September/October weight management challenge

[emily_in_nc]

I'm struggling. Of course, as soon as I join the challenge again, my weight is up, and I've been having various and assorted autoimmune symptoms, which makes me want comfort food. I haven't been eating more, just not as strictly.
I'm not reporting in until Friday, but since I went to the beach on Sunday and ate fried scallops and onion rings, I gained 2.5 lbs., lost half a pound and now am stuck.

I hear ya -- seems like every time I join the challenge, my weight goes up instead of down! I am up a lb. from when I started and have not even been "bad". Then again, I haven't been particularly "good" with food, though I have been riding more than usual. It's still too hot to run here. Last year this time we were getting some rain and cooler mornings, but this year, it's steaming hot and sunny every morning. 83.5F with FULL sun when I got up at 6:45, and gets rapidly hotter after that. DH is still running, but I just can't do it. I'm weak!

[bunny_ninja]

I wish I could just wake up tomorrow and have lost my 20 extra pounds. That would be awesome.

[Possegal]

Here is the link. Let me know if there are any problems.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...2VWajF2RFNTU0E

[Crankin]

104.6 this morning.
But, my pattern is more important. This week was:
106.2
105.8
105.8
105.4
104.6
Yesterday I rode AND did a boot camp class. I knew that would be the only way to get my weight to where I want it. Now, I need to get it stable. DH is going away for 12 days on Sunday, which means I might have more of a chance to maintain. Of course, the Jewish holidays are during this period, so there will be some extra eating involved.

[SAMbike]

Hi Possegal,

Can you please reverse my weight goal and current weight? Sorry if I wrote it wrong. I'm looking to get down to 110 lbs, and was 115 lbs last week.

This morning: 114.4

Thanks so much for doing this for us!!
SAM

[goldfinch]

107.3.

Too high, but not going the wrong way. Been off the scale for a week or so on a trip.

[limewave]

Oh dang. Going the wrong way. I was doing so awesome and then had a bad day. Anyone else have "trigger" or "gateway" foods? If I give in to certain foods it opens the floodgate and I have a difficult time controlling my diet after that.

160.6

Back on the wagon!

[Possegal]

Hi Possegal,

Can you please reverse my weight goal and current weight? Sorry if I wrote it wrong. I'm looking to get down to 110 lbs, and was 115 lbs last week.

This morning: 114.4

Thanks so much for doing this for us!!
SAM

Oh no, I'm sure it was me. It's my adult-onset dyslexia. That's why it is important folks check and let me know. I seem to reverse things a lot or put them in the wrong rows. One challenge, for a brief time, someone had lost about 70 lbs in a week. Ooops.

[gnat23]

Oops, a lil' behind already

9/7: 144.2
9/14: 144.2

-- gnat! (points for consistency?)

[indigoiis]

Here is the link. Let me know if there are any problems.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...2VWajF2RFNTU0E

Do we edit our own? It won't type for me... :/

[Possegal]

Do we edit our own? It won't type for me... :/

No, I edit it. Folks post here, and I put in the updates.

[bunny_ninja]

Hello:
Sept7: 146.6
Sept14: 145.5

[emily_in_nc]

107.5 this morning -- wrong way.

Crankin, I think your weight fluctuations look perfectly normal and as stable as anyone can really expect. Everyone can expect to see 1-2 lbs. in water weight fluctuation during a given week without it meaning real weight gain (or loss). What I don't like with mine is that I was 106.5 last week, and this week I have been 107.5 every single day (except one lousy day at 108.0), so to me, that is a bad trend, even though it's just a pound higher -- it's really consistent. Before our August trip to the US, I was fluctuating between 104.5 and 105.5, so I have definitely gained, despite not doing anything different that I am aware of. Urgh.

Wish I could run, but it's just too hot. Mid-80s by 6:30 am and sunny every single morning, coupled with humidity. Just something I can't seem to tolerate. I have totally lost my running mojo.

[Possegal]

Adding in updates.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...2VWajF2RFNTU0E

[Crankin]

I wonder if I am not eating enough before/after bootcamp.