July/August - Weight Loss Challenge

[jesvetmed]

Today's wt: 164.2, 34% BF
Slowly but surely! No time to eat at work this week... makes a world of difference when I'm not snacking a lot!

[DDH]

I weighed yesterday morning when I first got up or shortly there after and my starting weight was 240 and yesterday it was 243. I cannot imagine how I managed to gain 3 lbs. I am so disgusted. Seems like everytime I start really making an effort to lose this happens and then I get disgusted and quit, and then I will lose a bit again, but never much. I just get back down to like where I started and then don't lose again.
Oh well, I'm guess that gives me an extra 3 lbs to lose.

[solobiker]

Hang in there DDH, you can do it and please don't give up.

[kelownagirl]

Here's an interesting take on weight loss for athletes, in Joe Friel's Blog.

http://www2.trainingbible.com/joesbl...ight-loss.html

[Tabby]

This was a good article, thanks for sharing. I'll take a few of these things into account as I work thru my efforts.

PJ

[Tabby]

I weighed yesterday morning when I first got up or shortly there after and my starting weight was 240 and yesterday it was 243. I cannot imagine how I managed to gain 3 lbs. I am so disgusted. Seems like everytime I start really making an effort to lose this happens and then I get disgusted and quit, and then I will lose a bit again, but never much. I just get back down to like where I started and then don't lose again.
Oh well, I'm guess that gives me an extra 3 lbs to lose.

Hey, DDH, hang in there! There are lots of reasons that a woman's weight will flucutate (female issues, bowels, retaining water, etc.) Just stay the course. Do you write down your food intake daily? Not to chastise yourself for something that may not be the healthiest, but more so you can track how many vegies, fruits, proteins, water you are taking in. Save the sheets for the week, it you find you lost weight that week, hang on to that weeks sheets and try to do them again.

Stay the course ... keep logging your miles, your calories in/calories out, only weigh yourself once a week ... daily flucuations are tough to watch. Hang on, we're all here for you!
PJ

[DDH]

Thanks girls, I'm not giving up. I did not keep track this first week, nor did I get much in the way of exercise in. It was a bad start week, so I need to do better next week. I have been way to busy running errands and had to have another mammogram cause they thought they saw something, so that was stressful, and had to have more blood work for my thyroid issue so that sometime before next year maybe I will get to see the endocrinologist. Plus I started my period last week, so all in all, it wasn't a good week for me. LOL
I still don't' like that I gained weight though.

I will do better next week. Thanks for the encouragement.

[ibcycling]

Today's wt: 164.2, 34% BF
Slowly but surely! No time to eat at work this week... makes a world of difference when I'm not snacking a lot!

It's great to see someone post the BF%. I just got a new scale and it shows BF%, bone mass, hydration and BMI. I've heard scales don't do an accurate BF% but it'll be nice to look for a downward trend. It shows me at 32.8%. Do you have a scale that measures or did you have it done somewhere?

Lora

[mupedalpusher]

Down another pound, this weeks weight 135. I've been on a consistent 1 lb per week loss for several weeks...I figure I'm headed for a plateau soon.

[martinkap]

Hi,

I am on the vacation - my parents visited usa for the first time and I am taking them around west USA - Death Valey, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyon Land... Tomorrow we are going for a rafting trip from Bluff, UT. So, I have no means to weight myself but please keep me in the chart. I will post my weight next week.

Btw, where is link for the chart?

Thank you,

Martina

[jesvetmed]

t's great to see someone post the BF%. I just got a new scale and it shows BF%, bone mass, hydration and BMI. I've heard scales don't do an accurate BF% but it'll be nice to look for a downward trend. It shows me at 32.8%. Do you have a scale that measures or did you have it done somewhere?

It's on my scale -- a Tanita. Yours sounds much fancier!
I know it's not completely accurate, but I just watch the trend... downward = good, upward = uh-oh!

DDH: Hang in there -- you have so much going on. I just hope all is coming out ok for you, and that you can get back to focusing on taking care of yourself instead of worrying. Eat for health... the rest will follow that.

[rhyme]

Ugh..... somehow *gained* a pound... I don't know how in the world - I are the same as I usually eat - and if anything I ate a little better - and I got more exercise than I've had in years... Well, I guess that means double down this week.... A little discouraging to be sure, but I'll just go for longer rides and watch what I eat a bit more.

[Fujichants]

Oops...I forgot to weigh in...so did it this morning. 148 lbs for me. At one point last week I was down to 146.5. My weight has been fluctuating between that and 149.5. As long as I don't hit 150! That would really upset me.

[Blueberry]

Down one to 229. I must have been building muscle when my weight popped back up - because clothes feel looser.

CA

[Possegal]

ok, i'm up again. i've got to get back on the horse, so to speak. 177.8 for me. i was a little sick yesterday so no riding, but i'm planning to get out again today. maybe even a long walk if the weather cooperates with me.