100 day Challenge #23 May15.25 – August 22.25

100 Days of Weighing In #23 ^^^^^ May 15, 2025 thru Aug 22, 2025

My Name is Donna, Age 65. I am 5’5” tall & I live in Northern Michigan USA

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“We will encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

Maya Angelou

Starting Weight from End of Last Challenge: : 194.2

Goal This Round: 184.2 (10 pounds)

Challenge Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx

Total Lost/Gained this challenge: xxxxx

🔜🔜🔜🔜🔜Ultimate Goal: 145-155 (I’ll know when I get there!)

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🌻

Thoughts at the start of this round:

My goal from the very beginning has been to lose one pound per week for a total of 12 pounds per challenge. I have never considered that to be too much and I never thought in a million years I would find it this difficult, even at my age and with my health problems. But it’s proved to be nothing but an uphill climb and in most cases, impossible. I am going to lower my goal to 10 pounds per challenge and see if that will feel more right, more do-able. This breaks down to 0.7 lbs per challenge week. I don’t think that is too much to ask of my mind, my body and my spirit! I, again, thank you for sharing my journey with me and allowing me to travel with you on yours. It is reassuring, refreshing, enlightening and inspiring and I am forever grateful.

Previous Rounds Tallys:

PREVIOUS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

CURRENT WEEK:

Day 36—06/19— DNW 💠 - (Trend Weight: DNW) Today I feel bloated and just plain ol’ fat . I will work on keeping it a compliant day so that maybe I will feel more emotionally up to weighing tomorrow. At this point it just feels like weighing would do more harm than good and this challenge is designed to make things feel better, not worse. On another note:. A plumber is FINALLY coming today to check something out in the en suite bathroom so hopefully that will keep my mind busy and away from food and especially cravings that often come after a day of excess. UPDATE: DGS is doing great by the way. Oh, the resilience of children!

🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊 Day 37—06/20—191.6 ❌ (Trend Weight – 192.2) Well, I honestly thought the scale would show much worse based on how I was feeling yesterday. I’m glad to see that I don’t have too much ground to make up after traveling. However, due to weighing in 2 days late, I now only have 5 more days to do it. I will definitely aim to make up as much lost ground as I possibly can. The only real obstacle I see is a social event on Saturday that will be pretty food focused. It is a very large gathering. This is where my typical failures come in as I’m so used to the same old foods in my little horse and buggy town that to have anything else available (and especially free) always becomes my downfall. I’m going to do my best as it is highly possible I could get too far behind on my 0.7 goals that it would be impossible to make it up in just one week. Keeping that in mind may help. We are expecting high 90’s temps with heat indexes well over 100. In Northern Michigan that is something our thick skin is not used to. I have the Central Air Unit sitting in my garage but I’m still not on the HVAC specialists schedule for install. Ugh! It’s going to be rough. High temps start tomorrow. Have a beautiful weekend!

Day 38—06/21—

Day 39—06/22—

Day 40—06/23—

Day 41—06/24—

Day 42—06/25—

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️ Week 6 Start Weight: 191.6

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️ Week 6 Goal: 1.6 lb Loss to land at 190.0 to stay on goal of 0.7 lost per week

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️ Week 6 End Weight:

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️ Cumulative Weight Loss/Gain So Far:

WEEKS TO COME:

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@frankwbrown What is the R2 = .356 on your graph?

The short answer is: in regression analysis, R² is the coefficient of determination (aka "goodness of fit"). It's a measure of how well a statistical model can predict what is being modeled, in this case my weight.

Trendlines can be based on any of a number of formula types: linear, logarithmic, exponential, power series, polynomial, moving average, etc. I chose the polynomial type of degree 2 based on what seemed to best fit my data so far. But now that I think about it, I realize if I want my trendline to have any predictive power whatsoever, I need to incorporate more variables. I can't elaborate at the moment, but I'm going to give this some thought and post about it later.

@frankwbrown And here I thought I was a math geek! In an attempt to create more motivation for myself, I recently (2 days ago) added to 8 columns to my spreadsheet a series of ‘prediction’ weights based on losing .3 .5 .7 and 1 lb per week. One set dynamically updated for the current actual. The other set fixed at the June 15th actual. I was thinking afterward….‘I think I’m overthinking this’. But it was fun (I know you’d also think it was fun. Other people might go 🤦‍♀️). My intent is to see if I can beat the prediction based on the June 15th actual . It is all just mind games. I fully know what really matters is caloric deficit.

@deepwoodslady In Greater Toronto Area, we have 4 seasons too. In fact, for 5 day camping trip near the Lake Huron shores south of Tobermory, I have shorts, long pants, yoga pants, t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, merino wool, shirts and a few sweaters. You just never know what you’re going to get. Although, the forecast is for hot …. Not Arizona hot, but Southern Ontario hot low of 21 degrees C.
I hope you get your AC installed soon. We have AC in our trailer. I’m sure it will be running all weekend long.
Hopefully you have a basement and can get a little more cool down there.

@Jon4189 mass vs weight is important. I subscribe to YouTube ‘Talkin’ with Docs’. It is two Orthopedic surgeons from Oakville. On any weight related videos Dr Paul Zazal always says it should be called mass management and not weight management.

I work alot too, so I can totally relate. My house really needs to be organized and decluttered, but it always ends up at the bottom of my priority list. I will need to tackle one room at a time or it just feels way too overwhelming.

@Jon4189 This is interesting. I’ve been using a 7 day weigh-in average because I definitely fluctuate. You got my attention when you wrote about the 9 days of weigh-ins. How did you come by this? Now that I’ve got enough days in my spreadsheet, I might consider updating the formulas.

Meh. I know what I need to do. I’m going to clean the refrigerator and restock it today. Today’s workouts will be foam-rolling and leisurely walks. My Apple Watch has a training load feature—it told me to cool it today.

The thing about my food calories is this: I start to have these denial moments where I think I can get away with something. I log it. And the next day I get a lesson about denial🙃. I have to keep this table in the green if I want to progress, and denial isn’t going to get me there.

The big picture: I have better habits now than I did before the challenge, so that’s today’s upside. Have a great day, everyone.

ptitejeanne

Love the ladder!

My 3rd 100 day Challenge - 5/15/25-8/22/25
Frank, age 76, 6'1"
Max weight: 330 (July 10th 2020, start of my fitness/weight loss journey)
yearly gain/loss: year 1: ↓ 87; year 2: ↓ 18; year 3: ↑ 16; year 4: ↑ 15;
year 5 YTD:↓ 1.3; goal: ↓ 36.6 lbs in 27 weeks

Day 36—06/19 — 254.9 : ↓ 0.2✅
Day 37—06/20 — 255.9 : ↑ 1.0⬆️
Day 38—06/21 — 256.6 : ↑ 0.7⬆️
Day 39—06/22 — 0.0
Day 40—06/23 — 0.0
Day 41—06/24 — 0.0
Day 42—06/25 — 0.0

Week 6 start weight: 255.1
Week 6 Goal: 252.4
Week 6 actual weight:

Teri, 61 years old, 5’4”

Challenge Starting Weight: 144.9 lbs
Challenge Goal Weight: 140 lbs
Ultimate Goal Weight: 135 lbs

More than ever, I need to focus on my health. I know what to do, I just need to work on consistency.

Total Challenge gain/loss to date (week 5) :  .6 lb loss

Week 6

Day 36—06/19—145.2 High sodium dinner & snack last night. Workout: Upper body strength training.

Day 37—06/20—144.2 Yesterday was a good food day. I feel like going to Costco was my exercise. lol. I’ve noticed my body reacts slowly to sugar and carbs—taking 2–3 days to show on the scale—but responds quickly to high-sodium foods, usually by the next day. Have to keep that in mind.

Day 38—06/21—144.0

Day 39—06/22—

Day 40—06/23—

Day 41—06/24—

Day 42—06/25—


Week 6 Start Weight: 145.2
Week 6 Goal: 143.0
Week 6 Actual Weight: