[gardenerjoy]

What are your New Year's resolutions for weight loss? Let's get them started in grand style.

Join the January Weight Loss Challenge to set your goal, track it, and meet it -- with the help of a supportive and encouraging group. All the goals will be compiled into a list. As each goal is met during the month, it gets turned RED in celebration.

This thread is for weight loss goals. For your exercise goals, check out our sister thread: January Exercise Challenge - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

[MrBadger]

Happy New Year Joy (& other thread people)!

I'm in for January please:

start: 15st 11.75lb / 221.75lb
target: 15st 9lb / 219lb
target loss: 2.75lb

[gardenerjoy]

Happy New Year and welcome, MrBadger! Who else wants to join us for a strong start to 2023?

January goal: -1 kg, Weigh 20x

2: 89.05; 1/20
3: 88.3; 2/20

[gardenerjoy]

Well, that was quick at meeting my goal. I must have been carrying water weight from the holidays.

Rather than set a goal for further loss in January, I'm going to work to maintain at this weight or below. We plan to do one last festive meal for Epiphany this week (the New Year seemed too soon after Christmas for another feast), so I want to allow myself some room to navigate the tricky situation of leftover stuffing.

January goal: -1 kg, Weigh 20x

2: 89.05; 1/20
3: 88.3; 2/20
4: 87.9; 3/20
5: 87.6; 4/20

[MrBadger]

start: 15st 11.75lb / 221.75lb
target: 15st 9lb / 219lb
target loss: 2.75lb

current weight: 15st 10.25lb / 220.25lb
loss: 1.5lb

congratulations on reaching your goal so quickly Joy

[gardenerjoy]

January goal: -1 kg, Weigh 20x

2: 89.05; 1/20
3: 88.3; 2/20
4: 87.9; 3/20
5: 87.6; 4/20
8: 87.3; 5/20
9: 87.75; 6/20
11: 87.3; 7/20
14: 87.45; 8/20

[MrBadger]

start: 15st 11.75lb / 221.75lb
target: 15st 9lb / 219lb
target loss: 2.75lb

current weight: 15st 9.75lb / 219.75lb
loss: 2lb

2lb loss for the month so far. I've just dipped under 100kg which is a nice little milestone too.

hope everyone is doing well.

[gardenerjoy]

MrBadger: That is a great milestone! Congrats!

January goal: -1 kg, Weigh 20x

2: 89.05; 1/20
3: 88.3; 2/20
4: 87.9; 3/20
5: 87.6; 4/20
8: 87.3; 5/20
9: 87.75; 6/20
11: 87.3; 7/20
14: 87.45; 8/20
15: 87.3; 9/20
16: 87.55; 10/20
18: 87.65; 11/20

[MrBadger]

start: 15st 11.75lb / 221.75lb
target: 15st 9lb / 219lb
target loss: 2.75lb

current weight: 15st 9.5lb / 219.5lb
loss: 2.5lb

0.25lb loss this week. more would have been nice, but it's in the right direction so I'll take it.

Joy - is that 1.4kg/3lb you're down this month? great work!

[gardenerjoy]

MrBadger: Moving in the right direction is definitely worthy of celebration.

My weight shot up again after a few days of not weighing -- I'm seeing a pattern here. I've started getting it back down a bit with daily weighing and the small changes in behavior that helps me make.

January goal: -1 kg, Weigh 20x

2: 89.05; 1/20
3: 88.3; 2/20
4: 87.9; 3/20
5: 87.6; 4/20
8: 87.3; 5/20
9: 87.75; 6/20
11: 87.3; 7/20
14: 87.45; 8/20
15: 87.3; 9/20
16: 87.55; 10/20
18: 87.65; 11/20
23: 89.05; 12/20
24: 88.55; 13/20
25: 88.2; 14/20
26: 88.3; 15/20
27: 88.45; 16/20

[MrBadger]

Originally Posted by gardenerjoy

My weight shot up again after a few days of not weighing -- I'm seeing a pattern here. I've started getting it back down a bit with daily weighing and the small changes in behavior that helps me make.

it's interesting that you say that because I noticed something similar literally yesterday with my weight loss.

I have a spreadsheet with my weight over time & a graph showing the data. & I suddenly noticed that any time I'm doing well & losing weight, there are a lot more data points, more closely spaced. & likewise when I'm not really losing anything - or gaining - the data points are a much fewer & further apart.

so it really does seem to be a case of out of sight, out of mind, & when I'm not staying on top of things, then my behaviours tend to drift.

[gardenerjoy]

MrBadger: That's a great insight from the spreadsheet. Cool to see the impact graphically.

My new goal is to weigh every day so that I quit avoiding the scale. But I'm also not going to beat myself up if I legit forget, occasionally. There's a bit of a balance there. I'm going to start thinking of myself as someone who weighs every day to see if that will make it happen.

January goal: -1 kg, Weigh 20x

2: 89.05; 1/20
3: 88.3; 2/20
4: 87.9; 3/20
5: 87.6; 4/20
8: 87.3; 5/20
9: 87.75; 6/20
11: 87.3; 7/20
14: 87.45; 8/20
15: 87.3; 9/20
16: 87.55; 10/20
18: 87.65; 11/20
23: 89.05; 12/20
24: 88.55; 13/20
25: 88.2; 14/20
26: 88.3; 15/20
27: 88.45; 16/20
28: 88.4; 17/20

[MrBadger]

start: 15st 11.75lb / 221.75lb
target: 15st 9lb / 219lb
target loss: 2.75lb

current weight: 15st 5.5lb / 215.5lb
loss: 6.25lb
BMI: 30.8

end of month weigh-in & I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself. I wasn't quite sure that I believed the scales this morning, but I weighed myself twice & it said the same thing both times.

I have been eating substantially less this month - I've only been eating twice a day, so I have probably been doing close to 16/8 without really aiming for that - & have been getting the odd bit of exercise. I'm also down into 30.x for BMI - just a little more until I'm "only" overweight rather than obese.

go me

[gardenerjoy]

My scale readings took a weird and unfortunate journey, but I'm really happy to have met my goal to step on the scale 20 times -- I haven't met that goal in ages. It took real determination to get there at the end of the month. I think it will set me up well in 2023.

January goal: -1 kg, Weigh 20x

2: 89.05; 1/20
3: 88.3; 2/20
4: 87.9; 3/20
5: 87.6; 4/20
8: 87.3; 5/20
9: 87.75; 6/20
11: 87.3; 7/20
14: 87.45; 8/20
15: 87.3; 9/20
16: 87.55; 10/20
18: 87.65; 11/20
23: 89.05; 12/20
24: 88.55; 13/20
25: 88.2; 14/20
26: 88.3; 15/20
27: 88.45; 16/20
28: 88.4; 17/20
29: 88.9; 18/20
30: 88.9; 19/20
31: 89.3; 20/20

[gardenerjoy]

Way to go, MrBadger! You crushed your goal in January!

MrBadger: -2.75 lbs
gardenerjoy: -1 kg, Weigh 20x