Lose 5lbs + in March 2019

•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 - 170.8
3/12 - 170.4 - Day 1 Day 3 of my experiment in the books. Successful so far.
3/13 - 171.8 - Retaining some fluid
again from drinking electrolytes just before bed.
3/14 - 171.2
3/15 - 172.2 - A little fluid retention..... from exercise, not carbs! Knee is behaving, so back to strengthing quads and hams. Taking it low and slow, but consistently. I'm dealing with old shoulder injuries too, so must not be impatient with myself trying to do sets, reps and long workouts like I used to do.
3/16 - 173 - Normal fluctuation.

3/17 - 171.2

from Mtaratoot:

Have you considered some kind of app that shows you a trend from daily numbers? Fluctuation happens! There's another group here on MFP called Lose 1 Pound A Week and Keep It Off! 2019. One of the tools over there is called "True Weight." It takes a geometric moving average of daily weigh-ins. It's really interesting to see the fluctuations. AND THE TREND. There's also some online tools you can use. I posted about that here the other day. As an example of "True Weight," look at my data from 2019. Look particularly at February. HUGE swings up and down. But the overall trend? It's good.


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Thanks for the good advice. I usually look at my weight over the course of a month and I know that it has steadily been creeping up instead of down. A combination of careless eating, medication, post menopause metabolism and stress. I really need to get my act together.

tiabirdie56 wrote: »

•Lose 5 lbs in March 2019•


3/15 - 172.2 - A little fluid retention..... from exercise, not carbs! Knee is behaving, so back to strengthing quads and hams. Taking it low and slow, but consistently. I'm dealing with old shoulder injuries too, so must not be impatient with myself trying to do sets, reps and long workouts like I used to do.


How do you strengthen quads without hurting knees? Yes, shoulders. I had been doing push-ups (25 per day) for 3 months, but had to give it up because it hurt my shoulders.
I know that this aging thing (old injuries rearing back up, post-menopausal metabolism etc.) can really suck, but it is better for our bodies if we lose some weight.
Glad to see that your new experiment is working out! You are having a good month!

Starting again, with a vengance

March starting weight - 270
March goal - 265
Ultimate goal - TBD

17th - 270
24th -
31st -
Total loss for March -

Original starting weight - 354.4 lbs
March starting weight - 345.2 lbs
March goal - 330 lbs
Ultimate goal - 250 lbs

1st - 345.2 lbs
4th - 344.9 lbs
8th - 341.0 lbs
11th - 343.6 lbs I ate during my fast last night. I don't know what I was thinking. But today is another day.
15th - 341.3 lbs I'm not entirely sure what's happening but I'm not going to let it discourage me.
18th - 338.8 lbs I was scared for a minute but then I realized that I was dehydrated and retaining water at night. So I changed this around. Drinking lemon water in the morning and propel at night. Happy Monday
22nd -
25th -
29th -
31st -

March loss -
February loss - 9.2 lbs

At this point, all I can do is...laugh.

Pro: I know in my heart of hearts that I am not snacking as much on bad food.
Con: I did not drink as much water this weekend as I should have.

I will just keep going because I have lost 1/4 inch off the largest part of my waist since last week.

MFP Starting Weight: 140 lbs - February 2011
Current Starting Weight: 147 lbs - November 2017
March Starting Weight: 141.2 lbs
March Goal: 135 lbs
Height: 5ft

Goal Weight: 135 lbs - April 2019 (Niece's Quincenera)
Ultimate Goal: 120 lbs

Weigh-In Day: Friday and Monday

March 1: 141.2 lbs
March 4: 141.2
March 8: 141.2
March 11: 141.2
March 15: 139.6
March 18: 141.4
March 22:
March 25:
March 29:

Total loss for February: +0.2 lbs

Original starting weight - 172.6 lbs
March starting weight - 156 lbs
March goal - 152.0 lbs
Ultimate goal - 120 lbs

03/01 - 156
03/04 - 155.5
03/11 - 155
03/18 - 154.5
03/25 -
03/31 -

March Loss- 1.5 lb

Disappointed so far this month, but at least number is going down however slowly

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 Tuesday - 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 weight I 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.
March 11 - 172.3 - I'll take it. Big skating calorie burn yesterday.
March 12 - 173.9 Tuesday - I stick to 1200-1300 calories, aerobics, but if I don't get in at least an hour of skating I am up on the scale. Skating during my work break today. It is really hard to lose weight otherwise for me.
March 13 - 172.5 - I actually matched my calories in with my calories out yesterday! It is starting to look like my way forward will be to burn 3,500-7,000 calories per week to lose 1 pound per week. That is pretty time consuming, but it seems like it is the only way that I can lose anything. Skating today ; - )
March 14 - 172.3 - Would be nice to see a woosh soon, I was able to get in 140 minutes of skating yesterday, mega calorie burn, 1,420. I had 1,100 calories left to eat if I wanted to the last 2 days, but I didn't. No skating anywhere today, but the arenas will be open 5 days a week during March break. I am really determined to bust some fat.
March 15 - 173.1 - After a typical 1200 calories, 30 minutes of aerobics. Losing weight will take more than that for me. There is skating today.
March 16 - 171.6 - In comparison with March 08, I was expecting a drop, I burned off so many calories this week with extra skating. 4,163, which is more than a pound on its own. There will be skating during March break, so I hope to at least burn 2 pounds during those 2 weeks. I don't know what I will do after that because it seems that I don't lose weight otherwise. There is nothing else really that I like to do that burns so many calories. I do love dance aerobics, but seldom do a whole hour of it. Anyway, pretty pleased with my weight this morning : - )
March 17.19 - 171.9 - Sunday. I am having a dinner party for my friend's birthday tonight. Eating like a normal person never really works out for me, 2 weeks to take off the weight of one dinner. I am not too worried though, skating moves to 5 days a week starting tomorrow : - )
March 18.19 - 172.0 Monday I am going to stop weighing on Tuesday mornings, I get up at 4am on Tuesdays, and I think that it is too early to be weighing. As I look back through my highest weight days, they are Tuesdays and perhaps not really accurate. Lol, also my good dinner from yesterday might show up tomorrow.



Running monthly total: loss 2.3 lbs

•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 - 170.8
3/12 - 170.4 - Day 1 Day 3 of my experiment in the books. Successful so far.
3/13 - 171.8 - Retaining some fluid
again from drinking electrolytes just before bed.
3/14 - 171.2
3/15 - 172.2 - A little fluid retention..... from exercise, not carbs! Knee is behaving, so back to strengthing quads and hams. Taking it low and slow, but consistently. I'm dealing with old shoulder injuries too, so must not be impatient with myself trying to do sets, reps and long workouts like I used to do.
3/16 - 173 - Normal fluctuation.
3/17 - 171.2

📌3/18 171

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