Blossoming Spring Flowers - May 2014 Daily Check-In & Accountability Thread
 

WELCOME to our MAY Flowers check in - The place to chat and/or just be accountable

Come on in :) ....

EVERYONE's :welcome:. This is the place to track your weight daily, weekly or however you'd like to do it, you can keep track of what you eat, your water intake, your mood each day, or just chit-chat.

We can get closer to our goals AND hit them together

Hope to see you soon ....

My PROMISE to ME ... I will Blossom this month
 

Started January 1, '13 @ 197.2, Ending January 31 @ 194.8, Loss 2.4lbs
Starting February 1 @ 196.6, Ending February 28 @ 197.6, Gained 1.0lb
Starting March 1 @ 197.6, Ending March 31 @ 196.8, Loss 0.8lb
Starting April 1 @ 194.6, Ending April 30 no weigh-ins
Starting May 7 @ 195.0, Ending May 31 @ 193.2, Loss 1.8lbs
Starting June 1 @ 194.0, Ending June 30 @ 189.6, Loss 4.4lbs
Starting July 1 @ 190, Ending July 31 @ 189.6, Loss 0.4lb
Starting August 1 @ 188.2, Ending August 31 @ 188.0, Loss 0.2lb
Starting September 1 @ 187.8, Ending September 30 @ 189.6, Gained 1.8lbs
Starting October 1 @ 188.4, Ending October 31 @ 184.2, Loss 4.2lbs
Starting November 1 @ 183.8, Ending November 30 @ 183.4, Loss 0.4lb
Starting December 1 @ 183.4, Ending December 31 @ 177.8, Loss 5.6lbs
Starting January 1, '14 @ 179.0, Ending January 31 @ 168.8, Loss 10.2lbs
Starting February 1 @ 168.4, Ending February 28 @ 166.2, Loss 2.2lbs
Starting March 1 @ 165.6, Ending March 31 @ 162.6, Loss 3.0lbs
Starting April 1 @ 163.2, Ending April 30 @ 160.8, Loss 2.4lbs
Starting May 1 @ 159.8, Ending May 31 @ 160.6, Gained 0.8lb

*DWI = didn't weight in
*SP = spotting

01 ~ 159.8 (-1.0) fbs 134//calories 1004//carbs 56//protein 59//treadmill 3.13 burn 378
02 ~ 159.6 (-0.2) fbs 130//calories 1455//carbs 118//protein 93//walked in the mall
03 ~ 161.6 (+2.0) fbs 129//calories 1385//carbs 126//protein 78//walked in the mall
04 ~ 161.8 (+0.2) fbs 134//calories 1459//carbs 216//protein 44//treadmill 4.15 burn 555
05 ~ 161.2 (-0.6) fbs 127//calories 2159//carbs 215//protein 60//NO WORKOUT
06 ~ 164.0 (+2.8) fbs ???//calories 870//carbs 117//protein 28//treadmill 4.11 burn 569
07 ~ 160.0 (-4.0)fbs 128//calories 1572//carbs 108//protein 103//treadmill 4.02 burn 532
08 ~ 159.4 (-0.6) fbs 140//calories 1548//carbs 137//protein 63//treadmill 3.82 burn 465
09 ~ 159.4 (N/C) TOM - fbs 150//calories 1288//carbs 151//protein 46//NO WORKOUT
10 ~ 159.4 (N/C) TOM
11 ~ 161.4 (+2.0) TOM - fbs 149//didn't count anything
12 ~ 166.2 (+4.6) fbs 166
13 ~ 168.0 (+1.8) fbs ???//calories 1334//carbs 193//NO WORKOUT
14 ~ 165.2 (-2.8) fbs 157//calories 778//carbs 64//protein 52//NO WORKOUT
15 ~ 163.2 (-2.0) fbs 143
16 ~ 163.4 (+0.2)
17 ~ 164.4 (+1.0) fbs 167//calories 3090//carbs 352//protein 81//NO WORKOUT
18 ~ 167.0 (+2.6) fbs 154//calories 2012//carbs 271//protein 66//NO WORKOUT
19 ~ 167.8 (+0.8) fbs 160//calories 905//carbs 77//protein 61//NO WORKOUT
20 ~ 165.8 (-2.0) fbs 120//calories 1289//carbs 107//protein 94//NO WORKOUT
21 ~ 164.4 (-1.4) fbs 146//calories 1158//carbs 123//protein 71//NO WORKOUT
22 ~ 166.0 (+1.6) fbs ???//calories 670//carbs 80//protein 28//NO WORKOUT
23 ~ 164.4 (-1.6) fbs 124
24 ~ 165.4 (+1.0) fbs 155
25 ~ 166.0 (+0.6) fbs 140
26 ~ 168.0 (+2.0) fbs 146
27 ~ 166.6 (-1.4) fbs 117//calories 2446//carbs 294//protein 81//NO WORKOUT
28 ~ 167.8 (+1.2) fbs 150//calories 495//carbs 30//protein 40//5:2 low day//NO WORKOUT
29 ~ 164.8 (-3.0) SP- fbs 114//calories 1284//carbs 85//protein 53//part 5:2 up day/OA style//NO WORKOUT
30 ~ 163.2 (-1.6) SP - fbs 101//calories 805//carbs 75//protein 24//treadmill 3.90 burn 480
31 ~ 160.6 (-2.6) SP - fbs 98//calories 927//carbs 72//protein 52//treadmill 3.78 burn 465

I think I will start tracking my food, water and exercise again this coming month. May is almost here!!

Olivia, I keep track of that on MFP since it gives me the breakdown, which is what I need to see :) If I didn't I would over eat like crazy (more often than I do) most days, smh :)

Starting Weight: 212.6
Ending Weight Goal: 196
Actual Ending Weight:

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May Goal: get into the 80s
 

01: 194.2
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04: 194.0
05: 193.5
06: 192.9
07: 193.1
08: 194.1
09: 193.5
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12: 194.0
13: 194.1
14: 196.1
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17: No weigh in.
18: No weigh in.
19: 195.1
20: 194.1
21: 193.7
22: 194.2
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I'm in for May!
April 30: 233.8
May 31 goal: less than ^

01: 234.4
02: 234
03: 234.4
04: 236.2
05: 236.4
06: 237.2
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08: 235.4
09: 235
10: 234.6
11: 235
12: 234.2
13: 232.6
14: 234
15: 235
16: 236.6
17: 233
18: 234
19: 235.2
20: 234
21: 234.2
22: 233
23: 234.8
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Hello! I'm in! I leave for 6 weeks in Europe on June 16th. I would really like to hit a mini-goal of 230 by my flight date! :)

HW: 255
SW (April 1, 2014): 251.5
GW: 145

April 30: 244
May 31 goal: 235

Plan: 1600 cal/day, 12 cups of water/day, 1 hour of exercise 4x per week
(tracking through MFP - hbarber85)

01: 243
02: 242
03: 242
04: 242
05: 247
06: 247
07: 243.5
08: 243.5
09: 243
10: 243
11: 243
12: 243
13: 243
14: 243
15: 241.5
16: 240.5
17: 240.5
18: 240.5
19: 240
20: 240
21: 240
22: 240
23: 240
24: 240
25: 240
26: 237
27: 237
28: 237
29: 235.5
30: 235.5
31: 235.5

1/2 a pound away from my May goal! I'll call that a success! :)

:welcome: to the thread Heidi, I'm love2b136 on MFP

I'm so excited about tomorrows weigh in. I so want to see the 150's ... It's in my throat I have already swallowed it :rofl: I read some where that 250 calories in 30 minutes is good enough for exercise and the past two days plus today is what I have been doing. I haven't quite got it down to 30 minutes, it's a little over and today I burned 300 calories. Feeling good :)

Rennie - good luck on your weigh in tomorrow!!! That's right, swallow and digest it! :D 150's here you come! ;)

Let's Go
Start: 259
Goal: 4-8lbs (251-255)

Goal met! 250.6
Loss: 6.8

Actual:
1. 257.4 (-1.6)
2. 256.6 (-0.8)
3. 257.9 (+1.3)
4. 256.2 (-1.7)
5. 256.8 (+0.6)
6. 258.0 (+1.2)
7. 257.2 (-0.8)
8. 256.2 (-1.0)
9. 255.6 (-0.6)
10. 255.4 (-0.2)
11. 253.4 (-2.0)
12. 254.4 (+1.0)
13. 254.4 (0.0)
14. 255.8 (+1.4)
15. 254.4 (-1.4)
16. 254.8 (+0.4)
17. 255.2 (+0.4)
18. 252.8 (-2.4)
19. 251.4 (-1.4)
20. 252.4 (+1.0)
21. 251.8 (-0.6)
22. 252.6 (+0.8)
23. 252.6 (0.0)
24. 250.6 (-2.0)
25. 250.6 (0.0)
26. 250.4 (-0.2)
27. 249.6 (-0.8)
28. 250.0 (+0.4)
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30. 249.2
31. 250.6
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in!!

HW 302
CW 224.4

Goal: to keep to calorie plan. 2200 until the 9th. 9th-11th no counting (meet weekend) 12th - end of month 1900 cals a day with 150+ grams protein.

I want to see how 1900 a day shakes out. after this meet, i have until november, which will be the master's nationals in dallas. plenty of time to lose a bit of weight, and get closer to my weight goal. would be *awesome* to move into the 198 category, instead of 198+.

thanks, love2b, for hosting this thread. it's nice to be able to hold myself accountable in this way.

Start: 230.2
Goal: 8 lbs

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Olivia thank you for the vote of confidence I truly appreciate it :hug:

no problem katerina ... I love the accountability also :)

Angie missed you my friend :hug:

I WANT ALL OF US TO BE LOWER THAN WE WERE TODAY :crossed:

Wow! Well your wishing worked for me! I was NOT expecting to be down on the scale this morning AT ALL because 1. TOM is hours away 2. I ate higher calories yesterday (including bread/dairy/starch which I haven't eaten in 2 weeks) and 3. I did not exercise yesterday. To my surprise, I was down 0.50 lbs :D Your spoken words did the trick! ;)

192.00 lbs this morning. Getting closer to the 180's! I have a tough workout planned this morning. Looking forward to it!

:woohoo: Olivia, NEW DECADE here YOU COME :high:

Well your spoken words did the trick for me also ;) ... down a pound. I got my toe into the 150's :D I weighed in at 159.8 with only 6 hours of sleep. I hate that but I'll make it to bed on time tonight ;)

Friends you don't know the joy I felt. Kukkie I did our step on step off step on step off

:crossed: EVERYONE HAS GREAT WEIGH-IN's :crossed:

That is AWESOME Rennie!! Wooo hooo!! :D I know you were excited!!!

Olivia and Rennie - rock on ladies!!!! I'm so proud of you both :hug: :bravo:

Can't say the same for myself. I seem to be going in the opposite direction. Up to 194.2 today. Peanut has had a couple of rough nights though, which means a very tired momma has had a couple of rough nights also. I am going to live and breathe my coffee today :coffee2:

Thanks Olivia and Kukkie :hug:

Kukkie lack of sleep will do it every time :hug: It has certainly held true for me. How many teeth does he have already? Hopefully you won't have much longer with teeth coming in :hug:

Rennie we'll be at it a while yet. He's only got six right now, working on the 7th and 8th, one of which is a molar. He didn't get his first teeth until he was 10 months, then got 4 in a row, waited about a month, got another two, and then nothing for almost 4 months. Now we're at it again.

love2b, are you some sort of wizard? i had a drop, too! i've mostly been 224.6 last month and today i woke up to 222.2

this thread is awesome. :carrot:

Kukkie, I can't wait until he is done teething. I know it's hard on you :hug: and him :hug:

katerina, good job on your drop :high:

No wizard :D I will have a stall/plateau soon I'm sure. It happens on these journeys. I use to have them all the time. I'd literally be stuck weeks. I have read every thread that interest me and followed some people's journeys on 3FC and asked questions and found a few things that interest me. So what is working for me is a mixture Intermittent Fasting, Johnson Up Day Down Day, Slow Carb-4 hour body, cutting out bread (I do have my gobble every now and then) no pasta except Shirataki zero pasta, and no rice. I am trying to get the potatoes out of my system but so far they are not causing any major issues when I eat a spoon of mashed potatoes or 10 home cooked fries with ketchup. I get all of my water in which is half of my body weight. And instead of killing myself trying to burn a ton of calories the last few days I have only done 250 calorie burns and it is working (actually yesterday because I knew my son was gonna make fried chicken (lightly battered) I burned 300. I hope I can continue this before I get comfortable like I've done in the past. My incentive this time is I found a picture on a usb drive of me at what I thought was 165, I was still big. When I looked up my weight for that date I actually weighed 172 I think. So not pretty and I still have the same stomach roll that I had then, so I have a long way to go. Thanks for listening :hug:

01 ~ 244.6
02 ~ 242.2
03 ~ 245.6
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09 ~ 243.6
10 ~ 246.0
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12 ~ 241.0
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16 ~ 238.4
17 ~ 237.8
18 ~ 239.8
19 ~ 237.4
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Happy May Day!

Ugh so I ended April falling off my wagon. But, I'm back on board today and looking to have a fun filled weekend with working out and losing more weight! I can't weigh until tonight when I get home so will update my May 1 stat later. I know I kept a loss for April, so May will be all about losing even more. Have a trip to London in June, so I am really excited to hopefully lose 10-15 pounds!

Rennie, way to go!!!!! Congrats on the new decade girl! That's awesome!

Kukkie, sending all the luck and peace to you during teething! I know that's tough! I am about to walk into the kitchen here at the clients office and make my third cup of coffee. It's been a long morning already!

katerina, congrats on the drop!!

Olivia, congrats on your drop too!! A drop is a drop is a drop! I know how happy it makes us when we see drops we aren't expecting!

Heidi, welcome!! I'm going to London just for a week in June so I know you're excited! I spent 3 months in Europe in college studying in France, it's such an amazing adventure and experience!

Angie, so glad to see a familiar face :) Welcome back!

I just posted on another thread about how I'm a firm believer in adequate sleep being beneficial for weight loss. I went to bed early last night to make sure I got extra sleep lol ;)

Rennie - I'm an intermittent faster as well. I actually love it. I started doing this last year for weight loss and the pounds were flying off. Once I started back on my weight loss journey this year, I incorporated intermittent fasting again and same thing.....weight just melts off (for me). I also think that constantly switching things up really helps and I agree with limiting the breads/starches. I even limit my meat now to 3 times per week which I'm finding is plenty for my body. After years and years of trying to figure out what works for me, I think I'm settling into "balance" lol. A balance of everything...exercise, food, etc.

Thanks akelly :) Hope the scale shows you a great starting number :crossed: and I hope you are home for a while. I'm gonna come to Georgia and get in your suitcase :) I want to go to London ... ha I want to anywhere I'm not picky. My husbands family's reunion is in your neck of the state in 2015. If we get to go maybe you'll be in town and we could meet (that's if we get to go) I need a job :D

Me too Olivia ... I'm trying to make sure what ever I do and where ever I end I can live with it. I hear maintenance is hard and I don't want to worry about it when I get there so I want to be prepared :D

I'll try to post in this thread... I'm not always good about the find-your-original-post-and-edit threads, but I'll do my best!

May 1: 258.2
May 2: 259.0
May 3: 258.2
May 4: 258.0
May 5 - sick, no weigh in
May 6 - sick, no weigh in
May 7: 257

My day is pretty much complete! Oh am I full! I hadn't eaten meat in 17 days and today was my paleo day. That meat really gets ya full!

Thursday - Day 18
Food: Paleo Day
Meal 1: omelet (no cheese) with sautéed veggies (broccoli, red peppers, green onions, zucchini, tomatoes) with avocado & maple syrup; 2 slices bacon; 1 apricot
Meal 2: 8oz baked salmon w/homemade BBQ sauce; sautéed veggies (zucchini, red peppers, green beans, red onions, spinach, tomatoes); iceberg lettuce w/homemade French dressing

Exercise: Treadmill - 2.61 miles; squat challenge - day 1 - 50 squats w/10lb weights; plank challenge - day 1 - 20 seconds low plank; arm challenge - day 1 - 6 tricep dips, 4 push ups, 8 mountain climbers, 8 bicep curls w/12.5lb weights

Water: 2.50 liters

I'm feeling good!! I think I'm going to add a jumping jacks challenge in. That can be my warm up to my other challenges :D

calluna :welcome: to the thread :). Great job on your weight loss so far :high: on finding the threads you've posted on - All you have to do is go to the bottom and subscribe to your threads. Or quick links and you will see the threads you've posted by clicking subscribed threads. I'm on my phone so it's not easy doing anything on this small device. But try those two things and let me know if they work :)

Olivia your meals sound filling and very nutritious. Great day over all for you. :)

Thanks Rennie! Yes, they were definitely filling and nutritious! lol. My cut off today was 3:00pm so I was done eating by then. This last meal will definitely last me until tomorrow ;)

May
1. 222.2 - 2,020 calories - 170 grams protein - rest day. just cleaned, did laundry and shopped. and chased a screaming toddler while shopping. does that count for cardio? :lol:

Good morning :coffee2: - happy Friday :)

We slept better last night than we have all week. Peanut still woke up a couple of times last night, but it wasn't nearly as bad.

Down 0.1 to 194.0 but I also succumbed to pizza takeout last night. Hubby had a craving and because I've just been so exhausted this week, I agreed. Brought lunch and snacks that are on plan for today, so it's kind of a improvised detox day. Going to flush out sodium with water as well.

It's Friday girls! Glad the weekend is here! I weighed in last night and was high, as to be expected since I fell off the wagon on Wednesday night and I weighed in at the end of the day after flying home. On the positive side, when I got home last night at 10pm, I actually had the motivation and energy to go workout so I ran around my neighborhood for 1.8 miles in 30 mins. Slow time, but hey - we all start at the bottom right?? :) Weighed in this morning about 2.5 pounds lighter so I guess that run helped :)

Rennie, haha GA should be fun if you get to go! And let's all go to London! 3FC meet and greet in London! :)

Kukkie, glad you guys were able to get some rest :) You needed it and so does your body! I like your plan - I feel like I have a detox day once a week now b/c I am working on that willpower and food thing, lol.

katerina, it certainly does!!

Olivia, nice meal plan. Sounds healthy and delicious! Great job!

calluna, welcome! I'm not good at posting daily either - but I find that when I do post, and I have others looking for me, it helps my weight loss 100%. It's like working out - if you don't make it a priority then it never becomes routine :)

katerina I say so :lol:

Glad to hear Kukkie :hug: I'm trying to do a detox day also. For some reason I wanted buttered popcorn at 10:30am but the kids aren't here to dig into it so it's not wise for me to pop a bag. I had a strawberry pomergranate CARBmaster yogurt instead, 60 cal, 4 carbs 9 protein :)

akelly, you did well last evening :high: I've been down twice but before the children so I'm sure I'd be in awe also. There's so much for them to see. I will keep you posted closer in and oh my wouldn't it be nice for us to meet in London as a 3FC retreat of some sort :)

working out - if you don't make it a priority then it never becomes routine <--- this is another reason I love coming to post ... great sayings like this. You know it but it's really real when you see it and it's not thrown at you ... thanks akelly

.2 down, I'm bloated so I'll take it but I would have loved to have been closer to 158 ... I've got to not be greedy ... slow and steady wins I know :)

love2b150, you are *so close* to 150 now! that is really exciting.

May
1. 222.2 - 2,020 calories - 170 grams protein - rest day. just cleaned, did laundry and shopped. and chased a screaming toddler while shopping. does that count for cardio?
2. 222.8 - 2,012 calories - 159 grams protein - squats and bench today. not super intense, but i did get to 90% of my max in squat and 95% of my max in bench.

i've got two rest days coming up, and i am not supposed to even do cardio until after the meet. it seems weird to do so little. he told me not to worry, but i still worry!

Thanks katerina :) It has to be hard not to do anything after doing so much for so long ... maybe take a walk that's not brisk but leisurely. It will still feel good to you because you are doing something :)

I spent the evening at the mall with my children walking and then we went to McDonald's and I had a cone. I've been bloated all day so I hope whatever is going on with me doesn't take me back up :crossed:

Have had an unexpected fun but unhealthy Saturday. Did great yesterday, but today was not on plan for dinner. Had Japanese with some old HS friends and then had dessert. Also, I pulled weeds Friday afternoon and ran hard for 1.5 miles so my legs and lower back are soreeeee. Sitting in bed with the heating pad turned way up!

Hope everyday has a great and restful Sunday Funday! Hoping the legs are looser so I can workoff todays calories!

akelly my weekend was unplanned fun/good eats also ;) Hope your legs are looser for the workout :hug: I went to Charlotte with my daughter yesterday and there was a Popeye's in the mall. I HAD to have a red beans and rice. I also ate half of a biscuit which I only ate because it was there. We went just to go to Ikea and guess what I had a hot dog on the white bun, a bag of their chips and a cone. I was gonna get their cinnamon roll but decided once I got to the register I'd have a cone instead so that was my only good thing. I think the only reason I didn't have a big gain was because we walked and we walked. I'm not gonna even go through what I ate today but let's just say the only thing that could be considered nutritious is the CARBmaster yogurt I ate :D
The boys wanted to go to the gym so I hope I combated some of the mess I did there. :crossed: Hope your legs feel better today :hug: