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

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#
12/21 128.8#
12/22 129.0#
12/23 129.0#
12/24 129.4#
12/25 129.6#
12/26 129.6#
12/27 128.6#

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
Dec 19: 208.0 Steps
Dec 21: 207.8 Steps | Sleep
Dec 22: 207.7
Dec 23: 206.9
Dec 24: 207.7
Dec 26: 209.3 (hello sodiumbomb)
Dec 27: 207.7 - I've been keeping up with the steps and sleep. It's time to get the menu back under control. Just looking forward to things settling down post holidays so I can get back to a manageable routine.

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.
Dec 21: 164.8 👣 📝 🥗 💪 💦 Got up in the middle of the night, couldn't sleep, ate some chips. Technically in today's calorie range. Not the best thing to log first thing in the morning.
Dec 22: 164.6 👣 📝 🥗 💪 My favorite number! LOL Today starts our holiday festivities - baking day and out to dinner tonight - just the two of us - a calm before the hussel and bussel starts. I'm thinking I will avoid the scale until next Friday, so I won't be discouraged. I'll still check in!
Dec 23: DNW Didn't make any of my goals yesterday. Baked all day - ate too many Christmas cookies. At the end of the day my husband and I said - the only thing I ate today was cookies - we ordered a pizza for dinner - good thing was we order a small and I only had three pieces (that's good for me).
Dec 24: DNW
Dec 25: DNW - Merry Christmas! We celebrated yesterday; every year we see a play around the holiday - this year we got tickets for Dream Girls and the only seats we could get were Christmas Eve. It was wonderful, but unfortunately Greg was sick, so he stayed home. 😢 After the show we ususally go out for dinner, but because Greg was sick we picked up take out and brought it home. Today - we go to my Aunt's house a celebration with extended family. We don't exchange gifts - just have a nice buffet dinner (everyone brings something).
Dec 26: DNW - I was going to say that I was disappointed in myself on how much I indulged the last three days, but then I read a post in a group that I am in that set me straight. In summary it said our time is so short and we seldom have an opportunity to really feel the love from the people who truely love us the most, so enjoy yourself and start again tomorrow. Today I'm going to put on my sweats, walk a little longer, track, drink my water - and think about my 2024 goals! We can do this! Happy Boxing Day!
Dec 27: 165.2 - 👣 📝 🥗 I had to weigh in for one of my challenges - was better than I expected. Now to get below where I started this month. If I can just lose .1 pound this month I will be happy - then I can say I lost weight every month in 2023. Felt good to meet all my daily goals!

Dec 28: 164.8 👣 📝 🥗 💦 Quiet day yesterdday, did some grocery shopping - did the laundry. Going to keep the tree up until after the New Year, but I need to clean up all the junk that accumulated in the house since the holiday. How does it get messy so fast? I also haven't ticked a "stretching" exercise in a while (not my favorite), so will accomplish that today.

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#
12/21 128.8#
12/22 129.0#
12/23 129.0#
12/24 129.4#
12/25 129.6#
12/26 129.6#
12/27 128.6#
12/28 128.0#

This challenge is invaluable. I did my first challenge in August. The last couple of months have been hard, however, I won’t give up. People on here are very motivating.
My goal this month is pretty simple, to weigh myself everyday and to count calories. If I get some exercise, it will be a bonus.

Starting weight in March 2023: 230 lbs.
Goal weight: 120 lbs.
Height: 5’2”
Total loss: 47 lbs.
End of Sept. weight: 187.8 lbs.
End of October weight: 188
End of Nov. weight: 186

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- loss 1.2 lbs.
December-

Dec. 1- 185.6 lbs. I was happily surprised that I lost weight in November, even a small loss. I basically kind of took a break from most exercise activities, stopped logging in my food diary, stopped weighing myself, and ate unhealthy, fast food fairly often. It was a stressful time for me with family. I didn’t really make myself a priority which I know is important to do sometimes. I must learn to deal better with stress. I can feel my body missing the exercise, and hope to change that.
Dec. 2- 185.6 lbs. went for an early swim
Dec. 3- 185.6 swim
Dec. 4- 185 dance class- I’m desperate to lose and break this two month plateau. It’s a tough time of year to try and lose weight, but I’m very focused. I’m sick of seeing the same numbers on the scale.
Dec. 5- DNW
Dec. 6- 183.8 lbs. osteoporosis fitness class. We use a video. Haven’t been for a long time.
Dec. 7- 183.6 lbs. early swim
Dec. 8- DNW fitness class, elliptical
Dec. 9- 183.6 lbs.
Dec. 10- 184.4 lbs. overate last night, logged it, early swim today
Dec. 11- 183.2 lbs. dance class- I need to find a way to eat in a more balanced way. My hunger really varies, and I’d like to know why. I’m fighting a constant battle with my calorie goals. My father used to say that it’s good for your body to feel a little hunger sometimes. Was he correct? Must one feel hunger in order to lose weight?
Dec. 12- 182.4 lbs. yesterday I upped my calories, and it seemed to work. My hunger was satiated. Singing in Christmas concert tonight-fun🎶😄
Dec. 13- 182.8 wine and party last night. Logged everything . Fitness class and gym today
Dec. 14- 181.8 movie night with friends last night, ate late, but logged everything, swim today
Dec. 15- 181.8 For the last 5 days I’ve been eating at a slightly higher calorie limit. I feel more satisfied, and able to stay around my limit. I hope I’ve found my sweet spot. Maybe it’s because I’ve added wine to my diet🥳🍷.
Dec. 16-19 DNW
Dec. 20- 182.7 lbs.
Dec. 21- 181.4 lbs. I doubt this is a true weight. We’ll see tomorrow.
Dec. 22- 181.4 lbs. I took the lowest scale reading, fitness class, set up tables for Christmas dinner
Dec. 23- 182 lbs. what? Today has been an emotional roller coaster. Two of my kids have Covid and their families can’t come for Christmas dinner and party. Luckily, I’m able to postpone it to a later date. Very happy right now because If they’re all well, they will all come later (16 of them).
This seems to happen every year. Wanted to just eat today because of the stress. Good news is that I’m not giving in and spoiling this month’s efforts.
Dec. 24- 181lbs. Planning on pizza, some treats tonight. Will try to log it all. Early swim.
Dec. 25- DNW obvious reasons
Dec. 26- DNW
Dec. 27- 182.6 osteoporosis aerobics class, and rode bike in gym, trying to get back on track with eating
Dec. 28- 180.8 lbs. very happy with this weight. Yesterday I weighed later in the day, so that’s why such a big loss. Still, this is the lowest weight I’ve been since I started this journey. This motivates me to keep at it. Swam early this morning. Looking forward to breaking into a new ‘decade’ of weight.