I’m not quite on track to win this, but I *am* very motivated! Hoping to see the scale move this week! Keeping my goal in sight! 💪

Yesterday was spaghetti night (that is code for a hard day). My wife made double. Pasta is a trigger food for me. I finished the day at a 500 calorie surplus, where a normal day is a 500 calorie deficit. One of my daughters turned 6 this weekend too, cake! Yum! I'm still averaging at about a 350 calorie deficit per day for the past week, but the scale is up 2 lbs today. I worked pretty had to lose that last 2 lbs, how dare it come back in one day. What makes it worse is I was 2 lbs away from my next goal of an overweight BMI. Oh well, now it's 4 lbs. The complexities of weight lost science are lost on me, even with this little bump in the road I have lost 14.4 lbs since this game started and I intend to keep doing what I have been doing and one day I will be overweight!

One of my new habits this week, is posting here daily. Always great to read other posts and feel the support in here. Another habit I started today is doing a daily VR workout. That was challenging but fun.

Shoot!!! Forgot to weigh in for round 1. We had guests staying and I got caught up with everything. I met my goal though!!!!!!

How much Money you guys thinking we are gonna make?!?!

I'm thinking pot is $35,960 ×75% cuz dietbets got bills so $26,970 for the winners.

I'm thinking this round will have 1350 winners (I mean, really, we are all winners, I'm just thinking the ones getting paid). I've plaid a lot of these, I know.

So $35960 × 75% / 1350 = $19.977777

Dietbet will round up to 20 though cuz they would never let us lose money unless you got the membership. Then, you may not have recovered that in this round
$20 each that's my guess

Well I got injured and was 0.9 over the goal for this week. I’m bummed but hopefully will make it next round.

Both my kids fence, and since my youngest struggles to focus enough for group lessons, I decided to start so I could help him. They've been going to that club for 7 or 8 months, so all the teens know us and chat with me while they're resting between bouts. I took my first intermediate class last night, which is the level at which you can start doing open practice. Every single one of them saw me with gear on as they came in and started calling dibs for a bout. Between the class and all the bouts, I was there for nearly 3 hours. It's really intense. I felt like I was dying the whole time, but at the same time, I was having a blast.

Soo, I'm definitely not making my goal this round. I think I've lost maybe 2lbs.

My workload essentially tripled at the start of this month as I took on a new teaching role on top of running a business and I have honestly been working 7 days a week, 12 hour days because that was the only way to get everything done... which has inevitably meant that health has come second (or third, maybe fourth).

Because I've been so fatigued some evenings I simply haven't cared what I was eating - I just needed enough energy to keep going, which has usually meant sugar.

I have just signed up to a healthy meal delivery service to help me for February and cut out a lot of shopping / meal prep time. I'm brainstorming today other ways I could help myself out so I can try and hit my goal for February.

But I was just thinking...

If I miss this round's goal, how does the next round work? Do I have to lose THIS round AND next round?! Because then I'll never catch up. :( Please could someone advise me?

Also any tips on how to prioritise health whilst working 70+ hour weeks lol...