2020Lose 52 Pounds in 52 Weeks Challenge

MelodiousMermaid wrote: »

Current Weight (28-day average):
188.7

Weekly change in 28-day average:
-1.9

Cumulative change (Month/Quarter/Year):
-5.9/-0.9/-8.4


This week's successes:

• Accurate logging.
• Step goal met (over 250 days now).
• Followed the program 6/7 days.

This week's challenges:

• New struggle: foot surgery recovery.
• Fighting luteal stuff

I have to admit that if I could hit rewind, I'd opt not to do the corrective surgery on my left foot. I sure hope that the worst of the recovery process is this first week or two, because I've never had such a profound need to constantly medicate for pain (right up there with gall stones, kidney stones, and childbirth). I sure hope for a full recovery, in any case.

The last two days I just copied the last weigh-in, as I have no way to get an accurate weight right now. I have been tracking intake still and have been within maintenance, so I figure that's fair enough. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to weighing in soon (probably after 1-2 weeks). A shame that the 28-day average will lag for this time window, but it is what it is.

Stats/SW/Goal

High Weight/Stats:
252.0 pounds, 5'1.5", F

Challenge Starting Weight:
197.1

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

History

Q3 History:

2020/07/02: 186.1 / 189.4 (28-day average)
2020/07/08: 188.7 / 188.4
2020/07/15: 187.2 / 187.8
2020/07/22: 186.0 / 187.5
2020/07/29: 192.0 / 188.9
2020/08/05: 198.4 / 190.4
2020/08/12: 194.7 / 192.2
2020/08/19: 194.9 / 194.2
2020/08/26: 194.2 / 194.6
2020/09/02: 189.4 / 194.4
2020/09/09: 188.9 / 192.6
2020/09/16: 186.3 / 190.6
2020/09/23: 186.7 / 188.7

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
2020/06/24: 188.1, 191.5

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.

• All intake logged.
• Step goal met (reduced to be realistic post-operation).
• Maintaining intake around maintenance, calculating below most days.

• Foot surgery recovery not going well at all.