🍃🍂September Daily Weigh-in and Logging Challenge🍂🍃

Hello I'm Darlene. I am 63, married, (Greg), have one daughter, 29 (Allyson) and one 4-year-old Goldendoodle, Monty. I have been with this group since April of this year. I love this group.

Happy Fall

September Goals 🍂
Lose 4 pounds ⚖️
Hit the 1,750 mile marker towards my 2,023 in 2,023. 🏃‍♂️
16k Steps Daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log my food daily 🖥️
Read 📖
Do something creative daily - Knit, Crochet, Color, puzzel etc. 🧶 🖍️ 🧩
⚖️ 🏃‍♂️👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖🧶 🖍️ 🧩

Weight Loss to Date: 48.2 Pounds
July Ending Weight: 179.8

Sep 1: 179.8 👣💦💪🖥️📖🧶 🖍️
Sep 2: 179.6 👣💦🖥️📖 🖍️
Sep 3: 179.8👣💦 🖥️ 🧶 🖍️
Sep 4: 179.4👣💦 🖥️ 📖🧶
Sep 5: 179.2 👣 💦🖥️ 📖
Sep 6: 179 💦🧘🖥️We are refinishing our hallway/pantry floor this week, so emptied the pantry, washed the shelves and painted. Busy day - starting refinishing the floors today. It's surprising how much stuff I had in that pantry closet. My living room is filled with junk! Can't wait for it to be finished so I can put my house back in order. Met my 1,600 mile marker yesterday! 😁
Sep 7: 178.6 😁 💦 🖥️ 🖍️ Had a snag in the refinishing yesterday - After sanding for a couple hours yesterday, realized the floors are in worse shape than we thought. The machine we rented wasn't powerful enough to go down as far as we need; so we returned it. Renting a different kind today - hoping it will work! If not, I think we'll need to rip it up and put down a new floor. Regardless, when they are done I will be happy- now a dusty, messy house! YUCK!
Sep 8: 179.6 😠 👣 💦🖥️ 🖍️ It's what I "sort of" expected. Didn't eat all day yesterday until dinnertime. (Working on the floors). I didn't want to cook when were done, so we order a plain cheese pizza. Under my calories for the day, but the sodium gets me every time. On a good note, we finished sanding the floors, and they came out really nice. Today we put the polyurethane one (keeping natural); it has to dry for a couple days and then I can move the stuff back in. Then a full day (or two) of cleaning the rest of the rooms. Even though you put up plastic to keep the dust out - it travels everywhere! Can't wait!
Sep 9: 179.8 😠💦🖥️🧶Don't like the direction I'm going. Hoping it will swish down when I get back into my normal routine. Although I walked yesterday - it was in little spirts - a mile at a time. Although I stayed within my calorie budget, didn't have time to make healty things and didn't eat at regular times. Was ravenous at the end of the day and had salty cashews before I went to bed. On a better note, two coats of polyurethane down. Two (or three if we need it) more today. It's getting close!
Sep 10: 179.6 😐 The floor has one more coat to go - then touch up any spots at the end; it needs to dry overnight and then I can start moving the stuff back in. Last night I woke up and couldn't sleep - since there is only one more light sand left I cleaned the family room (the farthest room from the foyer). There was even dust INSIDE the TV cabinet - had to take everything out, dust and put everything back. Hoping that it was worth my effort and it doesn't get dusty again today. Thinking about how much I needed to deep clean anyway and how sparkly my house will be next week. 😉

@buckeyebabe7l7 Fabulous pictures, looks like everyone had a wonderful time. And congrats on the football win!

@deepwoodslady i I love your writing on how we can’t undo the good habits we’ve created. Obviously, the good ,healthy meals I’ve eaten have outweighed the bad. This = getting healthy😀
@Buckeyebabe7l7 i love the pictures of your sweet grandchildren. I wish I could post a picture of mine too but my kids won’t let me. I’ve asked. Mine are a little older than yours, but many are close in age. 3 of them were all born within a few weeks of each other. In age they are: 5 yrs., 7 yrs., 8 yrs., 3 -10 yr. Olds, 12 yrs., and the oldest lovely boy is 13. Most live close by so they’re a big part of my life. They get together a lot to play like yours do. They’re growing up close to each other.

This is my first week back on MFP since I fell off the wagon back in March. It is amazing the weight loss success I have when I simply track/log my diet and exercise. Accountability is a big factor for me and that is the reason I enjoy this group. I hope we hang together and provide support and encouragement for the rest of Sep and beyond!

Sep 4 - Sep 10: 190.0 -185.2 (4.8 Lbs)

Hi, I'm a 50 yo married female, 5'6", and tired of looking and feeling like I do. I’m making changes to get out of the Obese category, to look good in my clothing, and to have confidence in public again.

Heaviest Weight: 221 | Ultimate Goal Weight: 165
Starting Weight Aug 2023: 212.7

September Goals:
Lose 2 lbs. | Consistently log food | Bike &/or Treadmill 4 days a week | Aim for 7 hours sleep/day

1 Sep: 207.1
2 Sep: 206.6
3 Sep: 207.1 - We had chips+ with our salads yesterday. Still logged it all, but knew the number would go up. Also entering cycle bloat, so this will fluctuate over the next week. Cycles are in sometimes mode, and irregular with M, so who knows right now. : )
4 Sep: 208.6 - Bloat + an open bag of pretzels. But it's back to food & exercise plan today.
5 Sep: 207.6
6 Sep: 206.7
7 Sep: 206.8
8 Sep: 206.9
9 Sep: 208.2 -- Pizza & sodium. I haven't had pizza in weeks and to be honest, when we went to bed last night, both my husband and I felt gross after greasy food and we both said we're looking forward to salads tomorrow. This morning I'm going to Instapot a bunch of chicken breasts that we can use on salads and in soup for the week ahead. I'm glad we've detoxed enough to notice how less healthy food feels when we have it. It's been a while since we could tell the difference.
10 Sep: 208.1
11 Sep:

@Manifesting Today hi there. Glad you’re here. That’s a good question about the nutritionist. I’ve spoken to a couple of them since March. Somehow, I come away from my talks feeling like I didn’t ask the right questions. She asked me all about my diet and I was honest with her. She never faulted me for counting calories, but they use the healthy plate method and don’t count calories. I’ve done it in the past and yes, it works too. It seems like no food is off limits. She isn’t going by my bloodwork, but she knows about my health issues i.e. hbp, cholesterol, diabetes, obesity. She’s aware of all of it.
She didn’t try to change my diet. She gave me ideas on what fish to add when I said I’d like to add more fish. I told her I don’t eat salad and she said, “you don’t have to”. She worked with my diet that is already in place.
She confirmed what the doctor said about exercise and vomiting. I need to eat something first. I ate a tbs. of peanut butter before my swim this morning and felt fine. It does the trick.
I’m still learning. It was great to talk to her.
Also, I like salad. I don’t eat it as I can’t buy it and use it before the produce goes bad. Too wasteful, so I cook my veggies.

Melwillbehealthy wrote: »

@Manifesting Today hi there. Glad you’re here. That’s a good question about the nutritionist. I’ve spoken to a couple of them since March. Somehow, I come away from my talks feeling like I didn’t ask the right questions....

Thank you, that was helpful. And I'm glad you've had less issues with the exercising now that you're eating before. That must have been so difficult to deal with. We too deal with things going bad before we get to them; I've had to start going to the store every other day if it's salad type items or fruit -- which I'm lucky I can do, I know some people are not as close to stores or have to shop weekly. But going to the store frequently is also time consuming and there are days I refuse.

Welcome, @staceysigns ! This is a very supportive group.

My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 63 years old and from the Michigan USA. In 2016 I weighed 253 lbs. I am on a journey of health and to get back to the real me.
Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
250’s; 240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150’s



Starting Weight (from Aug 31st): 191.8
Goal: 187.8 (Four lb Loss)
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09/09-192.0-(Trend Weight 193.6)- What I have come to realize: I really thought I could “undo” the good of the day with a splurge or a binge moment at night that totally ruins my macros/calorie count/carbs for the day. But truthfully, I can’t undo it AT ALL. That great low cal and/or low carb breakfast I ate, well, I still ate it. That Intermittent fasting, well, it really happened. That exercise I did in the afternoon, well, I still did it. That carefully planned healthy dinner I cooked and stuck to, well that didn’t change at all. A foolish mistake is just something I added to my still great habits I’ve formed. It may or may not change the scale for the worse, yes it’s true, but in no way shape or form does it “undo” all the good I did that day. Our good habits with food and exercise really really count! We can never undo something we’ve already done! You know, it’s funny how we Know we can’t undo something bad we’ve eaten or exercise we’ve missed, but we don’t realize we can’t undo something good either. Just a thought I wanted to share today, my friends. Let’s just keep going. {{Hugs}} to you all.

09/10-194.2-(Trend Weight 193.7)- I had a very good day yesterday but I stayed up way way too late and ended up hungry enough for another meal that was unplanned for and put me over budget, so to speak. Today I will choose one of my lower calorie/carb days on the zig-zag plan to get back in line. I really need to get in more steps and movement today somehow also. I’m expecting my DD and DGS over this afternoon so that may be difficult. Based on my starting weight for September and my loss goal, this is the month I am supposed to enter into the 180's and join the 180 club. Going backward will put me walking uphill both ways but there is still plenty of month left. I got this!

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Woo Hoo they are done. Now to just clean up the mess. A couple little streaks, but it looks so much better than it did. Have to wait a couple days before I can put everything back.

Foyer


Pantry, it's the same color, just looks different because of the lighting.

@ddainiak Your floors turned out great! They look beautiful...well done! ❤️🙌❤️

Thanks for sharing 😊