🎉❄️ January Daily Logging and Weigh-in Challenge❄️🥳

My name is Kelly and I was a part of this group for many months last year and was a great group to help me keep focused on my goals daily, weekly and monthly!

I am 53, married, with 4 grown kids and 7 grandkids that I watch during the workweek. I have a wonderful dog named Woody (Labradoodle).

Goals for January:
Lose 10 lbs for the month (starting weight this month 165.8)
Walk 6 days a week
Log all my food daily
15k steps 6 days a week

January
1. Happy New year!
2. Logged, weight 165.8
3. Logged, walked, 15k+ steps, weight 165.8
4. Logged, walked, 16k+
5. Logged, walked, 19k+
6. Logged, walked, 17k+
7. Logged, walked, 15k+
8. Logged, walked, 22k+
9. Logged, walked, 19k+, weight 164.6
10. Logged, walked, 20k+
11. Logged, walked, 22k+ (I am sore! 😜)
12. Logged, walked, 22k+
13. Logged, walked, 21k+
14. Logged, walked, 11k+
15. Logged, walked, 19k+
16. Logged, walked, 24k+
17. Logged, walked, 21k+

Hey friends! My name is B - I live with my husband and two kids and work in community mental 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 weightloss: 2 lbs

⛄️❄️ JANUARY ❄️⛄️
1: 🥙🧶
2: 🥙🧶 My husband was sworn into town council tonight and we went out with the family to dinner to celebrate! I'm guestimating the calories but we had a great night ❤️
3: 🥙
4: 🥙 Weatherman is calling for snow this weekend! Grabbing some groceries and looking forward to a weekend at home.
5: 🥙🧶
6: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ First work out since getting over covid and feeling so much better!
7: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️
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9: 🥙🧶🏃‍♀️
10: 🥙🧶 This day was rough. Calling it a night and starting over tomorrow.
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17: 🥙🧶💧🏃‍♀️ Hit all my goals today! Enjoying the YouTube videos while it's too chilly to walk outside.
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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 January

⚖️ Lose 4 pounds (always my goal)
👣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

SW Dec: 228 | Jan: 217 | Feb: 212 | Mar: 207.6 | Apr 200.2 | May 194.8 | Jun: 189.6 | Jul: 187.4 | Aug: 179.8 | Sept: 174.2 | Oct: 169.6 | Nov 164.6 | Dec 164

December Ending Weight 164 Jan 15: 162.4 👣 📝 🥗 💪💦 I was over my sodium limit, and it shows. Also used all my calories (usually leave half of my calories earned by exercise). It's temporary.
Jan 16: 161.6 😁👣 📝 🥗 🧘‍♀️ 💦
Jan 17: 161.8 👣 📝 🥗 💪 🧘‍♀️ 💦 Daily fluctuations
Jan 18: 161.2 👣 📝 🥗 💦 Bitterly cold yesterday. We did get out for a bit - but only about a mile and a half hike - had to get the rest of my steps in on the treadmill. It's going to be the same today.

In honor of my cartoon yesterday (and because I love brussels) I "kindof" made this as a side yesterday. Substituted 2 slices of center cut bacon for the pancetta and added some onions. Very tasty.

https://www.skinnytaste.com/sauteed-brussels-sprouts-with-pancetta/

💃 Starting weight January 1st: 165.8
Goal weight for Jan: 160.8
Jan 2: 165.2
Jan 3: 166
Jan 4: 165.3
Jan 5: 165.3
Jan 6: 165.3
Jan 7: 167.7 (wow, ate dinner out last night. What a difference!)
Jan 8: 167.1
Jan 9: 166.3
Jan 10: 163.1
Jan 11: 163.1
Jan 12: 163.9
Jan 13: out of town
Jan 14: out or town. We had a wonderful time out of town. We ate out at a restaurant twice. The food was amazing. I savored and enjoyed it- no shame. Balanced lean protein and no drinks with the most amazing dessert. Fabulous breakfast pancakes the next day. Back on it this morning.
Jan 15: 165.8
Jan 16: 166.1
Jan 17: 166.1
Jan 18: 165.5

Daily Check in for January:
1 Jan: 159.8
17-Jan: 161.4
18-Jan: 160.8
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Hello! I've gained quite a bit of weight over the past few years, and I'd like to turn that trend around. At a minimum, I'd like to get out of the obese zone, so my first goal weight is 185.

My goals for January:
- Daily physical therapy for chronic injury
- Lose 4-8 pounds

Jan 1: 216.7 (PT & calorie deficit)
Jan 2: 215.0 (calorie deficit)
Jan 3: 214.4 (PT & calorie deficit)
Jan 4: 213.9 (calorie deficit)
Jan 5: 214.2 (PT & calorie deficit)
Jan 6: 213.5 (calorie deficit)
Jan 7: 212.3 (PT & calorie deficit)
Jan 8: 212.3 (PT & calorie deficit)
Jan 9: 211.4 (calorie deficit)
Jan 10: 211.7 (PT & calorie deficit)
Jan 11: 211.4 (calorie deficit)
Jan 12: 210.9 (calorie deficit)
Jan 13: 210.9 (calorie deficit)
Jan 14: 209.2 (calorie deficit)
Jan 15: 209.2 (PT & calorie deficit)
Jan 16: 209.3 (calorie deficit)
Jan 17: 209.5 (calorie deficit)
Jan 18: 208.9

Updating...

| Day        | kg @ morning | Cal totals | Cal remaining |
|------------|:------------:|:----------:|--------------:|
| Mon Jan 15 |     124.8    |    1975    |          -325 |
| Tue Jan 16 |     123.8    |    2078    |          -428 |
| Wed Jan 17 |     123.6    |    1715    |           406 |
| Thu Jan 18 |     123.6    |            |               |

Hi All! I'm a 46-year-old married mom of five. I started this group in September at 141 pounds (overweight for me at my height) and have lost about 11-12 pounds overall since then. I always gain some weight around Christmas; I love the cookies, truffles, and eggnog etc. I allowed myself to just enjoy those things and slack off some; however, it's time to get back to the routine! My goal for January is to log and weigh every day, and to lose 3 1/2 pounds. I'm setting my goal a tad on the aggressive side because I suspect that some of my gain from the end of December is not only fat but water and such.

Ultimate starting weight 160.0 pounds
January goal: 126.0 pounds


January 1: 129.6 I logged ❄️
January 2: 128.6
January 3: 128.2 I logged ❄️
January 4: 127.4 The scale was acting wonky today... it did this last month but settled out and started acting normal again.
January 5: 128.6 I logged ❄️
January 6: 126.6 I logged ❄️
January 7: 127.2
January 8: 128.8 I logged ❄️
January 9: 126.6 I logged ❄️ My weight sure is flopping around a lot, but that's pretty normal when I've been eating a lot and am finding my way back to the routine.
January 10: 126.8 I logged ❄️
January 11: 126.6
January 12: 126.0 I logged ❄️ Happy to see that the number did not go up... My mother-in-law made one of her delicious meals for us last night, and it included homemade mac & cheese, a huge weakness of mine. I stopped logging at dinner and *may* have had a bit more than my calorie allotment of the mac & cheese. 😬
January 13: 125.2

My original goal was 125, so I guess I should celebrate. It will probably go up again and fluctuate for a while before things settle, so I'm not declaring myself at "goal" or even really at 125 yet. I'm also thinking I'd like to keep going for a couple more pounds. I have two pairs of jeans that I wore pre-baby that I would like to be able to fit into, if possible. I tried them on today, and they were a no go, LOL. I mean, at least I could get the legs on, which is nice, but they are still a little ways off. If I lose a couple more pounds, in addition to maybe being able to fit into my favorite jeans again, it would put me in the middle of my normal BMI as well, so that's nice.

In other news, about a week and a half ago my husband started calorie counting with MFP. He wants to lose 50 pounds. For a long time I have intermittently made simple remarks about how "weight loss is simply math," or "exercise is great for health but weight loss happens in the kitchen," or "no matter what you eat, weight loss is simply calories in calories out." Not because I wanted to influence him to lose weight, but just in conversation. I never said anything about MyFitnessPal. Sometimes my family would just catch me measuring my food, all by myself in a little corner. One morning he made eggs for me, and I started to reach for the butter. He said, "Oh I already buttered your toast." I said, "Oh, I was going to measure it because I'm tracking my food." And he said, "I already measured it." I said, "Oh! How much butter is it?" And he replied, "A little bit." 🤣🤣🤣 So this was his idea of "measuring," LOL. Anyway, one day I wake up to find him surrounded by measuring cups and spoons, and he says, "Do we have a food scale?" And come to find out, he had started logging his food with MyFitnessPal. He's lost about 7 pounds already and feeling a lot better. I also love that he now understands my measuring and tracking, and we can discuss it and do it together. I make all our meals, so I've been entering them into the MFP database so that he can log them.

January 14: 127.2
January 15: 126.8 So, I think the 125.2 reading the other day was not accurate. Hubby is weighing himself now, and we are in agreement that our scale sometimes acts wonky and can have a wide margin of error. Today it first read 125.8, but I noticed the right side of it was very close to a crack in the floor. I moved it to the left, and it read 126.8. Then moved it to the middle of the floor, where it's easier to get it flat, and it read 126.8. So, perhaps it dips down a bit if it's close to the crack and reads too low. We are thinking about getting a different scale at some point......
January 16: 127.0
January 17: 127.0 I logged ❄️ I've been reeeeeally busy the last few days!
January 18: 126.2 OK, only 0.2 to get to my goal for the month. Just gotta keep on going. We now have our scale up against the wall, away from the crack in the floor, and I think it's acting normal right now.
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Hello, I’m Jimmy.
I’m 40, 5’10”

My goals for January :
⚖️Weigh- in daily
✅Workout 5-6 times /week
✅IF
✅Tracking
✅Deficit diet

Jan 1: 86.1 kg ✅✅✅✅ 5 km run
Jan 2: 85.8 kg ✅✅✅✅ 5 km run
Jan 3: 84.9 kg ✅✅✅✅ 15 km run
Jan 4: 84.4 kg ✅✅✅✅ 8 km walk
Jan 5: 85.5 kg ✅✅✅✅ 10 km run
Jan 6: 85.2 kg✅✅✅✅2.5 km run.2.5 km walk.
Jan 7: 85.2 kg ✅✅✅✅21.39 km run
Half marathon completed 🥰
Jan 8: 86 kg ✅✅✅✅ 4 km run
Jan 9: 85.4 kg ✅✅✅✅ 5.62+0.73 km walk
Jan 10: 86.2 kg ✅✅✅✅6 km walk
Jan 11: 85.1 kg ✅✅✅✅5 km run
Jan 12: 85.2 kg ✅✅✅✅ 6.78 km walk
Jan 13: 84.9 kg ✅✅✅✅5 km run
Jan 14: 85.8 kg ✅✅✅✅ 5 km walk
Jan 15: 85.7 kg ❎✅✅❎ No workout
Jan 16: 86.1 kg ✅✅✅✅5 km run
Jan 17: 84.8 kg ✅✅✅✅5km run. 5 km walk🥰🥰
Jan 18: 84.2 kg ✅✅✅✅1.75 km walk

Hi again everyone. My name is Mel. I’m a grandma from Ontario. I’m back to continue this challenge for January as you all help keep me accountable. Jan. Goals: break into the 170’s.

Starting weight in March 2023: 230 lbs. (diagnosed with diabetes)
Goal weight: 120 lbs.
Height: 5’2”
Total loss: 52 lbs.
End of Sept. weight: 187.8 lbs.
End of October weight: 188
End of Nov. weight: 186
End of Dec. weight: 181.4 lbs.

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- 4.4 lbs.

Jan. 1- 181.2 lbs. New Years Gala last night.🥳 Not really a Gala, just a fun dinner and dance. 💃 I danced the night away , and tired out my poor hubby. The Courage Brothers Polar Dip into the frigid waters of Lake Ontario is held near here. Going to walk over later to watch, not participate 🤣!
Jan. 2- DNW
Jan. 3-182.4 lbs. fitness class
Jan. 4-181.2 lbs. morning swim
Jan. 5-182 lbs. bad night, didn’t sleep, so ate. Really weird behaviour as I really want to lose 3 or 4 lbs. before I go on a cruise at the end of January. Smarten up Mel🫨! Anyway, the good news is I swam for an hour this morning and am determined to get back on track. Have 2, sweet, 10 year old granddaughters coming over for a sleepover over today. They won’t do it at their homes, but insist on coming here🤔. They know what they’re doing👵🏻.
Jan. 6- 181 lbs. busy, fun day with granddaughters. Girls baked a yummy cake yesterday but I didn’t eat any. Good for me😢.
Jan. 7- DNW, not my best day, very tired
Jan. 8- 181.6 lbs. expected this. Visited friend last night, wine and cheese. Osteoporosis fitness class today. I’ll never give up. Need to refocus on eating habits. It’s one week into January and I’ve gained, not lost. Going to plan meals and start cooking again. That usually works for me. I enjoy cooking.
Jan. 9- 179.6 lbs. whoo whoo!🤩 Finally broke into the 170’s. I hope it stays.
Jan. 10-179 lbs. This is so inspiring. I went to an osteoporosis class and then did 15 min. on the elliptical afterwards. I think I see my waist starting to emerge👍😲.
Jan. 11-178.2 lbs. I’m happy and a little shocked. This is unusual for me. I hope this stays. The scale has been great for 3 days in a row. Aquafit class today.
Jan. 12- 178.4 lbs. normal fluctuation, fitness class
Jan. 13-DNW let myself get emotionally derailed by an unsuspecting friend
Jan. 14- 177.6 lbs.
Jan. 15- 177.6 lbs.
Jan. 16- 178 lbs.
Jan. 17- DNW
Jan. 18- DNW self sabotaged last couple of days, went for a swim, sometimes, that’s all I can do, still haven’t figured out how to handle these discouraging moments .😒 I guess, I’ve at least learned to get back up on the horse after I fall. Losing this weight is very important to me, and my future, so why do I let myself lose focus like the last 2 days? Rhetorical question.