Maintainers Weekly Check In - May 2019

stephenearllucas
stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
1. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability and support.
2. Copy the form below by copy-pasting and edit to suit your personal schedule, then fill in your information and post each week.
3. Have a successful month, whatever your maintenance/health goal(s) may be!!

Name:
Age:
Height:
Total weight lost:
Time it took to lose:
How long in maintenance:
Maintenance weight range:
Average weight recorded from 2018:

Average weight recorded from January:
Average weight recorded from February:
Average weight recorded from March:
Average weight recorded from April:

Week of...
May 5:
May 12:
May 19:
May 26:

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week:
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  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    UpdateTMI: skip if you don't want to read, if I only waited a hour to weight myself I went to the bathroom if you get my drift and just for the heck of it weight myself again. I did not have anything to drink or eat before if happened you guessed down to 131.8. I figured head start for next week. LOL:)
  • sharondesfor935
    sharondesfor935 Posts: 89 Member
    Name: Sharon
    Age: 58
    Height: 5'2"
    Total weight lost: 33 lbs
    Time it took to lose: 3 months [+ the weeks that I've been trying to maintain]
    How long in maintenance: 5 weeks
    Maintenance weight range: 120-130
    Start weight December 2018:153.5.

    Average weight recorded from January: 148.0
    Average weight recorded from February: 138.8
    Average weight recorded from March: 130.9
    Average weight recorded from April: 123.7

    Week of...
    May 5: 120.8

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I did much better this week at allocating my calories. Yesterday morning when I woke, I was carrying only 13 calories forward from the week into the weekend. That works perfectly for me, since I'm a weekend exercise warrior, and I typically will expend at least 500-700 calories each, Saturday and Sunday.

    🤓 Geek alert: I actually did my spreadsheets last weekend, and had fun with them. While not everyone appreciates the power of a good regression analysis, I do find them invigorating. 🤓 No, I didn't bother doing it myself, I just used Excel's trend line feature. I'm crazy, not stupid. 😜

    With my current exercise level I need to be eating around 1500 calories per day (which sounds like a really scary commitment when your BMR is 1080.) I was having a lot of trouble with this, mentally and emotionally, until I found a little trick that works for me. Using my rolling 7-day average from the MFP Nutrition tabs has taken the scare factor from Defcon 5 down to Defcon 1. This way I'm never more than one day "off" on my nutrition. Even if I'm a couch potato today, my rolling average will reflect that tomorrow and I can accommodate it in my eating. Likewise, if it's a beautiful day (and I miraculously have a babysitter), I can spend as long as I like on my bike or walk, and know that I can eat those calories down over the week without freaking out about it. Stress relieved, mind reassured.

    Yes, I understand that this is a logical conclusion (and is, in fact, the basic premise of maintenance eating), but I needed to see the numbers. A psychiatrist would probably have a clinical diagnosis for that. 😂

    So next challenge: what do I do now that I'm down at the bottom of my maintenance range, move my range? My goal was basically to be within the top half of the normal BMI range. I'm there. I don't really want to allow myself to gain ten pounds; I don't really want to lose more weight. Should I just decrease both the top and bottom end of my maintenance range by five pounds so that my current weight is in the middle?
  • sharondesfor935
    sharondesfor935 Posts: 89 Member
    lesdarts180 wrote: »
    Name: Lesley
    Age: 68
    Height: 155 cm (5’ 1”)
    Total weight lost: 22.5 kg (approx. 50 lb)
    Time it took to lose: 9 months
    How long in maintenance: a few weeks
    Maintenance weight range: 49 – 51 kg (108 – 112 lbs)
    Average weight recorded from 2018: max 72.5 kg in July, 56 kg in Dec

    Average weight recorded from January: 54.7 kg
    Average weight recorded from February: 53.3 kg
    Average weight recorded from March: 51.7 kg
    Average weight recorded from April: 50.2 kg (110.7 lb)
    Week of...
    May 5: 49.1 kg (108 lb)
    May 12:
    May 19:
    May 26:

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: It was a fairly quiet week, but my son and family came down on Friday and stayed overnight, so we had meals together. They moved on yesterday afternoon.
    Challenge ahead next week. We are away for 7 days – visiting Scotland, travelling by coach and staying in hotels. My plan is to be as active as possible – and watch the portion sizes. Catching the coach this morning, this is a rushed post.
    Have a good week everyone!

    I'm so jealous, Lesley! I haven't done a lot of motorcoach tours, but Scotland was my favorite. If it's one of the long circle tours, once you get north into the moors make sure that you drink the water. I know it's brown and looks unappetizing, but the brown is from the peat content, and it's absolutely delicious! Extra flavor without calories!

    Save at least a little room one evening for haggis and whisky. If I could take the calories for you, I would. It's absolutely worth it, even if you have to walk two extra miles the next day. (Or maybe I'm just weird. 😜 I do like my sausages.)

    Stay warm, see everything, and enjoy yourself!
  • stephenearllucas
    stephenearllucas Posts: 255 Member
    Name: Stephen
    Age: 59
    Height: 6'2"
    How long in maintenance: 2 years, 4 months
    Maintenance weight range: 190-195 lbs.

    Average weight recorded from January: 199.5
    Average weight recorded from February: 200.9
    Average weight recorded from March: 203.6
    Average weight recorded from April: 210.4

    Week of...
    May 5: 213.8
    May 12:
    May 19:
    May 26:
  • sharondesfor935
    sharondesfor935 Posts: 89 Member
    MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »
    Name: Maddie
    Age: 63
    Height: 5'8.5”
    Total weight lost: 75.3 lbs
    Time it took to lose: 3-1/3 years
    How long (officially) in maintenance: 11 days since 4/25/19
    Maintenance weight range: < 153 I will be playing with this over the next few months as I build more muscle. Consulting with my doc in a couple of days.

    Avg wt recorded from 2018: 168.4
    Avg wt recorded from 2017: 202.6
    Starting wt: 228.3

    Avg wt recorded from January:153✅
    Avg wt recorded from February: 151.75✅
    Avg wt recorded from March: 154.1❌
    April 25: Began maintenance 153.0
    Avg wt recorded from April: 152.98✅

    Week of...
    May 5 Avg 153.8⬆️❌
    May 12
    May 19
    May 26

    Average in 2019 so far: 153.14⬆️
    <153? ❌

    Challenges:
    1. Sudden switch of my exercise program - more frequency & difficulty of my wt lifting program & much longer, harder hikes. 9.3 mile hike yesterday with 25K steps.
    2. Hotter weather generally makes my wt a little lighter & when it gets cooler in the fall, it tends to drop off
    Both of these may be causing water weight increases. I’m taking the long view. Did some calculations over the past week, month, year & I’m likely eating a little bit too much each day.
    ➡️ Plan is to cut my avg calories by 100 a day & see what happens.
    ➡️ Will go back to only recording cardio calories, not the wt lifting ones.

    Successes:
    1. I’m calm. :) Taking the long view. Many moving variables - May take a few months to figure out.
    2. Annual physical. All markers are excellent❣️ Dr. doesn’t think anything needs to change. Approved exercise program with no rest days & continuing daily 10K steps (60 mins minimum daily cardio). Very wonderful visit, as we reviewed each lab value & celebrated the drastic improvements. He convinced me I didn’t need to improve any of them further! 3-1/3 years. Success.
    3. Resting heart rate & fitness continuing to improve. Able to climb 2,222 elevation, 9.3 mile, 4hr20min hike without resting or sitting.
    4. Purchased & for into jeans an additional size smaller. (31) & another patient at clinic spontaneously said, “Wow, those jeans are awesome! They look great on you!” Three friends who saw me 4-6 weeks ago all independently said, “Wow, you’re looking great!” One even wants to sketch me next time. These compliments are a very new thing for me, and it’s lovely.

    Week 2 done!
    On to Week 3!

    Have an awesome week❣️
    Maddie

    Celebrate!!! 🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉

    You've inspired me, Maddie. Once I get the beloved son on his school bus tomorrow, I'm going make the appointment for my blood work. It's what I've been working for; time to see what progress I've made.
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,152 Member
    @sharondesfor935 Awesome, my friend!
    I find having a “Focus on Health” really helps in this weight loss/exercise/maintenance arena.

    A new wrinkle? “Eh, Focus in Health”

    Tummy re-appears later in the day “Eh, Focus on Health”

    Some random thing sags a little, “Eh, Focus on Health!”

    Let us know how it goes! Amazing how much walking daily helps!



  • lesdarts180
    lesdarts180 Posts: 3,063 Member
    @sharondesfor935 Hi, I'm midway through the holiday and having a good time. The drive up to Scotland took 2 days with a night in Carlisle, but we are staying in one hotel in Inverness for 5 nights then travelling south again over the weekend. I'm not keen on whisky but have had haggis for breakfast. We have been doing plenty of walking and the hotel has a tiny swimming pool so I have been quite active. No brown water yet!
    The hotel dinners have been Ok but very limited veggies. I usually fill up with large portions of low calorie veg so this could be a problem. Fingers crossed for next Monday weigh in.
  • HarperAnn6
    HarperAnn6 Posts: 292 Member
    edited May 2019
    Name: Harper
    Age: 40
    Height: 5'1
    Total Weight lost: 50
    Time it took to lose: one year, four months
    How long in maintenance: about 23 months
    Maintenance weight range: 117-122
    Average weight recorded from 2018 (12months): 121.7

    Average weight recorded for April: 122.7

    Week of. . .
    May 5: 121.6
    May 12:
    May 19:
    May 26:

    Success / Struggles: I'm not sure why I took a pause from posting for the last few weeks. I guess I have been preoccupied with other things in my life. Ready to put maintenance on the front burner again! I definitely need to focus on cleaning up my diet. I had lots of candy around Easter, and I notice I've been snacking instead of eating real meals lately.

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