🍁🍂November Daily Log-in and Weigh-in Challenge🍂🍁

Original Weight: 206
11/1 Weight: 195
Goal Weight: 180

November 1: 195
November 2: 195.4
November 3: 195.4
November 4: 194.9
November 6: 194
November 8: 196.5
November 10: 196.1
November 11:196.1
November 12: 195.8
November 13: 195.3
November 14: 195.3
November 15: 194.4
November 16: 194.4
November 17: 193.7
November 18: 192.9
November 19: 192.9

It's interesting...I've met my caloric goals consistently all month and the progress is starting to show but the fluctuations are so inconsistent. It's a lesson to be patient, do what we know how to do and the results will come. They just won't always show up when we'd like them too, and they may cycle quite a bit.

Highest Weight: 202.7 (in may 21 but was probably 240-250lbs in my 20s)

Current Weight: 162.6

November Weight lost so far: 1.3



November 1 162.6

November 2 162.8

November 3 163.3 post-TOM bounce - find these hard to handle 😬

November 4 163.7 fingers crossed this is the peak now…

November 5 164.1 argh trying to hold my nerve - when I panic I end up restricting and binging. This happens every cycle but I find it so hard every time 😖

November 6 164.4 peak is slowing at least 😂

November 7 165.1

November 8 165.3 didn’t check in yesterday as had a family celebration- but had weighed at least. Keep checking back to last cycle to see that this ‘bump’ (which feels more like a mountain right now) is normal, and it totally is for me. I just can’t seem to get use to it and keep wanting to do something drastic. Holding my nerve….

November 9 165.4

November 10 165.3 phew! This is my trend weight - actual weight reading is down a full lb in the last couple of days so hopeful the trend will follow

november 11 164.8 yay!!

November12 164. Feeling much more settled now. Also noticing a big improvement in my flexibility today which has given me a real boost.

November 13 163. The trend is looking much better. Tough weekend ahead though - lots of socialising. I navigated a night out last night really well though (can under calories and just 2 G&Ts all night so no hangover - winning!)

November 14 162.8

November 15 162.8. It’s my 6 month anniversary of logging in today. Plus I managed to run up the hill to my house without stopping this morning (it’s very steep and long). I’ve had a great weekend with friends too so all in all a fab start to the week. Happy Monday folks ☺️

November 16 162.8

November 17 162.6 back where I started 😂

November 18 162

November 19 161.6

November 20 161.3

My name is Sam and I live in beautiful sunny South Australia
Age: 51 Height: 5ft 4in

Highest Weight: 85.7 kg ( 188.9 lbs ) - 17/10/21
November Start Weight: 84.3 kg ( 185.8 lbs )
Ultimate Goal Weight: 64 kg ( 141 lbs )

November Weight Lost So Far: 2.6 kg ( 5.7 lbs )

November 1 - 84.3kg
November 2 - 83.5kg
November 3 - 83.5kg
November 4 - 83.2kg
November 5 - 83.5kg
November 6 - 83.5kg
November 7 - 82.5kg
November 8 - 82.6kg
November 9 - 83kg
November 10 - 83kg
November 11 - 83.1kg
November 12 - 83.2kg
November 13 - 83 kg
November 14 - 82.8kg
November 15 - 82.4kg
November 16 - 82.3kg
November 17 - 81.8kg
November 18 - 81.4kg
November 19 - 81.7kg
Hmm, not too sure what happened here. Under calories all week but didn’t walk for the past two days. Need to shake it up a bit
11km power walk this morning - let the shaking begin

November 20 - 81.7kg
I think I am beginning to see a bit of a pattern. I have a big (ish) drop, come halfway back up, plateau and then drop again. Like acclimatising for a mountain hike but in reverse lol
11km walk done and dusted

I’m Marsha. I’m 54 years old, 5’9” tall and my first goal is to get under 200 pounds. My ultimate and hopefully maintainable goal is 175 pounds….

Highest weight: 298 - I've never admitted this anywhere, even my MFP profile shows a much lower weight

Starting Weight: 205 - I have gotten under 200 but haven't been able to maintain it.

Current weight: 201

November weight lost: 4lbs includes 3lbs of water - post cheat day


November Goals:

Lose 10 pounds - 3lbs water, 7lbs just under 2lbs per week a bit ambitious

Continue to Log Daily

Continue to Weigh-in daily

'Flash' everything in my news feed (not working because photos won't uploand to MFP 90% of the time) before I eat it for accountability, logging isn't having the same effect. Honestly I don't look at anyones food logs, who has that kind of time?!?

November 1: 205

November 2: 202 - the joy of water loss[/quote]

November 3: 201

November 4: 202 - water loss is over, the real work begins.

November 5: 201

November 6: 200 - Cheat Day!

November 7: 202 - back to working it

November 8: 201

November 9: 201

November 10: 200 - ready to kiss the 200's goodbye, for good!

November 11: 199 - Whoop! Whoop!

November 12: 199 - the dilemma, tomorrow is cheat day.Cheat day always results in a temporary weight gain, usually for a day or two. Cheat day has several reasons for being important to my weight loss. Knowing that I have an upcoming cheat day where I can eat whatever and how much I want makes it super easy to stick to the food plan the other 6 days. Also, spiking calories keeps my metabolic rate, thyroid and hormones from slowing down. Teetering on the border of 200's makes me want to put off cheat day. Damned if I do, damned if I don't. It is more important to keep metabolic, thyroid and hormones going for continued weight loss rather than focus on the number on the scale. Cheat day it is. lol

November 13: 199.0 Cheat day has arrived. Scale has been stable for 3 days. Time to shake things up.

November 14: 202, post cheat day gain which will be gone in a day or two. To gain 3lbs would require over 12,000 excess calories in one day. Even on my worst cheat days for me that is not a possible number. Also, subtract basic resting metabolism and the required calories for an actual fat gain are even higher. This is why not to get too excited at daily fluctuations. Carbs hold water. A change in food can cause delays in elimination that will show up on the scale but will resolve in a day or two. The scale is only 1 and not the only method of tracking weight.

November 15: 201 Cheat day water gain coming off slowly, partially due to muscles holding from exercise. I am sore! Don't get excited about flutations, the body has a lot to keep up with and sometimes needs to hold extra fluid.

November 16: 200 I always weigh daily to see the trends and how different foods affect my body. Knowing these effects keeps me from bring concerned when the scale doesn't read what I want it to

November 17: 200 late dinner then straight to bed showing on the scale today,not my plan. Feeling a big frustrated. Considering have a cheat meal rather than a cheat day Saturday especially with Thanksgiving coming up and that will definetly be a cheat day.

November 18: 200 struggling this week! Sweets are everywhere! Had 30g of protein within 30 minutes this morning hoping that it is true that will help satiety. I definetly feel full right now. I was really hopeful to reach goal. With 12 days left in the month it does not seem likely. I'll have a cheat meal on Saturdays this month and a cheat day on Thanksgiving and try to lose 2-3 lbs around that.

November 19: 200 don't know how to make it through this day

November 20: 201 how I made it through yesterday, eating. I would like to call it an unplanned cheat day but by definition cheat days are planned. This was eating to get me through an up at 4am emotional, physical, raw day preceeded by a hard week. My husband & I own a small business. We are in our busy season. There use to be 6 of us in the business. Now it is just the two of us. Customers want things that are not available. We are not delivering when clients want because let's face it if you keep calling asking about your order I cannot do the work. Some jobs can be done while on the phone these cannot. The machinery is too loud there is too much to pay attention to. Unavailable inventory makes it 4X longer to try to source items for orders that come from all over the country now. All the businesses we work with have labor shortage so if stock runs out we don't get a heads up, we find out when we are going to production. We are going through a sales tax audit and the property assessor came out and informed us that they are moving our accessible rate from 25% to 40% on the building. #meltdown

I see all these great weight loss stories in this thread, kudos to all that are getting it done in November. Admittedly I don’t have that much to lose but since I’ve dieted my entire life my metabolism is very slow. I either am starving to lose a pound or walking 10 miles a day. My steps have been low the past few days but I’m recommitting to try and lose these 8 lbs through fitness versus starvation methods so I can keep it off.


5’5” 52 years old. Highest weight 138 (this summer)
Back from Spain and on a mission to fit into my wardrobe (125). Goal = 4 lbs for November, lots of days I can’t weigh in but I’m going to track calories.

2.4 lbs so far kinda stuck !

11/9 - 135.5
11/10 - 134.8
11/11 - 134.8
11/12 - 134
11/13 - 134
11/14 - 134
11/15 - travel
11/16 - 133.1
11/17 - travel
11/18 - 133.1
11/19 - 133.1
11/20 - 133.1
11/21 -
11/22 -
11/23 -
11/24 - travel
11/25 - travel
11/26 - travel
11/27 - travel
11/28 - travel
11/29 -
11/30 -

Hi! I'm Kris!

November 1: 233
November 2: 232.4
November 3: 232.8
November 4: 232.8
November 5: ?
November 6: 234.4
November 7: 232.4
November 8: 233.2
November 9: 231.8
November 10: 232.0
November 11: 232.0
November 12: 231.6
November 13: 231.6
November 14: 231.0
November 15: 233.4
November 16: 230.4
November 17: 232.8
November 18: 231.4
November 19: 231.8
November 20: 231.0