🍁🦃November Dailly Logging and Weigh-in Challenge🏈🍂

Oct SW: 247
Oct EW: 244
-3#

Nov goal: 239
Lose 5# by drinking more water and choosing healthier foods.

Nov:
1-3: did not record weight
4th: 244
5th: 255
6th: 244
7th: 243
8th: 243

@ddainiak Congratulations on leaving the obese category and entering the overweight category! That's a big deal!!!

Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a few months now. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty). Been with this group since the spring - my favorite group for support!

My goals for 🦃November🦃 - simplifying them this month - too hard to keep track of everything last month

⚖️ Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - bringing me out of the obese category and into overweight
👣 17K steps daily with one day of rest
📝 Log Daily
🥗 Stay under my calorie range

⚖️👣📝🥗

Highest Weight: 228
October Ending Weight: 169.6

Nov 1: 171 - 👣 📝 🥗 17K Steps Not off to a good start - but it's temporary!
Nov 2: DNW - 📝 4K Steps Tough day for eating and exercise yesterday. It was our monthly visit to my husband's 91 year old cousin who lives about 2 hours away. Leave at 5:30 AM - have breakfast and lunch with her (not good choices) and then a long drive back home later in the afternoon. We got back home at 6:00. Lovely visit, but it makes for a long day and I am exhausted when I get home. I hit the left over Halloween candy for dinner, no exercise at all, couldn't sleep (probably too much sugar). It's just a temporary situation (didn't I say that yesterday?)! Will get back to it today!
Nov 3: 170.4 👣 📝🥗 23K Steps Good day yesterday; everything on track and on my way back. As a reward for making my 2,023 goal hubby said to get the new Garmin Fitness tracker that I have been eyeing. It came a couple of days ago and I've been trying to figure it out; wearing both the Fitbit and Garmin. Today will switch to totally Garmin. Hubby is getting the Fitbit.
Nov 4: 170.2 👣📝🥗 20K Steps A slow creep in the right direction. Girls day at the casino today - my sisters and aunt are going. Wish me luck! I should still be ok. I'm eating my breakfast before I go, will bring a protein bar and fruit for my lunch and will be home for dinner. And I won't be drinking (I have to drive home).
Nov 5: 170.4 👣📝🥗 20K Steps
Nov 6: 170.6 👣📝🥗 21K Steps Ugh - I've been struggling to see a decrease this week. The only thing I can think of is that I haven't been reaching my water goal. Will concentrate on that today and hope for a whoosh!
Nov 7: 169.6 👣📝🥗 Finally back to my October ending weight. Now to keep it below the 170s for good.
Nov 8: 168.4 😁 👣📝🥗 My first smile this month! Woo Hoo! Guess who is no longer "obese"! 😉
Nov 9: 169.8 👣📝🥗 Expected an uptick, and am actually glad that it is not more. Trivia Night last night (took 2nd place) - over my sodium goal and used all my calories from exercise.

I’m a grandma of 8 from Ontario. 9 months ago my health really took a hit: diabetes, hbp, hardened arteries , arthritis, etc. Everything came on at once. I was heading for a stroke. Scared me into action.
I love this challenge, and the support and inspiration it brings.
One of my goals this month is to try and get some exercise most days.



Starting weight in March 2023: 230 lbs.
Goal weight: 120 lbs.
Height: 5’2”
Total loss: 42.6 lbs.
End of Sept. weight: 187.8 lbs.
End of October weight: 188



Monthly Weight Loss:
March-10 lbs. (2023)
April- 8 lbs.
May- 5 lbs.
June- 4.4 lbs. (trip to Europe)
July- 5.6

August-7 lbs. joined a ‘challenge’
September- 2.6 lbs. ( sick)
October- (gained) .2 lbs.
November- goal lose 4 lbs. and exercise most days, count calories, log food
December-

Nov. 1- 187.4 lbs. I feel like I’m back on track, and looking forward to beating this November challenge. Today, after my osteoporosis class I rode the bike in the gym for 15 minutes.
Nov. 2- 187.2 aqua fit
Nov. 3- 186.8 osteoporosis fitness, stationary bike
Nov. 4- 186.2 swam in pool
Nov. 5- DNW grandson is a scout in the Remembrance Day parade to local cenotaph. Going with family.
Nov. 6- 187.2 dance aerobics
Nov. 7- 186.8 lb.
Nov. 8- 185.4 lbs. perseverance pays off🙂, osteoporosis fitness
Nov. 9- 185.8 lbs. normal fluctuation I guess
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Hi All, I am a busy mother of five slowly working my way to my goal weight. During September I entered my "Normal" BMI category and am now about 10 pounds from my ultimate goal. This will be my 3rd month in this challenge. I had never weighed myself daily before this challenge, and I am finding it to be so helpful and informative to weigh and check in daily.

My goal for November is to NOT GET DERAILED BY THANKSGIVING. 🦃 🥧 😊 Let me tell you, I can really get derailed by a holiday. I may or may not log on Thanksgiving or the day after, and that's OK. But my Thanksgiving goal is to log daily from Saturday the 25th through the end of the month.

Starting weight September 1: 141.0

Starting weight November1: 132.8

Goal for November: 130.4 Considering Thanksgiving, I'm setting my goal a tad on the conservative side.

November 1: 132.8 I logged 🍁
November 2: 132.8 I logged 🍁
November 3: 131.4 I logged 🍁 Very happy with today's weight. Over the past week there have been several days that I ate at maintenance, and a couple days I ate well over maintenance. It was hard to tell if I was needlessly eating more, or if I really needed the additional calories. I've already got my activity level set to almost the highest one, and I haven't even gone running or done any exercise for over a week. I guess I walk constantly around the house, dealing with the children and doing housework, always on my feet, and I frequently have to do up and down the stairs to deal with something or put something away, so maybe that burns a lot sometimes. For a while there I thought I was "failing" because I could not hit my calorie goal.
November 4: 131.0 I logged 🍁
November 5: 130.8
November 6: 132.2 I logged 🍁
November 7: 131.8 I logged 🍁
November 8: 131.4 I logged 🍁
November 9: 131.2
November 10:
November 11:
November 12:
November 13:

Hi, I am Lisa. I am 57 years old, 5'5" tall and I live in Tillsonburg, Ontario. I am married with two grown sons.

It's time to get this weight off for good! My first goal is Onederland....again

30: 207.8
31: 205.8
1: 205.2
2: 206.0
3: 207.2
4: 205.2
5: 205.8
6: 203.8
7: 203.6
8: 204.8
9: 203.8

We went out to dinner for my mother-in-law's birthday. I pre-planned what I was going to eat and made sure it fit into my calories. I even passed up the chocolate brownie that everyone was having for dessert. I got questioned by my brother-in-law for passing up on chocolate. I just said no, I don't want any. I said no to my husband, too, when he was willing to share. The scale rewarded me this morning for my sacrifice.

ddainiak wrote: »

Nov 8: 168.4 😁 👣📝🥗 My first smile this month! Woo Hoo! Guess who is no longer "obese"! 😉

CONGRATS! 🎉

deepwoodslady wrote: »

I added Leslie Sansone 1 mile walk for beginners yesterday from youtube. Some of it was a little rough because of my balance issues but I was careful and I hope that it will actually help that too. It was one mile in exactly 15 minutes. I was able to cast it to my TV from my PC. It’s the first time I’ve actually been able to successfully cast so I hope I can do that consistently. 15 minutes is totally doable for me most days so I am hoping that it will help me get steps and walking in during the winter. Being retired, I just don’t get my steps in enough anymore. I even hope to graduate eventually to some of her other walking videos as I improve my balance.

I love Leslie's videos, and have been doing some of her routines for years now. It's mostly the same 4 moves to different music. Great exercise and good alternative if one can't get outside due to weather.

ozdeelite wrote: »

Hi all, I’m so over losing and gaining the same 2 kgs. I’ve been trying to lose weight since August and haven’t actually lost more than a couple hundred grams. I’m over this. I will keep trying but at what point do I just concede defeat and accept being a whale 🐳?

Hang in there! Each day, each meal is a new opportunity / a fresh start. Don’t throw in the towel. I have been the same way since about 2018 - I went over 205/210 lbs and it kept climbing up up up to 247/248. I just teetered back and forth for years and years. Trying to lose…creeping back up…trying to lose again…the endless, hopeless cycle.

Last month I had a bit of a revelation. I was at a Halloween party with my boys and his friend’s mom had had weight loss surgery. She was apologizing because she didn’t want me to feel awkward eating when she really wasn’t. She said she could only eat about 4ounces at a time (1/2 cup) so she had to really choose what she was going to treat herself with because she couldn’t fit a whole lot.

Then I read Dr. Mosely’s book The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet. I’m not diabetic, just teeter between normal and pre-diabetes BUT both Type 1 and Type 2 are extremely prevalent in my family. He has a lot of good information to add to my knowledge base and even though I can’t get as low as 800 calories per day for 8 weeks I got thinking…what if instead of eating 500 less than my calorie requirements, I tried to eat the calorie requirements for my goal weight. It was hard at first and there’s usually about 1 day a week when I completely miss the mark but for the most part…even on those days…I’m still at or under the daily TDEE for my current weight.

I’ve also been reading The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung. Although he talks a lot about low carbs and intermittent fasting the knowledge he shares is game changing! I’ve tried to go 12 hours at night not eating (usually 6:30/7 to 6:30/7). Which isn’t hard because I sleep for most of it anyway. AND then, I cut out snacking and just eat breakfast (7a), lunch (11:30a) and dinner (5:30p). The times are flexible but there’s no snacking in between. Just water (etc.).

The weight’s finally coming off and it’s real encouraging! I still try to go to the gym 3-4 times per week but I’ve only been able to go once this week and I’ll only be able to go once next week and once Thanksgiving week just because of our busy schedule and work. So I have to mostly concentrate on my food intake. And when I do…I’m more picky about what I fill my calories/space/time with because I’m eating as if I were maintaining 140 pounds and not 247/248.

Today I am 224.0 and it’s real encouraging! I feel this time is different. I see things differently. We will see. I’m so glad you all are on this journey with me!