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My Starting Weight/date: 335 lbs on Feb.12, 2018 My initial "big" goal: 235 (will revisit goals when I get there) First Milestone goal: 299 lbs NSV milestone goal: record a consistent 10,000 steps a day Current Weight: 313.3 lb Loss this week: -3.2 lb (since last Friday's weigh-in) Total loss: -21.7 lb (hooray, me!) What's…

I can't help on the different meals for husbands and children. Sorry. :) I have found it particularly cost efficient to maintain a pantry and a freezer. I deliberately reserve 1/3 of my monthly grocery money to use for buying items in bulk and when on sale. I will let the funds build up until there is something I need or a…

I enjoy the easy-to-prepare, delicious, and frugal recipes featured on this website: BudgetBytes - designed for small budgets and the site is a pleasure to navigate because it isn't all advertising and pop-ups, so refreshing! She has an app, and you can subscribe to her e-mail recipes, and there are meal plans and…

I was able to do a marathon session of laundry this weekend, something I tend to avoid because it requires me to go up and down stairs to the laundry room on the next level down of my apartment building. By my reckoning I completed 36 separate trips up and down (one and two for putting the load in the washer, three and…

Starting weight this time: 335 lbs current weight: 314 lbs Initial big goal: 235 lbs (losing 100 lbs feels like an overwhelming and massive goal right now, I'll revisit the end goal when I get there) Initial milestone goal: 299 lbs Initial fitness goal: 10,000 steps/day I'm 55, 5'9", never married, no kids. I think that…

What's Cookin' This Weekend? Defrosted* a 4-litre pail of chicken broth * a container of make-ahead crockpot apricot ginger chicken * a 2-lb package of beef stewing meat Prepped Sunday:* Hard boiled eggs * pot of Rice * slow cooked apricot ginger Chicken * Big Batch Vegetable Soup a personalized recipe inspired by the one…

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Week # 3 check-in. STARTING WEIGHT AND DATE WITH MFP (MY FITNESS PAL): 335 lbs on Feb.11/18 CHALLENGE STARTING WEIGHT: 320.8 lbs on Apr.30/18 MAY 7: 317.2 MAY 14: 318.7 MAY 21: 314.2 MAY 28 MAY GOAL: 310 MAY ACTUAL: WEIGHT LOST THIS WEEK: -4.5 lbs CHALLENGE WEIGHT LOSS GOAL: -40 lbs ACTUAL WEIGHT LOSS FOR CHALLENGE: -6.6…

checking in. Sorry to have been so MIA and uninvolved for the last little while. You only get out what you put in, right? My Starting Weight/date: 335 lbs on Feb.12, 2018 My initial "big" goal: 235 (will revisit goals when I get there) First Milestone goal: 299 lbs NSV milestone goal: record a consistent 10,000 steps a day…

Hi, @Aaron_k123. I too found that a significant portion of my spending swings was for non-food consumables. At the time I was unemployed, and reasoned that I could put off buying aluminum foil or light bulbs for a couple of weeks but not necessary food, so I created three different budget line items: Household sundries…

I'm a single living in north western Canada and not near the US border. Most of our fruits and vegetables in the winter are trucked in from the US and Mexico, and the added transportation and currency exchange can be a B*. I cook from scratch and rarely eat out. I budget $200 to $250 per month ($50 per Saturday in the…

Week # 2 check-in. STARTING WEIGHT AND DATE WITH MFP (MY FITNESS PAL): 335 lbs on Feb.11/18 CHALLENGE STARTING WEIGHT: 320.8 lbs on Apr.30/18 MAY 7: 317.2 MAY 14: 318.7 MAY 21: MAY 28 MAY GOAL: 310 MAY ACTUAL: WEIGHT LOST THIS WEEK: +1.5 lbs CHALLENGE WEIGHT LOSS GOAL: -40 lbs ACTUAL WEIGHT LOSS FOR CHALLENGE: -2.1 lbs I'm…

The weather here is swinging from a low of +2 celsius last night to a high of +21 celsius today, which is a low of 35 and a high of 69 if you're following along in Farenheit. We're expecting highs of +24 celsius (75 farenheit this weekend) and lows of +8 at night (46 farenheit). Those extreme swings from cold to hot and…

@bmeadows380 I am so feeling your frustration with water retention. My knuckles disappeared a couple of days ago and I'm staring down at fat pink digits typing on my keyboard. And the skin on my hands and feet feels tight. I've been experiencing some serious inflammation and water retention for the last couple of weeks. I…

May 10: walked 24 minutes May 11: walked 30 minutes New group total: 3,047 (Are we fantastic or what?!)

walking: 24 minutes

33 minutes walking New group total: 259

walking 24 min new group total: 605

Hello, all. I'm joining in with a goal of leveraging my initial newbie euphoria into a sustainable long-term practice. I recently picked up a digital food scale, and I'm hoping that accuracy kicks up my numbers a little. Good luck, everyone. STARTING WEIGHT AND DATE WITH MFP (MY FITNESS PAL): 335 lbs on Feb.11/18 CHALLENGE…

Honest, I am not math challenged. The numbers worked when I posted. How you all snuck your entries in ahead of mine after I posted is a message board mystery. :)

Walking Saturday (15 min) and Sunday (15 min): 30 minutes new group total: 949

I started today with a 24-minute walk after supper. All I could think about was all those times over the years that I declined my Dad's invitation to join him on his evening walk. I imagine him grinning a little at my tentative beginning. I'm aiming for a consistent 30 minute-walk a day by the end of May.

24-minute walk tonight after supper. new group total: 1174

Thank you, @bigghunny, for your kindness. Prayers are always welcome. I'd like to get back to disciplined healthy eating and activity as a way to get a feeling of normal back, to continue on my road to a healthier me, and maybe as a way to honour my Dad's memory. I'm toying with the notion of maybe creating a walking…

I've been totally off plan for the last two days. My family is dealing with profound loss, circle of life stuff, and healthy eating just doesn't rank in my top 10 right now. We sat vigil by my Dad's hospital bed most of the day yesterday, drinking far too much coffee and eating whatever food family members brought to the…

24 minute walk (I really think I should get a lot of hoopla for the extra 9 minutes) New group total: 2,173 min to go.

Thank you, @Dad4Myla. This sounds definitely challenging. I just revised my goal profile to include 15 minutes of exercise / day. I hadn't yet done that until your challenge. I'm committing to including a 15 minute after dinner walk every day, in addition to the walking I do for my job. I'm going to use the activity…

Stepped onto my new scale to see if I could add any more to this challenge. SW: 329.2 (March 30) 321.8 (Apr.28) CW: 320.8 (Apr.30) total lost in April: 8.4 lbs (go me!) -1 lb more to add to the total. New group total: 97.8 with 3 hrs 10 min to go before midnight in my time zone.

Adding in my modest weight loss for April to push the group nearer to 100 lbs lost and looking forward to May's challenge. SW: 329.2 (March 30) CW: 321.8 (Apr.28) -7.4 lbs New group total: 94.3

How could we hope to be good at estimating when the food packaging details are so incorrect. Just for the record, when it comes to things I don't like to eat, I'm still going to guesstimate on the low side. :) Yup, that looks like 6 oz of fish to me...not!