'SW: 243.5 (April 1st) SW: 201.4 (last month: October 1st) CW: 195.5 (November 1st) *I seem to be losing 5-7 pounds a month pretty consistently. I\'m actually fine with losing at that rate. I feel like everything I\'m doing is totally sustainable long term. My weightloss is slowing down after 6-7 months, so I probably need to adjust my intake, but I think I\'m probably going to wait for that until January and just work on maintaining for these next two holiday months.  Nutrition: I\'m pretty much just doing IIFYM at this point. I\'ve thrown in keto macros here and there, but I find that triggers my whole binge-issue, so I don\'t ever plan to do it long term. I try to hit a fairly even-ish percentage of carbs, fats & protein and stay around 1800 calories a day. My goal is actually to keep my calories as high as I can and still lose so that it\'s sustainable AND so that as my weight drops, I have somewhere to lower calories if I decide I want to do that.  Fascia Blaster: I haven\'t been GREAT at always finding time for this, but I did blast at least once a week (covering full body over the course of each week) I have been focused more on stomach than anything else, but now I want to focus more on lower body for the month of October.  October was the #5MinutesADay challenge. I ended up being sick in bed for almost two whole weeks in October, though, so I feel like I\'m starting from scratch now. November is the \"Exercise of the Day\" challenge and I post a new exercise each day (plus a calendar that you can plan ahead with)   September was the \"TrySomethingNew\" challenge in our facebook group. I took some pole dance classes with my daughter (I LOVED IT!) My husband and I built stall bars and made our own TRX style straps and I learned a bunch of new workouts. I made myself a DIY sandbag for new workouts as well.  I also managed to injure myself three times this month because I stupidly refused to take enough time to rest and kept reinjuring... SOOO I actually didn\'t workout as MUCH, but I tried new things.  You can join the group here if you\'re interested. https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitsp...  The October Challenge starts with just adding 5 minutes a day of an activity you need to step it up with. For me I\'m going to double my challenge to do 5 minutes a day of HIIT *and* do 5 minutes of PiYo/Yoga in the evenings. I still want to keep up my 4 days of lifting workouts as well (2 upper body, 2 lower body)' 

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