3-Month Weight Loss Challenge: Pick Your Difficulty (Starts: February)

MY NAME IS DONNA. I AM 59 YEARS YOUNG & FROM THE MIDWEST USA. I AM APPROX 5’ 5” TALL.



Start date: February 1, 2020
Challenge Starting Weight: 191.6 on January 31st
Challenge Level: ✴✴✴ (15 lbs.)
Challenge Goal weight: 176.6

February 01: 191.6 Good luck everyone!

February 08: 192.0 I started my new plan in order to figure out what is going on with my glucose numbers. Watching calories more than carbs this time (glucose has been running too low!). Today and yesterday found my glucose too high so I will continue to tweak to see if I can come up with a good weight loss plan without hurting my T2D efforts. I am down 0.1 from yesterday which I will call a normal fluctuation.
February 15: 194.8 Clearly my Valentine’s Day was wonderful and full of food and candy-filled surprises. Back at it today.
February 22: 195.0 My weight went up this past week after travel and more glucose problems. At a snail’s pace, it is slowly coming back down over the past 2 days. I hope next week’s weight will be even better!
February 29: 198.6 A 3 lb gain overnight. ½ of a restaurant meal. Good calorie count. Good extra exercise. But carbs hate me. Back to the grind again today!

Total Loss for February ……………… 7.0 lb GAIN
Total Accumulation of Weight Loss for Challenge…………




March 01: 199.8
March 08: 201.0 You can eat too much diet food too. Clearly.
March 15: 200.1
March 22: 202.0 ugg. Ingredients are getting hard to find in this tiny one store town. I went about 100 miles from here to a city that has 3 different grocery stores (including Walmart) last Monday but it was just as bad due to the higher population. My freezer is pretty full, but the sides are the challenge without getting into too many carbs. Okay, keeping my chin up. This too shall pass.
March 29: 203.5 No comment.
March 31: 203.5 Eating sugar here too. Once you start, it’s hard to stop and it calls and haunts you daily. A horrible addiction. I am going to work on that starting TODAY on a much more intense level.

Total Loss for March ………….. 4.5 lb GAIN
Total Accumulation of Weight Loss for Challenge………… 11.9 lb GAIN



April 01: 203.2
April 08: 202.8 Okay! That is more like it. Now, just to keep up the momentum. Clearly, I can't make my goal for this challenge, but I can make improvements and get back on track!
April 15: 203.5 Back to basics!
April 22: 204.7 After travel this week. Now I’m stuck!
April 29:
April 30:

Total Loss for April ……….
Total Accumulation of Weight Loss for Challenge……….. 13.1 GAIN

Challenge Starting Weight: 167
Challenge Level: Level 4 (20 pounds) ★★★★
Challenge Goal weight: 147


Feb 1 - 167
Feb 8 - 163
Feb 15 - 163
Feb 22 - 162
Feb 29 - 162
Feb loss - 5 lbs

Mar 7 - 161.8
Mar 14 - 159.6
Mar 21 - 156.6
Mar 28 - 154.2
March loss - 7.6 lbs

Apr 4 - 151.2
Apr 11 - 150.2
Apr 18 -148.6
Apr 27 - 146.6 - AAHHH!!! I made it past level 3 and now I'm a little past level 4!!! I'm so happy!!!
Apr 30 -
April loss - 4.6

Total loss - 20.4 lbs

Just gotta keep moving!

MFP Starting Weight: 140 lbs - February 2011
Current Starting Weight: 147.4 lbs - November 2017

Challenge Starting Weight: 118.2 lbs
Challenge Level 2 - 10 pounds ★★
Challenge Goal Weight: 110 lbs
BF Goal: 30%

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

Weigh-In Day: Friday and Monday
Height: 5ft

February Starting Weight: 118.2
February Goal Weight: 115.2

Feb 3: 119.8 at 7:30am ... at least it's not the 120s
Feb 7: 120
Feb 10: 120.4
Feb 14: 119.2
Feb 17: 118.2
Feb 21: 118.6
Feb 24: 118.6 at 7am ... still happy to be consistently under 120
Feb 28: 118.2 at 7am ... back where I started, very happy

Total Loss for February: 0 lbs


March Starting Weight: 118.2
March Goal Weight: 115.2

March 2: 118.6 at 6:30am ... it's better than my first weigh-in last month ... 34% BF
March 6: 117.2 at 6:30am ... I am seeing this number a little more and I like it
March 9: 116.4 at 6:45am ... ... a new low ... 33% BF
March 13: 115.2
March 16: 116.8 ... yep, I ate everything I wanted and suffered the consequences ... 33% BF
March 20: 115.6 at 7am ... getting back to it!
March 23: 115.2 at 6:30am ... focused calorie counting since I do not burn much with WFH ... 32% BF
March 27: 115.2
March 30: 115.8 at 6:15am ... I saw 114.8 twice this past week so I'm hopeful! ... 33% BF

Total Loss for March: 2.4 lbs


April Starting Weight: 115.8
April Goal Weight: 112.8

April 3: 113.8 ... The start of my maintenance range! Also...might be due to frequent bowel movements lol
April 6: 114 ... 32% BF
April 10: 114.4
April 13: 116.6 at 7am ... eating everything causes a gain, I'm well aware... 33% BF
April 17: 115.6
April 20: 115.8 at 7am ... 33% BF
April 24: 115.2 at 8am ... strange because I only at 30 more cal but it is my time of the month
April 27: 115.8

Total Loss for April: 0

Overall Loss from Nov 2017 to April 2020: 31.6 lbs

Challenge Loss: 2.4 lbs

MY NAME IS DONNA. I AM 59 YEARS YOUNG & FROM THE MIDWEST USA. I AM APPROX 5’ 5” TALL.



Start date: February 1, 2020
Challenge Starting Weight: 191.6 on January 31st
Challenge Level: ✴✴✴ (15 lbs.)
Challenge Goal weight: 176.6

February 01: 191.6 Good luck everyone!

February 08: 192.0 I started my new plan in order to figure out what is going on with my glucose numbers. Watching calories more than carbs this time (glucose has been running too low!). Today and yesterday found my glucose too high so I will continue to tweak to see if I can come up with a good weight loss plan without hurting my T2D efforts. I am down 0.1 from yesterday which I will call a normal fluctuation.
February 15: 194.8 Clearly my Valentine’s Day was wonderful and full of food and candy-filled surprises. Back at it today.
February 22: 195.0 My weight went up this past week after travel and more glucose problems. At a snail’s pace, it is slowly coming back down over the past 2 days. I hope next week’s weight will be even better!
February 29: 198.6 A 3 lb gain overnight. ½ of a restaurant meal. Good calorie count. Good extra exercise. But carbs hate me. Back to the grind again today!

Total Loss for February ……………… 7.0 lb GAIN
Total Accumulation of Weight Loss for Challenge…………




March 01: 199.8
March 08: 201.0 You can eat too much diet food too. Clearly.
March 15: 200.1
March 22: 202.0 ugg. Ingredients are getting hard to find in this tiny one store town. I went about 100 miles from here to a city that has 3 different grocery stores (including Walmart) last Monday but it was just as bad due to the higher population. My freezer is pretty full, but the sides are the challenge without getting into too many carbs. Okay, keeping my chin up. This too shall pass.
March 29: 203.5 No comment.
March 31: 203.5 Eating sugar here too. Once you start, it’s hard to stop and it calls and haunts you daily. A horrible addiction. I am going to work on that starting TODAY on a much more intense level.

Total Loss for March ………….. 4.5 lb GAIN
Total Accumulation of Weight Loss for Challenge………… 11.9 lb GAIN



April 01: 203.2
April 08: 202.8 Okay! That is more like it. Now, just to keep up the momentum. Clearly, I can't make my goal for this challenge, but I can make improvements and get back on track!
April 15: 203.5 Back to basics!
April 22: 204.7 After travel this week. Now I’m stuck!
April 29: 208.4 After 3 separate days of travel. Not enough movement and too many calories and carbs on the travel days.
April 30: 207.9 Shedding the water weight from the travel. May will be better.

Total Loss for April ………. 4.4 lb Gain
Total Accumulation of Weight Loss for Challenge……….. 16.3 LB GAIN Another horrible winter! Spring and summer typically fares better.

Challenge Starting Weight: 167
Challenge Level: Level 4 (20 pounds) ★★★★
Challenge Goal weight: 147


Feb 1 - 167
Feb 8 - 163
Feb 15 - 163
Feb 22 - 162
Feb 29 - 162

Feb loss - 5 lbs

Mar 7 - 161.8
Mar 14 - 159.6
Mar 21 - 156.6
Mar 28 - 154.2

March loss - 7.6 lbs

Apr 4 - 151.2
Apr 11 - 150.2
Apr 18 -148.6
Apr 27 - 146.6
Apr 30 - 146.4

April loss - 4.8

Total loss - 20.6 lbs - AHHH!!! I can't believe I lost 20 lbs! I'm so proud of myself and all of you for keeping with it! This was a really fun challenge, I love that you can chose your own difficulty. Happy May everyone!