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Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
Highest Weight (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs 🤯
Started MFP for the 3rd time Oct 27 2021
Oct 31 2021 Weight 258.6 lbs
Nov 30 2021 Weight 251.4 lbs
Dec 31 2021 Weight 242.4 lbs
1/14/22: 236.8 lbs
1/15/22: 237.2 lbs
1/16/22: 236.8 lbs
1/17/22: 236.8 lbs
Loss from 10/31/21 = 21.8 lbs
Loss from HW = 40 lbs 🥳😎
Obese Class I BMI (237 lbs) goal met 1/14/2022
Overweight BMI (203 lbs) lose 33.8 lbs
Healthy BMI (169 lbs) lose 67.8 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 91.8 lbs
No change today, but sometimes staying the same is a good thing too.
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The same is better than up - and being here checking in is best!3
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Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
Highest Weight (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs 🤯
Started MFP for the 3rd time Oct 27 2021
Oct 31 2021 Weight 258.6 lbs
Nov 30 2021 Weight 251.4 lbs
Dec 31 2021 Weight 242.4 lbs
LW 1/17/22: 236.8 lbs
CW 1/18/22: 236.4 lbs
Loss: 0.4 lbs
Loss from 10/31/21 = 22.2 lbs
Loss from HW = 40.4 lbs
Obese Class I BMI (237 lbs) goal met 1/14/2022
Overweight BMI (203 lbs) lose 33.4 lbs
Healthy BMI (169 lbs) lose 67.4 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 91.4 lbs5 -
You are so determined ABD! You go, girl!3
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I'm almost back to where I was on the 13th. Was nice to see a drop this morning...but wow this is painful. I've been here before - which is why I end up going to an extreme deficit out of frustration, which has the danger of ending in binging. I'll try to hold on to this moderate deficit...easier thought today when I've gone down rather than up!6
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Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
Highest Weight (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
Started MFP for the 3rd time Oct 27 2021
Oct 31 2021 Weight 258.6 lbs
Nov 30 2021 Weight 251.4 lbs
Dec 31 2021 Weight 242.4 lbs
LW 1/18/22: 236.4 lbs
CW 1/19/22: 235.2 lbs
Loss: 1.2 lbs
Loss from 10/31/21 = 23.4 lbs
Loss from HW = 41.6 lbs
Obese Class I BMI (237 lbs) goal met 1/14/2022
Overweight BMI (203 lbs) lose 32.2 lbs
Healthy BMI (169 lbs) lose 66.2 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 90.2 lbs3 -
Good job ABD. How fast is your trend moving?
Laurie what kind of deficit are you targeting? 500?1 -
PAV - I'm just trying to keep a deficit at this point. Any deficit. Loosely aiming at 1650 calories a day - but trying to stay cool about it all so I don't go all wingy. These past few days walking has been way down so 1650 calories a day will give me somewhere near 300-400 calorie deficit. More walking - higher deficit - and I might perhaps eat more? Trying not to be hungry - but to eat wisely.2
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@PAV8888 I'm not sure I understand the question. Here are stats from the app: Trend 237.7 lbs. Rate -2.6 lbs/week. This month -6.5 lbs2
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Laurie your plan seems solid enough and workable! Especially the "wisely" part.
ABD @Americanbabydoll you're doing an excellent job so far, woohoo!
And the first few months (I believe it is usually considered--as a general average--the first 5 or 6 months) people can often push a bit harder than they can push longer term without too many side effects;
Of course, with a lot of weight to lose, the game lasts years not months!
I don't know your previous history with diets and such. And what may have contributed to you discontinuing managing your weight in the past.
I did sort of notice your January numbers, and you confirmed it based on your trending app. And the quick spreadsheet I just did also confirms it.
So I am just letting you know that your numbers are saying that you're increasing your effective deficit as you're moving along. This may be something you're doing consciously, or something you're doing unconsciously.
If unconsciously, you may want to start considering the total size of your deficit as a percent of your TDEE and at what % levels you may want to manage that at moving forward.
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It is not something I'm doing consciously. I have my goal set at 2 pounds a week and that gives me 1350 cals per day. There are days I struggle to eat at least 1000 cals. Sometimes I have cheese cubes or mixed nuts at the end of the day just to get enough to close the diary. I also generally do not eat back any exercise calories my Fitbit gives me. One, because I don't trust those numbers and two, because sometimes I struggle to reach 1000 without trying to add those in also.
I am not sure why I quit trying to lose weight the 2 times before. I think I got tired of logging & weighing everything. I also didn't have any real reason that I wanted to do it other than I hated the way I looked. Now I have other reasons and more determination to get to goal this time.
Thank you for the insight.5 -
Part of (my) "insight" (and others may of course have different insights) is that many dieters attempt to over-restrict.
And there is a honeymoon period during which we can do that.
But then reactions can set in pretty hard often leading to discontinuing the effort.
The problem actually being much more closely associated to the over-restriction than to anything else.
over-restriction both in terms of total calories and in terms of what is "allowed" to be consumed
Of course your fitbit will not (always) be super accurate.
But assuming that it is totally useless is guaranteed to be more wrong than assuming it is SOMEWHAT in the ballpark.
And it is fairly easy to double check on it.
You've had your logging over the past two to three months right? You know your total calories-in as logged.
You've had your fitbit and you can go and export on a monthly basis your calories-out, according to fitbit. (I can help you find the info if you don't know how)
You know your weight change and that it is "worth" 3500 Cal of difference per lb of weight change (more or less; but hey, 3500 is good enough for government work!)
You have a long enough time period and you can also use your weight trend to avoid skewing your estimates with spurious water weight changes.
Therefore you can estimate an approximate error for your [individualized logging+particular fitbit] combination!
I was lucky and things were pretty spot on for me, but even if they aren't you can get something more actionable than "I don't trust it"
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If the first 5 or 6 months of a diet are the honeymoon phase, I must have been married many times!….currently I am on my 12th or 20th honeymoon!….lol6
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Some progress this week.
Age: 41
Height: 166cm - 5'5''
SW: 177.8 kg - 392 lb - 64.5 ΒΜΙ (May 2020)
GW: 68.7 kg - 151.5 lb - 24.9 ΒΜΙ
LW: 86.7 kg - 191.1 lb - 31.5 ΒΜΙ
CW: 86.1 kg - 189.8 lb - 31.2 ΒΜΙ
Variance: -0.6 kg / -1.3 lb / -0.69% TBW
OL: 91.7 kg - 202.2 lb - 33.3 BMI - 51.6% TBW in 645 days
Weight class projections:
Obese class II: Reached - 21.05.2021 - 401 days.
Obese class I: Reached - 25.09.2021 - 526 days.
Overweight: 3.6 kg - 7.9 lb - 25 days.
Normal: 17.4 kg - 38.3 lb - 122 days.4 -
Great to see your numbers, Dante! Your updates bring such a sense of constant steadiness to this process - though I'm sure it probably just looks like that from this side of the screen.4
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The countdown is actually down today. Man this is scary though - my mind flashed from WOOHOO when I saw the drop on the scale to - damn, that means I'll be bouncing up like mad tomorrow and frustrated as all get out. IF that is the case - I better be happy for todays lower number
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Height: 5'9 / Age: 39
Highest Weight (May 22 2019): 276.8 lbs
Started MFP for the 3rd time Oct 27 2021
Oct 31 2021 Weight 258.6 lbs
Nov 30 2021 Weight 251.4 lbs
Dec 31 2021 Weight 242.4 lbs
LW 1/19/22: 235.2 lbs
CW 1/20/22: 234.4 lbs
Loss: 0.8 lbs
Loss from 10/31/21 = 24.2 lbs
Loss from HW = 42.4 lbs
Obese Class I BMI (237 lbs) goal met 1/14/2022
Overweight BMI (203 lbs) lose 31.4 lbs
Healthy BMI (169 lbs) lose 65.4 lbs
Goal (145 lbs) lose 89.4 lbs5 -
Nicely back at it Dante and Laurie and ABD3
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This week's stats
SW (17/3/21): 96.0kg/211.2 lbs (BMI 40 - category 3 obese)
LW: Scale weight: 66.4 kg/146.1 lbs (BMI 27.6); Trend weight: 66.9 kg/147.3 lbs (BMI 27.8)
CW: Scale weight: 66.2 kg/145.6 lbs (BMI 27.6); Trend weight: 66.5 kg/146.5 lbs (BMI 27.7)
Down 0.5lbs for scale weight and 0.8 lbs for trend weight.
Inching downwards....4