Lose 5lbs + in March 2019
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Sorry friends... I am struggling. Failed my final defense so I will not be graduating this semester. Trying to bounce back but pretty unmotivated right now 😢10
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CowgirlConnieMay wrote: »Sorry friends... I am struggling. Failed my final defense so I will not be graduating this semester. Trying to bounce back but pretty unmotivated right now 😢
That must feel devastating! You will get there. Take a step back and figure out what needs to happen so you get through next time. Be aware that your professor has some culpability here; they should not LET you sit for defense if you aren't going to pass. Work with them to figure out where the rough spots are, then get out the grinder and smooth them off. The whole experience is really an exercise in persistence.3 -
I will continue to weigh daily throughout March. It usually keeps me accountable from having that second helping, knowing that I will be weighing in the morning. I also like to look for trends, so daily weighing.
58 years old, 5'3"
Oct 27.18 joined MFP Start weight 191
March goal 169.3 - 5 pound loss, and hopefully into a new decade finally.
February loss was 1.9 pounds
February 28 - 174.8 - burned off mega calories yesterday too, but still up in weight this morning. Low on sleep.
March 01 - 174.3 - I hope for March to be better than February.
March 02 - 173.7 - Unbelievable, I was so disappointed with February, being so diligent about burning lots of calories, eating carefully, and barely losing weight - that last night I had (in defiance) a giant steak, corn, sour cream, potatoes etc., way over my calorie allotment. I truly expected to see a gain this morning.
March 03 - 174.3 - So the steak dinner from Friday shows up?
March 04 - 173.9 - skating yesterday
March 05 - 174.9 - no reason to be up other than short on sleep. Skating today, so hope to see a drop tomorrow morning.
March 06 - 173.6 - yay for skating, I am skating again today too.
March 07 - 173.3 - again, yay for skating. I am working out of town today, and taking my skates with me because there is an arena there. There is only a few weeks left of the skating season : - (
March 08 - 171.4 - I have learned now not to get too excited about this, I had a big dinner yesterday so I expect it to catch up with me. Slow metabolism once we get older. I did burn off a lot of calories yesterday skating and other stuff though.
March 09 - 172.7 - I skated 3 times at 3 different places yesterday (1,095 calories burned), but I did expect to see a gain because I had a good dinner on Thursday that hadn't yet showed up.
Running monthly total: loss 1.4 lb3 -
MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »Original MFP starting weight (January 2018) - 168.2
February 28 starting weight - 144.8 (ten-day rolling average weight 145.2)
March goal - 143
Ultimate goal - Range between 142 - 148
I report scale weight and (ten day average weight).
February 28 - 144.8 (145.2)
March 1 - 145.6 (144.9)
March 8 - 142.8 (145.1)
March 15 -
March 22 -
March 29 -
March 31 -
Total loss for March: Scale says I lost 2.8 pounds and have attained my goal weight! Ten day average actually says I'm up a fifth of a pound. <shrug>. Now let's see if I can avoid gaining it back. Yay!
@mtaratoot Congratulations on reaching goal!!! 🍾🎈🎊🎉🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎉🎉🎉
Thanks so much @MadisonMolly2017! I wasn't sure I was going to get there. Scale bounced back up a little bit ths morning, but I'm unfazed. Trending and average weight are still coming down, and I will EXPECT some fluctuations. No big deal! It will be really interesting if I get to the bottom of my goal range, but mostly I'm just thrilled to see I can stay in my range. Let's do it!
I'll probably stick around these challenges at least for a while. I've been participating in a maintaner's challenge lately too. Good folks over there as well.4 -
•Lose 5 lbs in March 2019•
February 2019 - Gain/Loss
of 4.2 lbs. 28 day average was 175.3
Original starting wgt: 253
March starting weight: 175.2
March goal: 170
❄Updating every day through March until completely back on track.
•Monday Updates•📌
March 1 - 175.2 - Feeling 90% better today.
3/2 - 177 - smh😕
3/3 - 175
📌3/4 - 177
3/5 - 174.4
3/6 - 173
3/7 - 173.8
3/8 - 172.6
3/9 - 172.2
3/10📌3/11
3/12
3/13
3/14
3/15
3/16
3/17
3/18
3/19
3/20
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Mtaratoot... Thank you for that. It is true I got little feedback the first time so I am sure this won't happen again!2
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3-8-19 218#
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Starting the challenge late. Desperately need accountability!
8th - 190
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Total loss for March -
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tiabirdie56 wrote: »•Lose 5 lbs in March 2019•
February 2019 - Gain/Loss
of 4.2 lbs. 28 day average was 175.3
Original starting wgt: 253
March starting weight: 175.2
March goal: 170
❄Updating every day through March until completely back on track.
•Monday Updates•📌
March 1 - 175.2 - Feeling 90% better today.
3/2 - 177 - smh😕
3/3 - 175
📌3/4 - 177
3/5 - 174.4
3/6 - 173
3/7 - 173.8
3/8 - 172.6
3/9 - 172.2
3/10📌3/11
3/12
3/13
3/14
3/15
3/16
3/17
3/18
3/19
3/20
Terrific progress😁😁😁😁1 -
MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »Original MFP starting weight (January 2018) - 168.2
February 28 starting weight - 144.8 (ten-day rolling average weight 145.2)
March goal - 143
Ultimate goal - Range between 142 - 148
I report scale weight and (ten day average weight).
February 28 - 144.8 (145.2)
March 1 - 145.6 (144.9)
March 8 - 142.8 (145.1)
March 15 -
March 22 -
March 29 -
March 31 -
Total loss for March: Scale says I lost 2.8 pounds and have attained my goal weight! Ten day average actually says I'm up a fifth of a pound. <shrug>. Now let's see if I can avoid gaining it back. Yay!
@mtaratoot Congratulations on reaching goal!!! 🍾🎈🎊🎉🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎉🎉🎉
Thanks so much @MadisonMolly2017! I wasn't sure I was going to get there. Scale bounced back up a little bit ths morning, but I'm unfazed. Trending and average weight are still coming down, and I will EXPECT some fluctuations. No big deal! It will be really interesting if I get to the bottom of my goal range, but mostly I'm just thrilled to see I can stay in my range. Let's do it!
I'll probably stick around these challenges at least for a while. I've been participating in a maintaner's challenge lately too. Good folks over there as well.
@mtaratoot
Yes, it always bounces up a little. - trends & averages tell the story!!
Yes, I’ve been tempted to join the maintenance challenge, but think I should wait until I’m where I want to be & not where I still want to lose a little. Not sure...
I’m definitely going to stick around these other challenges after hitting my final goal. They help me so much!
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March starting weight - 148.4
March goal - 143 lbs
Ultimate goal - 135. lbs
03/01 - 148.4
03/08 - 149.6
03/15 -
03/18 -
03/22 -
03/29 -
March loss -
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I’m in!
March start weight: 68.3 kg - 150.58 lbs
March goal: 64 kg - 141 lbs
Ultimate goal: 50 kg - 110 lbs
03/01: 68.3 kg (150.58 lbs)
03/05: 69.3 kg (152.78 lbs) (when I actually started)
03/08: 67.8 kg (149.47 lbs)
03/15:
03/22:
03/29:
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Original starting weight 60.5 k
February starting weight 58.1
Total gain for February +1.7 kilos
March goal: lose 2k
March 3: 59.9 k
March 10: 60 k
successes: went to gym yesterday
challenges: I ate too much and gained5 -
Starting weight: 83,7 kg
Goal weight: 58 kg-ish
March starting weight: 82,5 kg
March goal weight: 77 kg
March 1: 82,5 kg
March 5: 80,6 kg (↓-1,9)
March 8: 80,5 kg (↓-0,1)
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March 29:
March 31:
Total loss for March:2 -
This is what I was thinking. I didn't want to "claim" a larger loss for February if it was based on starting at a high. So I've added both values, and it's all good. It's a very supportive group. If I look back at the last three months, I can see that I am, in fact, going the right direction!
Hey @mtaratoot just wondering what app you use for your weight tracking, that looks so handy!
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Happy Sunday, everyone!
I missed checking in last Sunday as we went camping. Spring isn't quite here yet in North Georgia, but it is in South Georgia so we went there for a long weekend.
Things are moving ever so slowly, but I am hanging in there. No loss to report, but no gain either. Body shape keeps changing so that is positive.
Highest weight ever: 254 in October 1999.
Lowest since 1991: 194.4 November 25, 2018.
Original starting weight: 243 in 2015.
MFP Starting weight December 25th, 2016: 233.
Goal: 180 in however long it takes.
Weekly Averages:
February 18 - February 24: 196.5.
I missed averaging the last 7 days.
March 4 - March 10: 196.5
Loss for March: 0.
MFP Loss: 36.5 lbs.
Total cumulative loss since mid 2015: 46.5 lbs.
Move more, eat less.
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Just decided I need to work on losing weight and started March 4th.
Going on vacation to Fiji in May. I want to lose at least 15 pounds.
Walking goal: 15k steps daily and counting calorie intake.
It’s been a week and so far it’s working.
March starting weight - 145.9
March goal - 135
Ultimate goal - 130
1st -145.9
8th -141.2
15th -
22nd -
29th -
Total loss for March -5 -
Original starting weight - 265
March starting weight - 245
March goal - 235
Ultimate goal - 180
1st - 245
9th - 239.1
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•Lose 5 lbs in March 2019•
February 2019 - Gain/Loss
of 4.2 lbs. 28 day average was 175.3
Original starting wgt: 253
March starting weight: 175.2
March goal: 170
❄Updating every day through March until completely back on track.
•Monday Updates•📌
March 1 - 175.2 - Feeling 90% better today.
3/2 - 177 - smh😕
3/3 - 175
📌3/4 - 177
3/5 - 174.4
3/6 - 173
3/7 - 173.8
3/8 - 172.6
3/9 - 172.2
3/10 - 174.2 - An early weigh in as far as my fasting schedule. I'm experimenting going back to 12/12 for a week or two for a little break. Expected from increased carbs, but, seems that I haven't learned my lesson about drinking salty water late in the evening.😦 It's okay. 19g carbs, 14g net carbs. Carbs were: salad spaghetti squash, pesto, peanut butter (1.5 TB) YES to vegetables!📌3/11
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I will continue to weigh daily throughout March. It usually keeps me accountable from having that second helping, knowing that I will be weighing in the morning. I also like to look for trends, so daily weighing.
58 years old, 5'3"
Oct 27.18 joined MFP Start weight 191
March goal 169.3 - 5 pound loss, and hopefully into a new decade finally.
February loss was 1.9 pounds
February 28 - 174.8 - burned off mega calories yesterday too, but still up in weight this morning. Low on sleep.
March 01 - 174.3 - I hope for March to be better than February.
March 02 - 173.7 - Unbelievable, I was so disappointed with February, being so diligent about burning lots of calories, eating carefully, and barely losing weight - that last night I had (in defiance) a giant steak, corn, sour cream, potatoes etc., way over my calorie allotment. I truly expected to see a gain this morning.
March 03 - 174.3 - So the steak dinner from Friday shows up?
March 04 - 173.9 - skating yesterday
March 05 - 174.9 - no reason to be up other than short on sleep. Skating today, so hope to see a drop tomorrow morning.
March 06 - 173.6 - yay for skating, I am skating again today too.
March 07 - 173.3 - again, yay for skating. I am working out of town today, and taking my skates with me because there is an arena there. There is only a few weeks left of the skating season : - (
March 08 - 171.4 - I have learned now not to get too excited about this, I had a big dinner yesterday so I expect it to catch up with me. Slow metabolism once we get older. I did burn off a lot of calories yesterday skating and other stuff though. Lowest weightI have been so far, but then I had one low day in February which didn't last too.
March 09 - 172.7 - I skated 3 times at 3 different places yesterday (1,095 calories burned), but I did expect to see a gain because I had a good dinner on Thursday that hadn't yet showed up. Running monthly total: loss 1.4 lb
March 10 - 174.7 - argh! At least there is skating today. I get it if I don't burn 1,000+ calories that I might not lose anything, but I at least don't expect to gain when I only burn off 300-400. Cruel. Throughout all of this I always have calories to spare. Hoping for a better number tomorrow. I so badly want to get into the 60s.
Running monthly total: gain .4 lb2 -
36yo
5’6”
USW 223.6
March GW 152.0
March1 - 157.0
March3 - 157.8
March10 - 155.4 (so close to healthy BMI!)
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March31 -5 -
Got to lay off the chocolate.
March starting weight 139.5lbs
March goal weight 137
Goal weight 125lbs
March 1st: 139.5
March 8: 139.4
March 15:
March 22:
March 29:
Spring is coming- looking forward to walking outside 🌸🌷🥀☘
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Hi
Definitely want to join you. I have been trying to up my game. Started off at 7000 steps which has been a challenge cause I sit all day at work but time to get moving. So my goal will be 8000 steps pushing towards the 10000
Thanks for the challenge
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kilogramstolose wrote: »Hey @mtaratoot just wondering what app you use for your weight tracking, that looks so handy!
I actually use a few of them. Geeky, right? That particular graph was from a website called trendweight. But it has a catch. You can't actually enter your data there. You have to get a fitbit brand scale. But there's a work-around. You can enter your weight on another site (click on help to find more information; I don't want to link here as it may or may not be a violation of terms). A bonus; that site ALSO shows a trend graph. Groovy, right? On thetrendweight graph, you have options to view 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, or all of the data. You can also use an "explore" feature to view any time series you want. You also get data like how much you're losing or gaining per week and how many extra calories you are using or accumulating. It's good data. And the graphs are snazzy. On the graphs up to three months, the site also projects your future weight, and there's a small band of a goal range of about five pounds.
I also use another site called weightgrapher. You enter data directly on this site. It shows a similar chart, but is a little different. A feature of this one is that it also has the option of putting another line on the graph that was your weight one month ago (28 days). The idea for that is to help normalize for the monthly weight fluctuations many women observe.
But it's even worse than that. I also keep a few spreadsheets. I have various graphs on my main spreadsheet. My scale used to give me body composition data. That feature doesn't work most of the time anymore, but I still press the button. Sometimes it works. I need to get a new scale. I track my mass, my % body fat, a calculation of pounds of fat from mass and body fat %, and BMI. I also have a column to calculate a simple ten-day moving average. This also lets me easily calculate my average weight for each week, month, and year. I display the data and a ten-day moving average, so it gives similar information to the websites. I have three pages of graps in that spreadsheet. One is all the data, one goes back to January 2017, and one that's just last year.
The last one is pretty cool. I'm participating in a group here on MFP called Lose 1 Pound a Week and Keep it Off! 2019. It's a very supportive place. Consider joining! The only rule is you gotta post your weight once a week on a Google sheet. There's a bunch of other sheets for friendly challenges. Anyway, one of the folks that runs the group built one of the sheets called "True Weight" based on The Hacker's Diet. It's a little more than a simple moving average. The idea is that your weight today is more important in the trend than your weight ten days ago. Your weight three to five days ago is kind of in between in importance. Anyway, there's a place you enter your weight DAILY, and it uses a geometric mean calculation to give "true weight." I downloaded the Google sheet page into Excel and also track it on my own (not cluttered by other users' data). I added a graph of my daily scale weight and the calculated "True Weight." I have to update the data range any time I want to view the graph, but that's not a really big deal. It's very telling! Here's my graph from this year. Note my scale hit my ultimate goal weight the other day, and while it's bounced back up, it's still giving me a good story.
Good luck whatever you choose. I think it's kind of neat, but hey -- I'm a recovering scientist, so I kind of like data.2 -
I’m new-ish (aka disappeared for a few years and have just returned) to MFP and I’m hoping it’s okay to hop on this challenge a week late! I’m excited to get started and have goals again after falling off the wagon for so long.
32 yo female, 5’7”
Original starting weight - ~210lbs
March starting weight - 196.8lbs
March goal - 189lbs
Ultimate goal - 145lbs
1st - 196.8lbs
8th - 195lbs
15th -
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Total loss for March -7 -
Original starting weight -239
March starting weight -228
March goal -219
Ultimate goal -140
1st -228
8th -227.5
15th -
22nd -
29th -
Total loss for March 0
It’s a little discouraging not seeing pounds drop on the scale but I am feeling so much better since changing my eating habits. I definitely will not give up!7 -
puddlesbaby10 wrote: »Thank you!! I'm just getting back into this and I've been searching for an accountability system.
Let's shumash it!!
Original starting weight: 304.8 lbs
March goal: 299.08 lbs
Ultimate goal: 145 lbs -- 245 lbs in 2019 (60 lbs)
1st - 304.8
8th - 304.8
Update for 3/8: Started PiYo on 3/6, but didn't do so well on walking. Did not expect for a change. Next week!!
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Total loss for March -
Fitness Goals - Start Piyo 3x a week at least and walk 30 mins every day.
Challenges - Snacking and being sedentary.
Successes: So far I've met my walking. Starting Piyo on 3/6.
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Thank you for starting the challenge. I just came across this page.
March 8-2019 (207.8)
Goal weight 150 lbs
The goal for March 203 lb
Will weigh in weekly.3 -
Original starting weight - 252.5
March starting weight - 250.5
March goal - 245.5
Ultimate goal - 155
1st - 250.5
8th - 246.5
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Original starting weight 60.5 k
February starting weight 58.1
Total gain for February +1.7 kilos
March goal: lose 2k
March 3: 59.9 k
March 10: 60 k
March 11: 59.2 k
Lost march: .7 k
successes: long walk yesterday
challenges: super tired after.had to work on something unexpectedly. very little sleep5
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