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

Welcome to the group and congrats on jumping in, @abowersgirl !

I am a 46 year-old married mom of four, 2x cancer survivor with Hypothyroidism who is trying again to start exercising WITHOUT injuring myself, log daily, drink more water, and creating some new routines this month while starting my new job - yeah!

Habit Goals for the Month to drop into the 170's:
🪵 = Log
🍽️ = Hit Calorie Goal
🧘 = Stretch/PT
🏃‍♀️= Cardio
💧= Hit Water Goal

12/01: 182.3 🪵🧘
12/02: 181.7
12/03: Stomach bug
12/04: Stomach bug
12/05: Stomach bug
12/06: 179.5 - rehydrate day
12/07: 181.5 🪵🍽️💧
12/08: 179.8 🪵🍽️
12/09: DNW 🪵
12/10: 180.3
12/11: 180.8 - Need to focus on w/e
12/12: 179.8 - Not feeling well again.
12/14: 178.8
12/15: 180.1
12/16: 180.3
12/17 - DNW - Covid booster.
12/18: 180.6

Better late than never....

G'day all. I'm Adam from Tasmania, Australia. I started this journey in August 2021, weighing 142kg (313 pounds).
Since then, I've lost 22kg (48.5 pounds), but am slowly putting it back on.

I'm mentally exhausted at the end of the year. No time or energy to do anything, but gonna try to make myself more accountable on here, as it has helped in the past.

Short tem goal: drop below 120kg (still working on it)

📝 = Fully logged food


01/08/2022 - 142.2 kg (Starting Point)
06/08/2023 - 120.7 kg (lowest point)
...
11/12/2023 - 125 kg
12/12/2023 - 122.7 kg
13/12/2023 - 123.9 kg
14/12/2023 - 123.4 kg
15/12/2023 - 124 kg
16/12/2023 - 124.3 kg
17/12/2023 - 124.7 kg
18/12/2023 - 124 kg
19/12/2023 - 124.3 kg

jm216 wrote: »

iLive2Walk wrote: »

@jm216 How is hubby feeling? Are you still ok? Thinking of you.

You are so sweet! He is feeling less terrible...I have been wearing a mask and gloves when I'm around him, so I'm fine and the kids are good too. He is no longer contagious, so we are good for Christmas and Christmas get-togethers next week.

So glad to hear that all is good! I was worried that you would get it for the holiday!

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.
Dec 9: 164.6 😁👣 📝 🥗 💦 Made it back to my low!
Dec 10: 164 😁👣 📝 🥗 💪 💦 Woo Hoo! Quiet day yesterday - decorated the outside for xmas, wrapped some presents. My normal workout routine. Today it is supposed to rain all day - so no walks outside. I have to do it on the treadmill - Ugh! I can never do the 5.5 miles straight on the treadmill (my normal morning walk). I have to break it up into 2 miles stretches - gets way to boring for me. Yes - I do watch TV why I'm doing it - but just not the same as being outside. Maybe do some "Get Fit with Rick" routines to get some of the time in.
Dec 11: 163.6 😁👣 (aka ddainiak) I changed my name! Very happy to see a loss because I was not on plan yesterday. I have a few drinks and when I do that I give in to my temptations. Feel lousy this morning.
Dec 12: 164 👣 📝 I walked and logged, but got into the goodies last night so went a bit over my limit. Not by much, but over!
Dec 13: 163.6 📝 🥗 I did walk yesterday, but didn't make my 17K goal. I guess I'll call it my rest day (wasn't planning on it). I have been terrible with the water - will concentrate on that today.
Dec 14: 164.2 👣 Bong! Bong! But it is what I expected today. I was off plan all day - been a tough week for me to stick to it. I need to get it together for the next couple days - friends Christmas party on Saturday where I know I will overdo it a bit. My committment - get it all done for the next two days!
Dec 15: 163.6 👣 📝 🥗 💦 I was on plan yesterday and I'm back to my low. We have a visitor for the next 3 days My sister is at a wedding in Texas, and we are taking care of her pup while she is away. Rex is a little yorkie! All of 10 pounds. Monty thinks he is a toy, but is very good with him. He can't walk as far as Monty, so we will be taking shorter walks - hoping to get a few in each day so I don't have to make it up on the treadmill.
Dec 16: 163.6 👣 📝 Our annual Friends Christmas party tonight. We are hosting; I know that I will be off my plan today, and the scale will show it tomorrow but gonig to enjoy the day and get back at it tomorrow.
Dec 17: 164.6 👣 I am actually pleased that I didn't go over my ending weight from November. We had a wonderful evening - a lot of laughs and great food. Will be on plan for the next six days and then three days of holiday festivities.
Dec 18 165 Busy with cooking Christmas cookies for the Bingo group tonight - was kind of a hot mess with tasting and did not meet any of my goals! I find that if I go off plan - I say "what they heck, I blew it already" and I continue through the day and tracking goes out the window. I will need to work on that for 2024!

Dec 19 164.6 👣 📝 💪 💦 Was doing well with staying within my calorie range and then went over with the goodies from Bingo. I tried my best to log them though! Lots of steps yesterday 23K!

Hi all. I’m joining late but looking for to some self imposed discipline this month. I retire at the end of the month and want to be in the best health possible. Process: log food with mindful eating, limit alcohol to weekend minimum, strength train 5x/week, increase water intake. 70 yo female 5’5”
12/4 129.2#
12/5 129.4#
12/6 129.8#
12/7 129.6#
12/8 129.8#
12/9 DNW under the weather
12/10 129.2#
12/11 129.2#
12/12 128.8#
12/13 128.4#
12/14 129.0#
12/15. 128.8#
12/16 128.6#
12/17 128.8#
12/18 128.4#
12/19 129.0#

2 week goal check in: ST ✅; logging 🔺missed 4 days; min ETOH ✅; water 🔺but improving

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
December Goals: Bike 5+ miles/day Mon-Fri | 1,500 steps/day | Aim for 7 hours sleep/day

Dec 1: 205.6 Bike | Steps
Dec 2: 205.1 Bike | Steps
Dec 3: 205.9 Bike | Sleep
Dec 4: 207.1 Bike | Steps | Sleep
Dec 5: 207.0 Bike | Sleep
Dec 6: 207.8 Bike | Steps | Sleep
Dec 7: 206.7 Bike | Steps
Dec 8: 206.4 Bike | Steps | Sleep
Dec 9: 207.0 Steps | Sleep
Dec 10: 208.3 Bike | Steps | Sleep
Dec 11: 207.8 Sleep
Dec 12: 208.1 Steps | Sleep
Dec 13: DNW
Dec 14: 209.3 Steps | Sleep
Dec 15: 208.7 Bike | Steps
Dec 16: DNW
-- Have been doing Steps; biking is causing issues with my right knee so I've paused that for a bit.
Dec 19: 208.0

I attribute much of my recent weight loss success to recognizing the difference between real hunger and my habits. For example, I have a habit of rewarding myself by picking up a snack to eat on the way home from shopping at the grocery store or going through the drive-through coffee joint because it is conveniently on the way.

Over the last few weeks, I have consciously eliminated these types of habits and it has made a difference. Now if I can just overcome the pull of the magnet that wants to steer my truck into any Dairy Queen I pass I think I will win this battle of habit over real hunger.

September weight loss: 4.0
October weight gain: 3.6
November weight loss: 1.6

December Start Weight: 188.0
December Goal Weight: 185.0
Ultimate Goal Weight: 160.0

Dec 1 - Dec 7: 188.4-188.0 (-0.4)
Dec 8 - Dec 14: 188.4 -186.4 (-2.0)
Dec 15: 185.8
Dec 16: 184.4
Dec 17: 182.8
Dec 18: 181.6
Dec 19: 180.8

On holidays. Very busy eating poorly but not gaining. Lots of walking. Kayaking yesterday. Going on jet boat later . Hope everyone is doing good.

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
December 9. 113.1kg 😥
December 10: 112.5kg
December 11: 111.3kg ⭐️
December 12: 111kg 🌟
December 13: 110.4kg 🙀
December 14: 111.3kg 🌟
December 15: 112.2kg 🧐
December 16: 111.4kg 🌟
December 17: 113.3kg 😢
December 18: 112kg 🌟
December 19: 112kg🌟
December 20: 111.9kg 🌟
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G'day all. I'm Adam from Tasmania, Australia. I started this journey in August 2021, weighing 142kg (313 pounds).
Since then, I've lost 22kg (48.5 pounds), but am slowly putting it back on.

I'm mentally exhausted at the end of the year. No time or energy to do anything, but gonna try to make myself more accountable on here, as it has helped in the past.

Short tem goal: drop below 120kg (still working on it)

📝 = Fully logged food


01/08/2022 - 142.2 kg (Starting Point)
06/08/2023 - 120.7 kg (lowest point)
...
11/12/2023 - 125 kg
12/12/2023 - 122.7 kg
13/12/2023 - 123.9 kg
14/12/2023 - 123.4 kg
15/12/2023 - 124 kg
16/12/2023 - 124.3 kg
17/12/2023 - 124.7 kg
18/12/2023 - 124 kg
19/12/2023 - 124.3 kg
20/12/2023 - 123.1 kg

Hey friends! My name is B - I live with my husband and two kids and work in communitymental health. I've never not struggled with my weight, so I'm focusing on long term habits so I can live a longer and more active life with my family.

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

Sept weightloss: 6.7 lbs
Oct weightloss: 3.1 lbs
Nov weightloss: 2.3 lbs

❄️🎄Dec Monthly goal: lose 2 pounds

1: 🥙💧🧶
2: 🥙💧🧶🏃‍♀️ Spent the day with the family at our town tree lighting, now finishing off a chocolate martini and getting ready for bed ❄️
3: 🥙💧
4: 🥙
5: 🥙 🧶"This has been a long week" she said at noon on a Tuesday.
6: 🥙🧶
7: 🥙
8: 🥙🧶🏃‍♀️ took a walk through town to look at Christmas lights 🎄
9: 🥙🧶🏃‍♀️
10: 🥙🧶💧
11: 🥙
12: 🥙
13: 🥙🧶
14: 🥙🧶
15: 🥙🧶 Today I hit 90 days of tracking! Feeling really proud of my consistency 🎉
16: 🥙🧶
17: 🥙🧶
18: 🥙 I went to Aldi for the first time today and my life is changed - please everyone tell me your fav Aldi finds. What rock have I been living under all these years?!
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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.
Dec 9: 164.6 😁👣 📝 🥗 💦 Made it back to my low!
Dec 10: 164 😁👣 📝 🥗 💪 💦 Woo Hoo! Quiet day yesterday - decorated the outside for xmas, wrapped some presents. My normal workout routine. Today it is supposed to rain all day - so no walks outside. I have to do it on the treadmill - Ugh! I can never do the 5.5 miles straight on the treadmill (my normal morning walk). I have to break it up into 2 miles stretches - gets way to boring for me. Yes - I do watch TV why I'm doing it - but just not the same as being outside. Maybe do some "Get Fit with Rick" routines to get some of the time in.
Dec 11: 163.6 😁👣 (aka ddainiak) I changed my name! Very happy to see a loss because I was not on plan yesterday. I have a few drinks and when I do that I give in to my temptations. Feel lousy this morning.
Dec 12: 164 👣 📝 I walked and logged, but got into the goodies last night so went a bit over my limit. Not by much, but over!
Dec 13: 163.6 📝 🥗 I did walk yesterday, but didn't make my 17K goal. I guess I'll call it my rest day (wasn't planning on it). I have been terrible with the water - will concentrate on that today.
Dec 14: 164.2 👣 Bong! Bong! But it is what I expected today. I was off plan all day - been a tough week for me to stick to it. I need to get it together for the next couple days - friends Christmas party on Saturday where I know I will overdo it a bit. My committment - get it all done for the next two days!
Dec 15: 163.6 👣 📝 🥗 💦 I was on plan yesterday and I'm back to my low. We have a visitor for the next 3 days My sister is at a wedding in Texas, and we are taking care of her pup while she is away. Rex is a little yorkie! All of 10 pounds. Monty thinks he is a toy, but is very good with him. He can't walk as far as Monty, so we will be taking shorter walks - hoping to get a few in each day so I don't have to make it up on the treadmill.
Dec 16: 163.6 👣 📝 Our annual Friends Christmas party tonight. We are hosting; I know that I will be off my plan today, and the scale will show it tomorrow but gonig to enjoy the day and get back at it tomorrow.
Dec 17: 164.6 👣 I am actually pleased that I didn't go over my ending weight from November. We had a wonderful evening - a lot of laughs and great food. Will be on plan for the next six days and then three days of holiday festivities.
Dec 18 165 Busy with cooking Christmas cookies for the Bingo group tonight - was kind of a hot mess with tasting and did not meet any of my goals! I find that if I go off plan - I say "what they heck, I blew it already" and I continue through the day and tracking goes out the window. I will need to work on that for 2024!
Dec 19 164.6 👣 📝 💪 💦 Was doing well with staying within my calorie range and then went over with the goodies from Bingo. I tried my best to log them though! Lots of steps yesterday 23K!

Dec 20: 164.6 👣 📝 🥗 💦 Hanging on to my November weight. At this point I'll be happy with staying even for the month.

My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 63 years old and from 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


This Challenge 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)-

12/04-181.0-(Trend Weight 180.8)-

12/05-180.6-(Trend Weight 181.7)-

12/06-179.4-(Trend Weight 181.4)-

12/07-179.2-(Trend Weight 181.2)-

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12/10-179.6-(Trend Weight 180.7)-

12/11-178.8-(Trend Weight 180.6

12/12-178.2-(Trend Weight 180.3)-

12/13-178.8-(Trend Weight 180.2)-


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12/15-177.8-(Trend Weight 179.7)-

12/16-178.0-(Trend Weight 179.5)-

12/17-178.6-(Trend Weight 179.6)-


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12/19-179.2-(Trend Weight 179.7)- I decided to go ahead and step on the scale today for an early weigh-in. Not real happy to be typing my weight in blue but it is what it is. I should be home for the next day or two because of my handyman being here for the project. Home is my safe zone where I can better control the food and the ingredients so I should be okay. However, I’ve got to start the baking and fudge-making at some point and the BLT’s (bites, licks and tastes) can really add up. Oh, ‘Tis the Season.

12/20-179.2-(Trend Weight 179.7)- No change today on the scale and that is a Modern Miracle! I had a great day yesterday but last night was horrid! Very late eating with an early weigh-in this morning due to handyman. I can call last night nothing less than a binge. I am so sorry for it and so ashamed and disappointed. I know it will probably show up on the scale in a day or two. All I can do is move on and do better. I owe myself more than that. It was a great day with super healthy foods. Why did I have to go and ruin it? My only theory is that I am getting ready in a few days to go out of town for my A1C blood glucose diabetes test and I am beginning to self-sabotage. Stop it Donna!


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Daily Goals
Weigh In
Walk
Find Healthy Meal Options

12/20
156,

Hi all. I’m joining late but looking for to some self imposed discipline this month. I retire at the end of the month and want to be in the best health possible. Process: log food with mindful eating, limit alcohol to weekend minimum, strength train 5x/week, increase water intake. 70 yo female 5’5”
12/4 129.2#
12/5 129.4#
12/6 129.8#
12/7 129.6#
12/8 129.8#
12/9 DNW under the weather
12/10 129.2#
12/11 129.2#
12/12 128.8#
12/13 128.4#
12/14 129.0#
12/15. 128.8#
12/16 128.6#
12/17 128.8#
12/18 128.4#
12/19 129.0#
12/20 128.4#