Cupcake

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To feel more at ease in my body; to model healthy habits for my kiddo.

Quick Facts

Favorite Health Food: pretty much all fruit & veg.

Favorite Sinful Food: ice cream, cheese, homemade cookies

My Preferred Method of Exercise: running

My Approach to Weight Loss: ups & downs, but overall downward trend

Fitness/Exercise Apps: StepBet, C210k

Fitness Devices: FitBit

DietBet Winnings: $7,172.76

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Cupcake

10/06/2025 6:08PM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
That was a close one, .1 lbs under! Now I just have to make it through a trip to Paris without doing too much damage! This bet and all the walking should help keep me in line, and if not, I’ll still have about 3 weeks to recover from the pastries and cheese.

P.S. Anyone else have to take a dozen (or twice that, if I’m being honest) pictures for every weighin because they hate how they look? I know I shouldn’t care for this, but I look either dimwitted or ancient or constipated or deranged in almost every picture I take.

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Tam

OH WOW!!! I’m glad it’s not just me! YES!!!!!!! I always have to take more than one photo. My eyes are shut or I look like I just rolled out of bed! :joy::joy:

Sarah C.

You can do it! I had a family wedding last month - ended up gaining a few pounds but stuck to it, pushed through and drank lots of water!

coraliep74

10/05/2025 7:44AM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
  • I was so determined. I had lost approx 45lbs since Jan. I joined this challenge to keep it challenging. I had actually hit my 10% this June but ive beem struggling this summer. Was up 15 from my lowest this summer and I'm down 5 of that. But i dont think I've hit my 6% min to qualify. I am approx 10 off from this months goal still. Either way I'm so proud of my progress this year. Sucks losing the financial peice but its less important than my health gains this year. This journey is not over yet for me. Hope everyone is doing great and stays motivated whether or not they win this bet. Your health is the most important thing.


    Update 1: Ahh i did the math on my calculator!! I might have got the 6%! Wish me luck

    Update 2: submitted weigh in i should be good to enter final round. I have exactly 9lbs to go for final round! Wish me luck

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Cupcake

Yay, good luck!

TPring

:four_leaf_clover::four_leaf_clover::four_leaf_clover:!

Cupcake

09/06/2025 7:20AM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
Yay! Made it! Good luck to all who are still working on that last little bit today.

Has anyone here ever done a maintainer? I’ve done a lot of dietbets over the years, and after the end, I tend to creep back up pretty soon after, and then six months to a year later I’m doing another transformer. I was thinking about just signing up for one maintainer after the other after this to keep myself accountable…

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Nicole B.

I've been wondering the same thing. My diet bet yoyo graph is sort of ridiculous

Michael

I’m coming to terms with the truth that this is a lifelong thing, change and watch food every day or gain it all back

Cupcake

08/06/2025 7:34PM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
Between my new phone and not wearing glasses for my weigh in (worried they count as forbidden “accessories”), getting my final photos took forEVER! My scale kept turning off, all the pictures were either blurry or I looked unhinged, and I kept hitting weird random settings that would delay or add some weird effect or zoom way in or out or shoot video. But, I finally got them!

Does anyone know if eyeglasses are excluded from the accessories ban? Weigh-in photos would be a lot easier if I could actually see what I was doing!

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Teresajoy

I have always worn my glasses

Michael

07/10/2025 5:09PM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
Stupid company trip and big fancy dinners, made it down to 18.7 to 223 in four days, so frustrated with myself… back to the grind… it feels like it takes two weeks of perfect days to outweigh 2 days of bad eating… I’m a little terrified that when I get to end of my goal weight letting up a little will take me back to where I started

#discouraged

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Michael

It’s like there is a part of me that would always overeat the worst foods if given a chance. I look at the success rates of long term weight loss and it’s not great and I just hope that after all this I can be the exception. I’m back on track now and will keep pushing. Little victories big set backs and finding the will to press on and on…

Kim T.

Yes, I’m right there with you. I feel so good right now with the weight going down, but even watching my husband eat whatever he wants makes it hard to always deny myself. I try to look at it as far as trying to live a healthy life so I can be around to watch my grandkids get married and have babies. I’ll try to make that my priority over food and I try to look at it as when I do eat something crappy., What do I feel like afterwards? I feel mad at myself like was it really worth that little one or two minutes of pleasure to gain 5 pounds.

Cupcake

07/06/2025 3:58PM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
Woo hoo! I was worried the 4th would be tricky, but I managed to stay in line. One good thing about heat waves and no AC, I just don’t want to eat much when it’s this hot. But the heat makes cold beer extra tempting, so I took it out if the fridge to dampen the siren song of a cold beer at the end of a hot day. (Though I will be enjoying my belated July 4th brew once I’m verified!)

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Steve

07/06/2025 2:02PM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
Don't think I ate anything wrong, but I didn't make it this month. Sucks. That's probably a $30 dollar loss. Oh well.
I'm going to keep going strong...exercise-walking.
Maybe, I need to work on sleeping more regularly...that needs to be improved. And I'm NOT going to use this loss as an excuse to eat something definitely not healthy/not on my diet...probably! Maybe one treat that I will use as a RESET. Sometimes, this actually helps me lose weight...and "get unstuck".

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Cupcake

You’re still doing great and don’t forget to celebrate those 40s! And you only lost half of this month’s wager, the rest goes into the kitty for the end, so hang in there.

Steve

@Cupcake Thanks! 40s fit good now :) not even tight. The 38s are waiting for me! I actually AM the weight now (about 9 hours too late)...but that's good, since it means that I AM progressing. NO need for the bakery excuse reset! I appreciate your positive message!!

Cupcake

06/06/2025 12:46PM in Total Glow Up Transformer - Win A Rowing Machine!
Yay, hit my goal! I managed to control myself on vacation because my kickstarter weigh-outs fell a few days ago while I was still out of town. Just awaiting verification.⏳:)

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Steve

That's always difficult. Unless I workout a lot, vacations are always maintain my weight at the BEST