Lose 5lbs + in January 2020
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Original starting weight - 265 in January 2005 - had gastric bypass surgery - lost 130lbs, have been slowly gaining it back so I've got to get a handle on this!
January starting weight - 195
January goal - 190
Ultimate goal - 145 on Oct 31st (my 50th bday) - I'd like to lose 50 lbs for my 50th bday - so, 5 lbs a month is the perfect plan for me to get this done!
1st - 195
7th-
14th -
21st -
28th - 188.6
Total loss for January - 6.4 lbs11 -
Original starting weight -179.9
January starting weight -171.1
January goal -167
Ultimate goal -154
1st -171.1
8th- 170.6
15th -170.2
22nd - 169.5
29th -168.7
Total loss for January -10 -
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My name is Donna & I am 59 years old. I am from the Midwest in the USA. 5’ 5.5” tall
Original starting weight – 253
December ending weight – 192.0
January goal – 187.0
Ultimate goal – 145 to 155 (We’ll see when we get closer)
January results for Challenge: xxxxx
01-189.2 Off to a nice start. Happy new year everyone! Thanks to Tish for helping keep this going and a nice big welcome back to Samantha. I hope a lot of the personal issues have been resolved. {{hugs}} to you!
08 –190.6 Went up higher than this, then back down. Got to keep things going a little more steady/consistent in the New Year. Time for me to kick butt and take names!
15 – 189.7 It’s been a long road getting back down to this. My oh my, what a week it has been for my diabetes and weight gain! My goal this month was 187. I think I can do it!
22 - 189.6 Went way up and then back down again this week. Absolutely nothing stable going on right now for me. I continue the brave fight!
29 - 191.8 Traveled yesterday. Paid for it today. I tried to show some restraint so I am hoping this is fluid retention. Pizza. I am barely under my starting weight. I will work hard to show a better loss by weigh-in on the 31st.
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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.4 -
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 pounds4 -
@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.4
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I'm in.
Original starting weight -192.2
January starting weight -143.8
January goal -139
Ultimate goal -130
I weigh in on Monday.
01/01 - 142.8 at 8:00 a.m.
01/06 - 146.4 at 5:30 a.m. ...my own doing...
01/13 - 140.2 at 5:30 a.m. ...more like it!
01/20 - 140.4 at 8:00 a.m.
01/27 - 144.0 at 5:30 a.m.
01/31
Total loss for January -
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1/1-248.8
1/7-246.6
1/14-245.6
1/21-242.0
1/28-249.46 -
•Lose 5 lbs in January 2020•
Original starting wgt: 253
January starting weight: 191
January goal: 180
❄Updating every day through January
•Monday Updates•📍
1/01- 191
1/02- 187
1/03- 187 - Hopeful that my Monday update will show a lower number.
1/04 - 188.8 - Back to exercise.
1/05 - 188.8 - Not a minute's sleep last night😩
📍1/06 - 188.6 - I slept well, because I was so exhausted from the night before. Tried to power through my exercise , but I already knew that wasn't gonna happen. I will add it to today's workout.
*Currently, I have had 13 days (just counted it) of no peanut butter. I have gotten into a habit of eating it to make up for the protein and fat I was missing in a day, only a lot of carbs come with it too. I will not buy it anymore.
*2020 is my commitment year to breaking 2 habits, crunchy, (no pretzels!) and peanut butter.
Okay, it's in the world now and I will do it.
1/07 - 187
1/08 - 188.8
1/09 - 186
1/10 - 186
1/11 - 186
1/12 - 187.4
📍1/13 - 185
1/14 - 185.4
1/15 - 187 - Not from food or sodium, inflammation from hip bursitis and piriformis irritation.
1/16 - 186.4
1/17 - 186
1/18 - 185.4
1/19 - 185.6 - Early weigh in.
📍1/20 - 185.6
1/21 - 186 - Late meal, early weigh in. Fasted 23.25hrs.
1/22 - 183.2
1/23 - 185.4
1/24 - 184
1/25 - 184.8
1/26 - 184.8
📍1/27 - 184.6
1/28 - 183.8
1/29 - 184.4 - bump up from late evening exercise and not enough stretching
1/30 - 183
✔1/31
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Hi !! I'm IN! Actually doing a "biggest loser" challenge at work. I joined that only because I thought it might motivate me to lose a few, even though I don't really plan on winning. so here goes....
Original starting weight - 130
January starting weight -130
January goal -125
Ultimate goal - 115
1st - 131.2
7th- 129
14th - 129.6
21st - 129.2
28th - 130.2
Total loss for January - ugh 1 lb. well there's always FEBURARY haha
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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.
January 30 - 159.2
Running tally for January Gain/Loss: Loss 0.3 pounds5 -
tiabirdie56 wrote: »@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.
I don't ever add salt to anything, and had already eaten my dinner when I put it into my tracker. I don't have a stir-fry very often, but have learned now about the crazy amount of sodium in sauce.
I have been fighting off a cold/flu for over a week now, that might also be a reason that my body is holding on to weight, but I think that it is as you say, a new set point. I liked the set point of the 156s in October/November, and I will get back there and beyond with some determination and patience : - )
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Id like to lose 4-5lbs in January.
I have gained and lost many times unfortunately. This is my 3rd attempt at losing and maintaining a healthy weight over 15 years.
I have carried and birthed 2 children during that time as well, so naturally my body is a little worn out from all the fluctuation lol.
I’m planning to make this my last ever weight loss journey and work on maintaining a healthy weight/fitness level for the remainder of my life!
My all time high was 229lbs.
This attempt start weight: 217lbs
January start weight: 173
January goal: 168
Ultimate goal: 135
1/1 - 173
1/5 - 172
Updates❤️❤️
1/6 - 171
1/8 -170
1/21 - 169
1/30 -167
Total loss for Jan 6lbs
I surpassed my Jan goal by 1 lb and have now officially lost 50 LBS total.
I’m hoping to hit 157-155 within the next 6-8 weeks or so. I think I can do it. Just going to stay focused.
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Original starting weight - 338.8 lbs (Jan 01,2016)
January starting weight - 194.6 lbs (Dec 31, 2019)
January goal - 187 lbs
Ultimate goal - 160 lbs
Jan 04 - 189.8
Jan 11 - 192
Jan 18 - 190
Jan 25 - 190.4
Jan 31 - 192.4 !?
Total loss for January - 2.2 LBS
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Original starting weight - 254 (nov 25th)
January starting weight -239
January goal -230
Ultimate goal -215 (#reallytallguy)
1st -239
7th-235
14th -233
21st -231
28th -227.8
31st -227
January total 12 lbs.
UPDATE: I was very happy with my results. My diet was extremely strict. I ate to fulfill my BMR. Made sure I hit my protein, carbs, fiber, etc. Exercised every day alternating a day of walking and a day of running. No alcohol and every meal was prepped at home. No fast food, take out meals or processed foods.
Today I am meeting my doctor and having blood work to see if I lowered my cholesterol. As mentioned in a previous post I no longer have high blood pressure and my resting heart rate has dropped 20 points.
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I am in, Need to really focus this year, did so bad last year
January starting weight 263.8 on Jan 3rd
January goal weight is 258.0
January's end weight is 257.0
I made my goal , I lost 6.8 lbs ,now on to Feb.8 -
Original starting weight - 231 lbs (12/2/19)
January starting weight - 221.8 lbs (1/3/20)
January goal - 216 lbs
Ultimate goal - 160 lbs
Jan 03 - 221.8 lbs
Jan 10 - 220.8 lbs
Jan 17 - 219.6 lbs
Jan 24 - 215.8 lbs
Jan 31 - 215.8 lbs
Total loss for January: -6 lbs
I am slowly starting to get back to the land of the living. This flu kicked my butt and totally messed up my half marathon training. I am going to try to walk 8 miles tonight and the gym because I am still to weak to run. Wish me luck. January was a good month for loss but I know I wouldn't have made my goal without getting the flu. I'm still happy with the loss and will keep on going. On to February!!!7 -
Original starting weight -236 November, 2015
Starting weight June, 2018 219.4
January 2020 starting weight 174.4
January goal -170
Ultimate goal -160-165. Not sure yet.
3 174.4
10 172.2
17 175.4
24 173.8
31 176.4 This month was a bust. Just can’t seem to get back on track after Christmas. Need to stop this up and down and the out of control snacking now!!
Total loss/gain for January +2lb6
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