Women 200lb+, Let's Amaze Ourselves This April!!!

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  • Arralethe
    Arralethe Posts: 222 Member
    @VickyEltonGreen Er, no. I crave accurate data, so however bad I fear it might be, I'm straight up the whole way. Same reason for logging accurately, really - it's all about the numbers. But then, I only weigh once a week.
  • misplacedmama
    misplacedmama Posts: 78 Member
    @jbutle5 Welcome! This is such a great group! Congratulations on the little one. ❤️ What has you feeling discouraged?
  • VickyEltonGreen
    VickyEltonGreen Posts: 116 Member
    @misplacedmama what an absolutely amazing post. So true. A resounding YES 👏
    What a wonderful way to start my day.
    Thank you for sharing💪🏼❤️
  • Arralethe
    Arralethe Posts: 222 Member
    @goal06082021 I hear you, I really do. I've likely got at least 2 years of on and off deficit ahead of me, and then a lifetime of plan, prep, weigh and track.

    I simply can't trust myself - my inner child wants all the snack food, especially when I'm feeling low or tired.

    Or there are times like today, when I'm struggling with my depression and can't be bothered to move enough to feed myself.... It's all a work in progress, smh.
  • trinati2001
    trinati2001 Posts: 262 Member
    One of my new favorite quotes is: "Be patient when becoming someone you haven't been before." (Tanya Markul)

    Oh wow, that's a really good way to put it.

    I've always been a fat person. I have never had a "normal" BMI as an adult, or even as a kid/teen for that matter. I have no idea what it is like to be a person who is not fat. This journey I'm on now, I'm aiming for 2021 to be the last year that I am the person I've been up to this point, making the kinds of choices that have kept me the way I am for so long. GW for this year is 196lbs, that'll be 52 lbs lost in 52 weeks from January 1, and then the plan is to basically do that again next year. My lowest adult weight was 169lbs, for like five minutes in 2012. In 2022, in going from 196lbs to 144lbs, I will complete my transformation into an entirely new person with new habits, and a new body that will move through the world differently than the one I have now does. I will become someone I haven't been before. I'm not getting my body back, since I never had it to begin with. But, like a caterpillar completely rebuilds itself on a cellular level to become a butterfly, I'm becoming that person. I've always been drawn to butterfly imagery and it just keeps getting more and more apropos.

    Wow @goal06082021 so inspiring!!! Keep up the great work!!
  • hap2go
    hap2go Posts: 105 Member
    I'm having some real issues with my hip flexibility. The yoga stuff recommended by (skinny) friends does a number on my knees. Anyone have a suggestion for ways to improve hip flexibility that doesnt require being on your knees to do side donkeys?!!