Women 200lb+, Let's Be Magnificent This March!!!
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@ladychr0nic ha, another Abbott and Costello pair! I'm 5'2" and my husband is 5'11", we've always been "short and round" and "tall and thin," even while we were dating. He's filled out some in the ten years we've been together, but he's never been fat like I have.0
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@ladychr0nic
My husband is 6'5" and eats all the time, too. He snacks so much after dinner that I just go to the other room as it is easier for me. I also brush my teeth right after dinner so that I can complete my diary for the day.
I will be right there with you... logging everyday, forever amen!
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Weigh in day yesterday, but I forgot, so today's number is 254.8 - making progress!
Thank you to all who post about their struggles! I know it's hard, but it is helping me to realize I'm not in this alone. I have been on the dieting roller coaster for my entire adult life, so I know I need to count calories forever if I want to reach and maintain my goal. Acceptance is a key step, and I'm finally there.
Now for the next steps... carry on5 -
Ok,here goes nothing!
First time ever commenting on a weight loss blog, but I need to admit, I need the help and motivation of others. CW is 199.4 and my goal weight is 175 by July (My big 5-0). If I can just dedicate and commit myself to being accountable in this forum, I'll be batting a thousand. I hope to keep my motivation as high as it is now and post in this forum next week.12 -
Ok,here goes nothing!
First time ever commenting on a weight loss blog, but I need to admit, I need the help and motivation of others. CW is 199.4 and my goal weight is 175 by July (My big 5-0). If I can just dedicate and commit myself to being accountable in this forum, I'll be batting a thousand. I hope to keep my motivation as high as it is now and post in this forum next week.
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[quote= @kali31337 nice whoosh! It's good you have a backup dress just in case, but here's hoping you can make the original one work. I certainly hope it's a happy occasion, but even if it isn't, you deserve to feel good about yourself when you get dressed up.[/quote]
Thank you! It is for a bridal shower for my bestfriend so luckily, a fun event!0 -
@goal06082021 Awesome job!! I totally agree with you. MFP is not always accurate.
@girlinkaz Welcome and congrats on the loss!!
@Congrats on the NSV. I love the kettlebell workouts by Body Fit by AMY (I only do the 10-minute one once or twice a week though).
@wanderinglight Congrats on the non-family member employee!! I hope you enjoy your road trip and Happy Birthday in advance!! Congrats on being able to get the vaccine. I am waiting (impatiently) until it is my turn.
@candyz01 Welcome. You've got this!!
@Angief05 Congrats on the loss to date. Lifting boxes and reno work definitely count as both cardio and strength training in my opinion.
@Spotteddingo Awesome loss and that is a great NSV. that is over 3 inches lost in your waist alone. Congrats!!
@misplacedmama Sorry that you are feeling smothered. On the plus side, the kiddos are happy working out with you!!
@speyerj Congrats on the loss. I totally forgot about pie day!! Oh well. I will just enjoy the tamarind juice I made instead.
@Arralethe Congrats on the loss. Take it easy on yourself and gets lots of rest. I hope the side effects are done now.
@changeforeverlj OMG!! A year already!! Congrats! You have accomplished so much even with all that went on over the last year. I am so happy and proud of you and your accomplishments. You are an inspiration!!
@holdthefries Congrats on the loss. It is funny that you mentioned pantry and freezer food. I just told myself that I do not need to go to the grocery store or market this week as both my fridge and freezer are full of food that I need to eat!!
@sarah12277 Awesome job with the gym. Do you think the elliptical may be easier on your ankle? If it is, maybe you can do that while your friend uses the treadmill.
@ama3387 Awesome job! Congrats on the woosh!!
@ladychr0nic Welcome. You are definitely not alone. Even after I reach my goal weight, I will need to keep tracking to help me maintain and stay healthy!!
@kali31337 Congrats on the loss Kali
@brwnsuga6 Welcome. You have joined a great group.
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Side update:
I made it to day 90 of meeting my step goal on Sunday. Yay!!
With the term heating up and me gearing up for quiz 2s (spread over 3 weeks - who thought of this) followed almost immediately by subject board exams/finals (3 huge exams in the same week) (all happening within the next month), I will try to read most posts and post my progress weekly. But, in the event I miss a post that requires my attention, please feel free to send me a message directly as I am more likely to see that.
Awesome job ladies!! Thank you all for being here and being so awesome!! We've got this!!9 -
@goal06082021
hahah yep I'm definitely the short and round one of the pair. Am used to it now! I'm hoping with some changes i'll weigh less then him one day.
@Spotteddingo
I like the idea of brushing your teeth!! I'm going to try that! Late night snacking is what is killing me. Ugh
@uyister
Yeah I think I just needed to make the realization that tracking everyday forever is the only way to do it. I keep losing and gaining and losing and gaining and that cycle is so hard on your body. Time to make a change and just stick to it.
@brwnsuga6
Welcome! This group is awesome
Today was a good, energetic day for me. I took my dog for a long walk by the river in the sunshine, and I was trekin. Got my heart rate up for sure. Then I came home and bagged 20 asbestos bags. Then I vacuumed and washed my floor. My apple watch is happy with me! Tacos tonight for dinner, so it should be pretty easy to track.
happy Tuesday everyone1 -
@changeforeverlj congratulations on a year of achievement.
Just went for another walk with my youngest and got out and got some sun. Need to drink some more today though. I read all the posts since I last posted. So just a small mid-week check in which I usually don’t get to during the week. Did well at meal planning and some cooking this week. I made lamb cabbage beet borscht last night which is sort of a new twist on a soup I used to make (beef cabbage borscht) and we got some apple pie for pie day.
I now avoid beef and turkey but can have fish, chicken, pork or lamb. We are starting to build up on left-overs so may not have to cook as much later in the week.4 -
Age: 50 (tomorrow!)
Height: 5'11"
SW (April 2020): 225
January 2021 end weight: 219.6
February 2021 end weight: 218.4
March GW: 215
Ultimate GW: 175
March 1 : 218.0
March 8: 218.5
March 15: 220.6
March 22:
March 28:
Ugh, not sure what this gain is all about. I've been seeing 217s on the scale all week and then of course weigh in day it posts as 220.6. Hopefully it's just too much sodium or something similar.
Tomorrow we're getting a thermos of coffee and breakfast burritos and going on a short hike to do some bird watching at a nature preserve near our home. It's not quite the blowout celebration I had originally planned for turning 50, but there's always next year! Honestly I'm just so happy to be healthy and that my parents are vaccinated. And with my husband traveling for work as an essential worker so much, the fact that he's healthy is the best gift of all. So it will be a muted celebration but a celebration nonetheless.
On Thursday we leave for our road trip to New Mexico (Ruidoso) for my birthday. I've never been and I'm so excited! Weather looks perfect for some great hiking.8 -
changeforeverlj wrote: »@wanderinglight OMW your post resonated with exactly how I felt about celebrities during lock-down!! I got seriously sick of seeing them on the internet posting out of their mansions!!! UGH! Stretchy tight jegging pants are huge here, and I bought quite a few in the sales last year, they are all different kind of florals and you wear them quite tight, this morning a friend of mine made a few pairs smaller as they are still quite new. I haven't bought much either, but am enjoying just going into a normal shop and taking off the shelf, been 17 years of shopping in shops for larger ladies...much more expensive!!
That "Imagine" video with Gal Godot and a bunch of other celebrities was just the apex of tone-deafness! Yesterday I saw on Twitter that it was the one-year anniversary of that ill-conceived monstrosity...lol.0 -
@wanderinglight Happy happy 50th, wishing you a beautiful celebration hike and road trip and happiness and good health going into this new decade!! I love the idea of bird-watching and hiking!
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Good morning everyone!
I missed logging my weigh in yesterday due to going home with a sick kiddo.
3/2- 226
3/9-222.2
3/16-219.4
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Excited about my weight loss so far. I know it will not come off this fast when I get closer to my goal weight.
Exercise has been either cycling, hiking or just plan walking every day. Calories have been around 1800 a day with a few days under that due to being busy or not hungry.
I've made an effort to increase my water intake as well.
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! (Oh and I plan on eating a Guinness cupcake with Baileys frosting because it's all about balance!)
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I'm not in a good head space these last few weeks.. stopping and buying crap food again, I almost just faded off of MFP but I have to keep working at weight loss and health before I get sick from it... so back at it!!!!!8
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@pearsonlinda30 I'm glad you checked in here! It's good that you were able to catch yourself slipping into old habits and made a choice to stop and course-correct. That's a victory and it's worth acknowledging!
This is usually around the time of year when I drop off the wagon, for whatever reason. I'm a serial resolutioner, so I start out on January 1st all pumped and ready to Get! My! *Kitten*! Together! and then I don't know if it's St. Patrick's Day in particular, or just fatigue after 10 weeks of weighing and tracking and counting, but it's happened basically every year for the past 5-6 years and I'm OVER IT. I had kind of an excuse last year because everything went to *kitten* in March 2020, it wasn't just me, but I'm not falling into that trap this year.6 -
They say find an exercise you love to do and I think I've found it. I went roller skating with my daught this past Saturday and had an amazing time...didn't fall either! I read that roller skating for one hour can burn about 500 calories and works all of your major muscle groups due to need to balance yourself. I was a bit sore in my abs, butt, and thighs...all of which needs the most work. I plan to go skating tommorrow if the motivation keep up. Thought I'd share the amazing benefits of roller skating, I know there's plenty of us who grew up doing it, but not so much in our older years.8
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Oh man, @brwnsuga6 I haven't been skating in YEARS lol - my elementary school, in the 90s, would have "skating parties" about once a month at a local roller rink. I don't remember if it was supposed to be a fundraiser of some kind or if it was just a fun community thing the PTA organized. I was never confident on skates but I eventually got a pair of rollerblades that I got pretty good with.2
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This week has been craptacular and its only Wednesday.
Went to my parents town because my dad was having surgery (my mom has Alzheimer's, early stages, mostly short term memory loss and broke her femur last year so walks with a walker) and so he needed me to be at hospital. get home and walking in the door and my mom needs to go to the bathroom. I told her to give a minute to put the bags I was carrying down and she went to their room anyway. She "forgot" she needed her walker and fell. Broke her OTHER femur. I ended up spending over 36+ hours awake with her in ER, getting admitted etc. Food diary for past two days was like WTF??? I tried to eat "mostly" healthy food but yeah.....
Weekend weigh in was down 2.5 pounds since march 1 but I suspect I just gained that all back!!
Onward right?
(PS mom is doing fine; they operated, installed three more pins in her body - bionic woman anyone? - and is in recovery at the ortho unit in hospital)10 -
@hap2go I'm glad your mom is OK!
You did not gain 2.5 lbs of fat in three days unless you ate almost 9000 extra calories on top of your TDEE, so, don't worry too much about that.1 -
Even as I write this I know that its the healthier way to do this but does anyone else ever get discouraged on how long it takes to take off weight compared to how easy it was to put it on?
I started November 27/2020 at 230 and 215.6 today. Maybe its just that I have unrealistic expectations but sometimes I am feeling discouraged.
Can anyone else relate?9 -
@VickyEltonGreen - at some point I came to understand that it's okay if it takes forever to lose the weight, because we need to keep this up forever. If you can, try to stop thinking of weight loss as a narrative, with a beginning middle and end. It has a beginning, yes, but it has no end. If you want to sustain your weight loss you will never go back to eating as you did before. You will eat exactly as you are eating today, give or take a couple hundred calories, depending on your level of activity. That might seem discouraging. It's not meant to be. Instead, it's an invitation to think about structuring your eating in such a way that lets you live your life to the fullest right now. That doesn't deprive you. That takes into account that things like parties, celebrations, special occasions, dinners out, happy hour, dessert are going to happen (well, some of those things aren't happening right now, but they will return). The longer it takes, the longer you have to practice and get things right.12
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@speyerj
Thank you for taking the time to respond, it is very helpful. Still focus too much on numbers. What you wrote about sustaining is so true. I have never been at true sustaining point. Loved your last sentence," the longer it takes, the longer you have to practice and get things right"3 -
New to so many things and feel encouraged by what I have read here.
I am Aly
Age: 48
Height: 5'4
SW: 212.2 (3/18/2021)
GW: #1 185 #2 150ish
Fitness goal: move with intention no less than 4 days (1 month)
Nutrition goal: consistently tracking intake each day ( I sooooo struggle with this one)
I guess that is it about me. It is so helpful knowing that I am not alone or broken because this seems to be a never ending struggle.
March brings many opportunities …we got this!3 -
@uyister At the one gym I've been going with this friend, for some reason I can't do their elliptical. Not sure what it is but those just give me problems. At my other gym, their ellipticals and the one I had many years ago I'm fine with. I ended up doing the bike and then switching to treadmill so she got her 45 min workout but only 20 for me on the treadmill.
@goal06082021 yea I think I have the same 10 week slump myself. I never really counted when it stops so I can be good for a while and then all hell breaks loose. Right now I can easily get back but might be a few days to do so. I just keep at it with being as "good" as I can for that day; if it goes sideways I try to pick it back up the next meal. I'll also see about reevaluating to see what am I missing - not enough water, vegetables, protein, vitamins, etc and try to adjust if something was lacking. Usually I'll also see a picture of myself to remind myself I can do better nor do I want my family's health issues they have due to their weight etc.
The guess pass expired for the one gym so I upgraded the new so we'll be using that one until she decides which she likes. I want to keep up a routine for her. I know she needs it and it's extra motivation for me to not slacking.
Celebrated for St Patrick's Day yesterday. I had continued eating poorly Tues so my up in weight yesterday was well deserved. A bit surprised the weight wasn't still up this morning but I'm sure it'll haunt me another day. I didn't do too terrible yesterday food wise actually. My husband, while he's Italian, usually goes big for celebrating. We couldn't go to our usual place so it was more subdued of course but it was fun and very nice.1 -
VickyEltonGreen wrote: »Even as I write this I know that its the healthier way to do this but does anyone else ever get discouraged on how long it takes to take off weight compared to how easy it was to put it on?
I started November 27/2020 at 230 and 215.6 today. Maybe its just that I have unrealistic expectations but sometimes I am feeling discouraged.
Can anyone else relate?
I can certainly relate. I started to track last year in December, then quit, then started again in January, then quit again, then started again recently. I'm 69, almost 70, and it's so hard just to lise 5 lbs!! But @jspeyer is right. It is a journey tgat we go on to get healthy again and feel better about ourselves and not cringe when we look in a mirror. I am upping my protein, cutting back on carbs and sugar. Not cutting out carbs, but cutting back. Hang in there. A month, 2 months, 6 month's from now you will be glad you did! Look at @jspeyer- it took her awhile. But she stayed the course. ❤2 -
Happy Thursday ladies!!
@VickyEltonGreen
I know the feeling! I could do well all week and then one bad weekend and I'm up 3 pounds. It takes so much effort to get it off and then if you don't watch it for a day or two it ruins all your progress. I'm on medication that makes me gain weight as well, so it's an uphill battle.
@alymc2
I like how you said "move with intention". thats a good way to put any and all forms of exercise. Do you set reminders on your phone to track? Sometimes I do that and it helps.
I've been doin pretty good. Tracking everything. I usually go over by a few calories everyday, still trying to make some adjustments. It's crazy how much your weight fluctuates everyday. I was weighing once a week but I did a couple check ins and it changes so much. I don't know what is accurate, what is water weight, and what is something else. I also work shift work so I find night shifts are difficult. I try to eat light during the day but I have a 4th meal at work (breakfast, lunch, dinner then a midnight meal) so it's hard to stay under my calories. I'm working on it.
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@sarah12277
I am on the slump struggle bus also. I keep saying, " it's ok I will do better tomorrow." Well my tomorrow is not happening the way it should in my head.
I am changing 3 things 1- reminding myself daily , Little victories are still victories, 2 - setting goals that will help me reach my end goal, 3 - real accountability is something I need therefore this app and my wellness coach
You made me think about the phrase "being good". Maybe we strugglers are setting ourselves up to kick ourselves. I am good but am I healthy...no. Reevaluating is a great idea with my brain being set on what are healthy choice instead of "good or bad" choices.
Thank you for pushing me to think!!! (half the battle)3 -
@ladychr0nic
I need to not ignore my watch. I have set reminders for my watch and my phone but.... I tend to say, " let me finish this and I will move for a bit." Breaking that habit will probably be helpful.
My wellness coach want me to weigh daily but to average it at the end of the week. He wants to look at things after a full month to see where I really am to create new targets of work. I have never seen or heard of this approach. I do feel looking at a weekly average creates less tension for a daily weigh in. This week is week one for me but will keep you posted on what happens from here.2
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