Lose 5lbs + in April 2019

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  • StatChicBayes
    StatChicBayes Posts: 362 Member
    well ending first week at a .7 loss since March, but slight weight gain this week from Monday. Quite a bit of fluctuations this week from 158.9 Tuesday back up to 160.1 this morning (but within range of variability since tracking). I have been hitting the gym everyday this week and had a pretty strenuous workout yesterday (step + weights) so hopefully will see a drop. Also saw lipids specialist yesterday who wants me to increase pysillium/flaxseed/plant sterols to help with lowering cholesterol and go back to low GI diet. Hoping the weight gain is water retention (fiber + more moderate GI carbs yesterday than typical) or added muscle :smiley: ). Good news is that my LDL dropped by 30 points since starting diet/exercise in February - so that is definitely worth celebrating going into the weekend!

    Original starting weight - 177.1
    Starting weight (March 31)- 160.8
    April goal - 154.8
    Ultimate goal - 110

    1st - 159.8 lbs
    5th - 160.1 lbs
    8th -
    12th -
    15th -
    19th -
    22nd -
    26th -
    29th -
    30th -

    Total loss for April -
  • lalabank
    lalabank Posts: 1,009 Member
    edited April 2019
    @dawnbgethealthy
    Do you eat back exercise calories? I follow the rule that unless you are in maintenance or at a normal BMI you don’t need to eat back exercise.
    I eat 1350 no matter how many calories MFP or anything else says I burned. Only exception is I will eat back 1-200 calories if I do a second full hour of intentional hard cardio in a day.
  • regcal966
    regcal966 Posts: 21 Member
    Just found this group 😁 I’ve restarted this so many times. I just got bloodwork back that I’m pre-diabetic so I NEED to stick with this. For myself and my husband and kids.
    I’m thinking about doing Piyo. I walk and stand all day at work but don’t move my body much other than that. Would that be good for a beginner? I’m reluctant because my knee hurts all the time.

    Original starting weight -225
    April starting weight -225
    April goal -217
    Ultimate goal -145

    1st -225
    8th -
    15th -
    22nd -
    29th -
    Total loss for April -
  • StatChicBayes
    StatChicBayes Posts: 362 Member
    edited April 2019
    lalabank wrote: »
    @dawnbgethealthy
    Do you eat back exercise calories? I follow the rule that unless you are in maintenance or at a normal BMI you don’t need to eat back exercise.
    I eat 1350 no matter how many calories MFP or anything else says I burned. Only exception is I will eat back 1-200 calories if I do a second full hour of intentional hard cardio in a day.

    I have not been eating back any exercise calories - my nutritionist suggested 1300-1400 as a goal so have been targeting the lower end. Her measurement of my baseline metabolic rate was 1510 (before starting to exercise regularly) which seemed high to me, while the prediction (forget which model) put it at 1295. My apple watch average for resting metabolic rate has been 1600-1650 over the last two months so no drop despite the change in diet; exercise calories have been around 500/day. Will see how it goes over the weekend... but wondering if I am eating too much or too little?
  • mari_moulin
    mari_moulin Posts: 3,717 Member
    [Starting weight - 338.8 Lbs
    Current weight - 170.4 Lbs
    April goal - 164 Lbs
    Ultimate goal - 150 Lbs

    April 06 - 169
    April 13 -
    April 20 -
    April 27 -

    Total loss for March - 1.4 Lbs

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  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,898 Member
    lalabank wrote: »
    @dawnbgethealthy
    Do you eat back exercise calories? I follow the rule that unless you are in maintenance or at a normal BMI you don’t need to eat back exercise.
    I eat 1350 no matter how many calories MFP or anything else says I burned. Only exception is I will eat back 1-200 calories if I do a second full hour of intentional hard cardio in a day.

    Hi @lalabank : - )
    No, I don't really eat back exercise...maybe a tiny bit once in awhile. In the past if I knew that I was going out for dinner (which I am banning this month) I would get in an extra workout to sort of balance it. It seemed that no matter what I ordered out - like salad with grilled chicken I would gain 3 pounds even if I stayed at 1200 cal. I really don't know what happens to food in restaurants, excess salt perhaps.
    Certainly if I burned 1200 calories in a day (2 hours of skating for instance) I would occasionally end up eating 1500-1700 calories instead of 1200-1300, but still maintained a huge deficit for the day. That was usually if I had a noon hour skate and a skate later on I would have some lunch in between.
    Those big calorie burn days are gone for me now, 1 hour session once a week is all that is left of the skating season for the year. Zumba (or dance aerobics) is the only other thing that I enjoy enough to get at least 30 minutes in per day otherwise. I had really hoped during March break where there was skating 5 days per week that I would see some weight loss. Considering my ultra-slow metabolism (which exercise is supposed to fix btw) those 2 weeks of skating appear to be favourably showing up over the last 2 days! TMI, beets show up 3 days later, so maybe all of that skating fun is just now making a difference for me. Oh, that, (and I know that some are disappointed in me), I have dropped my calories to around 1100 recently, really not wanting to go and look for something to eat to get in another 100-200 calories. My schedule dictates that, I have so many calories left at dinner time and barely get any during the day except for breakfast and a few almonds here and there.
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,898 Member
    I weigh daily - mostly because it keeps me in check and I like to understand trends.
    Weekly weighing is generally most acceptable.
    I found this article on MFP which might interest some of you:
    https://healthline.com/nutrition/daily-weighing#section7
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,278 Member
    dawnbgethealthy wrote: »
    I weigh daily - mostly because it keeps me in check and I like to understand trends.
    Weekly weighing is generally most acceptable.
    I found this article on MFP which might interest some of you:
    https://healthline.com/nutrition/daily-weighing#section7

    As you probably already know, daily weighing makes the most sense to me, as does ignoring the number and just looking at the trend. That's one thing I like about this "challenge," that you just report once per week. I report the weight for that day, but what's more important is that I report a ten-day average. THAT is the more important number, and it will be less variable than that one-day number.

    My reporting day is Monday this month (it changes every month based on what day of the week the month starts on). But since you wrote about daily versus weekly weigh in, here's an example of why it's so important to weigh daily and ignore the individual number. Look especially at how I "gained five pounds" from March 20 - 25, and then "gained four pounds" from March 30 - April 2. Except I didn't. Looking at the trend, maybe I did gain some, but that first blip was only a half pound, and the second was only a third of a pound. Even that isn't quite true because over the last couple months, it's been pretty consistent.

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  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 4,097 Member
    •Lose 5 lbs in April 2019•

    March 2019 - Gain/Loss
    of .6 lbs. 31 day average was 173.3 Monthly average is steadily coming down.

    Original starting wgt: 253
    April starting weight: 177
    April goal: 170
    ☔Updating every day through April.

    •Monday Updates•📌

    📌April 1 - 177 - Ate something I shouldn't have and now have inflammation in joints😩

    4/2 - 174.6
    4/3 - 175.4⬅ abs workout yesterday, glutes today, so who knows what tmrw will bring
    4/4 - 174 - I worked out with my Niece yesterday. She doesn't look forward to glute workouts, but I do! Lol. We got through it. Need to stretch and walk out the soreness today.

    4/5- 176.8 - Probably 175.8 I drank 16ozs of water just before weighing. Still holding fluid from butt and leg workout. Muscles are still on a low hum😃 My knee told me, unh-unh yesterday, so no walk. It was feeling unstable. Stretching and balance exercises accomplished.

    4/6 - 175.8



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  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 4,097 Member
    WOOT! Dawn @dawnbgethealthy. So close! I'm rooting for your drop into the 160's!
  • LadySaton
    LadySaton Posts: 500 Member
    5’6” // 36yo
    Starting weight: 223.6lbs
    Goal weight: 130lbs
    Challenge start weight: 151.0
    Challenge goal weight: 146.0

    April challenge info:
    April 1 - 151.0
    April 7 - 149.6
    April 14 -
    April 21 -
    April 28 -
    April 30 -

    Upping my calories again, trying to find a calorie balance that works with my recent activity level.
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,898 Member
    edited April 2019
    58 years old, 5'3"
    Oct 27.18 joined MFP Start weight 191

    March total: loss 1.7 lbs - This is all that I lost with a deficit of 18,713 calories


    March 31 - 172.8
    April 02 - Tuesday - 174.1
    April 03 - 173.0
    April 04 - 171.6 - I was 170.9 on March 30th I have been dropping my calories from 1200 to 1100 so far this month, I am not satisfied with working so diligently to lose only a pound a month. There was bonus skating yesterday which seems to remove all of my excess water (and stress) and burns lots of calories, so a 1.4 loss in a day is likely due to that.
    April 05 - 170.9
    April 06 - 170.0 !!
    April 07 - 171.6 - Expected, very small deficit yesterday


    Running loss/gain - loss 1.2
  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 4,097 Member
    edited April 2019
    •Lose 5 lbs in April 2019•

    March 2019 - Gain/Loss
    of .6 lbs. 31 day average was 173.3 Monthly average is steadily coming down.

    Original starting wgt: 253
    April starting weight: 177
    April goal: 170
    ☔Updating every day through April.

    •Monday Updates•📌

    📌April 1 - 177 - Ate something I shouldn't have and now have inflammation in joints😩
    4/2 - 174.6
    4/3 - 175.4⬅ abs workout yesterday, glutes today, so who knows what tmrw will bring
    4/4 - 174 - I worked out with my Niece yesterday. She doesn't look forward to glute workouts, but I do! Lol. We got through it. Need to stretch and walk out the soreness today.
    4/5- 176.8 - Probably 175.8 I drank 16ozs of water just before weighing. Still holding fluid from butt and leg workout. Muscles are still on a low hum😃 My knee told me, unh-unh yesterday, so no walk. It was feeling unstable. Stretching and balance exercises accomplished.
    4/6 - 175.8

    4/7 - 177.4 - Not surprised. I was not hungry for my first meal until the 19 hour mark (2pm) I don't fast on Saturdays. I did an arm and shoulder workout at 10:30pm and felt hungry afterwards. So I ate again at 12am!

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  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,898 Member
    edited April 2019
    tiabirdie56 wrote: »
    WOOT! Dawn @dawnbgethealthy. So close! I'm rooting for your drop into the 160's!

    Thanks @tiabirdie56 : - )
    I have been close a few times over the past 3 months, not quite there yet. You have been close too!
    Going from Obese to fat is still 20 pounds away. I definitely feel leaner from the 2 weeks of extra skating. These big glutes and quads should be burning some fat all on their own, and my core feels strong.
  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 4,097 Member
    Dawn, @dawnbgethealthy, I know just how you feel about that 20 lb transition point from obese to overweight. I'm now at my second transitional 20 lb point. I need to be 155 to have a normal BMI. It's so close! I've been teased quite a few times over the last 6 months with 170. All the big reasons I've figured out, but there's still something. The increased exercise, I need that. My body could just be comfortable here for now. I've certainly thought about that many times. There is one more dietary experiment I could try, but I need to carefully plan two or three weeks of daily menus. I need to eat every allotted calorie every day and eliminate peanut butter.

    Could the problem for you be just one food, that if eliminated would get you the result you want?
  • korina75
    korina75 Posts: 297 Member
    Original starting weight - 168
    April starting weight - 150.8
    April goal - 146
    Ultimate goal - 135

    1st - 150.8
    8th -
    15th -
    22nd -
    29th -
    Total loss for April -
  • JennH517
    JennH517 Posts: 256 Member
    edited April 2019
    Happy Sunday, everyone!

    I am still here. Stuck like a broken record. In all honesty I have been a bit sloppy with my calories lately. When I get discouraged with my lack of progress I sabotage myself. I still log everything, so I know how much I have overdone it.

    I have kept up with my increased activity since the new year. I walk on my lunch break at work for 30 minutes. Occasionally we have a group lunch so I can't then, but realistically I am walking 9 out of 10 working days. In fact I feel like I need that walk now, so that is a good habit.

    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:

    March 25 - March 31: 197.1
    April 1 - 7: 197.3

    Loss for April: 0.2 GAIN

    MFP Loss: 35.7 lbs.

    Total cumulative loss since mid 2015: 45.7 lbs.

    Move more, eat less.

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  • InDogWeTrust
    InDogWeTrust Posts: 77 Member
    InDogWeTrust wrote: »
    April 1st 132.2
    04/05/19 fell of the wagon so didnt bother even checking weight:((
    04/07/19 133.5:(((((((
    04/10/19
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    04/20/19
    04/25/19
    04/30/19

    April 30 Goal Weight: 127.2

  • InDogWeTrust
    InDogWeTrust Posts: 77 Member
    April 1st 132.2
    04/05/19 fell of the wagon so didnt bother even checking weight:(( hoping to get back on track again:((
    04/07/19 133.5:(((((((
    04/10/19
    04/15/19
    04/20/19
    04/25/19
    04/30/19

    April 30 Goal Weight: 127.2
  • lisaclark1211
    lisaclark1211 Posts: 1 Member
    Original starting weight- 197
    April starting weight- 185
    April goal - 177
    Ultimate goal - 120

    1st - 185
    8th - 183.4
    15th -
    22nd -
    29th -
    Total loss -
    😁
  • Cassandraw3
    Cassandraw3 Posts: 1,214 Member
    In it for another round. Let's do this.

    Original starting weight - 167.2 lbs 4/1/2019
    April starting weight - 148 lbs
    April goal - 145 lbs
    Ultimate goal - 140 lbs

    1st - 148 lbs
    8th - 148.2 lbs
    15th -
    22nd -
    29th -
    Total loss for April: +0.2 lbs
  • tris2002
    tris2002 Posts: 95 Member
    edited April 2019
    ---Yay! I've had a bit of a loss this week-3.3lb!-I was a little surprised with the amount as I cheated a bit last night with a big family dinner complete with dessert :blush: !!!!
    Note to self.....do not have cheat night the day before weigh in :wink:
    I'm ready to take on the next week and hopefully drop another 2-3+ pounds!!

    Original starting weight -182
    April starting weight -178.8
    April goal- 10 lbs (2lb weekly)
    Ultimate goal -130

    1st -178.8
    8th -175.0
    15th -
    22nd -
    29th -
    Total loss for April -
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,278 Member
    Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
    Original MFP starting weight (January 2018) - 168.2
    March 31 starting weight - 142.8 (ten-day rolling average weight 143.2)
    March goal - 143
    Ultimate goal - Range between 142 - 148

    I report scale weight and (ten day average weight).


    March 31 - 142.8 (143.2)
    April 1 - 143.6 (143.4)
    April 8 - 146.8 (143.5)
    April 15 -
    April 22 -
    April 29 -
    April 30

    Total loss for April: Scale says I gained four pounds and am closer to the top of my maintenance range. My ten day average is up a tenth of a pound and is really close to my goal weight. While I have been pretty stable, I need to pay particular attention now because I don't want to gain it back!

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    I am still participating in this monthly weight loss challenge even though I'm in my goal range. I'm also participating in a maintenance challenge.
  • Gevikia
    Gevikia Posts: 10 Member
    Today's weigh-in loss has been my biggest for a week that I can ever remember! 3.4 pounds! I credit Shaun T (and myself for doing his workout 6 days a week) and also the weather finally warming up enough to motivate me to be outside a little


    March SW: 169.8
    April SW: 163.2
    April GW: 157.5
    Ultimate GW: 115

    April 01: 160.6
    April 08:
    April 15:
    April 22:
    April 29:

    Mar Loss: 6.6 lbs
    Apr Loss:

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