For all you ladies out there in the 45-55 range, our progress may look different! Please keep going! This might be a 60 day challenge but true progress is a long-game. At 50, I've been plugging away for years. My goal this time is to drop my body fat percentage a bit. But my blood work is CLEAN. That's from consistency in exercise. I hang onto that every time I think about giving up. We got this! 💪

I've been crushing it lately but had I camped overnight with my daughter's scout troop. I was bored and inhaled almost a whole bag of pickle flavored potato chips. Processed food is designed for overconsumption. Those bastards! 😆 But I tracked those chips anyways. I didn't play as much last week on top of it. My calorie deficit averaged 375 instead of 500 but it's a win because I still stuck to it. I lost less but I did lose. Diet fatigue is real. Sometimes you want to just eat freely without the confines of weighing and measuring but for me, I can't be trusted when I'm bored around processed delicious junk food. Fortunately, no more campouts until September! 😅

Physical and personal setbacks I have encountered the past few days. I may be out of this competition. No excuses. I’ll try. It was a good run. Hoping Nico can do this competition again in a few more months.

Our pickleball area just received this notice, all were great people and players we personally know and played with, Glenn and Hayden were my husband and mine first dink extreme opponents when we first started playing 2 years ago. All will be missed.

I've been counting my calories and macros religiously, playing pickleball, walking, lifting weights. Week 1 I was #20 on the leaderboard. Week 2 I don't exist but Im still losing 1 to 2 pounds a week. I feel great(which is key) It's healthy. It's sustainable and I'm not hungry. I'm still enjoying life. I'm not expecting to be a big winner in this contest. I never did. It's hard to lose the last 15 which is where I am after a lot of hard work. I just needed this hive mind to get going. But I do notice very few women on the Leaderboard. Are there less of us signed up? Maybe. Men drop weight faster. Their metabolisms are just different. I think in the future, it's better to divide us into 2 groups for fairness. That's just my 2 cents. Having said that, it's pretty exciting to see so many people trying to do better for themselves. Keep going!