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30 pounds to lose challenge by March 2021
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I'll weight in on Wednesdays. I am going to set ambitious goals after reading@frankwbrown's inspirational quotes. Since it's a 30 lbs challenge, I will make that my goal.
Good luck to everyone else on reaching your goals.
Dec 30th 211.0 lbs
Jan 6nd 211.6 lbs - I've had a enough NSVs this week not to worry about this "gain"
Jan 13th
Jan 20th
Jan 27rd
Jan Goal : 200
Feb 3rd
Feb 10th
Feb 17th
Feb 24th
Feb Goal: 190
Mar 3rd
Mar 10th
Mar 17th
Mar 24th
Mar 31st
Mar Goal: 180
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I'm really happy with the progress I've made this week! I feel like I'm finally back on track. Sticking to my daily calorie limit each day has made an enormous difference. I've also been increasing my protein, vegetable, and fruit intake which has been helping to keep me full throughout the day. This also limits my snacking. Replacing dessert with a bowl of fruit after dinner as well as daily walks are some of the healthy changes I've made so far and I feel much better for them. Hoping to keep up the progress throughout the rest of the challenge!
Challenge starting weight - 177.5
End of December goal – 172
Dec 1 – 177.5
Dec 7 – 176.2
Dec 14 – 174
Dec 21 – 174
Dec 28 – 172.8
Dec 31 – 173
Distance from goal - +1
January 7 - 171.6
End of January goal - 1686 -
I'm proud of myself!! I had logged all of my food for the day and had a tough spell sometime after. Someone's ignorant comment about a subject close to my heart...a painful subject...triggered my anger hot button and for a brief period after the intensity of my anger had subsided I wanted to eat something...I find when I am intensely feeling something, I do not want food, but when it subsides I want to turn to the fridge...AND a large percentage of the time I do. This time I consciously fought it...I even prayed for help to not give in to my feelings. Food is not the answer unless I am physically hungry. I was really angry and I had a right to be...my anger was ok, I didn't need to stuff it down...I just needed to acknowledge it...now I can let it go.9
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lorrainequiche59 wrote: »I'm proud of myself!! I had logged all of my food for the day and had a tough spell sometime after. Someone's ignorant comment about a subject close to my heart...a painful subject...triggered my anger hot button and for a brief period after the intensity of my anger had subsided I wanted to eat something...I find when I am intensely feeling something, I do not want food, but when it subsides I want to turn to the fridge...AND a large percentage of the time I do. This time I consciously fought it...I even prayed for help to not give in to my feelings. Food is not the answer unless I am physically hungry. I was really angry and I had a right to be...my anger was ok, I didn't need to stuff it down...I just needed to acknowledge it...now I can let it go.
We can definitely get an urge to eat for purely emotional reasons. Being aware of that, I think, is half the battle.
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Emotional eating is my biggest struggle!!7
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@lorrainequiche59 Great for you to push through and realize food was not the answer! You are doing great and should be proud of yourself. I hope the comment was merely ignorant and not intentionally mean. We do not need that on this thread. We should be here to lift each other up. Our health and well being is the priority.5
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PW 181
CW 178
NSV I realized how much my mother affects me and now I am more aware of the trigger and it won't be as much of a struggle!! Getting it out is helping!! Now focus on me and just let it gooooooooooooooo5 -
Count me in! I’d love to join. I NEED TO JOIN. I need some serious Accountability. I’d like to lose exactly 18.4 pounds from what I weighed on yesterday. Because "Life Happens" more often than not for me, I am hoping to reach my goal by the end of June. I will post weekly on Fridays. Best of luck to All of us!
Dec 7th 18.4 (Weight Loss Goal)
Dec 11th -3.4 (Total -3.4) 15.0 To Go
Dec 18th -1.4 (Total- 4.8) 13.6 To Go
Dec 25th Merry Christmas
Jan 1st Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary (Wedding) to me
Jan 8th +4.8 (Total 0.0) 18.4 To Go (Earned, Owning and Pressing On!)
All week, I have thought about posting this gain. This is normally when I would just leave the group. Not this time...
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lorrainequiche59 wrote: »I'm proud of myself!! I had logged all of my food for the day and had a tough spell sometime after. Someone's ignorant comment about a subject close to my heart...a painful subject...triggered my anger hot button and for a brief period after the intensity of my anger had subsided I wanted to eat something...I find when I am intensely feeling something, I do not want food, but when it subsides I want to turn to the fridge...AND a large percentage of the time I do. This time I consciously fought it...I even prayed for help to not give in to my feelings. Food is not the answer unless I am physically hungry. I was really angry and I had a right to be...my anger was ok, I didn't need to stuff it down...I just needed to acknowledge it...now I can let it go.
Good for you!!! Progress is being made!!!
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Week 1
SW 192.2
CW 188.4
BF% 38.9
MM 64.6
Thanks for the accountability!! Hope everyone have a great weekend! The weekend is typically when I fall off the wagon. So I have to stay strong LOL
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@mochasmommie7193
"If you stumble, make it part of the dance."
What a great saying! Stick with it and you will get there.
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THIS CHALLENGE: lose 30 pounds by end of March (starting in December)
Nov 30 : 287.9 (starting weight)
Dec 04 : 283.5 : weekly loss = 4.4, total loss = 4.4
Dec 11 : 284.6 : weekly loss = -1.1, total loss = 3.3
Dec 18 : 283.8 : weekly loss = 0.8, total loss = 4.1
Dec 25 : 286.0 : weekly loss = -2.2, total loss = 1.9
Jan 01 : 281.6 : weekly loss = 4.4, total loss = 6.3
Jan 08 : 279.1 : weekly loss = 2.5, total loss = 8.8
End of March Goal: <258
Christmas (really nearly all of December) was a bit of a bust! Back to it now, though.9 -
@lorrainequiche59 Great for you to push through and realize food was not the answer! You are doing great and should be proud of yourself. I hope the comment was merely ignorant and not intentionally mean. We do not need that on this thread. We should be here to lift each other up. Our health and well being is the priority.
Just to clarify the comment did not come from anyone here, and it was just from ignorance. Still it triggered me due to the sensitive subject matter and when people ridicule what causes others so much pain it sends me into a bit of a tailspin until I process all that. It was a different group & it was disappointing to me that people can be so insensitive.5 -
Thank you for everyone's kind comments around my emotional eating issue
I truly appreciate the support. frankwbrown wrote: »@mochasmommie7193
"If you stumble, make it part of the dance."
What a great saying! Stick with it and you will get there.
@mochasmommie I second this comment. Woohoo...Progress not perfection!!
BTW 3 lbs down. That is from my original weigh-in at the start of this group a few weeks ago, so I figure this is actual fat and not just water....I had a couple of rocky weeks but enough of some solid healthy eating days to have a loss and I'll take it
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Switching my check-in to Friday, so ..
Start 165 lbs
Present 158.8 lbs
Goal 140 lbs
Total loss 6.2 lbs
Slow and steady loss. Hoping for low 150’s at month end.
Be well everyone!6 -
So, week 1 was GREAT! Lost almost 4 lbs. in 5 days. Mind you I was on vacation and had plenty of time to exercise. Then the weekend came and I new I was in trouble. Drank too much wine on Saturday and on Sunday my family had reservations at a nice restaurant with a multi-course meal and 3 bottles of wine. Monday I weighed myself and right back to 244.
Got right back to work and I consider today's weigh-in a victory. Still down 3.6 lbs in 2 weeks and I exercised for 384 minutes and burned 1615 calories. Now to control my weekends and make my goal.
Stay the course.
Dec 28 244
Jan 01 240.4
Jan 08 240.4
Jan 15
Jan 22
Jan 29
Feb 05
Feb 12
Feb 19
Feb 26
Mar 05
Mar 12
Mar 19
Mar 26
Mar 318 -
SW: 168 lbs
GW: 126 lbs
Start 1/1/21: 168 lbs
Sundays:
Jan 1: 76.2 kg /168 lbs
Jan 9: 74.3 kg / 163.80 lbs (weighed in today so not so much of a gap until next sunday)
Jan 17:
Jan 24:
Jan 31:
Feb 7:
Feb 14:
Feb 21:
Feb 28:
March 7:
March 14:
March 21:
March 28:6 -
Saturday Weigh in Day for Me!
HW 170
12-5 165
12-12 163.4
12-19 164
12-26 Did not weigh in
1-2 164.2
1-9 161.6 Total Weight Loss so far 8.4
I am pleased. Slow but steady.7 -
I am pleased. Slow but steady.
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" ~ Confucius ~
It takes time to incorporate new habits to replace the not-so-healthy habits. Consistency is one of my goals...just being consistent. I think that decades of "dieting" has resulted in a mindset for me of quick weight loss and then back to the same ol' unhealthy eating patterns that got me wanting to diet in the first place....AND what I have learned through all of that back & forth is this: DIETS DO NOT WORK!!!! What diets have done for me in the past is set me up to restrict and then binge and cycle over & over. Dieting and trying to reach some unrealistic ideal has also set me up for some significantly negative body image issues. I'm done with all of that.
There are no "good/bad" foods...there are only choices we can make as to which food we choose to eat and how much we choose to eat and then listen to our body as to how our choices affect us. We can also choose what we say to ourselves about our bodies exactly as they are right here, right now. What are the messages we send ourselves...are they loving, kind and accepting OR are they negative, critical and condemning? Food for thought!
Here's to another healthy eating day making choices that will help me feel good in my skin exactly as I am right here, right now!!
May we all work at loving ourselves a little bit more this day.
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I'm 37 years old, married, we have a 2 year old. My goal for this challenge is to lose 15-20 lbs. 2020 starting weight was 225. My ultimate goal weight is 135-140 I'll plan for Saturday weigh ins.
Good luck to everyone on reaching your goals.
Dec 5th 183.0
Dec 12th 182.2
Dec 19th 181.2
Dec 26th 181.4
Jan 2nd 180.8
Jan 9th 180.0
Jan 16th
Jan 23rd
Jan 30th
Feb 6th
Feb 13th
Feb 20th
Feb 27th
Mar 6th
Mar 13th
Mar 20th
Mar 27th
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I hiked 9 miles yesterday. Still struggling to get out of the 180's...
SW: Jul 7th 226
Nov 30th 188
Dec 7th 186.2
Dec 12th 184
Dec 19th 182
Dec 26th 183.6
Jan 2th 183.2
Jan 9th 182.6
Jan 16th
Jan 23rd
Jan 30th
GW: 150
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Stay strong today y'all!!! Log it! Eat mindfully and drink the damn water!!!! 🦾🦾🦾6
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Gosh guys.... I don’t even remember the last time I checked in.
I was 172.6 on New Year’s Day.
Goal weight is 155
Today’s weight 168.4
13.4 pounds till top of maintenance zone!13 -
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echojuliet21
Sundays
Jan 3 265
Jan 10 262
Jan 17
Jan 24
Jan 31
Feb 7
Feb 14
Feb 21
Feb 28
Mar 7
Mar 14
Mar 21
Mar 28
Mar 31
Mar Goal: 2327 -
“Instead of indulging in ‘comfort food,’ indulge in comfort meditation, comfort journaling, comfort walking, comfort talking, comfort manicures, comfort reading, comfort yoga, comfort hugging.”– Karen Salmansohn
I don’t know about y’all but I lean toward snacking for comfort and need to replace this habit with alternatives. I do find meditation helps.
What do you use to replace comfort eating?3 -
Coloring, playing games on my phone, taking a walk, calling a friend, writing in my journal!! Anything I can!! I am an emotional eater bored eater and a foodie!! Struggle is real!!6
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Checking in:
It is always hard once a train jumps the rails to get it back on track. Therefore I was so happy to see a 2.3 lbs weight loss this week. Looking forward to working back to where I was 2 weeks ago and continuing on to my challenge goal.
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Ten days into January is when a lot of resolutions go out the window. Hang in there, Friends! We are doing this for our health! The past week has made anyone that resolved not to drink, smoke, overeat, etc., truly difficult. If you've overindulged, just get back in the saddle. Tomorrow is a new day.8
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“Instead of indulging in ‘comfort food,’ indulge in comfort meditation, comfort journaling, comfort walking, comfort talking, comfort manicures, comfort reading, comfort yoga, comfort hugging.”– Karen Salmansohn
I don’t know about y’all but I lean toward snacking for comfort and need to replace this habit with alternatives. I do find meditation helps.
What do you use to replace comfort eating?
I am able to resist comfort eating for the most part by reminding myself where I'm at and where I want to be. Continually focusing on my goal really helps me resist most urges. I tell myself I'm not giving up __________--e.g. Haagen Dazs ice cream, Pepperidge Farms cookies, Ferrero Rocher, Mr. T's Donuts (best local donut shop), etc.--forever. But when my craving exceeds my resolve, I win by having a very small taste of whatever. For example, I will take a teaspoon and give myself 3 "scoops" of Haagen Dazs, but each scoop is at most a level teaspoon, and I savor each one. That seems to squelch the craving (at least for a day or two ). 5
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