Women 200lb+, Let's Shoot for the Moon this June!!!
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procolorer wrote: »SW: 287.8
5/29 571.6
6/5: 268.6
June goal: get to the 250’s
I meant 271.6 not 571.6 🤦♀️ but this is the first time since I posted that I’ve been able to actually get on the community part
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Went to the grocery store today and then had a nap because I got a bit overheated. (sigh) Story of my life in the summer.
Got everything in order in terms of where the furniture goes in the new house. I have it done in visual form so that any of us can look at the plan and know exactly where things go, and lets any of us tell the movers where the china closet goes, where the leather loveseat goes, and where the boxes labeled "Storage" need to end up.5 -
KristenLCook2 wrote: »@CupcakeCrusoe your addendum to your goals made me LOL this morning!
As for me, I had a weigh in fail this morning as my scale is kept on my (very crowded) dresser and when I went to grab it this morning, it fell behind the dresser.
So, I'll pull it out this evening and weigh in tomorrow. Good grief.
Goals for the weekend:
*30 minutes of exercise every day.
*Meal prep breakfasts and lunches for the week.KristenLCook2 wrote: »@CupcakeCrusoe your addendum to your goals made me LOL this morning!
As for me, I had a weigh in fail this morning as my scale is kept on my (very crowded) dresser and when I went to grab it this morning, it fell behind the dresser. So, I'll pull it out this evening and weigh in tomorrow. Good grief.
Goals for the weekend:
*30 minutes of exercise every day.
*Meal prep breakfasts and lunches for the week.
@KristenLCook2 I decided to put my scale on the dresser, too, and with any luck (or a push) it will fall behind as well! 😂😂 ... Actually mine is under a chair downstairs but you gave me a much needed laugh today, so thank you!6 -
Hello everyone! Here's hoping all of us have a productive and fun June!
SW: 270
CW: 250.5
June GW: 244
End of Summer GW: 230
Ultimate GW: 140
My June Goals
* 10,000 steps every day
* Workout atleast 10 minutes 5 days a week
* Spend more time outside with my kids
So far so good! I didn't get many steps on the 1st because my sciatica pain was acting up and I only got 9,000 steps on the 2nd, but every other day I've had over 10,000. It's 5pm and I already got 12,000 steps today!12 -
@lilmisfit1987 amazing job on the steps! I understand that sciatica pain. It can be so painful to move! But you did great and should definitely be proud
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lilmisfit1987: Have you tried doing some hip flexor stretches? I get sciatic pain when my deep hip muscles tighten up.4
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@micwrites I know that 40 lbs. That is what I am working on.
@CupcakeCrusoe sounds a little like my week. I am logging and getting a deficit but not the exercise. I am going to start Monday with the exercise every day goal. I have to slide my scale to a certain spot because it gives me certain readings if I weigh in different spots. So it feels like it is all relative anyway. We know it weighs too heavy so I subtract a pound. It weighs 5 pounds heavier than my last scale but only 1 from the gym.
@cesse47 I was thinking of you as I was reading and snacking. However since I didn’t have lunch it was okay in the end. I just logged it the next morning.
@smithmns414 all the best on the job search. I may be doing that soon. Right now it is a temporary furlough.
@torihudson6 glad to see your progress and hope you have a lovely active weekend.
@wholebygrace glad you are seeing a difference.
Well today was going to be the 1st day of the rest of my stay at home with focus on weight loss and exercise daily or at least weekdays but I got a text from my boss. She had a draft for me to read as I offered since she is doing my work. Then as I was on my work email I checked it and sent anything to her she might need. Then I found some things she sent me I want to review Monday. I am not getting paid but they paid me for a whole month in March/April to stay home. Anyway I was just about to get off my work email and an email update from the CEO came in with the reopening plan.
The temporary furlough is extended to the end of July but the government is opening on the 16th but in phases so I could be going back to work on the 16th or August 1st or anytime in between or as the email said not at all. They will need to have a reduction in force of an estimated 15%. That cleared things up a lot. Anyway after that and talking to my husband I logged my breakfast, read the newspapers online and made dinner and not much else. I will take the weekend to digest this news. I have the most seniority in my department but that may not be the deciding factor.
I didn’t get exercise but I have a healthy (?) calorie deficit today.8 -
Hello all,
How inspiring it is to read everyone's progress and support to one another! 🧡
I'm Lala and I am new to MFP. I've tried to lose weight over the years but have been pretty unsuccesful. I am hoping this is my year, and with hardwork and dedication I can finally be under 200pounds. The last two years have been pretty difficult, I was emotionally eating constantly, stressed and could not believe I was almost 280 pounds. I've refused to take pictures for a year since I've been so unhappy with the way my body currently looks.
Age: 28
SW: 279.8 (4/5/20)
CW: 250.4
Goal by July 4th: 230 or less
Ultimate Goal: Under 200 pounds by October
I've been walking at least 2 miles almost everyday since April, and then in May began doing 40mins cardio zumba as well. At first the weight was coming off pretty easy, then hit a stall, and this week I've been able to loose 1.8 so far! I began to track calories this week, so far so good, but I know it will be hard. I've been a little bit down that nobody has seen any progress yet, that's why July 4th goal is so important- my Mom will be visiting me and I have not seen her since the holidays- hopefully she can tell! 🤞🏼
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Hi all! I hope everyone is having a great weekend.
It is a beautiful day here in my part of Louisiana, but Tropical Storm Cristobal is supposed to grace us with its presence soon, so I know it won't last. I'm hoping to get some weeds pulled and get a good long walk in with the dog while I can.
I bought a new scale, and decided I'll log my weight to 1/10th of a pound, since I know the days are coming where my losses will be less than a pound.
When we started quarantine and I started walking the dog daily (I had been working out of town prior to that) I felt the exertion by the time I reached the end of my street, and my knees hurt enough that we would turn and go back home. I was lucky to be getting 1500 steps a day in. I know the cartilage has not improved, but with 25 pounds gone, I've been slowly adding more steps. Now we're up to two walks per day and around 5000 steps. Nothing to write home about, but it is progress. Now the dog gets excited every time I put my shoes on!
SW: 312 (4/15/20)
5/9: 294
5/16: 293
5/23: 292
5/30: 289
6/6: 286.8
End of June GW: 283
UGW: 16011 -
Cesse - age 72
308.6 lbs - starting weight on 3/28
295.4 lbs - weighin on 4/30 -- (-13.2 Total Loss to date)
291.2 lbs - weighin on 5/30 -- loss = 4.2 lbs for month of May (17.4 lb Total Loss To Date)
June Mini Goal -- 285 lbs - (need to lose 6.2 lbs or approx. 1.5 lb/week)
Onederland - first major goal
165 lbs - goal weight
June Goals ---
Log all food and beverages honestly; Drink 8+ water
Exercise 30 min minimum; work at increasing
Clean 30 min per day: house or yard or declutter
Step Challenge for F2F Group: 5 min = 500 steps --- do 4 sets of 5-min walks each day
Tasks for Today ---
(1) Swiffer Wet Mop kitchen and dining room floors. (2) work in yard today. have a few things to plan and a lot to weed. Also would like to pick up 3 more cages; 2 for other peony's and 1 for hibiscus
Have a great day Y'all 🌞8 -
Happy Saturday everyone❣️ Did well this week. I’ve come to the understanding that my weight loss has slowed and I’m ok with that I’m going to just keep working and hopefully will reach my goal by the end of the year.
I did FINALLY hit my May goal. I’m inspired that I may actually make the June goal 😉
Height: 5’4”
SW: 4/2019 307
CW: 6/6 189.4
June GW: 185
UGW: 160
✅ Continue hydrating with 100 oz + a day
✅ Continue 3 miles walk/run per day
✅ Continue 2 meals per day
I’m just not doing well on adding toning. Long work days. Maybe just on the weekends 🧐
Have an awesome weekend‼️8 -
Name: Tamara
Height: 5'7"
Highest Weight: 254
End of December: 246.7
End of January: 244.7
End of Feb.: 242.2
End of March: 240
End of April: 240.4
End of May: 235.6
6/6: 237.1 (+1.5)
6/13:
6/20:
6/27:
6/30:
June Goal Weight: under 230!
I've been having major PMS symptoms this week and still haven't started despite having cramps for the past 2-3 days. Ugh! Once I start the 1.5 lb gain should whoosh away. Just hanging in there until then.
Hope everyone has a good weekend!8 -
Managed to make my first successful omelette this morning! Usually I give up halfway & end up scrambling them 😂
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Age: 40
SW: 212.6
May 22: 208.2
May 28: 206.2
June 2: 204.8
Today: 203.4
GW: 160.6
I’m ramping up my steps slowly because my feet have been injured in the past, but I’m up to 6,500 steps/day walking with the dog three times a day. My dog has been happy with this too much a sescribed by @supersparklyk (I was glad to read about your progress)
I’ve mainly lurked here and on the May thread, but I just want to say that each of your posts provides me with inspiration and adds to my determination to reach my goal. You all rock!
I’m doing a bit of yoga every couple of days, and am waiting on a shipment of an exercise bike from costco, but it’s a week late so far
Hoping UPS gets its ducks in a row soon.
I’m working on combatting the depression and anxiety. I’ve reached out to my doctor for AD prescription but I’m still considering other options. Tried to contact my therapist of 10 years ago but got an ‘undeliverable’ email bounceback.
For today though, I’m grateful the ‘my husband left me’ pity party is over and I was able to buck up and control my overeating and drinking. Wishing you all a beautiful weekend and much success in your WLJs.11 -
That is a beautiful omelet!
Tonight we're having peanut pork (we like pork better than chicken) and rice (cauliflower rice for Boyfriend) and my partners are having Thai spinach. I wilt it in a little oil with ginger and red pepper flakes and garlic and a touch of hoisin sauce. This is how I do our food a lot; no one eats every single thing, but we all get a good meal. (I can't eat spinach in that quantity without Dire Consequences.)
Today's great work was removing the large decorative mirror from the bedroom wall. We put it up there to stay, so that was some work. More work was getting it wrapped and boxed. It totally ran me out of spoons. So I laid down for four hours.
Unsurprisingly, on a lot with ten mature trees, there are roots in the sewer line of the new house, and they want to install a cutoff. At the moment they are not causing any trouble. At the moment. So we are going to ask for half the money for that in our counteroffer. Also, we're waiting to hear back from the foundation inspector. There were some cracks, and we wanted to know what we were getting into. But we're pretty set on the house. I can't wait to get in and start painting.5 -
@supersparklyk I can relate to having to slowly up walks. I can do 3 blocks before I feel it and then we turn around and slowly walk home. I want to make it to our previous walks where we go a block up and loop back around so it would be another 2 blocks but those are short blocks. If I lost more I think it might be possible to do more. I am also limited on my gazelle not by my knee but at 15 -25 minutes my feet hurt. Good job finding away to get active.
@pamiede amazing accomplishment!
@ChrysalisCove Nice omelette! I used to make beautiful omelettes. I started when I was a teen. Now I can’t do it anymore. My husband is a great fry cook and does most of the eggs. So I have lost my skill at that.
@Mithridites You are so close to Onderland. You are making great progress. Thanks for joining us.
@AlexandraFindsHerself Is peanut pork southeast Asian? I just did my meal planning and am getting low on new meal ideas. I have some left but they just aren’t grabbing me. I limit beef and turkey since they are high in iron and I don’t sluff excess iron. So I use chicken, lamb and pork. I make a tofu dish with peanut sauce that is Indonesian. Hope all settles out well on the house.
This weekend is a planning weekend. I am a planner so I guess that is appropriate but instead of land use or environmental planning I need to do fitness/health planning. I did meal planning this morning. Since I have been working on my fitness and weight loss all along it isn’t like it is a big thing but I am not happy with how slow my weight loss has been. I want at least 4 pounds a month. I have had a significant deficit and except for March and April it has been too slow. I am disappointed with May and expected a woosh sometime this week but it hasn’t come. Also I haven’t taken my exercise goals seriously and that was okay but I am ready to be more serious. I can find ways around my knee issues.
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AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »lilmisfit1987: Have you tried doing some hip flexor stretches? I get sciatic pain when my deep hip muscles tighten up.
Mine is caused by disc in my back rotating and pinching a nerve unfortunately. A visit to the chiropractor fixes it. Doesn't happen too often fortunately. It's been a couple years.2 -
Name: Jane
Age: 55
SW: 286.5 (6/3/19)
GW: 175
5/31 weight: 179.3
Weekly tracking
6/6: 180.1
6/13:
6/20:
6/27:
6/30:
Goals for June:
Run 13 miles on June 22nd - last long run in preparation for half on 7/4
Run 4x's week
Get 10,000 steps a day
Maintain a 500/calorie deficit/day
Lose 5 pounds to hit my goal weight of 175
Stay well/Stay safe
Well, my goals are probably going to need to be revised. Life threw me a curve ball Wednesday night - right smack in the face. This is a long story, so stay with me.
I had a nice vigorous run on Wednesday. I did hill repeats. Basically, I ran for 15 minutes to a nice big hill, then I run up it 6 times with a bit of a rest in between each hill, then I ran back for a cool down. It's good training to help with turnover and speed for race day.
I was under-hydrated before the run and didn't re-hydrate until I got back home. Then I probably had too much plain water after. Later than night, I got serious leg cramps in my thighs which made me stand up really fast to try to walk them off. The second time it happened, I fainted and crashed my face on to the hardwood floor. My blood pressure was too low to stand up that fast. I'm now sporting a lovely black eye and my whole cheek is swollen and bruised.
I went to my doctor the next day to make sure it was all just superficial, and the X ray proved it to be, but she was pretty concerned about the cause of my fainting. She took me off my high blood pressure medicine which contains a diuretic. And she did a EKG and some blood work.
The next day, I got a message from my doctor to call her. I can't remember the entire conversation because after she said" possible pulmonary embolism" and "I want you to go the ER", I couldn't process anything else she said.
I spent the entire afternoon in the ER getting a CT scan of my heart and lungs, and EKG, Saline IV drip and being hooked up to a heart monitor. Which incidentally kept setting off alarms because my resting heart rate is so low. Apparently, the blood work I had done had markers of someone who had a blood clot and the EKG suggested a possible heart attack. I thought it would be the cruelest of ironies, that now, exactly a year and a day from the day I started taking control of my health that I would now be suffering heart failure. Now when I am in the best shape that I have been in since high school. Now that I have lost 109 pounds and preparing to run a half marathon.
Long story short - everything checked out fine. The EKG was abnormal because my electrolytes were off - which caused the leg cramps and the low blood pressure. Electrolyte imbalance was caused by the high blood pressure medicine, plus strenuous exercise, plus dehydration, then over hydration afterwards. The blood tests indicating a possible blood clot were a false positive caused by all the internal bleeding and swelling around my eye and cheek. My heart is in perfect shape. Big scare, big waste of an afternoon, and I am sure, a big medical bill to follow.
I do have a concussion from the fall though, so no running for the next 2 weeks. Spending the day in the ER meant that I didn't manage 10,000 steps yesterday. I broke my streak that I had been maintaining since 4/3.
I was supposed to run 11 miles today. That didn't happen, but I did walk 11 miles! So I'm calling that a victory.
And now that I am no longer taking my high blood pressure medicine, I can expect to gain between 5 to 10 pounds in water weight this week. It's already starting. Yesterday morning I was at my lowest weight in 27 years, 177.3. This morning I gained nearly 3 pounds. It's going to be like this for a while. I tried going off this medicine before and I gained 12 pounds in 2 weeks. I eventually went back on 1/2 the dosage, but it's clearly time to be done with it. It's okay, but it probably means I won't make my June goal. I will be lucky to maintain at 180.
I'm still as committed as ever to running that half marathon on July 4th. I'm not going to let this set back hold me back. I just need to let my brain heal for a bit, and then I'll be back out hitting the pavement again.13 -
Hi there! Thanks for this group!
Name: Joy
Age: 39
SW: 205lbs (6/6/10)
GW: 195lbs
My exercise goal is doing Walk Away The Pounds 5 days a week, and I'm on track for that goal. I'm currently doing 1 mile workouts, and will try my hand at 2 miles starting on Monday.
My food goals are to continue finding hidden carbs in my diet: starch-sensitivity is causing inflammation that adds to my weight. I have osteoarthritis in one knee that flares up whenever I eat an unsafe food, so it works as an early warning sign. I just ordered monk fruit sweetener to go into my morning coffee with half-and-half to replace the unsafe creamer I've been using.
I just found out that onions are carb-heavy, at least in the amounts that I've been eating them!😭4
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