1: 279
2: 278.5 (have been on 279 for a week so I was due some kind of move)
3: 278 (still losing ovulation water weight)
4: 278
5: 277.5 Did 60 active Fitbit minutes yesterday and concentrated on eating protein and veggies
6: 278 Did no active minutes yesterday and only 3500 steps so not surprised there was a bump today
7:
Well done on your progress everyone! I'm utterly terrible at keeping up with personals but I'm reading all of your updates and cheering you on! I ended up working in the garden today because it rained yesterday. I'm almost finished this section but I ran out of slate (need another 3 x 20kg bags) and had just put everything back in the garage where it started to rain heavily again. On Friday I'll go and fill the car with another 20 bags of slate and start on the next section.
Hello everyone; today is my Friday weigh-in day.
I hope everyone has a nice weekend. Chunkah 1400 kcal a day is my target too. Fungirl & KFunk & Lacerta good progress! yangzter hope you feel better soon
September 2018 Weight Loss Challenge
Goal: 10 lb
Date Weight Loss lb
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8/31 296.0 lb START
9/02 295.7 lb
9/07 295.4 lb
9/14
9/21
9/28
9/30
Just time for a fast post this morning then off to work.
Week One
01: 222.6
02: 222.6
03: 222.6
04: 223.0
05: 221.8
06: 221.8
07: 221.8
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Total Loss for Week One: 1.4
It has been a very repetitive week on the scale. But honestly, a better first week of the month than average for me. I'm actually closer to my trendline (where I should be for today in order to meet my end of month goal) than usual. So I'll have less catching up to do after the 10th than I did the last few months. I'll be working Saturday and Sunday (my two normal days off) all day this weekend, and then all week next week, for an 11 day run. So I'll be really ready for next weekend when it gets here.
darius - I saw you mention the 1400 cap in the past, and you helped inspire me. Sometimes when the limit feels tough, I think to myself that darius did it and he's a foot taller than me, so I need to suck it up, buttercup! You're doing great! Congrats on all you've lost so far! Do you have any plans to raise your calorie limit now that the fitness camp is over?
Last edited by Chunkahlunkah; 09-07-2018 at 10:17 AM.
Thank you Chunkahlunkah
What I need to do is to more accurately calculate my daily calories.
Calculate exact calories for the things I eat so I can track them better.
Like I don't eat exactly 1 cup of cereal I might have a cup and a half or so,
and I am just rounding up numbers. Not accurate enough for maintaining 1400 a day.
and when I am preparing chicken and steak dishes by myself. I am trying to look up baseline calories etc.
it is difficult counting calories.
Darius - Ah, I see. Well, even if you're off by a few hundred a day, that's still a terrific deficit you're obtaining and you have the results to prove it! Do you use MyFitnessPal to track calories? For me, it gets easier once I have my usual dishes in the history there. Before that, it's pretty tedious to search them out. I'd say, keep doing what you're doing and don't worry about precision until (if) you plateau.
I don't use it yet, but one of the trainers at Tennessee Fitness Spa uses it and advised me to use it too.
I plan to download it today and start entering my values in.
darius - That's great! As I said, it's a bit of a pain at first, but it gets quicker after a week or so because your staples will already be saved.
yangtzer - It's tedious, but what I find most reliable is counting calories. The first time I gained weight was about 10 years ago, and I lost all of that weight w/o precisely counting calories. That is, I didn't weigh or measure my food. But I made accurate enough estimates that it was effective. This time, I'm more precise. The rate hasn't been any quicker this time bc, for me I guess, my estimates in the past must've been pretty accurate. Either way, what helps is having an accurate sense of how many calories keep you at your current weight and then eating fewer. Eating clean helps me fill up on fewer calories than junk food or refined carbs, but I still need an awareness of calories to lose. I hope you see a drop soon! Do you track calories?
Last edited by Chunkahlunkah; 09-07-2018 at 01:04 PM.
1: 279
2: 278.5 (have been on 279 for a week so I was due some kind of move)
3: 278 (still losing ovulation water weight)
4: 278
5: 277.5 Did 60 active Fitbit minutes yesterday and concentrated on eating protein and veggies
6: 278 Did no active minutes yesterday and only 3500 steps so not surprised there was a bump today
7: 278 Did 39 active minutes yesterday hauling my bags of slate and walked 5400 steps, but still no drop... My official weigh-in day is Saturday so I'll see what happens then.
Lacerta: That's true...I would rather maintain a small range than keep gaining and have to relose it!
Newlyn: Welcome!
kfunk: Still in the plateau so far, but it's more than understandable with how much overindulgence happened this week -- especially yesterday! After last night, I was expecting a much bigger gain on the scale today, so I guess I will just take that as a silver lining and hope that this coming week balances everything back out, lol. Also, school is going okay so far...math is a struggle to get back into after not actively doing it for over 15 years, but thankfully my other classes are stronger subjects for me, so they haven't been as stressful as that one. My first test in math is this weekend, so wish me luck! Haha.
To everyone else, I'm throwing out a quick hello and well wishes as I have to run for now...I will try to be better about doing all the personals next time! Unfortunately, I've just run out of time and have to stop here. Hope everyone is doing well!
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Admittedly, I'm not off to a great start for the month, but I'm taking this first week with a grain of salt because we had two birthdays here this week (our middle child's was on the 1st, and mine was yesterday) and I consumed nearly 3k cals during the festivites yesterday -- that's double my usual intake! My husband got me my favorite lemon cream cake, so it was no holds barred at that point. Plus, the sodium was really high from dinner out on the town, as well. Oops! So, that is one pitfall I have found about only weighing weekly so far...if you have a bad day the day before your weigh-in, it could skew your whole perception of how the week was going in general. I could have been having a good loss week and bloated up from the extras, or I could have barely moved and am just still maintaining that few lb range. Not really sure! However, I'm hoping that everything will average out in the end and still show some kind of pattern to gauge. I think I'm too used to watching the daily ups and downs, lol.
First Friday: 168.8 Total Loss for Week One: +1.6 lbs.
Joining late with a 5lb. goal for the month. Since hitting a normal BMI the weight loss has slowed considerably. I've also started running and toning with weights, and that's probably contributing to the slowdown as well. And then there was the weekend trip to SoCal via car, where I was literally retaining so much water I couldn't put my shoes on. Yay.
Chunkahlunkah.. Thanks for the tip. Yes,I do count calories. it's very tedious and tiresome. I have to constantly be conscious of what I eat. I'm a foodie. But now I am so nervous when I eat, that it's not enjoyable anymore. Besides, now I'm older, it seems I need less calories than before.
How about you? Do you still enjoy food when you have to precisely count it every time?
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You're doing great! Congrats on all you've lost so far! 
Do you have any plans to raise your calorie limit now that the fitness camp is over?
Haha.
My husband got me my favorite lemon cream cake, so it was no holds barred at that point. 
