Just Give Me 10 Days - Round 221

My name is Paula and I am a 46 year old 100% service disabled veteran from the Army.

This is my second round. I am signing up for a variety of challenges to help change my mindset about healthy habits and getting my weight under control. I want a better quality of life where I don’t have to ask my husband to constantly slow down when we are walking because he is going too fast.

I also use Noom, GOLO, and intermittent fasting (IF) using a 16:8 (fasting hours:eating hours) schedule to help affect the change with my weight. I have also DRASTICALLY overhauled my eating habits and what I eat to a more clean way of eating.

Starting weight - 240.4 lbs
Challenge goal weight - 237.2 lbs

4/22 - 240.4 lbs 🥲🤨 Fell off a little and did some emotional eating to equilibrate some pesky emotions and satisfy my personality need for comfort (my #1 personality need that is always getting me into trouble! 😒🫢

4/23 - 241.0 lbs 🤨🧐 Went to the movies to take the family to see “Super Mario Brothers” and the movie theater is my age old place to chow down like it’s my last meal and I’m on death row where I just eat the craziest most unhealthy crap to fully immerse myself in the experience. However….I didn’t quite do that this time! I ate two mini super small snack-eye size Baby Ruth & similarly mini Snickers, but passed on the movie popcorn heavily laden with delicious butter or mega sized fountain soda! I see this as a win for me! I’m getting there darnit!

4/24 - 239.6 lbs 😅😊 I missed my last workout and skipped strength training so it’s time to get back in the saddle. I am setting the intention right here and right now to go to the gym for cardio, then come home to do the next series of strength training exercises as designed by the hubby! I was having an overly emotional weekend because I am still in the process of implementing my routine and strategies to purposefully fill my needs buckets myself and ahead of time so I have a bit of buffer so I don’t have to worry about my arch nemesis/my subconscious looking for the easiest autopilot or otherwise way to haphazardly fill those needs buckets per my Emotional Mastery class. I created a template in my journal app to journal on my food & fitness aspect of being to help entrain good, healthy behaviors, but like I said I was having an emotional crap show this weekend so I just was too busy feeling sorry for myself to give myself a moment to remember what tools I have to get me some good habits brewing and new neural connections created to establish this different mindset. I’m a work in progress folks! 😰🤤😬

25 - 239.6 lbs 🫣🤔🤓. Why in the world is this the weight that showed up the most throughout the month!? That seems so statistically improbable that it is making my head want to implode. I stuck to my goals for 3 meals to eat during my 8 hrs of eating time tailoring it so I can hit my nutrients and macro goals, but I ended up eating my lunch later than I tend to —which caused me to push dinner much later than I prefer. 😰. I missed the gym yesterday and didn’t do any strength training either. I got caught up bc I broke my glasses accidentally and had to go get those turned in ASAP bc I cannot even drive without them and there is a 2 week waiting time, but that is what I get! I own that! I have started my food & fitness journaling for a new daily practice to help conform my eating habits into healthy ones and as a kind of accountability tool administered by me/myself/I.

4/26 - 239.6 lbs 😒😞😖😤🤬 I wonder if I am starting to hit a plateau…. I haven’t been sticking to my workout plan like I planned to —which is ANNOYING! I just a few days ago started my food & fitness journal so I am making that a steady practice, but I am impatient. This kind of depressed me and in true sabotaging form I ate 10 Great Value Twist & Shout Double Stuffed cookies after my husband and our 4 year old daughter went to Walmart and I didn’t even wait to get home I shoved down 5 in the car ride home while he was driving and shoved another 5 while laying in bed like a loser…. I know I can do this and don’t know why I do this every time I don’t see a loss of some kind. I’m being whiny which annoys and frustrates me and makes me want to yell at myself. Overall I am doing pretty good and my goal for the week was probably unreasonable to begin with, but I’m always just doing the most to the extreme anyway. 😏😫. I’ll get it together one day! I’m working on it! Planks, crunches, and something else tonight as a part of my strength training tonight 🏋🏾‍♀️ I can do this! 🥳👍🏾🙌🏾👀🍀🌈

4/27 - 239.2 lbs 😝

4/28 - 238.8 lbs 🥹

4/29 - 236.6 lbs 🏃🏾‍♀️👏🏾🫣😅 Well I have been pretty diligent about really analyzing my meals on a meal-by-meal basis and adjusting my following meal based on that which ensures I stay under my caloric goal and meet my carb and protein goals for schedule of 16:8 and for some reason over the last two days I’ve been REALLY dragging out how long it takes for me to eat and then by the time I am finished eating my lunch it is almost dinner time and I have not long to eat it so I end up skipping it —which makes me nervous because I don’t want to get hunger pains during my fasting period, but it has been working out not too bad. I have been doing strength training at least every day for the past 2 days and plan on doing more tonight. I just paid my gym membership for the upcoming month and need to get my butt in there more so it doesn’t go to waste. But, at least I am doing the strength training. 🏋🏾‍♀️

4/30 -

5/1 -

Challenge total actual weight lost: 3.8 lbs lost so far! 🫣😅

Newbie here and excited to give this a try for this week!

66 yr old female/5'2"

Highest weight - 264 (March 2022)
Currently - 254.4
Goal - 185

Goal for this 10 day challenge = lose 2 pounds and gain better lifestyle habits!

Starting weight for challenge round 221= 254.4
Goal weight for end of challenge round 221 = 252.4

My daily goals are:
• Drink 64oz water
• Move/exercise for at least 30 minutes or more
• Track all food, water, exercise each day

4/22 - 254.4 Focus on moderation, not restriction
4/23 - 254.3 Celebrate small victories....really small victories!
4/24 – 253.4 Changing daily habits take time, do it anyway!
4/25 – 253.8 And the roller coaster begins….
4/26 – 252.8 Tracking and being mindful seems to be working again!
4/27 – 252.4 Met my goal of 2 pounds already! Hoping for .5 more before 4/30.
4/28 – 254.8 Water retention!! Ate out 2 meals yesterday and I’m sure that caused the gain!! UGH
4/29 – 254.8 Now I remember why I give up, but I still think it is water retention. Crazy how the scale determines my mood. I know it shouldn’t, but it does. I need to keep telling myself, “The scale is just a tool to give you your total body weight, such as water, fat, muscle, waste, etc. Your weight changes hourly depending on many things, so keep at it sweetheart, you can do this!!”

A quote I saw yesterday....“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” - Winston Churchill. YES! I still have my enthusiasm even though I have hit a snag in my goals the last 2 days!!

4/30 –
5/1 – Traveling and unable to weigh.

A quote I saw yesterday....“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” - Winston Churchill.