♥️❤️February Daily Log-in & Weigh-in Challenge❤️♥️

2022 goals:

Lose 15 pounds by July 1

Daily Goals:

♥️ Exercise at least 15 minutes a day.

♥️ Log my food honestly.

♥️ Drink at least 64 oz of water per day.

Monthly Goal: 75 points (86%) where 1 point for each daily goal. Total points possible 87.

January 31- (3/87) 164
Feb 1- (6/87) 164
February 2— (9/87) 164 Definitely having issues with emotional eating. Day was still a success with logging and exercise. Water was okay. (9/87)
February 3— 163.3. Foot pain making things difficult. Walking with a friend tonight.

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Highest Weight: 150.8
Current Weight: 149
Total Weight Loss: 1
February Weight Loss So Far: .
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Feb 1: 149
Feb 2: 148.8 ⬇️😊
Feb 3: 149.2 ⬆️🤦‍♀️
Feb 4; 149.8 ⬆️🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

My goals, which haven't changed from last month, 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. I use my phone, and I'm not allowed to have my phone with me during the day at work, so this category won't get a "thumbs up" unless I'm sure I've hit that 20 minute mark)
📔 Tracking every meal
⚖️ Weighing daily is a given for me, so this will be the easiest one for me. I'm hoping to make it into the 180s by the end of February, and stay out of the 190s.

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
Final weight (January 31, 2022) = 193.2 (+1.6 from my January starting weight )
Starting weight for this challenge (February 1, 2022) = 194.2

🚦 Ready... set.... GO!
01/31/2022 - ⚖️ 193.2
02/01/2022 – ⚖️ 194.2 (+1.0 from yesterday/+0.0 from first day of current month/-22.7 from rejoining MFP) - 🚶‍♀️📚☕📔 - Eating stress and emotions again... Not good.
02/02/2022 – ⚖️ 195.4 (+1.2 / +1.2 / -22.5) - 🚶‍♀️📚☕📔 - still eating my stress/emotions/frustrations and even though all those words are pronounced differently, they are all spelled C-A-R-B-S, I'm not doing really well with this right now. - Besides "hiding" in my food, I'm hiding in my books. I'm a huge Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb fan and I just finished reading "The Becoming." Reading this was the best part of the last three days. Want. More. NOW! Sadly, I'll have to wait until November/December for the next book in the trilogy. Also waiting on the next "... In Death" book - well, actually waiting for the next one to become available from the library (I'm #33 in line for 12 copies of the ebook) and also for the one after that yet to be released (I'm #87 in line for the preordered ebook). I finish that one and I'll be caught up with the series (all 54 books) and I can start over again. while I wait for #55. LOL Meanwhile... I'm starting a new series, by a totally different author. We'll see how it goes. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 - Planning to take part in a longish bike ride on Sunday. I hope. Plantar fasciitis kicking up again, so may not run for awhile.
02/03/2022 – ⚖️ 195.2 (-0.2 / +1.0 / -22.7) - 🚶‍♀️📚☕📔 - It was cold here this morning, for us desert rats. While I was bundled up like Nanook of the North, standing at the bus stop, my fingers freezing through my cheapie gloves, the weather app on my phone informed me that it was "26º but felt like 20º." Yeah, I'm a lifelong desert dweller, I don't know how y'all who live in colder climes do it. Read at lunch and on the bus. Then dinner and pub trivia with Meg. And, yet again, poor choices.
02/04/2022 ¬ ⚖️ 196.2 (+1.0 / +2.0 / -20.7)
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swimmom_1 wrote: »

@Arc2Arc
Thank you for your response. As far as calories go I'm doing 1000-1200 most days except when I have something like yesterday, a rare occurrence. Or a day I'm off but do my elliptical, I usually have a few hundred more calories but if the MFP app is anywhere fairly close to being correct with the exercise calories it calculates, I'm always under net Zero calories, on those 3 days/week. I also limit my net Carbs to 15 +/- 3 daily. For me I have noticed I seem to have a uptick when I eat more net carbs. My body doesn't seem to know how to burn them. Not sure if it's the sugar or flour type. Could be an allergic and I end up retaining water weight. I am not diabetic. My TDEE for maintenance is 1,947. I'm low, I know, but I'm sick of this weight and want to get it off! And very motivated. Averaging about 2 lbs/week and feel so much better and a lot more energy.

I did do another elliptical session tonight. So total of 330 minutes(5.5 hours) for 23.1 miles.

It’s interesting, after I posted my reply to you yesterday I started thinking more about it. If you look at my weight since I began maintenance four weeks ago it might seem like everything is rock solid and steady. But that steadiness is more akin to bookkeeping where you have offsetting errors than my having figured it out. Maybe that’s how it will always feel I don’t know. But I’d like to think there’s more of an achievable rhythm where it doesn’t feel so perplexing. Hopefully a few months from now I’ll feel control as I felt with weight loss where I found a gear and it became easy.

We are similar in that I wanted fast weight loss. We are a little different in that my TDEE appears to be 2,800 cal. And that’s without exercise. So on a daily basis I’m thinking how do I use all those calories? I’m also trying to come up with foods and meals that are healthy and support an active lifestyle. It’s a process! And I’m not there yet. :-)

Today as an example I’m thinking do I skip breakfast, have a lo-cal breakfast or a large one? It’s budgeting. Maybe months from now I’ll just do what I feel like and then evaluate. But I’m not there yet. :-)

You’re doing so well with weight loss I suspect you’ll go through a similar transition as me where you’ll search for a new rhythm. I have to believe it gets easier with time and knowledge.