November Accountability - daily or weekly weigh in

My name is Donna and I am 60 years old. I am about 5’ 5” tall and I started my journey weighing 253 pounds. After a few years of taking care of myself during breast cancer, and quite a few years of taking Care of my husband who had cancer twice than then kidney failure requiring long distance trips every other day for dialysis for 4 years, I decided I needed to do something about my weight. My husband passed 4 ½ years ago and I have been on this journey for almost 2 years now. My diabetes had severely worsened, my thyroid stopped working, I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and I was in pain all the time just from carrying the weight (knees, back, hips etc.) I have lost a lot of weight but have backslidden during last years holidays, and then corona shut-ins. I am re-committing myself as best I can during some turbulent times in my personal and professional life. So here I am to share that the struggle is real and the journey can be long. Every day is not a success but every failure is not a reason to stop either. Thanks to you all for being a huge part of my journey. The best is yet to come!!!!

Highest Weight: 253
MFP Starting Weight: 235
November starting weight: 208.4 (Oct 31, 2020)
November total weight loss:

Week 1
11/1…207.4 Good luck everyone! I will start by saying that I did end up eating a little too much Halloween candy yesterday that I had access to. I at a sweet potato for dinner with some cottage cheese to make up for it. It helped.
11/2…208.6 I’ve been extra hungry this past week, not sure why. I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner yesterday (and a snack) which is more than usual for me. While healthy, 3 meals add up!
11/3…207.6 Up & Down like a bouncing ball!
11/4…??? I actually forgot to weigh today before multiple cups of coffee so I will check in tomorrow. However, I must say, yesterday was a pretty good day!
11/5…206.6 Thrilled!
11/6…205.2 Freaking out really. My small changes are adding up!
11/7…205.2 I am just happy to be the same today. I had a severe glucose drop last night. I managed to stay away from the panic and the feeding frenzy that usually accompany diabetic sugar drops, but I still stuffed things into my pie hole that I would not normally pick due to sheer need and fear. Thankfully the scale was okay today. I know what happened. I took my normal lunch and cut it in half to eat for dinner. Problem: my lunch was very very small to begin with so it was just not enough carbs or calories. I will be more careful today. Low cal volume with some reasonable carbs are on the menu!
Week 2
11/8…206.0 Must be sodium because my meals were okay.
11/9…206.2 I may be confusing small quanitites with good choices. I need to watch it!
11/10…207.0 A celebration including pizza and icecream. I really need to learn to say no.
11/11…I think I am overfeeding to prevent the scary glucose drops like the one I had the other night. I have been spiraling in the wrong direction ever since. Knowledge is power!
11/12…207.4 No change
11/13…207.6 Too much food even when the choices were pretty wise.
11/14…210.0 A friend brought me over a Chinese Dinner from out-of-town. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Week 3
11/15…208.6 Working it back down. Today I will try to focus on extra water and healthy leftovers.
11/16…207.2 Slowly but Surely……
11/17…209.0 Bloat. Not shedding any water. Also no TMI. Dinner will be out today so the calories and carbs will not likely be good. I will try to watch it the rest of the day and focus on water.
11/18
11/19
11/20
11/21
Week 4
11/22
11/23
11/24
11/25
11/26
11/27
11/28
Final Week
11/29
11/30

MFP Starting Weight: 200 LB
November starting weight: 152.1
November goal weight: 146 lb
November total weight loss:

Week 1
11/1- NA
11/2- 152.1 lb
11/3- 151.2 lb
11/4- 151 lb
11/5- na
11/6- na
11/7- 150.4 lb
Week 2
11/8- 150 lb
11/9- 149.4 lb
11/10- 150 lb, Booooooo.
11/11-149.4 LB
11/12- 151.2 LB- Tacos for dinner lastnight:#
11/13- na
11/14- 152.1. Ugh, I did pretty well yesterday.
Week 3
11/15- 149.2 lb, Better!! Going to try hard to keep this up!
11/16- 149.4 lb
11/17- 150.2 lb
11/18
11/19
11/20
11/21
Week 4
11/22
11/23
11/24
11/25
11/26
11/27
11/28
Final Week

MFP Starting Weight: 212.4 on June 16, 2020
November starting weight: 173.5
November total weight loss:
November goal: To be in the 160's, even if it's 169.9! A new decade as I call it!

Week 1
11/1 - 173.5 - 15,690 steps
11/2 - 173.7 - 3,355 steps
11/3 - 173 - 16,892 steps
11/4 - 172.9 - 15,665 steps, The weather is unseasonably warm for November. I've been able to get out and walk a couple of times each day. Next week is going to be an entirely differenty story!
11/5 - 171.9 - 16,945 steps
11/6 - 171.6 - 16,221 steps
11/7 - 172.5 - 6,837 steps
Week 1 Loss: 1 lb.

Week 2
11/8 - 173.9 - 9,018 steps:/
11/9 - 173.6 - 13,629 steps
11/10 - 172.7 - 8,206 steps - My steps are starting to go down. It's getting cold outside. UGH!
11/11 - 172.4 - 10,405 steps
11/12 - 172.2 - I'm hoping to have a big loss here soon. Would like to see some bigger movement than just .2 or .4 each day! - 14,320 steps
11/13 - 172.2 - 11,609 steps
11/14 - 171.6 - 4,933
Week 2 Loss: .9 lb.
Overall November Loss to date: 1.9 lbs

Week 3
11/15 - 171.9 - 6,270 steps
11/16 - 171.5 - 9,143 steps
11/17 - 170.7 - 15,755 steps
11/18 - 170.6
11/19
11/20
11/21
Week 3 Loss:
Overall November Loss to date: