Lose 5lbs + in January 2020

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  • syreina
    syreina Posts: 548 Member
    In the past two weeks, my calorie average has been 1650 so my gains are understandable.

    I need to get a handle on my food intake - especially snacking.

    FYI: I have adjusted my ultimate goal because when I hit 118 last month, I realized that I still wanted to try to lower my body fat to a normal range. I have been back and forth with 33% and 34% for about a month. My goal is 30% and we will see what happens. I tend to carry my weight around my waist and hips.

    MFP Starting Weight: 140 lbs - February 2011
    Current Starting Weight: 147.4 lbs - November 2017
    January Starting Weight: 121.6 lbs
    January Goal: 118.6 lbs
    Height: 5ft

    Ultimate Goal: 110 lbs
    Maintenance Goal: 110 to 115 lbs

    Weigh-In Days: Monday and Friday

    Jan 3: 118.6 at 12pm ... yes, I slept for 8 hours and went to sleep extra late the evening prior
    Jan 6: 117.6 at 5:30am ... so happy that we went to the gym this morning and it's my first day back at work
    Jan 10: 117 at 7am ... ??? my weigh-ins between the week were 119, 119.2, and 118.8
    Jan 13: 119.2 at 7am ... this weight goes along with my weigh-ins
    Jan 17: 120.8 at 5:30am ... at least we went to the gym this morning
    Jan 20: 120.2 at 7:30am ... a step in the right direction
    Jan 24: 120.4 at 5:15am ... not a bad gain
    Jan 27: 121 at 7:30am ... I do not like this gain.
    Jan 31:

    Total Loss for January:
    Gym Days in January: 7 [Monthly Goal: 15]

    Overall Loss from Nov 2017 to Dec 2019: 25.8 lbs
  • quincyleann
    quincyleann Posts: 7 Member
    quincyleann wrote: »
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    quincyleann wrote: »
    Original weight: 140
    January starting weight: 122
    January goal: 117
    Ultimate goal: 111

    1st: 122
    7th: 121
    14th: 121
    21st: 120
    28th: 122

    Well, I failed. I thought I could do it and I didn't. I thought if I joined a public forum it would somehow provide the accountability I can't seem to find within myself. Not sure what to do now. Any advice? I did read the note about the sodium lemon/parsley water. I have been pretty shocked at my level of sodium intake so maybe that is something to focus on.
  • quincyleann
    quincyleann Posts: 7 Member
    Thank you Mtaratoot, you are right. I just looked back at my diary and I can't believe how few entries I actually made. I had a business trip last week so it is actually a win that I didn't gain weight during it. I hope to continue this challenge in Feb and my new goal will be to log each day.

    For reference, I am 44 yrs old, female, 5'6. My top weight was about 5 years ago when I weighed 140. Over the next 3 years I lost 30lbs and was 107 at my lowest. I have been slowly regaining and now I am up 12 lbs and don't want to gain any more. I would like to lose 10lbs and get back to close to where I was a couple of years ago. Thank you for the encouragement.

    My family is not supportive, eat most meals out, continuously buy and offer me junk food.

    I lost the weight by eating an extremely restrictive diet in the past, I was hoping to just cut calories this time. Maybe there is a happy medium there somewhere and I just haven't found it yet.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,260 Member
    quincyleann wrote: »
    Thank you Mtaratoot, you are right. I just looked back at my diary and I can't believe how few entries I actually made. I had a business trip last week so it is actually a win that I didn't gain weight during it. I hope to continue this challenge in Feb and my new goal will be to log each day.

    For reference, I am 44 yrs old, female, 5'6. My top weight was about 5 years ago when I weighed 140. Over the next 3 years I lost 30lbs and was 107 at my lowest. I have been slowly regaining and now I am up 12 lbs and don't want to gain any more. I would like to lose 10lbs and get back to close to where I was a couple of years ago. Thank you for the encouragement.

    My family is not supportive, eat most meals out, continuously buy and offer me junk food.

    I lost the weight by eating an extremely restrictive diet in the past, I was hoping to just cut calories this time. Maybe there is a happy medium there somewhere and I just haven't found it yet.

    At your height, your goal weight is underweight! You are already at the low end of healthy weight. Maybe you could reassess your goals!
  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 4,097 Member
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  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    tiabirdie56 wrote: »
    @mtaratoot, Still 4 days left😁

    @dawnbgethealthy, Dawn, woo, that sauce would be in my trash can right now. Fresh lemon juice and parsley in water will flush out the sodium. You've done so well in the past year. Your weight will begin to drop again soon.

    Yes Tish, I had no idea it had that crazy amount of sodium until I put it into my tracker! I imagine soy sauce (which I don't normally eat) must be high like that too.

    Thank you for the encouragement, I work so hard at this and seeing the leftover calories after 10 days with little downward result on the scale can get so frustrating. I know that I have to just stay at it.
    I lost 30 pounds in 11 months, and basically nothing else in the last 4 months. However, I haven't been able to ice skate due to my knees since November, and I am sure that contributed greatly to my loss in 2019 - sometimes I had 1,000 calories left over in my tracker because of skating.
    I am still keeping very active, just not burning quite as much as with skating.
  • dawnbgethealthy
    dawnbgethealthy Posts: 7,894 Member
    edited January 2020
    Female, 59, 5'3"
    MFP start weight Oct 28.18 - 191
    January goal: 152.6
    May goal: 130.0
    Ultimate goal: 112-115

    January 02 - 159.5 - I haven't had a scale for a few days. I thought that it would be worse, but I will definitely take it. Using this as my start weight for the month.
    January 03 - 160.9 - I have some work to do to get off the holiday gain.
    January 04 - 159.6 - I really don't want to see the 160s again.
    January 05 - 159.6 - Hoping to see a drop soon.
    January 06 - 159.8
    January 10 - 161.2 - Going in the wrong direction!
    January 11 - 160.2
    January 12 - 162.8 - Officially back to my April 2019 weight, ouch
    January 13 - 164.0 - Still gaining apparently, I think that this is left over from the 11th when I went out for dinner.
    January 14 - 162.5
    January 15 - 159.5 - Happy to see this number this morning. Back to my starting weight for the month with half a month left hopefully to start to go in the other direction.
    January 16 - 159.6
    January 17 - 159.7 - The weekend is coming up and I always have more time for working out and cooking healthy food.
    January 18 - 159.6
    January 19 - 158.4 - ah, finally seeing a loss will motivate me to stay the course.
    January 20 - 159.0
    January 21 - 161.0 - No reason for this spike, maybe it is just too early in the morning.
    January 22 - 160.0
    January 23 - 157.5 - Well, that is more like it!
    January 24 - 157.5 - Going out to dinner tonight, so will keep the calories to a bare minimum during the day.
    January 25 - 157.2 - After Dinner out, kept the calories in check. Even when I do that, I sometimes I gain 3 pounds, probably because of restaurant sodium overload.
    January 26 - 158.8 - Friday's dinner out now showing up?
    January 27 - 160.1 - There are a few reasons for that even though I am feeling leaner today: No sleep due to cold/flu, I put 4 tablespoons of Black Bean Sauce into my stir-fry last night and didn't know until I tracked it that it was 6,893 of sodium!! I have been tracking my left over calories in the 10-day challenge and in 9 days I had 4,090 left over so really should be seeing a loss very soon.
    January 28 - 160.0
    January 29 - 159.0 - Losing only 1/2 pound per month is not acceptable to me, I hope to end the month better, 2 days left.

    Running tally for January Gain/Loss: Loss 0.5 pounds
  • tiabirdie56
    tiabirdie56 Posts: 4,097 Member
    @dawnbgethealthy, Yeah Asian sauces are very high in sodium. I have some "low sodium" tamari sauce and it's 710mg of sodium per TB. The only "sauces" I use on a regular basis is salad dressing. Your weight loss seems to be doing what kind did. When we were both trying to get through the 170's, you finally did and I scaled back and forth through them for 8 months. I think after losing a good amount of weight, our bodies don't want to let go of more for awhile. That could be because of a comfortable set point weight we have reached or our bodies inner workings going through a healing process. We do breathe in, drink in, eat and take in a lot of toxins through product use. Our fat absorbs those toxins.

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