🍁🍂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
November 20: 192.5

It’s funny, I got in a rhythm doing this without it sinking in my waist was getting smaller. Until yesterday when I slipped on a pair of jeans and they no longer felt tight. It’s not as though I’ve lost a ton of weight but most of my excess is packed right in the middle.

How will we handle Thanksgiving? Should I just allow myself to enjoy and gain some or stay with the program? I haven’t decided.

Highest Weight: 293 (01/28/2021)

November 1 - 197.4
November 2 - 198.4 (It was a special occasion yesterday so I ate around maintenance calories! Had a great day.)
November 3 - 198.6 (Another birthday dinner last night but calories were where I planned them.)
November 4 - 197.2 (Food was really on point yesterday. Feeling good working my way further from the 200's.)
November 5 - 196.6 (Chinese food birthday supper for a friend last night but I got good exercise in and planned around it.)
November 6 - 197.2 (Burger and chips dinner with Mom last night that I planned for. Today is the last day of birthday celebration events.)
November 7 - 196.4 (Last birthday celebration last night - my friend is an amazing cook but it's always healthy too. There was homemade amaretto cheesecake for dessert so I planned ahead to have the room.)
November 8 - 198.8 (Food was good yesterday and my exercise was the most it's been all month. Time of the month started.)
November 9 - 198.6 (Donated blood yesterday and had a great food day. Lots of exercise already today so hoping to see the scale down even more tomorrow.)
November 10 - 199.2 (Odd week on the scale this week. I did eat a big salty snack before bed even though it was within my calorie range. Trend weight is still down for the week and no days spiked back into the 200s so still feeling great.)
November 11 - 197.4 (There we go, body finally released that! Things have been busy but my husband and I continue to stay on track. Looking forward to making some progress for the rest of the month.)
November 12 - 196.6 (I got lots of exercise yesterday and had a good day of eating. My husband and I got a massage as well.)
November 13 - 195 (Got my steps and exercised too, ate well. Happy the weekend is here!)
November 14 - 192.2 (And with that I have officially surpassed the 100 pounds lost mark! Huge flushing of weight that I was holding onto last week.)
November 15 - 192.8 (Our hiking plans didn't go ahead yesterday but we found other ways to be active. Busy day today so I'm posting late, sometimes the days just get away from me!)
November 16 - 193.6 (Holy wind Batman! It's hard to get out for steps today with how windy it is, but I'm about half way to goal already. Yesterday we had our volunteer commitment at night and tonight I am sewing with a friend so I'm fitting my exercise in around those other things.)
November 17 - 193.4 (Had a fun night sewing after work, rode the Peloton before bed.)
November 18 - 192.4 (Finished my Christmas placemat sewing project last night - two very late nights. Back to regularly scheduled evening programming here although my husband is coming home from a business trip so he may be late and that may keep me up again.)
November 19 - 192.4 (Found I did a lot of exercise yesterday and enjoyed it. It's just natural now. My husband did bring bakery treats home to try so I made the extra effort to move in order to partake.)
November 20 - 194.2 (Planned day of eating just below maintenance for my mom's birthday. Did my Peloton FTP test for the first time too. Can't wait to track my fitness progression!)
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Current Weight: 194.2

November Weight lost so far: 3.2

F41, 5'4
Heaviest: 180.8 (5th July '21)
December GW: 142.8lbs
UGW: 130

🦔 tiny hedgehog = loss 0.2
🐿 cheeky squirrel = no change
🦉 grumpy owl = gain 0.2

10/30 - 147.0
10/31 - 147.2
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NOVEMBER
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11/01 - 146.8 🦔🦔 Let's go!
11/02 - 146.0 🦔🦔🦔🦔 Nice!
11/03 - 146.0 🐿 Squirrel! 👀
11/04 - 145.0 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 What?!
11/05 - 145.0 🐿 Squirrel! 👀
11/06 - 145.2 🦉 Not too bad
11/07 - 146.6 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉NooO!
11/08 - 146.6 🐿 darn.
11/09 - 145.8 🦔🦔🦔🦔 Phew!
11/10 - 145.2 🦔🦔🦔 Good stuff
11/11 - 147.0 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉oh dear
11/12 - 148.6 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉Ridiculous!
11/13 - 147.2 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 c'mon hogs!
11/14 - 146.2 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 ok...
11/15 - 145.0 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 Relief!!
11/16 - 145.2 🦉 smh.
11/17 - 146.2 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 Grrrr.
11/18 - 143.6 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 Whoa!
11/19 - 143.8 🦉 I'll take it!
11/20 - 142.8 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 Holy moley!
11/21- 142.4 🦔🦔 Yay!
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(🦔=56)-(🦉=32)=4.8lbs lost

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: 202

November weight lost: 3lbs 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. #meltdownNov

November 21: 202 it could have been worse and it could have been better, I did not put a lot of pressure on myself based on the way things have been going. Something that I noticed, I ate dinner despite wanting to gag. Why did I do that? It was just a salad at home, a couple of dollars in the trash rather than in my stomach. I need to stop making myself eat because it is time. While saying that I do believe in eating before hangry when blood sugar is low and poor decisions are made. It is Thanksgiving week. A challenging week for many who are concerned with health. I am planning to have some of my childhood favorites and not having others traditional dishes that I don't really care about - green bean casserole and sweet potatoes are 2 that leap to mind. Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, strawberry jello salad, these are my favorites. Part of my failure last week was lack of planning and prepping. I will do better this week.

Highest Weight: 293 (01/28/2021)

November 1 - 197.4
November 2 - 198.4 (It was a special occasion yesterday so I ate around maintenance calories! Had a great day.)
November 3 - 198.6 (Another birthday dinner last night but calories were where I planned them.)
November 4 - 197.2 (Food was really on point yesterday. Feeling good working my way further from the 200's.)
November 5 - 196.6 (Chinese food birthday supper for a friend last night but I got good exercise in and planned around it.)
November 6 - 197.2 (Burger and chips dinner with Mom last night that I planned for. Today is the last day of birthday celebration events.)
November 7 - 196.4 (Last birthday celebration last night - my friend is an amazing cook but it's always healthy too. There was homemade amaretto cheesecake for dessert so I planned ahead to have the room.)
November 8 - 198.8 (Food was good yesterday and my exercise was the most it's been all month. Time of the month started.)
November 9 - 198.6 (Donated blood yesterday and had a great food day. Lots of exercise already today so hoping to see the scale down even more tomorrow.)
November 10 - 199.2 (Odd week on the scale this week. I did eat a big salty snack before bed even though it was within my calorie range. Trend weight is still down for the week and no days spiked back into the 200s so still feeling great.)
November 11 - 197.4 (There we go, body finally released that! Things have been busy but my husband and I continue to stay on track. Looking forward to making some progress for the rest of the month.)
November 12 - 196.6 (I got lots of exercise yesterday and had a good day of eating. My husband and I got a massage as well.)
November 13 - 195 (Got my steps and exercised too, ate well. Happy the weekend is here!)
November 14 - 192.2 (And with that I have officially surpassed the 100 pounds lost mark! Huge flushing of weight that I was holding onto last week.)
November 15 - 192.8 (Our hiking plans didn't go ahead yesterday but we found other ways to be active. Busy day today so I'm posting late, sometimes the days just get away from me!)
November 16 - 193.6 (Holy wind Batman! It's hard to get out for steps today with how windy it is, but I'm about half way to goal already. Yesterday we had our volunteer commitment at night and tonight I am sewing with a friend so I'm fitting my exercise in around those other things.)
November 17 - 193.4 (Had a fun night sewing after work, rode the Peloton before bed.)
November 18 - 192.4 (Finished my Christmas placemat sewing project last night - two very late nights. Back to regularly scheduled evening programming here although my husband is coming home from a business trip so he may be late and that may keep me up again.)
November 19 - 192.4 (Found I did a lot of exercise yesterday and enjoyed it. It's just natural now. My husband did bring bakery treats home to try so I made the extra effort to move in order to partake.)
November 20 - 194.2 (Planned day of eating just below maintenance for my mom's birthday. Did my Peloton FTP test for the first time too. Can't wait to track my fitness progression!)
November 21 - 194.4 (Had a mini road trip yesterday, ate two bigger meals instead of my normal 3+. Did exercise in many forms. Going hiking today!)
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Current Weight: 194.4

November Weight lost so far: 3

Current weight : 150.8
November weight loss so far: 3

November 3: 150.8 🤦‍♀️
November 4: 150.2 ⬇️
November 5: 149.8 ⬇️ 1️⃣👏
November 6: 149.6 ⬇️
November 7: 149.4 ⬇️
November 8, 149.0 ⬇️
November 9: 148.8 ⬇️ 2️⃣👏
November 10: 148.8
November 11: 148.8 🐢
November 12: 148.6 ⬇️
November 13: 148.2 ⬇️
November 14: 148.4 ⬆️🤷‍♀️
November 15: 148.2 ⬇️
November 16: 147.8 ⬇️3️⃣👏
November 17: 147.8
November 18: 147.8 🐢🤷‍♀️
November 19: 147.4 ⬇️😊
November 20: 147.4
November 21: 147.8 ⬆️🤦‍♀️

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

Current Weight: 162.6

November Weight lost so far: 1.2



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

November 21 161.1 Had a very sociable day yesterday which was lovely. I ate over my calories but not drastically (3-400 cals), stopping myself where I could see I would lose control and feel regret. This is a huge achievement for me. I’m really going to focus on this over the next 6 weeks - eat at a deficit on normal days, eat more for social events, with the aim of hitting January having maintained my weight. Then I can push on down again.

November 22: 161.4

Highest Weight: 98 kg / 216.1 lbs on 30th of August 2021
SW November: 92 kg / 202.8 lbs
GW November: 86 kg / 189.6 lbs

November Weight lost so far:

November 1 92 kg / 202.8 lbs
November 2 90.1 / 198.6 lbs
November 3 89.1 kg / 196.4 lbs
November 4 88.4 kg / 194.9 lbs
November 5 89.0 kg / 196.2 lbs
November 6 89.7 kg / 197.8 lbs
November 7 90.8 kg / 200.2 lbs
November 8 90.2 kg / 198.9 lbs
November 9 90.2 kg / 198.9 lbs
November 10 90.0 kg / 198.4 lbs
November 11 90.5 kg / 199.5 lbs
November 12 89.9 kg / 198.2 lbs
November 13 90.0 kg / 198.4 lbs
November 14 90.6 kg / 199.6 lbs
November 15 88.7 kg / 195.6 lbs
November 16 88.3 kg / 194.7 lbs
November 17 87.9 kg / 193.8 lbs
November 18 87.8 kg / 193.6 lbs
November 19 87.6 kg / 193.1 lbs
November 20 88.2 kg / 194.5 lbs / had lots of donuts and wine during the weekend, so no surprise in this sudden massive increase.
November 21 88.7 kg / 195.6 lbs
November 22 87.0 kg / 191.8 lbs / well I guess the water weight is gone?
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5'2" 55 years old

Highest Weight: 182
Current Weight: 150.0

November 1 150.0
November 2 150.2 Not sure what's up. Second day in a row my weight hasn't changed.
November 3 149.6 Finally, a drop!!:)
November 4 149.2
November 5 149.2 Went out for dinner last night. Tried to eat well but I'm sure I had too much sodium. Today is my sons birthday, so there will be chocolate cake in the house...yikes!!
November 6 149.2
November 7 149.2 I've been feeling achy and tired from the covid booster I got a couple days ago. Eating well, but I think the vaccine side effects may be playing a part in the weight stall.
November 8 148.8
November 9 148.6
November 10 149.2 Yesterday was my birthday so we went out for dinner.
November 11 149.0
November 12 148.6
November 13 147.4 I'll take that! Had a slow start this month with birthday dinners and illness.
November 14 147.0
November 15 146.4
November 16 147.0
November 17 146.8
November 18 146.2
November 19 146.0 Woke up sick this morning. Boy I hope I can kick it fast because I'm cooking Thanksgiving dinner for our family.
November 20 146.2
November 21 146.0 Still sick.
November 22 146.0 Weight is not dropping despite good macros and calories. I'm not too worried about it right now because I'm still pretty sick and taking ibuprofen and cold medicine (and both can cause fluid retention). I'm happy with the 4 lbs I've lost so far this month. I also plan to enjoy turkey dinner with my family on Thursday, but I'll try to limit my food intake ..lol!
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November 1: 174.4
November 2: 174.4
November 3: 172.0
November 5: Didn't weigh, but did hit 30 minutes spinning! Previous high was 21 minutes.
November 6: 171.2
November 7: 169.8 - 20 minutes spinning, and 10 minute lower body that nearly killed me. Body is not used to this!
November 8: 169 - So far, I've been under my calorie budget every day. 10 minute core workout.
November 9: Didn't weigh.
November 12: Didn't weigh. Over calorie budget by 300.
November 14: 168.4
November 15: 169.6
November 17: 169.6
November 18: 169.8
November 19: 170.0 - I am frustrated. Since October 13th, there has been exactly ONE day (one week ago) that I went over my calorie budget of 1280 (and most days I'm between 1180-1230). I weigh to the gram and log EVERYTHING.
November 20: 169.6
November 21: 168.6
November 22: Didn't weigh