Progress Report
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My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 220 lbs (This would put me in the obesity stage 1 category)
Milestone: 267 lbs (this was my lowest weight that I can remember when I was losing)
Current Weight: 269.2 lbs 2/13/20
Loss this Week: -0.1 lbs
Total loss: -105.8 lbs
What's Working/What Needs Work: *sigh* I'm not happy with this week's performance at all. I had convinced myself the 1 1/2 lb jump last week was water weight, but apparently, I was fooling myself. I'm weighing and measuring what I can, but I must be off somewhere, because I was under maintenance 13 out of 14 days the last 2 weeks, and should have shown more than a tenth lb loss.
I've got 2 scales and compare them from time to time and they are within a couple grams of each other, so I don't think that my scale is off. The weekends are bad, I know, but I'm set to sedentary as I really am sedentary, so my calorie count is 1000 off each day, so even eating an extra 1000 calories over the weekend should at least result in 1 to 1.5 lb loss for the entire week. I've also doubled checked what MFP is recommending for my 2 lb/wk loss rate at sedentary settings, and my goal is accurate.
I've been bad for out to eating a lot, and perhaps that's where its coming from. I'm using the nutrition calculators and shaving off what I can on calories, but its probable that the restaurant isn't being accurate with their portions, throwing the calorie counts off. And I'd been slipping and getting half-cut teas. So I'm cutting out the half-cut teas and sticking with unsweet, and I'm going to try to curtail the stops at Arby's for the turkey sliders, even though I was getting them without the cheese and only half the bun. I really need to work on the weekends, too. Its easier during the week to keep to my numbers as I'm at work, but when I'm home all day and get busy, I want to eat more. Of course, being busy increases my activity, so on most weekends I'm not really sedentary I'm actually more lightly active, which ought to be accounting for those extra calories consumed, but apparently its not.
So this next week, we're going to see if I can make myself stick to my calorie goal even over the weekend and cut out the stops at Arby's and see if I have better results next week.
Oh, and I cleaned out around my elliptical this week, and though I absolutely detest it, I'm going to try to make myself use it for at least 30 minutes a day, most days of the week. I despise that sort of activity, but I've got to do something; I know I've about cut my calorie limit as low I can sustain it, and I do need to get exercise in and quit being so sedentary; its just I literally (and I do mean literally!) hate with a passion regular, regimented exercise, whether it be on a machine like an elliptical or a treadmill, whether its at a gym, at home with workout videos, or even trying to force myself to take a daily walk. I don't mind doing heavy yard work and heavy housework; in fact, I feel pretty good after working all day, maybe because I can look back and see that I've accomplished something. But I can't do that with regular exercise; I have to fight to get myself going, fight to keep myself going, and then when I'm done, its just relief that its over and dreading the next day. I haven't found an exercise yet that I really enjoy!0 -
My Starting Weight: ~375 lbs (01/01/2017)
My goal: 220 lbs (This would put me in the obesity stage 1 category)
Milestone: 267 lbs - accomplished!!!!
New Milestone: 260 lbs - this will put me at 39.5 BMI which puts me below the cutoff threshold for WLS
Current Weight: 266.4 lbs 2/20/20
Loss this Week: -2.8 lbs
Total loss: -108.6 lbs
What's Working/What Needs Work: Finally managed to get some of that water weight off! I've been really tight with my logging and getting more activity in, and while that usually results in a water weight bump (the activity, I think, usually causes me to hold a little water I guess are part of the muscle repair process), not to mention TOM going on this week, I still managed to show a loss, and reached my milestone of being under 267 lbs. So I'm now back down to my lowest remembered weight; now to get back to the original milestone of 260 lbs, which puts me under the cutoff threshold for weight loss surgery for someone with no secondary health issues (if you have diabetes, heart problems, etc, then the threshold is 35, but I don't have any of those problems).
The Jiu-Jitsu was interesting and I was just happy that I was able to keep up with the warmup running! I also found out quickly how stiff I am and it was rather difficult just learning to fall down lol I have 2 more free sessions, so I'm going in on Friday this week, then I'll have to wait until late next week for the last free session because I have to be out of town the first of next week for work. It helped immensely that I was not the only largish woman there; the person I was working with was also a larger woman who had been doing this for almost a year. She has no idea how much a difference her presence made in me being comfortable in the class! Folks were very friendly, too. It was welcoming, which was great because it was an all-levels class and most of the folks were well ahead of me as a beginner, though there were a few others, but the instructor was really great and patient, and the person I was working with was as well. That was nice because you know how hard it is being the new person anyway, especially in something where cliques and groups have formed ahead of time and you are the new person that messes up the dynamic. Sometimes in that situation, you get the feeling that your presence is resented, especially in a gym environment; its even worse when you are a large person just getting started on trying to better your fitness, and you are working where there's a bunch of trim, athletic folks way ahead of you;you can't help but feel self conscious.
I've also been trying for hte last week to get my activity up and my step count up. Its embarrassing to admit that my average step count on a work day was around 2,000 steps if I was lucky. So I've been using the elliptical and taking advantage of pretty days to get some walking in. Yesterday, I circled the service center grounds where I work 3 times to get my step count up.
Anyway, this coming week is going to be difficult. Tonight, I'm going to a concert of a local musician, and I've decided that since I will be eating out, I want a calzone. So I'm preparing for it before hand by saving as many calories as I can so I can enjoy the calzone without going over my limits. Its hard to estimate the calzone because I'm going to a local pizza place that doesn't have calorie counts available, so I'm grabbing what I can find and hope it covers. I'm also going to try to get a couple of good walks in today to get my step count up. Friday will be Jiu-Jitsu session #2 which is a really good calorie burner, but I'm not going to eat those calories back on Friday, but save them for Saturday because I'm taking my mom up north to my cousin's baby shower, and will be taking her out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner, and I know I'll need extra calories for the rolls!
Then I'm going to have to go out of town for work on Monday and Tuesday, which means eating out, so Monday evening, I'll need to see about hitting the hotel fitness center and try to get some exercise in and if the weather holds on Tuesday, see if I can get some steps in during lunch.
So here's hoping that next week is not ratchet back up week, but we'll see - that has been my pattern for the last several months.....1 -
Hi Bmeadows!
Thank you for sharing your story here! I’m very, very impressed by how far you have come and how absolutely relatable your apprehension is around working out as the new person, being bigger than others.
I applaud you for going anyway and am almost jealous of your positive experience (not truly, but almost, you know what I mean).
I’ve been holding back so much that I would like to do but don’t feel comfortable at my weight. I’m certain I could sink a kayak in a second lol
Or getting a bike... would love to find a bike that is strong enough to carry me. But until then it’s walking walking walking!
Oh and just like you, my average steps right now are barely 3,000. Working up slowly.
Have the best of weekends and enjoy that calzone!!!0
