JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS ~ ROUND 92

Round 91 was the worst of the the last few rounds. I’m going to keep joining though and keep trying. I need to get my diet under control and start doing some form of exercise again. I think I need to update my excel sheet and start tracking my numbers again that was motivating me to see the trends going down.

Day/Weight/Comment
Oct 10 - 191.0 - I’m not sure what to even say about this.
Oct 11 - 191.8
oct 12 - 191.0
Oct 13 - 189.2 - I finally got all of my water in yesterday. I am going to try to have a good day today too even with it being Canadian Thanksgiving
Oct 14 - 191.8 - I’m not surprised since I enjoyed Thanksgiving yesterday.
Oct 15 - 190.6 - I want to be in the 180’s by the end of this round.
Oct 16 - 190.6 - at least it’s not up
Oct 17 - 190.0 - again heading in the right direction.
Oct 18 - 190.4 - bad choices yesterday.

Two goals this round.... Limit after dinner snacks to 100 calories, and walk 3-5 miles at least 5 days a week regardless of other exercise. It’s October! Enjoy the crisp, golden days!

UGW - 130
HSW - 218.2 (Feb. 2015)
OSW - 151.8 (Aug. 31, 2016)
Restart (R80) - 161 (June 11, 2019)

Weight on 2/2015 - 218.2
Lost 75#, regained 12 (to 156) on metabolism reset 11/16-6/17. FIrst round (R15) Aug. 2017. R91 10/9/19 end weight 165.8

Day/Weight/Comment

10/10 - 165.6
I ate weird yesterday — didn’t feel great, so I nibbled during the day and evening. All better this morning. Planning to paint hallway trim today, plant bulbs, and get my change-of-season clothes organized. The fun never stops! And I’m planning a nice walk this evening. It’s a gorgeous day here — I hope where you are, too!

10/11 - 165.4
I seem to be on a lazy streak -- must be the beautiful warm fall days! It's supposed to rain today and be cooler the rest of the week, so I guess I can get back to work. Next week I plan to return to the gym -- I spent the summer exercising outdoors, which it SO much better. Enjoy the weekend, all!

10/12 - 166
Darn it. Oh, well.

10/13 - 166

10/14 - 165
Finally!

10/15 - 166
Bouncy bouncy.

10/16 - 166
Oh for heaven’s sake. But I’m doing better with the night eating, so there’s that.

10/17 - 168.2
WHAAA???? I have no idea. Sodium? Bad battery in scale? We’ll see what happens tomorrow. Jeesh.

10/18 - 166.4
Whew. I don’t know what was up yesterday. Anyway, I’m doing better about evening snacks, though I did have some nuts last night. I’m hoping to lose a little more by tomorrow.

10/19 -

I am not on a diet, but a lifelong pilgrimage to maintain physical & emotional health. Reaching and maintaining a lower healthy weight is just one of several goals.

50 years old female.
highest weight 153.4 in mid June.
goal--a little less each challenge

Day/Weight/Comment
10/10 139.2
10/11 143.6
10/12 142
10/13 137.6.....anyone else bounce like this...
10/14 142.6
10/15 142.4
10/16 140.8
10/17 139.6
10/18 141.2
10/19

Round 92: I'm in again!

Female, 57 yy, 4'11''
OSW: 177.1 lbs
LTG: 110.0 lbs
STG: 115 (next milestone)

Goals for 10 day Challenge: lose 1.6 pounds (reach 116).
Day/Weight/Comment

10/10 116.8 Nice - drop at the start! Of course, seems that happens a lot and then it bounces back up and I struggle to get back to the start lol! Can’t complain as getting closer to initial goal weight! Strength/weights with trainer and cardio today (step class had a new instructor!), and pasta for dinner tonight - smoked eggplant/peppers with cavatappi and smoked mozzarella. Need to go test wines for a work function after dinner so banked calories so that the wine is ok a al IIFIYM.


10/11 118 Not surprised! Weight training + cardio + pasta + wine (tasting + 1.5 glasses and additional food as I was hungry) likely all led to some water retention and my weight loss is not linear at all. I have decided that I really need to increase my calories above 1400 to closer to 1600 so that I am losing at a slower rate (1.34lb current to .5lb) for the last 12 pounds here. I have been shooting for under 1200-1300 as I usually eat lunch out or may not have verified calorie data, but based on realized losses looks like tracking is pretty accurate so can get closer to target. Other reasons: 1) With lifting this last week, I have been hungrier, so listening to my body cues. 2) Not sure if losing slower ultimately preserves more muscle mass (given that my bf is around 28-29%), but more protein with the increased calories may help build more muscle mass and maybe BMR will not drop as much (getting BMR retested in November) plus more carbs can help fuel cardio (still in a deficit though) 3) help with skin adopting to fat loss - most of the fat left is on my lower belly and hips. After a twin pregnancy have lots of stretched out lower belly skin so maybe with a slower loss rate won;t have a baggy tummy (given age may not be avoidable) Building muscle could help fill out some of the space lost to fat. Will monitor and tweak as needed [went over 1600 last night, so hoping that is primarily water or muscle lol]

NSV: Can now wear a pair of small pants that I bought on sale when I was losing weight after the twins were born, but never got weight all the way down to fit! And they are almost too big!

10/12 117.8 Going back down even with the increase in calories!!! Rest day today! Body needs it after workouts this week and have to spend a good part of today driving to the coast and back to move the boat from the boatyard to the marina. Unfortunately won;t have time to stay and sail, so activity level will be low (sorry Apple Watch Challenge team #coreslight, but will be back at full speed tomorrow!) Hopefully some walking and core work later on just to close all my rings!

10/13 118.4 Effects of being in the car for lots of yesterday? New calorie regime? In any case not out of the norm… Did Xtrain this morning and increased power to rate ratio from previous work, so nice to see that as weight is going down. (Watts are increasing as well, which is even better) Strength workout late afternoon - new PR on deadlift of 105 lbs and was able to do 5 reps at 70 lbs on bench-press.

10/14 116.4 Whoosh! New low!!! Now to see if that will hang around until the end of the round :-) Liking the new calorie levels, but need to make sure that I eat more in the morning and have pre-planned snacks for work ! Spin class tonight for cardio.

10/15 116.4 Held it! Morning was strength training with trainer, and followed up with 30 minutes of HIIT on spin bike with one minute intervals of all out at peak heart rate, followed by up to a minute recovery until HR dropped to 65% of max. Went back for evening Interval hour class so more cardio and interval exercises with medicine ball - great workout. Did much better with spacing out snacks and meals today, with increase of protein throughout the day to help strength training. Starting zig-zag on calories so total was up today for strength training.

10/16 115.8 OK probably water loss as lots of cardio yesterday, but calories were up for the day. Will see if that holds - don’t expect it to as trend line prediction is 116.4 based on Happy Scale, so may see some more bouncing for a couple of days. In any case, thrilled to see a new low and with progress should be able to hold in the 115’s in a week or so. Will have spin class this evening after work, so prepared snacks to be fueled for class!

10/17 115.4 OK surprised, but hey maybe this is a benefit of increasing calories/ protein throughout the day ?!? %BF is down to 27.8 and skeletal muscle increased to 42.1 %. Refueled after spin class with pasta and a sauce with ground duck sausage and smoked mozzarella. Hit food calories on the nose yesterday, but still had a 599 calorie deficit for the day from tracking with the watch, so may need to increase food a bit more (will monitor). Today was step class, strength training with trainer, and then I did HIIT intervals on the spin bike for 30 minutes, so higher food calories today as it is a strength day. Hoping to hang out in the 115’s if possible for the rest of the round!

10/18 115.6 Yeah!!!! Staying in the 115’s. May be a challenge to stay here tomorrow as I have old friends coming into town and we will be having drinks/appetizers at a friends house before will all go out for dinner (Greek; checked out the menu and looks like good choices). With this group there is usually a lot of wine, which should be IIFIYM in moderation! The bigger challenge is that DH’s brother is coming into town this evening so more challenges over the weekend ahead! I am not going to worry about the calories but take time to enjoy being with friends! With the current exercise regime my body can handle it and any bump up is likely going to be from sodium with eating out/water retention than real weight gain. Going to express spin class at 12:30 (should be well fueled for this after dinner last night - carbs, protein & fat) and and maybe a quick arm workout before for biceps/triceps or other muscles that were not targeted in training yesterday if I can fit that in over lunch.

10/19

Round 77: 147.8
Round 78: 146.1 (1.7 loss)
Round 79: 143.4 (2.7 loss)
Round 80: 140.6 (2.8 loss)
Round 81: 138.8 (1.8 loss)
Round 82: 136.1 (2.7 loss)
Round 83: 134.5 (1.6 loss)
Round 84: 131.8 (2.7 loss at lowest point, July 27, did not weigh rest of round)
Round 85: 128.8 (3.0 loss)
Round 86: 129.2 (0.4 gain)
Round 87: 124.8 (4.4 loss) (outlier whoosh is skewing stats :- )
Round 88: 123.2 (1.6 loss) ** Reached healthy Weight BMI **
Round 89: 121.9 (1.3 lb loss)
Round 90: 119.6 (2.3 lb loss)
Round 91: 117.6 (2.0 lb loss) (lowest weight since 2006)


(long term trend is 2.4 lbs/10 days, current rate is 1.94/10)

b]Female 38 Yrs Old [/b]
SW: 234.8
UGW: 160

Previous Rounds:

Round 92 SW: 222.8
Round 92 GW: 220

Day/Weight/Comment

10/10- 222.8
10/16 - 226 - I'm honestly not surprised. I've been dealing with a serious lack of motivation lately
10/17 - 225.2
10/18 - 223.2 - I'm thinking about going back to running. I used to run 5 and 10k until I injured my ankle. It's almost completely healed so...
10/19

Round 92
MY NAME IS DONNA. I AM 59 YEARS YOUNG & FROM THE MIDWEST USA. I AM APPROX 5’ 5” TALL.
ROUND 50 FOR ME.


“We will encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~Maya Angelou




MY STATS:
Highest weight ever (2014/2015): 253
Original starting weight for this current journey : (1-11-2018) 235.0
R91 EW= 189.2
R92 EW= TBD


Current New Goals:

Weight:
Short Term Goal: Lose back down to my lowest weight last round (187.2) which is a 4.6 lb loss. Due to possible fluid retention, I am trying to be confident that I will do it this round. Back to business!
My First Long Term Weight Goal: To weigh 186.X by Halloween. (new revised & realistic goal)
My Second Long Term Weight Goal: Weigh 174.X by Jan 11, 2020 (my 2 year anniversary of current Keto dieting).
Final goal: 145-155. We’ll see how I look & feel when I get there.
Exercise:

During each Weight goal I plan on doing cardio in the form of dancing at aerobic levels whenever possible. I would also like to walk as much as possible.
I have changed my spoiler in order to shorten it listing my rounds in groups
********LOOK AND SEE HOW THE UPS & DOWNS OF MY JOURNEY JUST HELPS ME BE A STRONGER & MORE DETERMINED ME********

COLOR CODE: Fuchsia is a Happy Weight Loss for me. Blue is a sad weight gain. Black is no change.


Day/Weight/Comment
10/09 …..189.2….. ENDING WEIGHT LAST ROUND

10/10 …..191.8….. Hopefully some of this is water retention. I am up 4.6 lbs from my lowest weight last round. Travel is over (for now) and I’m back in my safe zone (home). LCHF, lots of exercise and I am still attempting to try to get more sleep. Now if I could just get tired! Good luck everyone this round!

10/11 …..191.8….. Yesterday’s stats: 1500 Calories In / 3125 Calories Out. 53 Net Carbs. 24,298 Total Steps & 10.28 Total Miles. 13/13 Fitbit Step Hours. I slept 4 hours & 53 minutes and woke up tired. I did 32 minutes of light to moderate cleaning in the tourist cabins, I walked a DNR hiking trail (no backpack) at about 3.5 mph for 115 minutes (almost 5 miles) and I did aerobic dancing in my livingroom for 26 minutes. Sample song – “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr. Well, as Scarlet O’Hara once said, “Tomorrow I’ll think of some way….after all, tomorrow is another day”.

10/12 …..189.8 ….. Yesterdays stats: 1250 Calories In / 2496 Calories Out. 37 Net Carbs of friendly veggies. 12,790 Total Steps & 5.41 Total Miles. 12/13 Fitbit Step Hours & I slept a whopping 6 hours & 18 minutes.

10/13 …..190.2 ….. Yesterday’s stats: 1799 Calories In / 2334 Calories Out. 79 Carbs. 14,008 Total Steps & 5.95 Total Miles. 13/13 Fitbit Step Hours. Not sure about sleep, I recharged my Fitbit. I dreamed last night for the 1st time in probably 20 years. It was a very strange dream but it was wonderful that I got to see my husband again. I woke up very tired & groggy. I wanted to lay back down to see if I could get back into the dream & see him some more, but the cat wouldn’t let me.

10/14 …..190.0 ….. I’m going to have to increase my fiber somehow today. I need TMI to help rid me of my indiscretions! A perfect day yesterday except for the breading on the chicken. Yesterday’s stats: 1696 Calories In / 3084 Calories Out. 40 Net Carbs. 19,422 Total Steps & 8.22 Total Miles. 13/13 Fitbit Step Hours. I slept 4 hours & 19 minutes. I did rigorous tourist cabin cleaning for 90 minutes, light to moderate personal housecleaning for 58 minutes and I did the elliptical for 19 minutes. Total extra calorie burn 739. Expecting 40 degree temps again today but finally no rain. Cold but beautiful.
Have a great week everyone!

10/15 …..189.9 Yesterday’s stats: 1156 Calories In / 2461 Calories Out. 14,458 Total Steps & 6.12 Total Miles. 12/13 Fitbit Step Hours. I slept 4 hours & 3 minutes. I walked approx 3.0 mph for 52 minutes and burned an extra 293 calories.

10/16 …..190.1 ….. I’m surprised this isn’t up more. Had DD #2 over with baby. Had a great LCHF breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sheer Perfection on my macros. Then later last night, a small binge. I have not had one in some time now but it’s like being possessed. I’ll have to watch the scale over the next couple of days to see if this is the only damage or if there’s more to come. Yesterday’s stats: 2226 Calories In / 2525 Calories Out. 82 Net Carbs. 14,445 Total Steps & 6.11 Total Miles. 11/13 Fitbit Step Hours. I slept 5 hours & 23 minutes. I dreamed again. This time about my Poodle that passed away a few years ago at age 17. This is not the last pet I have lost, but he is the one I dreamed of. Even after waking I could still feel his tight black curls on my fingers from petting him in my arms. I could still feel his warm belly on my wrist as I held him and walked. Maybe all the walking has tired me enough to finally hit some REM sleep. So strange after so many years of no dreams. I walked for 76 minutes at 3.0 mph for a total calorie burn of 432.

10/17 …..189.0 ….. Back in the 180’s. Yay me! The small binge two nights ago was with Atkins bars (indulgence and meal replacement). Perhaps because it wasn’t high sodium it did not affect weight or water retention as badly as a restaurant savory meal. Whew! That was a close one! Yesterday’s stats: 1100 Calories In / 2905 Calories Out. 30 Net Carbs including spaghetti squash. 19,507 Total Steps & 8.27 Total Miles. 13/13 Fitbit Step Hours. I slept 4 hours & 23 minutes. I walked 106 minutes at 3.5 mph inside the school on a route designed for walkers (due to rain). I rigorously cleaned a tourist cabin for about 22 minutes. Total extra calorie burn 710.


10/18 …..188.2 ….. I need one more pound to reach my goal & I will be having dinner at the local fish fry for dinner which is pre-planned approx once per month with friends. Ugg. Sodium! I hate that the round is ending on the Saturday after this time! Either way, I don’t think I would drop the full pound overnight anyway. Last night was 0.8 Lost. I have lost 3.2 since the first day’s weigh in but it was inflated from the final weight in Round 91. Yesterday’s stats: 1286 Calories In / 2548 Calories Out. 30 Net Carbs. 12,347 Total Steps & 5.22 Total Miles. 13/13 Fitbit Step Hours. I slept 6 hours & 17 minutes which was fantastic!!! Not much extra activity over my usual household stuff. I did take one small slow 25 minute walk at about 2.0 mph very close to home as I had work being done & had to stay close to the cabins. Good luck everyone tomorrow. Just one more day…….you can do it!!!!

10/19 …..xxxxx …..

Round 92 (my 24th)

OSW 382.0
RSW 285.8

Late this round brings tom so I expect that my weight will be all over the place. My goal for this round is to stay on track and hopefully end lower than I started. I’m well on track to hit my goal for weight loss this year.

10/10 286.2 I have no idea what caused this bounce, but they happen like that on occasion. I had a busy, stressful evening, so I suspect that played a part. My nsv is that some of my pants are getting lose and I realized yesterday that they are no longer a little tight in the thighs. I might have to replace them sooner than I anticipated.

10/11 286.0 I expected a bounce up from a late dinner, high sodium and a dumbbell workout. I’m taking a rest day today because of doms in my leg.

10/12 285.6 I was hopeful of a bigger drop, but I’ll take it, especially since I didn’t bounce up yesterday. I think I was a little dehydrated again yesterday because I drank about 50oz of water at dinner time and my leg stopped bothering me and my energy level went up. I must not be drinking enough for my activity level lately.

10/13 285.8 It’s my usual pre tom stall/bounce.

10/14 287.0 Not too bad considering that I had a big lunch yesterday. On the plus side of that I wasn’t very hungry at dinner time so I ate pretty low then allowing me to end the day at the high end of my calories. My nsv was walking to and from the burger place. In the past a walk like that would have left me wiped out and/or in pain but I came home and did 30 minutes on my exercise bike and another 15 later in the evening.

10/15 286.6 Tom arrived yesterday afternoon so hopefully I’ll see some good drops soon.

10/16 286.0 Slowly but surely dropping, hopefully tomorrow brings a new low.

10/17 285.6

10/18 288.0 I earned every ounce of this. I’ve made a plan to deal with days that I need to run errands.

10/19

***My 22nd Round!***
Age: 39
Height: 5'7"
Highest weight 158 (3/9/19)
ROUND HISTORY Total lost after 20 rounds: 30.4 lbs
GOALS
Halfway GW: 140.4 (-17.4) <<achieved!>>
UGW: 126-128 REVISED 9/29 from 123
<<MAINTENANCE achieved!>>
SW this round: 129.2 lbs
GW this round: 127.8-128.2 lbs
Day/Weight/Comment
10/10 DNW
10/11 DNW
10/12 DNW
10/13 DNW
10/14 129.2 Aw, man! I go on vacation (missed you guys!) and this is what I come back to?! All right, jumping back into it. Some of this uptick might be water/salt retention.
10/15 129.4 Yesterday was more or less my regular eating plan, and I'm sure it may take up to a week to get back down to the middle of my maintenance range. As fun as it was to indulge on vacation, I'm glad to be back to my routine.
10/16 129.4 I've been doing this long enough not to be worried.
10/17 128.6 Getting rid of the vacation poundage, but I still feel incredibly bloated/puffy. I may do a quick round of keto at the end of the month, up until Thanksgiving.
10/18 126.6 All right! Woke up feeling less bloated. Heading into the weekend, but I'm in maintenance now and I GOT THIS!
10/19

Stephie, 48, 167 cm, Brussels:
R92 (11) – SW 156.8 / EW xxx.x
Slowly but surely as it goes ... I'm amazed at how quickly these challenges pass and add up!

OSW 172.0 lbs
RSW 156.8 lbs
RGW 156.0 lbs
EGW 140.0 bls

Past Rounds:
Goals
1 - Keep to 1200 cal (except run days 1400cal)
2 - Run (or gym) 3x week
3 - Water 1.5l
4 – Core workout 30 day challenge

Date – Weight in of the morning– Summary of the previous day:

10/10 -156.8, core 09/30 ok, 10,644 steps, 1220 cal I'm looking forward to the winter months, more soups and less ice cream lol I'm going to try and fit in a run today. It's one of those days where I have to duplicate myself to be at several places at once so I've packed a lunch and planned my meals.. now I just have to stick to the plan, that's the hardest part !
10/11 - 157.6 (+0.8) 7943 steps, calories .. to many Yesterday I didn't manage to stick to the plan in the end, but that's just my bad. My kid was sick, there's a tummy bug going around school, so I left work early and we did home schooling instead. Then I had a landlord meeting in the evening so I didn't manage to get my run done. Today I'm going to the gym but this weekend is going to be another gain I think. There's too much going on to be organised. I'll just try and limit the damage by avoiding deserts and sweet stuff. Also I've managed to plan physical activities as well, Saturday morning 2h badminton with my daughter and Sunday gym or a quick run (if I'm not too tired). After this weekend I'm planning on taking a slower pace and blocking some "me time" over the weekends.
10/12 157.6 (0.0) 14.735 steps, core 11/30 done, W7R3 done. I ran 28 minutes straight yesterday!! 1st times since my diagnostic, 10 years ago, that I've managed to do that! So chuffed! I also did a 20 minute workout on the machines at the gym before hand. Unfortunately I treated myself to my 1st packet of crisps since starting this rounds so the weight didn't go down lol Today I have 2 hrs badminton with my daughter this morning, it's a fun activity and not competitive at all, but it keeps us moving for two hours, then I'm driving straight to a conference so I need to get some food somewhere otherwise I"ll end up pigging out on all the cakes and goodies. Back home late, that'll be another challenge not to eat the first thing in the fridge...
10/13 156.8 (-0.8) 9.545 steps 1309 cal, core 11/30, badminton 2hrs, then had food in the car to eat between various activities so I managed to stay on track.
10/14 155.8 (-1.0lbs) 5.642 step 1412 cal, core 12/30 Very surprised at this loss especially after a weekend I'll probably put some back on tomorrow but in the meantime I'm going to enjoy it I'm getting close to my healthy BMI. I'd really like to get into the lower BMI numbers for my joints and because there's a lot of heart disease in my family. I'm going to try and cut salt as well, that's going to be hard!
10/15 157 (+1.2); 16,234 steps, 1303 cal, Core challenge rest day, 3km treadmill + 15mins elliptical. No idea where that gain came from, I did expect a little increase but having such an active day I though it would be ok. On the other hand my clothes are getting baggy and my general body shape is much improved so I'm not too worried. Anyway today I'm going to watch my calories and salt. I've planned an hour walk with a friend during my lunch hour. 10/16 155.8 (-1.2) 13,533 steps, 1251 cal, core 14/30, so back down we go, I'm not one to complain lol I'm off most of the day for my First Aid refresher course. I'll try and fit in some gym time as well this afternoon. I haven't planned my meals which might be a problem though.
10/17 155.8 (0.0) 12.597 steps, treadmill run 3.86 km

10/18 155.8 (0.0) 15116 Steps, outdoor run W8D2 done, core 15/30. I've been exercising most days, but haven't been as consistent logging my food which I need to address. It shows in my weight which is not budging despite two consecutive running days. Lately I don't have time to prepare food so I end up starving and grabbing for easy food. I really need to come to grips with this slow cooker thing.

10/19