Friday weigh in thread (suns out guns out challenge 8/31/2025)

#4,879
#4,879
I forgot to post last week, and I have to leave the house very early tomorrow, so I won’t be weighing myself at 7am like I normally do. Instead, I’ll just post my weight from today.

8/4/23 - 156.7
8/11/23 - 155.6
8/18/22 - 155.2
8/25/23 - 154.1
9/1/23 - 153.2
9/8/23 - 152.5
9/15/23 - 150.7
Pace: -1.0 lb/wk
 
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#4,882
#4,882
1/4/21-194.4
2/4/22-174.5
11/18/22-173.6
1/1/23- 176.9
1/13/23-171.8
1/20/23-171.3
1/27/23-171.7
2/17/23-173.2
2/24/23-172.3
3/3/23-171.7
3/9/23-171.5
3/17/23-171.8
3/24/23-171.6
3/31/23-171.2
4/7/23-172.6
4/14/23-171.5
4/21/23-170.9
4/27/23-170.1
5/5/23-169.8
7/14/23–172.2
7/21/23-173.7
7/28/23-171.6
8/4/23-170.8
8/11/23-170.0
8/18/23-169.8
8/25/23-169.5
9/1/23-170.4
9/16/23-170.1
 
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#4,883
#4,883
I decided that I’m taking a diet break. At work today, I was extremely lethargic, and I believe it’s because I’ve been restricting my calories so much lately. Also, the last few times I’ve been at the gym, my performance has gone backwards. I’m just tired of being tired. I’m at a healthy weight and at about 16% body fat. I wanted to get down to 12%, but it’s getting exhausting. So I think I just need to maintain for a while.
 
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#4,886
#4,886
1/4/21-194.4
2/4/22-174.5
11/18/22-173.6
1/1/23- 176.9
1/13/23-171.8
1/20/23-171.3
1/27/23-171.7
2/17/23-173.2
2/24/23-172.3
3/3/23-171.7
3/9/23-171.5
3/17/23-171.8
3/24/23-171.6
3/31/23-171.2
4/7/23-172.6
4/14/23-171.5
4/21/23-170.9
4/27/23-170.1
5/5/23-169.8
7/14/23–172.2
7/21/23-173.7
7/28/23-171.6
8/4/23-170.8
8/11/23-170.0
8/18/23-169.8
8/25/23-169.5
9/1/23-170.4
9/16/23-170.1
9/22/23-169.8
 
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#4,888
#4,888
152.0

Now that I’m trying to eat at maintenance, it looks like I put back on about 1-2 pounds of water weight. It’s so hard to understand it’s just water when seeing the number go up on the scale so drastically, but that’s what it is. You have to seriously binge to gain 1-2 pounds of fat in a day.
 
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#4,894
#4,894
Nice thead
I have no problem getting to my target weight, its maintaining it. Im a dang roller coaster. Example, came home from vacation on June 10 weighing 207.6, got serious and Friday i weighed 177.3. I weight train 5 days a week and run 3- 4 days a week and when I am serious, my diet is clean using macros.
Many of you seem to be maintaining well, what is the trick?
 
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#4,895
#4,895
Vol_sanity said:
Nice thead
I have no problem getting to my target weight, its maintaining it. Im a dang roller coaster. Example, came home from vacation on June 10 weighing 207.6, got serious and Friday i weighed 177.3. I weight train 5 days a week and run 3- 4 days a week and when I am serious, my diet is clean using macros.
Many of you seem to be maintaining well, what is the trick?
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I found my maintenance calories by eating the same number of calories every day for 2 weeks. I was tracking everything I ate very closely with the "myfitnesspal" app. I tried eating 2200 calories every day, but I ended up losing about 1.5 pounds over that 2 week period. So, I jumped up to 2400 calories. At 2400 calories, I gained 2 pounds after the first couple of days (water weight), and lost a half pound the next week (water leveling out). So my maintenance is about 2400 calories per day.

When I'm eating at maintenance, I don't eat exactly 2400 calories every single day. I loosely track my calories with the app, and try to average 2400 over the course of a week. Sometimes I go a little bit over. When I do, I try to go a little bit under the next week. There's always some days when I go overboard at a restaurant, or when I'm traveling. When that happens, I just skip dessert the next 2-3 days. I weigh myself every couple of days, and record it, just to make sure my weight is not increasing. When I do notice a slight increase, I eat just a little less over the next few days, and it usually levels out very quickly.

Personally, I find it much easier to maintain than to lose weight. I get to eat more and have to track less. Maintaining is my favorite. Gaining is the most difficult for me, because when gaining, you want to gain very slowly, like only a half a pound a week, and it can be very difficult to not go overboard. Losing is a bit easier, because your window range is wider. Losing 1-2 pounds per week is easier than gaining 0.25-0.5 pounds per week.
 
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#4,900
#4,900
156.2

Been trying to just maintain and loosely track my diet for the past few weeks. Planning to get serious again for the next 4 weeks leading up to my birthday and holiday season. Would like to get to 150ish by 11/17.
 
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