🎃🐈‍⬛October Daily Weigh-in and Logging Challenge🎃🌻

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 | Sep 2023: 207.1 |

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

Oct 1: 205.5
Oct 2: 206.4 - A bit more sodium yesterday, and a piece of Naan. It was good, I'm just paying for it.
Oct 3: 205.4 - Going to try a different workout, and focus on me today.
Oct 4: 204.9
Oct 5: 204.6
Oct 6: 205.4 - Sodium up last night, but this will go down again. Feeling good overall.
Oct 7: 204.9
Oct 8: 204.0 - I expected 2 lbs up this morning, so that might hit tomorrow. We splurged a bit yesterday.
Oct 9: 205.4 - Yup.
Oct 10: 206.1 - Ugh. I have been off my exercise game lately. Definitely time to get moving.
Oct 11: 205.4
Oct 12: 205.1 - I am prioritizing the workouts this week. I want this number to go down.
Oct 13: 205.6
Oct 14: 207.1 - I even waited a couple more hours before coffee/meds to weigh myself, hoping sleep would trim this down. But no. Salty yummy food, I love you, and I hate you.
Oct 15: 207.8 - This morning I definitely about threw the scale. Some of this is week-before-cycle bloat (clothes are tight when they were great 2 days ago). Some I assume is still sodium related. The rest is that I dared stray from eating salad and chicken and the 10 foods I eat all the time. Tomorrow I will 100% be back on plan. Today I'm giving myself a damn break. I'm grumpy. I'm tired.
Oct 16: 208.9 - This has to be water retention. I even worked out yesterday.
Oct 17: 208.7
Oct 18: 207.5
Oct 19: 205.7 - No cycle, but at least the water retention is less. This round really damaged my mindset too. I felt afraid to post my weight, felt fake for posting because it just looks like I'm off plan when I wasn't. Just glad the number is better.
Oct 20: 205.8 - couldn't shave that .1 no matter how many times I stepped on the scale.
Oct 21: 205.8
Oct 22: 205.5
Oct 23: 206.8 Grr.
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🎃🍂 🍁

Monthly Habits:
Log all my food 🥙
Work out 3x/week 🏃‍♀️
8 glasses of water💧
Self Care Activity 🧶

Sept weightloss: 6.7 lb.
Oct. Monthly goal: lose 2 pounds

1: 🥙🏃‍♀️🧶forgot to check in yesterday but the month is off to a good start 🧡
2: 🥙🏃‍♀️💧 feeling great and taking the time to focus on how good I feel when I take better care of my body.
3: 🥙💧
4: 🥙
5: 🥙💧 long day at work, but instead of vegging on the couch with a snack I did my skin care routine and called out an early night. Tomorrow is a new day.
6: 🥙🧶
7: 🥙🧶
8: 🥙🧶🏃‍♀️💧I hit all of my goals today ❤️ A great weekend with the family
9: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ hit all my goals today, even if my walk was interrupted by a sudden rainshower. Looking forward to fall activities and don't mind the rain as the trade off 🎃
10: 🥙💧 late night of fall baseball and then target runs to prep my teen for homecoming. Definitely went too long without eating and then ate an oceans worth of fishsticks. Heading to bed and starting over tomorrow
11:🥙🧶💧
12:🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ I will never not be humbled by a zumba class. I went to my second one today and man it was so fun, but I accidently looked in the mirror and I looked like an electrocuted jellyfish every time I waved my arms...
13:🥙🧶 went over my calories and missed some goals, but the day was good despite it and I'm excited for a whole weekend free ❤️
14:🥙🏃‍♀️
15: 🥙🏃‍♀️💧🧶
16: 🥙💧🧶 I'm celebrating 30 days of consistent tracking. I'm trying to focus on what things feel sustainable, and what can make my weightloss a long term change. I love the classes at the gym, and how much easier my mornings are when I meal prep. I like that I don't feel stuffed when I'm done eating and that I can tell the difference when I've drunk enough water. I'm looking forward to what I notice at day 60 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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20: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ hit all my goals today and had a Halloween movie night with the kids 🧡
21: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️
22: 🥙🏃‍♀️ Today was the first big event I've gone to since I started calorie counting. I was worried because these often come with hours of snacking and then a big dinner and lots of desserts. Today had that, but I was able to pick what I wanted without feeling the urge to constantly go back for more. It felt like a personal victory to walk away feeling comfortable and not over stuffed.
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I just got back from Switzerland. My husband and I were there visiting our son for five days. I am feeling re-energized to tackle my health. We didn't see any obese people there. We did see many people jogging and riding their bikes and walking, of course. Going to jump back in so that I can hit the ground running for the November challenge.

22: 208
23: 207
24: DNW, got into the Swiss chocolate

Hope you start to feel better soon, @ddainiak

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 Sept 30th): 188.2
Goal: 184.2 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx

**************************************ONE DAY, ONE STEP, ONE DECISION AT A TIME************************************


Weight in blue makes me blue because it’s a gain. Weight in fuchsia pink makes me feel cheery because it’s a loss. Weight in black means no change.


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10/23-184.4-(Trend Weight 186.1)- Travel today about 125 miles each way to get to the nearest Mall. Shopping for daughter’s upcoming birthday. She’s petite length and needs pants, hopefully I can find them. Feel good about the scale today. It’s a nice buffer for the meals we’ll have in the city. Tomorrow will be damage control I’m sure. I’ll try to keep a level head, keep my wits about me when I choose my foods today but no promises. My son chooses the restaurants.

10/24-DNW-(Trend Weight DNW)- I had a nice day yesterday traveling and shopping with my son. I ate breakfast food for lunch (restaurant) in order to keep the carbs down. However, my son chose Golden Corral for dinner so there’s that…….We didn’t get home until maybe around 8:30 pm so I was able to skip any further food except a handful of pecan halves very late last night to keep me satisfied. Lots of walking yesterday through the malls and stores. Today I am blah. It’s rainy and cool and gray. I don’t even think I’ll get dressed today but I will try to fit in some exercise later…..maybe…. I just need a minute.

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'm Janice...54 yrs old, married 26 years with 4 kids, One 28 week old grandbaby and a small zoo I live in Edmonton.Alberta,Canada and I work for Hallmark. I am an avid cyclist...I love to walk, hike, spin class, BodyCombat and BodyPump. I sometimes teach spin classes at a friends gym. I also like to read+(audiobooks) and watch movies!!😁
9 year breast cancer survivor...Osteoarthritis in most of my joints...limited range of motion in my knees, but all bearable for now..
Highest weight:197.6
Goals:
1. Following my Les Mills October calendar
2. Yoga
3. Tracking everything
4. Journaling
Oct 1 - 152.2 - Weight won't stay here Big race yesterday - managed 2nd place out of 102 riders...was a bit chilly but it didn't rain so that was a bonus 5.
2 - 153.2 - Always goes up as soon as I eat a normal meal
3 - 153.8 - uuuhhgg - hate the week after races...
4 - 154.1 -
5 - 154 -
6 - 153.6 - WHAT??? 🤫🤫
7 - 11 - Started off super busy then ended up super sick...I am a wreck! Have had so many problems with my gallbladder - had it removed about a year ago along with 32 stones from my bile duct...but have had reoccurring stones...Choledocholithiasis off and on since...well I couldn't stop throwing up on Saturday and was rushed in for an ERCP procedure to remove more stones - this is the third time this year - but this time I had no warning signs...so done with my body...was home Sunday but not much help for dinner...my husband and kids did it all...with some direction ;)
12 - 153.4 - making new goals today...need to change up something 😡
13 - 153.6
14 - 153.6 - Tried a new spin class today - power and flow - it was so fun...and wow😁
15 - 153.8 - 250 km bike today...brrrrrrr
16 - 153 - from the bike yesterday...
17 - 153.2 - uuuhhhggggg
18 - 153.8 - whatever!! Out tonight - Robin Williams Tribute Comedy show!!!
19 - 153.4 - This is my life - need to shift my mindset - just not sure how to do it!!!
20 - 154 - sad face - I too self sabotage Today is our last motorcycle trip of the year...it's getting cold and snow is in the forecast for Sunday
21 - 154.2 well....
22 - 154
23 - 153.8 - weird
24 - 153.8 - hmmmmmmm

Sorry...I am having trouble keeping up lately...I feel so scattered....

Starting weight September 1: 141

Goal weight for October: 132.8

October 1: 136.2
October 2: 137.0 I logged 👍 Wow, my weight can really spike up quickly. On Sept 30 I was 134.8. Now 2.2 lbs higher. But this is not a surprise. On Sept 30 my mom took me out to lunch; and the mac & cheese was sooooo bad. I just had to go home and make mac & cheese to go with dinner, the proper way, with all the butter and flour and cream cheese and buttery bread crumb topping. And I ate too much of that mac & cheese. And then yesterday we had a long party with friends, and there was a ton of great food & wine. So I overdid it there. So, now back to the plan. My goal is to get back at daily logging & daily meeting my calorie goal, AND to drink lots of water. Cycle day 1 should be right about now too, so the weight could stay here or go up again. Just going to get back to the plan and try to stick with it from here!
October 3: 137.0 I logged 👍
October 4: 136.8 I logged 👍
October 5: 135.2
October 6: DNW
October 7: 135.2 Had crazy crazy days both Thursday and Friday...
October 8: 134.8
October 9: 135.0 I've been super slack with logging. But I am signed up for my very first 5K tomorrow, so that's exciting. This will be a run/walk for me. For about a month I've been working on it and now I can run up to about 3-4 minutes intermittently with about 1-2 minutes walking, for about 25 minutes. I never believed I could run for 3 minutes straight, so this is a huge improvement. Hopefully I won't wake up sick or something (there is sickness going through the house.)
October 10: 134.4 I logged 👍
October 11: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 12: 135.2 Awwww, I'm kinda disappointed.
October 13: 136.0 -Sigh.-
October 14: 135.8 Looks like today or tomorrow will by Cycle day 1... that seems to explain some things with my hunger and eating the last couple days and, uh, some moodiness, LOL! Perimenopause is interesting... I never know what's going on.
October 15: 137.0
October 16: 136.4
October 17: 136.4
October 18: 135.6 I logged 👍. Could be worse, considering I haven't been logging and I keep eating too much. I keep getting hungry and eating over my calorie goal, and then I just throw in the towel. My goal for the rest of the month is to stop with that perfectionism and to keep logging even if I'm going to be way over on calories. Also, more protein in the early afternoon might help with my afternoon cravings.
October 19: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 20: 135.0 I logged 👍
October 21: 134.8 I logged 👍
October 22: 134.0
October 23: 135.8 I logged 👍
October 24: 134.4 I logged 👍
October 25: 134.2
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Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a few months now; my favorite support group on MFP. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty).

My goals for October🍂 :
Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - BUT I am only 6 pounds away from getting out of the obese category - so setting a stretch goal to get there by the end of the month. Usually if I announce something I do it so . . . .. fingers crossed. ⚖️
Hit my orignal 1,960 mile goal. I am on a mission to get 2,023 miles in 2023, when I first started my goal was 1,960 - a good year. When I realized that I would achieve this early changed it to 2,023. 🏃‍♂️
17K 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 daily 📝
Stay under my calorie range 🥗
Read daily 📖
Do something creative or fun daily 🧶 🖍️ 🎮
⚖️ 🏃‍♂️👣💦💪🧘 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮

Weight Loss to Date: 53.8 Pounds
September Ending Weight: 174.2

🎃👻🍂Happy October!🎃👻🍂

Oct 1: 😁 173.8 A good start 👣💦📝 🥗 🎮
Oct 2: 😁 173.4 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 3: 173.4 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮 The Hogwarts challenge that I am in has an assignment this week to run/jog for 20 minutes. It doesn't have to be in one session. Years ago, I did the Couch to 5K and jogged a 5k on my 50th birthday (a time when I was almost at my goal weight). I thought about doing that again, but when I tried earlier this year my knees couldn't take it. I thought I would try again when I lost 60 pounds - I'm not quite at 60, but close - I guess this was a sign that I should try again. Yesterday I did day one, and it was fun. Keeping my fingers crossed because I really did love it.
Oct 4: 173.6 👣💦💪📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 5: 173.4 👣💦 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 6: 😁173👣💦🧘 📝🥗 📖 🖍️ 🎮
Oct 7: 😁172.6 👣💦 📝🥗 📖🖍️🎮
Oct 8: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🎮 Happy with that - went out for a nice lunch, had a couple beers - it might be a day lag for the uptick - but happy that it stayed the same today.
Oct 9: 😁 172 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Not a very good night sleep - couldn't fall asleep so go back up - read, knitted, played games on my phone - finally went to bed at 3:00AM, and back up 6:00AM. It's bingo night with Mom tonight so up later than usual - thinking I'll need to take a nap today - we'll see how that plays out on the scale tomorrow.
Oct 10: 172 👣💦 📝📖 🎮 First day in forever I missed my calorie goal. Just a couple 100 over, but over just the same. It is my sister's birthday today - so had cake last night at bingo which put me over the top.
Oct 11: 😠 173.2 👣💦💪📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮 I guess Monday's overage, lack of sleep, and the fact that I was over on my sodium goal yesterday got me.
Oct 12: 172.8 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🎮
Oct 13: 172.8 👣💦💪 📝🥗 🖍️
Oct 14: 😁171.6 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 🖍️Well that was a nice surprise. It will probably be short lived. Going out to dinner tonight with the whole family. My sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring. She has finished her treatment and after surgery and three rounds of chemo - they think they got it all. Going out to celebrate. Going to Japenese Hibachi - am going to figure out this morning how to count it so that I can determine what I can eat for breakfast and lunch. Hoping to still stay under the calorie goal - but am sure the sodium will be over the top.
Oct 15: 173.4 👣📝📖 Won't give myself a sad face - fully expected, but was a great night celebrating. Here is a picture of the family - Unfortunately missing Allyson, we were supposed to go last wekend but my nephew and hubby were still covid positive, so couldn't go. She had a wedding this weekend, so we missed her.
Oct 16: 173.6 👣💪📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮 Ok, now I need to get motivated - been over my sodium goal three days in a row AND two days in a row not drinking the water - gets me every time.
Oct 17: 172.4 👣💦 📝🥗 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 18: 172.6 👣💦💪 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 19: 172.6 👣💪 📝🥗 📖 🎮
Oct 20: 171.4 😁 Finally! 👣💦📝🥗 📖 🖍️🎮
Oct 21: 170.6 😁 👣📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮
Oct 22: 171.2 👣📝 Started feeling crappy in the afternoon, got progressively worse - took a covid test - postive. ☹️ Might be out of commission for a few days.
Oct 23: 171
Oct 24: 173.4 Sat on the couch all day again yesterday. Feeling crummy - ate all the wrong things. It's just temporary.
Oct 25: 172.2 📝🥗🧶 🖍️🎮 Feeling a little better - got a small walk in yesterday. Thank you all for your kind well wishes.
Oct 26: 171.4 👣💦🧘 📝🥗 📖 🧶 🖍️🎮

Starting weight September 1: 141

Goal weight for October: 132.8

October 1: 136.2
October 2: 137.0 I logged 👍 Wow, my weight can really spike up quickly. On Sept 30 I was 134.8. Now 2.2 lbs higher. But this is not a surprise. On Sept 30 my mom took me out to lunch; and the mac & cheese was sooooo bad. I just had to go home and make mac & cheese to go with dinner, the proper way, with all the butter and flour and cream cheese and buttery bread crumb topping. And I ate too much of that mac & cheese. And then yesterday we had a long party with friends, and there was a ton of great food & wine. So I overdid it there. So, now back to the plan. My goal is to get back at daily logging & daily meeting my calorie goal, AND to drink lots of water. Cycle day 1 should be right about now too, so the weight could stay here or go up again. Just going to get back to the plan and try to stick with it from here!
October 3: 137.0 I logged 👍
October 4: 136.8 I logged 👍
October 5: 135.2
October 6: DNW
October 7: 135.2 Had crazy crazy days both Thursday and Friday...
October 8: 134.8
October 9: 135.0 I've been super slack with logging. But I am signed up for my very first 5K tomorrow, so that's exciting. This will be a run/walk for me. For about a month I've been working on it and now I can run up to about 3-4 minutes intermittently with about 1-2 minutes walking, for about 25 minutes. I never believed I could run for 3 minutes straight, so this is a huge improvement. Hopefully I won't wake up sick or something (there is sickness going through the house.)
October 10: 134.4 I logged 👍
October 11: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 12: 135.2 Awwww, I'm kinda disappointed.
October 13: 136.0 -Sigh.-
October 14: 135.8 Looks like today or tomorrow will by Cycle day 1... that seems to explain some things with my hunger and eating the last couple days and, uh, some moodiness, LOL! Perimenopause is interesting... I never know what's going on.
October 15: 137.0
October 16: 136.4
October 17: 136.4
October 18: 135.6 I logged 👍. Could be worse, considering I haven't been logging and I keep eating too much. I keep getting hungry and eating over my calorie goal, and then I just throw in the towel. My goal for the rest of the month is to stop with that perfectionism and to keep logging even if I'm going to be way over on calories. Also, more protein in the early afternoon might help with my afternoon cravings.
October 19: 134.6 I logged 👍
October 20: 135.0 I logged 👍
October 21: 134.8 I logged 👍
October 22: 134.0
October 23: 135.8 I logged 👍
October 24: 134.4 I logged 👍
October 25: 134.2 I logged 👍
October 26: 134.2 Today and Sunday will be my challenges for the end of the month. MIL is serving us one of her big delicious dinners today, and Sunday we have a potluck plus a party. My goal for today is to enjoy MIL's dinner without going over my calorie goal, just logging with educated guesses from the database.
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Hello. Just found the group. Everyone seems to be so nice... will there be a Nov group? Thx

waxingturtle wrote: »

Hello. Just found the group. Everyone seems to be so nice... will there be a Nov group? Thx

Hi @waxingturtle . Usually a day or so from the end of the month, the new thread for the next month will be posted, and a link to will be provided here in the group.

Welcome to the group!

Monthly Habits:
Log all my food 🥙
Work out 3x/week 🏃‍♀️
8 glasses of water💧
Self Care Activity 🧶

Sept weightloss: 6.7 lb.
Oct. Monthly goal: lose 2 pounds

1: 🥙🏃‍♀️🧶forgot to check in yesterday but the month is off to a good start 🧡
2: 🥙🏃‍♀️💧 feeling great and taking the time to focus on how good I feel when I take better care of my body.
3: 🥙💧
4: 🥙
5: 🥙💧 long day at work, but instead of vegging on the couch with a snack I did my skin care routine and called out an early night. Tomorrow is a new day.
6: 🥙🧶
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8: 🥙🧶🏃‍♀️💧I hit all of my goals today ❤️ A great weekend with the family
9: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ hit all my goals today, even if my walk was interrupted by a sudden rainshower. Looking forward to fall activities and don't mind the rain as the trade off 🎃
10: 🥙💧 late night of fall baseball and then target runs to prep my teen for homecoming. Definitely went too long without eating and then ate an oceans worth of fishsticks. Heading to bed and starting over tomorrow
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12:🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ I will never not be humbled by a zumba class. I went to my second one today and man it was so fun, but I accidently looked in the mirror and I looked like an electrocuted jellyfish every time I waved my arms...
13:🥙🧶 went over my calories and missed some goals, but the day was good despite it and I'm excited for a whole weekend free ❤️
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15: 🥙🏃‍♀️💧🧶
16: 🥙💧🧶 I'm celebrating 30 days of consistent tracking. I'm trying to focus on what things feel sustainable, and what can make my weightloss a long term change. I love the classes at the gym, and how much easier my mornings are when I meal prep. I like that I don't feel stuffed when I'm done eating and that I can tell the difference when I've drunk enough water. I'm looking forward to what I notice at day 60 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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20: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ hit all my goals today and had a Halloween movie night with the kids 🧡
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22: 🥙🏃‍♀️ Today was the first big event I've gone to since I started calorie counting. I was worried because these often come with hours of snacking and then a big dinner and lots of desserts. Today had that, but I was able to pick what I wanted without feeling the urge to constantly go back for more. It felt like a personal victory to walk away feeling comfortable and not over stuffed.
23: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️
24: 🥙🧶 Last month I wore a favorite belt that was so snug I had to take it off half way through the day and stash it in my purse. Today I wore it and it was not only comfy but a little loose!
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