❄️🎄December Daily Logging and Weigh-in Challenge🪵🔥

Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a while now. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty). I have been on this weight loss journey since January 2023. 💖I wouldn't be where I am today without this group (along with a couple other challenges I am in); I am so thankful for their support and accountability. 💖

🤶🎄My Goals for December🎄🤶

⚖️ Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - Will be tough this month, but am keeping it anyway
17K steps daily with one day of rest
📝 Log Daily
🥗 Stay under my calorie range
💪 Strength Train 3 days per week
🧘‍♀️ Tai Chi or Yoga 1 day per week
💦 6+ glasses of water

👣 📝 🥗 💪 🧘‍♀️ 💦
Highest Weight 228
November Ending Weight 164.6

Dec 1: 164.8 📝 🥗 💪 🧘‍♀️ Hello December!
Dec 2: 165 👣 📝 🥗 🧘‍♀️ 💦 My first holiday event this weekend. Greg and I are off to Newport, RI. We go every year this time of year. It is a city set on an island in Rhode Island. Really cute shops, great restaurants. They decorte the city for Christmas. We go and see the lights, do some shopping and our annual "Taste of Newport". We usually go to 5 different restaurants (Lunch, Appetizer, Dinner, Dessert and BF the following morning), and plenty of drinks with that. This will be the first year that I'm going since I started this weight loss journey. I am going to enjoy myself, but also going to try to curb that this year. We are thinking - just small plates for each and and/or sharing. I won't be weighing tomorrow, but will be back Monday AM to catch up.
Dec 3: DNW 👣
Dec 4: 167.2 👣 It could have been a lot worse. We had a wonderful time - back at it today. Hoping it comes off as quickly as the Thanksgiving gain did. Here is a picture of us on the balcony of our room - sunset and harbor in background. It was a beautiful day - almost 50 degrees.
Dec 5: 166.8 👣 📝 Bingo night with Mom, got home and was ravinous. Don't know why but the late night binge took place and I ate over my calorie range. It will probably show up on the scale tomorrow.
Dec 6: 166.8 👣 📝 🥗 🧘‍♀️ 💦
Dec 7: 165.8 👣 📝 🥗 💦 Trying to get back to my low before our next event on the 16th. It's getting there slowly. Took a 5 mile walk at the beach yesterday - love the smell of the salt water. We were practically the only ones there - Monty had a wonderful time. Came home, did a little xmas shopping.

Hey y'all! Back at it in December, my favorite month of the year!

I'm a 37 year old stay at home mom of 5 little ones! I'm trying to lose the baby weight before my wedding in December 2024

November loss= 4.2lbs

December Goal= 5lbs

1. 164.2
2. 164.6
3. DNW
4. 165.4 I ate like crap the entire weekend. This time of year is soooo difficult for me. I will do better this week!
5. DNW- Had a UC flare so I was not feeling the best.
6. DNW-
7. 164.6 Feeling a bit better and ready to get back at it!

StirredIntention wrote: »

5: 🥙 🧶"This has been a long week" she said at noon on a Tuesday.

😂 I said the exact same thing on Tuesday! What is it with this week?

I hope everyone's hanging in there. I think as things are ramping up toward the holidays (whatever holiday you celebrate, even if it's just New Year's), I think that frenzied energy is going to affect all of us. Please take it easy, make sure you're getting rest and water. And of course, beware the germs - they're out there.

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 Nov 30): 181.4
Goal: 177.4 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx


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.


12/01-181.4-(Trend Weight 181.9)-

12/02-181.4-(Trend Weight 181.9)-

12/03-182.0-(Trend Weight 181.9)-

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12/06-179.4-(Trend Weight 181.4)- So FINALLY, after multiple travels, a large food-infested birthday party and a Thanksgiving Feast, CRAWLING, Scratching, HISSING, begging, SNARLING, fighting, I am back into the 170’s. However, I need to see my 177 to feel firmly planted so that one meal, one social event, one travel doesn’t put me back over. Plenty of those are coming! I wish I felt better so I could get in a bit more exercise but I’m still full of phlegm and coughing badly. I’m doing my best to get up some of my Christmas Décor so at least I’m getting in more steps with more time on my feet and less time on the couch. Fa-la-la-la-la.

12/07-179.2-(Trend Weight 181.2)- Today I realized that since my handymen haven’t been coming for reno projects (since mid Oct), I have been able to drop a few pounds. Clearly I can plan my meals and mealtimes better. Also I can exercise in more ways and more often. While I can’t wait for them to finish the “big” projects they are working on elsewhere and return to my projects, the privacy and freedom has been nice and beneficial too. I’ve also been getting a bit more sleep since I don’t have to set an alarm most days for their arrival. I’m sure it will be challenging once again when they return. But in the meantime, I am going to grab the ball and run with it as much and as often as I possibly can, even in spite of the upcoming Holidays and commitments. On another note, I took a turn for the worse last night with this illness. I’ve been pushing myself with decorating and online shopping. I babysit DGS today, overnight and tomorrow so I’ll have to keep him at arms length. If I’m not any better, I will definitely have to travel to an emergency room this weekend for xrays. Ugh!

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December start: 112.2kg
December goal: 110

December 1. 112.2kg
December 2. 112.8kg
December 3. 112.6kg
December 4. 112.2 kg
December 5. 112.3 kg
December 6. 112.4 kg
December 7. 112kg
December 8. 112.1kg

Hello I'm Darlene and have been with this group for a while now. Retired, 63-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty). I have been on this weight loss journey since January 2023. 💖I wouldn't be where I am today without this group (along with a couple other challenges I am in); I am so thankful for their support and accountability. 💖

🤶🎄My Goals for December🎄🤶

⚖️ Lose 4 pounds (always my goal) - Will be tough this month, but am keeping it anyway
17K steps daily with one day of rest
📝 Log Daily
🥗 Stay under my calorie range
💪 Strength Train 3 days per week
🧘‍♀️ Tai Chi or Yoga 1 day per week
💦 6+ glasses of water

👣 📝 🥗 💪 🧘‍♀️ 💦
Highest Weight 228
November Ending Weight 164.6

Dec 1: 164.8 📝 🥗 💪 🧘‍♀️ Hello December!
Dec 2: 165 👣 📝 🥗 🧘‍♀️ 💦 My first holiday event this weekend. Greg and I are off to Newport, RI. We go every year this time of year. It is a city set on an island in Rhode Island. Really cute shops, great restaurants. They decorte the city for Christmas. We go and see the lights, do some shopping and our annual "Taste of Newport". We usually go to 5 different restaurants (Lunch, Appetizer, Dinner, Dessert and BF the following morning), and plenty of drinks with that. This will be the first year that I'm going since I started this weight loss journey. I am going to enjoy myself, but also going to try to curb that this year. We are thinking - just small plates for each and and/or sharing. I won't be weighing tomorrow, but will be back Monday AM to catch up.
Dec 3: DNW 👣
Dec 4: 167.2 👣 It could have been a lot worse. We had a wonderful time - back at it today. Hoping it comes off as quickly as the Thanksgiving gain did. Here is a picture of us on the balcony of our room - sunset and harbor in background. It was a beautiful day - almost 50 degrees.
Dec 5: 166.8 👣 📝 Bingo night with Mom, got home and was ravinous. Don't know why but the late night binge took place and I ate over my calorie range. It will probably show up on the scale tomorrow.
Dec 6: 166.8 👣 📝 🥗 🧘‍♀️ 💦
Dec 7: 165.8 👣 📝 🥗 💦 Trying to get back to my low before our next event on the 16th. It's getting there slowly. Took a 5 mile walk at the beach yesterday - love the smell of the salt water. We were practically the only ones there - Monty had a wonderful time. Came home, did a little xmas shopping.
Dec 8: 164.8 📝 🥗 💦 Almost there! Rest day. Monty went to the groomer; thought we would wait for him to get home before we took out walk - but it took ALL day - he was gone for 6 hours. Apparently they had some kind of problem with another customer - so they did them first. I wasn't too happy. We skipped the walk. He does look nice though.