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Challenge Goals: Dry Goal: Cut down my boozy days: My goal is increase my dry days to 70%. Wet Goal: Meet my 70 oz of daily water goal 80% of the time. Food Goal: Keep track of what I am eating, how I am feeling before and after I eat (including hunger levels)--lower focus on calories. Movement goal: 20 minutes of fun…

Thank you. I am on board.

SW: 170 pounds: Ultimate Goal weight 145 pounds 10 day goals: GW for this round: 169--With consistency, I have been fluctuating between 172 and 167 for a few years now. I want my high weight to be below 170 for at least 3 consecutive days by the end of the challenge. Goal 1: Cut down on the boozy days: Stay dry for 7 out…

I would like to join if there is still room.

Happy New Year. 47 Year old woman. Put on a lot of weight since Covid and been struggling to take it off and stay on track. Small goals and short term commitments might help so I was excited to find this challenge. SW: 170 pounds: Goal weight 145 pounds 10 day goals: Goal 1: Cut down on the boozy days: Stay dry for 7 out…

Feb. 2 Log - Yes Under - Yes Exercise - feeling under the weather so I rested mostly, but I did get in some hula hooping time. I am getting better able to sustain it counter clockwise easily, but now the bruising is starting. It seems that the bruising is normal and temporary with a weighted hoop. It is becoming a lot more…

I am terrible at it but trying to relearn. I bought a weighted one off of amazon. From watching youtube videos it seems like the larger the hula hoop the easier it is for adults. Mine isn't quite large enough for my current skills haha but I am getting progressively better. And Trying to get better is motivating me to keep…

January 30 Logged - yes, Under--no Exercise: Full day of house cleaning 3 hours of dancing 5 minute jumprope January 31 Logged - yes, Under--yes Exercise: 10 minutes jumprope February 1 Logged - yes, Under--No but also not over Exercise: slacking did a few minutes with the hula hoop

I am so happy to be part of the group. I have successfully lost weight with MFP in the past but when I went into maintenance I found myself obsessive and a little too white knuckled about it so I had to back off the calorie counting. Part of the weightloss was also due to going through a divorce and the calorie counting…

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Jan Start Weight: 168.8 Jan Goal Weight: 160 Ultimate Goal Weight: 137-142 range Jan 1: 168.8 Jan 8: 164.4 (-4.4) Jan 15: 163 (-5.8) Jan 22: 163 (-5.8) Jan 29: 161 (-7.8) Jan 31:

I got myself a jump rope. I am not great at it and working on building up my stamina, but it is fun and easy to do just about anywhere. I try to do one minute at a time and a total of 10 minutes a day adding 5 minutes each month--it has only been a week so far. I prefer to do outdoor cardio but having to bundle up can be…

I usually try to make my best approximation based on similar foods in the database. I know it isn't accurate but I like to have some sort of accountability and awareness. Accuracy and precision only come into play when I need to trouble shoot, but awareness is what keeps me from saying "well I can't track this so I'll just…

Thank you. :)

I think this is the hardest part for most of us. And i think personal lifestyle will be the biggest deciding factor for what will work for you. I also know that my lifestyle needs change often--based on season or holidays or work schedule. One size fits all approach usually leads to losing motivation at some point. What i…

Usually an over easy egg with a slice of whole wheat toast and a cup of coffee. I use butter for the egg and toast and sugar and milk in my coffee. Comes to about 300 calories. Then a few hours later ill have an Apple to hold me over until lunch if i get hungry.

Definitely see a doctor. Another idea might be that you are wearing your hair back with elastic bands more frequently when you run which can lead to breakage. But first rule out medical issues/dietary issues.

This! Watching our calorie intake shouldn't mean sacrifice. It means making smart choices that fit within our lives. If I have a social outing that includes eating food that might be hard to track, I don't worry about it. I log as best I can, overestimate for cushion, and let that be an indulgence. I found my best success…

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach/p1 Best post on the subject.

I let myself have that spoonful of ice cream, I put the pint away and log the spoonful. Before I go for more, I make sure I log it again. That way I can decide if the calories are worth it. I find it easier to resist the urge to finish it off when I force myself to stop and log the calories first. I gave in to a late night…

When I started my weightloss I was a 38dd. Last spring I was at my lowest weight (lower than my goal) so I went to get resized since my bras were fitting me terribly and I found I was a 32 ddd!! I couldn't believe my cup size had gone up. However, they told me 34dd was the sister size to that and fits almost as well. So…

Choose not to eat the "bad stuff" he brings in, or at the very least measure and log it if you do so you are accountable. Make sure you have enough of the better choices on hand that will allow you to feel full and satisfied so you aren't so tempted to dip into the empty calories. He isn't responsible for your food…

Does anyone know if there is a strong curves group on MFP? I don't know how to search for groups.

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I am increasing to 2000 calories for the next few weeks to see what that does. I guess I have sort of inadvertently been doing that. First week of maintenance I went up 200 calories, but it has been 100 ever since. My weight gain happened when I was eating 1900 but after my stomach…

Thanks for your response. It is funny how the normal high and low fluctuations didn't bother me too much when i was losing, but now that I am trying to figure out my maintenance number it is driving me crazy. I think I am going to stay at 1900 for a while and see what happens this month.

A big portion of your initial weightloss was probably water weight and that will come and go. ETA. Also certain days of the week and times of day you will weigh more than others. I weigh the most on Monday's and usually my lowest weight is Thursday. And there can be a 5 pound difference--usually not fat related, but water…

In 9 days you lost more than 11 pounds. It took me 3 months to do that. It is common in the beginning to lose rapidly (especially post-partum) but from here on in you shouldn't expect to lose more than 2 lbs/week at the most. Probably less given your starting point. Give it time.

Thank you. That makes sense.

Oh. That's good to know. Although I am still curious as to why it would happen at all.

Oh wow. So your metabolism has increased without increased exercise. That's promising. Thanks for sharing.