Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 129

I hit my highest weight in 12 months last round because I have taken my eye off the target. I'm back in now with 5 kg to lose. Back to tracking, counting and posting.

OSW 88KG
RSW 63.4 kg
Target this round to lose 1kg

10/14 63.25 kg. Been sticking to the plan but had a slow gym session this morning. Happy with any drop!
10/15 62.8kg. No gym today as its mother's day so I'm having a day off. Pleased with the loss and keeping on it!
10/16 62.70kg. Weighed later than normal. Back to 4.45am weigh in on Monday. Still making good choices and back in the gym today. Determined to stay mindful over the weekend.
10/17 62.20kg. No gym today and focus is on staying mindful. Every choice is a victory.
10/18 62.65kg. I'm ok with this gain. Was over calories yesterday but the trend is down.
10/19 63.4kg isn't great but it's still down from Monday last week. 4 days to focus on now.
10/20 63.4kg gym done and aerobics scheduled for this evening. A good day ahead!
10/21 62.7kg. Aerobics was tough last night and I was back in the gym at 5am. Going to end this round well!

10/22 62.5kg. Gym done and another core strength class tonight. Been good on calories and plenty of water. And I'm lower than same day last week!

10/23

Female, mid 40's, 5'10"
Round 129
SW 212
GW 109

Oct 17: W 211. Day 3 of Cycle. Feel more normal today, blood glucose also down. Did my w/o, stuck to the plan. Did have a late allowed snack .

Oct 18: W 211. End of Cycle? Slept well, did a w/o, ate according to plan. Had small packet of Cheetos.

Oct 19: W 213??? Woke up with severe lower back pain - went to Chiropractor. Had 2 CROISSANTS - this is just me feeling sorry for myself - THIS IS NOT SELF CARE. No w/o today.

Oct 20: W 212. Weight is very unpredictable. Feeling much better today, will try some yoga.
Back on plan, no w/o. Have to recommit , the last three weeks has been the same 3 lbs up and down. I CAN DO THIS SUCCESSFULLY FOR LIFE.

Oct 21: W 211. I am amazed by the weight loss curve, no predictability. Today I had one meal and will only have coffee until tomorrow. I DID IT! Only 1 meal and black coffee.

I'm in! Thank you, @GrandmaJackie!

70 year 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. Recovered from back surgery then hip surgery!! Got back to walking then I sprained my ankle. UGH! I was down for 6 weeks with the ankle. Getting back to it slowly.

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

Heaviest: 192.2
Round GW: 149.0
UGW: 132.2

10/12 - 150.0 at 5:30 a.m. ...maybe...worked out w/trainer for 60 mins.
10/13 - 150.4 at 4:00 a.m. ...2.20 miles in 43 mins

Day/Weight/Comment

10/14 - 149.8 at 4:00 a.m. ...2.25 miles in 44 mins and 60 min workout w/trainer.
10/15 - 149.0 at 5:30 a.m. ...maybe...rest day.
10/16 - 150.8 at 4:00 a.m. ...2.20 miles in 43 mins and 1.5 miles in 33 mins and 60 mins workout w/trainer.
10/17 - 150.2 at 7:00 a.m. ...3.56 miles in 86 mins...an adventure thru rocks, dirt and a flock of birds!
10/18 - 150.8 at 7:00 a.m. ...4.15 miles in 81 mins...it was a good morning.
10/19 - 152.8 at 6:00 a.m. ...60 min workout w.my trainer.
10/20 - 151.8 at 5:30 a.m. ...lazy day!!
10/21 - 151.8 at 4:00 a.m. ...2.40 miles in 46 mins and 60 min workout w/trainer
10/22 - 149.0 at 5:30 a.m. ...maybe and I did nothing today!
10/23 -

Chris

F 37 158cm (5'2)

SW 136.6kg (Jan 2020)
CW 124.2kg
GW (23 October) 123.5kg

Round 123 - 127: 5.2kg loss
Round 128: 0.9kg loss

Day/Weight/Comment

14/10 124.5kg
Did a bunch of walking at uni, and mowed my front lawn. Definitely feeling the heat by the end of it.

15/10 123.9kg
Kids sprung the Bookweek parade on me for tomorrow. A rush to the shops for materials and a planned dinner out the window. At least the kids will look good tomorrow.

16/10 123.5kg
Friday drinks. I haven't done that for 20 years. I am a slow drinker, so have one small one while everyone else has 2-3. Saves calories at least, and means I can still drive home at the end.

17/10 123.3kg
Election Day. Lots of walking and a democracy sausage and cake. Practicing portion control.

18/10 123.6kg
TOM is causing a really sore back. I'm just going to take it easy with a heat pack. It generally doesn't last more than a day or 2. Got my first weight loss comment today.

19/10 123.3kg
I really need to redo my rotating dinner menu. Pasta isn't a good option for me anymore. I made my own, leftover soup, coleslaw and eggs.

20/10 122.9kg
I went into the uni for a study group. Stress makes it easy to keep to my calorie goal.

21/10 122.9kg
Uni again, lots of walking. This was my last contact day for the year, so I'll have to make my own exercise from now on.

22/10 122.5kg
Writing more assignments today. Went for a hike up a mountain with my son after dinner. I will need to work on my fitness.

23/10 121.9kg
That is a huge loss this round. I didn't see it coming.

Round 129: 2.3kg
Total since round 123: 8.4kg

I'm in for Round #129!

SW: 139
GW: 115

Round #123 < 3.4lbs
Round #124 < 2.4lbs
Round #125 < 3.6lbs
Round #126 < 1.2lbs
Round #127 < 1.6lbs
Round #128 < 2.6lbs



Day/Weight/Comment
10/14 121.4 No exercise
10/15 121.0 Walking: 10 mins Woo! Down 18lbs in just over 2 mos!
10/16 120.2 No exercise Color me happy!
10/17 119.8 It just keeps getting better!
10/18 120.4 Note to scale: I know we’re not friends, but couldn’t you be a little bit nicer? No exercise
10/19 120.4 Walking: 21 mins
10/20 Didn’t weigh, Walking; 21 mins
10/21 120lbs Walking: 20.5 mins
10/22 120.6lbs Aargh! Walking: 21 mins
10/23

@CamandJarvis - really feeling for you and your little godson, sending lots of positive vibes and hoping that he gets the new liver he needs, especially going through it with my baby DGS just a few months ago. Medical knowledge and procedures are so amazing these days! Do you know that you can be a live liver donor? I was so humbled that all my family stepped forward and volunteered, (they wouldn't accept me as I'm too old - I was devastated!) A perfect match was found in our niece's husband, but a liver from another source suddleny became available before that procedure went ahead. But maybe it's something that family and friends might be able to consider depending on how medically urgent the need is, I know from our families experience when time is not on the patient's side then needs become very urgent. Please keep us updated with his progress, he will be very high in my thoughts .

I hit my highest weight in 12 months last round because I have taken my eye off the target. I'm back in now with 5 kg to lose. Back to tracking, counting and posting.

OSW 88KG
RSW 63.4 kg
Target this round to lose 1kg

10/14 63.25 kg. Been sticking to the plan but had a slow gym session this morning. Happy with any drop!
10/15 62.8kg. No gym today as its mother's day so I'm having a day off. Pleased with the loss and keeping on it!
10/16 62.70kg. Weighed later than normal. Back to 4.45am weigh in on Monday. Still making good choices and back in the gym today. Determined to stay mindful over the weekend.
10/17 62.20kg. No gym today and focus is on staying mindful. Every choice is a victory.
10/18 62.65kg. I'm ok with this gain. Was over calories yesterday but the trend is down.
10/19 63.4kg isn't great but it's still down from Monday last week. 4 days to focus on now.
10/20 63.4kg gym done and aerobics scheduled for this evening. A good day ahead!
10/21 62.7kg. Aerobics was tough last night and I was back in the gym at 5am. Going to end this round well!
10/22 62.5kg. Gym done and another core strength class tonight. Been good on calories and plenty of water. And I'm lower than same day last week!

10/23 62.7 kg disappointing end. Now got to try to maintain over the weekend. Had plenty of exercise this week and been within calories.

Loss for the round 0.7kg {1.5lbs}

Most of the round is my maintenance week, so still gunning for the goal that was last round's goal. Don't think I was too far off it last round, but the final day was a high weigh in due to takeaway the night before.

Female, 28, 159cm
OSW: 74.5kg
SW: 73.2kg
GW: 72.2kg
UGW: 62kg

Previous Rounds (Scales, Trend)
Rounds Start: 73.8, 74.0
Round 125: 73.3, 73.7 (-0.5, -0.3)
Round 126: 73.3, 73.6 (+/-0, -0.1)
Round 127: 72.2, 73.1 (-1.1, -0.5)
Round 128: 73.2, 72.8 (+1.0, -0.3)
Round 129: 72.9, 72.6 (-0.3, -0.2)


Day/Weight/Comment
10/14 - 72.7 - Weird day at work yesterday. TW: Men being inappropriate at work: Because of that, food wasn't top of my brainspace yesterday. But ended up with a very small deficit for the day. Was really tired and got an early night, so had a much lower expenditure than I normally would. And I think I ended up not having much to drink yesterday evening as I woke up this morning feeling very dehydrated (makes my abs pop though lol). Overall happy with my weight, expecting it to go down a little bit again tomorrow
10/15 - 72.2 - Just over yesterday, countered by the day before's just under. So maintenance is going fine right now. Happy with that weight, hoping it's going to stop bouncing around at some point and stay a little more consistent day by day, but I think that's just me being hopeful. Besides it was only last week I was complaining about getting the same number for several days in a row. It appears I'm never happy. Today I'm WFH and we have our digital teambuilding (read wine drinking time), so I'm expecting to be a little over there, however I'm also expecting to do some physical work as we've got some stuff to take to the tip today, so hopefully I'll get enough exercise to make it work out about even.
10/16 - 71.8 - Wasn't expecting that. Almost certainly massively dehydrated from the wine yesterday. Although didn't drink nearly as much as I used to. I think my tolerance has dropped enormously (not that it ever was that high), probably due to the fact that I don't really drink that much anymore. Food about level, drink pushed it up over somewhat. And I am HUNGRY today. Right now I'm pondering if it's acceptable to nip to the cafe up the road for lunch. They do an excellent fry up. But I really do not have the calories for that, so lunch will be lunch at home. I might be in maintenance week, but that does not give me licence to go away and eat all of the things.
10/17 -72.1
10/18 - 72.1
10/19 - 72.4 - Well, that's my maintenance week over. Over calories for the week by around 250kcals, which, while not great, isn't really that bad. Especially considering that around 500 of those were alcohol related because we had our company teambuilding, so I'm not overly upset by it. As is standard practice, the weekend was a great calories wise. Judo on Saturday followed by a dog that needed walking and a long walk out with the family on Sunday gave me a huge amount of calories for those days, (which is how I managed to only be 250 over for the week considering the couple of heavily over days I had midweek). Proud of myself for yesterday as I managed to stop eating food twice because I wasn't hungry any more. Both brunch and dinner I didn't eat everything because I wasn't really hungry any more. Back to the grind today, although we do have a late judo session, so I'll be working out hard today as well. Should give me the calories to keep to the deficit for the rest of the week. And I've got already logged left overs for breakfast this morning, so I'm expecting today to look very low in the diary.
10/20 - 72.4 - As expected, a pretty good day yesterday. Well under calories for the day, and a nice hard judo session. It should be giving me a nice bank for the rest of the week as I always find weekdays much harder than weekends. Tummy's feeling a little off this last couple of days so I'm thinking I might be switching food to a few more plainer meals and probably cutting back on the milk based product for a few days to hopefully settle it. I say as I then have yoghurt in my breakfast shake this morning.
10/21- 72.7 - There I am, carefully meal planning for the rest of the week, going to the shops after work and buying only what is on my list (seriously this is really hard for me, I'm a terrible over-buyer). Carefully sorting it out so that calories are balance going through the week. And then I get home to find OH cooking a roast for dinner. I mean, I'm not complaining (I mean I am a little), but I had JUST bought food for the week. I had planned a really calorie balanced meal for the evening. All of that went out the window of course because had he logged any of those calories. Did he F-. No, he just made it, didn't worry about calories and then I ate it. DAMN IT!! I really struggle to restrict myself when it comes to food that he's made. Mostly because it's also really gooooood. Logged calories as best I could. Somehow it doesn't look that bad, even with the huge quantity of oil I added (I'd like to imagine that it was less that that, but it probably wasn't *sob*). Day has probably ended up around level, which isn't awful. Every day level is another day not over, which is where I was before soooooo. Oh I don't know, I've been really trying to kick myself back in to planning meals in advanced and having a sensible food plan and things like this really really do not help.
10/22 - 72.3 - Looks like my goal for this round is very much possible! Also I'm starting to wonder if I had set my loss rate to be 0.25kg a week before, because I seem to be getting significantly less calories adjustments throughout the day than I was before I changed my goals for maintenance. Ah well. Good day yesterday, although dinner was a bit of a flop. Slightly more depressing as that's what I have for lunch today. It as supposed to be chicken risotto. It was grey mush with chunks of chicken in it. I tried a slow cooker recipe that looked promising, but what it produced was certainly not a risotto. It also managed to remove all the flavour of everything. There was plenty of chicken stock, some wine, onions, garlic, chicken, pesto. And what did it taste of ... well very little really. Much better after some salt and pepper was added, but still, not good. Positives: lots of food. A very large serving size for a sensible calorie amount, but I think it would've been better with some cheese running through it and a smaller quantity of everything else. Ah well, we live an learn. I won't be making it like that again. I'll make it properly next time, it might take longer, but it sure will taste better!

10/23 - 72.9 - Well that buggered up that plan of getting to my goal this round didn't it. I seem to repeatedly get a big shoot up on the last day of the round. No idea why either. Maybe hormone related (I'm not 100% on exactly how my monthly cycle affects scale weight). Anyway, yesterday was good overall. Small deficit and wasn't hungry. Not much to report.


Round Summery
Point to point weight down 0.3kg, trend weight down 0.2kg. Looking at those number in isolation I'm happy. This round was about half maintenance so I was expecting a much lower loss than I would normally. I _know_ that my final scale number was again inflated (just like the end of last round), so looking at my trend weight is a much happier measure of what my weight is currently doing (although I'm very happy with a -0.3kg drop for the round). Trend weight has been consistently down every round so far, so that really makes me feel much much better about where I am compared to where I started. Looking ahead, as the cold weather starts to draw in, I'm anticipating a drop in general activity levels, so I'm really trying to take slightly better charge with my meals. Hoping to get a small stockpile of healthy freezer meals for dark lazy days. Still not keeping up with my running targets (or rather, doing any running at all). So I think that might be something I put on pause for the moment until I have a little bit more time to dedicate to that. I'm dealing with my food (meal planning and making lunches) right now which is definitely starting to come under control, once I've got more of a handle on that I'll worry about getting my running shoes on again.
Anyway, onto Round 130!!

61 year old female; 5’5"
Highest Weight: 213
Lowest Weight: 143
SW: 188.4
GW: (for now: 165--will set it lower later)

Day/Weight/Comment
10/14 vacation
10/15 vacation
10/16 vacation
10/17 vacation
10/18 vacation
10/19 188.4 (with clothes at the doctor)
10/20 183.2 (this morning at home--au natural)--I'm back. Ate well within calorie range yesterday and did some meal prep last night for lunches. Still have to do some real food grocery shopping after work, but I got started, and that's the first step. Love you guys for always being here!
10/21 183.2 Ate within calories yesterday and began building back an exercise routine. Starting small, but going to work on being consistent with this first. Got in a walk and a short exercise bike ride. I’m working from home today, so maybe I can sneak in a couple short walks throughout the day on what looks to be another beautiful fall day.
10/22 182.4 Off to a good start. Made my family lasagna last night with a mix of lean beef and turkey and all low/no-fat cheeses with a lesser amount of whole wheat pasta. It wasn’t as good as it use to be maybe, but it was good and everyone ate it. I can’t eat like “normal people”. It’s like my body is allergic to high carb foods—it swells up! Lol. This is and always has been a mind game for me, so regaining control over what I WANT to eat it is the biggest part of the battle. That, and sticking to it for the long haul. I've done this before. I can do it again!
10/23 181.6 Feels good to be beginning to take back control of at least this small part of my current life. I don’t know my exact start weight for the beginning of this week, but that doctor visit weight (with clothes, shoes, etc) was a wake up call and has provided good motivation for this week. We ate out last night, but I planned for it and did great with my menu choice. Here’s to continued success in future rounds!

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

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

My 90th Round!

I've made it back to maintenance and need the accountability to keep me there.

SW: 143

Day/Weight/Comment

10/14 - 142 - This was a nice surprise this morning. We'll see if it sticks for tomorrow.
10/15 - 142.5 - This is fine.
10/16 - 142 - Nice to see a little drop for the weekend.
10/17 - 143 - We spent a beautiful autumn evening around a bonfire eating pizza and chicken from a favorite local restaurant. We also enjoyed hot cider spiked with whiskey.
10/18 - 143.5 - This was not unexpected and I'm just planning to eat at weight loss calories this week to compensate for the weekend.
10/19 - 143.5 - I'm happy I didn't bump up again.
10/20 - 142.5
10/21 - 143
10/22 - 142.5 - Just a little hint I picked up from another website a few weeks ago...If you buy bagged or boxed salads to eat through the week like me, you may notice the lettuce starts to get wilty within a couple days. Put a paper towel in the bag or box when you open it and change it out daily. I could not believe the difference it made in the texture and taste of the salad.
10/23 - 142.5 - Very happy with the round considering the temptations last weekend. See you next round.