Just Give Me 10 Days ~ Round 108

37yo female, 5'5"
Working on maintaining 122-125

1.1.19 – 170.4
1.1.20 – 124.8

Day/Weight/Comment
03/18 – DNW – First day working from home, change to my schedule/morning routine and I completely forgot about weighing until mid-afternoon
03/19 – 124.4 – The scale seems to like 124 lately.
03/20 – 124.4 – Working from home and it is hard to resist the snacking.
03/21 – DNW – Forgot to weigh again
03/22 – 124.6
03/23 – 124.6 – I had husband and 5 year old weigh themselves and I checked mine again, since it has consistently been 124.4 or 124.6 for several days now.
03/24 – 125.0 – Cinnamon rolls with my girls for breakfast, and then banana pudding with our “Quaransgiving” turkey.
03/25 – 125.0 – TOM
03/26 – DNW – Forgot again
03/27

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 - 357.7 - Seems that when I consistently drink ACV, my weight # goes down. 45 lbs. down. While I have been hired for one job, my dream job was to get a state or federal job and use my time in the Air Force (8 years) towards a retirement. In the past few days I've gotten great test scores back from the state and been referred for a federal job with the VA close to my home. I'm hoping this is that ray of sun through all the clouds. But like this long-term weight loss journey, those jobs are slower to the actual finish line. If anyone works for their state (mine is PA) or federal gov't, any advice is certainly appreciated. I don't want to get too excited, but... I am!
03/26 - 357.0 - Another nice loss. FINALLY started adding weights into my routine. Did a 15 minute kettlebell routine this morning that just about killed me, but when you start, it's always hard.
03/27

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

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 - 145.2 at 10:15 a.m.
03/26 - 145.0 at 5:00 a.m.
03/27 -

Chris

Looking forward:
Never give up! Never give in!
Back Story: 2020
Focus: maintenance! I might even manage to lose a bit more ever so slowly.
JGM10D ~|~ Round 108
Posting weight and comments each evening.
Age: 73; Height 5’2”; Female 🔹SW: 227lbs (Mar 2014)🔹LW: 147.4 (Dec 2019)
Aim for 2020: stay under 150
Aim for this round ~ discard some more of that Holiday overage
UGW: 140s
I am MINDFUL of making heathy choices to MAXIMISE the achievement of my goals!
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Giving up is NOT an option! I KNOW I am doing this!
Round 107 EW: 148.2
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18/03: 148.5: Goals🌟
19/03: 147.9: Goals: 🌟
20/03: 148.1: Goals 🌟
21/03: 148.2: Goals 🌟
22/03: 148.2: Goals 🌟
23/03: 148.1:Goals 🌟
24/03: 147.9: Goals 🌟
25/03: 148.5: Goals 🌟
26/03: 148.4: Goals 🌟
27/03: Goals

Last 5 Rounds
Daily Goals
THERE ARE NO QUICK FIXES OR SHORTCUTS to achieving permanent change.
REMINDERS One or two thoughts which might give heart to some of you. Stick with the process. It DOES work! But it does take time, effort, and most of all, patience!

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 |132.8kg | -0.2kg | Keeping on keeping on! Still struggling with the last bit of this cold that I can't seem to budge. Today is my first day working from home, it's on a 14-day trial basis and then reassess. What I got from the conversation with my manager is that they don't want everyone doing it (even though the government has stated if you can work from home, you should) as they don't trust everyone! So I'm not to advertise the fact I'm working from home as then others will want to as well. It's a ridiculous excuse, if you can't trust your employees to do the work from home, then you should have other employees. It's not like they monitor what we do through the day on site, and simply being on site doesn't mean you're working! Oh well, at least I can be at home where it's safe and have less chance of bringing the virus here.

03/27 | 132.6kg | -0.2kg | Not sure that I deserve this drop but I’ll take it. Hubby brought home doughnuts and I cannot resist! Have had wayyyyy too much sugar lately, it needs to stop!

ROUND SUMMARY
Up and down throughout the round, ended up landing on my starting weight! Now I’m home all the time I’m going to have to force myself to be more active. It’s so easy to be lazy!

JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS ~|~ Round 108 (round 40 for me ) I'm in for another round – just keep plodding on! As always; thank you again GrandmaJackie.

Female age 61 5' 4”

Achieved goal weigh of 125lb in summer 2016 by losing 66lb and have gradually gained between 7 and 11 since then; I don't want to gain any more, but would like to get back to my goal weight – I'm working at it – it's a permanent way of life !

Goal – end lower than started - aim to stick with good habits: be mindful of what I eat & drink, keep walking, no binges!

Day/Weight/Comment
03/18 134.4 – 7.08 miles walked yesterday, met up with sisters for afternoon tea.
03/19 134.2 – rain all day yesterday meant only managed to walk 4.83 miles, kept eating well under control though so 218 calories in credit, but carbs over.
03/20 134.2 – 6.47 miles walked yesterday. C-19 ? Biggest problem here in my area of the UK is stupid people stockpiling, shelves are cleared of TP, nappies, long life milk, flour, pasta, rice, long life milk, frozen veggies, basically anything with a long shelf life!! WHY ?? If everyone just shops as normal there is plenty for everyone. Schools shut for everyone except children of key workers from end of today. All over 70's are self isolating for 12 weeks & all public gatherings have been stopped. I am standing by and prepared to help with fetching & carrying, walking dogs etc. for anyone self isolating – I've not been called on yet. I think it's the media's approach that is causing the panics, so there have been minimum deaths so far here, far less than from other ailments, so why stockpile? Luckily, we're not on lock down; if I couldn't get out and walk I would go crazy, I really hope it doesn't come to that!!! Stay calm everyone and shop as normal.
03/21 134.8 – 5.5 miles walked yesterday, spent majority of day at my elderly housebound & in early stages of dementia MIL's, took her some essential supplies to find her just sitting in her chair staring at a blank TV screen. “They've switched our electricity off, have they switched yours off?” She had not had a hot drink or eaten although she does have cold food available there. So after checking the neighbours was on, using their microwave to give her a hot meal and cup of tea, I started to try to get the power back on. Made some phone calls to power company and BIL & finally established that the cooker socket was tripping out the power. All this took time, but so glad to get everything back on. Gently chastised her to phone us if it happens again, but as she is stone deaf & has lost her hearing aids !!!!! She was due to be reassessed for new ones yesterday, but the home appointment was cancelled as she is in the very vulnerable group. She also will not accept any carers & lots of help of us her family too, she gets very annoyed at us thinking we are interfering and taking her independence away, thing is she is not capable of doing much anyway it's like walking on eggshells and very frustrating as we really want to help!
03/22 134.8 – 8.46 miles walked yesterday locally in lovely spring sunshine even if it was a little nippy! Happy Mother's day to all other mothers out there, stay safe and keep washing your hands. Meeting up with my DD, SIL & GSs at a park where we can safely meet up – at the required metre distance! It's our GS's 2nd birthday tomorrow. Our DS is in self isolation after siting next to a colleague at the start of last week with suspected but unconfirmed C-19, so only phone contact with him at the moment . Thankfully he's not showing any symptoms. Crazy crazy times.
03/23 134.8 – 7.3 miles walked. A totally different & bizarre Mother's day yesterday, DS 'phoned from his self isolation, met our DD & family outdoors in the spring sunshine, we each took a picnic; they sat on one bench, we sat on another!!
03/24 134 – 11.39 miles walked yesterday, 821 calories in credit and all other macros in green – a good day yesterday.:). So we in the UK are in lock down, luckily we are allowed to go out once a day to exercise, so I shall have to do my walking all in one go. I wanted to do my bit to help feed the nation and as I am fit & healthy, but not working, so at the weekend I put my name forward at our local supermarket for a temp. contract to re-stock shelves and have an interview this am; however, my DH expressed his concerns at me being more exposed to potential carriers of the virus & we have his elderly very vulnerable DM that we have to give regular care & attention to – she refuses to have carers in, Upshot is that I have agreed that I will cancel the interview, I am disappointed but we have to think of our families health too, he is being sensible. At least I shall be giving blood this pm, so still doing my bit for the community. When will this end? So worrying, keep safe everyone.
03/25 133.6 – 9.3 miles walked yesterday, outside was very quiet – everyone crossing the street if they met anyone to more than keep the obligatory distance apart, other than when I gave blood, obviously impossible to keep a distance when the blood carer is taking the blood! But all other precautions taken and constantly wiping everything down with anti-bac wipes. More obvious police patrols. Calories 315 in credit & all other macros in green.
03/26 134.2 – 8.67 miles walked yesterday, everywhere so quite, just the odd other person out taking their allowed daily exercise and crossing the street to avoid being in anything like close contact!! Surreal!! 447 calories in credit & all macros in green. Keep safe everyone x.
03/27 134.2 – 8.61 miles walked yesterday, 801 calories in credit, all macros in green. 0.6 pounds down from end of last round, I'm pleased with this. Took part in the Clap for the NHS last night, it was so emotional!! Trying to hit the supermarket this am for weekly shop & to also get MIL's shopping for week, expecting to have to queue to get in, will do what I have to and just keep calm – we're all in this together!

KEEP SAFE EVERYONE .

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Female, 5ft. 6 in.
Age 56
NE Ohio

OSW: 186 (March 2018)
Maintenance: 140-145 (December 2018)

My 69th Round!

It's been a crazy few weeks. I am going to try to focus on my mental health along with getting back down to the lower range of Maintenance.


03/18 - 143.5 - With all the stress snacking I've been doing, I'm very happy I've been able to maintain around here.
03/19 - 143
03/20 - 142 - OK!
03/21- 142 - I truly don't know how this is happening, but I won't complain.
03/22 - 142.5
03/23 - 142
03/24 - 141
03/15 - 141.5
03/26 - 142.5
03/27 - 142 - Yay!

@jamfullhouse - are you stilll allowed to go to someones house for a beverage? You are in the lucky minority - you savour it !! [/quote]

Yes, just suppose to stay in groups less than 10 and be smart but no real punishment if you are not. Us ladies don't go anywhere but together once a week for shopping but my husband works still in a place like a gas station but it's way more than that, alot of mechanic work and agronomy products, and another's husband is a farmer and very active and having a very hard time laying low but we figure when they start showing signs we will quarantine ourselves then. Though many including my husband think they have already had this go through here the middle of February. Lots of pneumonia cases and my husband said the flu he had was right up there to when he had west nile which was really bad and so was this flu that went through over a month ago. Which in this area we have a lot of farmers take there vacation after Christmas and were coming back the end of January beginning of February and now the snowbirds are coming back and not laying low at all but we will not know here because testing is almost nonexistent, you have to be basically hospitalized before being tested. But maybe it's not the virus, maybe it was something else, hoping it was though and already done in this area. I noticed still no toilet paper here or flour at the stores.
P.S. I live in North Dakota and our population is not much per mile, so social distancing is not very hard but we also are use to driving 45 to 60 miles to "town" for groceries so we can really spread it around with the distances traveled.

5' 7" Age 40's
Original start weight: 178 lbs (Oct. 10, 2019)
Goal this round: 159.0 lbs
Ultimate goal 135 lbs.

End of round 107 3/17= 160.2 lbs

Day/Weight/Comment

03/18 160.0 lbs, 1200 calories, 15,000 steps. IF 16 hours

03/19 160.0 lbs 900 calories, 15,000 steps IF 16 hours

03/20 160.0 lbs 13,000 steps, IF 16 hours. Goodness, I would love to see the fifties but obviously my scale can not go that low. LOL

03/21 161.0 lbs 1100 calories, 18,000 steps IF 16 hours. Not sure what I did. Hoping it goes down tomorrow, except today I plan on quilting.

03/22 160.0 lbs 1400 calories, 14,500 steps IF 16 hours. Come on, I have lowered my goal to just seeing the 159. The scale flashed 159.9 at me and said nope settling on 160 again.

03/23 160.8 lbs 1400 calories, 8500 steps IF 17 hours. I made my son chocolate chips cookies and had two, and up it goes.

03/24 160.0 lbs 1000 calories, 18,500 steps IF 16 hours.

03/15 160.0 lbs Surprise, Surprise, it just will not go below 160.0. 1150 calories, 15,000 steps, IF 16 hours. I guess I will starve the next two days to get below this mark. Ugh!

03/26 159.2 lbs 624 calories, 15,160 steps, IF 16 hours I made it under 160 finally, hope it holds for tomorrow but my "elderly friends, 67 and 68" and I are doing our weekly brave it to town to pick up some groceries and of course we will be going to someones house for a beverage after.

03/27 160.0 lbs 1200 calories, 8500 steps, IF 16 hours. HaHa, I just knew it. Oh well maybe next round.

Loss .02 lbs for the round