Just give me one month - December

Starting weight: 12.05
Start weight this month: 11.09
Goal weight this month: 11.0
Target goal weight 9.10

June - lost 6lbs
July - lost 3lbs...then went on holiday and gained 5lbs back 🙄
August- lost 2lbs
September and October - I went off it and put all the weight and more back on 😔
November - lost 7lbs 😀😀

Let’s look fabulous for Christmas 🎄💃🏼

WE CAN DO THIS!

01 Dec: 11.09 😀
02 Dec: 11.12 😫 oh dear! Bad Saturday night and TOM! Hopefully just bloating!
03 Dec: 11.09 😀 better!
04 Dec: 11.10 🧐 hmmm!
05 Dec: 11.11 😫 not sure what’s happening! Annoyed!
06 Dec: 11.10 ☺️ better!
07 Dec: 11.11 😬 not being very good!
08 Dec: 11.11 😕 my birthday week! Eating lots of rubbish!
09 Dec: 11.12 😫 this is going to be a disastrous week of birthday outings 😫
10 Dec: 11.13 I’ve lost it! 😠🙁
11 Dec: My birthday 🎂 eating my body weight in food all week!
12 Dec: 12.0 🤦🏼‍♀️ whoops! Very slippery slope!
13 Dec: 12.0 😳
14 Dec: 11.13
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23 Dec: 11.13
24 Dec: 12.0 not so bad considering what I’ve been eating for the last 2 weeks 😬
25 Dec: 🎅🏻
26 Dec:
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28 Dec:
29 Dec: 11.13
30 Dec:
31 Dec:

So I went off track and regained all lost weight so I am starting again and this time I mean business!


Starting weight: 63.4 kg
Current weight: 63.4
Goal weight: 55kg by May 2020 (ultimate goal weight 53/55 but with fat percentage of around 22%)
December goal: 62kg - modified to 61kg - modifying further to a cautious 60.5kg - modifying again to 59.9! - reached 59.7! Yay! Not sure if I should set 59.5 as a goal, with all the holiday parties happening. We will see. I am happy as of now.

01 Dec: 63
02 Dec: 63.2
03 Dec: 63.4
04 Dec: 63.4
05 Dec: 63.4
06 Dec: 63.5
07 Dec: 62.7 (cardio)
08 Dec: 62 (cardio) (yay! Reached dec goal! New goal 61 kg for December)
09 Dec: 61.8 (cardio)
10 Dec: 61.8 (cardio)
11 Dec: 61.6 (cardio and a bit of abs)
12 Dec: 61.5 (cardio and some abs)
13 Dec: 61.1 (yay! I am away from home and found a scale so hope this change is not some variance because of the different scale and is still reflected in my own machine once I get home!)
14 Dec: 61.1 (yay! This is back in my own usual home scale! So happy! Tantalisingly close to my December goal!)
15 Dec: 61.3 (oops! I had it coming I guess. Ate heavy meals and snacked on greasy high sodium foods to boot! I spent an hour on the treadmill hoping to burn it but I guess it wasn’t enough! I will be good today!)
16 Dec: 61.2 (picking the heaviest of the three different weights my machine chose to show me this morning! But I am sure this is going down, I was really good yesterday with eating and exercise.)
17 Dec: 60.9 (yay! Met my new December goal! Cardio and abs yesterday and calorie deficit)
18 Dec: 60.8 (yay! Good food, cardio and abs)
19 Dec: 61.0 (well I knew this was coming, but I really enjoyed the food I had so I don’t regret it. I suppose once in a week I am entitled to treating myself, it is the holiday season after all! I will be good today and tomo we will see a drop, I am pretty sure!)
20 Dec: 60.6kg (yay! Being good with food watching, cardio and abs paid off)
21 Dec: 60.2kg (yay! New goal reached! Modifying my goal now! But, well, I did skip dinner and sleep off early. So hope this change is reflected in the scale tomo too!)
22 Dec: 60.1 (yay! Good food, cardio and abs. Limited sleep though)
23 Dec: 60.0 (yay! Delighted with this considering I had cake with lunch and limited cardio due to a foot injury)
24 Dec: 60.0 (I will take this. Controlling myself around chocolate and cakes as much as I can but not very successful frankly!)
25 Dec: 59.7 (yay! Reached newest dec goal! Ate loads of chocolate but offset by holding off on all other carbs and thus staying within calorie limit. We are off on a trip from today till Monday, so I don’t know if I can weigh in unless the hotel provides a weighing scale. We will see the weight once I return on 30th, in case I don’t have a scale.)
26 Dec: 60.1 (in hotel scale. Well deserved raise. Last night party was way too heavy, I have gone so overboard and did not even count. Well it is ok for a day in the holidays! Got to live a little!)
27 Dec: 60.7 (in a moody little hotel scale. I ate above my calorie limit but certainly within maintenance so maybe this isn’t the most reliable number out there. Anyways I will stay within calorie budget today for sure and check the trend tomorrow.)
28 Dec: 60.4 (pretty sure now that the hotel scale is not to be trusted! We will know the right number on Monday)
29 Dec: DNW, no access to scale.
30 Dec: 60.1 (back in home scale. Limited sleep last night)
31 Dec:

MFP Start weight: 160 lbs
Started “just give 1 month” threads in Mid-Oct 2019 @ 157.4 lbs
December start weight: 155.6 lbs
December goal: 153 lbs
Ultimate goal: 98 lbs, but that maybe too low. Main goal is to be healthier & stronger.

October +2.6 lbs. (160)
Nov. -2 lbs. (156.6 lbs)

Dec 1 = 155.6
Dec 2 = 156.6 Well, I'm not surprised cause I blew it, yesterday, and had 2 slices of pie.Why? just a weak moment & the temptation of this whole beautiful pie that was going to be thrown away. I took it home for my husband & then dove in, too. What a nut! I can & will do better!
Dec 3 = 156.6
Dec 4 = 156
Dec 5 = 157.6
Dec 6 = 157
Dec 7 = 157.8
Dec 8 = 157.8 Yesterday, was really rough. Very stressful. Somehow I must get used to my new normal of extra stress. Very frustrating with Drs, nurses, my Dad, Memory care, my dad's cough, medication.... I still to this moment haven't been able to get the medication called in.
Dec 9 = 158.6 Binging yesterday & today... Not gonna give up yet! Expecting another gain tomorrow, tho.
Dec 10 = 158 lbs. stuck with food plan today.
Dec 11 = 157.2 lbs
Dec 12 = 156.6 lbs
Dec 13 = 158.4 lbs Was much better with food the last couple days, so I was surprised with it. Obviously, I did not stick with my food plans completely... I can do this!!!!!!
Dec 14 = 158.4 lbs
Dec 15 = 158.4 lbs
Dec 16 = 157.4 lbs. Stayed under in calories, yesterday. No exercise
Dec 17 = 156.8 lbs Was pretty good, but not under in calories. no exercise.
Dec 18 = 156.8 lbs
Dec 19 = 156.8 lbs That was coming off of a bad food night -- Last night was at friend's bday party at Karaoke Bar & Grill.
Dec. 20 = 158.6 lbs Knew that was going to happen after last not sticking to my plan, yesterday.
Dec 21 = 159.7 lbs Thought it would be worse... had a junk food binge during the night. Back on it, today.
Dec 22 = 159 lbs Another smaller binge last night...
Dec 23 = 159 lbs
Dec 24 = 157.2 lbs
Dec 25 = 155.6 lbs
Dec 26 = 156.2 lbs
Dec 27 = 155 lbs
Dec 28 = 155.6 lbs
Dec 29 = 155.6 lbs

Starting weight 86kgs
Start weight this month 78.8
Goal weight this month 75
Target goal weight 60kgs

1 Dec - 78.8 😀
2 Dec - 78.2 😎
3 Dec - 78.1🙂
4 Dec - 78.5 🙂 was expecting that yesterday.
5 Dec - 78.5 😆
7 Dec - 78.4 🙂
8 Dec - 78.9 😲
9 Dec - 78.4 🤔
17 Dec - 78.3 🙄 didn't realise it had been so long since I last posted!
18 Dec - 78.0 😊 might have to change the monthly goal lol.
22 Dec - 78.4 🐈 been eating junk honestly. Probs should be fatter tbh.
23 Dec - 78.3 😏
24 Dec - 78.2😊
25 Dec - 78.3 Merry Christmas everyone ❤️
29 Dec - 78.5 🙂 Not too bad considering! I will start being serious again in January.
30 Dec - 78.2😎 hoping to end the month with a loss even if it is minute 😀

Starting weight 325lbs 22nd August 2019
Start weight this month 274.6
Goal weight this month 264
Target goal weight 165lbs possibly less undecided yet!

Going a little easier on my goal this month as I didn't make goal last month. Missed by 0.3lbs!

Sept lost 14.9lbs
October loss 12.1lbs
November loss 11.6lbs

1 December 274.6 up from yesterday by 1.3lbs. Too much exercise and not enough water! I'll learn eventually!

2 December 274.1 down a little from yesterday but still 0.8lbs above my November low! Keep drinking the water!

3 December 275.2 Not pleased with this but I have a really nasty water infection which I suspect is causing issues as I've not changed anything diet wise.

4 December 274.2 Better but not great. Water infection still going strong. Have meds now so fingers crossed it goes soon.

5 December 273.9 Better again but still 0.6lbs over my lowest so far. Water infection improving though so hopefully that'll show in tomorrow's weigh in.

6 December 271.1! Finally I get a woohoo moment! Now at my lowest weight since October 2013. Maybe, just maybe goal is possible this month because I REALLY don't want to go back up just for Christmas! My best present is weighing less than I do now.

7 December 270.9 delighted with this again! Had half expected a gain today so to lose again is awesome! 😁

8 December 270.5 Woohoo again! This is 54.5lbs lost since starting. Only 1.5lbs to the 4 stone lost! Super pleased about this! 😊😃😁

9 December 268.6! Super double woohoo! Really wasn't expecting that but am honestly so delighted. Definitely not screwing this up just for Christmas food!

10 December - no weigh in, away with work.

11 December - no weigh in away with work - very scary not having my daily weigh in guidance!

12 December 267.9! Amazed and really delighted at this! 3.9lbs to go to December goal.

13 December 267.2! Didn’t expect to lose again today so doubly delighted with this. MFP just works! 3.2lbs to make December goal. 😀

14 December 267.2 still delighted with this!

15 December 268.1. Not delighted with this but we’ll deserved since I had a Christmas meal out last night with friends and not enough water! Onwards and downwards to December goal.

16 December 267.9 Heading in the right direction again but I've got a tough week ahead. Away in a hotel with hubby until Thursday night. Which means eating out. Going to be very careful but worried because I won't have my scales or control of what I'm eating!

17 December no weigh in as staying away with hubby.

18 December no weigh in as staying away with hubby.

19 December 268.9. This was a very late in the day weigh in as we got home late. It’s also that TOM so overall I’m actually okay with this. 1lb on after 3 days of eating out and that time is a good result. I was dreading seeing a potential 6lbs go on and it didn’t so I’m good 😊

20 December 267.9 back to pre trip weight. Treadmill session done this morning and being much more careful with calories today.

21 December 266.4!!! Woohoo 🙌 delighted with this. Lowest I’ve been since 2013! 10 days to lose another 2.4lbs to make December goal 😳☺️😂

22 December 266.6 Gah! Not happy with this but keeping on keeping on! I’m determined to do my best to reach my December goal, having missed November by a smidgen!

23 December 265.5! Delighted with this! There’s hope for goal this month ☺️

24 December 265.5, well at least it wasn’t a gain! Here’s to sticking with it tomorrow. Good luck everyone 😊

25 December 266.1 hmm small increase but not the end of the world.

26 December 268.3 not drinking enough water!

27 December 269.3 definitely down to the water, I’ve logged and I know I haven’t over eaten by 7000 calories. Need to drink more water 💦

28 December 268.3 going in the right direction again but still not drinking enough due to being out and busy!

29 December 267.7 well safe to say I’m not going to make goal this month but I’m glad I’m still counting a reasonable loss. Half a stone is a result especially over Christmas. Sorry I played catch up today! It’s been manic here! Hope everyone else is doing okay 👌

30 December 266.8 heading in the right direction again so I’m just going to keep going. Not going to lose 2.8lbs tomorrow but that’s okay. I’m not giving up!

Starting weight: 163.4 lbs
Start weight this month: 149.6
Goal weight this month: 145-149.6 (even just maintaining is a lofty goal in Dec!)
Target goal weight: 135-ish

Aug lost 1.2 lbs
Sept lost 4.2 lbs
Oct lost 3.7 lbs
Nov lost 3.9 lbs

(I use Happy Scale, so monthly loss above is by moving avg, but I’m going to enter my actual daily weight below.)

01 Dec: 149.6 lbs
02 Dec: 149.8
03 Dec: 149.2
04 Dec: 149.8
05 Dec: 148 (after ovulation increase)
06 Dec: 147.6
07 Dec: 147.2
08 Dec: 147.2
09 Dec: 147.4
10 Dec: 146.8
11 Dec: 147.4
12 Dec: 147.6 PMS gain
13 Dec: 146.8
14 Dec: 147.4
15 Dec: 148.0
16 Dec: 147.8
17 Dec: 146.8
18 Dec: 147.4
19 Dec: 145.6 end of PMS weight
20 Dec: 146.2 had a lot of salt yesterday
21 Dec: 144.6 I’m eating about 1700 cal/day, which equals a loss of about a lb/week for me. I don’t know why I’ve lost 5 lbs already this month, but it might have to do with how my cycle fell last month and this month. I was also temporarily a little higher at the end of last month due to Thanksgiving/vacation.
22 Dec: 146.6 Christmas dinner party last night!
23 Dec: 148.0 Son’s birthday yesterday—had buttered popcorn at the movies, and Mexican restaurant for dinner. I only went about 300 over maintenance, but had lots of salt! And food weight! I will eat within my goal today, with lower salt, and should drop some of this by Tuesday (just in time for Christmas Eve and Christmas!). I’m pretty happy with my progress so far, anyway.
24 Dec: 147.8
25 Dec: 148.4 Yep, holiday indulgences! Oh well, a few days of this, then back to it!
26 Dec: 146.2 Not bad, since I definitely went over maintenance yesterday, but really, only by about 600 calories. I guess I lost some of the water gain and food mass 😄
27 Dec: 146.6 (Ovulation water gain) I also had a lot of salt yesterday. I’m still a few lbs under for the month, so I’m happy.
28 Dec: 146.6
29 Dec: 145.4–(end of ovulation weight)
30 Dec: 145.2 Only one more day! But going out for dinner tonight, so should expect an increase tomorrow, at least from salt

Starting weight: 145.5
Goal weight: 125
December goal: 141

Dec 02: 145.5
Dec 03: 145.0
Dec 04: 145.0
Dec 05 146.5
Dec 06 145.5
Dec 07 143.0 skipped dinner because of migraine. Think i'm just weighing my stomach contents at this point!
Dec 08 143.0
Dec 09 145.0 this isn't fun anymore
Dec 10 145.0
Dec 11 144.0
Dec 12 143.0 hope it sticks this time!
Dec 13 142.5
Dec 14 143.5 sigh
Dec 15 141.5 I think my scale is possessed
Dec 16 144.0 I can't deal
Dec 17 145.0
Dec 18 145.5
Dec 19 145.0
Dec 20 145.0
Dec 21 144.5 ugh, i'm so bloated
Dec 22 143.5 it appears i have mastered maintenance before weight loss
Dec 23 145.0
Dec 24 144.5
Dec 25 145.0
Dec 26 145.0
Dec 27 145.5
Dec 28 145.0
Dec 29 143.5 Need to regain control...
Dec 30 145.5 Yup

Back again. Starting the month out with a bit of inflated number due to way to much alcohol, food from Thanksgiving, eating out the last couple of days, and had a 5 day weekend with my family. Hopefully once I get back to work on Monday it will drop off fairly quickly. My lowest in November right before Thanksgiving was 137.7 and I am hoping to be back in the 130's by the end of the first week.

May gained: 1.1 pounds (149.3)
June lost: 3.4 pounds (145.9)
July lost: 2.2 pounds (143.7)
August lost: 0.1 pounds (143.6) maintained
September lost: 2.7 pounds (140.9)
October lost: 0.2 pounds (140.7) maintained
November lost: 3 pounds (137.7) day before Thanksgiving 11/28


01 Dec: 144.4 uuugghhh
02 Dec: 145.7 ok back on track!
03 Dec: 142.2 it's amazing what a little bit of water and a low carb day will do for your weight. Down 3.5 pounds, 4.5 to go to get back to where I was before my Thanksgiving holiday!
04 Dec: 140.8 only 3.1 left to get back down
05 Dec: 139.4 have been staying on track and back in the 130's. Only 1.7 pounds left to get rid of.
06 Dec: 140.2 Cowboys played last night. Beer and pizza and a big LOSS!
07 Dec: 137.7
08 Dec: 138.8
09 Dec: 138.8 Not to bad for a Monday.
10 Dec: 138.3 should have been a little lower, but completely ok with this
11 Dec: 138.3 I guess I am figuring out maintenance. Would like to be just a couple of pounds lower, but not unhappy right now
12 Dec: 136.8 may be a tad dehydrated, but I liked what I saw on the scale this morning.
13 Dec: 137.7 Christmas party tonight so going to try and keep it together
14 Dec: 138.8 another party for the fights tonight
15 Dec: 137.7 football and relaxing
16 Dec: NW forgot when I got up this am
17 Dec: 142.2 way to many parties and a 3 day weekend. Back to work
18 Dec: 139.9 well I have not lost an ounce this month, but I seem to be maintaining pretty well. It's been a rough month!
19 Dec: 138.9 I am just trying to get through this month, lol
20 Dec: 140.5
21 Dec: 139.9
22 Dec: No weigh in. totally spaced it
23 Dec: 144.5 to may restaurant meals and way to much alcohol at parties. This month has been a killer for me.
24 Dec: Tons of family and food - no weigh in
25 Dec: Christmas Day and never weighed
26 Dec: 144.7 well that wasn't pleasant, but very expected.
27 Dec: 143.1 still up just over 5 pounds, but better than yesterday. 4 more days and I am back into this fully
28 Dec: 143.7
29 Dec: 143.1
30 Dec: 143.7 ok I have to get back on track. I am just out of control
31 Dec:

So I went off track and regained all lost weight so I am starting again and this time I mean business!


Starting weight: 63.4 kg
Current weight: 63.4
Goal weight: 55kg by May 2020 (ultimate goal weight 53/55 but with fat percentage of around 22%)
December goal: 62kg - modified to 61kg - modifying further to a cautious 60.5kg - modifying again to 59.9! - reached 59.7! Yay! Not sure if I should set 59.5 as a goal, with all the holiday parties happening. We will see. I am happy as of now.

01 Dec: 63
02 Dec: 63.2
03 Dec: 63.4
04 Dec: 63.4
05 Dec: 63.4
06 Dec: 63.5
07 Dec: 62.7 (cardio)
08 Dec: 62 (cardio) (yay! Reached dec goal! New goal 61 kg for December)
09 Dec: 61.8 (cardio)
10 Dec: 61.8 (cardio)
11 Dec: 61.6 (cardio and a bit of abs)
12 Dec: 61.5 (cardio and some abs)
13 Dec: 61.1 (yay! I am away from home and found a scale so hope this change is not some variance because of the different scale and is still reflected in my own machine once I get home!)
14 Dec: 61.1 (yay! This is back in my own usual home scale! So happy! Tantalisingly close to my December goal!)
15 Dec: 61.3 (oops! I had it coming I guess. Ate heavy meals and snacked on greasy high sodium foods to boot! I spent an hour on the treadmill hoping to burn it but I guess it wasn’t enough! I will be good today!)
16 Dec: 61.2 (picking the heaviest of the three different weights my machine chose to show me this morning! But I am sure this is going down, I was really good yesterday with eating and exercise.)
17 Dec: 60.9 (yay! Met my new December goal! Cardio and abs yesterday and calorie deficit)
18 Dec: 60.8 (yay! Good food, cardio and abs)
19 Dec: 61.0 (well I knew this was coming, but I really enjoyed the food I had so I don’t regret it. I suppose once in a week I am entitled to treating myself, it is the holiday season after all! I will be good today and tomo we will see a drop, I am pretty sure!)
20 Dec: 60.6kg (yay! Being good with food watching, cardio and abs paid off)
21 Dec: 60.2kg (yay! New goal reached! Modifying my goal now! But, well, I did skip dinner and sleep off early. So hope this change is reflected in the scale tomo too!)
22 Dec: 60.1 (yay! Good food, cardio and abs. Limited sleep though)
23 Dec: 60.0 (yay! Delighted with this considering I had cake with lunch and limited cardio due to a foot injury)
24 Dec: 60.0 (I will take this. Controlling myself around chocolate and cakes as much as I can but not very successful frankly!)
25 Dec: 59.7 (yay! Reached newest dec goal! Ate loads of chocolate but offset by holding off on all other carbs and thus staying within calorie limit. We are off on a trip from today till Monday, so I don’t know if I can weigh in unless the hotel provides a weighing scale. We will see the weight once I return on 30th, in case I don’t have a scale.)
26 Dec: 60.1 (in hotel scale. Well deserved raise. Last night party was way too heavy, I have gone so overboard and did not even count. Well it is ok for a day in the holidays! Got to live a little!)
27 Dec: 60.7 (in a moody little hotel scale. I ate above my calorie limit but certainly within maintenance so maybe this isn’t the most reliable number out there. Anyways I will stay within calorie budget today for sure and check the trend tomorrow.)
28 Dec: 60.4 (pretty sure now that the hotel scale is not to be trusted! We will know the right number on Monday)
29 Dec: DNW, no access to scale.
30 Dec: 60.1 (back in home scale. Limited sleep last night)
31 Dec: 60.0

Bye all! See you next year! Happy to have lost so much with all your support!

Happy new year!