Women 200lb+, Let's Shine This September!!!
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@wanderinglight that sounds awful!!!! I hope you feel better soon! ❤️
@girlinkaz took me a second to figure out your photo and I had to google IFYKYK. Lol. Great NSV!!! 👏🏻👏🏻
@Renewed2021 I never knew there were foods you couldn’t eat without a gallbladder. That stinks!3 -
For anyone new, I'm 64, 5'4" and a RN, still working full time.
Heaviest Wt-255 lbs (unfortunately my second time.) Had got down to 122 lbs. Took me a year and I kept it off for 5 years but got lazy.
SW-255 lbs 9/14/20, Started my present position and no more micro manager and less stress because of that. Lost 14.5 lbs without trying. I had emergency gall bladder surgery 5/3 and while recuperating, read up on Keto and started being accountable 5/14/21.
My UGW is 122 lbs.
5/3/21 Wt-240.5 lbs
MFP SW 5/14/21- 232.2 lbs
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212 lbs My August Goal was to get below 200 lbs.
9/1/21-200.0 lbs. Missed it by 0.1 lbs! But happy about 12 lbs in a month! Woo Hoo! Can't complain about that.
My goal for September is to lose 5 lbs to 195 lbs. I figure monthly loss will be slowing down sooner than later. I have a NSV. I had a Tibial Plateau Fracture in 10/15. I can come down stairs almost normally alternating steps. Going up I have to do 1 stair at a time and meet it with my other leg. Just 3 days ago I can alternate steps going up now! Its exciting after almost 5 1/2 years since I could walk again!
9/5/21-200.4 lbs. Stayed on track carb/calorie/my exercise routine but the scale drop last time was obviously showing the procedure clear liquid prep I had to do. So explains the slight lipstick. Staying with my goal of 195 lbs by October 1, 2021,
190 lbs by November 1,2021.
I did 97 minutes/8 miles this AM on my Elliptical. Longest so far.7 -
@jazzadesigns
After gallbladder removal some people have difficulty digesting greasy and/or fatty foods. I can do some fatty foods in moderation but that's it. Not everyone has this problem though.4 -
age 65
SW 6/1/21 212
GW 150 by Jan 1
9/1/21 182.4
9/5/21 180;6
total loss since 6/1/21 31.4
total loss since 9/1/21 1.8
GW for September 30 175
looking forward to getting into the 170s. I was hoping to make it there by 9/1 but things happened. So I'm scaling back my September goal a bit.
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Y'all ever walk into the kitchen to make one thing and accidentally end up trying to make four things at once? No? Just me?
I was asked to bring a dessert to our Labor Day getty (which was, uh, today for some reason? idk), so I made bread pudding, since I already had ingredients for that on hand and was already planning to cut up some bread for the chicken-broccoli strata that's part of our dinner rotation. So I cut up the bread and I'm getting ready to start chopping vegetables for the strata and remember that I also need to make something for 52 Weeks of Cooking - the theme this week is Yeasted, so I thought I'd make a beer-cheese soup. Well, the recipe I found for that had a lot of ingredient overlap with the strata, so I decided I'd better go ahead and get that going too, while I was at it. And then my husband walked in and started making hungry noises and asking what sort of fixins we had for ramen. I was already in front of the stove and cutting board and our kitchen is small and terrible so he couldn't really get in to make his own damn lunch as long as I was in there, so I ended up also dicing and frying up some spam and jalapeno peppers to top his ramen with. Long story short I managed to get everything done in time and tasting good, but it was a stressful couple of hours as I constantly flipped back and forth between tabs on my phone, stirring multiple pots all at once, etc. My custard didn't really set for my bread pudding, but everyone thought it tasted great anyway so whatever, I guess? I'm not sure if I should have baked it longer or if I screwed it up somehow. I am proud of me for throwing out the last, oh, quarter or so that was left over after everyone had their fill of dessert, though.
And after all of that, there's yet more cooking still to be done: I need to make lunches for the week. That's easy though, it's Japanese curry which is only marginally more work than Kraft Dinner. I can knock that out tomorrow, no problem.4 -
goal06082021 wrote: »Y'all ever walk into the kitchen to make one thing and accidentally end up trying to make four things at once? No? Just me?
Not just you. Trust me on this. (grin)
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@goal06082021 You are my kitchen/cooking inspiration!3
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Ok so I couldn't resist jumping on the scales again 😂 oops. Going to try stick to once a week every Thursdays if I can resist it. But it's going in the right direction 😊😊
SW: 257.4
UGW: 165
Aug 29: 257.4
Sept 2: 254.4
Sept 5: 252.6
Sept 6: 252
Sept 9:
Sept 16:
Sept 23:
Sept 30:
Total loss: 5.4lbs5 -
In an illustration of water weight gain, I ate out yesterday and am up two pounds on the scale today. WOW. There must have been a ton of salt in my food that I didn't notice! I'll make sure I'm very well hydrated today and see if I can get rid of some of that water over the course of the day.6
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goal06082021 wrote: »Y'all ever walk into the kitchen to make one thing and accidentally end up trying to make four things at once? No? Just me?
I’ve done that too. Gone to start a recipe and realizing it only needs half an onion or pepper…but not ALL of it. And since I was going to use the other half in a frittata or whatever, well, I should get that going too. And then 4 hours later my kitchen and I look like we’ve been through a tornado.
SW (7/23): 300
8/30: 290.6
9/6: 289.4 (-1.2 week over week and -10.6 total!)
GW for September: 283-285
Feeling pretty good about that! Had two meals out this week and managed to make good choices.5 -
Hi, I'm new here and joining September in progress.
Age: 51
Height: 5' 6"
SW: 216 6Sep2021
UGW: 170
I've ping-ponged around lately. I had gotten down to 205, then lost motivation and am now back up to my current starting weight. Disappointed with myself and sick of worrying about how I look, clothes fitting badly, etc. About 6 years ago, I did get down to 170. I know I can do it again.
I've been working out, both with treadmill and walking videos at home, but need to get back to logging food and sticking to counting calories, with one cheat day a week (Saturdays). I'm hoping posting here will keep me accountable.5 -
Weigh-Ins:
10/14/20 237.2
11/04/21 227.6 -9.6
12/02/20 221.2 -6.4
01/01/21 220.4 -0.8
02/02/21 215.2 -5.2
03/01/21 212.3 -2.9
04/20/21 212.0 -0.3
05/03/21 208.9 -3.1
06/07/21 202.4 -6.5
07/01/21 199.96-ONDERLAND 🥳 -2.44
07/29/21 199.2 vacations held me back in July -0.76
08/30/21 194.6 -4.6
09/06/21 193.8 -0.8 total -43.48 -
Starting weight: 270 March 2021
Total loss to date: 51.6
September Start Weight: 218.4
September Goal Weight: 214
Ultimate Goal Weight: TBD
September 4: 218.4
September 11:
September 17:
September 24:
I am finally feeling better and am not struggling to make it through my workouts. I'm still not back to making my daily step count but I've been coming really close. No loss from Wednesday the 1st to Sunday. There is nothing news worthy to report over here.
@goal06082021
How is your melon training going? Do you love it?
I love to cook and often multitasking making multiple dishes at once.
@girlinak
Great NSV!
Welcome to all the new members!2 -
@JNettie73 It's going! The Day 1 workout is more intense than the Day 2, so we'll see how next Thursday goes since I'm also supposed to ramp up the difficulty a little bit week-over-week, but I'm already less sore today than I was on Friday.2
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Welp, I'm back. I had been on this thread back in 2019, lost a lot of weight, and put almost all of it back on. Thanks COVID (RN).
Age: 40
Height: 6'0"
SW: 277.7
GW: 185(ish?)
Weigh in day is Friday
9/1: 259.6
9/3: 259.0
9/10:
9/17
9/24
Goal for September is to be at 250. Unfortunately, I'm kind of stuck, but I'm exercising a lot more and may be holding some water/inflammation. I'm going to trust the process. I know this works for me. Why do I keep doing this to myself? I'm really good at losing the weight, but not keeping it off.
I need to get past this.4 -
Can I get any friends to help keep me motivated? I have Bipolar Disorder and when I am depressed, which is most often, I eat a lot! And when I am depressed, I feel sluggish. I take Lithium and Aripiprazole, but they don't seem to work on keeping me from entering depression or mania completely. Trying to find another medication with my doctor, but the medicine she just put me on caused me to be sick for a week. So we both agreed to not take it and two days later, I am feeling better! The doctor I had went to assumed it was a virus but I realized I felt worse after taking Lamotrigine than before. So I had called my other doctor and she took me off to see if it is the medicine or a virus. Must be the medicine because I am feeling much better.5
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@pandemonium1997 I sent you a friend request!
@goal06082021 I’m jealous of all your cooking skills!
I’ve thought a little more about my goals for this month, and decided I want to just keep doing what I’m doing. I try to stay under my calories most days, get about 8,000 steps daily, drink at least 80 ounces of water each day, work out most days (not super intense though), and am slowly increasing my dumbbell weight. I’m not doing any challenges right now which I do think really help me. Slow and steady wins the race!5 -
Keri
68 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs (Dec 2019)
2/1/2020: 263.6
at the end of the summer of 2020 I was at a low of 245 before going back to work full-time.
August SW: 255.2 (I was at 254.2 yesterday which I haven’t seen since February)
August Low: 252.4
September starting weights: The day of surgery I was 257 since we had some take out that week. The 1st I was still 257. However by the 2nd I was 255.2.
Month weight goal: 247
Goal for the end of the year: 230
9/3: 253.2
9/6: 253
Goals for this month:- Get a good night sleep.
- 8+ glasses of water.
- Log my food/ daily.
- Evaluate progress and post on this thread weekly.
- Find a healthier after dinner dessert. (last year I improved my breakfasts and this is my last issue to an otherwise very healthy diet)
- Plan meals at home.
- Make progress with weight loss.
- Up activity and exercise a little each day until I reach my goal of 5 45+ min walks and 1-2 strength training sessions a week.
A late start since I had surgery at the end of August. I am recovering from surgery and with surgery I found I will need additional treatment so my focus is to continue to recover, get healthy and fit which includes losing weight slowly and healthily. There will be weeks where I can't make progress but others I can. I plan to make the last step towards lowering sugar from my diet.6 -
Welp, I'm back. I had been on this thread back in 2019, lost a lot of weight, and put almost all of it back on. Thanks COVID (RN).
Goal for September is to be at 250. Unfortunately, I'm kind of stuck, but I'm exercising a lot more and may be holding some water/inflammation. I'm going to trust the process. I know this works for me. Why do I keep doing this to myself? I'm really good at losing the weight, but not keeping it off.
I need to get past this.
I seem to be able to lose when I am out of work - Economic downturn in 2009 and Pandemic furlough. But I struggle when I work full-time. The point is not how well we lose but to learn to eat in a sustainable healthy way. Maintaining is quite similar to losing. This is forever. Not a temporary dieting. Need to keep some joy even when we are losing so we learn to eat in a way that is healthy for the rest of our lives. Happy September! I now am fighting a serious health issue which probably would have been less serious if COVID hadn't interrupted life. I am extremely grateful to all doctors, nurses and health care professionals who are weathering this very difficult time.6 -
Age: 51
Height: 5'
SW: 266.6 (1/4/2021)
CW: 239.4 (9/1/2021)
9/5: 241.8 screw you, scale. I'll win yet.
9/12
9/19
9/26
GW for September: 234
GW for 2021: 215
GW for October 2022 because that's my focus: 165
Not sure why I'm having such a hard time sticking to healthy choices right now. I can do it at work--last week donuts and birthday cupcakes passed by me THREE times and I didn't touch, but at home...? really not going great. If I lived alone I'd just get all the calorie-dense stuff out of the house, but I don't.
I'm going to make this work. i already lost nearly thirty pounds. Obviously I *can* do it.11 -
Hello, Tina from WI. I could use some more Motivation! I just turned 46, have lost 54 lbs. so far and have another (at least) 100 to go. I have some health ailments that get in my way, but I'm determined to keep losing. Feel free to add me if you want. Thanks.4
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sargemarcori wrote: »Age: 51
Height: 5'
SW: 266.6 (1/4/2021)
CW: 239.4 (9/1/2021)
9/5: 241.8 screw you, scale. I'll win yet.
9/12
9/19
9/26
GW for September: 234
GW for 2021: 215
GW for October 2022 because that's my focus: 165
Not sure why I'm having such a hard time sticking to healthy choices right now. I can do it at work--last week donuts and birthday cupcakes passed by me THREE times and I didn't touch, but at home...? really not going great. If I lived alone I'd just get all the calorie-dense stuff out of the house, but I don't.
I'm going to make this work. i already lost nearly thirty pounds. Obviously I *can* do it.
Can you get the major offenders out of the house? Right now I can't have my homemade baked goods here or I will eat them all. The way my family is supporting me in this is doing without homemade muffins and cookies until I'm on maintenance again. We still have a lot of snacky things around, but for some reason I can resist those a lot better than I can a homemade muffin.5 -
What has somewhat stopped me from daily snacking on the bad stuff is having one cheat day a week built in - so I use Saturday. Saturday I can eat one really bad meal, and a really indulgent dessert. If you're sticking with something like a 1200 calorie count all week, and know that on Saturday you can have the cookies or the pizza or whatever, it reduces the urge to have it now or every day, and it doesn't make you feel like you'll never have it again. I REALLY look forward to Saturdays.
Another option is to have a forbidden bin in the pantry -- this is a sealed container that you can't see through. Line it with cardboard if you can't find an opaque container. Put the junk food in that and keep it in the back/top shelf/out of direct site. Yes, at first you'll know it's in there, but over time, you forget there's junk food hidden. Out of sight, out of mind can help. Especially if you have to have things in the house for others, but you don't want to see the temptation.
Do these things work all the time? I wish.
But every little trick right now is helping me.
As for keeping motivation, I don't have a ton of suggestions. I really dislike logging my calories, but I kind of do it as a game at this point -- can I be full and stay at my target calorie count? If I want that 140 calorie cookie pack, then I have to do another 30 minutes on the treadmill -- lots of bargaining with myself. I have a notebook where I track things in addition to MFP -- so I get to check off if I work out, if I logged my calories, etc. It's just something else I can use to feel like I am working at my goal.
Some people use a vision board to visualize a healthy weight -- putting up realistic pictures of what type of body weight they want and pictures of clothes they'll buy at that weight. Right now, fitting into my existing clothing is what is my motivation -- when I can start to see progress (can fit into different jeans, notice my face a little thinner, etc), that helps, or has in the past. I'm at the beginning of this journey again, so I have yet to reach these milestones.
I don't know if any of this is helpful. Feel free to use/ignore as it relates to your goals.
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I tried something new to help the snacking last night, and it worked. I'll give it a full week before I call it a working idea, though.5
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@pandemonium1997 I sent you a friend request.
@tinaBawesome I sent you a friend request.
@Deanner03 yea sometimes it’s just like that. We have to figure out the changes that are sustainable for us. Back in 2005 I had lost 60lbs, but doing the things that while great for weight loss were not sustainable for me so I gained everything back. This time I’m working on the sustainable habits. My weight loss is very slow. So it’s life. There’s no deadline. We just have to keep chugging along.
@sargemarcori Agree with above. If you can remove the worst offenders that might be helpful. There are things I can moderate and some things I just can’t when it’s at my house. Many times if I have the worst items somewhere else (outside the house) I can moderate there as well without issue. Certainly have a conversation with the family if needed for why it’s important to you. Try the bin advice; I know when I’ve had chips in the house that were put out of eyesight I’ve forgotten about them after a while. It’s about figuring out what you need. There’s always the classic, go brush your teeth when you’re tempted to eat the things that aren’t fitting in your goals that day. Otherwise see about fitting whatever can be moderated into your day. When I really want cookies or cake I plan it in as best as I can; for those I plan them in until they’re gone too so they aren’t in the house that long.
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Hi everyone!! I am glad to be back with you wonderful ladies.
September 2021 stats
39 years old
Height: 5' 7"
SW (6/9/2020): 330.0lbs
Month SW (9/1/21): 217.2lbs
Goal weight: 180lbs
Weigh-in day: Saturdays
9/4: 212.4lbs
9/11: lbs
9/18: lbs
9/25: lbs
9/30: lbs
10/2: lbs
Total month loss: lbs
Weekly and Monthly Goals:
* Keep logging in to MFP
* Continue intermittent fasting (16:8)
* Continue the T-25 workouts
* Do either a quick yoga, stretch, or walk (Reps to the Rhythm) workout in addition to my regularly scheduled workout to get my steps in
* Drink at least 80oz (10 cups) of water daily
* Get as much sleep as possible
* Accepted a challenge from a friend on 9/2/2021 to lose 5lbs by 10/1/2021 (Starting weight 217.2lbs -> Need to be 212.2lbs or less by 10/1/2021) -0.2lbs shy of weight.
Post Mid-year Goal:
* Get to or below 210lbs (Hopefully by the end of September)
No concrete data for August 2021
Random weigh-ins:
8/7/2021 - 218.0lbs
8/21/2021 - 222.0lbs (Not sure of the actual date)
Last 2 weeks of the month (8/23 - 9/5/2021):
- Did a 2 week Abs, Arms, Back, Butt and Thighs challenge with Stretches using videos I collected from YouTube (Ended Sunday 9/5/2021)
- Began 16:8 intermittent fasting again8 -
YIPPEE!
I finally got below 200 lbs today! 199.4 lbs 6 days shy of my goal of 9/1/21 but I'm happy anyway! 55.6 lbs!16 -
Congrats, swimmom!2
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Starting late, but the first week went to plan - just need to keep it up.
Height: 5'9"
SW: 234.6 (08/19/2021)
CW: 231.0 (09/07/2021)
GW for September: 224
GW for 2021: 210
UGW: 155 by end of 2022
Weekly goals:
* MFP logging daily
* 2 HIIT workouts, Walk daily
* 80 oz of water a day
* Maintain 18:6 fasting schedule
I'm struggling to eat all my calories, so try out some new protein sources. Also losing about a pound a week. Think 1.5 is reasonable to shoot for.5
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