Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 212

56, 5'2"
R212 Starting Weight 144.0
R212 Goal Weight: 142.0

1/22 143.6 Trying to stick to a 'somewhat' intermittent fasting schedule. Eating the majority of my food before 2pm really seems to work well for me. I've been trying to get my husband on board with this too, but he's having a hard time mentally letting go of the dinnertime meal.
1/23 143.8
1/24 143.0
1/25 142.6
1/26 142.2
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1/30

R212 SW: 177
R213 EW: 176
Day/Weight/Comment
1/22 / 176.6 / Less than a week left until we go to Costa Rica for three weeks. Wanting to get a bit more weight off before we go. Today we are watching football and we have stuff to get done around the house.
1/23 / 176 / One day down, four days of work to go until my big 3 week vacay. Just staying focused on the tasks I need to get done so I can enjoy the break!
1/24 / 176.6 / Feeling well rested after a good night's sleep. Another busy day of meetings ahead, including a lunch with my boss. Steps will be lower than normal when I get home. Hoping to ride the Peloton to offset.
1/25 / 179.4 / Used food to soothe last night and it showed on the scale this morning. Today was a condensed day at the office as we left early to do team building at an indoor skydiving place. It was fun and I was so happy I didn't have to worry about fitting into the jump suit. Pizza dinner afterwards. Steps were good.
1/26 / 178.2 / Hubby and I have been enjoying oatmeal for breakfast the last couple of days. Today at lunch I'll get out for a walk with a recently retired coworker. Haircut after work.
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GIVE ME 10 DAYS – ROUND 212

Round 212
January 22 – February 1, 2023

Round 212. Simple goal. To stay thoughtful in my actions the whole round.

History:
SW: 146.8

Day/Weight/Comment

1/22 – 147.2 So round 210 was on target, 211 started great, then distractions came in again. I have to figure out how to not swing extremes. This morning was more up from yesterday, but DH and I went out to eat last night and I made choices without regard to calories (cocktail, pad thai, and half a huge dessert). But I am back here today. Round 212. Thoughtful breakfast choices and will plan out my day as I will be “out” for most of the day and will need to face one meal out of the house.

1/23 – 146.2 yesterday went well enough. Spent the day at my parents’ assisted living apartment. I worked through cleaning the place up. They collect things and also seem to not be able to put things away. Tracked well, but no exercise.

1/24 - 147.0 No tracking, no exercise

1/25 – 145.2 Thoughtful food selections, but not MFP tracking. Still no exercise. Massachusetts weather is lousy ATM, not ready to get back into the Apple workouts, and tons to do in the two weeks I am up north. Counting on reestablishing exercise habits during the 3 months in Florida and my returning to pleasant weather in May. Starting my Invisalign this morning. Quite nervous about the process given my teeth are not young, and I’ve spent too much time reading about complications.

1/26 – 144.2 Tracked properly with MFP. Tracking was after the fact which is not my favorite, but hey, I tracked! AND was under my target!! Invisalign is ATM not bad. I had heard day 1 could be awful (kept remembering I have unused oxycodone from a 2018 surgery). Haven’t even needed Tylenol (Advil is a no no on Invisalign, sadly my preferred pain med). Tricky aspects is nothing but water while trays in, and goal is to have them in 22 hours a day. AND they are a pain to get out and must brush, floss/waterpic, and clean trays before putting them in. “Picking” on food will be very much deterred. Today, I need to plan ahead so that I get enough food in each meal so that I can make it to the next. Very foreign concept to me. Estimate for me is 14 months of this, so maybe I will have some new eating habits by then.

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1/31

HSW - 218.2 (Feb. 2015) - 135
2023 Goals — no snacking after dinner; calories below maintenance, adjusted every 10 lbs; move more; eat mostly healthfully, no extremes. Aim for 150 by the end of the year.


📆 History 2015–2023
R211 01/21/23: end weight 176.8 (+.6). Ave calories
R212 01/31/23: goals—no after dinner snacking; calories <1300.

Day/Weight/Comment no food after dinner 💚

1/22 - 176.4
Good. I’m headed back down despite the sample oatmeal-coconut-raisin cookie from the batch I baked for DH. I just shoveled the driveway and sidewalks so I’m feeling warm and energized! I hope it sticks for a few hours. Still wrestling with puppy-induced sleep deprivation, although he did nap a long time yesterday afternoon because one of my training buddies brought her 15-week-old Flat-coated Retriever puppy over to play. My Booker is 10.5 weeks. Boy, did they have fun wrestling and running and getting wet and dirty. We had fun watching, and then cleaning them up! Some of you said “more pics,” so here they are in a less frenzied moment, my Booker on the left and Chaos on the right. Cutie boys.

1/23 - 177
Oops.

1/24 - 177.4
Ah, well, a couple of nights of relapsing snackwise will do that. DH bought a Marie Callender chocolate pie to try, and I didn’t realize how crazy many calories were in a serving until later. Yikes! Trying to straighten myself out today.

1/25 - 177.2
Better, not perfect, last night. We’re getting all-day snow, so I’m off to shovel what’s there now. Exercise!

1/26 - 176.8 💚
I did much better yesterday — no nighttime snacks. Yay!

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@deepwoodslady this is going back in time a bit because I'm a procrastinator, but I finally used one of the mouse traps you recommended a while back and we got one on the first night! Set up 5 for today. This was triggered when it seemed that mice had made off with DH's wedding band--he found it in the back of a drawer in his basement shop surrounded by mouse poop and urine

Round 212
Jillian Age 37 and 5'1"

HSW: 179.8
CSW: 167
GW: 130 changes my BMI from overweight to normal!
UGW: 116
Mini GW: 158 will change my BMI from obese to overweight!
RGW:165

Round Goal: 165
🏃 01/22:
🏃 01/23:
🏃 01/24:
🏃 01/25: 167
🏃 01/26: 168
🏃 01/27:
🏃 01/28:
🏃 01/29:
🏃 01/30:
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My Weight Chart:

You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be better than you were before

31, 5'5"
OSW: 164.2 164.5 164.9 Dec 31, 2022 165.5 Jan 5, 2023
GW: 130-135

Previous Rounds:
Last weight
01/18 - 163.7

Round Goal: 163.xlb Water goal: 90oz.

Day, Weight, Comment
1/22 - DNW
1/23 - DNW
1/24 - 164.0
1/25 - 162.9
1/26 - 163.1 - I indulged in a small slice of my homemade strawberry swirl cheesecake (everything, including crust, is from scratch) after dinner. I was right at expected calories for Fitbit and under by 57 on MFP despite that splurge. It is lactose-heavy, though, so I'm not surprised at the little extra bloat, both visibly and on the scale. No workout today as I did 2 in a row already. Back at it tomorrow. Will be mindful about getting up and moving through the day, though. I have leftover cobb salad to finish up for lunch. Not sure dinner yet, but I should know by lunchtime and can adjust from there. Hoping to fast today and not need breakfast. Yesterday I was very nauseous and ate but hoping today I can push it a little further. Dinner was also later last night than it has been in a little while so I should be able to "tough it out" until lunch (and by "tough it out" I mean avoid the habit/boredom/mindless eating I'm used to while working. If I get nauseous or actually hungry, I'll eat)
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2/01

Previous Day's Comments

74 years-old great-grandmother (5'2")
ON 8/29/2022: I was 134 LBS and had a 33” natural waist


MAINTENANCE 115-118 LBS (still trying to decide what I want my range to be). Lessons for maintenance: 1) exercise at least 30 minutes five {5} days a week 2) try to walk no less than 10,000 steps a day 3) If/when my weight creeps up (118-119 LBS) increase the incline on the treadmill and add a burst of running to routine 4) eat a low-calorie salad before eating dinner 5) limit fried & breaded foods 6) continue to add ice cubes to my 5 oz glass of wine 7) eat fish for dinner at least 2 times a week 8) eight to nine hours of sleep a day 9) Of the 60oz of water daily-drink 8oz of water a half hour before each meal 10) three (3) meals a day and 1-2 small snacks, nothing after dinner.
11) do not park my car close to the store I am going to.


Round 211 - loss -1.1 LBS
01/21-116.5


Round 212: RSW: 117.2 waist: 28” (goal 27 ½’)


01/22- 117.2
01/23- 116.3
01/24- 116.4
01/25- 116.6
01/26- 116.6 - “Brazilian Feijoada in a Tortilla bowl” for dinner last night-I stuck to one serving which was not easy. Tonight “Clam Pie” for dinner-all the things I should not eat (clams are high in cholesterol) but made for our son. Tomorrow I WILL have a healthy low calorie dinner (maybe?). -I may have figured out Maintenance??

@pezhed I think size 0 is a made-up size by some clothes manufacturers. There was a whole story a few years back in Time magazine. In the late 60's women's jeans were labeled and made by waist size (e.g. 27")-this was unfair to women who actually had hips. Over time manufacturers have added inches to the waistline of their jeans and given them labels like 2-4- or 1-3-. Now you have 0 and 00 and no longer are most "designer" jeans by a set inch size but by a waistline range. Plus most jeans are now not just made of denim but "stretchable" denim. FYI: My favorite outfit in my closet is a old 1980 John Roberts jumpsuit with a synched 27 1/2" high waist. It is labeled size 6! I am hoping to wear it on Feb. 2 to a banquet-we will see!