Weigh-in Week of January 15

[kelownagirl]

Not that I have anything to celebrate here - well I guess I didn't GAIN any weight - but I lost about a half lb. Whoopti-do. I guess I need to exercise more but I had trouble fitting it in last week. Will do better next week. I am truly motivated to get at SOME of these last 10 off before I get married in March...

Anyone have more success than me?

[Offthegrid]

Don't be too discouraged by a half-pound. In a year, that's 26 pounds. Keep at it. Besides, bodies are weird. One week I lose nothing, then the next I drop a bunch.

My official weigh-in is tomorrow night, but preliminary reports suggest roughly a 5-pound loss. It's post period, and last week I had some water weight I believe that skewed my 1-pound loss as less than actual.

[mtbdarby]

I finally lost weight, lol. 5 pounds last week on 1200 calories, low carbs. Now I'm up to about 1500 calories and a more balanced carb/protein. My exercise was good last week, not so high on the energy side.

Congrats on the losses KG and OTG! Good job to all

[Pax]

I'm down a half pound this week as well. I seem to have hit a plateau so at the gym yesterday I tried mixing up my workout a bit...hopefully that'll do the trick.

[Bikingmomof3]

I increased my caloric intake to about 2100 and lost 2 pounds this past week. Most likely all water weight.

[SalsaMTB]

Well, after feeling incredibly fat and standing on the scale about 1.5 weeks ago, I decided to start a diet. I found a vegetarian diet that I'm giving a try. My goal is to lose 20lbs from when I stood on the scale that dreadful day. Granted, it was right before I started my period so I was super bloated and the first few pounds came off like nothing.

So, I started my diet last monday and will now join the weekly weigh in.

Last week, I lost a total of 7 pounds. Really, it's more like 4 because 3 were from bloat, but to make me feel good, I'm sticking with 7

[chickwhorips]

i'm trying not to gain to much weight because i'm not able to do much for the next couple of months. so far i'm doing good. just holding steady at what i'm at right now.

cut my calories down due to lack of movement, but still trying to keep a good intake of protein and other healing foods.

good job everyone on how they are doing!

[snowtulip]

It's time for me to start chiming in. I'm aiming for 15 lb. weight loss. So far I'm down 2.

salsa mtb - please if you have an opportunity, share some of your vegetarian recipes. I converted to a vegetarian lifestyle a few months ago and am having a hard time finding quick nutritionaly rich meals.

Good job everyone!

[Offthegrid]

I officially lost 3.25 pounds, which works for me. I pigged out all day, though, so I'm curious to see what happens next week.

[kelownagirl]

Congrats to everyone who lost weight this week!!! Keep working at it!! Yesterday, I hadn't shown any loss which surprised me, but this morning, I was indeed down a good pound so I am happy.

[kelownagirl]

And can I add how amazed I am that my weight can fluctuate SO much within one 24 hour period? I tend to step on the scale for curiousity's sake several times during the day and can't believe how I can gain or lose 3-4 lbs in a day. Sometimes, I lose 3-4 lbs over night. I know I don't pee that much in the morning. I DO have night sweats quite often though so that's probably where it's going. Grosses me out that I could be losing 2 lbs of sweat on my sheets every night.

[Wahine]

OK. It's time for me to join the club. On Saturday I weighed 147 lbs at 5'7". Not considered overwieght, I'm at the high end of normal. That was also the day I got my period. So today I weighed in at 145 lb. I know from experience that my best competition weight is 135 lb. So I'm shooting for that. I've got 7 months to do it before IM Can. The problem is that I'm already training pretty hard and I feel like I'm starving all the time. I have never counted calories in my life. I suppose I should start. Need to make sure that I'm getting enough to fuel my activity but cutting back a little so I can lose wisely.

Little bit of trivia for you all. I participated in a research study that looked at metabolic hormone levels in highly active women and how they change depending on restriction of caloric intake. It turns out that the most efficient caloric levels for maintaining healthy metabolism and maximizing weight loss is 80% of caloric needs. That is, if I need 2000 cal per day to maintain my lean muscle mass and I burn 1000 doing exercise, the ideal amount for me to eat would be 2400 cal.

Just a little food for thought.

[LBTC]

Wahine, I love your new avatar!

DH and I did our first weigh in on New Year's day. We have a fancy scale that weight fat %age, muscle mass, metabolic age and a bunch of other stuff....how accurately we don't care, as long as it moves in the right direction when these things change...

We each set an end of June goal, then just divided that evenly between the months leading up to it. We weigh in Saturday mornings. From previous experience, I know better than to step on the scale more often than that....we always weigh in under exactly the same circumstances each week.

The important parts of my objectives:
Jan 1 weight: 136.4 lbs. June 30 weight objective: 125
Jan 6 weight actual: 133.8 Jan 13 weight actual: 134.6

Fat %age Jan 1: 29.4 June 30 fat %age objective: 23
Jan 6 fat: 29.6 Jan 13 fat: 29.9

Muscel mass Jan 1: 91.6lbs June 30 muscle goal: 100
Jan 6 mm: 89.4 Jan 13 mm: 89.6

What I learned from the first 2 weeks: to reach my objectives I must do muscle strength workouts. Since then I've started a kickboxing class which I plan to attend on Mondays and Thursdays. I plan to spin (trainer - there is lots of snow here) for at least a half hour the night after kb. Weekends, if I can't get out snowshoeing, plant to do a combination of spin and weights and/or heavy bag.

Food - just trying to eat little 1/2 cup containers about 4 times a day, and keep my evening meal about that small...not counting calories.

Not sure how my newly discovered health issue (crohn's) will affect all of this. I have to be careful with food, for sure, but still don't know which foods are problematic for me. And I've learned that there is a noticeable fatigue factor that I'm trying to figure out. I hope to be able to do the weekly exercise I have planned. Last week was bad, but this week is good so far.

I do have a little spreadsheet to track the weigh ins, and am also measuring waist, hips, bust...

you should probably also know that I'm only 5' 1 1/2" tall. From the last few years of training, my ideal fitness weight, when I feel strong and go fast, feel energetic and look pretty good, seems to be in the 120-125 range.

Congratulations to all of you on your goals and achievements so far!! Keep it going!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[bike4ever]

I'm adding in here. Down 5.8 lbs this week using Weight Watchers.

[Offthegrid]

Congrats, bike mom! Everyone is doing fantastic.

I also have been surprised by how much my weight will vary day to day. I don't weight every day (only at the gym, and not every time I go), and it really seems like there's no rhyme or reason to why one day it's way down and the next it's way up.