Women 200lb+, Let's Start Strong This January!!!

RavenStCloud

🎉Hello, ladies, and Happy New Year! We've made it to 2022!!!🎉

⭐ This is our year! We're going into 2022 with commitment, focus, and the support of all the women in this group who have our backs!

⭐It's a brand new year, so the slate is wiped clean and we are starting fresh! Any mistakes or setbacks are in the past and we're looking forward from here on out.

⭐Please share your goals for this month and/or your resolutions for the whole year. Big or small, please share any and all of your plans and hopes for 2022.


🌟 If you've never been here before, please know you are welcome to join at any point in the month. All you have to do is post something, and then BAM! you're one of us.

🌟 In this group, we post our weekly and monthly goals and provide support and motivation to each other as we share our triumphs and our struggles. This group is all about accountability.

🌟 All are welcome and, if you think you belong here, you do! No matter how much you currently weigh or how you measure (or don't measure) your weight, we'd love to hear from you.

🌟 Victories, both scale and non-scale, are great to hear about, but, conversely, we know that weight loss isn't all sunshine and roses. If you're going through a rough patch, please feel free to be honest and vent your heart out. The struggle is real and we're all here to support each other!

⭐ Let's have a strong start to the New Year!!!⭐

RavenStCloud

SW (Dec 1): 260
CW (Jan 1): 252
1st GW: 215
2nd GW: 185

◾January Goals
⭐ Log all food
⭐ Stick with pescatarian/non-dairy meals
⭐ Schedule two "cheat" days (end of the month)
⭐ Exercise 3 to 4 times a week (swim or weights)


◾2022 (Year of the Tiger) Goals
🐅 Improve my swimming (speed & technique)
🐅 Become fluent enough to have a basic conversation in Spanish
🐅 Complete NaNoWriMo, any month, not just Novemeber
🐅 Start, or pick back up, a crafty hobby (sewing/crocheting/etc)
🐅 Fit into a dress I wore 3 years ago for my birthday in July

💜Happy New Year, everyone!💜

goal06082021

Thank you @RavenStCloud for keeping this group going!

Age: 30
Height: 5'3"
Original SW: 252.8, 11/13/2020 (ATH 260-something, circa 2009)
2022 SW: 197.6, 1/1/2022
1/1: 197.6
1/8:
1/15:
1/22:
1/29:
January Goal: 192
2022 Goal: 147

I lost 50 lbs on the nose last year (started at 247.4 1/1/2021, finished at 197.4 12/31/2021), and I'm pretty confident I can do that again, especially having y'all here for support and encouragement! Once I hit Onederland I started weighing daily, and I think I'm going to continue doing that - I'll just report the numbers from Saturday here.

For the first quarter of 2022, I'm ramping up my daily activity. I'm going to start working out first thing in the morning again (took a brief break from that to get some extra zzz's over my Christmas vacation), as well as going for short ~30-40 minute walks in the evening. Morning workouts will alternate between cardio (C25k) and strength (randomly generated, excited to see how the system I built works).

I'm changing my approach to meal-prepping dinners - rather than having a rotation of 6 like my lunch menus and prepping weekly, I've picked three things that I want to make sure I have at least 2 servings of in the freezer at all times (Cincinnati chili, enchiladas, and meatloaf), and cook dinner fresh more often during the week. I'm thinking of incorporating some instant-pot/slow-cooker freezer meals, like where you put all the ingredients in a big ziploc bag and freeze, then when you want to cook it, you just empty the bag into the IP/slow cooker - that's something I could either do in the morning before work, or ask him to do when he gets home since his day usually ends well before mine. He's a smart guy, I'm sure he can handle "dump this bag into the instant pot and press the following buttons." Recipes are welcome! No restrictions - meat and dairy are OK, no preferences wrt macros.

roz0810

Hi ladies. Thank you for this group. I took a few months off but im back.

Goals for January!

💙 Log in daily and log all food
💙 Stay within calorie goal
💙 Drink 2+ litres of water daily
💙 Try to exercise a little

I'm starting 2022 at 263.8. I'm aiming for 1.5lbs loss per week. I will weigh in Thursdays as my official weight in but also daily for the first few weeks to keep an eye on things.

Happy new year to you and and good luck!

FushiaKat

Thank you @RavenStCloud for keeping this group going.

Age: 61
Height: 5'4"
SW: 245
CW: 180.2 (12/28/2021)
1/4:
1/14:
1/18:
1/25:
GW for January 2022: 174.2
UGW: 145 by end of August 1st, 2022
My weigh-in day's are Tuesday's.

Goals for 2022:
- Plan what I will eat each morning and track everything I eat.
- Drink 6 glasses of water a day
- Read 1 book a month
- Clean out my Closet my March 1st.
- Reach my goal weight by August 1st
- Walk 3000 steps per day
- Try 1 new recipe a month.
- Update F2F Daily

I am one of those ppl who will have to weigh and measure for the rest of my life, there is nothing wrong with that and I can plan for it most of the time. My husband says that managing my weight shouldn't have to be this hard. I love counting calories, it's a game to me to see just how much I can eat and still stay under my calorie budget of 1200 a day. I love food!!

justanotherloser007

Thank you @RavenStCloud for keeping the group going!

48 yo 5’3” 6/2013 SW 277 ((in 2021 lost 57 lbs from May 1- Dec 31))
January goal - lose 3.4 lbs - so specific because this will put me in overweight BMI!
12/31 172.4 (I haven’t been this weight since 1994 - that is 27 years ago!!)
1/7
1/14
1/21
1/28

🎆Walk 5 miles every single day… get ready to hike the Guadalupe Mountain Peak!!
🎆Be patient! Remember that increments are where it is at, and focus on habits.
🎆169 lbs = overweight BMI, I hope to hit this January 2022! Come on girly, you can do this!
🎆Remember: Total loss of 104.6 lbs down!!

drj63

Thank you @RavenStCloud for keeping this going.
I've joined a biggest loser challenge on MPF to kickstart January.
I'll be posting my weigh ins on Wednesday now.
Adding more excercise and strength training is my biggest challenge for this year.
I've logged my food for over 180 days with very little weight loss, but I reached Onederland and I never want to leave it again.
My mind has always been my biggest weight loss obstacle. I'm working very hard at getting that together and hopefully that will lead to a healthier me.

lmgoff232

Thanks @RavenStCloud for another month!

Age: 44
Height: 5'10"
HW: 290.6 (4/19/2021)
SW: 287.4 (7/16/2021)
CW: 232.2 (1/1/2022)

GW for January: 225
GW for 2022: 170
UGW: 170

1/1: 232.2
1/8:
1/15:
1/22:
1/29:

Goals for January:
- Meet protein goal at least 3x weekly
- Meet fiber goal at least 3x weekly
- Eat out no more than 1x per week
- Get minimum of 6000 steps daily
- Drink minimum of 8 glasses water daily

Goals for 2022:
- Incorporate weight training and work on improving my muscle definition
- Reach my goal weight and move into maintenance
- Plan for and make self care a priority at least quarterly (massages, mani/pedi, etc)

MacKenzieLeeCan

Hello everyone! I'm new to MFP, so I hope I'm doing this right!

SW: 218 (Jan 1st)
GW: 170

I'm not sure which day each week I will weigh in (to be honest).

Weight loss goals are simple:
1. Mindful Eating (eat less and foods better for me - no more snacking)
2. Move more!
3. Log my food intake everyday into MFP

Thank you for having me!

jazzadesigns

@RavenStCloud thanks for starting the new thread!

@justanotherloser007 I just saw your message on the December thread. I think I’ll possibly have to log for the rest of my life too. You are an inspiration with all the weight you lost over the holidays!

I’m so looking forward to reaching Onederland sometime in 2022! I hope we all crush our goals!

drj63

Welcome @McKenzieLeeCanada !!!

AlexandraFindsHerself1971

I'm recommitting to my weight loss now that my thyroid is normalized.
My goals for the year:

Get the remainder of my thyroid removed (surgery scheduled 1/19/22)
Get in the gym at least three times a week
Start swimming for exercise (Be in good enough shape that it doesn't tank my energy for the day)
Lose at least 20 pounds by June 1
Have a path forward for breast reduction (I see the surgeon for initial consultation 1/3/22)

Currently I'm working on changing my night time eating habits. I was nibbling too much, so I'm doing a complete reset of "no eating after 7 pm." I view this as a temporary thing, but if it works for me I'll keep it.

I'm also attempting to settle evening anxiety by getting on the bike (we have a stationary recumbent) and doing a couple minutes just to move rather than eat. We'll see how that goes.

I don't know yet if the breast reduction will happen this year or if I will need to lose more weight before they do it, but whatever it is, I know I can do it so that I can get free of the weight up top.

MeowScout

Hello W200+ and Happy New Year!
I am glad to be in this new year. I will do some goal setting tomorrow. Now is time for Minecraft. Can I get steps for that?

swimmom_1

Glad to be back and Thank you @RavenStCloud for this thread. Great support here!
Mary from Pennsylvania 64 Heaviest weight 255 lbs twice. :-(

UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.

My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs. It doesn't know how to burn them and hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my days off(3) and 3 meals on my work days(which are long), exercise on my 3 days off. My weigh in day is Sunday.

9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb/1000-1200 calorie while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
12/26/21-165.6 lbs
I went to Texas Roadhouse on 12/28, and the weight went up. It should be just water weight from sodium.
1/1/22-168 lbs
My goal is 5 lbs for January and 15 lbs for Nov/Dec/Jan
Nov/Dec/Jan weight loss to date-13.8 lbs! :-)

1/1/22-168 lbs. I did my Elliptical today. 240 minutes for 16.5 miles.

thatbeautifulchick1988

Hello my name is Kiki and I'm here to lose about a hundred pounds. I have lost 100 pounds in the past and gained a lot back over the last 5 years. I want to jump back in with both feet before I get back to my highest weight.

My highest weight was 288
Current weight is 260
1st goal weight is 175
After that my final GW will be between 135 to 155 depending on how things are looking/feeling then

I have never been below 188 so 175 is a big goal of mine!

Little history, my bf and I met doing stand up comedy, yep, for real lol. It was my career after my divorce and also the reason I gained all my weight back.

So here I am happy as can be, we have a great little family and both left comedy to get sober (hello drinking and traveling wrecked my body over the years) so now we are working regular jobs, but happy, and healthier for being sober!

My bf is very thin and tall, I simply can't eat his diet anymore. Let's put it this way, he eats more frozen foods than my kids and it has made me gain 35 pounds since being together.

It's time to shake it off and get back on track with my weight now that my drinking and comedy touring is done! Also, a little Birdy told me my bf is proposing next Xmas, and quite honestly, I wanna look like the hot bombshell he met on stage! ❤️💯💕 Yep, I'm more shallow than Danny devitos bathtub 🙄 I Do NOT WANT FAT ENGAGEMENT PICS!

help me ladies, plz!!!

roz0810

@thatbeautifulchick1988 hey Kiki. I also have 100lbs to drop. We got this! One day at a time!

thatbeautifulchick1988

Thanks for that, yes we do got this! I'm excited to follow everyone's progress 💯❤️💪😊

seashell27

Getting back to MFP and need some motivation. The more I try to lose the more I gain. Want to get back into walking but injuries make it difficult. Losing weight hopefully will help.

JoFaulkner1

Hey, I have at least 90lbs to go....ideally about 110.
2021 was a very busy year for me so I never gave dieting a consideration.

I've not really tried for about 3 years if I'm honest but I am ready to change.

Is everyone just following calories deficiency?

What's people's motivation

JoFaulkner1

Friend requests welcome

sandielewis2001

Happy new year everyone!

My name is Sandie and I live in CA with my wife, dog and cat. Last year I decided to get serious about my health and saw great success using MFP. My plan is to continue this year and get to a healthy maintenance weight.

Age: 38
Height 5'10"
SW Jan 7 2021: 271.1
SW Jan 2022: 191.6
GW this month: 187
Goal for 2022: reach maintenance (160-170?)

1/6/22 -
1/13/22 -
1/20/22 -
1/27/22 -

LTD: 79.5 lbs



2022 Goals:
🎆 Continue logging everyday
🎆 Remember that weight loss slows as I near my goal. .5lb to 1lb per week is good!
🎆 Walk or spin bike before work
🎆 Don’t let life derail my progress. This is my new normal and I can keep it up even when life gets hard.

tahitig

Well, the date for meeting the grizzly bears in Alaska is set -- July 29, 2022.
The float-plane pilot is paid.
So I MUST make that flight weight or my mother will not be able to have her bucket-list encounter up close with the bears on her 90th birthday!
When I had to report my weight fully clothed (with hiking boots and a jacket on) to the pilot last month,
I reported 195, when I actually weighed 215.
That's 20 pounds I must lose, plus another 5 for clothing, and another 5 for wiggle room --30 in all.

If that's not enough motivation, my engaged daughter is so tired of waiting for a wedding that she now wants to tie the knot (so to speak) in a simple ceremony on our boat in APRIL with just the parents, then have a small dinner celebration together and defer a party/reception until a later time.
Thinking of the life-lasting photographs that will be made in four months makes my head spin.

Tie me to a chair, double-keto -- whatever it takes! The time is now.

This forum really helped me get started last month --thank you all.

Happy 2022 everyone, and many thanks to @RavenStCloud for continuing this thread into the new year.

SW: 215
CW: 205
January goal: the edge of Onederland!

seltzer_lover

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!

I’ve been MIA since before Christmas - I went very low-technology over the holidays and am excited I was able to disconnect and relax.

Goals for 2022:
1. Hit Onederland
2. OTF 4x per wee, active recovery on the other 3
3. Stay focused on everything in moderation
4. Weigh-in daily, record here and in F2F on Mondays.

Goals for January:
1. 258-262 pounds

swimmom_1

Glad to be back and Thank you @RavenStCloud for this thread. Great support here!
Mary from Pennsylvania 64 Heaviest weight 255 lbs twice. :-(

UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.

My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs. It doesn't know how to burn them and hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my days off(3) and 3 meals on my work days(which are long), exercise on my 3 days off. My weigh in day is Sunday.

9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb/1000-1200 calorie while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
12/26/21-165.6 lbs
I went to Texas Roadhouse on 12/28, and the weight went up. It should be just water weight from sodium.
1/1/22-168 lbs
My goal is 5 lbs for January and 15 lbs for Nov/Dec/Jan
Nov/Dec/Jan weight loss to date-13.8 lbs! :-)

1/1/22-168 lbs. I did my Elliptical today. 240 minutes for 16.5 miles.
1/2/22-168 lbs. I did my Elliptical today. 240 minutes for 16.55 miles. Needed to get back on my regular reporting weigh in day. I was hoping for a drop but with having Pork & Sauerkraut yesterday, the sodium is inhibiting that, I'm sure.
Congratulations @justanotherloser007! So great to get to numbers from our past!
@sandielewis2001 WOW! What a difference! You look younger too!

LynneM1980

Hey all, do you mind if I join? I've been on this journey for almost a year now and could use some company! Looking forward to getting to know everyone

Name: Lynne
Age: 41
Height: 5'11" or 6', depends on the doctor
Original SW: 305.6, May 30th 2021
2022 SW: 238.9

My goals for January are to get down to 235, and to try and get out for exercise at least 2 times a week.
For 2022, I want to get down to at least 210. My motivation is to feel better about myself. I've got some health issues, and I can't do some of my favorite things because I am just too big. I've also got a 2 year old grandson, and I want to be here for him for a very long time. I'm from Southwest Ohio, where the weather is being really goofy right now, so no walk for me the past 2 days. I've walked inside my house today, did about 25 minutes before I thought I was wearing a path in the carpet. haha.

justanotherloser007

@goal06082021 AMAZING!! You are in Onederland for the new year!! Totally motivating isn't it? I see you are in for picking up some great workouts. You even survived the butter restaurants! I mean, I am sure they are all like, "pfft there WAS a pea swimming in butter - that is how we make it". I know you are sad that you got your cycle back, but it is just some extra pain and water weight and emotional freakouts or paranoia depending on the type of woman you are. Personally, I think my womb is trying to kill me and I am pretty sure that wasn't in the womb's general job description (not that I hired the violent constant all scale war that is my womb)- but what do I know. How is the hubby's recovery going?
@roz0810 Beautiful new year's resolutions. Have a wonderful year!
@macKenzieLeeCanada Welcome!!
@FushiaKat I hope you have a great year, you have come soo far! And I am going to try to mirror you with the cleaning out of closets.. ugh, such kryptonite! LOLs, I am being dramatic. I also just need to declutter for peace of mind and I find you very inspirational ((hugs))
@drj63 I think reaching Onederland is wonderful!! I am not sure how much you are out to lose in total, but if you keep it up... you will keep losing. I know lots of people want to lose weight so fast, but fast or slow if you are diligent it still happens. I also think if you are able to move more and move consistently you will maybe be a little happier with your weight loss speed. Keep it up, you got this!
@swimmom_1 If we did honorable mentions, it would be you. Our woman of steel herself! Such determination! Such integrity! Saving people by day, and losing weight while doing it! Wow you had an incredible year last year! Have you ever thought about doing those challenges where you see how far you walk in a week, or year? There are some surfside challenges I think - they track how far you have walked along the coast as you work out, sounds fun. Also, there is that app called charity miles that gives for the miles you put in. I mean, since you are doing so well and going so far - might be time to kick in a little extra incentive for your hard work, I think it works with elliptical same as walking or biking.
@sandielewis2001 Your pictures show your hard work, wow you can really see it. I wish you a year of finding solutions to when life throws you a double apple pie with a wine test flight afterwards!
@seashell27 (((hugs))) there are a number of ladies here who can’t really exercise. When I first started I couldn’t exercise either. The physical therapist was really happy when I told him I had lost 80 lbs when I started to rehab my hip (I lost 60 of that without exercise). He said “Losing weight is 85% diet and 15% moving, you have no idea how many clients think they will lose weight if they could move”. It is simple, not easy lols. But you can definitely do this! I have a friend on my feed, she calls the people who can’t move “spoonies” I think it is really cute and she is a go get em sort! She lost all of her weight without exercise, I think she now has an arm exercise machine, but she can’t really walk or do elliptical either. It can be done. Take heart!
@thatbeautifulchick1988 I wish you beautiful pics for your engagement maybe this year! I would have been a chubby engagement picture taker if the dude had had FILM in the stupid camera!! Oh my goodness, stupid art school friends of the hubby. I have no engagement pics, but I am not shy generally with pics either so I have plenty of them from the time period of before there was internet and cell phones weren’t really on the scene yet. LOLs, what would that be nowadays, a photographer that had their thumb on the lens the entire time? I don’t even know. Yeah, it is a bummer when you realize that you cannot eat what the hubby eats and have his slender physique. In my case the hubby is 8” taller than me, and that affects stuff and things. I feel ya!
@JoFaulkner1 Personally, I use the power of math to help me lose weight. I tried the “just eat a little less” way that my Mom always did, but I just needed a little more information than that. I am a serial excuser, so I had some battles to fight. 1) no buffets 2) don’t spend the entire weekend eating out with the hubby. Those were my first two battles that had me not losing weight for the first year (did I mention I am a slow learner?). I tracked and did well during the week (I did not use a scale though and I am also horrible at portion sizes), home court advantage I guess they call it, and then when the weekend came I ate back all my losses for a perfect net loss of “0”. I didn’t gain though, and since my weight felt like an out of control train that isn’t shabby either! Now I am able to track and weigh my food, and walk so I kinda feel like I know what I am doing. (no, no I don’t because I tried to maintain during December and instead I just ate back my exercise calories for a week because I miscalculated using math lols. Moving and eating back exercise calories is new for me, so I didn’t quite get it right.) As for motivation, I generally don’t have this magical thing. Nor do I “believe in myself” I really don’t need either of these things thank goodness. I hold the line, keep steady, keep going no matter what, and I pray for temperance, diligence, and patience!! Literally, every morning I say the rosary and I ask for those virtues. I need those. I remember to keep good habits, and when I fail, I just keep going one step at a time. I will say that revamping my macros helped me quite a bit in June. I was not eating very much protein, as that is the macro that I dislike the most. So, now with a higher protein and daily fiber goal met I do not feel hungry like I did in the beginning. That is a real game changer for sure! Now, there are some days I don’t eat my protein because I want carb/oil then I deal. And I am hungrier, but that is something I am willing to do some days. Not all the days, because it is hard to cut with always feeling hungry. My .000000002 cents.
@tahitig Is it just me, or are you on target!! Yeah, I think you are!! Way to go!! Getting through December proper for some bear watching with Mom. Superstar!! You got this!! I can’t wait to see your pictures!!
@seltzer_lover You have been doing great and I hope you have a “Onederful” year!! Lols, I know I know stupid pun, but there you go!
@LynneM1980 Welcome!! Nice to meet you! I tried to do some laps in my tiny home and got super dizzy from all the turning around. For when the weather gets all inhospitable, next time I will opt for the Leslie Sansone 1 mile walk youtube video, I guess I could just watch it 5 times. Last time I tried the ballet, but my hips girl! My hips just can’t hang, and they don’t lie either.

Random: I picked up a lizard today and put it in my pocket. The weather got really cold this morning from 83 degrees yesterday to 30 degrees by the time my walk was going. So there were many lizards falling from trees on the trail, but this one, I could tell was still alive. When I got home, he was no longer in my pocket - so I thought he had left and went on his merry way. Nope! the cat found him! But I rescued him and put him in a thing until the weather gets less crazy. I however, realize that I need crickets lols!! Umm, anyone have any crickets?

Second random: a couple months back on my daily walk I noticed that a muskrat kept doing some chin-ups on a water drain. At first I was all like, "You got this big guy! You will have the most amazing biceps and pecks in no time!" Every single day he was at it, and he would also make little noises while he was working out. But, I mean, who doesn't when they are working on upper arm strength? About 3 weeks later, I noticed he just wasn't seeing any gains and he was still at it like a champ. So I decided to put a nice big rock where he did the chin ups, so that he could explore the water drain at leisure without waiting for his muscles to get all big and burly. I haven't seen him since. I miss you little muskrat! I hope you are still working on your arm gains in the new year!!

NKutt53

Hi all.
I’m new to this.
I’m 68 years old.
5’5” tall
207 pounds.

My goal is to lose 50 pounds and be more active.
Goals for January
Work out 2 days per week.
Walk 5/7 days per week - 6000 steps
Log in every day
Eat healthy
Do a stretching routine daily.

With help and encouragement I hope to be able to continue to climb stairs and rise from the floor on my own in the next 5 to 10 years.

swimmom_1

@justanotherloser007
Thank you for the info about the charity. Also you would get the award for "The Best Cheerleader!"

Tiva50

Hi my name is Tanya and I live at the beach with my husband daughters and dogs.
Height - 5 5
Weight - 220
Goal Weight - 150
GW Jan - 216
Weekly goals - 1 lb

I want to log daily - make my treadmill more than a clothes rack and get back in the gym.

wanderinglight

I'm happy to be back after two months away, and ready to make the most of this year! Thank you yet again to @RavenStCloud for creating this wonderful space.

Age: 50
Height: 5'11"

SW: 225
CW (Jan 1): 214.8


❄️ January Goals
⭐ Log all food and stick to 1450 calories
⭐ Majority pescatarian / vegetarian meals
⭐ Continue intermittent fasting (12pm - 8pm window)
⭐ Lift more weights

❄️ Long Term Goals
⭐ Lose enough to have a breast reduction
⭐ Improve my sleep quality
⭐ Be in my LIFE more, not in my screens

Similar to Alexandra above, I am focused on getting a breast reduction this year. I wanted it last year when I turned 50, but I feel like I did not lose enough weight to do it. I'm going to at least take the steps to have a consultation as it is something I've wanted for at least 10 years now. I'm a little intimidated by the idea, having had so many non-elective surgeries (spine, shoulder, knee), but I also know it will provide a huge improvement to my quality of life. So I'm saying it out loud that I will start taking the steps to at least investigate the process.

I had the time of my life in NYC for the past 2.5 months and I'm grateful to have only gained 5.5lbs...because any semblance of a nutrition plan went completely off the rails during my time there. The only thing that saved me was that I was walking almost 6-10 miles every day and that I was always in motion while working in my booth at the holiday market.* I got home yesterday and my body wants salad, vegetables, fruit, small meals, and my comfortable bed

One other side note that I've been thinking about a lot lately. I think one of the reasons I felt so alive in the city (besides the fact that it is, of course, New York City) is that I was so rarely on my phone or computer. My days were spent interacting with people while selling my art and generally being out in the world. My phone battery would last the whole day because I used it so rarely! I want to incorporate that feeling into my current lifestyle as much as possible...while being safe, of course. It's not easy but I just feel the need to break free from the drudgery of my own habits and daily routines.

* I *killed* it, by the way!! It was so much fun!

Here's a pic of me in my booth.



💜Happy New Year, everyone!💜

drj63

@justanotherloser007 Thanks so much for the encouraging words! I'd like to be 150 or under so I have a long road ahead, but I'm going to give it my best shot! And I agree with @swimmom_1 You are the best cheerleader for all of us!!! Thank you!!!