193.1 this AM, down from 196.7 last week. After bouncing back and forth between 197 and 202 all year, finally getting some consistent positive momentum.

It's great not having scheduled events or family visiting to focus. I could have tried to find the will power sooner, but it's easier to get the will power when you've had some consistent loss weeks. At that point it feels bigger to suddenly cheat.

Vernada said:

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Vernada said:

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On Christmas Day I weighed in at 185. Weighed 173 this morning. Seen a nice bf% drop too.

IMF
No alcohol (down from 30-40+ per week)
Rucking

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Did a random weigh in today. Don't feel like I've lost any weight this week. Lo and behold: sub 170! Just barely. But still a nice surprise.

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Down to 167.

This was my 'worst' week since Christmas as I was only down 1.5 lbs. But still - that means I've managed to lose every week that I've been trying to. I'm pretty sure I've never had this much success when trying to lose weight.

Perhaps you've discussed previously but what's your strategy?

BreNayPop said:

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I started 2018 and my highest weight was 268, I was 230 dec 15th.

Goal 200.

Started 2019: 235
1/7/19: 236
1/14/19: 234
1/22/19: 236
1/28/19: 233
2/4/19: 233
2/11/19: 233

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2/18/19: 227

finally w keto, IMF, and increased cardio the number falls!!!

Start : 233.4
1/7 : 231.6
1/14 : 230.7 - Ran Marathon
1/21 : 229.0 - 2 runs, 9.3 miles, 11:38 pace (5:10 marathon pace)
1/28 : 229.7 - 3 runs, 16 miles, 11:40 pace (5:11 marathon pace)
2/4 : 227.4 - 3 runs, 16.5 miles, 11:22 pace (5:03 marathon pace)
2/11 : 226.9 - 4 runs, 17.5 miles, 10:27 pace (4:39 marathon pace)
2.18 : 225.5 - 5 runs, 22.3 miles, 11:46 pace (5:14 marathon pace)

211 this morning. Down 9 lbs since start, averaging ~1 lb a week so far.

bagger05 said:

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Perhaps you've discussed previously but what's your strategy?

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IMF
No alcohol (down from 30-40+ per week)
Rucking

For IMF I was doing an 18/6 routine. Light lunch, regular dinner. But the past few weeks I've been at about 22/2 - just eating dinner with the family - because it's so easy.

And I don't do anything special for dinner. I just eat like I always have, whatever we are having. No special shopping, no special ingredients or cooking. About as simple as it gets really.

I read Jason Fung's book and am starting up a fasting protocol. Today is my first day on it. Closing in on 24 hours and not a big deal, really. A few cups of different teas since last night but going strong. Probably going to hang in until dinner which is going to be about 27-28 hours. Not planning on making this my usual deal but schedule worked out this way.

Planning on doing a couple 24 hour fasts during the week and otherwise doing something like 16/8.

saw 202 this morning... but not counting that yet.

Ran miles at lunch and afterwards after stepping on the scale I saw it briefly flash to 199.x before settling on 200.8... I know that's a "5 miles of sweat" post run weight, but still encouraging to see especially after Jan 1 of seeing 225.x.

Make sure you put your info on the Google spreadsheet linked in the OP.

Updated, thanks!

In a non-weight update, I've had 30 workouts in the gym so far this year. I don't count walks I go on with my kids. I've also upped my step average to over 11,000 a day. That's insane to me since I think I averaged 3,000-4,000/day last year.

Just want to vent how hard it is to not just eat healthy but to AVOID the bad foods at time. Yesterday at the office we celebrated a birthday. I went to the meeting and there were only 5 people there and a homemade carrot cake. Normally I would pass but I felt like that person worked hard making the cake and almost nobody was there to eat it. So I decided to just have a piece. I requested a small piece. It wasn't small and I ate the whole thing. Later looked up how many calories are in carrot cake........damn. Stupid stupid stupid me.

Done 28 pounds since September. Only 15 more pounds until I'm at my goal. It's hard losing weight now when you're 166 pounds lol. I am winning the work competition though for Biggest Loser.

Down to 161.
Also hit a new PR on bench of 190x2.
Getting closer to my goal of 225x1 for 2019. I don't expect to make too much more progress while cutting to 155, but glad to know I'm not losing strength since I'm going so slow with the weight loss.

Frok said:

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Just want to vent how hard it is to not just eat healthy but to AVOID the bad foods at time. Yesterday at the office we celebrated a birthday. I went to the meeting and there were only 5 people there and a homemade carrot cake. Normally I would pass but I felt like that person worked hard making the cake and almost nobody was there to eat it. So I decided to just have a piece. I requested a small piece. It wasn't small and I ate the whole thing. Later looked up how many calories are in carrot cake........damn. Stupid stupid stupid me.

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I've gotten to the point, especially with restaurants, of just getting a to-go box immediately, then putting half of everything on the plate in the to-go box before I even start eating.
Portions are so big these days at restaurants.

But office stuff can be difficult.

MMmmmm carrot cake, especially home-made. I feel your pain.

anyone heard from bigruss1... he hasn't checked into the tracker spreadsheet since Jan28th?

Antibiotics and steroids, work conference, girlfriend's birthday, being sick and missing the gym... finally back on track this week.

BF is up a touch but weight is getting back down to where it needs to be.

194.8

Alright, seen 201.x two days in a row.

Calling it at 202 official weight.

23 pounds down since Jan 1. At least 28 since middle of December.

I made that mistake last night. Went out with people I don't know well but need to make a good impression on. Would normally have a to go box at the beginning but to not be weird I didn't. I finished the plate....

On the plus side, it was really good so if I'm going to over consume on calories then I should at least really enjoy it.

Congratulations on successfully not being that guy.

Glad the food was good. It's always a crappy feeling when you eat a ton and then realize after that the food you just binged on was garbage.

Ya. Everyone else got a box at the end... One person broke their keto diet so that made me feel better. My solution today is to eat light to make up. Her solution is a bone broth fast. I think I got the easy way.

Alright, got good confirmation this morning that i'm really at <=200. Saw 198.0 on scale this morning.

Huge milestone, man. Congrats and keep it up!

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Huge milestone, man. Congrats and keep it up!

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Yeah, I have a personality type of setting a goal and then laser-focusing on that goal and then when I hit it, losing interest. I think the biggest changes I've made are sustainable this time... mainly how I eat. I'm not doing one of those diets where you have to cut out certain foods (well, I am cutting out buying 1/2 gallons of Key Lime Mango Tart Blue Bell ice cream and eating it all within a weekend )

Just portion control and changing my mindset that I definitely don't need the large portions I used to eat.

210 as of this morning- nice to start seeing progress again. It's been great reading everyone's progress so far- keep it up!

Down 6 lbs since January, 20 lbs to go.

Am I allowed to skip weigh in after cook off?

I think there are quite a few Intermittent Fasters or those that are interested in it on this thread.

Here's a pretty neat video from a good fitness youtube channel I follow about it. I don't personally use IMF, but it seems like it is a great tool a ton of people are using to lose weight.