Lose 5lbs + in January 2019

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  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 4,097 Member
    edited January 2019
    •Lose 5 lbs in January 2019•

    December 2018 - Lost 2.4lbs 😃

    Original starting wgt: 253
    January starting weight: 178 (fluid retention)
    January goal: 170
    ❄Updating every day through January until completely back on track.

    •Monday Updates•📌
    1/01- 178 - Oh yeah, midnight eating and a little champagne. My weight is between 174 & 175 this is fluid.
    1/102 - 177.2
    1/03 - 175.8
    1/04 - 177.6 - Felt miserable all day yesterday with some type of weird allergy cold again. Exercised, ate dinner and went to bed later than usual. Now gut is upset. What the what?!
    1/05 -177.2 - Had no appetite most of the day yesterday, runny nose, gut in an uproar, whole 9 yards of misery. Took some cold medicine late afternoon and then proceeded to overeat cookies.😦
    1/06 - 178.2 - Still with the carb craziness!
    📌 1/07 - 177.2 - Coming back down. This "allergy cold" still hanging on. I will be staying under 20 grams of carbs today. (That should say net carbs.)
    1/08 - 174.4 - 18g net carbs, 16g net is the plan today.
    1/09 - 174.8 - I did better than planned yesterday, 19g carbs, 12g net. Today's plan is 16g/13g net.
    1/10 - 174 - 20g carbs, 17g net carbs.
    1/11- 172.8 - Yesterday 15g carbs, 12g net carbs.
    1/12 - 173.2 - Yesterday 29g carbs 23g net carbs
    📌 1/14
    📌1/21
    📌1/28
    ❄1/31

  • maureenkhilde
    maureenkhilde Posts: 849 Member
    bananasandoranges wrote: »
    Running2Fit wrote: »
    Original starting weight - 190
    January starting weight - 147.5
    January goal - 140.5
    Ultimate goal - 120

    January 03 - 147.8
    January 10 - 146.6
    January 17 -
    January 24 -
    January 31 -

    Total loss for January - 1.1 lbs

    Honestly, I’m a little frustrated. I’ve been working my butt off adding consistent exercise to my routine (and of course still sticking to my calories) and I feel like the weight is just barely coming off. It is my period week so there might be some water retention happening. I just feel like I’ve been working really hard the past 10 days and haven’t gotten much to show for it.

    @Running2FitRunning : losing a pound a week is a very good rhythm for solid weight loss.

    https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/losing_weight/index.html :
    "It’s natural for anyone trying to lose weight to want to lose it very quickly. But evidence shows that people who lose weight gradually and steadily (about 1 to 2 pounds per week) are more successful at keeping weight off. "

    Also I am sure you really do not want to read this. But now you are about 25 pounds away from your goal weight. And there are lots of discussions around the fact that when one only has X amount of pounds to lose. It is not uncommon for it to come off slowly like half a pound per week at the most. I am sure it is frustrating for you as you have lost 44 pounds and want the balance to just keep coming off steady. But as we know weight loss is not linear at all. Hopefully soon you will have a week when you lose 2-3 at one time.
  • ShopGirl9999
    ShopGirl9999 Posts: 775 Member
    A bit late..would like to join
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    January weight loss goal - 4 lbs=1.8 k
    January starting weight - 58.4k (128.7 lbs)
    January goal - 56.6k (123.9 lbs
    Ultimate goal – 52.5-55 range (115.7-121.2 lbs)

    January 1st - 58.4
    January 2nd -57.8 went to gym yesterday and got 40 min of cardio
    January 3rd -
    January 4th -58.1. got cardio today, not yesterday
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    January 6th -58.3
    January 7th -58.3
    January 8th -58.3
    January 9th -57.6 got 10,000 steps yesterday with work and a walk
    January 10th -57.0
    January 11th -57.3
    January 12th -57.7 barely moved yesterday and dug into weekly points last 2 days
    January 13th -57.4 went for a short walk yesterday, nice meal out
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    Overall loss in January: 1 k or 2.2 lbs
  • Tolamarie
    Tolamarie Posts: 5,557 Member
    Original starting weight -290
    January starting weight -246.2
    January goal -241.2
    Ultimate goal -175

    January 1st -246.2
    January 8th -245.6
    January 13th -246
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  • caret7785
    caret7785 Posts: 2 Member
    Hope ok to use stones and pounds (based in UK)

    Original starting weight - 17st 5.4lb
    January starting weight - 17st 5.4lb
    January goal - 16st 13.9lb
    Ultimate goal - 12st

    January 1st - 17st 5.4lb
    January 8th - 17st 4lb
    January 13th - 17st 1lb
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    I've never used this app before...Does this show in my challenges section?

    Thanks and good luck everyone!
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,895 Member
    January 1st - 181.4
    January 2nd -181.1 So glad to have my new digital scale so that I feel rewarded by "good" days. I am also happy with my decision to weigh every day, it makes me mindful every night that I will be weighing in the morning and affects my choices.
    January 3rd - 181.9
    January 4th - 181.7
    January 5th - 178.7
    January 6th - 182.5 Crazy how everything fluctuates. I couldn't believe yesterday, so weighed 5 times. Up 3.8 from yesterday, but I have skating on the docket for today. Perhaps I will discover a trend in something that I am doing, eating, or something that I am not eating with how it affects me.
    January 7th - 181.7
    January 8th - 183.0 - really don't get the gain this time, I was in really good numbers all week.
    January 9th - 182.2 - I seriously expect a really big loss soon. I am just sticking with it. I am working very long hours this week, maybe my body is holding on to it just in case.
    January 10th - 179.8 - not getting too excited, I see how I can be almost 4 pounds more the next day. Still, glad to be slightly under 180 at least for today : - )
    January 11th - 180.7
    January 12th - 182.4 - I was less disciplined in December and still lost weight, yet this month I am being so careful and am just not dropping weight. I have to stick with it.
    January 13th - 181.4
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    Running loss/gain for January - 0 gain/loss for January
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,895 Member
    lalabank wrote: »
    @dawnbgethealthy HUG! That was exactly my story in November. It was frustrating.
    I realized a few things that I was doing, they may not be true for you but I’m sharing because they are good examples of hidden self sabotage.
    One was I was being a bit loose on my measurements, specifically I was eating double servings of peanut butter🙈
    Second if I drank any alcohol didn’t matter if it was 2 glasses of wine or a low calorie vodka soda even if I was in my calorie goal or under I would get this super low scale number the next morning BUT the day after that I would be back up and often 1/2lb to a pound higher then where I started pre drink.
    I was casually having a drink or two as many as three times a week and was sabotaging all of my hard work.

    It sucks but once a saw my pattern of sabotage I stopped the social drinks and I’m seeing a much steadier decrease and even added back in the extra peanut butter.
    But boy am I looking forward to a Manhattan on Valentines Day!

    Hi Lala : - )
    Yes, I am a social drinker now. When I joined MFP Oct 27.18 I had been having drinks every single day since June, and gained 40 pounds! (I was also eating out with friends too much and eating out is a big no-no for me).
    I am in another challenge, "drink less". I aim for 4 AF days per week, but in January it has been more like 6AF per week. December averaged out to about 2-3 AF per week. Definitely alcohol does bad things for your weight. I have had so much less food and alcohol in January, yet I lost 5 pounds in December, and have basically been gaining in January when I have upped my fitness, lowered my calories, lowered my alcohol consumption.
    I measure my foods like nut butters : - )
    It just sucks that when one is so on track that the weight doesn't come off. It sure went on fast enough!!
    It is what it is. I don't hate my friends that can eat normally and don't have to track every calorie and work out, but I sure am envious. Not in the cards for me. If I don't want to be fat I will always have to work at it and never live like others do. Yes, you can tell that I am frustrated about the attention and hard work that I put into this. I was seriously ready to give up. Who wants to live like that? Well, apparently all of us on this forum have decided to, and are trying really hard. I am thankful for this daily accountability and community, we are all making the commitment and effort.

    A Manhattan Lala? Wow, I haven't had one of those in probably 30 years. Those are lovely.
    Thank you for the support : - )
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,895 Member
    ladycopnh1 wrote: »
    January starting weight - 253
    January goal - 243
    Ultimate goal - 140

    January 1st - 253
    January 8th - 244
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    Wow, you lost 9 pounds in a week? How did you do that? I think that it will take me more than 2 months to lose that much : - (
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    SamanthaLouiseMence wrote: »
    Hey guys, another year has been and gone, and I’m continuing this monthly challenge into 2019 :)

    Anyone and everyone is welcome to join or leave at anytime, this is an open challenge. If you do decide to join us for these challenges, remember to highlight the star in the top right corner to mark the page so you don’t have to keep searching for us :)
    Weigh in as often or a little as you like in this format :

    Original starting weight -
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    But remember to change the dates to fit YOUR weigh in days

    This is a friendly challenge, be supportive and respectful to each other. We are all working towards the same the thing.
    Feel free to share other things within the chat, such as new recipes you liked and thought other may like to try, if you’ve accomplished something, if you struggled with anything etc
    We are all here to support one another too :)

    Let’s shed those little weight gains over Christmas and then some more - bows the time to get back on track :)

    I hope you all had a magical Christmas and I wish you all the best for 2019

    Let’s do this :) xx

    Joining late but it’s all good. Was 129lbs before dec. 25. Back up 133lbs ish... will do a weigh in tomorrow.

    I believe I can lose five by the end of the month. ( including water weight)
  • bananasandoranges
    bananasandoranges Posts: 2,410 Member
    January weight loss goal - 4 lbs=1.8 k
    January starting weight - 58.4k (128.7 lbs)
    January goal - 56.6k (123.9 lbs
    Ultimate goal – 52.5-55 range (115.7-121.2 lbs)

    January 1st - 58.4
    January 2nd -57.8 went to gym yesterday and got 40 min of cardio
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    January 7th -58.3
    January 8th -58.3
    January 9th -57.6 got 10,000 steps yesterday with work and a walk
    January 10th -57.0
    January 11th -57.3
    January 12th -57.7 barely moved yesterday and dug into weekly points last 2 days
    January 13th -57.4 went for a short walk yesterday, nice meal out
    January 14th -58 didn't go the gym this past week and low on exercise, ate weekly points but not activity points
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    Overall loss in January: .4 k or.9 lbs

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