JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS ~ ROUND 67

49 year old female from the midwest

In it for Round 20

OSW: 200.4

Goal this round - less wine, more movement - Have to be "Fit by 50!"

2/2: 186.4 - went to a benefit last night and did pretty well. Today - swim meets and party in the neighborhood. Down from yesterday so all good
2/3: 187.2 -expected - neighborhood party was fun! Now just get through the Super Bowl!
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@jemtred -- You are doing fantastic! Congrats on your 4 week loss!

@Fit2_T -- Welcome to the group!

@Thewaffle86 -- Sending healing prayers for your back! Just focus on the food part of the equation this week.

@euronorris -- Glad you had fun at your sister's birthday party and that you're not letting the scale fluctuation bother you! Just give it a few days!

5’7, female, 39 years old
SW: 210.8
GW: 140ish

R67: SW 194.8 GW 191.8

2/2: 194.2 - hit all my goals, was way under calories, busy day.

2/3: 195.0 - 🥂🎂 Minor bump - sodium and alcohol. Today starts my last year in my 30s. Would love to be 140lbs and fit by this day next year. Went out to dinner last night to celebrate and had a martini and a beer, but made pretty good food choices otherwise. About to head to the gym. Having grilled steak and veggies for dinner with family at home tonight, and chocolate cake, mmm.

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2/8: no scale - at conference
2/9: no scale - at conference
2/10: no scale - at conference
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MY NAME IS DONNA. I AM 58 YEARS YOUNG & FROM THE MIDWEST USA. I AM APPROX 5’ 5” TALL.
ROUND 25 FOR ME.

“I DON’T STOP WHEN I’M TIRED - I STOP WHEN I’M DONE”





Goals:

Weight:
Short Term Goal: Lose 2 pounds this round.
First Long Term Weight Goal: To weigh 180 by Valentine’s Day 💗💗💗 I hope to achieve this by losing about 1.5 pounds per week (or 2 lbs per round).
My Second Long Term Weight Goal: To weigh 160 by my Birthday on May 10th by sticking to my plan to lose 1.5 pounds per week (or 2 lbs per round).
My third Long Term Weight Goal: To weigh 150 by the 4th of July using the same plan as above.
Exercise:
During each Weight goal I plan on doing cardio in the form of dancing at aerobic levels whenever possible. I would also like to walk as much as possible although walking outside is impossible for me this time of year.

********LOOK AND SEE HOW MUCH THESE 10 DAY CHALLENGES HAVE HELPED ME********

MY STATS:
Highest weight ever (2014/2015): 253
Original starting weight for this current journey : (1-11-2018) 235.0
R66 EW= 186.9
R67 EW= TBD

Day/Weight/Comment

02/02 ….. 186.9 ….. Same as yesterday on the scale. I ate back my 222 calories from exercise. Over on the carbs, but not too bad. I kept my bun on my hamburger because I was so hungry. I should have planned differently. I burned 2437 calories overall. 11,640 total steps & 5.12 miles overall. 13/13 fitbit step hours. I slept 6 hours 26 minutes which is great for me. No dancing (frown) but I did take a brisk walk indoors at the school for 34 minutes. I stopped on my way past when I saw the school was open for some type of meeting (cars in parking lot). Update: My sister’s kidneys are showing some improvement today. They hope she’ll be off the ventilator tomorrow. No hope for her heart with multiple blockages which they say is inoperable so if she can make it in the short term we just don’t know how long it might be. She will have to move & live with her daughter if she can make it out of the hospital. She has pneumonia now & an unexplained infection which they are now trying to track. Thanks for the prayers & hugs. I am back to dancing today. I have already put in a set of almost an hour. Back to work now, but I will be dancing again this evening & hope some of you will join me. Good luck everyone on this round!

02/03 ….. 186.9….. Drats! The same, but it’s my own fault. I am certainly eating my emotions. Still dancing, eating back some of my calories with the dance but still staying under . However, it doesn’t work that way with carbs, so I’m getting nowhere. I’ve got to pull my emotions together here! STOP LEANING ON FOOD FOR EVERYTHING! I am just thankful there was not a gain. 1353 Total Calories. 75 Net Carbs of mostly junk. Burned 2557 total calories. 14,807 steps & 6.27 miles all of which are helping me to at least maintain. 13/13 fitbit stephours. 4 hours 16 minutes of sleep. IF 16:8. I danced for 71 minutes burning 434 calories. Calorie burn does depend on the songs I choose. Sample song was “Got it Wrong” by the Wildfeathers. Sis continues to show very minor improvements in some areas. Thanks for the well wishes. Heavy workload today as there are lots of checkouts and cleanings in my cabins. I’ll get in lots of steps today more than likely.
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Ending Weight Round 66: 153

02/02 152.6
02/03 151.6
Last night I was looking through photos on phone. Wow, am I thinner than 15 months ago. I checked my weigh back then, and I can’t believe I’m 40lbs down.

But tgefteally amazing part was looking at photos from May 2018. I look so much leaner. Again, I checked, and I’m about 20lbs down. This is notable because my Inner Critic has been saying “See, you’ve barely lost anything since April.” NOT!! I look - and feel - light years better. Kicks that voice to the door!

Then I decided to take my
Measurements - basically ALL of them. LOL
Measured waist holding it in & natural, for example. Amazingly, my hips have gotten smaller. I guess muscle dies take up
Less space! If someone had told me this was even possible, I would have said “no way.”

Very happy. If you are mid-weight loss journey, I beg you to keep going. You will not believe how much better you will feel - and look. My goal all along was to lose enough that I felt good about myself and would be willing to fight to maintain it
It will likely take another 5-10 lbs, but I’m not giving up. I’d like a 30 inch waist. After seeing my hips shrink smaller than I could have ever imagined, I’m beginning to believe waist will actually trim down too.😇

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HW: 237.7
SW: 228.3 1/1/16
OGW: 169
Revised GW: 155 reached Thanksgiving 2018
Now shooting for 150 lbs to see what I look like since 151-152 is much better than 155.

NEVER GIVE UP, EVER! 🙏🏻😇
“Focus on Health.”

Good Luck ALL❣❣

Health!!! Focus on health! 🏃🏻‍♀️💪🏻🙏🏻💃♥🏆
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Round 34 thru Round 66– 179.4 to 153lbs, -26.4 lbs in 33 Rounds❣
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You. ARE Healthier. Than. You. Ever. Thought. Possible. #Grateful,soGrateful🍀🙏🏻🌈♥🌟🌈🍎
♥️Labs are perfect!
♥️I track everything I eat Every Day, weighing everything to the gram. I pay attention to sodium, protein, fiber, water, sat fats under control. Minimum 5 fruits/veg servings a day, protein every meal,
♥️I exercise daily (10K steps, 60 mins exercise, and 300 workout burn daily, minimum, averages over a week.)
♥️I keep CI under CO daily.
♥️I use a trend app & look at averages weekly, monthly, etc.
♥️Water, sleep, yoga (recent addition), body positivity affirmations, (another recent add), GLAD (grateful, learned, achieved, delighted) quick daily journaling..
♥️Baby steps. As my Dad always reminded us, “Rome was not built in a day!”)
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You have accomplished great things with your health. Do keep this in mind! You are winning the war, if not each day’s battle! You are stronger & more robust than you think❣

Looking forward to this round.

36y 5'6"
SW = 160
CW = 149.9 (-10.1)
RGW = 148
UGW = 135

Round 64 EW 155.0 (-5.0)
Round 65 EW 151.3 (-3.7)
Round 66 EW 149.9 (-1.4)

02/02 149.7 yesterday was a good day. I'm nervous about tomorrow. I have two food centered event today, including a chocolate chip cookie bake off and a dumpling party. Lord, give me strength.
02/03 149.6 lesson for the day... When you don't get a lot of calories allotted for each day (1200), eating a cookie eats up like a quarter of your calories. That's insane. And leaves you feeling pretty hungry, since a cookie does not satiate. It was really hard not to over eat yesterday. I made it, and the scale obviously forgave me for the cookie bake off I attended, but really hard. What are people's strategies for making it through today? (those of you watching that sports thing going on).
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Round 67, my 4th!

10 day goal: 163🤞

May 17th goal weight: 145

45 female, 5'5"

Day/Weight/Comment
02/02 - 164.4
02/03 - 164.4 - I'll take staying the same. 👍
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64: 171-->166 (-5) 🎉🎉🎉
65: 166-->167.4 (+1.4)👌
66: 166.4-->165.4 (-1) 👍
67: 164.4-->

I’m definitely in! Round 2 for me.
Original starting weight-275.6
Round 66 Sw 269.8 / loss 6lbs (263.8)
Goal this round 5 lbs 258.8
Day/Weight/Comment
02/02 264.4 ( up a smidge)
02/03 263.8
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Last day of this round I will be on a plane leaving for our 6 day vacation. No Kids, no animals, just my DH and I. So that means I have 10 days to do my best work and stay on track so that I can have fun and not stress about the scale while I am away. Round 67 here we go!

End of Rnd 66:147.6 which is a new low for me (Avg 10 day was 149.56)
Goal 146.xx and get my Avg 10 day lower

02/02 - 148.5 up a little today. Had a couple of beers last night to celebrate my son getting into the college he wanted. So I expected a little bit of an up tick. Have to get up early and do some cleaning and then get some shopping done. We will see how it goes.
02/03 - 151.1 up some more. Again expected. This weekend we have had lots of eating out and lots of celebrations. Going to try and do better today and not let myself continue to go downhill.
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Age: 28
Height: 5ft 9 in
SW: 185 lbs
GW: 155 lbs

Round 66: 177 (-2.6)

Day/Weight/Comment
02/02 / 177.6 / Didn't work out.
02/03 / 176.2 / A miracle. I did work out, but wasn't expecting to see this on the scale. Today has not been great calorie-wise though, so I'm expecting a bit of an increase tomorrow.
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Day/Weight/Comment
02/03 . 227.6 . Barely moved. Trying harder today to track more accurately!
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SW: 122.8
GW: 120.0

02/02: 122.8 Day one of ten! Here we go.
02/03: 122.6 Hey y’all. Go Rams. Come on!
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Round 67

Round 39 145.6 stayed same
Round 40 146.2 gained .6
Round 41 143.8 lost 2.4
Round 42 144.8 lost .8
Round 58. 143 gained 3
SW: 142
GW: 130
Keto and IF

2/2 142 Yoga 😊
2/3. 142 planks rest day
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Round 66
Original starting weight (April 2018: 186.6)
Ultimate goal weight: 130 (for now)

R64 SW 181.8 EW: 180.0 (-1.8)
R 65 SW 180.0 EW: 182.0 (+2.0)
R 66 SW 181.6 EW: 180.2 (-1.4)
R67 SW

Day/Weight/Comment

02/01 180.8
02/02 181.6 Sigh. In the past year, I’ve made very little progress. I’ve lost 10 lbs, then gained five and lost and gained those same five for eight months. To tell the truth, sometimes I wonder why I log and report on this site. Truthfully, the reporting reflects my effort. It’s not like I’ve watched every morsel or even made great strides with exercise. In the end, I suppose, keeping track has stopped my monumental weight gain in its tracks and that’s something. I have 50 pounds to lose, gained over years of raising kids, job and marriage stress and just plain having too many birthdays. While the actual weight loss has been a failure so far, I’m going to count my of my issues and stopping the rolling weight gain as a win. In April, I will start a new MFP year, let’s see what I can do by then.

02/03 180.6 Bouncy, bouncy bounce.

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R60 SW: 219.7 EW: 217.1 AW: 218.3
R61 SW: 217.1 EW: 217.3 AW: 217.1 (-1.2)
R62 SW: 216.4 EW: 216.9 AW: 216.6 (-0.5)
R63 SW: 215.1 EW: 214.2 AW: 214.6 (-2.0)
R64 SW: 213.4 EW: 214.2 AW: 215.6 (+1.0)
R65 SW: 214.7 EW: 215.1 AW: 215.0 (-0.6)
R66 SW: 214.9 EW: 214.7 AW: 214.5 (-0.5)

Goal: Run 3x per week and weightlift 3x per week

Day/Weight/Comment
02/02--214.9 Completed W3D3 yesterday of C25k. I didn't want to go out for the run because it was raining, but on my way home I saw someone out running and thought if she can do it so can I, so I got home, got the dog and went out for the run. In the end it wasn't raining that hard and the dog really enjoyed it too.
02/03--215.3 Went to the gym this morning and did some weightlifting.
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