Just Give it 10 days Round 288

@reshii_devi

I’ve started a 30-day test window now, exploring different approaches until I find what works again! I know we can push past whatever trend / block we've developed to get where we want to go! We've done it before, lets do it again!!

30 days, I'm with you! And be a little kinder to yourself- you worked incredibly hard last year, so don't let the break in time define your progress, you're still doing fantastic! Let's make our next step happen now!

Round 288
Feb 20 – March 1, 2025

62 year old female, 5’5”. I am married, semi-nomadic (we live in three states, Mass, Maine, Florida).

SW WW Sept 29, 2001 - 168.8 (initially lost 29.8, became staff, then weight up and down 18 years with low of 126.8)
SW MFP Sept 14, 2020 – 153 (lost 40, then stress took off another 2.2 lb with low of 120.8, then stress became gain)
SW MFP Jan 1, 2023 – 146.6
GW Maintaining between 124 - 126

Continuing to figure out maintaining, and to work on best nutrition and exercise.

History:
SW: 136.2

Day/Weight/Comment

So I am starting to compare my paths to these dates in 2023. In January 2023, I started higher than this year, yet was at a fantastic weight by May. This year, I did not use January well, but when comparing the two years, if I get on track NOW, when I return up north just before May, I should be in a decent place. For comparison, I am 3.8 lb lower, and in the equivalent 2023 round I had managed to lose 2 pounds. Given my January sloppiness, I could see I was starting to slip into the “I can’t achieve it, so why do it” mode. While yes, I want that lower weight number, but I really have to get that focus more firmly onto health numbers. Also, as I futz up, how do I participate well here? Yes, I know the answer, but it you get my drift, it is hard to do what one should do. (Note: I did not mean to post this paragraph un-edited yesterday. Realizing now that I did.)

2.20 – 136.0 Yesterday was interesting. Did my now rather typical 5 mile walk – 4 as a group (their pace), and one alone(my pace). Should have been a gym day, but was feeling Monday’s first workout, and now that I am having my first day with a trainer on Friday, I want to make sure that I am not in so much pain Friday that I cannot work with her, so I skipped. My planned restaurant meal, did not go as planned, due to the restaurant. They apologized lots, but not sure I will return. I did track everything and it appears I faired ok. Dealing with lunch restaurant today, and have already pre-tracked.

2/21 – 135.8 Yesterday was solid, 5 miles walked (4 and 1 like before), tracked everyting. I stuck to my plan for the restaurant (poké and seltzer with lime). Today, I have my first of 10 sessions with a personal trainer. I am here until almost the end of April, so hoping to having done some learning during this time. Facing a restaurant AGAIN tonight for dinner. Not pre-tracking for this one, but I will track as I make my selections at the restaurant. Heading out for my 5 miles shortly.

2/22 – 136.2 Yesterday’s activity was great. Diet prior to the restaurant was good. Restaurant was borderline. Went in with an uncertain plan. Hubby wanted to share the tuna tartare appetizer, which kind of pushed me away from a tuna tataki appetizer as an entre. I had a decent number of calories available so I splurged on the “buff and blu” fried oysters. I figured 6 fried oysters would be a treat, but could work. The tuna came, that was great. (oh, my gin and tonic was strong!) Then the oysters came. It was a platter of something like 14 or 16 of them!!! Argh! I had 10 of them. Hubby had the rest. But hubby got me to try a very small slice of his three pigs pizza (about the size of a slice of bread and I skipped the crust). Now I know I am over (I am tracking on my phone and seeing it grow). Then, what the heck, we ordered a bread pudding to share. It was literally 6” x 3” x 2+”. I had about 1/3. I’ve tracked everything (except that slice of pizza – too much brain function). Oh, and I only had ½ my gin and tonic.

Now for the GOOD! Did my morning 5 miles. My 5th (solo) mile was my fastest pace in 2025. My personal trainer moved me up almost 3 hours on short notice, but I got over there in time. I really liked her, liked her methodology, and I think I will get a lot out of her guidance these next few months. I don’t hurt too bad this morning. Oh, and the exciting thing is that IN HER OPINION my muscles are going to respond quickly. Her comment was how good mu muscles were for not having worked out in two years. I replied, it’s been since before COVID (AKA over 5 years). Next session is Monday.

Not worrying about the scale uptick. Hubby is away Sun/Mon and I VOW (you hear it now) to not have ice cream as entire meals while he is gone. I also won’t be facing dining out until at least Wednesday I would guess.

2/23 – 136.6 Shoot! Hoping this is temporary from my over salty dinner. Yesterday, I also did a solo walk of 6.5 miles at an elevated pace, just not my fastest. Maybe I have fluid retention also going on from beating up my muscles these past few days. Calories were tracked yesterday, but I did use some of those burned during my walk. Should still have been some deficit. Today, hubby heads off for two days with the car. Consequently, when I go to the gym today and tomorrow, I will be riding my bike (only about 4 miles round trip).

2/24 – 136.6 Walked 5.2 miles, biked 3 miles, 1+ hr weight training. Tracked everything though above what it should be. Let’s see how this shakes out.

2/25 – 136.4 walked 5 miles, 15 min on treadmill (warm up), 1 hour personal trainer. Diet was spot on. I truly think there is some fluid retention involved in my numbers. I kind of recall observing this years ago as well.

2/26 – 135.4 quieter day, but on track. 5 miles walked. No gym. Lots of grocery shopping. DD, SIL and grandbabies will be will us most of next round (March 3 – 10) trying to get ready for them. Today, I will walk, have to clean the 500 sq ft balcony and 80 ft of screening. Supposed to go to the gym to do “workout #2” on my own. I am worried I am pushing the pace a little fast. Today will be workout #4 and tomorrow with the trainer #5 in 7 days. I don’t want to burn out or get injured. Having the family come next week and not being able to make it to the gym as frequent will help ease me in. Online advice is to start with 3 times a week for a couple months getting acclimated and form, then moving up to 4 times a week. Five is first real week is a push.

Meanwhile, seeing a “5” in my weight number is nice and I am hoping to close out this round keeping that 5. I have not started a round with such a 5 since December.

2/27 – 135.2 Yesterday’s weight typo had to be wishful thinking. It is now corrected! I did my morning 5 miles, then I decided to NOT go to the gym yesterday. I see the trainer today, and want to be able to push myself. On Monday, I was unable to do that as (IMO) I pushed too many days in a row. I want this to stick, and don’t want to burn out and quit. This morning I was able to start the day without advil with my coffee.

2/28 – 136.0 I am up, but it’s the day after trainer day. 25th was the also day after trainer and I am lower today than that morning. Today is no trainer. Based on that, tomorrow should be good, BUT dinner is a pasta night and in my past pasta is also a temporary up. Tracking was good yesterday. Walked the 5 miles, and did 1 hr weight training.

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Me - Meg, 5'5", 66, desk job, moderate daily exerciser
Daily Calories @ 1530 for one pound per round!
GOAL #3 128 LBS

Winners never quit and quitters never win – Vince Lombardi

ROUND 288
02/20 – 134.0 Morning Swim
02/21 – 133.3 Trainer – upper body only today
02/22 - 135.0 OMG – This is last night’s dinner with the in-laws – Morning swim
02/23 – 133.0 Easy basement yoga (weight has been corrected)
02/24 – 133.5 Easy basement yoga, zoo with DGS
02/25 – 133.1 Morning swim
02/26 – 132.7 PT exercises, a short walk to lunch from the office.
02/27 – 133.1 Morning swim
02/29 – 133.0 PT exercise, trainer


These PT exercises are not strenuous but boy do they pick at those small muscles I didn’t know I had. They are meant to strengthen the area that has been off limit for several months or underdeveloped in the first place. Fingers crossed that the platelet shot seems to be doing its job. I have a skinny-friend dinner out tonight, so hopefully I won’t go too far astray.

Shout out to those that are killing it this round!!
🙌🙌🙌🙌

@Chapter_3
I really like the long post. Essentially she identified the person she wanted to become, identified as this person, made a plan and did what this type of person would do.
This is very much in alignment with Atomic Habits.
Thanks for the post. Inspiring.

jspecies11 wrote: »

@Chapter_3
I really like the long post. Essentially she identified the person she wanted to become, identified as this person, made a plan and did what this type of person would do.
This is very much in alignment with Atomic Habits.
Thanks for the post. Inspiring.

Yes. What a game plan!
I thought the same. Atomic Habits. Sounds convincingly easy in theory, but oh so hard in reality! I loved the real world example of getting it done. Documenting her dream and following an action plan.

USW: 241
UGW: 175
Mini-WL goal (195 lbs by May 19): 5.4 lbs to go
Mini-goal for this round (Don't eat anything before tracking it first): 8/10

SW Rnd 288: 201.2
2/20 - 201.2 walking
2/21 - 200.8 cycling
2/22 - 199.2 walking
2/23 - 198.4 cycling
2/24 - 199.6 walking
2/25 - 199.2 cycling
2/26 - 198.8 walking
2/27 - 199.6 walking
2/28 - 200.4
3/1 -

Ugh! I hate seeing that 2 again, but I know it is just a pop up.

You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be better than you were before

32, 5'5"
Goal: bulking - minimize fat gain, maximize muscle gain

Previous Rounds:
Last weight
2/19 - 168.3

Round Goal: N/A - bulking

Day, Weight, Comment
2/20 - 168.0
2/21 - 167.7
2/22 - 167.9
2/23 - 170.0
2/24 - 169.4
2/25 - 167.9
2/26 - 168.7
2/27 - 168.4
2/28 - 168.0 - A little drop from TOM arriving. My app is getting closer to predicting accurately (it predicted tomorrow) with this being my 3rd TOM since stopping all hormonal medication. This is good and I'm glad there's regularity there. I'm having a few more symptoms this time around but there's been a lot going on that, according to the book I was reading, could be causing it. It's almost all lifestyle changes. Plus, being sick earlier this week probably didn't help much as I haven't worked out and I know that really helps regulate things, too. Anyway, Sunday is BigBro's birthday so he's coming by tomorrow for his birthday dinner and I'm making him a chocolate zucchini bread since he has liked that before and won't tell me what else he wants. That said, the Man is in the local office today so we're going to have date night tonight instead. All this to say, my logging will be estimates at best for today and tomorrow. Reading on the app, it's better to either skip logging the entire day OR estimate as close as possible meals for the day and to absolutely NOT log some meals but not all (since the app won't know if you skipped a meal or didn't log. The way it is programmed it will assume you skipped a meal so if my weight is up after "skipping" dinner (didn't log eating out) then it thinks that my calories and macros are too high and will decrease, even if the reality is that I ate too much and had high sodium and I am, in fact, quite alright with where I'm at calorie/macro-wise). Good to know! It will be a busy day tomorrow but I'll do my best to hop on for the end of round check in! If not, great round and see you in the next one!!
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Previous Day's Comments

My fifth round! Thank you for the accountability

End of the last round = 61.6

Friday 20th. 61.3 😊 trend ⬇️
Sat 21st 61.2 😊 trend ⬇️
Sun 22nd DNW
Mon 23rd DNW
Tues 24th 61.2 trend ⬇️.
Wed 25th 61.2 (again!) 😊 trend ⬇️
Thu 26th 61.2 yet again! trend ↔️
Fri 27th 60.9 😊 trend ⬇️. Progress at last!
Sat 28th
Mon 1st

HW: 194.7 (88.3 kg) April 25, 2020
ST WT RND 247: 180.6 (81.9 kg) END WT 256: DNF
ST WT 278: 166 (75.3 kg)
SW Rnd 288: 147 (66.7 kg)

2/20- 147.5 (66.9) Another swing the wrong way. I don't know if TMI is to blame, TOM, too much sodium, too many carbs, or what. But I do know if I stay the course, it'll eventually correct.
2/21- 147 (66.7) My teeth are still sore from the springs they put on my upper braces on Tuesday. I'm used to mild tenderness 24-48 hours after an appointment and I don't even really get sore anymore when my c-chains are switched out, but this has me eating soft foods and taking ibuprofen. I even woke up a few times during the night because my teeth were uncomfortable. But I'm excited because it marks the next step in my treatment.
2/22- 146.9 (66.6 kg) It was almost 50 today and not raining. We went for a nice walk by the lake and did a little loop through downtown.
2/23-146.8 (66.6 kg) Ate at maintenance today. We went for a drive and the nearby town happened to be wrapping up their winter carnival with dog keg pull races. We hadn't laughed so hard in a long time. Watching a dachshund pull an (empty) beer can down the course while the lab in the next lane had a larger (also empty) keg was great. Some dogs had so much speed they almost took out their owners with the keg, others repeatedly stopped partway down track to sniff and greet the crowd. It was a nice way to wrap up the weekend.
2/24- 146.6 (66.5 kg) DH rescheduled this week's travel to next week. I'm excited. I think we both need a break from his work trips.
2/25- 145.3 (65.9 kg) Spontaneous date night tonight!
2/26-146 (66.2 kg) Tired, tired, tired from work. I haven't had to cook at all this week thanks to DH even though it was my turn Monday. We typically alternate nights, but not super strict about it. Still, I really appreciate him taking the bigger share of the load this week.
2/27- 145.8 (66.1 kg) A lighter day at work followed by a successful Costco run. Our favorite frozen salmon (Arcticfish blackened Atlantic salmon) is back in stock.
2/28- 145.7 (66.1 kg) I made it to Friday! All in all, a successful week.
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