❄️⛷️January Daily Logging & Weigh-in Challenge🛷❄️

My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 64 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 Dec 31st): 192.6
Goal: 188.6 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx
Total Lost/Gained this month: 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.


01/01-193.4-(Trend Weight 192.9)-

01/02-193.2-(Trend Weight 192.9)-

01/03-192.4-(Trend Weight 192.9)-

01/04-192.0-(Trend Weight 192.8)-

01/05-193.8-(Trend Weight 192.9)-

01/06-193.0-(Trend Weight 192.9)-

01/07-193.4-(Trend Weight 192.9)- My day yesterday was pretty good overall . My calories and carbs were under so I’m not sure why there was a bit of an increase. I’ll just have to trust the process and not let it put me in a bad and self-sabotaging place. I probably did not do the greatest on pure water consumption but there was plenty of black coffee which many health professionals count. No set exercise for me however. I’ve just been too lazy and have had no drive. I think part of it is just stress and depression. I have not had that conversation (meeting) with my contractor yet. He wants to wait a few days in order to use every moment on the project now that he’s done spewing his mouth and it’s my turn to talk. Oh well, the meeting WILL come but I do want the rest of that mud on the wall and have it get drying so we can progress. I’m not in a good place right now and it would take almost nothing to completely derail me. I’ve got to pull up the strength to continue to meal-plan, pre-log and get in some fitness/exercise. I can’t shut Donna and her health down over a smart-arsed contractor! I hate conflict!

01/08-DNW-(Trend Weight DNW)- So much on my mind with the renovation project and the trouble with my contractor. I’m going to cut him loose and find someone else to finish. He refused to sit down with me in a meeting and has been walking off the job or not showing up. I’m done with him! In a big dilemma for sure since my house is tore apart and my bed is in the middle of the living room. What a mess! I’ll just have to get through it. My meals yesterday were on point but I went a little overboard on the snacks last night so I don’t know what the scale would have showed. Every time I go outside first to feed the birds and squirrels, I end up coming in and grabbing the steaming hot coffee to warm my hands and then it’s too late to weigh when I finally realize. I have a hair appointment today. I will continue to try to keep my meals clean and eat all my meals at home even though I’ll be out for quite some time today. I must improve my snacks but it’s the hunger that is getting to me, not cravings this time. I even tried a protein drink the other night before any snacks later. It didn’t help. High fiber at dinner hasn’t helped either. My body must have gotten spoiled during the holidays and is now being a brat!

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SECOND HALF OF THE MONTH

@deepwoodslady I'm so sorry to hear about your contractor. I sure hope you can find someone that you can trust. Sounds like letting him go is the best decision. Thinking of you in this very stressful time. 🫂

Hello I'm Darlene, retired, 64-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty). I have been with group for a while. I started my journey in January 2023, and over the last two year have lost almost 90 pounds. With the help of this group I made it to the ideal weight loss range. Logging in Daily really keeps me on track. Now I'm working on a buffer to make it so I never hit overweight again. This round, I am going to change things up a bit - going to post my goal accomplishment daily, but only weigh in on Wednesday, we'll see how that goes!

My Goals for January

🥅 Stay under Ideal Weight (140)
🎯 Work Towards next weight goal 137 whenever I get there is fine
👣 14K Steps per day (100K Steps Weekly)
📝 Log Daily
🥗 Under TDEE calorie range daily, have 1,750 calorie defcifit for week (1/2 pound)
🚶‍♀️🫀 🏋️‍♀️ 🧘‍♀️ 2+ Miles 🚶‍♀️walking daily, 3 🫀 Cardio (non-walk) weekly, 3 🏋️‍♀️ Strength Weekly, 1 Stretch type 🧘‍♀️ weekly
⌚ 700 Min of Intentional Exercise Weekly
💦 8+ glasses of water
🧂 Under Sodium Limit

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 | Sep: 174.2 | Oct: 169.6 | Nov 164.6 | Dec 164 | Jan 159.8 | Feb 156.8 | Mar 152.6 | Apr 151.6 | May 149.6 | Jun 144.8 | Jul: 143.5 | Aug: 142.4 | Sep 140.7 | Oct 139.8 | Nov 142.4 | Dec 139.7

⛄🎉January 🎉⛄

My Goals
🥅 🎯👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 🧘‍♀️ 💦🧂

Weight Current Day, Goals Prior Day
Starting Weight 139.7


Prior Weeks:
Jan 7: 139 🥅 👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
Prior Weeks Goals
115K 👣 Steps, 65 Miles, 1005 ⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 2,375

Week Two:
Jan 7: 👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
20.4K Steps, 3.6🚶‍♀️Miles, 149⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗310

I worked really hard since Christmas and it as paid off, lost all my weight from the holidays. My weekly calorie deficit was 2,375 calories - the math says that should be .67 pounds and guess what I lost .7 pounds - I guess the math worked this week! 😁

[Jan 8:[/b]👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚💦🧂
19.7K Steps, 4.9🚶‍♀️Miles, 163⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗492

Jan 5: 144.6
Jan 6: 144.2
Jan 7: 144.2
Jan 8: 142.4
Jan 9: 142.4

Jan 8: Logged meals, steps 7132 (met my 7k goal), completed Day 4 Beginner Pilates video.

I’m working to cut out sugar since I have a bit of a sweet tooth. After 4 days with no sugar I gave in last night. Not a proud moment, but understanding the detox process the craving was REAL! Starting over today and the first thing on my list is to throw away all the food temptations!!

Hi All!

🎉🎆Happy New Year!!🎆🎉

I am a mom of five, trying to lose my last few pounds.

Goals for January:
Pre-log my day's food every morning! And update logging before dinner.
Check in to this group every morning.


January 1: 128.6 ❄️ I logged!
January 2: 127.6
January 3: 127.6 Yesterday the last of the Christmas cookies, chocolates, and egg nog got hold of me.
January 4: 127.6 I've been pre-logging in the mornings; but then I get derailed sometime between 3-7PM. I'd like to tackle that; maybe if I take the time to update logging right before dinner. There's always a lot of shuffle and/or chaos right before dinner, but if I can manage to take some time to update my logging during that time, I think that will help. So, I'd adding that to my goals above.

January 5: 127.6
January 6: 128.6
January 7: 127.8
January 8: 128.6 ❄️ I logged!
January 9: 127.6 Yesterday I actually logged the way I'm supposed to. (As in, pre-logging and then keeping up with the logging during my challenging hours of late afternoon/early evening.) I increased my calorie goal by 200 calories and kept my laptop handy.

January 10:

44yo happily married from Canada. Been sick for about 3 weeks and counting. Hopeful 2025 is a healthier year for us all.

January Start Weight: 288
January Goal Weight: 277
Dec 31 Goal Weight: 230

Jan1: 288 same start as last year.
Jan2: 288.7 I ended up lying down after the unplanned 4am wakeup and weighed in when I got up for the day.
Jan3: 4am wakeup again.. forgot to check weight just wanted to get out of bedroom to not wake DH with my coughing.. too bad he didn't feel the same with his snoring! But on the mend I think
Jan6: 290.7 3am wakeup.. dammit. Coughing, odd sneeze here and there, rogue ice cream last night with apple crumble pie. Sigh. "Diets" start Mondays right? Going to start logging meals today, hitting 10k steps and start upping my water intake. Back in the day I drank up to 13 water bottles and day.. now I'm lucky if it's 2-3!
Jan7: 284.9 ok seems I dropped that sugary weekend plus more.. but not in a good way. rough night. Took a new to me otc sleeping pill at 7 and fell asleep by 830 or so.. I've been sleeping extra poorly being sick. I woke up at 1144pm. No idea why. At 2 I got out of bed to read in living room to hopefully get sleepy.. nothing. Got DH off to work at 6 and tried to sleep and managed 630to730 then 745to9. I hate napping. My fitbit doesn't even know what to do with all these naps. I also didn't eat much. Nor today yet either. The congestion shifted in my head.. its lessened but I'm still coughing with mini sneezes still daily. I hate this.

I did get my 10k steps in yesterday but today I'm not even attempting it.

Jan8: 283.3 1399cals yesterday.. appetite was gone last 2 days but today I feel hungry! Sleep was poor.. i kept waking up after every sleep cycle? So weird. Fitbit gave me 5h37m sleep from 830 to 530. 🤷‍♀️ used no otc sleep aids this time. I'm going to bed early again tonight.. read for awhile then try for 830 again. I'm "skipping" the 10k steps again todsy.. it'll be whatever.. going to keep focusing rest of this week on increasing water intake, better sleep, knocking this congestion and proper cal amts. Which I have set for 1950.. my steps/"extra" Fitbit cals aren't registering but I just don't care while I'm not focused on "exercise".
Jan9: 281.9 So I felt hungry in the AM yesterday but it faded. I'm still eating throughout the day it's just not a lot of cals. 🤷‍♀️ Last fall we stopped eating out so much.. mostly drive thru/pickup/takeout. We started getting the Family size kale salad in the deli section.. i didn't even look at the nutrition label but I eat my half in 2 meals while DH eats it all at once. Figured it's a start not eating fried things. If we don't get that we get the preassembled fresh pizza - again no idea the stats I'll be checking when we get each next time - but for the time being I think we are keeping those as our weekend indulgence with most everything else now cooked at home. Hopefully the kale salad is in stock tonight. Pork shoulder is on sale 1.69lb so we are getting one to do Sunday with veggie side bulk cooking to eat all next week. No thinking about what's for dinner.. its just keep on eating this cheap dinner all week - we already have 2 kinds of potatoes, onion, carrots and squash so this will really work well with my wanting to actually set a budget this year. Chicken legs back attached are also on sale so I might get a pack for my lunches all week.

Monday I'll try to care about the steps again.. I'm still working on the sleep issue. I seem to wake up after every 1 or 2 sleep cycles all night long. Last night I managed to fall back asleep.... counting sheep! 🐑😂 the highest I remember hitting was 69.. I did this at least the 4x I woke up and somehow fell asleep to wake up again later.

1 sheep, 2 sheep, 3 sheep....

Tooooooooo funny. But it worked.. I'll use it again tonight.. we also have blackout curtains we just leave up - had because DH had a month long split shift last year - and they actually really help when I'm able to stay asleep.

Ok.. lets make happy choices! 💜

@ozdeelite don't knock 22 minutes of exercise. That's enough to help you sleep, which will help with everything! Keep walking.

Hello I'm Darlene, retired, 64-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty). I have been with group for a while. I started my journey in January 2023, and over the last two year have lost almost 90 pounds. With the help of this group I made it to the ideal weight loss range. Logging in Daily really keeps me on track. Now I'm working on a buffer to make it so I never hit overweight again. This round, I am going to change things up a bit - going to post my goal accomplishment daily, but only weigh in on Wednesday, we'll see how that goes!

My Goals for January

🥅 Stay under Ideal Weight (140)
🎯 Work Towards next weight goal 137 whenever I get there is fine
👣 14K Steps per day (100K Steps Weekly)
📝 Log Daily
🥗 Under TDEE calorie range daily, have 1,750 calorie defcifit for week (1/2 pound)
🚶‍♀️🫀 🏋️‍♀️ 🧘‍♀️ 2+ Miles 🚶‍♀️walking daily, 3 🫀 Cardio (non-walk) weekly, 3 🏋️‍♀️ Strength Weekly, 1 Stretch type 🧘‍♀️ weekly
⌚ 700 Min of Intentional Exercise Weekly
💦 8+ glasses of water
🧂 Under Sodium Limit

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 | Sep: 174.2 | Oct: 169.6 | Nov 164.6 | Dec 164 | Jan 159.8 | Feb 156.8 | Mar 152.6 | Apr 151.6 | May 149.6 | Jun 144.8 | Jul: 143.5 | Aug: 142.4 | Sep 140.7 | Oct 139.8 | Nov 142.4 | Dec 139.7

⛄🎉January 🎉⛄

My Goals
🥅 🎯👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 🧘‍♀️ 💦🧂

Weight Current Day, Goals Prior Day
Starting Weight 139.7


Prior Weeks:
Jan 7: 139 🥅 👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
Prior Weeks Goals
115K 👣 Steps, 65 Miles, 1005 ⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 2,375

Week Two:
Jan 7: 👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
20.4K Steps, 3.6🚶‍♀️Miles, 149⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗310

I worked really hard since Christmas and it as paid off, lost all my weight from the holidays. My weekly calorie deficit was 2,375 calories - the math says that should be .67 pounds and guess what I lost .7 pounds - I guess the math worked this week! 😁

Jan 8:👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚💦🧂
19.7K 👣Steps, 4.9🚶‍♀️Miles, 163⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗492

Jan 9:👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
15.5K 👣Steps, 2.9🚶‍♀️Miles, 136⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗86

I have been working on Improved Health's 25 days to a Stronger You program on youtube. Just finished the program yesterday - really enjoyed it and I do feel stronger. It's five days of strength (alternating body parts), with a plank every day then two days of rest. Each session is just 10-15 minutes. I liked it - but going back to strength every other day and a full body longer session. Just easier to keep track of my weeks!

25 Day Strength Playlist

Well, it's been tough the last couple days. I think maybe partly pms. Anyway yesterday I was over. I've been fighting the urge not to get takeout- like craving something salty and greasy lol.

Calorie Goals and Actual for yesterday
1600 / 1913

My success for the day was that I actually did weigh everything.

Weighins:

Jan 1- 162.2
Jan 8- 160.8

So January goals:

** Weigh in weekly on Wednesdays.
**Track calories every day.
**Stick to my calorie goals (1600, plus 100 on days I go in to the office- more movement/longer day)
**Do the approved exercises I can do.

Weigh in Jan 1- 162.2 lbs.
Goal weight in Jan- 159 (I know this isn't much, but I really feel like I need to start with baby steps and not set myself up for failure right now).

@Tbris4 Wishing you the very best in your new job!

Slept all day yesterday. Exhausted again. I guess I’m just going to have to postpone normal life. Perhaps it’s a fibromyalgia flare due to the COVID but I’m just limp. Very bloated looking too - need to have some blood tests again when I get home from mums. I still have a catheter and chances are I will for the rest of my life. I think swimming would be the best way for me to exercise due to my pain levels currently. Most likely do that a couple times a week.

January weigh in

Start weight: 102.8kg
Goal weight: 101kg

1. 102.8kg 🍴2969. 🔥1895👣1276
2. 102.5kg ⬇️ 0.3kg🍴1531🔥1960👣2012
3. 102.4kg ⬇️ 0.1kg. 🍴1887🔥2033👣2079
4. 102.6 ⬆️ 0.2kg 🍴2081🔥2243👣3725🥳 my birthday 🎂
5. 103.7kg ⬆️ 1.1kg 😩. 🍴2718🔥2068👣2350
6. 103.6kg ⬇️ 0.1kg 🍴1290🔥2138👣3420
7. 104.1 ⬆️ 0.5 WTF 🤬 🍴1645🔥👣
8. 103.8 ⬇️ 0.3kg 🍴1434🔥2267👣3699
9. 103.3kg ⬇️ 0.5kg 🍴1611🔥2342. 👣 4950💪 22 minute walk
10. 104.7kg 🤬🤬🤬 ⬆️ 1.4kg. 🍴1665🔥👣
11. 104.3kg ⬇️ 0.3kg 🍴🔥👣
12.

Hello I'm Darlene, retired, 64-year-old. Married (Greg), one adult daughter (Allyson), and one goldendoodle (Monty). I have been with group for a while. I started my journey in January 2023, and over the last two year have lost almost 90 pounds. With the help of this group I made it to the ideal weight loss range. Logging in Daily really keeps me on track. Now I'm working on a buffer to make it so I never hit overweight again. This round, I am going to change things up a bit - going to post my goal accomplishment daily, but only weigh in on Wednesday, we'll see how that goes!

My Goals for January

🥅 Stay under Ideal Weight (140)
🎯 Work Towards next weight goal 137 whenever I get there is fine
👣 14K Steps per day (100K Steps Weekly)
📝 Log Daily
🥗 Under TDEE calorie range daily, have 1,750 calorie defcifit for week (1/2 pound)
🚶‍♀️🫀 🏋️‍♀️ 🧘‍♀️ 2+ Miles 🚶‍♀️walking daily, 3 🫀 Cardio (non-walk) weekly, 3 🏋️‍♀️ Strength Weekly, 1 Stretch type 🧘‍♀️ weekly
⌚ 700 Min of Intentional Exercise Weekly
💦 8+ glasses of water
🧂 Under Sodium Limit

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 | Sep: 174.2 | Oct: 169.6 | Nov 164.6 | Dec 164 | Jan 159.8 | Feb 156.8 | Mar 152.6 | Apr 151.6 | May 149.6 | Jun 144.8 | Jul: 143.5 | Aug: 142.4 | Sep 140.7 | Oct 139.8 | Nov 142.4 | Dec 139.7

⛄🎉January 🎉⛄

My Goals
🥅 🎯👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 🧘‍♀️ 💦🧂

Weight Current Day, Goals Prior Day
Starting Weight 139.7


Prior Weeks:
Jan 7: 139 🥅 👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
Prior Weeks Goals
115K 👣 Steps, 65 Miles, 1005 ⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 2,375

Week Two:
Jan 7: 👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
20.4K Steps, 3.6🚶‍♀️Miles, 149⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗310

I worked really hard since Christmas and it as paid off, lost all my weight from the holidays. My weekly calorie deficit was 2,375 calories - the math says that should be .67 pounds and guess what I lost .7 pounds - I guess the math worked this week! 😁

Jan 8:👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚💦🧂
19.7K 👣Steps, 4.9🚶‍♀️Miles, 163⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗492

Jan 9:👣 📝🥗 🚶‍♀️🫀🏋️‍♀️⌚ 💦🧂
15.5K 👣Steps, 2.9🚶‍♀️Miles, 136⌚ Min, Calorie Deficit 🥗86

I have been working on Improved Health's 25 days to a Stronger You program on youtube. Just finished the program yesterday - really enjoyed it and I do feel stronger. It's five days of strength (alternating body parts), with a plank every day then two days of rest. Each session is just 10-15 minutes. I liked it - but going back to strength every other day and a full body longer session. Just easier to keep track of my weeks!

25 Day Strength Playlist

Jan 9:👣 📝🚶‍♀️🫀⌚ 💦
20.4K 👣Steps, 4.8🚶‍♀️Miles, 167⌚ Min, Over my Calorie Limit 380, Over my Sodium Limit.

Ate out last night - higher sodium and over my daily calorie limit - still under for the week.

Hi Everyone!

I'm Cindy and 51 and have been married to my very supportive husband for 27 years. We have a daughter who is 19.

April 2020 - 165
Goal - 140

🦄 January Goals 🦄
Start logging food again
Drink more water
Try to go to the gym at least 3 days a week even though this the busiest month of the year at work.

January Start Weight - 160.2
January Goal Weight - 155

1/1 - 160.2
1/2 - 159.6 ⬇️
1/3 - 159.6
1/4 - 159.6
1/5 - 160.2 ⬆️
1/6 - 159.6 ⬇️
1/7 - 159 ⬇️
1/8 - 159.8 ⬆️
1/9 - 159.2 ⬇️
1/10 - 158.8 ⬇️ Only made it to the gym once this week. The weather has been dicey here in Texas the last couple days. The one day I did make it to the gym I had a gain the next morning. Inflammation perhaps. All the new year's resolution people were there. I have never seen my gym that busy. Work has been crazy busy. Will probably go in today, on my day off. Lots of deadlines happen in January.
1/11 - 157.6 ⬇️ Wasn't feeling great yesterday, so didn't really eat much. Only explanation for loss. Will probably go back up today. I did end up going into work for a few hours yesterday. Almost halfway through the month and I haven't met any of my goals. I'm just trying to get through life right now. I'm in survival mode.