Lose 5lbs + in January 2019

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  • Aine8046
    Aine8046 Posts: 2,122 Member
    Ok guys - the February challenge is now up and running

    Simply look for ‘Lose 5lbs + in February 2019’

    Hope to see you all there :)

    Well done this month everyone - you all absolutely killed it :) x

    Thank you, Samantha!
    Here is the direct link:
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10723602/lose-5lbs-in-february-2019#latest
  • stricklee11
    stricklee11 Posts: 218 Member
    edited January 2019
    Original starting weight - 184.5
    January starting weight - 192.8
    January goal - 187.2
    Ultimate goal - 155

    January 1st - 192.8
    January 8th - 190.4
    January 15th - 188.5
    January 22nd - 188.2
    January 29th - 187.0

    Total loss for January - 5.8 lbs

    Met my goal for January but wished I lost more weight. On to the February challenge!
  • ItsAJourny
    ItsAJourny Posts: 69 Member

    Original starting weight - 169 (Aug. 5, 2018)
    January starting weight - 136.8
    January goal - 132
    Ultimate goal - 128

    January 1st - 136.8
    January 8th – 134.4 jan 14 134.8
    January 15th – 134.2 jan 21 134.4
    January 24nd – 133.4
    Jan 30 132.4

    Total Loss for Jan - 4.4 pounds :smile:

    Good luck to all!
  • jeschields
    jeschields Posts: 90 Member
    Highest weight - 282
    Mfp starting weight - 260
    Jan starting weight -185.6
    Jan goal - 180
    Ultimate goal - 145

    1/2: 185.6
    1/9: 186.2
    1/16: 184.4
    1/23: 184
    1/30: 182.8

    Total loss in Jan 2.8
  • amberellen12
    amberellen12 Posts: 248 Member
    SW - 187.2
    GW - 182.2

    Jan 1 - 187.2
    Jan 7 - 186.8
    Jan 14 - 185.8
    Jan 21 - 184.8
    Jan 28 - 185.0

    Down 2.2. I’ll take it! 👍
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,514 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
    January 14th - 181.7
    January 15th - 181.6
    January 16th - 180.3 - I have seen the 70s twice this month already, but not getting my hopes up just yet. Skating yesterday and again today. I work out every day no matter what, but skating seems to be the difference maker. Maybe because it is so fun and relieves me of stress at the same time as torching lots of calories. 16 days of discipline to lose a 1/2 of a pound is ridiculous.
    January 17th - 178.7 - Yay! 2 days of public skating makes such a difference. Wish that I could do it year round, it is the only thing that I enjoy for an entire hour.
    January 18th - 178.7 - No skating, so not even .1 of a pound. I did 30 minutes of Zumba yesterday and only managed to eat 1100 calories. Public skating is 3 days per week unless I drive to a different town. Lol, thinking about that!
    January 19th - 179.2
    January 20th - 180.7 - lack of sleep.
    January 21st - 180.7 - Up 2 pounds from the 18th. Even skated yesterday. I can't give up now though. Only 10 days until the end of the month. Hoping for a woosh. Very frustrated, not feeling like it is worth all of the effort today. Did 55 minutes of zumba. 4 days in the 70s this month, c'mon body!
    January 22nd - 180.9 - luckily I have skating today. .5 of a pound is not good enough for 22 days. Plateau?
    January 23rd - 178.9 - skating yesterday and again today, then none again until next week unless I can find a frozen pond while I am away for 5 days. I leave tomorrow and it is going to be a challenge with foodie friends cooking very high calorie foods. I was hoping to have had a bit of a cushion by this time in January so that I could enjoy myself on this trip, but I have had to be clawing for every increment of a pound.
    January 24th - 178.5 - result of ice skating yesterday. 7 days left in the month, 2 more opportunities for public skating before that. I won't be able to weigh in again until next Tuesday.
    January 25th -
    January 26th -
    January 27th -
    January 28th -
    January 29th - 178.6 - Not too bad! Glad to only have put on .1 of a pound, so much eating and drinking, birthday party, eating out. I was able to keep up my workouts. Only 2 days left of the month, 2 of those are skating days, so hoping to drop a bit more.
    January 30th - 177.3 - Yahoo! Skating today again too, hoping to end the month strong.
    January 31st -

    Running loss/gain for January - 4.1 loss for January
  • angmarie28
    angmarie28 Posts: 2,777 Member
    Original starting weight -172
    January starting weight -157.2
    January goal -152
    Ultimate goal -136

    January 2nd -157.2
    January 9th -155
    January 16th -155.6 (100% water retention, I average under 1500 cals a day, and work out 6 days a week burning 200-600 calories each time.)
    January 23rd -155.2
    January 29th -154.2

    Total loss for January - 3
  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 3,937 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
    1/13 - 175.2 - 21g carbs, 17g net carbs
    📌 1/14/ - 176.2 - 63g carbs, 57g net carbs - black truffle & olive oil kettle chips was the culprit. Did not want to resist them.😏
    1/15 - 173.2 - on track

    1/16 - 173.8 - on track - 45g carbs 19g net carbs. Since I've had a couple of days of eating something (nuts or those chips!) after my fasting hours began, I've changed my eating window to end a couple of hours later. It seems to be working, but my early weigh ins will read a higher number at the 12th-13th hr fasting point as opposed to the 15th-16th hour.

    1/17 - 173.2

    1/18 - 172.2 - Mmm, maybe I will see a new decade at the end of the month.

    After my post on the morning of the 18th, no Internet at home until the morning of the 23rd. I had a couple of high calorie days, a couple of high carb days. Mostly vegetables and nuts. Tomato soup one day, hot chocolate yesterday. A few days, junk carbs, cookie, chips, chocolate. The winter weather has been colder than it has been for a long time. Makes me want to eat!

    1/19 - 173.8
    1/20 - 173.8
    📌1/21 - 174.2
    1/22 - 174.2
    1/23 - 174.2
    1/24 - 173.6
    1/25 - 174.4
    1/26 - 175
    1/27 - 173.8
    📌1/28 - 175.2
    1/29 - 176

    1/30 - 174.4

    ❄1/31





  • SallyLuvsFitness
    SallyLuvsFitness Posts: 13,724 Member
    Signed up in the Feb thread! YEA!
  • SFJULES66
    SFJULES66 Posts: 168 Member
    Signed up in the Feb thread! YEA!

    Me too! Good luck!
  • lalabank
    lalabank Posts: 1,009 Member
    lalabank wrote: »
    Original starting weight -242
    January starting weight -182.4
    January goal -177.4
    Ultimate goal -130

    January 1st - 182.4
    January 7th- 182.4
    January 15th- 180.6
    January 22nd- 178.6
    January 29th- 177.6
    January 31st- 179.2

    Total January- 3.2

    I’m ok with this. Remembering that I also lost the 5lbs of New Year’s bloat the first week.
    This month I also added in two days of strength training and my extreme Saturday Group Training so combined with yoga and cardio my body has actually changed A LOT this month.
    As long as I keep having NSVs and even if the scale moves slow, it’s still a success!
  • mfc9787
    mfc9787 Posts: 48 Member
    Original starting weight - 248
    January starting weight - 244.4
    January goal - 239.4
    2019 goal - 194.4
    Ultimate goal - 150

    January 2nd - 244.4
    January 8th - 241.4
    January 14th - 240
    January 20th - 237.2
    January 28th - 236.4
    January 31 - 234

    Total loss for January - 10.4

    WOO! Always exciting and encouraging to see progress. I know every month won't be this successful but it's really nice to start this year off with a bang.
  • BrunetteWife
    BrunetteWife Posts: 2,108 Member
    January starting weight -247
    January goal -242
    Ultimate goal -155

    January 4th -242
    January 11th -243.6
    January 18th -243
    January 25th -243
    January 31st -241.6

    Didn't weigh in on the 25th, life had me going everywhere. Haven't been able to hit the weights as much as I wanted this month but this midwest weather hasn't been very nice so I'll take what I've been able to do and push forth to next month.
    5.4lbs lost for January
  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 3,937 Member
    •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
    1/13 - 175.2 - 21g carbs, 17g net carbs
    📌 1/14/ - 176.2 - 63g carbs, 57g net carbs - black truffle & olive oil kettle chips was the culprit. Did not want to resist them.😏
    1/15 - 173.2 - on track

    1/16 - 173.8 - on track - 45g carbs 19g net carbs. Since I've had a couple of days of eating something (nuts or those chips!) after my fasting hours began, I've changed my eating window to end a couple of hours later. It seems to be working, but my early weigh ins will read a higher number at the 12th-13th hr fasting point as opposed to the 15th-16th hour.

    1/17 - 173.2

    1/18 - 172.2 - Mmm, maybe I will see a new decade at the end of the month.

    After my post on the morning of the 18th, no Internet at home until the morning of the 23rd. I had a couple of high calorie days, a couple of high carb days. Mostly vegetables and nuts. Tomato soup one day, hot chocolate yesterday. A few days, junk carbs, cookie, chips, chocolate. The winter weather has been colder than it has been for a long time. Makes me want to eat!

    1/19 - 173.8
    1/20 - 173.8
    📌1/21 - 174.2
    1/22 - 174.2
    1/23 - 174.2
    1/24 - 173.6
    1/25 - 174.4
    1/26 - 175
    1/27 - 173.8
    📌1/28 - 175.2
    1/29 - 176

    1/30 - 174.4

    ❄1/31- 176.2 - Started the monthlwith a carb/fluid gain and ended it the same way! A 1.8 lb fluid loss/gain. Smh. /color]


  • N_Strauss
    N_Strauss Posts: 23 Member
    Didn’t hit my goal, but was still able to lose a little! Here’s to a new month and another goal in February :)

    Original starting weight - 228.4
    January starting weight - 228.4
    January goal - 220
    Ultimate goal - 170

    January 1st - 228.4
    January 7th - 227.4
    January 14th - 226.6
    January 28th - 227.4
    January 31st - 226.2

    Total loss for January - 2.2 lbs