❤️⭐️February Daily Weigh-in and Logging Challenge⭐️❤️

W-159.4lb
GW-157lb
UGW-145lb

1. 159.4
2. 159.0
3. 159.6
4. 160.2 Future hubby and I went out to dinner at one of our fav places last night. Delicious red wine and creamy pasta! Soooo worth it! Will make up for it today!
5. 159.8
6. 160.0
7. 160.0
8. 159.8
9. 161.2 I have to buckle down, food choices have not been great and I haven't been logging. Time to get back at it!
10. DNW
11. DNW
12. 160.4 Did pretty well over the weekend! Indulged a bit but tried to keep it in check. My youngest is weaning right now so my appetite and hormones are a little wonky! Hoping for a better week and to make some progress!
13. 161.0 It just keeps bouncing around!
14. 159.8
15. 159.2
16. 159.2
17. 158.2 Happy to finally see a loss!
18. DNW- The bloat is real today
19. 159.6 Not too worried, I've been staying in my deficit.

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 February

⚖️ Lose 4 pounds (always my goal), but will be happy just maintaining this month, as I am on vacation for 11 days of the month.
👣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 | Jan 159.8

January Ending Weight 159.8
Feb 12: 159.8 😁 👣 📝 🥗 💪 💦 I am over the moon with this. I weigh the same as I did when I left on Jan 31. The first vacation ever that I didn't gain! It did help that we stayed in a VRBO so I could cook some of my own meals. Now to focus for the rest of the month. Doubt I'll make my 4 pound goal - but I am going to give it a shot!
Feb 13: 160.2 📝 💦 Was over my limit yesterday - abd didn't meet my step goal. Not good way to "get focused".
Feb 14: 158.8 😁👣 📝 🥗 💪 🧘‍♀️ 💦 Yesterday was a productive day. Got it all done; we had a big snow storm so didn't leave the house - nothing to distract me from my goals - and got some exercising shoveling snow.
Feb 15: 159.2 👣 📝 🥗 🧘‍♀️ 💦 Had a nice valentine's dinner with hubby. It was bitterly cold yesterday - so inside all day - I really like my outside walks. There is one park that shovels the trail, hoping it was done so we can go later today if it warms up. It's only 15 degrees now. 🥶
Feb 16: 159 👣 📝 🥗 💪 💦 Still too cold to get an outside walk, I'm watching Young Sheldon on Netflix and caught up on a few episodes on the treadmill. Hubby did a strength workout routine with me yesterday. He thought it was fun - so hoping he will do it with me in the future. It's much more enjoyable with others. Another cold one today - maybe it's telling me it's time to clean the house -now if only there was a challenge for that! HA!
Feb 17: 158.8 👣 📝 🥗 💦 Snowed again last night. I should have gone to Florida a week later (or stayed another week).
Feb 18: 157 😁 👣 📝 🥗 💪 💦 Whoosh! That was nice to see. Finally got outside for a walk yesterday; it was lovely!
Feb 19: 157.4 👣 📝 🥗 💦 Sat on my butt yesterday most of the day. Did the taxes, watched TV, played on the computer, etc. Another blustery cold day - didn't get outside for my walk. Finally got some motivation in the afternoon and jumped on the treadmill - but just until I heard my 17K buzzer and then jumped off. I understand how my body works - if I eat all of my calories gained by exercise I either stay the same or go up. If I don't eat any - I usually stay the same. The sweet spot for me is to eat half of what I gain by exercise. Walking alone doesn't give me too may extra calories, so I ate every bite yesterday - ! I fool myself sometimes, as I still count that as staying under my calorie goal even though I know that it doesn't make my scale move.

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 Jan 31): 181.6
Goal: 177.6 (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.


02/01-183.4-(Trend Weight 183.0)-

02/02-181.8-(Trend Weight 182.8)-

02/03-182.6-(Trend Weight 182.8)-

02/04-DNW-(Trend Weight DNW)-

02/05-184.6-(Trend Weight 183.2)-

02/06-183.0-(Trend Weight 183.2)-

02/07-181.0-(Trend Weight 183.2)-

02/08-178.2-(Trend Weight 182.7)-

02/09-178.4-(Trend Weight 182.3)-

02/10-179.0-(Trend Weight 181.9)-

02/11-179.2-(Trend Weight 181.7)-

02/12-179.6-(Trend Weight 181.4)-

02/13-182.0-(Trend Weight 181.5)-

02/14-179.6-(Trend Weight 181.3)-

02/15-178.4-(Trend Weight 181.0)-
02/16-178.2-(Trend Weight 180.7)-

02/17-179.6-(Trend Weight 180.6)-

02/18-179.2-(Trend Weight 180.5)- Pile it on, whittle it off. Gosh, I thought the scale would go down a bit more considering how hungry I was yesterday and how well I coped/starved. I came within an inch of another binge, this time it was hungry and cravings all rolled up into one. Then I looked at my watch and was shocked to see it was already after 2:00 a.m. So I said to myself, “Donna, you won’t even be awake long enough to gloat in it or bask in its sunshine”, so I didn’t do it. I must admit, had it been 9:00 pm I think I would have caved. There is more than one kind of strength training. The one with my handweights is much easier than this! I’m already starting my day off still hungry. In fact, when I went to copy today’s post to add to my saved format, I thought my computer said Pasta. It said Paste.

02/19-179.4-(Trend Weight 180.5)- No real structured exercise yesterday although I worked my butt off cleaning out an upstairs closet. I’m also going through all the clothing on hangers that came out of my bedroom closet that is being renovated. I’m not through them all yet……I travel tomorrow to get more blood work done at the hospital. Hopefully they can lower my thyroid medicine again. All signs of me getting healthier after some of the weight loss I’ve been experiencing over the past year. Now…..if only I could get my diabetes medicine lowered. …..

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I have got to break the mini-cycle I'm in. For some reason, I keep sabotaging the good effort I put in during the day by snacking after my eating window should be closed. We have been doing intermittent fasting (IF) since last Sep. Our eating window is supposed to be from 10am to 4 pm, 6 hours. Our fasting period is 18 hours from 4 pm to 10 am.

The problem is we've been pushing our evening meal off to 6, 7, or even 8 pm because life has been getting in the way. When we eat later we are hungrier and have less discipline, so we eat too much and make bad snack choices both before and after our evening meal. We just need to make our 18/6 fasting/eating window a priority again to reverse this negative trend on the scales.

Feb 1 – Feb 7: 177.6 – 172.4 (-5.2)
Feb 8 - Feb 14: 174.4-172.2 (-2.2)
Feb 15: 173.8
Feb 16: 175.8
Feb 17: 176.8
Feb 18: 176.8
Feb 19: 176.2

Hi All!!!

So I slacked off last the last two or so weeks of January.... I stopped logging and checking in, and ate a lot more freely; however I did not gain. This is good.
This is the month that I'm hoping to reach my goal weight, whatever that is, LOL. I'm starting the month at 126.8 pounds; my goal will probably be somewhere around 123-125. I'm hoping to know when I get there. Just to have a concrete goal to shoot for, let's say it's 124.

Original starting weight: 160 lbs
Goal for February: 124.0 lbs

February 1: 126.8 💗 I logged
February 2: 128.0 Hopefully just a temporary gain from our big meal last night.
February 3: 128.2 💗 I logged
February 4: 127.8
February 5: 126.6 💗 I logged Phew!!
February 6: 127.8 💗 I logged OK, this first week of February is just going to suck as far as weight loss goes.
February 7: 127.0 💗 I logged
February 8: 126.8
February 9: 127.2 💗 I logged
February 10: 127.6
February 11: 128.0
February 12: 127.8
February 14: 127.4
February 15: 127.0
February 16: 127.6. 💗 I logged Ugh, I'm looking at my log and I remember yesterday was 127.2, and the day before was 127.0. I got off somewhere in my log. Anyway, I have not yet rediscovered my motivation. Every morning I wake up super motivated, and then it always goes out the window somewhere between 2:00-6:00 PM. I'm kinda happy with my weight so there's some complacency there too. But I really do want to lose a few more pounds. And I need to get back to exercising. Reassessing my goals here in the middle of the month: I'm not going to be so concerned with losing x amount these last two weeks. My goal now is to just pre-log every morning or the night before. Every night or in the morning, to pre-log the following afternoon/evening.

February 17: 126.8 💗 I logged Pre-logging, herbal tea, and protein powder are my friends.
February 18: 126.8 💗 I logged
February 19: 126.2 Finally, my weight is below my starting weight of the month.
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