🌟❄️ January Daily Log-in and Weigh-in Challenge ❄️🌟

GOALS
🌟Drink a smoothie everyday.
🌟 NO BINGING on candy/night eating.
🌟Drink 100+oz of water/dry/no pop.

Highest weight: 236
Jan starting weight: 214.6
Jan GW: 206lbs

January weight lost so far: 6 lbs !
January weight to go? : 2.6lbs

January 1—214.6
January 2—214.2 (-.4)
January 3—212.6 (-1.6)
January 4 --211.2 (-1.4)
January 5- 210.6 (-.6)
January 6- 211.2 (.6)
January 7- 211.4 (.2)
January 8- 212.4 (1)
January 9- 213.4 (1)
January 10- 213.4 (0)
January 11- 211.6 (-1.8)
January 12- 212.2 (.6)
January 13-212.4 (.2)
January 14- 213.4 (1)
January 15- 212.6 (-.8)
January 16-211.6 (-1)
January 17- 210.6 (-1)
January 18- 210.6 (0)
January 19- 209.4 (-1.2)
January 20-209.0 (-.4)

January 21-208.6 (-.4)

Hi, I'm Karen. I found the December challenge helpful so I'm back for January. Thanks for the accountability help!
Goals for January:
Weigh, track, stay within maintenance calories, exercise, gratitude every day.
Jan 1: 143.
Jan 2: 144.3. Didn't stay within maintenance calories last 2 days. Old problem of eating after I get home from a social thing. Need to go right to bed.
Jan 3: 142.4. Again above maintenance calories yesterday, but I avoided after dinner eating, so that was a success. Met my other goals.
Jan 4: 142.2. Met yesterday's goals.
Jan 5: 142.4. Over calorie goal and didn't walk yesterday.
Jan 6: 142.4. Met goals yesterday.
Jan 7: 142.0. Missed exercise goal but met the others.
Jan 8: 143.4. Missed exercise goal but met the others.
Jan 9: 142.4. Over maintenance calories but met other goals.
Jan 10: 143. Slightly over calorie target, but met other goals. I realized that the last few weeks have been teaching me what my maintenance calories are since my weight has been very steady. So if I really want to lose weight I have to cut out something. This is a good moment for me to rethink my nightly wine drinking.
Jan 11: 142.2. Met goals yesterday. I cut back my nightly wine by half. I'd like to cut it out completely for 3 or 4 nights per week but I need a little time to get my head around that. I'll think about health and taking care of myself and that will help me get there.
Jan 12: 143.4. Met goals yesterday except for the wine goal.
Jan 13: 141.8. Met goals yesterday.
Jan 14: 141.8. Wine goal is not happening. Health risks on this should be motivating me but they're not.
Other goals met.
Jan 15: 144.6. Ouch. Chinese food and some extra treats took me over calorie goal. Also missed exercise goal.
Jan 21: 143.6. A few days off line. Back on track today.

I'm ready to get back to healthy habits and a healthier weight starting tomorrow!

My goals…

🌟Lose .5 pounds each week… 26 pounds this year
🌟Work out 3-5 days a week
🌟Drink less wine
🌟Log consistently
🌟Eat at or under my calorie goal
🌟Move 30 minutes a day

Highest weight:214.5
Current weight:214.5
January Goal Weight: 209


January 3—214.5 - well - that's a number I never want to see again. Let's do this!
January 4—213
January 5— 213.4 - had sushi last night. Hit my exercise goal, plus 10,000 steps and only 1 glass of wine - so I think it's the sodium.
January 6—212.7 workout done
January 7— 213.4 - hmm - I see some tweaks I need to make
January 8— 211.9 - weight loss is weird - yesterday I had too many chips, had pizza for dinner with wine and I lose this - so bizarre!
January 9—213.4 - there's the pizza! Did better yesterday and got my workout done for today.
January 10—213.4 - not bad for the first week - down 1.2. Now for some tweaks for this week.
January 11—211.9
January 12— 211.9
January 13— 211.4 - a loss and I've stuck with this for 10 days - taking it one day at a time and reminding myself slow and steady wins the race.
January 14— 211.2
January 15—211
January 16—212.1 - pizza on Friday and burgers last night. All good - got my workout in today.
January 17—212.1 - I'll take it! That's 2.3 down in 2 weeks - slow and steady!
January 18—212.5 - not surprised - I had too much Skinny Pop popcorn. Makes me bloated.
January 19—212.7 - got injections in my knees yesterday which causes stress to the body. Hoping this goes down tomorrow.
January 20—213 - this is when I would normally quit. Not this time - sticking with it - a few bad days does not make a month. Today's workout is done!
January 21—212.5 - heading back in the right direction.
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My goals include (from most difficult to the easiest)
🚦Getting started
🥤Drinking more water than diet soda
🥅 Staying within my calorie limits
📚☕Making sure I get some “me time”
😅🚶🏃🏻‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️ Exercising daily (at least 20 minutes total - not always an accurate time since I don't have a fitness watch, use my phone, and I'm not allowed to have my phone with me during the day at work, but it won't get a thumbs up unless I'm sure I've hit that 20-minute mark)
📔 Tracking every meal
⚖️ Weighing myself daily is a given for me, so this will be the easiest one for me to accomplish.

Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2022) = 191.6
Goal weight loss for January - just back into the 180s somewhere would make me happy at this point.

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01/01/2022 – ⚖️191.6 - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/02/2022 – ⚖️192.0 (+0.4) - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/03/2022 - ⚖️191.8 (-0.2 / +0.2) - 😅🚶📔📚
01/04/2022 - ⚖️ 192.6 (+0.8 / +1.0) - hello chocolate and KFC - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/05/2022 - ⚖️ 192.4 (-0.2 / +0.8) - My goals include (from most difficult to the easiest)
🚦Getting started
🥤Drinking more water than diet soda
🥅 Staying within my calorie limits
📚☕Making sure I get some “me time”
😅🚶🏃🏻‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️ Exercising daily (at least 20 minutes total - not always an accurate time since I don't have a fitness watch, use my phone, and I'm not allowed to have my phone with me during the day at work, but it won't get a thumbs up unless I'm sure I've hit that 20-minute mark)
📔 Tracking every meal
⚖️ Weighing myself daily is a given for me, so this will be the easiest one for me to accomplish.

Highest Weight: Somewhere between 227-230... I don't know. I avoided the scale.
Return to MFP after ~ 5-6 year absence (June 11, 2020) = 216.9
Starting weight for this challenge (January 1, 2022) = 191.6
Goal weight loss for January - just back into the 180s somewhere would make me happy at this point.

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01/01/2022 – ⚖️191.6 - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/02/2022 – ⚖️192.0 (+0.4) - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/03/2022 - ⚖️191.8 (-0.2 / +0.2) - 😅🚶📔📚
01/04/2022 - ⚖️ 192.6 (+0.8 / +1.0) - hello chocolate and KFC - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/05/2022 - ⚖️ 192.4 (-0.2 / +0.8) - 😅🚶📚☕📔 -
01/06/2022 - ⚖️ 191.4 (-1.0 / -0.2 - believe me, I'm as surprised as anybody by this... will be up tomorrow, I'm sure) - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/07/2022 - ⚖️ 192.6 (+1.2 / +1.0) Yuuupppp... going up and up... not unexpected given my eating this month so far, and the last two months of 2021. 😅🚶📔
01/08/2022 - ⚖️ 193.0 (+0.4 / +1.4) Sigh.... 😅🚴🏻‍♀️🚶📚☕ -
01/09/2022 - ⚖️ 194.2 (+1.2 / +2.6) - I got nuthin' .... - 😅🚶📔
01/10/2022 - ⚖️ 195.8 (+1.6 / +4.2) 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/11/2022 - ⚖️ 195.6 (-0.2 / +4.0) - 😅🚶📔
01/12/2022 - Ummm.... Oops, I forgot to weigh myself this morning - I overslept and was in a rush. - 📚☕📔
01/13/2022 - ⚖️ 195.2 (-0.3 / +3.6) - 😅🚶📚☕📔
01/14/2022 - ⚖️ 193.6 (-1.6 / +2.0) - 😅🚶📔
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01/15/2022 - ⚖️ 191.2 (-1.4 / -0.4) - 📚☕📔- Was taken to brunch today. Didn't do as well as I'd like with my choices, but figured I'd make it up the rest of the day. Still too much. Didn't go run, ride or anything today. I hate the wind at the best of times and today it was blowing hard enough to shake my truck a bit. Maybe tomorrow. I won't be surprised if the numbers are up again tomorrow, though. 😒😣
01/16/2022 - ⚖️ 191.4 (+0.2 / -0.2) - 😅🚶📚☕📔 - barely hit the 20 minutes I aimed for. And will get me time with a book after I take the dog for her final walk of the night. Today was my son's 34th birthday. Sigh. I don't know why we didn't go up to Phoenix to see him, but we didn't. Double sigh. So I did this instead: 01/17/2022 - ⚖️ 193.2 (+1.8 / +1.6) There's the last three days of eating out. (Yesterday was Cheesecake Factory. I ate a "Skinnylicious" meal, but followed it up with cheesecake.) - 😅🚴🏻‍♀️📚☕📔🥅 - Rode my bike for just over 15.5 miles today. Met a friend, who's going through a lot, at Dunkin' Donuts to schmooze and catch up. Sigh... When will I learn? Well, actually, it's not a really a matter of learning... it's a matter of doing. Chocolate glazed... plus omelet bites and hot tea. Was within calorie limits, but had to eat my exercise calories to do so. Still, nice, if cold (for me) ride.
01/18/2022 - ⚖️ 192.2 (-1.0 / +0.6) - 😅🚶📚☕📔🥅 - I may be within calorie limits again, but I have a feeling the donuts yesterday and the burrito for late dinner tonight will catch up with me soon enough. Got an invite to join a group bike ride next Sunday. I'm outclassed in every way (older, heavier, hybrid bike and fat, out of shape rider), but I think I'll go anyways.
01/19/2022 - ⚖️ 193.2 (+1.0 / +1.6) - 📚☕📔 my "me time" was waiting in the lobby of the CRC (Crisis Response Center) while they interviewed my daughter to determine whether or not to admit her. They admitted her. She'll be evaluated in the morning for release or transport to a Level 1 facility. She's been having a rough time lately. I kind of expected this. Still.... I didn't leave the CRC until about 8:45. Hadn't eaten and was hungry. Stopped at a fast food place and made bad choices. Don't care. Blah!
01/20/2022 - ⚖️ 193.4 (+0.2 / +1.8) - 😅🚶📚☕📔 - picked up my daughter and took her home. She sounded great when I talked to her on the phone early in the day. When I picked her up, she was okay until we got in the car and then she broke down. Sigh. I could have taken her back in, but that place scares her. Me too, truth be told. Half a cheese pizza, crazy bread, and brownies for dinner. Yeah... those were good choices.
01/21/2022 - ⚖️ 193.6 (+0.2 / +2.0) - 📚☕📔Sigh... My other daughter, the teacher that lives on the other side of town, tested positive for COVID today. She told me 5 teachers in her school had tested positive yesterday (2 of them were at school when they took the test and they left), so I'm not surprised. Meg is vaxed and boosted, and she seems to be doing pretty well.
01/22/2022 - ⚖️ 192.6 (-1.0 / +1.0) - 😅🚶📚☕📔 - went out to "run" today. It was cool (temp-wise) and hard because I haven't done that in awhile. Tomorrow I'll try to ride. We (as in both my daughters and I) have decided that the only way we're going to survive rent increases is to move in together. We tried to find a place we could share last summer. We didn't have the time we needed. Now, we have the time we need, but it's hard to find a place in our price range that's also in the area we need to be in. Trying to find something that is about equidistant for both girls to get to where they need to be and to get me near a reasonable bus trip to work is proving to be extremely frustrating. Gah!