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

December
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#
12/29 128.4#
12/30 127.8#

@iLive2Walk - I hope Monty is feeling better today.

@iLive2Walk Thank Goodness Monty has such great parents! I hope he will recover very quickly and without any lasting complications. He is such a beautiful boy!

@Rh1aB1a I hope you only have a mild case and you all recover quickly!
@Melwillbehealthy So glad to hear that everyone is feeling better!
@stirredIntention How is everyone feeling in your house?
@Melwillbehealthy A New Year's gala - sounds so fancy! Have a wonderful time; dancing sounds fun!

Slow loss. I started in October at 114.7kg - 252lb and at the end of December am 112.3kg- 247lb.

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
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 🌟
December 21:
December 22:
December 23:
December 24:
December 25: 111.3kg
December 26:
December 27:
December 28:111.5 😌
December 29:112.7kg 😣
December 30: 112.7kg 😩
December 31: 112.3kg 😢

@iLive2Walk you're the sweetest for checking in! We're doing OK! We're on day four and the symptoms are still hanging on, which is lame. But we're doing movie marathons and unlimited screen time so the kids are pro-quarantine at this point...

I hope Monty is on the mend!!

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.
Dec 29: 164.8 👣 📝 🥗 🧘‍♀️ Rainy day yesterday - started the day with a walk on the treadmill instead of outside (don't enjoy it as much). The rain stopped after lunch, so got out for another walk in the afternoon - the waterfalls were really flowing after all the rain; beautiful. Also managed to get in some chair yoga (yuck). I missed my water goal - have to concentrate on that today - only two more days to get under 164.6 - hope I make it! 🤞
Dec 30: 164.8 👣 📝 🥗 I got a little derailed yesterday. Still managed to get the steps in, and was under my calorie goal - but the sodium was way to high and I didn't get in my water. Monty took ill, diarrhea and was throwing up all day - ended up taking him to the emergency vet in the afternoon - x-rays, blood work done - both were ok - just an upset stomach - dehydrated from throwing up. They gave him fluids, an anit-vomit drug, and he is on doggy peptid AC, and probiotics. He slept through the night ok. 🥺
Dec 31: 164 👣 📝 🥗 💪 💦 Happy New Year's Eve.

Today we say goodbye to 2023. December has been the best weight loss month I've experienced since becoming a member of this group. I lost 7 pounds in December and a total of 9 pounds since joining our Daily Weigh-In forum in Sep. Thanks for all of the support, encouragement, motivation, and accountability you have provided. I'm looking forward to 2024. Let's continue to move towards our healthy goals together this New Year!

Stormy

September weight loss: 4.0
October weight gain: 3.6
November weight loss: 1.6
December weight loss: 7.0

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 - Dec 21: 185.8-179.8 (-4.0)
Dec 22 - Dec 28: 180.2 - 180.6 (+0.4)
Dec 31: 181.4

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 Steps | Sleep
Dec 27: 207.7 Bike | Steps | Sleep
Dec 28: 208.6
Dec 29: 208.1 Steps | Sleep
Dec 30: 206.6 Steps | Sleep
Dec 31: DNW Just ducking in to say thank you for all of the support this year. I'm going into January with renewed focus on weight, health, and personal development. Wishing you all the best for a safe and fun evening, and a great start for 2024!

@iLive2Walk your post is so inspiring and it's made me think about setting my own walking goal for the new year!

This group is such an encouragement - posting in here is often one of the last things I do in the day. I find myself looking forward to everyone's updates and a chance to check in ❤️

I've opted to switch out New Years Resolutions for New Years Continuations - focusing on things that have worked really well for me over the list few months that I'm excited to bring into the new year with me. Here are the ones that I used to struggle with that are not only habits now, but things I look forward to and appreciate each day:

1. Meal prepping breakfast and lunch
2. Going to spin class
3. 1 hour of cleaning each day
4. Better skin care (morning and bedtime)


I'm looking forward to bringing in the new year with all of you!