how it feels

01/02 72.8kg 1570
After long haul flights and plane/airport food yesterday. Back to work, the gym and logging everything that passes my lips today.
01/03 72.3 (-0.5) 1544
Good day yesterday, ate what I logged, went to the gym and didn't give in to cravings in the evening. I've decided not no eat back my exercise cals, so I'm logging them as just 1 cal.
Is anyone doing Yoga with Adriene's Dedicate? I meant to start today with day 1 as the video isn't available until I leave the house in the morning, but then found it was too long for the time I had available, so did an old one instead.
01/04 71.9 (-0.4) 1557
I like this trend, hopefully it'll continue through this round back to below 70k. Yesterday went ok, I mostly stuck to my pre-logged food. I did have one piece of sweet I had brought back for my colleagues (it was a 130cals!), but changed my dinner from pasta to salad. I also ate the last of a few cereal bars I had from my trip, which were also high calorie. In the evening, I decided not to go shopping or to the gym or communicate with various people, but take time for myself and start with Dedicate Day 1. It was great! This morning, I did Day 2 and will also go to the gym tonight. I'll also do a healthy food shop. I remembered today that I had started eating bigger portions to curb the snacking, I'll get back to that from this evening. And I also looked at my macros and again noticed I need to up my protein, which I seem to always struggle with.
01/05 71.0kg (-0.9) wild guess: 2400??
I think this is all water weight, which i'm shedding with help of Tish's parsley/cucumber water. I can even see how my feet are no longer swollen.
Yesterday was good, stuck to my eating plan, went shopping, went to the gym. I spent the evening on the sofa and really wanted wine and all the snacks, but stuck to tea and my prelogged snacks. Today, started with yoga, which was sweatier than expected, had a filling and late breakfast and now have to do some work. I plan to either go for a walk or to the gym for a walk on the treadmill later.
01/06 71.0kg 1587
My plan didn't work out as I helped a friend, who's been having a *kitten* time, and that help came in form of going for food and drinks. I was relatively mindful, but even a few beers meant I went way over cals. I didn't walk or run, partly also due to the rain and also didn't do much of my work. Today was supposed to be my more "relaxed eating" day as i'm meeting another friend. But now i'm about to rush to the gym, squeeze in some work and then meet my friend... not the Sunday I had in mind.
01/07 71.0kg again (+-/0.0) 1468
That's not what I wanted. Good day yesterday, didn't turn out as hectic as I thought, which was nice. My legs were tired, so didn't run as much as I wanted to, but walked instead. After the gym, I weighed 70.5kg. Then went for coffee&cake with my friend and fit in a brownie without eating back my exercise cals. I have officially eaten the last snacks at home and I'm going to try not to buy any more. Fruit and tea for late night snacking now and if I manage to stick to it until Fri, there will be a reward in form of a bagel or cake from this nice shop.
Today, started with Yoga, all my food is planned and I will to go to the gym. I was gonna write 'want to go/plan to go', but decided it's not optional, so I will go. I was speaking to a friend on the phone yesterday and talking abut weight and exercise etc. And I realise that my legs and bum have gone quite wobbly and it must be due to the lack of walking here. So I know, once back in the UK, this will change again, but it's really annoying. I will increase my treadmill walking, but I can't make up walking around 5-7km every day, just through my commute and a little extra.
01/08 71.3kg (+0.3) bahhh 1442
Hm, I did not expect a gain, but I am feeling very bloated, soft and chubby. But maybe, this is the actual gain from the year end showing... Either way it needs to go!
I ran 35mins on the treadmill in one go yesterday eve, the longest treadmill run so far, and spent a total of 80mins on there. Today i'll go again and will just walk, depending on how interesting my podcast is, i'll do at least 60, if not 90 mins. I did have a late, slightly salty dinner last night, so maybe that's part of the cause for my gain. Also just saw on my app that TOM is due in a few days, so that may be the other part. Once that's done I plan to feel all nice and slender
4 more days to get back below 70.0, just have to sweat it all out and not go crazy at a lunch with colleagues on Friday. I'm quite motivated to keep up the treadmill work because I have 3 weeks until my husband arrives and I want to be below the weight I was when I left, which was 71, grrr.

01/09 71.2kg (-0.1)
I stayed up way too late, reading on my phone, so getting up was a challenge and late, so no time for yoga, I will do it tonight.
My macros finally look better for yesterday! But I'm still incredibly bloated, treadmill didn't really help. Went for a 55mins walk plus 20mins elliptical. Then had a healthy dinner. I did have almonds and biltong for a snack, but well within my cals so I'm not counting those an LNS. It was late and a snack, but kinda part of my dinner.
Today, my food is planned, I will not go to the gym but just do my yoga in the eve. I also need to catch up on some work, which i want to do from my sofa.

01/03 - 131.7 (didn't work out, ordered takeout 😖)
01/04 - 132.1
01/05 - 132.4 (ate the right food but did terribly with portion control. did a good workout though. Today is my one cheat meal for the week so expecting a spike tomorrow. Goal is to make sure I workout pre-cheat)
01/06 - 133.3 (cheat meal turned into cheat day, turned into booze and binge and takeout. Horrific. Hoping seeing these gross patterns in black and white will trigger something in me)
01/07 - 133.3 (worked out, ate low carb, could've definitely done better on portion control)
01/08 - 131.7 (ate pretty clean, limited portions, didn't work out though. Struggling to get enough water. Aim to do better on this front tomorrow.
01/09 - 131.1 (ate clean, limited portions, drank >3l of water and worked out. Only manage 20 mins of a 30 min workout though. Aim aiming for a minimum of 30 min of work out every week day because outside of that my lifestyle is very sedentary.)
01/10 -
01/11 -
01/12 -

01/01- 62.80kg
01/02- 62.65

Challenge starts
01/03- 62.60 kg
01/04- 62.60
01/05- 62.25
01/06- 62.30
01/07- 62.60
01/08- 62.10
01/09- 62.25 - Sugar overdose yesterday
01/10
01/11
01/12

@Winner_in_Life

I'm 38 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)
R52 SW 201.75 ..... HOLIDAYS .....
R53 .......... HOLIDAYS …………….
R54 … HOLIDAYS... EW 217.50
R55 SW 217.50 EW 222.50 (+5.00)
R56 SW 222.50 EW 220.50 (-2.00)
R57 SW 220.50 EW 213.50 (-7.00)
R58 SW 213.50 EW 213.25 (-0.25)
R59 SW 213.25 EW 207.50 (-4.25)
R60 SW 207.50 EW 204.75 (-2.75)
R61 SW 204.75 EW 209.50 (+4.75)
R62 SW 209.50 EW 207.25 (-2.25)
R63 SW 207.25 EW 218.75 (+11.50)
R64 SW 218.75

TOTAL LOSS (Start of round) =85.50lbs

Aim for 5lbs loss this round

01/02 - 218.75
01/03 - 214.25 - dramatic scales diff! I do master cleanse for 3 days in the new year so don't see this as weight loss, just the surplus sodium and water, it will even back out
01/04 - 213.75 last day of cleanse today and I'll be honest I feel could and could do longer but I've always said 3 days is long enough
01/05 - 212.00 1st day back to clean eating
01/06 - 209.75
01/07 - 210.50
01/08 - 208.25 feeling good at the min I will shift this Xmas weight
01/09 - 207.25
01/10 -
01/11 -
01/12 -

I don't know if somebody here follows the blog of this wonderful lady The_Movie_Chair, but I wish you read her last post. I feel the same, at my 51 I look and feel batter than at my 20th. It is great, but sad at the same time

https://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/The_Movie_Chair/view/two-years-123-lbs-lost-high-five-fat-lady-963762