Just Give Me 10 Days ~ Round 108

ROUND 108

2020 Starting Weight: 209.5
Current Goal Weight: 185
Ultimate Goal Weight: 148

Round 101 start weight: 208.4
Round 101: Jan 17 EW: 207.2 (-1.2)
Round 102: Jan 27 EW: 205.8 (-1.4)
Round 103: Feb 06 EW: 202.2 (-3.6)
Round 104: Feb 16 EW: DNW (travel)
Round 105: Feb 26 EW: 197.0 (-5.2, total loss from 2 rounds)
Round 106: Mar 07 EW: 194.8 (-2.2)
Round 107: Mar 17 EW: 193.2 (-1.6)

Day/Weight/Comment
3/18 192.2 Happy to start with a loss! Am down and blue this morning—didn’t sleep well, my daughter was laid off with the rest of her company, so this at least is something nice to think about. Working hard to get exercise in and keep calories green. Can’t let the blues mess with progress...

3/19 192.2 Happy to stick with the lower weight and not bounce up. So far sticking to the program but struggling with feeling burned out by all the firefighting and emotional support I have to put out there.

3/20 192.2 Exact same weight again. Realistically I’m doing the exact same things—eating green, exercising—but I’m also out of routine with this working at home and have a higher level of anxiety as reflected in a rising average resting heart rate. So I’m ok with maintaining—my goal is to be compassionate with myself right now. Compassionate by being healthy, but not harsh.

3/21 DNW—away from scale

3/22 191.4 Yay, a loss! Was worried about the salty pot roast last night and not much vegetables.

3/23 191.4 Kept the loss, happy with that. Started omega oil pills last night—nauseous this morning and didn’t get in my run. Wondering if it’s related.

3/24 191.4 was hoping for a little more off, but ‘twas not to be...at least no gain. I developed a sore shin yesterday, may have to stick to the exercise bike for a little while to rest it. Never feel like I work out as hard on the bike...I should look up some videos to keep it interesting.

3/25
3/26
3/27

Started late!
Mar 22: 128.8
Mar 23:
Mar 24: 126.4
Mar 25:
Mar 26:
Mar 27:
Mar 28:

Keith
Male, 59, 5'10"
Starting Weight: 402.8
Current weight: 361.8
Ultimate Goal: 185 lbs., but realistically 15-18% bodyfat.
10-day Goal: 358.0

R100 SW 388.5 EW 388.2
R101 SW 388.2 EW 387.1
R102 SW 387.1 EW 379.1
R103 SW 377.8 EW 371.6
R104 SW 371.6 EW 368.0
R105 SW 368.0 EW 365.0
R106 SW 365.0 EW 359.6
R107 SW 361.0 EW 359.2
R108 SW 361.8

Day/Weight/Comment
03/18 - 361.8 - Good news. My interview on Monday went well. Better news. I have applied for several positions with state (PA) and federal gov't. One position with the state just got back to me and said I scored a 100 on their test. Now I'm just a bit excited. Getting a job with either means I can use my time in the Air Force towards retirement. I'll have to work until I'm 72, but hey... it does take a huge weight off my shoulders. Bittersweet news... My mom has lived with me for the past 20+ years. We recently found out she has early stage dementia. But the state is saying she now qualifies for in-home health care. Which means that while I am at work, someone will be here most of that time. This would be another huge weight off my shoulders. I had to reset my scale and it jumped up. Not happy, but let's see how it goes for the next few day.
03/19 - 360.9 - At a time where the coronavirus is virtually collapsing our economy, I got offered a job yesterday. I just have to pass the background check. As long as my previous employers are honest, I'll be fine. I guess the stress was slowing my weightloss, since I'm down almost a pound. The real barometer is if it continues. Time will tell. Also got my payout from my 6-month DietBet. I put in $175 and got out $176.30. Yup, a whopping $1.30 of winnings. Needless to say, I won't be doing that again. And that's a cautionary tale for anyone interested/considering participating.
03/20 - 359.4 - And downward we go. Back under 360 and I hope it stays that way.
03/21 - 359.3 - Slowly we continue. As long as I'm level or dropping, I'm ok.
03/22 - 359.1 - Starting to exercise from home. I liked going to the gym because if I drove there, I seemed to be more invested. I know I have to exercise, even if I sometimes fight myself. Downward we go!
03/23 - 358.0 - I think I'm solidly under 360 now. And a little roadmark... I'm now down over 20% of the total weight I want to drop. And I'm a little ahead since I've now reached my goal for this round.
03/24 - 358.4 - A small tick back. Not a problem, since the downward trend still holds.
03/25
03/26
03/27

👍🏼👍🏼 This is NOT A DIET. It’s a LIFESTYLE. 👍🏼👍🏼

Holli1ch UGW 150

OSW: 27 Dec. 2019 = 222
Round 103 =01-27/06 - SW: 203 EW: 199
Round 104 =02-07/16 - SW: 199 EW: 197
Round 105 =02-17/26 - SW: 197 EW: 194
Round 106 =03-27/07 - SW: 194 EW: 191
Round 107 =03-08/17 - SW: 191 EW: 187
Round 108 =03-18/27 - SW: 187 EW: Round 108 goal = 184

Mar 18: 187
Mar 19: 187
Mar 20: 187
Mar 21: 187
Mar 22: 187

Mar 23: 187 This is day 10 of no number change. THE numbers will move. THE NUMBERS will move. THE NUMBERS WILL move. THE NUMBERS WILL MOVE=SOON!

Mar 24: 186 THEY MOVED!!
Mar 25:
Mar 26:
Mar 27:
Mar 28:

Round 108 (my 40th)

OSW 382.0
RSW 256.4

3/18 255.6 The start of heading back down and hopefully to new lows this round.

3/19 254.4 That’s the previous low I hit anything lower will be a new low. I was looking through my phone at older photos and then I saw my newer ones, the difference is so profound. It really helped me to see how far I’ve come.

3/20 255.2 Early weigh in, Japanese take out, and a lack of sleep. On the plus side I got to the store early enough to get potatoes and chicken.

3/21 254.4 I’m glad to be back down I had a high sodium lunch, which sometimes gives me a bounce up. I also hit ovulation time according to my health app, so I’ll see if I hold or manage to drop. Sometimes if I’m really careful I can still see a drop or two, but usually I hold or bounce around.

3/22 254.0 New low, yay! It’s been a bit since I’ve been able to say that and I’m so glad that I didn’t give in to the want to eat yesterday.

3/23 253.4 Yay for the continuing downward trend. I wanted to eat to eat again yesterday and I finally had a couple of spoonfuls of ice cream and a small amount of chocolate milk. I didn’t binge though and thankfully it helped a lot. I’m really proud of myself for sticking to just a couple of bites nd not letting it spiral out of control.

3/24 252.4 I don’t know what brought about this big drop, but I hope the downward trend continues and I don’t bounce back up some.

3/25
3/26
3/27

Hi, I’m Karen and I’m in my 50’s
OSW-187 Sept. 2018

Walk +/- 7 miles 4 x week. Goal Weight this Round: 158
Drink plenty of water, alcohol on weekends
SW-160

3/19-160-It’s wonderful to have ALL of you here!☕️🌷
3/20-159-Whew! Only 1/2 of the walk and ate a slice of bread and butter-treat! Big walk today and lots of sewing/quilt at home.
3/21-158-Well, it’s easier without having social eating events to go to. I’ll just keep on sewing and walking.
3/22-158-Walk and sew today.
3/23-158-Expected a higher weight since I made hearty turkey soup with pearl barley. More walking and quilting!
3/24-157-Yipeee!!! Walk & Sew, Walk & Sew!!!!

STATS:
Age: 28
Height: 168cm
Round: 108 (first time participating)

SW: 111kg
CW: 93.6kg
RGW: 92kg
UGW: 75kg


DAY / WEIGHT / COMMENT

03.18 / 93.6kg / We're on lockdown, advised to stay at home, social businesses are closed, social gatherings are discouraged, so we get no visitors, mostly because me and my kids are all sick (regular seasonal flu). Older one is 3 and a half, younger is a year and two months old, and staying at home all day alone with a huge list of treatments for all three of us has been stressful, trying to be on top of everything for them has left me slide back into emotional eating. We don't keep junk food at home so at least it's nothing like that, but it's noon and I've already shot my calories for the day, and I'm afraid if I slip back into this without hitting the breaks somehow I'll lose the progress from the past month. So I'm happy to have found the challenge and I think having to add those comments will help as well to process things.

03.19 / 95.2kg (+1.6)/ A bit after midnight but still not in bed so it's still today for me 😅 I expected the weight to be up after yesterday but not as much, that kind of shocked me. I just have to keep reminding myself it will go down again in a couple of days so I don't fall into self-hatred. I always fluctuate by a lot, and I have always thought before I started weighing in daily those would probably be around a kilo top, but it's often two or three and it's shocking every time. Having a separate app that shows me a trend helps with reminding myself this is not real weight put on, it's just the result of a bad bad day. I use Libra to add those since it feels crappy to add them here even though mfp prompts for daily weigh-ins. I hate seeing an update on my feed that every few days I lose the same 0.5 kilos, so I just add when I've lost from my previous lowest. My calories for the day ended at being 1804, and with my tdee being around 2020-2300 I'm still happy with that. I usually aim for less but it's an improvement over yesterday and still keeps me on track. I've been able to be very strict until noon this time, had lunch and all that but I made something sweet for the kids and ended up getting way too much of that for myself as well. Without it it would have been a perfect day. Need to start preparing myself something to snack before I start making those cause otherwise I think I'll always be caving in, and I don't want to deprive them of having it at home just because their mom can't control herself. It's weird how easy it is to know how much they can have and follow it strictly cause I don't want them to be hurt by it as I am, and at the same time not be able to apply it when it comes to myself. I'm working late again and didn't snack after dinner however so I'm happy with that.

03.20 / 94.3kg (-0.9) I fell asleep with the kids It was overall a good day, again around 1800 since I went to see how my mom is and she had sweets. This time it wasn't an accident though, I checked the labels, made sure I eat exactly as much as I should based on that. Seeing the scale turning back around that quickly in the morning defintely calmed my nerves.
03.21 / 93.7kg (-0.6) Yaay, back where I started! Feels a bit like I've wasted a couple of days from the challenge, but that 92 goal is starting to seem achievable again. Oats for breakfast, small lunch, few snacks, and a small dinner. Drank some calories which I shouldn't have, but I kicked chores in the butt, have been up almost the entire day cleaning something. Ended up the day at 1474, which is right up where I want it to be. Keeping myself occupied has helped a lot, plus I sort of skipped dinner today since we had electricity issues and couldn't cook anything and there was enough left from the last meal just for the kids, so I had a bite of cheese, had my vitamin C drink thing, and left it at that. The funny part is I'm not even hungry and I'm not sure if my stomach is finally getting used to needing less or my brain being hyped about keeping up with the challenge. Either way I'll take it.
03.22 / 93.3kg (-0.4) Finally a loss since the start of the challenge! I have no idea how many calories I've had today, we celebrated the fact our baby started walking with a ritual bread, and that's home made and it's way too tedious to track it since not all brands I use exist in the database. But I again skipped dinner, haven't snacked, that thing has been really filling. Just had a glass of juice in the evening. Will see how things go with the scale in the morning, but I feel satisfied and zero hunger is around, so I call that a sort-of-a-win. It kind of sucked to celebrate something like that locked at home though, it's going to suck even more for Easter, so I'll be keeping my hands occupied with preparing stuff for then so at least the kids feel like it's fun.

03.23 / Did not track
03.24 / Did not track. Had a big health scare, have been around hospitals both days, ate whatever I could on the go, went into emotional eating again out of fear. Picking myself back up again, this doesn't solve the issue.
03.15 /
03.26 /
03.27 /

I' m in! Thank you, @GrandmaJackie!

69 years old female...5'5" ...I used to be 5'7" but arthritis hit and I lost two inches, so now that two inches is squished around my waist like the billows of a big accordion... ...Oh, well. I'll just keep working on it.

We used to walk 5 miles a day. A pinched nerve and back surgery side-lined me for about a year. Then I had back surgery. Then I had hip surgery March 10th. Recovery is slow. Sure do want to be back walking!

The Shelter in Place has everyone freaked. We need to remain calm and respectful of each other.

Heaviest: 192.2
Round GW: 144.0
UGW: 132.2

03/16 - DNW ...must get the scale into the other bathroom.
03/17 - 146.4 at 10:00 a.m. I wonder how much the hip implant weighs???

Day/Weight/Comment

03/18 - 144.0 at 11:00 a.m.
03/19 - DNW ...so hard to remember when my schedule is so changed. Tried moving the scale but that didn't work.
03/20 - DNW
03/21 - 144.0 at 9:00 a.m.
03/22 - DNW
03/23 - 144.6 at 9:00 a.m. ...moved the scale to a new location...should work just fine.
03/24 - 146.2 at 5:00 a.m. ...DH went grocery shopping during senior hours this morning. He said everyone was polite and in no hurry. No toilet paper but paper towels were on the shelves. They were just stocking the meat dept when he got there. Interesting morning. I didn't go with him...still using the walker and it's too hard to get up in the Santa Fe without a ladder.
03/25 -
03/26 -
03/27 -

Chris

FOCUS FOR THIS ROUND
Settling in my morning routine to include some exercise.

GOALS THIS ROUND
- RGW 132.0kg
- Morning exercise 7/10 days
R108 SW 132.6kg

Day | Weight | Change | Comment

03/18 | 132.6kg | No change | Busy day at work and had visitors all evening/night. My mum came in to town ready to babysit my son today, so I picked my sister up on my way home from work and brought her to my place as well so we could all catch up. Later, my dad also decided to come into town but he didn't arrive until about 9:30pm. So it was a late dinner and a few beers, I was expecting a rise on the scale. On the bright side, I didn't snack after work and I didn't have dessert. Got all my water in, but no exercise. Hubby out of town for a day trip today, will see how shopping goes - we normally do an online order that he can just pick up, but they have cancelled that service at the moment so that is frustrating. Stay safe, everyone!

03/19 | 132.7kg | +0.1kg | Made homemade pizzas on wrap bases last night, they were delicious and much lighter than the normal dough bases I make, but I think my sodium was very high as a result (perhaps I should choose a more healthy topping than pepperoni...). Only drank 2L of water too so that also wouldn't help. No exercise as I'm still trying to shake this cold off. Our supermarket shelves were bare when I went yesterday afternoon - no TP, soaps, potatoes, bread, pasta, rice, tissues, canned vegetables, flour, ready-to-make packet meals, cheese, milk...nothing. This was Wednesday afternoon. Our store gets one delivery a week, on Tuesdays. So I don't expect to find anything on the shelves for the next week, which is ridiculous. What's happening, as the cities stock out, people are coming further and further out into the rural areas to wipe our shelves clean too. Their stores get deliveries daily, but they can't wait that long. I don't know what I'm going to feed my one year old toddler by the end of the week, unless they happen to get another delivery in (which they have to pay the freight for, so they won't do that as they don't make enough profit to cover it). I really don't understand how people can be so selfish. It's not a production issue, there is plenty of product available, it's just distribution is the issue - they can't keep the deliveries up to the stores because the demand is increasing exponentially! People are literally panicking over nothing. They're panicking because the media is telling them to. I wish the media would just stop covering all of this and just report the statistics and whereabouts of the virus, nothing more. It's so stupid, people being worried that something is going to stock out, so they buy as much as they can, causing it to stock out. If everyone just stuck to their normal buying, it wouldn't even be an issue but no, people are selfish and greedy.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just extremely frustrated with people.

03/20 | 133.1kg | +0.4kg | Wrong direction! It's just water weight, obviously, but I'm not sure what's caused it. Maybe sodium. I didn't drink enough water the last couple of days too. Feeling anxious and sad, and that leads to poor decisions for me usually. Hubby bought a lasagne for dinner last night, normally we would split it and eat half each, but I did split my share in half and ate it with a salad (bringing the leftovers for my lunch today with a salad). So that's another small win in the 'smaller portions' dinner plan.

03/21 | 133.3kg | +0.2kg

03/22 | 133.5kg | +0.2kg

03/23 | 133.5kg | No change | Sorry, I have been a bit AWOL this weekend. I just didn't get online to MFP at all, but I did keep weighing in. Weight still rising, which I know is from poor choices and overeating and anxiety and lack of sleep and no exercise whatsoever. I've gone off the rails with everything happening. I'm in Australia, and our state is just starting to close "non-essential" services as of today (so pubs, restaurants, clubs etc. - basically anywhere that people gather together because people have been ignoring the "social distancing" recommendations and have been packing into clubs and onto beaches). I'm not sure what this means for my work situation as I should be able to work from home, but it's all up in the air at the moment!

03/24 | 133.3kg | -0.2kg | Dropped some/all of the excess water weight so that's good. Still feeling extremely anxious, but went to bed at a good time last night and managed to get a good sleep which I think makes a huge difference. Still fighting this cold that doesn't seem to want to go away, will be interesting to see if I'm sent home from work or not. The policy is supposed to be to stay home if any symptoms, but last week I was told it was up to me. I asked my boss about working from home, he said it didn't sound promising but he'd ask. I'm waiting to hear back from him, but I'm really hoping it's a yes!

03/15 | 133.0kg | -0.3kg | That's looking better. I have been better about my snacking, but not getting as much water in with the cooler weather here. On the bright side, I've been approved to work from home, though I'm not sure when it's starting and to start with it's "on a short term basis to be reviewed" - which I take to mean they don't trust that I will actually do the work from home. Nice to know I'm so trusted after working here for 8 years!

03/26
03/27

SW 266.8
Goal for this round is -2 lbs. I am now working from home and plan to use this oportunity to start working out more.

Day/Weight/Comment
03/18 266.8 Stress is the word of the day. Trying to not emotion eat.
03/19 266.7 Good workout today, weight lifting, planks, crunches,
03/20 266.6 Another good workout day, spinning bike, about 10k steps, weight lifting, eating was pretty good.
03/21 not feeling it
03/22 still not feeling it
03/23 same
03/24 265.5 decided to workout more during this crisis
03/25
03/26
03/27

Update in Michigan: We are in a mandated stay-inside until April 14th (at least). It is not that the governor hope there will be a vaccination or cure by then, only that we may have enough medical supplies to take care of the anticipated sick, especially what they are forecasting they will need in the hospital setting such as respirators, masks, swabs. That whole thought is scary. Our local grocery store truck came in today so I ventured out (afraid of getting pulled over the entire time) to get necessary grocery items for both my DD's, Grandkids, brother, maintenance man and dear friend of our family. Made the deliveries, picked up some plumbing parts for a cabin and headed back home.

I was informed after my call to the Governors office yesterday that my motel & cabins are considered essential so they can stay open and act as support for essential business still running (construction crews etc).

Still no toilet paper, but I finally got a loaf of bread, and a pack each of the hamburger and hot dog buns for myself and DD's. Stay clean & well everyone. My prayers are with you all.

@CamandJarvis - Good luck starting your new job tomorrow! Hope all goes well and that you are soon settled in.