3-Month Weight Loss Challenge, May - August, Pick Your Difficulty

MFP start 298.5lbs Oct 2017

Challenge Starting Weight: 188.25 (April Weigh out)
Challenge Level:Level 4 - 20 pounds ★★★★
Challenge Goal weight: 168.25lbs
Challenge goal : 20.00
Challenge loss : 6.75lbs

April Weigh out : 188.25
May 03 - 184.75
May 10 - 181.50
May 17 - 182.50
May 24
May 31
June 07
June 14
June 21
June 28
July 05
July 12
July 19
July 26

Challenge level: ★★★
Goal weight: 135
Goal A1C 6.0

5/3: Starting weight 148. A1C 6.7
5/10: 147.2
5/17: 148.4.

Not a great week for sticking to the diet. I'll do better.

May 3rd Starting Weight: 181.8 lb
May 10th Weigh-In: 184.6 lb
May 17th Weigh-In: 183.4 lb
Challenge Level: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Goal Weight: 161.8 lb

Weekly Goals (May - August):
Exercise at least 5 days a week or a minimum of 210 exercise minutes: Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (this afternoon): Total minutes 218 without Friday’s exercises yet. Woohoo! ✅

Meet or stay under calorie goals at least 6 days a week (including eating back exercise calories burned). Ate over in calories on Saturday and Sunday because it was my sister’s birthday and Mother’s Day. I did try to track the rest of the week though. 🚫

May Goals:
Reduce alcohol consumption to a maximum of 2 drinks per week (2 pints, or 2 glasses of wine for example) 3 1/2 drinks on the weekend because of my sister’s birthday and mother’s day 🚫

Overall happy to see the scale go down instead of up! We are prepping to eat well this weekend and into next week.

Any snack ideas?

Good luck everyone!

I'm in for level 3 Which is my target weight loss goal anyway. My start date is May 17th. Best of wishes to everyone. I clocked in at 215 2 weeks ago I'll weigh myself today at the gym and start with that.

JeninBelgium wrote: »

cbreit1986 wrote: »

Start date: May 5
Challenge Starting Weight: 194.2
Challenge Level: ✴✴✴✴
Challenge Goal weight: 174

May
5/5 : 194.2
5/13 : 186.8
Having trouble eating 1300 cal/day. Tracking everything and I'm only getting about 900 cal/day. 2 glasses of wine this week. Not incorporating exercise yet

If you eat even close to regular meals the difficulty is staying under goal not getting to goal. Can you give an example of what you are eating? maybe add in some healthy fats and protein - for example a hand full of nuts has a couple of hundred calories

Weighing everything is super important and really easy. You might be getting more than you realize. If you're already doing that, peanut butter is a great high calorie high protein snack to have with apples, rice cakes, celery etc. I envy you in that I struggle to keep my count down!🤦‍♀️

Starting date: May 17 TH.
Ending date: August 17 TH

Challenge Starting Weight: 199
Challenge Level: *****
Challenge Goal weight: 174

Start date May 17th
End date August 17th

Level***
Challenge start weight 212
Goal 200 will update every 2 weeks Best wishes to all.

Wow, what a week!! Only got one workout in before allergies hit hard and morphed into bronchitis. 😣 Still, I think my healthy base built on good diet, exercise and rest kept me from hitting rock bottom. I'm already feeling better (70%) and looking forward to getting back to my strength training. So, as expected from not eating much while sick, my weight is down some and, as expected from only one good workout last week, my measurements are about the same. Thanks again to all for traveling this journey with me and have a great week:)

Located Northern California
60 years old, Female, 5'8" tall
Original Weight: 187 (10/1/18)
Challenge Starting Weight: 165
Challenge Level Two: 🏃🏽‍♀️🏋️‍♀️
Challenge Goal weight:<155

Weekly weigh-in (Sundays):

MAY
5/5: 166 lbs.
5/12: 165.1 lbs.
5/19: 161.8 lbs.

Measurements (from my strength training experiment:)

5/5: Chest: 40",Waist: 38", Hips: 42",
Thighs: 25", Calfs: 15"

5/12: Chest: 39.5",Waist: 36", Hips: 42",
Thighs: 24", Calfs: 15"

5/19: Chest: 39, Waist: 35.5, Hips: 42, Thighs: 24, Calfs: 15

Hi all! Hope it's ok to start in late. Worried that my weight keeps going up every week. Need to get back to what works for me ... logging food, exercising and participating in a challenge. This looks great!

Start date May 19
End date August 19
Challenge Starting Weight: 147.5
Challenge Level: 2
Challenge Goal weight: 137.5

Weigh-ins on Mondays:
May 27-
June 3-
June 10
June 17
June 24
July 1
July 8
July 15
July 22
July 29
Aug 5
Aug 12
Aug 19

cbreit1986 wrote: »

tthickens637 wrote: »

JeninBelgium wrote: »

cbreit1986 wrote: »

Start date: May 5
Challenge Starting Weight: 194.2
Challenge Level: ✴✴✴✴
Challenge Goal weight: 174

May
5/5 : 194.2
5/13 : 186.8
Having trouble eating 1300 cal/day. Tracking everything and I'm only getting about 900 cal/day. 2 glasses of wine this week. Not incorporating exercise yet

If you eat even close to regular meals the difficulty is staying under goal not getting to goal. Can you give an example of what you are eating? maybe add in some healthy fats and protein - for example a hand full of nuts has a couple of hundred calories

Weighing everything is super important and really easy. You might be getting more than you realize. If you're already doing that, peanut butter is a great high calorie high protein snack to have with apples, rice cakes, celery etc. I envy you in that I struggle to keep my count down!🤦‍♀️

I'm super anal about weighing everything (the wife hates it). Unfortunately I absolutely despise peanut butter and celery......trying to stay under 20 carbs/day so apples and rice cakes are out for me.

I've added the shakes so I'm getting the extra calories but now I'm at a point where my scale isnt moving. So I'm trying meal replacement shakes.....something I have never been able to do because I get so hungry so quickly after.

This is what typically happens. I hit a breaking point (usually 195lbs) I start a diet and I lose close to 10lbs immediately then I hit a brick wall. I see no success and after 3 or so months I lose all hope and decide that I was just meant to be fat. I gain the 10lbs back and realize how uncomfortable physically and emotionally I am and it starts all over again. 😑

Trying not to add exercise at this point because unless I'm add atleast 600 extra calories I feel famished all the time.

Sounds like you're determined. 👏👏 Eggs and cheeses are another high cal low carb option. I also love the little cans of tuna for a quick satisfying snack. Also there are a few threads on here that might give you ideas: one about 'snacks', one called 'calorie counting 101', and another about 'obese to 6 pack, ask me anything'. So many people struggle with the cycle you describe (including me) that I'm sure you'll find something inspiring in there. I found that taking body measurements is a way to convince myself that I'm still winning this battle, even when the scale hasn't budged (or actually gone up). There is an answer for you - and it's not being fat!! You got this...

I would like to take the challenge.

Challenge Start weight: 253
Challenge level: 25 pounds ★★★★★
Challenge goal: 228
Start date: 5/20
Ending date: 8/20

MFP Starting Weight: 180 lbs - October 2018
Current Starting Weight: 174 lbs - May 2019

Challenge Starting Weight: 171 lbs
Challenge Level ✴✴✴
Challenge Goal Weight: 157 lbs
Height: 5ft 2.

Ultimate Goal: 133 lbs

Weigh-In Days: Mondays and Fridays

Start Day May 14th
End Day Aug 14th

May 14th 171lb
May 17th 170lb
May 20th 169lb

lcampbell88 wrote: »

Joining late but looking forward to the challenge kicking my butt into gear!

Starting date May 16, 2019
Starting weight: 179.6 lbs
Goal weight: 165 (Anything over that is a bonus!)
Challenge level: ⭐⭐⭐

Will check in once a week!

Good luck everyone!

First weigh in done

20/05/2019: 177.4 (-2.2)
27/05/2019:

03/06/2019:
10/06/2019:
17/06/2019:
24/06/2019:

01/07/2019:
08/07/2019:
15/07/2019:
22/07/2019:
29/07/2019:

05/08/2019
12/08/2019

FINAL WEIGHT 16/08/2019:

WEEK 2 WEIGH IN

Start Date 11th May (weight 138lb, down from 182lb 12 months ago)
End Date 11th August
Target Weight 126lb
Level ★★★
Weekly weigh in will be every Saturday.

18th May: 135.5lb (-2.5lb)

Good luck to everyone involved

Start Day: 5/13
End Date: 8/12
Challenge Starting Weight: 150
Challenge Level: ★★★
Challenge Goal weight: 135

5/20- 147.4 (-2.6, 12.4lbs to go)