Lose 5lbs + in May 2019

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 lbs

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.

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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 automatically