Maintainers Weekly Check In - May 2019
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Name: MW
Age: 35
Height: 5'2"
Total weight lost: ~20lbs
Time it took to lose: ~4 months
How long in maintenance: 2 years +
Maintenance weight range: 110lbs - 115lbs
Average weight recorded from 2018: 112lbs
Week of...
May 26: 115lbs
Successes and struggles of the week: I haven't been that diligent with my eating, workouts or weight-ins for the past few months and when I finally did check I was 2lbs above my weight range. I'm happy that my work over the past 2 weeks has paid off and I'm back to 115lbs, but I'd like to continue and be back more towards the middle/lower end of my range as I was before.5 -
Age: 25
Height: 167.5 cm (5'6")
Total weight lost: 18.6 kg (41 lbs)
Time it took to lose: ~2.5 years total
How long in maintenance: 4 months
Maintenance weight range: 57-59 kg (125-130 lbs)
Average weight recorded from 2018: 59.4 kg (131 lbs)
Average weight recorded from January: 58.2 kg (128.3 lbs)
Average weight recorded from February: 58 kg (128 lbs)
Average weight recorded from March: 58.3 kg (128.5 lbs)
Average weight recorded from April: 58 kg (128 lbs)
Week of...
May 5: 57.8 kg
May 12: 57.9 kg
May 19: 57.8 kg
May 26: 58 kg
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I missed the check in last week, but I'm still on the right path I had some overeating days, but my weight is still stable. I'm more like under 58 kg most of the time now, so it feels like I'm losing a bit really slowly, despite I don't want to. My energy level is kinda low as well, and I had to skip a few workouts last week because of this.4 -
suzanne6094 wrote: »is this just for members trying to lose weight? I am trying to gain about 2 kg's and need a thread like this to help me and keep me accountable for logging my calories etc...
Have a Blessed Monday
Hi, Suzanne,
We're a group for maintaining your weight once you've arrived at your goal. You are close enough to your goal weight right now that you can join us here and be welcome!
We're a good group and tend to be chatty and supportive of each other with the occasional advice thrown in.
If you prefer, there are also MFP groups specifically for gainers...it's your choice.
In your shoes, I'd probably join us here and also find a gainers group as well. Follow both for a while until you get a feel for which is the better match for you.2 -
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 13: 51.8 kg (114 lb)
May 20: 49.6 kg (109 lb)
May 27: 49.2 kg
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: The motorhome break was good – we walked quite a bit, treated ourselves to ice cream. Ate in a nice pub in the local village on Wednesday evening. Returned home much the same weight as before. So, I’m happy that I think I can manage short holidays without gaining too much. However, I do have to be strict when I’m at home so that the calories average out OK over the weeks.
I’m interested to see people tracking macros – I don’t worry to much about them. I have to watch my calcium intake as I am a little old lady in danger of developing osteoporosis. I also look at the protein measure, as I’m concerned about maintaining and increasing muscle strength and on a fairly restricted calorie diet protein can suffer as it is often associated with relatively high calories.
Do you find it useful to track carbs%, fat% etc?
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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 13: 51.8 kg (114 lb)
May 20: 49.6 kg (109 lb)
May 27: 49.2 kg
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: The motorhome break was good – we walked quite a bit, treated ourselves to ice cream. Ate in a nice pub in the local village on Wednesday evening. Returned home much the same weight as before. So, I’m happy that I think I can manage short holidays without gaining too much. However, I do have to be strict when I’m at home so that the calories average out OK over the weeks.
I’m interested to see people tracking macros – I don’t worry to much about them. I have to watch my calcium intake as I am a little old lady in danger of developing osteoporosis. I also look at the protein measure, as I’m concerned about maintaining and increasing muscle strength and on a fairly restricted calorie diet protein can suffer as it is often associated with relatively high calories.
Do you find it useful to track carbs%, fat% etc?
Welcome home, Lesley! And congrats on maintaining so nicely while traveling.
Yes, I do find it helpful to track my macros. My goal is 70% carbohydrates, 15% fat, 15% protein, and I'm on a net-1100 calorie average (which at my activity level generally means a gross of 1400-1500 calories...that will decrease in the winter when I'm more lethargic.) I'm just an inch taller than you, and while I'm not quite 60 yet I can see it when without my bifocals.
At a 15% protein intake of gross 1400 calories, I'm covering all my amino acids daily, plus a little extra. Just had blood tests done, and my protein levels are well within the normal range. I rarely eat animal products anymore for health reasons, and legumes have plenty of protein without all the fat and cholesterol of meat.
For calcium, I bumped the MFP goal up to 110%, I eat plenty of leafy greens and other calcium-rich plant foods, plus I take a daily calcium supplement, just to make sure.1 -
sharondesfor935 wrote: »suzanne6094 wrote: »is this just for members trying to lose weight? I am trying to gain about 2 kg's and need a thread like this to help me and keep me accountable for logging my calories etc...
Have a Blessed Monday
Hi, Suzanne,
We're a group for maintaining your weight once you've arrived at your goal. You are close enough to your goal weight right now that you can join us here and be welcome!
We're a good group and tend to be chatty and supportive of each other with the occasional advice thrown in.
If you prefer, there are also MFP groups specifically for gainers...it's your choice.
In your shoes, I'd probably join us here and also find a gainers group as well. Follow both for a while until you get a feel for which is the better match for you.
Thank you , appreciate the welcome, yes I am just a kg away from my goal weight now ! I will start from next week and join.
Looking forward to sharing this journey with you all and for some advice.3 -
Name: Kathryn
Age: 50
Height: 5'3.5"
Total Weight lost: ~80 lbs
Time it took to lose: 2 years 3 months
How long in maintenance: I called maintenance in July 2016, but I continued to slowly lose until December of 2017. I have been in maintenance since December 2017
Maintenance weight range: 115 - 120 lbs
Average weight recorded from 2018: 118.8
Average weight recorded from December: 116.9
Average weight recorded from January: 115.9
Average weight recorded from February: 115.4
Average weight recorded from March: 117.2
Average weight recorded from April: 116.8
Week of...
May 5: 115.2 scale/ 116.0 trend
May 12: 117.0 scale/ 115.7 trend
May 19: 114.4 scale/ 115.7 trend
May 26: 118.6 scale/ 116.7 trend
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Scale and trend both up this week as expected. I'm not worried about it though. I had a great vacation. We ate out a lot but I got a couple of runs in as well which was so nice. It is much cooler in Colorado than it is in Texas. Today is my husband's 50th birthday so we will be eating out again tonight. I feel good in maintenance though. Even though my weight is up I know it will be back down soon. And it is still in the lower end of my maintenance range so even if it stays where it is that is good.5 -
ExistingFish wrote: »sharondesfor935 wrote: »lesdarts180 wrote: »sharondesfor935 wrote: »Name: Sharon
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Food. Either I've fallen off the wagon or I've had an entire binge week, I'm not sure which.
First of all, that improved relationship with food that I thought I was developing? Not so much, it turns out. It was simply that I was doing all the grocery shopping for the past four months, and not bringing home stuff I couldn't eat. Well, my husband went Costco shopping about a week ago, and brought home a whole bunch of junk, but the kickers were fresh bakery cookies and some potato chips ("crisps" to everyone in the world except the US) that I swear are utter ambrosia. That did me in, guys. I think over the course of a week, I ate 5 or 6 of those cookies (at 200 calories each, that's an entire extra day of calories in one week!) and the entire bag of chips. An entire COSTCO bag. What is that, 16 pounds of chips and a billion calories?
You did well, you should count it a success that you were able to just have one cookie each day - that's just a little treat - not a failure. I have no idea what size a Costco bag of crisps looks like but put it behind you and move on.
You should feel proud of your restraint over the cookies. Fresh baked cookies are really difficult to deal with. I live on my own so I only buy treats when the grandchildren are visiting and that's difficult enough.
Thanks for the uplift, Lesley. While cookies are certainly a weakness of mine, anything salty and fatty is far more so. The reason I was able to limit the cookies was only because I was bingeing on the crisps.
I eventually had the courage to look up that bag of crisps online. It weighed 2 pounds, or 907 grams. The bag in its entirety contained 4800 calories, 288 grams of fat, and 3520 mg sodium. And I ate the whole thing in less than a week.
That's bad enough in itself, but the worst part is that it really triggered an urge to eat more fats and salt. I have been desperately fighting a near-compulsion for salty, fatty foods ever since that first handful.
I haven't won that fight yet, but I've had two good days since then, and the bad days are very slightly less bad.
This really feels more like fighting an addiction than like a food issue. Though I guess you can have food addictions, so maybe that's it. Now that I've made that mental connection, I can try treating it like I treated quitting smoking?
It is fine to eat the crisps and the cookies, you just have to adjust the rest of your food for it. Calories are calories. If you want a 200 calorie cookie to fit, you just have to leave off 200 calories of "other" from your day and it will fit. I am concerned that you consider the cookies and crisps to be "bad" foods. Certainly, they can be trigger foods for you, but they are calories like anything else.
In my humble, non-expert opinion, you might have better long term success and a healthier relationship with food if you found a way to include some "naughty" (for lack of a better term) foods in your regular diet, like factoring in a serving of crisps or a cookie most days, so that it doesn't feel like a "bad" thing, just a normal part of eating balanced. You don't feel deprived, you can stay under your calorie goal and not feel you have to punish yourself for enjoying a treat.
My diary is open. I eat chips, cookies, gummy bears, ice cream.....gee I sound like I eat a ton of junk....
I agree with what @ExistingFish says. I always leave room for at least a 200 calorie treat every day. I do understand the problem with trigger foods though. Perhaps your husband could just bring home small individual bags of chips instead of large family sized bags. That way you could eat the whole bag and it might not be a problem.1 -
Age: 68
Height: 5'3"
Total Weight lost: ~50 lbs.
Time it took to lose: 22 months
How long in maintenance: 15 months
Maintenance weight range: 103.5 - 107.5
Average weight recorded from 2017 (12months):118.5
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 105.2
Average weight recorded from January: 106.6
Average weight recorded from February 105.5
Average weight recorded from March: 105.1
Average weight recorded from April: 105.5
Week of...
May 5: 106.5
May 12: 106
May 19: 105.6
May 26: 105.6
Success/Struggles: Not much to report, last week was pretty quiet
Wishing everyone a successful upcoming week!
@fidangul Congratulations!!5 -
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 13: 51.8 kg (114 lb)
May 20: 49.6 kg (109 lb)
May 27: 49.2 kg
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: The motorhome break was good – we walked quite a bit, treated ourselves to ice cream. Ate in a nice pub in the local village on Wednesday evening. Returned home much the same weight as before. So, I’m happy that I think I can manage short holidays without gaining too much. However, I do have to be strict when I’m at home so that the calories average out OK over the weeks.
I’m interested to see people tracking macros – I don’t worry to much about them. I have to watch my calcium intake as I am a little old lady in danger of developing osteoporosis. I also look at the protein measure, as I’m concerned about maintaining and increasing muscle strength and on a fairly restricted calorie diet protein can suffer as it is often associated with relatively high calories.
Do you find it useful to track carbs%, fat% etc?
I track macros, but my goals are in grams rather than a % of my total calories. I shoot for a minimum of 80g protein, 30g fiber and 60g fat no matter what my total calories are for the day (it can vary by as much as 300-500 calories depending on my activity level). I prefer to fill in the rest with carbs, but really don't stress the numbers once I've hit my minimums1 -
Name: Bella
Age: 60
Height: 5'5"
Total weight lost: 37 pounds
Time it took to lose: 6 months
How long in maintenance: 2 months
Maintenance weight range: 127-132
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): NA
Average weight recorded from January: 134 (was not in maintenance yet)
Average weight recorded from February: 131.8
Average weight recorded from March: 130.7
Average weight recorded from April: 130.4
Week of...
May 5: 130.8
May 12: 131.8
May 19: 129.8
May 26: 130.8
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Another great week. Looking forward to more exercise as we move into summer. Went to buy a bathing suit this week and for the first time in years it was a nice experience instead of traumatizing (only exaggerating a bit here!). I am surprised at how easy it has been to maintain my weight for the first time in my life!! Have a great week everyone!5 -
ExistingFish wrote: »sharondesfor935 wrote: »lesdarts180 wrote: »sharondesfor935 wrote: »Name: Sharon
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Food. Either I've fallen off the wagon or I've had an entire binge week, I'm not sure which.
First of all, that improved relationship with food that I thought I was developing? Not so much, it turns out. It was simply that I was doing all the grocery shopping for the past four months, and not bringing home stuff I couldn't eat. Well, my husband went Costco shopping about a week ago, and brought home a whole bunch of junk, but the kickers were fresh bakery cookies and some potato chips ("crisps" to everyone in the world except the US) that I swear are utter ambrosia. That did me in, guys. I think over the course of a week, I ate 5 or 6 of those cookies (at 200 calories each, that's an entire extra day of calories in one week!) and the entire bag of chips. An entire COSTCO bag. What is that, 16 pounds of chips and a billion calories?
You did well, you should count it a success that you were able to just have one cookie each day - that's just a little treat - not a failure. I have no idea what size a Costco bag of crisps looks like but put it behind you and move on.
You should feel proud of your restraint over the cookies. Fresh baked cookies are really difficult to deal with. I live on my own so I only buy treats when the grandchildren are visiting and that's difficult enough.
Thanks for the uplift, Lesley. While cookies are certainly a weakness of mine, anything salty and fatty is far more so. The reason I was able to limit the cookies was only because I was bingeing on the crisps.
I eventually had the courage to look up that bag of crisps online. It weighed 2 pounds, or 907 grams. The bag in its entirety contained 4800 calories, 288 grams of fat, and 3520 mg sodium. And I ate the whole thing in less than a week.
That's bad enough in itself, but the worst part is that it really triggered an urge to eat more fats and salt. I have been desperately fighting a near-compulsion for salty, fatty foods ever since that first handful.
I haven't won that fight yet, but I've had two good days since then, and the bad days are very slightly less bad.
This really feels more like fighting an addiction than like a food issue. Though I guess you can have food addictions, so maybe that's it. Now that I've made that mental connection, I can try treating it like I treated quitting smoking?
It is fine to eat the crisps and the cookies, you just have to adjust the rest of your food for it. Calories are calories. If you want a 200 calorie cookie to fit, you just have to leave off 200 calories of "other" from your day and it will fit. I am concerned that you consider the cookies and crisps to be "bad" foods. Certainly, they can be trigger foods for you, but they are calories like anything else.
In my humble, non-expert opinion, you might have better long term success and a healthier relationship with food if you found a way to include some "naughty" (for lack of a better term) foods in your regular diet, like factoring in a serving of crisps or a cookie most days, so that it doesn't feel like a "bad" thing, just a normal part of eating balanced. You don't feel deprived, you can stay under your calorie goal and not feel you have to punish yourself for enjoying a treat.
My diary is open. I eat chips, cookies, gummy bears, ice cream.....gee I sound like I eat a ton of junk....
I agree with what @ExistingFish says. I always leave room for at least a 200 calorie treat every day. I do understand the problem with trigger foods though. Perhaps your husband could just bring home small individual bags of chips instead of large family sized bags. That way you could eat the whole bag and it might not be a problem.
We switched to single serve chips (from Sam's usually) and it has worked wonders. I have no trouble measuring out a serving by weight, but DH will sit down and eat a half bag if he isn't careful. Yes it is more expensive, but getting a "good deal" to get more of a food you don't need an excess of may be good for your wallet but not your overall wellbeing.4 -
After my bigger than usual jump in my weight last week I've been weighing daily, just to make sure nothing weird is going on.. must have been a high sodium meal I had, cuz I'm right back down. Relieved! I started a new medication and was freaking out for a second I was dealing with a side affect of weight gain from that.3
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Hi. I would like to join this group. After about 7 years in maintenance, my weight has just started to creep above my maintenance range. I need to nip it in the bud because I know how quickly things can spiral out of control!
Below is my intro. It has been quite a while since I have been in weight loss mode, so I don't remember specifics. I think that is mostly because it was never a process with a beginning and end, but just a change in habits that led to gradual weight loss and the ability to maintain it.
Name: Lori
Age:47
Height:5'0"
Total weight lost:~20 lbs
Time it took to lose:about 6 months
How long in maintenance: about 7 years
Maintenance weight range:100-105
Average weight recorded from 2018:103
Average weight recorded from January:105
Average weight recorded from February:105
Average weight recorded from March:105
Average weight recorded from April:106
I mainly control my weight by eating mindfully. I log daily (most of the time), but I pretty much estimate things. I also run a lot, which allows me to eat more than a middle aged 5 foot tall woman probably should be able to eat. Recently I have decreased my mileage to allow for some much needed recovery, so I believe that is the reason for my weight gain. I have also been pretty lax on logging. Hoping to change things around this summer and get back to my 103 lb preferred weight.
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Name: Allie
Age: 31
Height: 5'3"
Total weight lost: 16 lbs.
Time it took to lose: 6 months
How long in maintenance: Since May 13.
Maintenance weight range: 117-123 lbs.
Average weight recorded from January: 132.6
Average weight recorded from February:126.3
Average weight recorded from March: 124.2
Average weight recorded from April: 121.6
Week of...
May 12: 120! Goal!
May 19: 119.5
May 26: 119.5
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Even with the Memorial Day cookout, I managed to stay under calorie goal! Haven't been doing great with cutting out sugar, but have been eating less of it I guess? (Pesca w/ Cardiometabolic diet on doc recommendation.) And doc says it's okay, that any diet has to be sustainable, so that tracks with everything I was already doing here, so just trying to keep making good choices when I can, not beating myself up over a serving of ice cream.4 -
Name: Jim
Age:71
Height:5’8”
Total Weight lost:197.8 (SW 376.2)
Time it took to lose: 5 years,
From 1/17/13 to 3/29/18.
How long in maintenance: Since 3/29/18.
*Maintenance range:179-184
Average weight recorded in 2018 180.
Average weight recorded 2019:
January 178.6
February 177.2
March 178.8
April 179.2
Weigh In
2 May 177 (.+.4)
9 May 179.2 (+2.2)
16 May 178 (-1.2)
23 May 178.8 (+.8)
30 May 181.6 (+ 2.8)
Success/struggles of the week
Success: enjoyed eating at restaurant twice and maintaining below GW, I knew the scale would go up but I know I’m stil in control and below GW.
Struggle; Planning for weekend trip for grandson’s HS graduation 8-9 June.5 -
Name: Jenn
Age: 34
Height: 5’2”
Total weight lost: 32lb
Time it took to lose: approximately 18 months
How long in maintenance: Officially about 2 months, but for the last year or so I bounced around the same range, just a little higher than I would prefer. I got down to this range and am happy here.
Maintenance weight range: 123lb-126lb I’ve dropped my maintenance range by 1lb. I’m still well within my healthy weight range.. I’m still losing sloooooowly which is perfectly fine by me.
Average weight recorded from 2018: ----
Average weight recorded from March: 124.6
Average weight recorded from April: 124.3
Average weight recorded from May: 123.4
Week of…
April 28: 124.0
May 5: 122.8
May 12: 123.4
May 19: 125.0
May 26: 122.0
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Quite a big swing from last week! I think a couple sodium bomb meals last week caused me to retain some water, therefore the higher weigh-in. But I’m back down this week, and down pretty low. I’m having a very hard time with the mental game of maintenance… physically I know I can eat the extra calories to keep at maintenance, that’s not a problem (love my snacks!) but mentally after eating at 1200 calories for 2 years it’s hard to bump up to 1500-1600. With my husband being out of town for work I’m definitely eating less than when he’s home – typically we have some splurge nights out or enjoy some adult beverages that help keep my calories up, but with him gone I’ve pretty much just been staying home and being a boring homebody.4 -
Name: Firecat1987
Age: 31
Height:5'4
Total weight lost: 51lbs
Time it took to lose: 18 months
How long in maintenance: 4 weeks
Maintenance weight range: 130-140lbs
Average weight recorded from 2018: N/A
Average weight recorded from January: 155.3lbs
Average weight recorded from February: 151.6lbs
Average weight recorded from March: 148.4lbs
Average weight recorded from April: 144.7lbs
Week of...
May 5: 144.4
May 12:144.8
May 19:144.6
May 31:142.3
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I expected a big drop which is fine. I expect it will go up a bit after this weekend. I just moved and because of that I was burning 2300-2500 a day without going to the gym for 4 days straight. I tried to eat at maintenance, but I'm sure i didn't eat enough some days. I clocked over 130 flights of stairs (I moved to a third flr apartment) All in all I've had a good couple days. See y'all in June!5 -
Name: G
Age: 44
Height: 5'6"
Total weight lost: 145 lbs
Time it took to lose: 1 year
How long in maintenance: 3 years
Maintenance weight range: 138-143
Average weight recorded from 2018: 140.6
Average weight recorded from January: 139.5
Average weight recorded from February:140.2
Average weight recorded from March:139.8
Average weight recorded from April:140.4
Average weight recorded from April:140.2
Successes/Struggles: Neither. Just keep on keepin' on with my routine and schedule.6
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