Women 200lb+, Let's Double Down This December!!!
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Hi. I have not been feeling well for a number of reasons. Today I am starting back on a physician’s wellness program that I had success with in 2017. My daughter has had great success with MFP so I thought I would use it in conjunction with the wellness program. Best wishes for a healthy holiday season. Julie10
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Hi!
SW: 214LBS
CW: 204LBS
GW: 165LBS
Im 5'10" 26, I have successfully lost 10lbs in the last 5 weeks but I'm struggling now. I'm tired and I have no desire to get off the couch. I don't really have a support system so I'm trying to reach out. I need all the help I can get. I started doing cardio 6 days a week following DVDs. I've been really paying attention to portion control and choosing the right things to eat. I just need some support and encouragement. Thanks!10 -
I had a rough end to November, but I'm still here! My goal is pretty much just to weigh less at the end of the month than I do now. I'd like to get to the 230's, but I'd be happy with any kind of loss.
SW: 275
CW: 245
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Hi guys! November did not end strongly for me. I’m taking my official start weight for December tomorrow, and my goal will be -5 from that.
SW: 239 (May 2019)
CW: 191.8 (as of this morning-did not weigh on the scale I usually do though, so it could be a little more)
November was a rough month. My goal was to hit 188.2, and the lowest number I hit was 190 flat. November was the first month I didn’t reach my goal, and it sucks, but that’s okay. I’ve still come a very long way since May, and I’m so close to 50 total lost. Hopefully December will be the month to hit 50😍🔥💪🏻 I need to keep my motivation up and keep my calories honest. Hopefully I’ll also be able to incorporate a little bit more exercise. Also, I’ll be getting a Fitbit for Christmas, so hopefully that enhances some newfound motivation in me.
I hope everyone has a strong month to set us up for success for the new year, I believe in you all! We GOT this👍🏻9 -
Height 5'3"
SW 310.0 - Nov. 1st
GW 300.0 - Nov
GW 290.0 - Dec
CW 295.2 - Dec. 1
UGW 160.0
Week 0 - 11/01/2019 - 310.0 lbs
Week 1 - 11/08/2019 - 306.0 lbs (-4.0)
Week 2 - 11/15/2019 - 301.4 lbs (-8.6)
Week 3 - 11/22/2019 - 299.8 lbs (-10.2)
Week 4 - 11/29/2019 - 298.5 lbs (-11.5) Happy Thanksgiving and Birthday
Week 5 - 12/06/2019 -
Week 6 - 12/15/2019 -
Week 7 - 12/22/2019 -
Week 8 - 12/29/2019 - Merry Christmas
I just copied this over from the November thread, looking forward to everyone's progress in December!
Well, end of November is here, the end of my first month in gym training and recommitting myself to stick with this. I am pleased with my progress overall and realize that I am now heading into the time when I'm most likely to fail, when the honeymoon starts to wear off.
I missed my first gym workout yesterday when my brother and his family popped in for the afternoon. That break in the flow can be a huge trigger for me, but I'm not going to let it get me. I'm going to make myself a healthy light lunch, get chores done, then head to the gym. I have my scheduled workout tomorrow and will be back on schedule. That makes me feel good.
Thanksgiving wasn't too, too bad. I was just barely under "calories out" with my logged "calories in". There was some pumpkin pie involved, but I had cantalope instead of sweet potatos (hey, did you know if you slice it up the right way, it looks just like a bowl of baked sweet potatos?), I made a big batch of fresh veggies in chicken stock and some cheddar cheese, yummy and a good filler, and a nice ham. Salt content was up there, but I broke even for the day. Had one piece of pumpkin pie with a bit of fluff. Skipped my birthday cake this year. Yesterday made chocolate chip cookies with my boys and ate some, but logged them and stayed nicely under. Net result? I did continue to go down this week. That feels good.
On to December! I missed -15 pounds by just 0.2 pounds today. So close! Can't wait to cross that barrier, then on to -20.
<mushy paragraph of gratitude>
I want to take this time to express how thankful I am for everyone on this thread. I may not post very much, but I read and gain so much support from all of your posts, I can't thank you all enough. I'm not good with the multiple posting thing, need to figure out multiple quotes, but your stories mean the world to me. Thank you. Reading about success stories, struggles, your ways of coping, of approaching this journey - makes me not feel so alone. I love my family, but I am one of those people that can't handle struggling in front of them, if that makes sense. I know they say let your family support you, and mine absolutely do and would do anything I asked of them, but I feel stronger and more empowered, somehow, logging/committing on my own. They know I'm exercising, they know I am trying, but the logging, the personal trainer, the actual details I keep as a personal hope chest, I guess - or maybe as a personal pride? Either way, I'm doing it. I need to keep on doing it. So thank you to everyone. I value your camaraderie, your sharing, your encouragement, and your support. It means more coming from people who have lived my struggle, I just feel like you understand more. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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I'm in let's do this5
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Hello everyone! Struggling a bit here on this Dec 1st. Had surgery 3 days ago and am on a very light lifting restriction for a little bit. Battling a bit of nausea which is hampering my food intake right now. Anyhow I am always looking for friends so add me if you like. Dec will I think be very challenging for me.
SW 247.8lbs
CW 223.6lbs
GW 170lbs
Goals for December: just make it through without putting any weight back on. Wish me luck. Lol6 -
So far fall has been a bit challenging. I like the theme for Dec. Although I thought I was being good for Thanksgiving. Clearly I overate, so says the scale! Sooo my goal is still 189 for Dec. I feel like I’ve been bouncing up and down in the 190s for months...grrr. I need a detox week, water water water....
Goals no alcohol, chips, or cheese until Xmas Eve.
Avoid any pot lucks in December.
Bump up exercise
Sleep more & drink more water.
Try to actively manage stress.5 -
So did my first weigh in today (after starting last week)
Height: 164cm / 5'4"
SW: 108kg
CW: 106kg
GW: 85kg
UGW: 60kg
Definitely gotta get a better scale. The cheapo mechanical one I have doesn't seem super accurate.
Goal for this month is to log daily regardless of going over my aim, and to set the habit of 1200-1400 cal per day.5 -
December goals
99.9kg - again! currently 100.2, surely I can do this!!
average cals under 1950 a day (before exercise) - last month was 1965
average snacks under 23% - last month was 23.5%
meditate 3 times a week - been doing this on and off for a while
I'm going to London in 10 days time for six months, will be socialising a lot but also will have lots of time for walks in the park so I usually lose weight when I'm there. But means I want to get under 100kg before I get on the plane friday week.6 -
Looking forward to starting 2020 on the right foot - with better dietary and exercise habits.
I’ve tried doing this on my own in the past and have never stuck with it long enough to see any results. I’m hoping a bit accountability and encouragement will keep me on the right path!
Wishing everyone a GREAT December !
Ht 5’9”
CW 208.8 W1
GW 155
December goals:
WT 204
Water, water,water
10,000 steps daily
100 100gm protein/day
< 100 gm Carbs/day
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My goal for November was a big one-- to lose 10.8 pounds and reach an even 300. I fell short with a loss of 6.3 pounds. I suppose I am disappointed, but mostly I'm confused because I felt like I was acting within my parameters for success. I've been really battling with water weight this past month, I started out November at 311-ish, and I was seeing that number throughout the entire month, with just occasional glimpses of my progress in between. I saw my lowest weight on the 27th or 28th, but then have been 4 pounds heavier every morning since. I didn't participate in Thanksgiving, so I don't have an obvious culprit to point towards.
Regardless of water weight, a 6-pound loss for the month is still short of my goals and what I know I'm capable of. I am going to try increasing my deficit a little bit, and try to incorporate more activity as well. & more water!
I suppose it's just as well that my ultimate goal for the year is only asking for a 6.8 pound loss this month. I very, very much want to accomplish a 100-pound weight loss for the year! I'm at 93 now! So even if I have another slow month I think I can do it. I'm not going to begin my weekly weigh-ins for this month until Thursday or Friday, after my weekend! Work always drives up my weight with stress and physical exhaustion.16 -
I am back in! While the month will be a challenge, it isn't because of cookies and pies, it is literally eating out because we are so incredibly busy this month. My daughter is in our professional Nutcracker and it takes up every ounce of spare time. The drinking hasn't helped, but plan to decrease that over the month.
The reward at the end of the year? The four of us are heading to a remote cabin to spend New Years and a few days after to recoup and wind down. My husband, my two kids and two of our dogs will hike, watch movies, play games, read and SLEEP! It is my motivation to not go overboard this month so I don't feel like crap when 2020 rings in!
More water (thank you SodaStream), more walking, and less drinking and eating out! Those are the goals.
Happy Holidays to all of you! Let's do this!8 -
I'm in for December as well. I had just joined the November thread maybe 2-3 days ago, so I probably should have just held off, hahaha.
Height 5' 7
SW: 250
CW 12/2: 243.6
GW: 185
December Goal: Get under 240.0 lbs; daily tracking; log for 60 consecutive days on MFP. Cook at least 6 out of 7 weekly dinners this month.
I was guilty of binging on various foods this weekend, so I'm up 3 lbs from last week's weigh-in. I was basically at 240 last week. After being sick with GI issues most of November, it has been SO nice to finally be able to eat foods and hold them down. However, my mind now is wanting to eat with reckless abandon. I need to have more discipline. Finals are coming up for school, work is well on its way, kiddo is sick and I'm about 98% better from bronchitis and a stomach bug.6 -
Love seeing all the goals everyone has and the plans to achieve them. We can reach them with dedication, work, self-love, and patience. Doubling Down!
@HurleyHurley Totally agree with your "mushy" gratitude. I think actually jumping in and connecting here helps keep me in on point better.
@stefsc1 The end of last month was pretty stressful for you so I'm sure that factored in. You can totally reach 100lb loss this month. We are all here to cheer you on!7 -
Ugh. I can't sleep, I can barely stomach food, I'm so stressed and everything is so hard right now.
How do you look at everything awful going on around you and not hate everyone?10 -
5’5”
SW: 266.0
CW: 246.5
Ultimate goal: 150.0
For December, my goals are:
Cardio: 150 minutes/week (30 minutes x 5)
Strength: 3 x per week
Track food and drink intake daily
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Ok I want to be In With this! I’m currently about 205 and would love to break the 200 mark and stay under it! I was about 235 after I had my daughter 9 years ago. For December I would really just like to stay reasonable during the holidays! And hopefully get a workout 5 days a week would be ideal.6
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My goal for Dec is to lose 9.6 pounds which is ambitious! But I’m still in the early weeks so I’m hoping that initial whoosh of bigger losses will help me get there!! Today I’m at 229.5 so meeting my goal will put me just under 220. Then I can tackle the next 10# in 2020. Ten at a time...
My strategy is meal prep, walking, and logging!6 -
Hi is this still an active group8
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Welcome to all the new faces
lots of awesome goals, excited to see everyone meet them
@HurleyHurley ditto on the mush. Losing weight is hard. If it was easy then there wouldn't be an obesity problem worldwide. I agree that hearing everyone's ups and downs is so important to not feel alone. Knowing that you can slip up but then get right back on the wagon. We are human, we will mess up, what is important is what we do after we mess up.
@stefsc1 holy moly, nearly 100 pounds! I know you want this babe, regardless you have had an amazing transformation year. I'm rooting for you and look forward to celebrating 100 lbs gone very soon
@lilann1961 woah, very busy! But that cabin at the end of it all sounds so nice. How do you like soda stream? I've seen the ads but don't know anyone who has one, so curious about how you like it
@parkerpowerlift glad you are feeling better! Stress eating is real and with finals around the corner probably would be good to plan your meals/snacks that week so you don't indulge in things you really don't want. Hope your kid gets better soon
I started off December with a hike yesterday morning. I was out for a good hour, got that heart rate up. So day 1 of exercise was completed. For those who were in the Nov thread, you already know that exercise was my weak spot last month. I am remotivated because I am still trying to meet my 52-hike goal. Yesterday was hike #35 and today after work I am going to do hike #36. I need to squeeze 16 more this month, so that's like every other day. My area is full of hiking trails, very close to home so its not a distance thing, more of a motivation thing. I planned for success, I put my clothes and shoes in the car last night so there was no chance of forgetting. I also went grocery shopping. I bought sandwich supplies and leave it at work in my fridge, so I have lunch for the week taken cared of.
I love the beginning of the month, its so inspiring and motivating. Lets keep that inspiration and motivation all month long!
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Believeinme35 wrote: »Hi is this still an active group
Yes, you'll find this is an active group!
This is not an official MFP "group," with membership, moderators, and multiple threads.
This is a group of people who post regularly on a monthly thread, unofficially moderated by @RavenStCloud. Each month-end, that month's thread is wrapped-up and a new thread is posted for the following month. This December thread was started on 11/29 and we're up to 3 pages of responses already. Personally, I mark the thread as a favorite so I can easily see when it is updated with new posts and I can access easily to write posts.
Hope you can join us!10 -
I've been here before but fell off the wagon and put on all the weight, plus some back on. I'm tired of being like this. This month I want to get back to 210 or less. I want to use the treadmill more often. I've got to do something though. But I have no support system, and it's hard to keep myself motivated. But, I will do this one way or another!9
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Hi all! I am here, been off track for the whole long weekend. Back to watching my carbs this morning. Scale reflected my choices over the holiday but I'm sure it will fall off fast since I KNOW I didn't actually gain 4 lbs in 1 day :-)
SW: 302
12/2/19 : 269.6
Goals for the month:
*Follow Low carb 100 % Including Christmas! (Cheating is causing landslides and I need to buckle down)
*Gym 3x week
*up water intake
*Don't go to Starbuck's more than 1x week (this is a big problem for me since there is one in my work parking lot....and I already went today so NO MORE this week!)7 -
Hi ladies!!!
Hope everyone had a great November!
I weighed myself this morning and gained 4lbs,not bad.Considering I have had about almost a week and a half of holiday parties ha!
Got back to walking and it was rough at first,but I love having the energy afterwards!
CW 234lbs
HW 305lbs
GW 175lbs
Goals this month-
Walking 2 miles 5-6 x’s a week again
Losing atleast 9lbs (4lbs of which I know are water retention from overindulgence in salty foods)
Good luck ladies!! Remember to ALWAYS challenge self negative talk♥️5 -
My friend posted this on Facebook, and I wanted to copy it here because I think it's a good read. I already know it's an article I'll return to, just to read and remind myself of why I'm on this path. The article is written by Brianna Wiest, and you can see it posted here: https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2017/11/this-is-what-self-care-really-means-because-its-not-all-salt-baths-and-chocolate-cake/
Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.
It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.
It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.
A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.
And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.
It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.
It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.
If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.
It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.
It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.
It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.15 -
@mmdeveau That's beautiful. Thank you.
I have an article I'd like to share as well: How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps https://medium.com/@AaronBleyaert/how-to-lose-weight-in-4-easy-steps-1f135f7e1dec
This bit is from the end:
"You think of all those miles you’ve run and those pounds you’ve lifted and chicken you’ve eaten and puddles you’ve made. It doesn’t seem that bad. You realize that it’s not about hitting a goal weight, or lifting a weight. It’s about being able to wait. Waiting, being patient, and trusting that life will slowly inch along and things will eventually get better. After all, change takes time.
But time is all it takes."14 -
@sharpdust I love my SodaStream! I don't drink a lot of soda, but about two years ago started buying sparkling water, sometimes flavored, sometimes not, and realllllly grew to like it. The SodaStream allows me to not only save room in my fridge from the cans and bottles (I recycle, but still...lots of cans and bottles), but is instant access. I have purchased their flavors before as well and like the grapefruit zero calorie the best to mix in, but most of the time I add lemon/lime or even a small spray of Mio if anything at all. Cartridges can save money as long as you return the old ones (it usually gives half off the replacements). It has helped curb some of my wine habit as well, so win-win!
Hope that helps! And yes, always busy. Alwaaaaaays. Even my kids are looking forward to "checking out" at the cabin!4 -
💜Hello, newbies and oldbies!!
So I have made my international move from the US to Korea. I'm currently lying down in a hotel after an almost 29 hour flight (3 planes/1 bus).
The bad news is that I don't move into my apartment until next Monday. I was hoping to hit the ground running with cooking and buying healthy groceries, but it is what it is and I'll have to see what small takeout/ready made food places are around here.
So I'm not going to post my weight (can you say bloated???) or what my goals are for this month, just yet. Maybe next Sunday or Monday. I think December is really going to be a time of figuring out my new surroundings and my new schedule and getting my head (and body) back in the game!
Much love from South Korea💜11 -
Hi. I’m tired of the weight up weight down. So I have made a decision for December to be mindful and do more cardio, more weights, no sugar and no carbs. Going to to what worked and that was healthier carbs like the brown rice, almond four and nuts and seeds. I want to drop 10-15lbs this month. And drinking my water, water, water.
Today was a good day.
I took a spin class, ate leftover thanksgiving food with a salad and skipped the sides and had a big plate of salad. Yay!!!!!9
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