Lose 5lbs + in May 2019
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May 5 pound challenge
Original starting weight - 167
May starting weight - 154.8
May goal - 149
Ultimate goal - 135
1st - 154.8
5th - 154.9
8th - 153.8
12th - 153.3
16th - 151
22nd - 152
29th - 151
Total loss for May - 3.8
Not quite to my goal... I am so ready for 140 anything lol3 -
I am in
Starting weight in May on 5/7 is 244.0
Goal weight is 239.0
Actual weight is 245.8
Total weight loss ( gained this month 1.8) better next month I hope3 -
58 years old, 5'3"
Oct 27.18 joined MFP Start weight 191
May goal 159.9
April loss - 7.7
March total: loss 1.7 lbs - This is all that I lost with a deficit of 18,713 calories
February total calories burned (not the deficit) - 20,350 - loss 1.4 lbs
April 30 - 167.9
May 01 - 165.1 I counted that in the April loss. It made up for February and March
May 02 - 164.3 - Saw this 164 number on April 26, glad to see it again. 5 more pounds to get out of the obese range. Working on it!
I usually keep it simple, calories in, calories out, and deficit. My change had been that I started to have greek yoghurt because with my dental issues it was a nice soft thing to have. I wonder if that has made the difference.
May 03 - 163.2 - I really stayed in bed late today and weighed before drinking water. I guess more time between eating and weighing myself. Planned night out, dinner, drinks, a concert.
May 04 - 165.0 - Pretty much expected, up almost 2 pounds in a day. This is why I rarely go out with friends any more, bad for the waistline. Went out with skinny friends last night argh, they don't have to be careful at all. I will get it back down, but it could take awhile. Oh well, I had a very good time.
May 05 - 166.4 - Back on track, but stuff from Friday is still showing up. Maybe tomorrow will be better : - )
May 06 - 165.6
May 08 - 165.3
May 09 - 165.1
May 10 - 165.0
May 11 - 165.3 - Ready to see a loss!
May 12 - 166.2 - Very large deficits since Friday - digging, tilling, weeding, planting. Slow metabolism, so maybe that will show up Tuesday or Wednesday hopefully. Potato garden today and weeding everywhere.
May 13 - 166.5
May 14 - 165.6
May 15 - 164.3 - I didn't manage to get enough water in yesterday, so the scale is down today.
May 16 - 163.0 - Yay!
May 17 - 163.1
May 19 - 164.7 - Dang. Oh well, not sweating it, staying the course.
May 20 - 163.5
May 21 - 164.6
May 22 - 164.3
May 23 - 163.9 - Going away until Monday, no wifi. So challenging to not be eating one's own food, and not much of a cushion this month. I will see what I can get in for workouts.
May 27 - 161.5
May 28 - 163.3
May 30 - 163.5
May 31 - 163.3
May loss - 1.8 pounds
June 01 - 163.3
Running loss/gain - loss 1.8 - Not as much as I would have liked, hopefully June will be better.2 -
Original starting weight - 184
May starting weight - 156.8
May goal - 152
Ultimate goal - 140
1st- 156.8
6th- 158
Not going to sweat this at all. I had to remind myself that this is what happened last month, and I pulled it out in the end. I have lost 17 inches so far, most of which fell off while the scale wasn’t moving. After clothes shopping yesterday, I cannot wait for the end of the month when I measure again! All of my NSV tell me I keep losing inches. I’ve also really stepped up my fitness from completing my goals at 100%, to 200% daily. Some of this could be water retention while my muscles heal.
Have a great week everyone! 🙌🏼
13th- 153.8
30 lbs GONE! 🥳
This week I learned the importance of recovery. Mine was forced due to a tendon strain across the inner right ankle, but is getting better each day. This allowed my sore muscles to give way and so did the scale! I was shocked! I felt so discouraged last Monday sitting in the chiro getting X-rays, ultrasound, and cold therapy - I thought, this is it, this is where I fail. But then I remembered who is in control here! I can’t burn the same amount of calories I could last week, but I can lift and it feels great!!
Keep going no matter what! Have a great week!! 👊🏼
20th- 155.8
Whatever. 🤷♀️
Went to a concert last week and ate burgers twice that night and had concert sized canned beers. Worth it.
Niece’s graduation was Thursday and everything was closed by the time we got out. Ended up at Taco Bell (first time in 6 months at least). Not worth it.
I’m still really hurting from my posterior tibial injury. I’m told at minimum, it will be 6-8 weeks before I’m not in (almost) constant pain. Possibly 6-8 months until fully healed. I didn’t meet a single exercise goal last week. I do have PT twice a week and that’s really all I was medically cleared to do. He did say I can start light weights, and I felt up to it last night so I did it. Felt great and no pain through my shin or foot. I can only reach around a 200 calorie burn though.
Oh and TOM got me about an hour ago, so... like I said - whatever. 🤷♀️
26th- 153.8
May has done me dirty. First with the tendon strain, then I get a chest and head cold that is keeping me coughing all day and night. And THEN I had an emergency root canal Friday evening. I’m over this WHOLE month. 😑
On a good note, my ankle and shin are feeling so much better. Still having to modify, and more rest days than normal, but able to do most of my workouts again. Really going to watch my food this week and see if I can’t eek out a little more loss on Friday. However, considering the obstacles this month, I’m happy with 3 lbs if that’s where I end.
31st- 153.4
I’m good with this. Did my measurements and lost 7.75” (total 24.4”), with most of that being off my hips. My two month old jeans are all too big - thank goodness we’re moving into shorts weather.☀️
1st- 152.0
I was wondering when the whoosh would come! Counting this number for May since I know I didn’t lose it in the last couple of hours. 😊
May loss: -4.8 lbs5 -
Original starting weight - 192.2
May starting weight - 140.0
May goal - 138.0
Ultimate goal - 132.2
05/01 - 140.0 at 5:00 a.m.
05/06 - 140.4 at 5:00 a.m.
05/13 - 141.2 at 5:00 a.m. ...
05/20 - 143.0 at 5:00 a.m. ...yuck!
05/27 - 143.0 at 5:00 a.m. ...
05/31 - DNW
Total loss for May - bwahahaha!
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Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
Original MFP starting weight (January 2018) - 168.2
April 28 starting weight - 144.0 (ten-day rolling average weight 142.0)
May goal - 143
Ultimate goal - Range between 142 - 148
I report scale weight and (ten day average weight).
April 28 - 144.0 (142.0)
May 5 - 144.0 (142.1)
May 12 - 142.8 (142.6)
May 19 - 144.8 (143.2)
May 26 - 145.2 (144.8)
May 31 - 147.2 (144.7)
Total loss for May: By scale weight AND by ten-day average, I have GAINED (3.2 pounds by scale and almost three by ten-day average) since 28 April. Uh oh. I've been maintaining within about a half pound of my goal since mid March, but my two-week diet break turned into three. I have been celebrating, and that's a good thing. My celebrations should be about done. My trending weight is about 1.5 pounds over my goal, but I'm still in the middle of my maintenance range, so it's not the end of the world. It could be a bad trend if I don't fix it, so I will FIX IT. I need to focus on larger deficits the next few weeks to get back to what I had achieved. I may set MFP back to losing 0.5 pound per week if I don't get back down in a couple days.
I am still participating in this monthly weight loss challenge even though I'm still in my goal range. I'm also participating in a maintenance challenge.
What follows is what I posted here a few minutes ago, bit that was intended for another discussion group. It's not actually out of place, so I left it in when I added this actual update for the end of the month.
May hasn't been good to me. Actually, that's a poor way to say it. I haven't been as good to myself in May as I would like. That's not entirely true, either, because I made some conscious choices to celebrate a few things on the calendar. My scale weight has been bouncing around. My true weight was doing it's normal small fluctuations the first half of the month, but then it started climbing. I ended the month with my true weight a full two pounds over my goal. Before the past couple weeks, I had been maintaining true weight within a half pound of my goal since mid March, and often it was below my goal.
I am thinking about resetting my MFP goal back to losing a half pound a week since the TrendWeight website tells me I'm gaining a little MORE than that. Yuck.
A reality check is that I had a couple big, heavy food days the past week with lots of salt. I also ran a surplus of about 800 calories Thursday -- not sustainable! I do expect a rebound downward if I'm mindful. So I better be. That might set me up for a successful June since it will look like I started at a higher weight that I've been maintaining, and some of it is water.
My scale is acting like it's on its last legs again. The other day, I hopped on, but I didn't believe what it said. I hopped off and back on, and it was much more like what I expected. A third time mirrored the second. For checks, I got on again after my shower, and it was about exactly what the 2nd and 3rd were. As an additional check, I did get on another scale that may become my primary. It has consistently shown exactly one pound less than the one I've been using for six years (+/- 0.1 pound because it measures to that level of precision and my old one only reads to 0.2 pounds). But the new one doesn't do body composition. Well, my old one only does that occasionally anyway. Maybe time to put the old one out to pasture, and as a bonus, I lose a pound automatically5 -
where is the June thread?0
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YourJuneInJan wrote: »where is the June thread?
Be patient. @SamanthaLouiseMence will post it within the week. It's a weekly check-in, so you should be able to catch up even if it's posted after your first June scheduled weigh-in.
Thanks Samantha for keeping this group going!3 -
I sent Samantha @SamanthaLouiseMence a message.3
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I will try to do a daily weigh in for June in this thread. Let’s see how that goes.
Starting weight - 338.8 Lbs
Current weight - 172.4 Lbs
June goal - 167.4 Lbs
Ultimate goal - 150 Lbs
June 01 - 170.8
02 - 173.1 - high sodium foods yesterday.
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Total loss for June - 1.6 Lbs (Saturday’s)
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58 years old, 5'3"
Oct 27.18 joined MFP Start weight 191
May goal 159.9
May loss - 1.8 - Really wanted to get into the 50s. Not yet.
April loss - 7.7 - Maybe all of that calorie burn from February and March finally showed up.
March total: loss 1.7 lbs - This is all that I lost with a deficit of 18,713 calories
February total calories burned (not the deficit) - 20,350 - loss 1.4 lbs
April 30 - 167.9
May 01 - 165.1 I counted that in the April loss. It made up for February and March
May 02 - 164.3 - Saw this 164 number on April 26, glad to see it again. 5 more pounds to get out of the obese range. Working on it!
I usually keep it simple, calories in, calories out, and deficit. My change had been that I started to have greek yoghurt because with my dental issues it was a nice soft thing to have. I wonder if that has made the difference.
May 03 - 163.2 - I really stayed in bed late today and weighed before drinking water. I guess more time between eating and weighing myself. Planned night out, dinner, drinks, a concert.
May 04 - 165.0 - Pretty much expected, up almost 2 pounds in a day. This is why I rarely go out with friends any more, bad for the waistline. Went out with skinny friends last night argh, they don't have to be careful at all. I will get it back down, but it could take awhile. Oh well, I had a very good time.
May 05 - 166.4 - Back on track, but stuff from Friday is still showing up. Maybe tomorrow will be better : - )
May 06 - 165.6
May 08 - 165.3
May 09 - 165.1
May 10 - 165.0
May 11 - 165.3 - Ready to see a loss!
May 12 - 166.2 - Very large deficits since Friday - digging, tilling, weeding, planting. Slow metabolism, so maybe that will show up Tuesday or Wednesday hopefully. Potato garden today and weeding everywhere.
May 13 - 166.5
May 14 - 165.6
May 15 - 164.3 - I didn't manage to get enough water in yesterday, so the scale is down today.
May 16 - 163.0 - Yay!
May 17 - 163.1
May 19 - 164.7 - Dang. Oh well, not sweating it, staying the course.
May 20 - 163.5
May 21 - 164.6
May 22 - 164.3
May 23 - 163.9 - Going away until Monday, no wifi. So challenging to not be eating one's own food, and not much of a cushion this month. I will see what I can get in for workouts.
May 27 - 161.5
May 28 - 163.3
May 30 - 163.5
May 31 - 163.3
May loss - 1.8 pounds
June 01 - 163.3
June 02 - 163.0
June Running loss/gain - loss 0.30 -
Sorry the June post is late guys, been away with my son for the week and just got back.
WiFi was terrible where we were and the app kept freezing on me so couldn’t get it uploaded.
The just challenge is now up and running though
Please look for ‘Lose 5lbs + in June 2019’
Hope to see you all there and great job for May x4 -
Happy Sunday, everyone!
Finished the month right where I started. Well that's better than a gain, right? I was up a bit then back to where I started.
Highest weight ever: 254 in October 1999.
Lowest since 1991: 194.4 November 25, 2018, post gallbladder surgery.
Original starting weight: 243 in 2015.
MFP Starting weight December 25th, 2016: 233.
Goal: 180 in however long it takes.
Weekly Averages:
April 22 -28: 197.7
April 29 - May 5: 198.5
May 6 - May 12: 198.0
May 13 - May 19: 198.7
May 20 - May 26: 197.7
May 27-June 2: 197.7
Loss for May: 0
MFP Loss: 35.3 lbs.
Total cumulative loss since mid 2015: 45.3 lbs.
Move more, eat less.
See you in the June thread!
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SamanthaLouiseMence wrote: »Sorry the June post is late guys, been away with my son for the week and just got back.
WiFi was terrible where we were and the app kept freezing on me so couldn’t get it uploaded.
The just challenge is now up and running though
Please look for ‘Lose 5lbs + in June 2019’
Hope to see you all there and great job for May x
Thanks @SamanthaLouiseMence : - )2 -
Cassandraw3 wrote: »Original starting weight - 167.2 lbs (4/2/2018)
May starting weight - 148.2 lbs
May goal - 146 lbs
Ultimate goal - 140 lbs
1st - 148.2 lbs
8th - 148.0 lbs
15th - 150 lbs
22nd -
29th -
Total loss for May - + 1.8 lbs
TOM is a *kitten*.
I went a little crazy towards the end of the month. Ended around 152 lbs. Ate way too many sweets. But I'm back on track as of yesterday and I've set new goals for myself. Ready for the June challenge!2 -
Whoops posted in wrong one... need delete post option!1
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May was very busy for me and a roller-coaster, so I just let myself indulge only because my niece was finally moving back to Florida so we a some celebrations before she left. I knew May wouldn't be any different from the previous months but in June I'll definitely change my tune!
199.6 (water weight etc...and carbs too! *wink*)2 -
I did not reach my May goal but I try not to let that deter me from trying.
A loss is better than a gain this month.
MFP Starting Weight: 140 lbs - February 2011
Current Starting Weight: 147 lbs - November 2017
May Starting Weight: 138 lbs
May Goal: 133 lbs
Height: 5ft
Ultimate Goal: 120 lbs
Weigh-In Day: Friday and Monday
May 3: 138
May 6: N/A - I had no scale and it was a part of my wedding weekend - no cares were given.
May 10: 138.2
May 13: 138.2
May 17: 137.6
May 20: 138.8
May 24: 138.2
May 27: 139
May 31: 137.6
Total loss for May: -0.4 lbs1
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