October Check In

Oct 7: 157 Trend: 157.5
Oct 12: 156.4 Trend: 156.8

Monthly avg: 157.13
Yearly avg: 154.72

Successes: more energy, got back to > 10K steps avg per day this past week!!

Struggling: a bit with my purpose in life. Getting healthy, building an exercise program, losing weight, figuring out how to maintain, recovering from two surgeries & two 6 month rounds of PT & daily PT exercises KEPT ME BUSY.

Then I ventured into making art, which I love & do. I need to work to decide whether the art has value. It helps me relax & be happy but I sometimes question whether I should be helping others more.

Then, I remember how when I was most sick. It was the art & music that others created that helped me the most. I have to rewrite my brain, I guess. And get my art out into the world

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Name: BMcC
Age: 61 (as of Oct 8 )
Height: 5'3"
Total weight lost: 48 pounds
Time it took to lose: 2 yrs
How long in maintenance:~ 6 months (since April 2019)
Maintenance weight range: 135-140 lbs


Week of..
Oct 06 139.2
Oct 13 139.4 (part of this will actually be "large meal still in digestive tract")
Oct 20
Oct 27

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the past week:

Didn't log intake for 3 days of the Canadian Thanksgiving Long Weekend .... but no hugs or condolences needed. I can tell by my fitbit steps and how the scales behaved that even if I HAD logged everything I would still have been within my target intake envelope each day (which allows for "potentially dipping into the exercise calories if needed, but never have to use ALL of them to cover the intake")

That's what happens when my birthday dinner /left-over pumpkin pie / my actual birthday / Canadian Thanksgiving Family Dinner / second left-over pumpkin pie all happen one day after the other within an 10-day stretch. No more foreseeable special occasions before end of November / beginning of December when the Holly Daze Social Event Silly Season starts at the office. The next two family birthdays aren't until end of December and early January.

There are advantages to having a small immediate family and social circle!

Age: 31
Height: 5'8"
Total weight lost: 70 pounds
Time it took to lose: 4 months
How long in maintenance: 4 month
Maintenance weight range: 147 - 152 (educated guess at the moment based on an ideal weight of 149 for my height)
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): NA

Average weight recorded from January: NA
Average weight recorded from February: 214.75
Average weight recorded from March: 204.04
Average weight recorded from April: 187.42
Average weight recorded from May: 174.18
Average weight recorded from June: 164.21
Average weight recorded from July: 158.2
Average weight recorded for August: 155.54
Average weight recorded for September: 151.2

Week of
Oct 1: 149.6 (7 day 149.7)
Oct 8: 149.6 (7 day 149.2)
Oct 15:151.8 (7 day 148.9)
Oct 22:
Oct 29:

Success(es): Brought my Half marathon time under 2 hours for the first time in training. Starting to test and adjust my nutrition timing for January's Walt Disney World Marathon. Got to ride a slide at Volcano Bay that has a 150lb weight limit!
Struggle(s): On a weight spike pretty sure that's due to my sleep schedule getting wrecked over the weekend. 3rd shift is tough like that.

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.
On 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
May 178.9
June 178.9
July 181
Aug 180.64
Sep 179.6

Weigh In
3 Oct 183.4 (+3.8)
10 Oct 180.6 (-2.8)
17 Oct 180 (-.6)

Success/struggles of the week
Success: Lost .6 Funny how back in the day when trying to lose a .6!would be disappointing. Today a SUCCESS!
Struggle: Hard to get back on putting my Tracking into my phone App (WW Program). I’m mentally “tracking” but I know that is the path to DANGER.

Name: missperfectpitch
Height: 5'4"
Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
Maintenance weight range: 108-111.5
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 109.8

Average weight recorded from January: 111
Average weight recorded from February: 110.8
Average weight recorded from March: 110.6
Average weight recorded from April: 110.0
Average weight recorded from May: 109.9
Average weight recorded for June: 111.2
Average weight recorded for July: 111.9
Average weight recorded for August: 111.9
Average weight recorded for September: 112.6

Week of..
Oct 5: 112.4 (trend 112.6)
Oct 12: 112 (trend 112.2)
Oct 19: 112.3 (trend 112.3)
Oct 26:

Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I'm still working to get my weight back down within range. I'm keeping up with walking and managed to do 17k steps on Monday since it was a holiday, as well as 15k steps the following day as there was a long walk to meet a friend at dinner. I'm hoping to keep up this level of activity for as much of the fall as possible, as I know that the winter will probably make it more difficult to do so.

HEAVIEST weight: 175.4 in early 2013.
Total Weight lost: 30 pounds
Time it took to lose: ~6 months
How long in maintenance: Since July 2018 -- but with some fluctuation outside of goal range.
Maintenance weight range: 142 - 148 (and not sure that's the right answer)

Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 163.8
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 150.7

Average weight recorded from January: 148.4
Average weight recorded from February: 146.3
Average weight recorded from March: 143.2
Average weight recorded from April: 143.0
Average weight recorded from May: 144.1
Average weight recorded from June: 145.6
Average weight recorded from July: 146.5
Average weight recorded from August: 145.8
Average weight recorded from September: 143.2

Average weight Week of...
September 30 - October 6: 140.2
October 7 -- 13: 141.1
October 14 - 20: 142.5
October 21 - 27:
October 28 - November 3:

Success of the week: I kept my average weight in my goal range all week, and my scale weight stayed below what I currently have set as my goal five of seven days. I had been toying with extending my goal down a little bit, and I'm still contemplating that.

Struggle of the week: Avoiding emotional eating. I did some yesterday; drinking too. It was a Celebration of Life for a friend who died in August. It was great to be among so many friends and family whew knew and loved him. He was the kind of person we really do all strive to be, and he died way too young. Firetruck cancer. Firetruck is the only word that starts with an f and ends with uck that won't turn out to be some small feline on this forum.

And here’s my weight chart since June 2010: