2020Lose 52 Pounds in 52 Weeks Challenge

MelodiousMermaid wrote: »

Current Weight (28-day average):
192.8

Weekly change in 28-day average:
-0.8

Cumulative change (Month/Quarter/Year):
-0.5/+0.3/-4.3

This week's successes:

• Accurate logging.
• Maintaining meeting my step goal, added 100 more steps/day = 5,800 goal (current goal streak at 162 days).
• Strength training 3x, other workouts 2x
• Starting to take better care of myself (dressing better).

This week's challenges:

• I've been letting protein fall by the wayside. Need to change that.
• Other issues are still there (but at the lesser point currently, so hopefully won't be as big of a stumbling block).

My weigh-in this morning dropped a bunch. I think it will rebound somewhat, as today should be better for eating. I am glad I'm using the 28-day average as my "watch" number, as it has really helped me in adding perspective.

Stats/SW/Goal

High Weight/Stats:
252.0 pounds, 5'1" F

Challenge Starting Weight:
197.1

Goal:
21.5% body fat
(currently estimated around 140)

History

Last post:

Current Weight (28-day average):
193.6

Weekly change in 28-day average:
-0.1

Cumulative change (Month/Quarter/Year):
+0.3/+1.1/-3.5

This week's successes:

• Accurate logging.
• Maintaining meeting my step goal, added 100 more steps/day (current goal streak at 156 days).
• Strength training 3x, other workouts 2x
• Back in the groove FINALLY.

This week's challenges:

• I'm going to be going out to eat tonight. That will be incredibly challenging to try and stay in macros with my appetite (currently in RAWR mode from strength training.)
• In the middle of the mental mud pit. It is what it is.

Finally got that unknown extra (water?) weight off, and the general trend is now down. I am thankful that so far I haven't had to fight the hunger monster too hard (started adding IF to my toolkit really helped a lot). Still not out of the danger zone for that, though, as I will have my first challenge of restaurant eating during the hungries tonight. (And no, extra water unfortunately does not help in this case, but at least it does fall on a strength day, which is when I eat closer to maintenance, so I'm going to try and bank the calories that I can to make it work.)

On a separate note, it's really weird, but multiple people have commented on me looking more trim, even though I'm still up about a net of 15 pounds since the middle of February. I'm thinking it might just be new workout clothes, but maybe I'm managing a recomp for a bit of it too? That'd be stellar.

Q2 History:

2020/04/08: 192.5
2020/04/15: 191.8
2020/04/22: 194.5
2020/04/29: 191.8, 194.2 (28-day average)
2020/05/06: 192.3, 193.6
2020/05/13: 191.0, 193.0
2020/05/20: 191.7, 193.1
2020/05/27: 193.6, 193.1
2020/06/03: 196.9, 193.7
2020/06/10: 192.0, 193.6
2020/06/17: 188.5, 192.8

Q1 History:

2020/01/01: 197.1
2020/01/08: 192.5
2020/01/15: 190.7
2020/01/22: 187.2
2020/01/29: 185.0
2020/02/05: 184.1
2020/02/12: 182.5
2020/02/19: ???
2020/02/26: ???
2020/02/29 (end of month): 184.7
2020/03/04: 181.2 (estimated using different scale)
2020/03/11: 183.4
2020/03/17: 189.4

Original post:

I'm not sure I have 52 pounds of fat that I want/need to lose at this point, but I'm close enough that I'm going to call myself "in."

Starting weight: 197.1 pounds
(HSW: 252, MFP restart: 242.7)
5'1" F

Goal: 21.5% body fat
(currently estimated at 140-145)

Current weight: 197.1
Total challenge weight lost: 0.0

This week's successes: Getting back into deficit after a maintenance break.
This week's challenges: Extremely low motivation (for life-ing in general -- not out of the norm, as I battle physical and mental health issues on an ongoing basis).

A heads up: I will likely go faster than 1 pound/week for the first 4-ish months, then looking to tighten up and go into a slow loss followed by a recomp phase. I'll likely make 52 pounds of weight loss on the scale with some skin loss (hopefully), along with lean mass having to do with the support of the fat stores I have. I am aiming to maintain/increase muscle mass and bone density, so that may throw off the scale results. I do hope to reach my goal body fat percentage by the year's end, whatever scale weight that puts me at.

• Accurate logging.
• Maintaining meeting my step goal, added 100 more steps/day = 5,900 goal (current goal streak at 170 days).
• Strength training 3x, other workouts 3x

• More inconsistencies in macros.
• Mental health issues have increased, to full crisis at the end of last week. Scaled back last med change, but still finding equilibrium. Not in full crisis since then, though, thankfully.

• Accurate logging.
• Maintaining meeting my step goal, added 100 more steps/day = 6,000 goal (current goal streak at 177 days).
• Strength training 3x, other workouts 2x
• Things have been reasonably better for macros.

• Mental health issues, while a bit more stable than the prior week, continue to be a huge challenge.