January Check In!

1. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability and support.
2. Copy the form below by copy-pasting and edit to suit your personal schedule, then fill in your information and post each week.
3. Have a successful month, whatever your maintenance/health goal(s) may be!!

Name
Age:
Height:
Total weight lost:
Time it took to lose:
How long in maintenance:
Maintenance weight range:

Average weight recorded for 2019:
Average weight recorded for 2020:

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Average weight recorded for December:


Average weight Week of...

January 3………
January 10…………
January 17……….
January 24……….
January 31………..


Success/Struggles:
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  • figurethefat
    figurethefat Posts: 1,358 Member
    Age: 64
    Height: 159cm
    Total weight lost: 11kg
    Time it took to lose: Started April 2020
    How long in maintenance: August 2020
    Maintenance weight range: 56-57kg
    Average weight recorded for July: 57.7kg
    Average weight recorded for August: 56.9kg
    Average weight recorded for September: 56.8kg
    Average weight recorded for October: 56.5kg
    Average weight recorded for November: 56.7kg
    Average weight recorded for December: 56.9kg

    Weigh-in day for me is Friday

    Week of:
    January 1 - 57.6kg
    January 8 -
    January 15 -
    January 22 -
    January 29 -

    Struggle/Success: Christmas and Boxing Day were eating disasters, but it was the holidays... The rest of the week was better, then New Year's Eve! All good now into 2021 :-)
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,951 Member
    Thanks for setting us up @figurethefat.
    I'll be posting my first update of the year tomorrow.
  • AshHeartsJesus
    AshHeartsJesus Posts: 460 Member
    Name: Ash
    Age:33
    Height:4'11
    Total weight lost:55lbs
    Time it took to lose: 9 months
    How long in maintenance: 1 month
    Maintenance weight range: 119- 123

    Average weight recorded for 2019: n/a
    Average weight recorded for 2020: n/a

    Average weight recorded from January:
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    Average weight Week of...

    January 3………119.5
    January 10…………
    January 17……….
    January 24……….
    January 31………..


    Success/Struggles: [/quote]
    success two workouts a day/ struggles eating too much sodium
  • kristen8000
    kristen8000 Posts: 747 Member
    Hi! My name is Kristen. And I struggle to maintain my weight. I had an amazing 2020, weight maintenance wise, and I'm hoping to keep up with it in 2021.

    Age: 42
    Sex: Female
    Height: 5'11"
    Total weight lost: 20 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 2 months
    How long in maintenance: 1 year and 3 months!
    Starting Weight: 164.8 (September 3rd, 2019)
    Goal Weight: 150 (Hit November 8th, 2019)
    Maintenance weight range: 147 - 153

    Average weight recorded for September: 160.1
    Average weight recorded for October: 154.0
    Average weight recorded for November: 149.2
    Average weight recorded for December: 146.4
    Average weight recorded for January: 145.4
    Average weight recorded for February: 143.4
    Average weight recorded for March:
    142.5
    Average weight recorded for April: 143.5
    Average weight recorded for May: 145.7
    Average weight recorded for June: 146.3
    Average weight recorded for July: 148.3
    Average weight recorded for August: 147.5
    Average weight recorded for September: 147.5
    Average weight recorded for October: 145.3
    Average weight recorded for November:147.1
    Average weight recorded for December: 149.2
    Average weight recorded for 2020: 146 😁

    Week of...
    January 3rd: 151.2 (Trend: 150.5)

    Successes/Struggles: It's time to make some changes and get that number down a bit. Had a great December (even if it came with the normal Covid-19 restriction challenges). But that also came with some pretty uncontrolled eating and drinking!

    I'm proud of my results from 2020. Can't remember a time when I stayed in the 140s for an entire year!

    New goal for the near future, get down to 147 by February 27th!

    Hope everyone has a great week!
  • missperfectpitch
    missperfectpitch Posts: 576 Member
    edited January 2021
    Name: missperfectpitch
    Height: 5'4"
    Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
    How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
    Maintenance weight range: 108-112.5

    Average weight recorded for 2018: 109.8
    Average weight recorded for 2019: 111.2
    Average weight recorded for 2020: 111.6

    Average weight recorded for January: 111.9
    Average weight recorded for February: 111.3
    Average weight recorded for March: 110.3
    Average weight recorded for April: 109.7
    Average weight recorded for May 2020: 110.9
    Average weight recorded for June 2020: 112.3
    Average weight recorded for July 2020: 112.7
    Average weight recorded for August 2020: 112.9
    Average weight recorded for September 2020: 112.4
    Average weight recorded for October 2020: 111.7
    Average weight recorded for November 2020: 111.5
    Average weight recorded for December 2020: 112.1

    Week of..
    January 2: 111.5 (trending weight 111.8)
    January 9:
    January 16:
    January 23:
    January 30:

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Some reflections on this past year of maintenance - overall, my average weight for 2020 was 111.6 lb, up from 111.2 lb for 2019. Not a huge variation, but I did struggle in 2020 with maintaining (which I hadn't really had an issue with since mid-2018 when I first entered maintenance). The weirdness of 2020 definitely messed with things quite a bit, as I started working from home indefinitely in the middle of March and continue to do so now. I ate at basically the same calorie level, though perhaps a bit more with starting to do a lot more takeout v. home-cooked meals to support restaurants, but my activity level was slightly less than it used to be (not going into the office meant more time lying around on the sofa while working instead of standing up for a good part of the day, not walking up and down several flights of stairs and a hilly road every day while going into the office, less fidgeting, etc.). I also have not been very motivated when doing workouts this past year, so I was usually not putting in 100% effort into workouts. All small things, but they are things that do add up over time, and I did start to gain some weight during the spring/summer as a result.

    I've since made some modifications of increasing my daily step goal from 11k (my usual) ->13k, adding in a 20 minute "stairs workout" inside my apartment building once or twice a week, and adding an extra hundred or so calories into my calorie estimates for takeout meals. I managed to get back down to a better place in my maintenance range by November, though I did see a weight increase in December with my birthday and holidays etc., though this is true every year. I'm going to see where my weight is over the next couple of months to see whether I'll want to make an additional small adjustment - I prefer to be right in the middle of my range (~110-110.5), and my average is a bit higher than that right now.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,951 Member
    Name: Kathryn
    Age: 52
    Height: 5'4"
    Total Weight lost: ~80 lbs
    Time it took to lose: 2 years 3 months
    How long in maintenance: I called maintenance in July 2016, but I continued to slowly lose until December of 2017. I have been in maintenance since December 2017
    Maintenance weight range: 113 - 118 lbs

    Average weight recorded from 2018: 118.8
    Average weight recorded from 2019: 115.2
    Average weight recorded from 2020: 113.6


    Average weight recorded from September: 113.3
    Average weight recorded from October:113.4
    Average weight recorded from November:  114.1
    Average weight recorded from December: 114.0

    Week of...


    January 3: 113.2 scale/ 114.2 trend
    January 10:
    January 17:
    January 24:
    January 31:


    Success/Struggles: My weight is still up a bit from the holidays,  but still on the lower end of my range so it is good and nothing I am concerned about. It has started to come back down from where it was a day or two after Christmas and I would really like it to stay above 113. I say I have been maintaining since December 2017, but looking back I see that I have actually lost about 5 pounds since then so I guess I have been slowly losing these last 3 years. I would like to stay where I am so this year I am going to make an effort not to let my trend go any lower than 113.
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 10,875 Member
    Name: Maddie
    Height: 174 cm
    Total weight lost: ~75
    Time it took to lose: 2-2/3 years
    How long in maintenance: 2-1/3 years
    Maintenance weight range: 153-155

    Average weight recorded for 2016: 228.3
    Average weight recorded for 2017: 197
    Average weight recorded for 2018: 172
    Average weight recorded for 2019: 155
    Average weight recorded for 2020: 156.8

    Avg 2021 weight recorded for January:


    Average weight Week of...
    January 3………154.36
    January 10…………
    January 17……….
    January 24……….
    January 31………..

    Success/Struggles: Things are going well. Much better than last Dec/Jan.
    Happy New Year!
  • 425Recess
    425Recess Posts: 257 Member
    Name: Lorrraine
    Age: 73
    Height: 5'4"
    Total weight lost: 50 lb.
    Time it took to lose: Over years with ups/downs
    How long in maintenance: at current weight ~3 years - Was on maintenance for 7 years at 125 lbs.
    Maintenance weight range: 115 +/- 2 lbs.
    Average weight recorded from 2018: Don't have the recorded number but stayed at goal.
    Average weight recorded from 2019: 114.5
    Average weight recorded from 2020: 115.0

    Average weight recorded for January: 115
    Average weight recorded for February: 115
    Average weight recorded for March: 115.5
    Average weight recorded for April:116.1
    Average weight recorded for May 115.2
    Average weight recorded for June:115.1
    Average weight recorded for July:114.5
    Average weight recorded for August:114.0
    Average weight recorded for September:115.0
    Average weight recorded for October:114.7
    Average weight recorded for November:115.6
    Average weight recorded for December 116.5

    Jan 4: 116.5

    Struggle: Was making progress, staying within calorie goal, doing my exercises until New Year's eve then their was pizza, beer, and champagne.

    Success: Did good until I didn't. :smile:
  • charmmeth
    charmmeth Posts: 936 Member
    edited January 2021
    Name: Charlotte
    Age: 56
    Height: 5'11" (180cm)
    Maintenance range: 75kg (+/- 2.5 kg)

    Weight lost: 86kg to 80 kg (January-August 2012); 85 kg to 69 kg (October 2014 - March 2016); 88kg to present weight (May 2020 - now)
    maintained (i.e. was below 77.5 kg, and mostly below 75 kg) from February 2015-July 2017; was then put on a medication and gained 2 kg in a month; went on sabbatical (away from scales; lots of conference meals); hit (peri-)menopause and lost track of things except to note that I was steadily gaining and back to 85/86 kg.
    Lost to 81 kg at Easter 2020 (top of normal bmi for me), but then gained back to 88 kg in April/May (Easter egg binge; lock down closed the pool...).
    Average weight October 2014 - September 2015: 75.72 kg
    Average weight October 2015 - September 2016: 72.33 kg
    Average weight October 2016 - September 2017: 76.82 kg - monthly average within maintenance range (74.82 - 77.86 kg) for the first 10 months, then >79 kg in August and September
    Average weight October 2017 - March 2018: 80.90 kg
    April 2018-April 2020: no data
    Average weight 22 May - 31 December 2020: 80.83 kg

    Average weight recorded for May 2020 (22.-31.5.2020): 87.15 kg
    Average weight recorded for June: 85.31 kg
    Average weight recorded for July: 83.12 kg
    Average weight recorded for August: 81.07 kg
    Average weight recorded for September: 79.59 kg
    Average weight recorded for October: 77.81 kg
    Average weight recorded for November: 76.67 kg
    Average weight recorded for December: 75.93 kg

    Weight / seven day rolling average:
    5 January: 75.7 kg (167 lb) / rolling 7-day average 76.04 kg
    12 January:
    19 January:
    26 Janary:

    Average weight recorded for January 2021 currently: 75.98 kg

    I have been in my maintenance range since late October, and hit my goal weight of 75kg just after Christmas, rather to my surprise. I plan to maintain for a while at 75 kg, and then perhaps adjust my maintenance weight down to 72 kg (+/- 2.5 kg).

    Successes/struggles: I need to start exercising again; I have not done anything since Christmas Eve except some long walks. It will be easier once we take the Christmas tree and decorations down and I have my inside exercise space back! I have also not been tracking my food for the last couple of weeks, but just trying to eat sensibly, watch portion sizes and not over-indulge in Christmas chocolates. That seems to have worked as my weight has stayed pretty stable over the holiday period.
  • figurethefat
    figurethefat Posts: 1,358 Member
    Age: 64
    Height: 159cm
    Total weight lost: 12kg
    Time it took to lose: Started April 2020
    How long in maintenance: August 2020
    Maintenance weight range: 55-56kg
    Average weight recorded for July: 57.7kg
    Average weight recorded for August: 56.9kg
    Average weight recorded for September: 56.8kg
    Average weight recorded for October: 56.5kg
    Average weight recorded for November: 56.7kg
    Average weight recorded for December: 56.9kg

    Weigh-in day for me is Friday

    Week of:
    January 1 - 57.6kg
    January 8 - 56.0kg
    January 15 -
    January 22 -
    January 29 -

    Struggle/Success: Getting through the holidays was a big relief. I am maintaining but I do want to push down to the 54-55kg range rather than 56-57 and what better time than the New Year. With regards to yoga I've got two sets to chose from - one longer, one shorter so there's no "excuse." If I can't fit in the longer routine which is best, I can just opt for the shorter and still feel like I've knocked it off.
  • missperfectpitch
    missperfectpitch Posts: 576 Member
    Name: missperfectpitch
    Height: 5'4"
    Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
    How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
    Maintenance weight range: 108-112.5

    Average weight recorded for 2018: 109.8
    Average weight recorded for 2019: 111.2
    Average weight recorded for 2020: 111.6

    Average weight recorded for June 2020: 112.3
    Average weight recorded for July 2020: 112.7
    Average weight recorded for August 2020: 112.9
    Average weight recorded for September 2020: 112.4
    Average weight recorded for October 2020: 111.7
    Average weight recorded for November 2020: 111.5
    Average weight recorded for December 2020: 112.1

    Week of..
    January 2: 111.5 (trending weight 111.8)
    January 9: 112 (trending weight 111.9)
    January 16:
    January 23:
    January 30:

    Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Nothing much to report for this week. I was on track for my steps goals and calorie goals, and got in a good hike one day.
  • kristen8000
    kristen8000 Posts: 747 Member
    edited January 2021
    Hi! My name is Kristen. And I struggle to maintain my weight. I had an amazing 2020, weight maintenance wise, and I'm hoping to keep up with it in 2021.

    Age: 42
    Sex: Female
    Height: 5'11"
    Total weight lost: 20 pounds
    Time it took to lose: 2 months
    How long in maintenance: 1 year and 3 months!
    Starting Weight: 164.8 (September 3rd, 2019)
    Goal Weight: 150 (Hit November 8th, 2019)
    Maintenance weight range: 147 - 153

    Average weight recorded for September: 160.1
    Average weight recorded for October: 154.0
    Average weight recorded for November: 149.2
    Average weight recorded for December: 146.4
    Average weight recorded for January: 145.4
    Average weight recorded for February: 143.4
    Average weight recorded for March:
    142.5
    Average weight recorded for April: 143.5
    Average weight recorded for May: 145.7
    Average weight recorded for June: 146.3
    Average weight recorded for July: 148.3
    Average weight recorded for August: 147.5
    Average weight recorded for September: 147.5
    Average weight recorded for October: 145.3
    Average weight recorded for November:147.1
    Average weight recorded for December: 149.2
    Average weight recorded for 2020: 146 😁

    Week of...
    January 3rd: 151.2 (Trend: 150.5)
    January 10th: 148.6 (Trend: 149.3)

    Successes/Struggles: Got control of my snacking this week, even with a non-tracking day and saw a much nicer weight on the scale this morning.

    Hope everyone has a great week!

  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 4,951 Member
    Name: Kathryn
    Age: 52
    Height: 5'4"
    Total Weight lost: ~80 lbs
    Time it took to lose: 2 years 3 months
    How long in maintenance: I called maintenance in July 2016, but I continued to slowly lose until December of 2017. I have been in maintenance since December 2017
    Maintenance weight range: 113 - 118 lbs

    Average weight recorded from 2018: 118.8
    Average weight recorded from 2019: 115.2
    Average weight recorded from 2020: 113.6


    Average weight recorded from September: 113.3
    Average weight recorded from October:113.4
    Average weight recorded from November:  114.1
    Average weight recorded from December: 114.0

    Week of...


    January 3: 113.2 scale/ 114.4 trend
    January 10: 114.0 scale/ 114.4 trend
    January 17:
    January 24:
    January 31:


    Success/Struggles: My weight is still up a bit, but on the lower end of my range.  It is a little hard to see a higher number,  but I think that I am at a really good weight so I am good with it at 114.