100 DAYS OF WEIGHTING IN #10

Female, Age 61, 5’3”
Challenge Starting Weight: 207 (10/21)
Challenge Goal: <195

History & Goals

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in day out.
Ultimate Lifetime Goal: Weigh Less Each Year Than the Last
2019 SW: 245 BMI 43.4 (1/2/2019) Lost 15 lbs in 2019 then regained 5
2020 SW: 235 BMI 41.6 (1/1/2020) Then back up to 241 before refocusing in Aug
2021 SW: 212 BMI 37.6 (1/1/2021)
UGW: 165 BMI 29.2 Overweight NOT Obese
🎯 Mini Goals & Weight:
* 50 lbs lost never to be found: 195
* Obese stage 1 BMI 34.9: 197
* Onederland: 199

Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150's

My goal for 2021 is to get into ONEderland and make it stick. Changing my life.
Plans:
🔹Find workout routine that works (walk, bike, planks, yoga, swim, strength training, take advantage of retirement to be more active); target walking 100 miles each month
🔹Drink more water (target min 64-80 oz daily; start with 1 glass before coffee)
🔹Journal Food Daily (tracking with MFP since 12/28/2018; basically skipped June-Dec 2019; recommit 1/1/2020; skipped out April-July 2020; recommit 8/6/2020)
🔹Daily Vitamins (Dr’s orders; need to not ignore)
🔹Drink less alcohol (3 AF days per week; ~12-16 AF days per month; limit 1-2 glasses per day)

Day 1: Fri, 10/22: 206.8 Walked 1 mile, Strength Training 1 hr, 2105 cal, 102 net carbs, 2 glasses wine.
Day 2: Sat, 10/23 206.1 Walked 3.2 miles, gardening, 1894 cal, 74 net carbs, 2 glasses wine.
1st Week Goal Weight: Happy to lose any of this darn ~4 lb gain from 16 day road trip vacation in October!
1st Week Actual Weight: 206.1

Day 3: Sun, 10/24: 206.8 Walked 3 miles, 1784 cal, 83 net carbs, 3 glasses wine.
Day 4: Mon, 10/25: 205.9 Walked 4 miles, Bike 20 min, 1808 cal, 110 net carbs, AF.
Day 5: Tues, 10/26: 207.0 [/b] Walked 4.75 miles, 2190 cal, 129 net carbs, Torchy’s Tini. Weight up due to snacks not meals. Went to Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo plus John Waite concert last night. They still have great voices! Really enjoyed John Waite’s opener as he sang a wide variety of songs.
Day 6: Wed, 10/27: 208.9 🎂 Too much celebrating this week. 61 Bday bring it on! Sounds like I’m going to have 2 grand babies … end of Dec 2021 and then mid June 2022. Walked 3.3 miles, Strength Training 1 hr (this class is wearing me out I’m useless after returning home for hours on end!), 2282 cal, 249 net carbs, 2 glasses wine. Our dog ate the steak and then Plan B: Pizza did me in on carbs & calories! GO ASTROS!
Day 7: Thurs, 10/28: 207.8 Walked 3.1 miles, ? cal, ? net carbs, AF. Decided to take a little break and not track but choose wisely. That worked right up until the Dove dark chocolate raspberry sorbet bar at 10pm.
Day 8: Fri, 10/29: 208.5 @ fishing camp 🎣 Strength Training 1 hr, no walk, long car drive, 2037 cal, 226 net carbs, AF.
Day 9: Sat: 10/30: 207.9 @ fishing camp 🎣 Walked 2.6 miles, fishing, 1224 cal, 112 net carbs, AF.
Oct Total 80.1 miles

2nd Week Goal Weight: <205
2ndWeek Actual Weight: 207.9

Day 10: Sun: 10/31: 209.0 @ fishing camp 🎣 Walked 3.6 miles, fishing caught 21” Speckled Trout, 1653 cal, 124 net carbs, 3 drinks. Way too many chips (even counting them) with fried fresh fish tacos w/ avocado. Driving home today to spend the evening with our adult kids eating traditional chili and handing out full size (not fun size) M&Ms candy while we sit out on the driveway. Taking my mom with us for a long visit.
Day 11: Mon: 11/1: 209.6 Long drive, .5 mile walk, bad food choices, ? cal, ? net carbs, AF. Time to turn things around and get focused on getting back under 205.
Brought my mom back to visit for the baby shower at the end of the week as well as doctor’s visits she scheduled in Houston.
Day 12: Tues: 11/2: 207.9 Walked 3.2 miles, gardening, 1692 cal, 70 net carbs, 3 glasses wine. Bought and planted flowers yesterday in front of my house! Snapdragons, Pansies, Kale, Alyssum, and a few extra for the large pot next to the door. Great exercise weeding digging planting ... not to mention lugging big bags of mulch.
Day 13: Wed: 11/3: 207.7 Walked .6 miles, Strength Training 1 hr, 1848 cal, 171 net carbs, AF. Lots of shopping & mom’s doctors visits. But did cook chicken enchilada soup (added zucchini) in crock pot so we had a healthier dinner when we returned home!
https://www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-chicken-enchilada-soup/
My mother self diagnosis and medicates usually. She has had neuropathy for 4 years but would not see someone about it. Took my mom to a doctor about her neuropathy in her feet & lower legs. Her doc has not done A1c lab work but this one thinks she might be pre-diabetic so she will get more lab work to check. He is switching her from over the internet TrueWell (150 mg alpha-lipoid acid) to EBM’s pharmaceutical grade EB-N6 (600 mg alpha-lipoid acid). Said she is not a candidate for his program to reverse with surgery. She is 85 (5’4” 175 lbs) and eats primarily carbs with few vegetables & protein. He recommended she start keto and then switch to Mediterranean diet. Read Sugar Crush and Fat for Fuel to better understand what she is doing to her body with all the carbs. We checked these books out from the library. She needs to walk, bike or swim at least 20 min 3x per week so I took her out for a short walk … she is active but doesn’t exercise. I also have her doing daily stretches and exercises for her sciatic nerve issue. It is hard to incorporate these changes in an 85 year old … but reinforces my path to healthier lifestyle and I need to get back focused on my own journey to lowering the number on the scale!
Day 14: Thurs: 11/4:
Day 15: Fri: 11/5:
Day 16: Sat: 11/6:
3rd Week Goal Weight: N/A <205
3rd Week Actual Weight: N/A

Day 6: Wed, 10/27: 90.3 kg/199.1 lbs
Day 7: Thurs, 10/28: 90.3 kg/199.1 lbs
Day 8: Fri, 10/29: 89.5 kg / 197.3 lbs
Day 9: Sat: 10/30: 89.9 kg / 198.2 lbs
2nd Week Goal Weight: 90 kg / 198.3 lbs
2ndWeek Actual Weight: 89.9 kg / 198.2 lbs

Day 10: Sun: 10/31: 90 kg / 198.4 lbs
Day 11: Mon: 11/1: 92 kg / 202.8 lbs
Day 12: Tues: 11/2: 90.1 kg / 198.6 lbs
Day 13: Wed: 11/3: 89.1 kg / 196.4 lbs / my birthday is tomorrow, so I am expecting this to be my lowest weight for the week. Hoping to manage to get quickly back on track
Day 14: Thurs: 11/4:
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3rd Week Goal Weight: 89 kg / 196.2 lbs
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Day 17: Sun: 11/7:
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Challenge Starting Weight: 90.3 kg / 199.1 lbs
Challenge Goal: 79 kg / 174.2 lbs
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dawnbgethealthy wrote: »

@deepwoodslady

I do the majority of my Fitness Marshall songs on my phone at work in between customers lol.

I will post some of the new songs soon. Like I said, they are very hard, but only 3 minutes each.

@dawnbgethealthy I love seeing the Fitness Marshall songs. Even if the steps are hard or I can't use the video. I can pull the music up on my Alexa or Phone and Free Hand the dancing, if nothing else. I also watch some of the moves that I can use in my Free Hand Dancing. I have a smart TV but just can't seem to get my internet or computer to cast to it so I could do youtube in my bedroom. One of the issues with living in the boonies!

100 Days of Weighing In ^^^^^ October 22, 2021 through January 29, 2022
My Name is Donna, Age 61. I am 5’5” tall & I live in Northern Michigan.


Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
250’s; 240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150’s


“We will encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~Maya Angelou

Starting Weight from End of Last Challenge October 21, 2021 : : 185.2
Day 01…..10/22…..DNW…..(Trend weight xxxxx) Surgery today. Not home to weigh. Travel home tomorrow.
Day 02…..10/23…..DNW…..(Trend weight 186.8)Traveling home today from Surgery. 4 hour drive and we will be making some stops if all goes well. I will resume tomorrow with a likely gain. As my body heals and the swelling goes down, the scale should adjust.
Day 03…..10/24…..188.2…..(Trend weight 186.9)Surgery was almost cancelled as my glucose was at 366 Fasting that morning. They pulled in a total of 5 anesthesiologists to confer. To give me an insulin shot (which I don’t normally take, just pills) would constitute the start of a “treatment plan”. Living 4 hours away and without having planned this, they did not want to start that as it would mean they would have to start following up with appointments etc. They finally got special permission if I was put into twilight but not to the point of sleeping. Lidocain was used to numb which did not work. I felt all 4 cuts and removal (which was actually pretty quick). But it hurt like Haides. Awake, I told them. They renumbed me for the stitches. I considered it all my own fault because they had to so lightly use everything for my surgery. I didn’t eat healthy on the way down and could probably have prepared better. I think I am already beginning to heal, it is itching like heck but still very swollen. I haven’t actually seen it yet as it’s not time to take off the bandages. I’ll closely monitor my healing over the next few days due to the high glucose problem which greatly affects healing. The stitches on the interior will dissolve by themselves. I’m feeling pretty good overall but just a bit wobbly. Now, we wait for pathology which I feel very good about since they had already removed a lot of it and it came up clear. Taking the rest out is a precaution and I feel like it will test okay too. Thanks again to all the wonderful wishes and comments. It’s nice to have the great support that MFP offers in every area.
Day 04…..10/25…..187.0…..(Trend weight 186.9)Feeling pretty good after surgery except when I look at the scale. Almost two pounds over starting weight, even with the overnight drop (Thank you TMI). I know now this is my real after surgery weight true weight. It’s time to put the work in.
Day 05…..10/26…..188.0…..(Trend weight 187.0)Good meals and great water. Even my rest was a little better. However, not a lot of movement and my steps were lower than usual during this healing process so I’m not surprised at the uptick. I will try to get in more steps today though I am still very wobbly. It’s not from medication. It’s just from the healing process itself. I’m not too steady on my feet yet but this is typical for me after surgery and during healing. No word from pathology yet.
Day 06…..10/27…..188.2…..(Trend weight 186.8) Weight up, trend down. I’ll take that as incentive to make the good choices I need to make. Still not much movement. Surgical site looks good but pain is worse. I hope that means that the healing has truly begun.

Day 07…..10/28…..189.2…..(Trend weight 187.2) It’s time for me to stop blaming everyone else (my daughter) and everything else (my surgery, my stress) and start taking responsibility. For the past 2 weeks things have really gotten out of control. Yes, many circumstances, but only I can change it. Time to do what is right for me!

Day 08…..10/29…..186.6…..(Trend weight 187.2) A nice drop after a day with very careful meals. However, the snacks weren’t good. Once on that cycle the cravings are horrid. All the more reason to stick to our guns and STAY AWAY from things not in the plan. Happy to see this dropin light of all that. TMI helped too. Travel today, unfortunately. Seriously low on tile for the bathroom reno so away I go this morning. Back this evening by 6:00 I hope. Lunch out. Dinner at home is the plan. I must choose carefully when looking at the menu!

Day 09…..10/30…..188.0…..(Trend weight 187.3) Travel and car-sitting weight showing up so no surprise here. I’m going to work on having an excellent day. Time for compensation. The piper wants his pay.

Day 10…..10/31…..188.2…..(Trend weight 187.2) This has been a horrid month. Renovations and surgery limited my ability to exercise. My diet has been less than desirable most days since my daughter and grandson moved back in. All excuses aside, I’ve got to change things in November or I will lose all my progress. Gain this month 2.0 lbs.

Weight Loss in October (partial month) ……………….. 3.0 lbs GAINED in 10 days!
Total Accumulated Weight Loss…..3.0 lb gain


Day 11…..11/01…..189.4…..(Trend weight 187.7) Dancing dangerously around the 190 mark. Gotta get my Fitness Marshall or my free form dancing with Alexa back on and start dancing back in the right direction. I ate all junk yesterday and I haven’t completed my logging since before surgery. DGS keeps my hands full at all times!

Day 12…..11/02…..189.0…..(Trend weight 187.8) I hate that it’s trending upward. Like the universe has no faith in my future! I’ll show them!
Day 13…..11/03…..189.0…..(Trend weight 187.9) Good News Folks. No sign of cancer in my breast skin tissue! Pathology reported today. Today is a double day of celebration. May daughter who moved back in is celebrating her 27th birthday today. There will be a special dinner, cake, ice cream and lots of fun and love. I will try to watch portion control but the menu will put me over the top of my goals. Tomorrow back on 100% track. Lots of snow last night. Everything covered in lasting white here. It’s very pretty but not very useful. I will have to get creative on movement again today.
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Total Accumulated Weight Loss…..xxxxx


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Halfway Progress Report: …..Pounds Lost so Far:

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Weight Loss in December ……………….. xxxxx
Total Accumulated Weight Loss…..xxxxx


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Weight Loss in January ……………….. xxxxx
Total Accumulated Weight Loss…..xxxxx

@deepwoodslady

SO SO happy for your good health report

@wizzybeth

Glad that you are joining us!!

@deepwoodslady

One of my TVs is a smart TV. I find that it is not very smart. Spinning blue wheel trying to do anything but watch TV.

I am able to cast to one of my TVs that has a blu-ray player plugged into it. Who knew? I had it for 6 months before I found out that it has YouTube right on it d'uh. It kind of turns that TV into a smart TV, when it is tuned to the port of the Blu-Ray player.

The phone shows a rectangle when it senses a device that it can cast to. Not sure if that helps.

I don't have Alexa, but I do have a Google Nest that I can ask things to. I pretty much only use it as a bluetooth speaker. The sound is good, but it must be plugged into power to work, which is inconvenient if I want to hear music while gardening in a place where there isn't an outlet.
If I ask it to play a song for me it will say "playing on youtube" since I guess youtube is a Google thing?

Lol, trying to keep up with the times.

@Ms_Mia_

deepwoodslady wrote: »

@wizzybeth Welcome. I'm so glad you are here!

Thank you!

Female, Age 61, 5’3”
Challenge Starting Weight: 207 (10/21)
Challenge Goal: <195

History & Goals

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in day out.
Ultimate Lifetime Goal: Weigh Less Each Year Than the Last
2019 SW: 245 BMI 43.4 (1/2/2019) Lost 15 lbs in 2019 then regained 5
2020 SW: 235 BMI 41.6 (1/1/2020) Then back up to 241 before refocusing in Aug
2021 SW: 212 BMI 37.6 (1/1/2021)
UGW: 165 BMI 29.2 Overweight NOT Obese
🎯 Mini Goals & Weight:
* 50 lbs lost never to be found: 195
* Obese stage 1 BMI 34.9: 197
* Onederland: 199

Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150's

My goal for 2021 is to get into ONEderland and make it stick. Changing my life.
Plans:
🔹Find workout routine that works (walk, bike, planks, yoga, swim, strength training, take advantage of retirement to be more active); target walking 100 miles each month
🔹Drink more water (target min 64-80 oz daily; start with 1 glass before coffee)
🔹Journal Food Daily (tracking with MFP since 12/28/2018; basically skipped June-Dec 2019; recommit 1/1/2020; skipped out April-July 2020; recommit 8/6/2020)
🔹Daily Vitamins (Dr’s orders; need to not ignore)
🔹Drink less alcohol (3 AF days per week; ~12-16 AF days per month; limit 1-2 glasses per day)

Day 1: Fri, 10/22: 206.8 Walked 1 mile, Strength Training 1 hr, 2105 cal, 102 net carbs, 2 glasses wine.
Day 2: Sat, 10/23 206.1 Walked 3.2 miles, gardening, 1894 cal, 74 net carbs, 2 glasses wine.
1st Week Goal Weight: Happy to lose any of this darn ~4 lb gain from 16 day road trip vacation in October!
1st Week Actual Weight: 206.1

Day 3: Sun, 10/24: 206.8 Walked 3 miles, 1784 cal, 83 net carbs, 3 glasses wine.
Day 4: Mon, 10/25: 205.9 Walked 4 miles, Bike 20 min, 1808 cal, 110 net carbs, AF.
Day 5: Tues, 10/26: 207.0 [/b] Walked 4.75 miles, 2190 cal, 129 net carbs, Torchy’s Tini. Weight up due to snacks not meals. Went to Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo plus John Waite concert last night. They still have great voices! Really enjoyed John Waite’s opener as he sang a wide variety of songs.
Day 6: Wed, 10/27: 208.9 🎂 Too much celebrating this week. 61 Bday bring it on! Sounds like I’m going to have 2 grand babies … end of Dec 2021 and then mid June 2022. Walked 3.3 miles, Strength Training 1 hr (this class is wearing me out I’m useless after returning home for hours on end!), 2282 cal, 249 net carbs, 2 glasses wine. Our dog ate the steak and then Plan B: Pizza did me in on carbs & calories! GO ASTROS!
Day 7: Thurs, 10/28: 207.8 Walked 3.1 miles, ? cal, ? net carbs, AF. Decided to take a little break and not track but choose wisely. That worked right up until the Dove dark chocolate raspberry sorbet bar at 10pm.
Day 8: Fri, 10/29: 208.5 @ fishing camp 🎣 Strength Training 1 hr, no walk, long car drive, 2037 cal, 226 net carbs, AF.
Day 9: Sat: 10/30: 207.9 @ fishing camp 🎣 Walked 2.6 miles, fishing, 1224 cal, 112 net carbs, AF.
Oct Total 80.1 miles

2nd Week Goal Weight: <205
2ndWeek Actual Weight: 207.9

Day 10: Sun: 10/31: 209.0 @ fishing camp 🎣 Walked 3.6 miles, fishing caught 21” Speckled Trout, 1653 cal, 124 net carbs, 3 drinks. Way too many chips (even counting them) with fried fresh fish tacos w/ avocado. Driving home today to spend the evening with our adult kids eating traditional chili and handing out full size (not fun size) M&Ms candy while we sit out on the driveway. Taking my mom with us for a long visit.
Day 11: Mon: 11/1: 209.6 Long drive, .5 mile walk, bad food choices, ? cal, ? net carbs, AF. Time to turn things around and get focused on getting back under 205.
Brought my mom back to visit for the baby shower at the end of the week as well as doctor’s visits she scheduled in Houston.
Day 12: Tues: 11/2: 207.9 Walked 3.2 miles, gardening, 1692 cal, 70 net carbs, 3 glasses wine. Bought and planted flowers yesterday in front of my house! Snapdragons, Pansies, Kale, Alyssum, and a few extra for the large pot next to the door. Great exercise weeding digging planting ... not to mention lugging big bags of mulch.
Day 13: Wed: 11/3: 207.7 Walked .6 miles, Strength Training 1 hr, 1848 cal, 171 net carbs, AF. Lots of shopping & mom’s doctors visits. But did cook chicken enchilada soup (added zucchini) in crock pot so we had a healthier dinner when we returned home!
https://www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-chicken-enchilada-soup/
My mother self diagnosis and medicates usually. She has had neuropathy for 4 years but would not see someone about it. Took my mom to a doctor about her neuropathy in her feet & lower legs. Her doc has not done A1c lab work but this one thinks she might be pre-diabetic so she will get more lab work to check. He is switching her from over the internet TrueWell (150 mg alpha-lipoid acid) to EBM’s pharmaceutical grade EB-N6 (600 mg alpha-lipoid acid). Said she is not a candidate for his program to reverse with surgery. She is 85 (5’4” 175 lbs) and eats primarily carbs with few vegetables & protein. He recommended she start keto and then switch to Mediterranean diet. Read Sugar Crush and Fat for Fuel to better understand what she is doing to her body with all the carbs. We checked these books out from the library. She needs to walk, bike or swim at least 20 min 3x per week so I took her out for a short walk … she is active but doesn’t exercise. I also have her doing daily stretches and exercises for her sciatic nerve issue. It is hard to incorporate these changes in an 85 year old … but reinforces my path to healthier lifestyle and I need to get back focused on my own journey to lowering the number on the scale!
Day 14: Thurs: 11/4: 207.5 Walked 3.8 miles, 1530 cal, 138 net carbs, 2 glasses wine. Baked pumpkin cookies and pear cake for the baby shower on Saturday at my house. Also cooked a very large pot of chicken sausage gumbo to prep for all the company coming in Friday evening. Kitchen sort of day which was good activity given all the rain in the afternoon/evening.
Day 15: Fri: 11/5:
Day 16: Sat: 11/6:
3rd Week Goal Weight: N/A <205
3rd Week Actual Weight: N/A