JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS ~ ROUND 67

I am back having to try again after gaining back some weight.

My goal for this round is 167.

02/03 - 174.3
02/04 - 173.9
02/05 - 173.4
02/06 - 172.1
02/07 - 170.7
02/08 - 169.6
02/09 -
02/10 -
02/11 -
02/12 -

5'5, female, 37
SW: 290
GW: 225
End R61: 278 (-4.6)
End R62: 274.6 (-2.6)
End R63: 272.2 (-2.4)
End R64: 270.4 (-1.8)
End R65: 269.6 (-0.8)
End R66: 270 (+0.4)
Total challenge loss: 11.8

SW 02/02: 270
02/03: 270
02/04: 269.8 - this is the first day back from a week off diet (all inclusive in Cancun lol) so I'm back on the wagon now. And kind of happy I only gained 2 pounds.
02/05: 268.8
02/06: 268.6
02/07: 270
02/08: 268.8
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Roxmom66
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Roxmom, age 66, 5’ 2”

OSW: 228.0
R65. SW: 199.4. Loss .2
R66. SW: 199.2. Loss 3.6



Day/Weight/Comment
02/02. 196.0
02/03. 194.8
02/04. 195.4. I admit I earned the gain. Regular calories, and then a few chicken wings andthen nachos and cheese. Darn super Bowl!
02/05. 194.2. 😊.happy. Kept to plan, both with calories and water. A new low!
02/06. 194.0. Stayed on plan, drank my water and tried a new dinner recipe which was a hit. So good day.
02/07. 193.0. I had to weigh twice to confirm weight. On target for food, a little short on water.
02/08. 194.0. Food good, water good, but had a two glasses of wine. Can’t believe it would make that much of a difference.
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CW: 166.6 lbs
GW for this week: 164 lbs

Day/Weight/Comment
02/03 - 166.6
02/04 - 167.4 The Super Bowl was yesterday. Not surprised with the gain. Kinda ate mindlessly. Back on track today and ending to the gym after work.
02/05 - 166.8 Almost back to where I started.
02/06 - 166.8 Not yet
02/07 - 166.6 I didn't drink nearly enough water yesterday. I did walk for 40 minutes and stayed under calories.
02/08 - 165.4 Had a good workout at the gym last night. Just gotta be consistent and trust the process.
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I just spent 15 minutes looking back over challenge notes from September, when my weight first dropped into the 170's. On the surface, the carb eating at first was from stress. Then the full realization of losing almost 80 lbs in a year. That really did scare me. I wanted to slow down the loss, so eating some keto forbidden carbs did not concern me and it wasn't daily. Then through the holidays, I had just a few goodies on hand for my family. I did enjoy 2 oatmeal cookies😁 January has always been when I gain weight and this year's unusual cold just made me want to eat. I honestly still do not crave anything usual like sweet and salty, but I do like crunchy. I figure that is my new crave on keto, because I don't eat anything crunchy. Radishes and celery don't fit the bill. Crackers, pretzels and once in a while chips. NONE of these junk foods taste good to me. They taste like pasty flour. Chips taste like rancid grease unless they have an added flavor AND they upset my stomach. They all are just crunchy. This is a very odd craving to battle. I had not been taking my B vitamins since early January and I think that's the reason for wanting the grain carbs. I started taking the B's again 3 days ago. I have to take them with food because they upset my stomach. Of course, when I remembered to take them it was bedtime when my stomach was empty, therefore, the chocolate truffle eating (they were on the table next to the vitamins) because I definitely do not want chocolate. Yesterday, I took them with my meal. I've been contemplating all of this for a while. I'm ready to move on now. If you took the time to read this "ebook" Lol. Thanks.

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).
02/04 150.4 eek. I ate at or pretty close to at my target calories, but salt got me and the two drinks I had when I've been dry for the part month. Super bowl partial sabotage. Actually, not that bad. I still feel good, and I did an hour of yoga this morning.
02/05 149.8 doing all the right things, so I'll have faith that, in the long run, I'll break though this little one pound yo yo thing.
02/06 149.8 sigh. It's not possible that I can be eating a maintenance amount of calories. I hope I break this plateau soon.
02/07 149.0 ¡por fin!
02/08 148.7 I had a really good day yesterday. Two workouts. Ate tons of protein. Some really nice conversations with friends. But, best of all, the better eating has improved my energy levels. I usual spend the afternoon exhausted and ready to fall asleep by four. That's not been happening recently.
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Day/Weight/Comment
02/03 - 169.0 lbs
02/04 - 167.9 lbs
02/05 - 167.6 lbs
02/06 - 167.3 lbs
02/07 - 167.8 lbs - Yesterday was rest day.
02/08 - 167.3 lbs
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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 weight back then, and I can’t believe I’m 40lbs down.

But the really 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 does 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 my believe waist will actually trim down too.😇

02/04 150.8
02/05 151.6
02/06 151
Wasn’t going to exercise or eat a good dinner last night (tired, slightly under the weather), but my habits kicked in. I just couldn’t not do my daily exercise & get that calorie burn. Wearing my regular clothes lol , I took my sketching supplies & said just do 20 mins (thank you UAC!). Drew a couple of portraits- better than usual - I might need to add a desk top to ex bike...😛 And then looked at my stats...calorie burn not high enough. Finished with HIIT for a total of an HOUR. Then ate nutritious dinner - berries, small lean pork, a Doctor Kracker Seedlander cracker, cut raw veggies w/ some balsamic vines and a touch of olive oil & a big cup of tea. Hardest day I’ve faced in over a year, and I did it. Happy that scale came back down.
Shooting for 150 by ♥️’s Day.
02/07 151.2
02/08 150.8 ❣️A huge NSV for me: four years ago I bought a cropped jacket with a matching scarf in France that I hoped one day I would be able to wear unbuttoned over a shirt. This morning I was looking for something in my closet to wear that fit (recently my “thin” clothes have been baggy - a surprise for sure). I saw the dry cleaned jacket & scarf & thought well maybe it will fit, unbuttoned... well it fit perfectly buttoned!!!! And the scarf I had planned to use to cover my middle looked really bulky. As I was typing this, I realized I can transform the scarf into a blouse! This is actually my biggest clothing/related NSV yet ❣️#grateful #GRATEFUL *happy tear*[/b]
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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.

Revised GW to 148.5 to help me (hopefully) blast into the 140’s!

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❣

27th Round for me: Female 65, height 5’
Goal this round: To get out of the 160’s or at least consistently not above 160. Right now even ½ lb. per round would seem great. This is the same goal as last round. Was feeling discouraged until I looked at a year ago and realized that I’m only down 4 lb. but I have established a “new normal.” I’m at the upper range of that the beginning of this round. Before starting at the gym and then joining this group, I was gaining about 5 lb. a year. So all my changes have me close to the 150’s instead of into the 170’s.

Ultimate Goal Weight – 128; Hoping to be under 140 by end of June. (Not sure if this is possible for me but even well down in the 150’s would be better than where I am at now.)
Round 67 – 162.8
Popped up a lb. at the beginning of last round and ended up in the same place. Not sure why the beginning of a round there is often a jump. Anyway, I use the last day of the last round as my start weight.
Day/Weight/Comment
02/02 – 162.4 – Gym yesterday, nice to get in a good workout. It’s a year since I started at the gym and even with 2-3 times a week has made a huge difference in how I feel and, I think, look. Planning to take measurements later today.
02/03 – 163 – Have been unusually good about the cals., so was expecting to go down.
02/04 – 162.8 – A little LNS last night but managed to stop at a couple of cookies. Off to the gym today.
02/05 – 162.6 – Good workout yesterday. Will try out the treadmill, that we have been “storing” for our daughter for years, at home today. Hubby uses it regularly. I tried one at the gym when I first went but couldn’t seem to get the rhythm. I prefer walking outside but it’s icy and we have very steep streets.
02/06 – 162.8 – Well, didn’t do the treadmill yesterday – worked on my knitting project and took a nap. Amazing how your mind completely forgets the things you don’t really want to do. Off to the gym today.
02/07 – 162.6
02/08 – 162.2 – No gym today. No school today (likely a ProD day for the teachers to make the family day weekend longer) so that means the gym will likely be crazy with teens and DH needed the car. Good motivation to do that treadmill so I don’t go back up. Inspired by my sis-in-law who has lost 63 lbs. this year. She is much heavier than I but has been overweight all her life so has bigger lifestyle/mindset changes to make than I do.
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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.

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. 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.
02/04 …..186.9….. no planned exercise yesterday or dancing. My stats: 1668 Total Calories. 81 Net Carbs. 44 minutes of stripping beds burned a whopping 48 calories according to my fitbit activity marker. 10,460 total steps & 4.43 miles. 13/13 fitbit stephours. 5 hours & 14 minutes of sleep. IF 16:8.
02/05 ….. 186.7 …..Great strong day yesterday in my eating plan. 1305 Total Calories & 11 Net Carbs. 2374 Calories Out. 12,388 Total Steps & 5.24 Miles. IF 16:8. 13/13 fitbit stephours. 5 hours & 3 minutes of sleep. I danced 29 minutes. Sample song (which was perfect beat for dancing) was “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder.
02/06 ….. 186.7….. My Stats for yesterday after going out with a friend for Mexican Food lunch: 1358 Total Calories In. 38 Net Carbs In. 2189 Calories Out. 10,123 steps & 4.45 total miles. IF: 16:8. No sleeping record because I charged my fitbit during sleep. I danced 36 minutes and one of my songs was “Gimme One Reason” by Tracy Chapman.
02/07 ….. 186.5 ….. Dripping off like water on the icecicles, but it’s in the right direction! My stats for yesterday: Very low calories in because of workload that caused me to starting eating so late in my IF eating window: 775 Calories In. 2260 Calories Out. 27 Net Carbs which were mostly from my Zoodles in Marinara. 12,351 Total Steps & 5.23 total Miles. IF with a late start so it was more like 20:4. I slept a fantastic 6 hours & 40 minutes. I danced 77 minutes My sample song was “Lido Shuffle” by Boz Scaggs. I found myself doing more of a funky twist with lots of arms, more than anything. Anytime I twist it makes my waist feel so slender! And we all know how well it did for Chubby Checker!
02/08 ….. 186.9 …..Up a blip from pool hall & potluck. No worries. Too hard to calculate calories & carbs but I know they were higher than my normal plan. My other stats: Over 2000 calories likely. Over 200 carbs is probable. Net carbs unsure. 2240 Calories Out. 10,120 total Steps & 4.3 Total Miles. IF 16:8 Slept 4 hours 33 minutes. 11/13 step hours. Danced 35 minutes before leaving for the event. Sample song: “Jealous” by Nick Jonas, only because I am Sexy Beautiful and so are you! My sister may be leaving the hospital today so it is a blessed day. Have a great weekend everyone!
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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.
02/04 - 153.7 UUUGGGHH!!! I didn't eat terrible yesterday, but it wasn't great either and we drank a lot (BEER) at a Super Bowl party. I am extremely dehydrated this morning and I know I didn't drink any water after noon yesterday. 6 pound gain in 2 days. It will be gone by Wed, so not going to freak out. This weekend I am going to try and change things up a bit. I think it is the beer that I drink that makes me gain so much. I am not drinking at all Monday- Friday. I only drink on the weekend and I always gain a ton of water weight. At least 4-6 pounds. It's my sons 18th birthday on Saturday and we are having a big family party so that should keep me busy and then Sunday I will be getting ready to leave on vacation. I will be in Vegas for a week so I want to see if it really is the beer that makes me retain so much fluid.
02/05 - 153.7 Did not do any better yesterday, just could not get on track. I ate fast food for breakfast and lunch. I can not tell you the last time I have done that. I think I have already decided I am not going to worry about it since we will be on vacation all next week. I watched everything I ate so close last year and am down 35 lbs. for that effort. Honestly I wasn't even going to post today, but decided I was not giving up and I had 6 days left until we left. I want to be back in 140's before we leave, which is doable. I am just having a really hard time this year staying the course I guess. I am not making any of my goals and can not seem to focus. I need to get my will power back in check and do what I know I need to do. So today I am doing what I need to do!
02/06 - 151.1 back down and we continue to yo-yo this month.Day 3 no alcohol, definitely a better day calorie wise, and plenty of water. Been backed up indigestion wise for a couple of days now, so hopefully will get some relief from that today. I don't think my stomach is agreeing with the amount of crap I ate over the weekend. Today my day is planned and should go well. Hoping to be back in the 140's tomorrow and stay there till the end of this round. My 10 day average is definitely going to be up this round.
02/07 - 149.3 almost back to where I was at the beginning of the round. Did well yesterday and getting rid of the carbs, or alcohol, or whatever weight it is that I put on last weekend. Lol, have my day planned and am on track.Hopefully I can finish strong in 4 days.
02/08 - 149.8 Had Chinese food at about 8:30 last night. My life has just been insane lately. Trying to get ready for my son's 18th bday party tomorrow and get through this work week. I am so ready for vacation. I need a break! Should go back down tomorrow, I'm sure it went up because we ate really late and the sodium. 3 more days, trying to finish in the 140's at this point.
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