Lose 5lbs + in July 2019

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  • kmfeig87
    kmfeig87 Posts: 1,990 Member
    @dawnbgethealthy Now you're confusing me! When you say:
    "I am using what MFP shows as calories remaining each day as my deficit. Without working out or activity there would be 0 deficit with this method."

    Did you use MFP to calculate calories for maintenance? or for a .5? or 1? pound loss per week? If MFP calculates your calories for weight loss, then you eat all those remaining calories to lose at that predicted rate. For example, I am 54, 5'4" weigh 133. I have MFP set for sedentary and 0.5 pound loss a week. MFP says eat 1250 calories. If I don't exercise and eat 1250 calories, I should lose 0.5 pounds a week. I like to eat more, so I exercise. Typically eat around 1500 a day and burn about 500 a day in exercise. (MFP adds in those calories and says I can eat 1750). That means I usually have about 250 or so calories remaining....which means with those 250 + built in 250 deficit already calculated, I have a 500 calorie/day deficit which results in closer to 1 lb lost per week.

    How do you calculate yours?
  • kmfeig87
    kmfeig87 Posts: 1,990 Member
    Hi. I'm Trina. 54 and 5'4"
    Down to my last 5 pounds, so hoping to lose 2-3 in July.

    Original starting weight - 199 (June 2018)
    July starting weight - 134.5
    July goal - <=132
    Ultimate goal - 128

    1st - 134
    5th - 133.5 (did OK over July 4th!)
    7th- 133.5 (holding)
    11th - 132
    14th - 132.5 (chocolate cake has been on the menu...so not bad :) )
    19th - blipped up earlier in the week, but back down!
    21st -
    28th -

    Current July loss: 2 lb
    End July loss: ????
  • Connie7355
    Connie7355 Posts: 496 Member
    Connie7355 Member
    July 12, 2019
    63 years old; 5’7” tall
    Original starting weight 2015 -236
    Starting Weight June, 2018 - 219.4
    July 2019 starting weight - 186.6
    July goal - 182.6
    Ultimate goal - 170 for now

    1st - 186.6
    5th - 185.6
    12th -185
    19th - 187.2
    26th -

    Total loss for July +.6
    Vacation got me. Too much frozen custard.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 12,935 Member
    Connie7355 wrote: »
    Total loss for July +.6
    Vacation got me. Too much frozen custard.

    Nothing wrong with that. I'm sure you gave yourself permission to enjoy yourself, and that's awesome. You know it's a temporary gain, and you're back on track now. Right on!

    I love vacations! Nothing wrong with a little decadence now and then. Go off the rails from time to time to reset the happiness. I'm assuming you like custard. I'm more into the savory things, and boy howdy did I ever! I added about 4.5 pounds to my mass in about as many days. It will come back off! It's just a little side trip on the journey, and it's WORTH IT.

    What I was less excited about was losing the six pounds I lost the last few days when I got overrun with what may or may not have been a norovirus. Yuck. Feeling better now, and hope to be back to near 100% in a few days. Ate food ad added two pounds of mass back. It's amazing how much food weighs in that little tunnel that isn't actually part of you but passes from your mouth, through your body, and out the other end.
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,515 Member
    @kmfeig87 and @LisaW57

    Okay ladies, that is making sense, we are already at a deficit with the goals set by MFP.
    Mine is set at 1200, so I'm not sure how much that deficit is each day? How do you know?

    Yes, I have been going along seeing what is left over after the day of calories in and calories out and using that as what I understood to be the deficit. I guess that with this new understanding that some months I have perhaps had a deficit of 100,000 instead of 25,000. I have been eating in and around 1200 for 8 months. Like really, I should be very slender by now lol.

    One day I was laid up and couldn't work out, I ate my 1200 calories and MFP calculated that if I kept doing that I would gain 7 pounds in 5 weeks. Hmm. No wonder I was confused. Some days I work out so much (like ice skating for 2 hours) that MFP says that I will be into the 140s in 5 weeks (that was back in March). So you can understand my confusion with the deficit.

    Okay, I just googled it on lifespan fitness, and to maintain my current weight at my age, and height I should be at 2128 calories per day, so I suppose that I am close to 1,000 calories per day deficit eating at 1200. You would think that I would have a 2 pound loss per week at that number instead of 1-2 pounds per month. Maybe this month will be different. 1373 basal metabolic rate is the number that I come up with from the calculator, so does that mean that the deficit eating at 1200 is 173 per day? Haha, I just confused myself again.

    I am with you @LisaW57 it is much harder once we get older. Truthfully, I am finding it easier post-menopausal than during full-blown menopause. The fat certainly sits in different areas now though!

    Even after this talk, I am still going to be aiming for minimum of 300+ calories as left over each day which would show me losing 1 pound every 11 or 12 days. Move more, eat less. I really have settled nicely into a 1200 cal lifestyle, basically eating 1/2 of everything (1/2 a sandwich, 1 piece of toast instead of 2, 1/2 a steak etc.).
    Even though the calculator says that I would maintain 160 at 2128 calories, I don't believe it : - )

    Thanks for trying to help me understand : - )
  • kmfeig87
    kmfeig87 Posts: 1,990 Member
    @dawnbgethealthy (and @LisaW57 )

    If your BMR is 1373, then eating 1200 would leave you with a 173 deficit if you laid in bed all day!

    When you calculated maintenance calories using lifespan fitness, I'm assumng you used an activity level to account for your exercise.

    MFP allows you to give an exercise level, or you can set to sedentary and enter your exercise calories (manually or with a tracker) each day. I use sedentary, and let my FitBit add/subtract calories.

    MFP also sets a minimum of about 1200 calories. When I set my rate of loss to 0.5 / week and sedentary, it calculates 1250 as target calories. Obviously, if I set my rate of loss to 2 lbs a week it would not give me a target of 500 calories....You can see the effect if you change your rate of loss and see how the calories change.

    Don't know if that helps!
  • Connie7355
    Connie7355 Posts: 496 Member
    edited July 2019
    @mtaratoot it sure does come back on fast, doesn’t it?? But you’re right it can come back off just as fast. Just have to jump back on that wagon. Good luck and thanks for your support!! It means a lot!!
  • kmfeig87
    kmfeig87 Posts: 1,990 Member
    Hi. I'm Trina. 54 and 5'4"
    Down to my last 5 pounds, so hoping to lose 2-3 in July.

    Original starting weight - 199 (June 2018)
    July starting weight - 134.5
    July goal - <=132
    Ultimate goal - 128

    1st - 134
    5th - 133.5 (did OK over July 4th!)
    7th- 133.5 (holding)
    11th - 132
    14th - 132.5 (chocolate cake has been on the menu...so not bad :) )
    19th - blipped up earlier in the week, but back down!
    21st - 130.5 New low today! :):)
    28th -

    Current July loss: 3.5 lb
    End July loss: ????
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 12,935 Member
    @kmfeig87 -- that last five pounds is SO hard. I had finally got there, but that annoying last few pounds was hiding behind a shrub, and it jumped me when I walked past. Now I'm trying to see if we can be friends, because I'm still able to maintain, but it's just a little heavier than I'd like to see. What will next week hold? Stay tuned to find out. For now....

    Heaviest weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
    Original MFP starting weight (January 2018) - 168.2
    June 30 starting weight - 148.2 (ten-day rolling average weight 145.5)
    July goal - 143
    Ultimate goal - Range between 142 - 148

    I report scale weight and (ten day average weight).

    June 30 - 148.2 (145.5)
    July 7 - 148.0 (147.9)
    July 14 - 146.4 (147.7) -- interpolated from July 11 and July 16 weight.
    July 21 - 145.2 (146.0)
    July 28 -

    Total loss for July: Well, what do you know? It actually looks like I've lost three pounds! Oh. Wait. That's just one-day scale weight. My ten-day average is up a half pound. I get it. Looking at my weight TRENDS, it explains in pictures what I wrote above.

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  • tramaine_21
    tramaine_21 Posts: 348 Member
    Happy Sunday Everybody! Try to spend some time with the people you love. I'm spending time listening to Christian worship music because I love Jesus. Romans, 10:9-10.
    Any who....

    This past week has been okay. Ups and downs, nothing I can't bounce back from. Not too focused on weight-loss at the moment just trying to make sure I'm eating correctly--which I am however, IF (intermittent fasting) has not been great. I've been snacking, albeit on healthy food, just non stop snacking...On peanut butter no less! Then I realized it the hormones. I've calmed down a bit since I started (TOM) and am ready to get back on track! My 20 yr High School Reunion is this coming Saturday 7/27--I'm not going--but it's a great motivation to lose weight in case I bump into a classmate this week in my area. I hated high school. Yuck!

    7/21: TOM D-3(ish)
    7/27:Next Weigh-in:
    7/31:

    Lowest weight June 29th~July 1st: 179.8 (gained a few lbs since then...)
    Goal weight for July: return to 179 or lower! (Being Realistic!)

  • BasedGawd412
    BasedGawd412 Posts: 346 Member
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    8.4lbs lost for July so far
  • LisaW57
    LisaW57 Posts: 339 Member
    61 years old; 5'2"
    Original starting weight - 158.5 (12/30/2018)
    June ending weight 148.3 (June loss 1.3 lbs)

    July starting weight - 148.2
    July goal -145.2 (adjusted)

    Ultimate goal - 135.0

    I generally do a Friday weigh-in. I've pinned the weekly weigh-in days for the challenge. Friday/Monday weigh-in will be interesting :wink:

    📌 1st - 148.2 (Trend Weight 149.2)
    3rd - 148.7 (Trend Weight 149.1)
    4th - 148.1 (Trend Weight 149.0)
    5th - 148.1 (Trend Weight 148.9)
    6th - 148.3 (Trend Weight 148.8)
    📌 8th - 147.8 (Trend Weight 148.6)
    12th - 148.2 (Trend Weight 148.5)
    13th - 149.3 (Trend Weight 148.6)
    14th - 150.6 (Trend Weight 148.8) UGH!

    📌 15th - 149.5 (Trend Weight 148.9)
    19th - 148.5 (Trend Weight 149.0)
    📌 22nd - 148.3 (Trending 148.8)
    26th -
    📌 29th -
    📌 31st -

    Thoughts: Trending back down after my spike. It could have been better. Saw 147.8 on Saturday, but I had barely eaten on Friday. Yesterday was pizza and ice cream with the grandkids - I'll never pass that up 💚

    I need to get back on the exercise & step routine. It's not as bad as it looks. I left the Fitbit on the charger all day Saturday, and forgot to time & log the extra cleaning both days. I don't log regular cleaning that's done throughout the day, but I did try to remember to capture the heavier stuff as I try to downsize and declutter.

    July Game Plan & Goals:
    • Continue weekly meal planning Off my game.
    • Log daily in MFP - focus on daily calorie deficit goal of 500
    • No calorie intake after 8pm
    • Hit Fitbit step goal of 5000, then increase to 6000 - 7 day average 2387 ⬇
    • Hit active minutes goal of 25 minutes daily, then increase to 30 - 7 day average 0 ↔
    • Hit strength building exercise goal of 6 days, then increase to 7 - 7 day average 0 ⬇

    90 Day Progress: This really demonstrates the spikes where I fall off on activity.

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  • lalabank
    lalabank Posts: 1,009 Member
    @dawnbgethealthy
    Always great to see that number for the first time! Every new decade is super motivating.