Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 176

Round 176 (my 12th)
January 27, 2022 - February 5, 2022
Female, 5’7”
HW: 181 pounds (Dec 30, 2019)
Previous Rounds: RSW: 145.5 pounds (1/26/22, EO Round 175)
RGW: 144.0 pounds (-1.5 pounds)

Day/Weight/Comment
1/27: 145.5 - Holding steady. Normal workout and eating
1/28: 144.8 - Happy to get a mini-whoosh! Normal workout. Went a little higher in calories than normal though within budget, but went over goal in protein and fat and under in carbs.
1/29: 144.8 - A late afternoon workout, but got it in. Pizza and wine for dinner, but stayed in calories
1/30: 144.8 - Holding steady. Normal workout, ate up to my limit including exercise calories
1/31: 144.8 - Holding steady. Normal workout plus a walk. Ate a little more than normal, but within calories. Had a hard time falling asleep.
2/1: 144.0 - Officially one pound below my driver's license weight! Haven't been there in about 12 years. Normal workout, eating lots of fiber and protein, but still a lot of carbs. Was able to fall asleep fine, but then woke up in the middle of the night and had trouble falling back to sleep
2/2: 144.4 - Dinner was a bit salty so hoping that was part of the blip. Other than that, everything else normal: workout, walking, eating, sleeping
2/3: 144.0 - I hope this holds since this is my goal weight for the round. Did an extra long workout but I also ate back almost all of those exercise calories. Good sleep.
2/4: -
2/5: -

Total round weight loss/gain to date from EO last round: - 1.5 pounds

Age: 42
Height: 5'8"
Lifestyle Plan: Primal Blueprint





Goals:
-Release 2 lbs per round
-80% Primal
-Follow Ashley Black's 12-week fascia recovery program

Incremental Goals:
219.xx November 13, 2021
209.xx December 17, 2021
199.xx January 17, 2022
189.xx
179.xx
Ultimate Goal: 175 lbs, reevaluate at that point


Historical SW: 251.6 lbs 9/14/2015
Restart W: 221.5 11/2/2021

R169 EW: 216.3
R170 EW: 213.3
R171 EW: 209.4
R172 EW: 208.4
R173 EW: 204.4
R174 EW: 201.4
R175 EW: 199.6


🥶🧊❄️January❄️🧊🥶
27: 200.2 🥚 Normal fluctuation in downward trend + hormones, possible small daily increases for about 5 more days
28: ???
29: DNW 🥚 Away from home overnight.
30: 203.3 🥚 Friday evening through Saturday evening were quite indulgent. Late night snacks while drinking and multiple fast food meals aren't usually my thing, but I had a fun weekend and know the bump up is temporary. Back on track today.
31: 202.5 🥚 Calories and carbs were great yesterday but not enough water. Still feeling bloated, likely a combo from the weekend and hormones.
❄️🌨️🧣February 🧣🌨️❄️
1: 198.7 🥚 Well, I guess my weekend gains are gone! I'm seeing today that my entries are messed up. I somehow managed to miss Friday weigh in and entered Saturday's DNW for Friday. Maybe I grabbed the wrong entry to add to. Idk 🤷🏽
2: 198.9 Not enough water yesterday. Used my weighted hula hoop for about 10 minutes, and boy is my stomach bruised. Muscles feel a little sore, but not as bad as I expected.
3: 198.9
4:
5:


There's no such thing as failure; only feedback.

Starr
Age 40 Height: 5.8
Highest Weight: 229.6 (March 2016)
January 1st 2020 226.5
January 1st 2021 195.5
January 1st 2022 217.0

Current goal: Drink more water, reduce sugar and log my weight. Starting small here..
Round 173 SW: 218.5 EW: 213.2 -5.3
Round 174 SW: 213.2 EW: 212.4 -0.8
Round 175 SW: 212.4 EW 212.7 +0.3
Round 176 SW: 212.7

1/27 212.3
1/28 212.1
1/29 DNW
1/30 DNW
1/31 215.5
2/1 214.6 Every weekend, I gain and every weekday I lose. This weekend was a little worse due to the lovely 2 feet of snow. I got awfully hungry on Friday night and felt the desire to eat and eat. I did drink plenty of water though. I also did not make it to the gym, however shoveling is a workout.
2/2 213.3 It’s coming down.
2/3 213.1
2/4
2/5

tomorrow's flight just got cancelled. Now likely driving the 1600 miles instead

Well managed a strength training video with the boot, had to modify a couple exercised but it felt like a decent workout. My glutes are sore so I must have done something right.

Short term goal: stick with it for 60 days (23/60).

SW: 234.4
Day/Weight/Comment
1/27: 231.4 rest day
1/28: 230.9 13k steps
1/29: 230.0 5k steps + 15mile bike ride
1/30: 228.6 14k steps
1/31: 228.6 9.7K steps + ST training
2/1: 229.4 10.6k steps + 10 mile bike ride (the last one for a while)
2/2: 229.6 5k steps + strength training video
2/3: 228.4
2/4
2/5

Round # 43 for me!
SW: 373.8 (5100 steps daily step goal, go to bed by 11:30, no eating out or junk food 6 days a week)
Day/Weight/Comment (previous day steps)
1/27 373.8 – 5993 steps. Under calories, got steps and walk in and was in the bed on time.
1/28 374.8 – 5358 steps. Under calories but I still ate terribly. Snacking all day and not hungry and ate back movement calories. No walk so not surprised by gain. And the thing about me when I gain, it takes a minute to drop. But I am good, I know my body. I knew the carbs would show up today. I am going to take my calories off the MFP preset calories for my weight and put to 1200 to 1500 calories. I have not decided which one yet. How many of you use MFP recommend calories for your weight? I don’t want to set my calories too low. But I think I am going to start with 1200 and if I need to increase I will. It is snowing here in Chicagoland, and I love watching the snow. Snow is a love hate relationship! Lol And we have had a snowy January so far and more on the way….
1/29 373.0 – 7094 steps. I got in a Leslie Sansone DVD yesterday and a good calorie day with 1200 calories and eating back some exercise calories and some to spare. In bed on time and got over 7 hours of sleep even though I got up in the middle of the night to listen to the end of the finals of the Australian Open between Danielle Collins and Ash Barty. I am going to go to bed early tonight so I can get up about 6:00 to finish the end of the men’s final
1/30 373.0 – 5489 steps. I did get in another workout with DVD. Had another zoom memorial yesterday and today. The memorial today was a high school friend who died age 57 from complications caused from COVID. It was a very nice zoom memorial. Both were very uplifting and encouraging.
1/31 373.0 – 5534 steps.
2/01 375.0 – 5152 steps. I have been struggling. Fast food challenge over and no desire to go out and get any. Too much snacking and carbs. Doing a little better today. Logging it all. Back in the red Not worried, going to get back on it. Tomorrow is a new day and another Zoom memorial. I am going to take 2 hours personal time to attend. A close friends Mother passed who caught COVID in an assisted living facility.
2/02 375.0 – 6531 steps. Good day yesterday. Memorial was nice today. I got in a short walk yesterday also.
2/03 375.0 – 5783 steps.
2/04
2/05 Saturday
Total lost this round: (+1.2)

Round & annual Stats
My journey … "I May Not Be Where I Want To Be, but I’m Not Where I Use To Be!"

Give me 10 Days Round 176 Jan 27-Feb 5

Height: 5’5”
Age: 60
Original start weight, Sept 15, 2020: 153
All time high, Sept 2001: 168.8
Recent low weight (summer 2021): 120.8

History:
Goals:
SW: 138.2
Cats: Harry 10 lb 14 oz Han Solo 11 lb 13 oz

1/27- 136.4 Actually feels good to pay attention again

1/28- 135.4 Yesterday went well enough. Did 25 min on spin bike early in the AM. Fully planned and tracked my food. Last night, late evening, I did opt to have an extra 1 oz of parmesan because I had already been hungry for hours, and wondered about potential impact on sleep (I sleep poorly lately). Anyhow, scale is moving quickly, but I fully understand that it is just the flushing out that happens with improved diet.

1/29- 135.4 Perfectly content with that. 20 in spin yesterday with HR reaching 163, heading back to the bike in a minute. Today is that blizzard in New England. Will be interesting to see how it goes. Supposed to be a “historical” storm for the Boston area, and we are living in our new condo (long story) and I hear that this part of town tends to lose power. We shall see. I also need to take a bit and read the whole thread and catch up on familiar faces and begin to learn the new.

1/30- 135.4 Made it through the blizzard. Still not perfect on my eating (think parmesan cheese and likely went over by 100 calories in the end) but as “bad choices” go, its acceptable. Did a 30 minute spin at a slower pace just watching Hulu. I’m playing around with my exercise. My first step if for it to become my “normal” like it was last year for 9 months.

1/31- 136.2 Did 20 minutes of spin bike in the AM and was in no mood for it for unknown reason, but did it, so that is something. Rest of the day was fine and right on track, and then I went on a stress eating bender. The good thing that came of this is my fridge is cleaner. :P

2/1- 136.2 1/31 was wild. No time for spin, and the day completed with a birthday celebration for my grandson. He turned two yesterday. While I was cautious with my food, I did not track. But that is all ok. 2/1 should be good.

2/2- 136.0 Not keeping my focus perfectly, but I am tracking. In two days, we shift our home to Florida for 3 months. All sounds nice, and it is nice, but the shifting process has not yet come easy. The first year that we did this was for 2 months in 2020, we drove 1600 miles with the cats and COVID became a thing days later. Last year, we tried 10 weeks and drove again with the cats. This year is three months and we are going to try flying with the cats. I am calling them “KittyHawks” now. :P The difference between a vacation and a home shift is you are not back home in 2 weeks for that item you forgot, or didn’t know, you would need. Last year, I did not bring my cats eye med since, up north, he only has eye issues in the month of August. Well Florida has different pollen and actually has “flowering things” year round. So he had eye issues, no med available, and vet will not prescribe without seeing. Just odd things like that. I am using this round to get myself at least making an effort. For round 177, we will have made it all the way to Marathon (we fly into West Palm Beach airport Friday, stay with MIL until Sunday morning when we drive the 4 hours into the Keys).

2/3- 135.0 I also did an early check in of the cats, just as a final weight on their Massachusetts scale as a comparative reference for their Florida scale. Harry 10 lb 15 oz (likely has not peed), Han 11 lb 13 oz. Tomorrow morning, I will be too distracted, and then sat and sun, we will be en route to our florida home (no weigh in 2/5 or 2/6 for me). Yesterday went well enough, again not perfect, no exercise and a little over in calories. I will continue to track these next days and hope to hold onto the 135 for the rest of the 10 days.

2/4- 135.6 So, late afternoon yesterday, I got that JetBlue email that today’s flight was canceled. Few hours later I got the new flight info. So we originally booked our two seat, but splurged on adding the “extra” middle seat since we have no idea what flying with the cats would be like and we wanted the space. So we booked one row of three for two humans and two cats. Flash forward to our new flight assignments. Flight is Sunday, two days later. I am assigned a middle seat with one cat. Two rows back my husband is assigned a middle seat with the second cat. And the “extra” empty seat that we paid for was assigned to some other lucky passengers as it was a middle seat in another row. If I human did this assigning, they should be fired and same with any programmer that wrote the code if the assignment was done by computer as there was NO logic in it. Now I could see their logic in jamming us on the flight into middle seats and canceling and refunding our extra seat, but billing us and giving it to other passengers is illogical. So, we cancel online using our account, with our “free cancellation” that came with JetBLue “extra”. It ate our money by putting it in an account and the money has an expiration date. Sooo, we call. Two and a quarter hours later we finally get an agent. She “does not have the authority to help” and we must be put on hold for a supervisor. Forty-five minutes later, a lovely supervisor came on (yes, she was great and a highlight). Resolved our issue in minutes and when we explained what transpired, she asked if we cancelled online. When we said yes, she said that was a problem that has been happening, and that the computer cannot comprehend the correct reason for the cancelation so it puts the money in the fund and general agents cannot undo this. So, back to topic one……Fire the programmers. Yes, I used to write software and my son and son-in-law are both in tech. Hubby did programming as well. How does this apply to the group? I had chicken fingers and onion rings for dinner last night. I am now repacking and loading the car as we are driving 1600 miles starting 7 am tomorrow.

2/5-

📚📖📒👩🏻‍💻📄📘📚

HSW - 218.2 (Feb. 2015)
UGW - 130
2022 Goals — 150; move more; eat mostly healthfully, no extremes; walk lots.

History
R174 1/16/22: end weight 178. Moving Ave 178 (+.1). Ave calories 1469.
R175 1/26/22: end weight 179. Moving Ave 178.4 (+.4). Ave calories 1580.
R176 goals—any loss! Calories <1400.


Day/Weight/Running Average/Calories/Comment

1/27 - 178.6, Ave 178.5
I was really craving something sweet last night, but I resisted. I did have some air-popped popcorn. I’m trying to stop the night munching this round. I never used to do this—not sure how I got into this habit. With the brutal cold I haven’t been getting much exercise, but we have two+ hours of doggy school tonight, so that will get me moving a bit. Stay warm, all!

1/28 - 178.6, 178.5
It was nice to get out to doggy school and move a bit last night—it’s been too cold for me outdoors. I don’t plan to go anywhere today—brrrrr.

1/29 - 179.6, 178.9
Woops. These cold days make me crave fats and carbs, and I gave in last night. Ok, reset. It’s bitter cold here, but little snow. I’m thinking of all of you in the path of the east coast storm. Be safe.

1/30 - 180, 179.2
Calories on target yesterday, so this is time lag. It's fine. I kept breakfast low and will have salad for lunch. Making Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup for dinner. Sounds very satisfying to me! Stay warm!

1/31 - 178, 178.9
That’s better. Now to nudge it a bit further.

2/01 - 178.2, 178.8
Weird weather! It’s been very cold here, but today it’s supposed to hit 47F, then drop drastically, rain tonight, then 10 inches of snow forecast. I’m getting whiplash! Oh, well, good reading and knitting weather on the way, and outdoor run-the-puppy weather today. I skipped dinner last night because of doggy school, so we have Sunday’s creamy chicken tortilla soup for dinner tonight. It’s yummy, and calories are reasonable. I really want to get below 178 by the end of this round, so I’m determined to behave myself.

2/02 - 178.2, 178.6
So much for behaving myself—I went a bit crazy last night. Oh, well. Starting over today. The snow has begun—10-12 inches on the way. I’m hoping to do some painting today—a watercolor dog portrait I donated to a Christmas raffle. I haven’t been painting for a while for fear of the puppy getting into stuff, but he’s old enough to behave himself with supervision. Stay warm & safe, everyone.

2/03 - 178.2, 178.7
Snow! Lots of snow!

2/04 - 180, 179.6
What??? Ok, whatever—salt, time lag, curse of the evil warlock…. I did get some exercise yesterday—shoving some of our 11 inches of snow. Wheee! Now it’s going to be a deep freeze for a few days. I’m hoping to bounce back down to end this round, but it is what it is. Happy Friday!

2/05 -

Female, 5ft. 6 in.
Age 58
Akron, Ohio

OSW: 186 (March 2018)
Maintenance: 140-145 (December 2018)
My 137th Round!

My goal this round is to get back to 145 which is the top of my maintenance weight.


SW: 146

Day/Weight/Comment

1/27 - 146 - I've kept up with my food diary and steps. This frigid weather really tests my strength to resist comfort food. I bought some diet hot chocolate (25 calories) to get me through my afternoon munchies at the office.
1/28 - 146 - I had some extra sodium yesterday and I will probably have extra tonight. I'll try to drink more water to compensate.
1/29 - 146 - It was a cold drive in to work, -14F wind chill, but it's better than the blizzard the East coast is facing today. I hope everyone here facing those winds and snow stay safe and warm.
1/30 - 146
1/31 - 146.5 - Went a little overboard on snacking this weekend. Back on track today.
2/01 - 146.5
2/02 - 146 - A little stressed due to the impending Winter storm. Gathering work at my office today to work from home tomorrow. It looks like my area will likely escape most of the ice, so that was good news this morning. After the 16 inches of snow we got 2 weeks ago, 12 doesn't sound too bad and it is a lot better than ice accumulations. I hope everyone else in the path of this storm stays safe.
2/03 - 146 - Working from home today. I just need to stay away from the kitchen and walk around the house to keep up on my steps.
2/04 - 145.5
2/05

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I have been on here.
51 yo female, 5'6
Current weight 177.6 (ugghhh! On the bright side, it's only 2.6 pounds more than 1 year ago. Disappointingly, it's 44 pounds more than my lowest weight on here in 2017)
Goal weight: 145
Goal for this challenge: Getting started on better eating, daily logging, and regular exercise. (Any loss will do

1/27 178.2
1/28 175.6
1/29 177,8
1/30 175;2
1/31 176.6
2/1 174.8
2/2 176.4
2/3 175.8
2/4 174.4
2/5

Hi, I’m Karen and am in my 50’s.
OSW-187 Sept. 2018
GW-149.

1/27-170-Started out the day with two pieces of bread and had a steak for dinner. Better eating today. Loaded my last quilt of three on the long arm quilting machine and will finish that today or tomorrow. Finally getting ahead! Maybe I’ll get my rollerblades out today.
1/28-Ate better, had the rest of the steak for lunch and a smoothie for dinner. Busy day with horse shoer in the morning, quilting, errands and a quilting meeting in the evening. Off to quilt at a friends today, so will bring a healthy lunch and an ice chest and visit the grocery store on the way.
1/29-166-Nice visit with the quilting ladies, had a couple of cookies and took a salad, came home and had a light dinner.
1/30 & 1/31-DNW
2/1-168-Lots of errands to run today. Hopefully a horse ride this afternoon and will have my quilts finished up.
2/2-It is miserably windy here. I started out OK yesterday and then ate crap the rest of the day as I ran errands..... I should have brought a healthy snack.😬
2/3-169-Made chicken soup- must have been the salt. We have had horrible wind and I think today it is finally over. If I want exercise, I need to ride the bike to get past all of the hungry and bored bees, waiting for the orchards to bloom.

2/4-168-Made chicken chili. Long horse ride and finished the quilts I’ve been working on. I can’t wait to give them away.