😀😀😀***OCTOBER 2023 WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE***😀😀😀
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October Start Weight: 239
October Goal Weight: 230
Ultimate Goal Weight: 199
October 1: 239
October 8: 236
October 15: 236
October 22:
October 29:
October 31:
Perimenopause is horrible. Weight loss is so difficult. Oh well. Staying strong and taking it day by day. 💪😎11 -
takinitalloff wrote: »If the soup had a lot of salt, that could cause you to retain water. Same with the biscuits, but more than that, when you eat carbs, you also hold on to water. That's why people often notice a very quick loss when they stop eating carbs - it's the water. Those should resolve themselves over time. The exercise likely didn't yet lead to any significant muscle gain, but indeed it could be water again as your tissues go through the repair process.
Agree with the salt & carb info. However, a person starting a walking regimen from zero, while at a high weight, can absolutely experience significant muscle gain, in combination with the water retention. Obviously @3rdtimelosesit didn't suddenly gain 3 lbs of muscle in a week, I assume it's a combination of factors, but I wouldn't discount muscle gain. I started walking over the summer/fall and my legs got significantly more muscular in a fairly short amount of time.
Muscle mass gain is slow, and it takes work. What usually happens first is that your muscle fibers get better adapted, and you get stronger. It takes a lot of work and time to have any significant increase in muscle mass. To be sure, the heavier you are, the more you have to work just to walk. One byproduct of that is that if you're lifting, you may experience an apparent increase in strength for some exercises like dead lifts and squats as your body mass decreases - you are just not moving as much mass in addition to the bar. I remember a few years ago putting on an eight-pound SCUBA soft weight belt and taking a walk in the park. I had lost weight. I was amazed how much harder it was to walk with just an extra eight pounds. I had previously been walking everywhere with much more than that. But no, it's not muscle mass gain.5 -
Start Weight: 163 lbs - August 27
October Goal Weight: 153
Ultimate Goal Weight: 135
October 1 158
October 8 157
October 15 156
October 22
October 29:
October 3110 -
Was doing better but then a darn work trip this week got me off my game. Back on point. Hope all have a good week.
October Start Weight: 129.8 lbs
October Goal Weight: 125 lbs
Ultimate Goal Weight: 122 lbs
October 1: 129.8
October 8: 128.4
October 15:128.2
October 22:
October 29:
October 31:11 -
@mtaratoot I didn't think about the salt in the soup or the carbs holding water. Yup that'd be why! Love me some carbs...lol I've been eating the same things I'd be eating once I dropped the weight so that I wouldn't gain the weight once I added them back in. That's what got me into trouble before. Will take more care with carbs & salt. Giving up is not part of the program...
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3rdtimelosesit wrote: »@mtaratoot I didn't think about the salt in the soup or the carbs holding water. Yup that'd be why! Love me some carbs...lol I've been eating the same things I'd be eating once I dropped the weight so that I wouldn't gain the weight once I added them back in. That's what got me into trouble before. Will take more care with carbs & salt. Giving up is not part of the program...
Another approach is to know ahead of time that if you eat them, there will be a TEMPORARY blip on the scale. If the soup is delicious and fits your calories, enjoy it! As for biscuits, I know that I can easily eat too many if I make a batch, so I just don't make 'em. I want to make cornbread soon. It's really good, and I give most of it away or else I go over my calories. I just found a second cornbread triangle cast iron at a thrift shop, so now I have two of those AND two corn stick pans - perfect for a big batch. Mmmmm.... Cornbread.....5 -
October Start Weight: 168.2
October Goal Weight: 163.2
Ultimate Goal Weight: 125
October 1: 168.2
October 8: 167.4
October 15: 1685 -
October Start Weight: 217.2
October Goal Weight: 210.2
Ultimate Goal Weight: 150
October 1: 217.2
October 8: 217.4
October 15: 217.1
October 22:
October 29:
October 31:12 -
I had the best tortellini pasta and tiramisu ever on Sunday. Dessert tastes so good if you wait to have something fancy instead of having grab and go snack cakes throughout the week. Dopamine explosion.
October Start Weight: 198
October Goal Weight: 193
Ultimate Goal Weight: 120
October 4: 198
October 9: 196
October 16: 194.6
October 22:
October 29:
October 31:11 -
Another approach is to know ahead of time that if you eat them, there will be a TEMPORARY blip on the scale. If the soup is delicious and fits your calories, enjoy it! As for biscuits, I know that I can easily eat too many if I make a batch, so I just don't make 'em. I want to make cornbread soon. It's really good, and I give most of it away or else I go over my calories. I just found a second cornbread triangle cast iron at a thrift shop, so now I have two of those AND two corn stick pans - perfect for a big batch. Mmmmm.... Cornbread.....
I do work everything into my calorie count so I can enjoy soup & bisquits. But if it's going to cause me to gain so much in 1 week I'll be forgoing them for now. Unless I can find soups that don't have alot of sodium in them. I know my beef barley soup did as I used packages onion soup mix to flavour.....high sodium. ohhhh cornbread!! don't give me ideas...lol
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takinitalloff wrote: »below you can see the results so far from listening to the audiobook of Allen Carr's EasyWay.
October 1:189
October 8:189
October 15: 180
Whoa!!! That is awesome! So glad you decided to give the book a shot. I hope you are enjoying it and that it will change your life the way it has changed mine
Where can I find that book?2 -
Where can I find that book?
It’s called Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating and you should be able to get it from any bookstore, or maybe even your library. It’s not very expensive. I haven’t listened to the audiobook myself, because I prefer reading a physical copy — but I’ve been told that the narrator is good.5 -
October start weight:222
October goal weight: 218
Ultimate goal weight: 190 (to start)
I have been coming back and forth to this challenge for well over a year. I know I am going very slowly, but when I think of stopping I look back at how much weight I've lost and kept off, that keeps me coming back because if I left I would be many pounds heavier than I am now. My Fitness Pal has helped me lose around 50 lbs. (so far) in the years I have been a member.
Oct.5: 222
Oct. 12: 222.50
Oct. 19:
Oct. 26:8 -
Heaviest weight 182
September 30 goal 155.4 (missed, actual was 157.4)
Oct 31 goal 150.4
Nov 31 goal 145.4
October Start Weight: 157.4 lbs
October 1: 157.4
October 8: 155.8
October 15:155.6
October 22:
October 29:
October 31:10 -
5' 2" Woman
October Start Weight: 88.4kg
October Goal Weight: 85.4kg
Ultimate Goal Weight: 60kg
October 1: N/A
October 8: 88.4kg
October 15: 89.5kg (after a night out)
October 22: Predict 87.4
October 29: Predict 86.4
October 31: Predict 85.48 -
62 year old Australian female; dieting for health improvement
Previous months
May start: 115kg
June start: 110
July start: 108
Aug start: 104.5
Sept start: 103.5
Oct Start Weight: 98.5kg
Oct Goal Weight: 95kg
Ultimate Goal Weight: 70kg
Oct 1: 98.5
Oct 11: 97.8
Oct 18: 96.9
Oct 25:
Oct 31:13 -
October Start Weight: 156
October Goal Weight: 150
Ultimate Goal Weight: 150
October 1:156
October 6:153
October 18:153
October 22:
October 29:
October 31:
These last 3lbs to lose are hanging on with extreme desperation! lol12 -
Thank you, @enlightenme3 !
I'm Chris - 73 year old female...5'5" ...I used to be 5'7" but arthritis hit and I lost two inches, so now that two inches is squished around my waist like the billows of a big accordion...
...Oh, well. I'll just keep working on it.
Heaviest: 192.2
Round GW: 148.0
UGW: 145.0
October Start Weight:
October Goal Weight: 148.0
Ultimate Goal Weight: 140.0
10/01 - 150.0 at 7:50 a.m. ...nothing...bad cold!
10/02 - 148.9 at 7:30 a.m. ...nothing...bad cold
10/09 - 151.6 at 5:30 a.m. ...Grandson Duty then 60 min workout w/trainer
10/16 - 150.2 at 5:30 a.m. ...Grandson Duty then 60 min workout w/trainer
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Good luck everyone.
Chris6 -
October Start Weight: 134
October Goal Weight: 133
Ultimate Goal Weight: 130
October 4: 134
October 11: 135
October 18: 133
October 22:
October 29:
October 31:12 -
Not any progress...but it is early yet Started at the gym today. Its been awhile since I have been to a gym so I actually really enjoyed it. Hopefully going to find ways to help strengthen and stabilize my knee joint where I tore the meniscus last month. The pain is much better now and walking has improved, but it still feels pretty unstable at times.
Heaviest weight: 335
Ultimate Goal: 150
Starting weight October 14, 2023: 246.0
Weight loss goal for October: 2 pounds
October 17: 246.7
October 31:
Total +/- for October:8
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