Author: G

• Weight: 123.8 pounds (8.8 to go!)
• Steps: 10,379 (as of 9:33pm)
• Lows: None!
• Highs: Weight going in the right direction!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2 and 4 – 1 serving of protein shake
  • Meal 3 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 2 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
  • Meal 5 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 3 oz baked salmon, unmeasured fresh tomatoes and onions, low sodium soy sauce
• Exercise:
  • LISS – air climber to get my steps in
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 124.2 pounds (9.2 to go!)
• Steps: 6,354 (as of 8:07pm)
• Lows: Wrong direction on the scale.
• Highs: Done earlier than normal today!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2 and 3 (combined) – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 3.5 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
  • Meal 4 and Postworkout – 1 serving of protein shake
  • Meal 5 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 2 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
• Exercise: (1st number is the number of reps, 2nd number is the weight on each side, 0 means bar only for curl/barbell moves or body weight for others)
  • Lateral raises with drop set – 3×12-12 then drop to 8
  • Overhead press – 3×8-22.5
  • Front raises with drop set – 3×12-12 then drop to 8
  • Barbell press – 10-10, 10-12.5, 10-12.5
  • Close grip press to flys combo set – 3×8-20
  • Renegade rows to push ups combo set – 3×8-15
  • HIIT – jumping jacks for 22.5 minutes
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 123.8 pounds (8.8 to go!)
• Steps: 10,012 (as of 11:36pm)
• Lows: Wrong direction on the scale.
• Highs: It was nice to get outside for some of my steps today!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2 and 3 (combined) – .25 c steamed white Basmati rice, 4.5 oz stewed meat, 1 oz potatoes, unmeasured yellow split peas, lemon juice (Iranian gheymeh!)
  • Meals 4 and 5 (combined) – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 3.5 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
• Exercise:
  • LISS – walked and air climber to get my steps in
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 123.2 pounds (8.2 to go!)
• Steps: 8,682 (as of 10:51pm)
• Lows: None!
• Highs: Weight didn’t go down but it didn’t go up! I hit all my marks today!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2, 4, and Postworkout – 1 serving of protein shake
  • Meal 3 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 3 oz rotisserie chicken breast, .5 c corn, zero-everything Italian dressing
  • Meal 5 – salad with 3 oz rotisserie chicken breast, lettuce, 10 g croutons, 7 g raspberries, blueberries and walnuts, 14 g blue cheese, zero-everything raspberry vinaigrette
• Exercise: (1st number is the number of reps, 2nd number is the weight on each side, 0 means bar only for curl/barbell moves or body weight for others)
  • Step ups to reverse lunges combo set – 3×6-30
  • Goblet squats – 3×15-50
  • Bulgarian split squats – 3×8-35
  • Kettlebell swings – 3×25-20
  • Calf raises – 3×20-35
  • Deadlifts with curl bar – 12-40, 9-42.5, 6-45
  • HIIT – jumping jacks for 45 minutes
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

Current Status

As I originally estimated it, this challenge should have ended after Week 15/Day 105, but I didn’t reach my goal. I had lost a total of 14.8 pounds, 11.2 pounds short of my target. Clearly, my estimation was way off! However, I will continue to fail until I succeed and I am glad my mindset was to keep pushing as opposed to throwing my hands up – I was rewarded with some huge milestones because of it!

First, Week 16 resulted in the biggest weekly drop in weight since this challenge started – I dropped 3.8 pounds! They say 1 to 2 pounds a week is a safe target over the long term, so my estimate based on the weekly loss I had on one of my previous challenges was towards the aggressive end at 1.75 pounds per week. Before Week 16, the biggest drop I had was 3.4 pounds, the smallest drop was .2 of a pound, and it even went up by as high as 1.1 pound, making my average weekly difference a drop of .8 of a pound. This definitely accounts for why this challenge is going longer than I estimated!

But as they say, I didn’t get this far to only get this far. As we know, our weight goes up and down by day throughout the day, but my weight hit a a new low on this challenge 5 out of 7 days during Week 16! I well-surpassed the 10 pounds to go mark! Finally, I also now weigh less than I did at the end of the last time I tried (and failed) this challenge, which was 125.8 on February 2, 2019!

*An important thing to note is that Week 16 was actually an unplanned rest week, so I didn’t exercise as planned. The weight loss shows how nutrition is key – I remained in a calorie deficit even when several of my meals were off plan this week.

Day 112 Results

• Weight: 123.2 pounds (8.2 to go!)
• Steps: 7,376 (as of 9:08pm)
• Lows: None!
• Highs: Weight hit a new low on this challenge! I hit all my marks today! Week 16 complete!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2 and 5 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 2 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
  • Meals 3, 4, and Postworkout – 1 serving of protein shake
• Exercise: (1st number is the number of reps, 2nd number is the weight on each side, 0 means bar only for curl/barbell moves or body weight for others)
  • Chin ups and dips super set – 6, 6, 4 and 3×15
  • Concentration curls with drop set – 12-15, 9-17.5, 6-20, 6-12
  • Triceps kickbacks with drop set – 3×12-17.5 then drop to 12
  • Dumbbell bicep curls and triceps push downs super set – 10-15/15, 10-15/17.5, 10-15/17.5
  • Dumbbell skull crushers and hammer curls super set – 3×15-10/15
  • HIIT – jumping jacks for 45 minutes
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 124.2pounds (9.2 to go!)
• Steps: 3,238 (as of 11:30pm)
• Lows: Wrong direction on the scale. Didn’t do the workouts scheduled for today, nor did I get my steps in. Meals 3 and 5 were off plan.
• Highs: Anxious to start working out again tomorrow!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2 and 4 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 2 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
  • Meals 3 and 5 – funfetti cake
• Exercise: none
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 123.6 pounds (8.6 to go!)
• Steps: 1,964 (as of 8:34pm)
• Lows: Didn’t do the workouts scheduled for today, nor did I get my steps in. Meal 5 was off plan.
• Highs: Weight hit a new low on this challenge!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meal 2 – 1 serving of protein shake
  • Meal 3 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 2 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
  • Meal 4 – salad with 3 oz rotisserie chicken breast, lettuce, 10 g croutons, 7 g raspberries, blueberries and walnuts, 14 g blue cheese, zero-everything raspberry vinaigrette
  • Meal 5 – funfetti cake
• Exercise: none
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 125 pounds (10 to go!)
• Steps: 3,142 (as of 9:55pm)
• Lows: Didn’t do the workouts scheduled for today, nor did I get my steps in. Didn’t drink enough water.
• Highs: Weight hit a new low on this challenge!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2 and 3 (combined) – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 3 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
  • Meal 4 – 1 serving of protein shake
  • Meal 5 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 3 oz rotisserie chicken breast, .5 c corn, zero-everything Italian dressing
• Exercise: none
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 126 pounds (11 to go!)
• Steps: 2,693 (as of 8:57pm)
• Lows: Didn’t do the workouts scheduled for today, nor did I get my steps in. Didn’t drink enough water.
• Highs: Weight hit a new low on this challenge!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meals 2 and 4 – 1 serving of protein shake
  • Meal 3 – salad with 3 oz baked chicken breast, lettuce, 10 g croutons, 7 g raspberries, blueberries and walnuts, 14 g blue cheese, zero-everything raspberry vinaigrette
  • Meal 5 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 1 hard boiled egg, unmeasured fresh tomatoes, 2 oz chicken breast boiled in low sodium soy sauce and vinegar (Filipino adobo!)
• Exercise: none
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G

• Weight: 126.4 pounds (11.4 to go!)
• Steps: 10,590 (as of 7:52pm)
• Lows: Didn’t do the workouts scheduled for today. Wrong direction on the scale.
• Highs: Everything else!
• Nutrition:
  • Meal 1 – 1 slice of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, .5 c and 3 tbsp egg whites, scrambled
  • Meal 2 – .5 c steamed white Basmati rice, 3 oz baked tilapia, unmeasured Brussels sprouts
  • Meal 3 – 1 serving of protein shake
  • Meals 4 and 5 (combined) – 6.5 oz grilled steak, 2 oz mashed potatoes, .5 c corn, unmeasured A1 sauce
• Exercise:
  • LISS – air climber to get my steps in
• All other markers checked.

Don’t forget to recognize and deliver love today! ❤ G