2020 Weight Loss Challenge Thread

[Crawls]

I was down 5 to 6 lbs through a combination 14/10 intermittent fasting, hard work on my new Peloton, and no beer.
Spending the week in Albuquerque with my family for my parents 50th. I'm sure I'm going to be back at square one when I get home to Maryland.

[Chance]

Weight down 1.8 lbs and body fat down 0.8% to 172.4 and 21.4% respectively. PITA to try and fast when you've got nothing to do but lounge around the house. Glad the semester starts back up next week.

[Joe in PNG]

First official weigh in of the year, and after a Christmas break with lots of cheating, I'm pretty much where I ended 2019: 202 lbs.

It's a great start, as I'm only 2 off of my goal.

202.6 today. I blame the office social palacsintas (Hungarian crepes) on Wednesday.

[Trukinjp13]

260 today. Weighing myself every weekend. Down 3.5 from last. Getting diet dialed in and lifting 3-4 times a week.


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[jeep45238]

19JAN2020
193
21% body fat

Weight loss has stabilized into a very shallow slope for the last week. I'm happy with the progress, considering I was knocking on 210 around Christmas and didn't count a calorie until 01JAN2020

01JAN2020
201.2lb
23.3% body fat

[0ddl0t]

200 -> 198

Formerly bland & boring fruits almost taste like candy 12 days after giving up everything artificially sweetened.

195

The third week was the hardest so far - I'm starting to feel hungry a lot more often and, aside from the digits on the scale, I'm not really seeing/feeling results. I mean after 3 weeks I expected to tighten the belt at least one notch, but no...

[spinmove_]

1/1/2020: 241.8 lbs.

Today: 233.8 lbs.

[BehindBlueI's]

1/11/20:

227.6

01/21/20:

226.2

Not walking has slown my progress, but it's still moving in the right direction. I'll take minor injury leads to slowed progress vs minor injury leads to reversal of progress any time.

[Chance]

Numbers are all over the place this morning. I had six lectures yesterday and I can't remember drinking water for the sake of hydrating once - I'm really going to have to keep an eye on that this semester. I'll see if I can get decent numbers tomorrow or something.

[Guerrero]

Did your sodium intake increase just before you got those surprise 10 lbs? Every time I go to the Mexican restaurant it results in a weight gain well beyond the number of calories I consume there. It's the salt in the salsa (and probably everything else) that causes fluid retention. (I love salsa to the extent that I would live off of it if that was possible.) Usually the weight goes away by itself after a couple or three days days. At home sometimes I have meals that are considerably higher in sodium relative to what we normally eat and those seem to correlate with weight gain also. A couple of days ago I was up 4 lbs from two days previously, and there's simply no way I could have gained that through calories. Hitting the treadmill hard enough to break into a heavy sweat seems to help get get back on track, I presume through losing salt via sweating more than through burning calories.

There's something to this. I've had bouts the last couple weekends with... er... NFC playoffs and really salty food. My weight went up a lot more than the calories might indicate, and some light fasting isn't bringing it down.