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

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  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    KeriA wrote: »
    I was making it for my husband and my mother-in-law called and told me not to feed him poultry. How did she know?!
    This made me laugh so hard! I think depending on family and where the hubby fits in, he might have just remarked it to Mom. My hubby is the quiet middle child, so he tells his mother next to nothing. But the youngest boy... whew, close to Ma! So close! But his wife was fine with that, as she has a Jewish mother who evidently has no boundaries so she was all like, "just another day in the life of a daughter/son". Families are just amazing if you think about it.

    @JAC581 (((hugs))) one foot in front of the other (((((((super panda hugs))))))

    @1967bkm re: Ice cream. When I was first in full deficit mode, I ate fruit every day. Cherries to be exact, cherries happened to be in season. I looked up the volume eaters thread, and there was a lot of "protein whip" and "protein ice cream" but I found it difficult to fit into my daily eating. So I had protein ice cream dates with the hubby on Saturdays. (((granted when I found out I was allergic to whey, I had to stop eating it.. but until then it was very fun!))) You might want to see if you can make some sort of kool-aid slushee with a sugar replacement. You might have to have "the talk" with yourself. For me "the talk" was about cheese. But there are definite substitutes, it just depends on what are you willing to tolerate?

    @kenziestabes Way to crush maintenance!! Atta girl, back at this journey ready to go!! Awesome!!

    @Cluelessmama1979 I love how you are getting it moving!! Way to go!!! Great attitude!!

    So today, since I had such a "fasting think Imma die" kinda Lent, I have had so much energy for Easter maintenance. All this talk about "de-clutter" and what not, decided to do some spring cleaning! So, looked up on the internet best way to clean a stovetop. I had the two ingredients recommended: baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, a little elbow grease... wah-lah! It looks beautiful!! Only problem is, my fingernails are looking generally whiter than usual and my hands are a little tingly. Because I forgot: simple ingredients put together COULD be alchemy or something? OOf!!


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  • bonniemcc4
    bonniemcc4 Posts: 129 Member
    @Cluelessmama1979 that is so great about moving more than you thought you could!!!
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    Communists In The Gazebo? Parting the Red Sea with Moses? Aunt Flo visiting? The British have landed? Miss Strawberry is new to me though! One time I saw a picture of the left ovary being one side of a civil war, and the right ovary the other side. Of course, the ladies have it all worked out so that once every two months one prevails. Just to keep it all equal and what not. (((((hugs)))))
  • porquenoirl
    porquenoirl Posts: 76 Member
    Oh folks I had two days of not great eating and the scales are taunting me. Trying a bit of a fast to go whoosh again but it's slow going. I did manage to get a cycle and paddle in last night but I think I'll need to be doing more strength training to move things along as far as getting fitter and stronger go.

    And sorry I've been so busy with work so just getting a chance to pop in, I see y'all have so much going on, wish I could give support to you all. Maybe at the weekend when the dust settles. Take care!
  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,440 Member
    edited April 2022
    Good morning everyone!

    Stillll holding at 189.4! I will take it!

    Lots to do, headed out on a long road trip tomorrow after work, oof.

    I was putting the recipe for my egg roll skillet in MacroFactor this morning to log it, and their recipe creator gives me serving sizes in grams while I'm inputting the ingredients :kissing_heart: omg, I've been waiting for this moment my whole life, logging leftovers is the worst. Now it's easy. Another reason to keep MF as opposed to logging in MFP.

    Tag party!
    @seltzer_lover I know, there is a part of me that misses logging on mfp. Maybe because I've been using it since 2013, lol.
    @KeriA looks like you picked yourself up and dusted off from a day with some bad in it! I laughed out loud:
    However relative to Chinese tradition it is a hot food and they do not recommend it when fever is involved. I was making it for my husband and my mother-in-law called and told me not to feed him poultry. How did she know?!
    They (mothers in law) always know somehow! :lol: My mother in law knew I was pregnant before I did, lol.
    @kenziestabes happy to hear you enjoyed your break and are ready to keep going! :sunglasses:
    @justanotherloser007 :lol: I understand. I make cleaning supplies myself, and I have to label my bottles VERY WELL so that I keep the bleach solution away from my vinegar solution I use for almost everything. :neutral: Luckily never had an issue yet *knocks on wood*
    @bonniemcc4 I'm glad you are going to see the rheumatologist. Mojo that they listen well, and that you both can come up with solutions for issues. :heart:
    @goal06082021
    white-cheddar Cheez-Its and a big mug of chamomile tea
    for me it's almost always marshmallows and takis. :lol:
    @porquenoirl I'm glad you're keeping up the exercise, and weight is weight, it'll come off if you do the thing. And you can do the thing.

    Have a great day, everyone!
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  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,440 Member
    Oh shoot, MFP is charging $80/year for premium now? MacroFactor is actually less money than that ($72), and does more. Pffft. So now it's a matter of, do I want to pay for MacroFactor or go back to logging for free on MFP. I guess I have until Saturday to figure that out.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    justanotherloser007 wrote: »
    Communists In The Gazebo? Parting the Red Sea with Moses? Aunt Flo visiting? The British have landed? Miss Strawberry is new to me though! One time I saw a picture of the left ovary being one side of a civil war, and the right ovary the other side. Of course, the ladies have it all worked out so that once every two months one prevails. Just to keep it all equal and what not. (((((hugs)))))

    I love Communists in the gazebo - I've heard Communists in the funhouse, which is also great, but "the gazebo" is an excellent euphemism for vagina, LMFAO (we'll see if the filter catches that). I think "Miss Strawberry" is Japanese (Ichigo-chan). I have a book I picked up years ago called Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, and it has a bunch of whimsical euphemisms for being on one's period in it (including the elaborate, evocative, and powerful "riding the big red Cadillac down the highway of life")

    I just looked at the help article about the sync issues, i hope they get all this resolved quickly. I had a hell of a time logging yesterday - since the recipe and meal features aren't working, I'm having to log my lunch and dinner by ingredients which is not how I normally do it. There are 12 ingredients in my quinoa bowl for lunch this week (quinoa, beef broth, turkey kielbasa, feta, craisins, asparagus, peas, zucchini, canola oil, olive oil, mustard, white wine vinegar) and the sync issues mean there's a lot of duplication, so I'll log my food and then the app will refresh and I'm 800 calories over but it's because my lunch logged each ingredient four times. Thank goodness I'm now hip to the Edit button in the app, that would have been a miserable hydra fight trying to remove the dupes one at a time.
  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,440 Member
    edited April 2022
    justanotherloser007 wrote: »
    @CupcakeCrusoe IF you decide to go free, what I do with recipes is weigh the recipe and put the #of servings at ounces. That way, if said recipe is x number of calories y number of ounces - every serving is an ounce and I put that in when I log it. I bet it confuses people when they look at how many servings of chili I eat "12 servings of chili" boy that lady must have been HUNGRY!! lols!

    I know, I do that, too, especially with bread, when I'm making a recipe on MFP. But this does that automatically, without me making it separate servings! I put in six servings, and it was like "that's 290 grams each" or whatever. My mind was blown, lol.

    eta: it is a good trick, though, and worth posting about for those that don't know.

    While I'm here @goal06082021 I haven't heard a lot of these metaphors. I might have to find this book, it sounds really interesting.
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    goal06082021 wrote: »
    There are 12 ingredients in my quinoa bowl for lunch this week (quinoa, beef broth, turkey kielbasa, feta, craisins, asparagus, peas, zucchini, canola oil, olive oil, mustard, white wine vinegar)
    Sounds super yummy!

  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,440 Member
    While doing more research to see if I wanted to pay for MacroFactor, I found a spreadsheet that Spreadsheet Gang in here might be verrrry interested in:

    The blank TDEE spreadsheet that the OP talks about in this thread seems really good. Thought people might want to play with it. :wink:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10639284/down-eight-pounds-in-seven-weeks-sharing-my-tdee-spreadsheet
  • biohazardinc
    biohazardinc Posts: 95 Member
    Morning everyone!

    @KeriA it looks like more good outweighs your bad and its good to focus on that! I hope today will be an even better day for you. Hopefully your mother in law isn't reading your mind. Haha..

    @kenziestabes I fear that this will be a bad month for me even though I just started. I have Mother's Day, my Birthday, and Our Anniversary. Hopefully those three days won't be as bad as I fear. I'm glad your back to your March weight!

    @justanotherloser007 My husband the quiet only child who is a mama's boy. However, I don't mind that because his Mom is pretty awesome. In fact she takes up the mom role for me more often then my own mother...but that's because my mom is pretty albescent in my life. Also, cleaning the stovetop is the bane of my existence. Sometimes I think I need a drill or a torch to get that thing clean. I question how my husband cooks to get so much crap on there.

    @bonniemcc4 Goodluck at you appointment! Hope it went well.

    @goal06082021 Glad she could be reasoned with cheeze its.

    @porquenoirl I get that. Sometimes I just want to throw my scale out the window. A podcast I listen to talks about how much certain parts of your body weights. For example your hair weights x amount and your skin x. So when you weight you just subtract those. Obviously that's not how it works but it is an entertaining through.

    @CupcakeCrusoe Congrats on holding strong! I'll have to look into MacroFactor... I really do wish the App wasn't broken but its good to find something different to help. Will you still have access to MFP community with the free site? Such a hard choice.



  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,440 Member
    biohazardinc wrote: »

    @CupcakeCrusoe Congrats on holding strong! I'll have to look into MacroFactor... I really do wish the App wasn't broken but its good to find something different to help. Will you still have access to MFP community with the free site? Such a hard choice.



    The community is free, so you don't have to worry about that.

    The background to my looking into paying for an app is, I'm trying to calorie cycle: eating fewer calories monday- Thursday to have a few more on the weekend and keep a deficit. That feature is MFP premium only.

    It's also something macrofactor does, along with some other features, so that's where that's coming from.

    But! You don't necessarily need the app to tell you a calorie limit, you could just keep it in mind or adjust every day if you wanted to keep using MFP for it without paying.

    My whole dilemma is if I want to throw money to get some neat features, lol, but it's not anything I couldn't do for free with a few more steps.

  • biohazardinc
    biohazardinc Posts: 95 Member
    CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »
    biohazardinc wrote: »

    @CupcakeCrusoe Congrats on holding strong! I'll have to look into MacroFactor... I really do wish the App wasn't broken but its good to find something different to help. Will you still have access to MFP community with the free site? Such a hard choice.



    The community is free, so you don't have to worry about that.

    The background to my looking into paying for an app is, I'm trying to calorie cycle: eating fewer calories monday- Thursday to have a few more on the weekend and keep a deficit. That feature is MFP premium only.

    It's also something macrofactor does, along with some other features, so that's where that's coming from.

    But! You don't necessarily need the app to tell you a calorie limit, you could just keep it in mind or adjust every day if you wanted to keep using MFP for it without paying.

    My whole dilemma is if I want to throw money to get some neat features, lol, but it's not anything I couldn't do for free with a few more steps.

    I guess I haven't looked at all the paid feature on MFP. However, having more or "cheat days" on the weekend was one of the things I loved about WW. I used very little points during the week then at the weekend I might eat more. I'll have to look into doing this on MFP or even MacroFactor because I do end most of my days with a deficit.
  • seltzer_lover
    seltzer_lover Posts: 261 Member
    CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »
    While doing more research to see if I wanted to pay for MacroFactor, I found a spreadsheet that Spreadsheet Gang in here might be verrrry interested in:

    The blank TDEE spreadsheet that the OP talks about in this thread seems really good. Thought people might want to play with it. :wink:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10639284/down-eight-pounds-in-seven-weeks-sharing-my-tdee-spreadsheet

    That's the spreadsheet I use! It helped me re-set my calories after MFP put them wayyy too low and helped me understand maintenance-ish the past 2 week. I love it!
  • rockitwell86
    rockitwell86 Posts: 36 Member
    @biohazardinc - I'll have to check out that band. I've been listening to Black Keys, Cake, Rival Sons (to name a few :smile: ) all day today

    @CupcakeCrusoe - I hope it turned out good for you!

    I still have not gotten myself to meal prep or get back out of vacation food mode. Ugh. I did better today & have plans of cooking tonight when I get home. I've just been so exhausted since returning. And playing catch up at work hasn't helped any. I had a meeting yesterday out of town, so that didn't help either.

    It's driving me nuts that I can't upload a new recipe into the recipe builder right now. I want to plan my dinner & I'm stuck. I know it's temporary & will be back up & running soon, but I'm just being whiny.
  • porquenoirl
    porquenoirl Posts: 76 Member
    CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »
    @seltzer_lover I got bored, so I made it pretty and added it as a tab to my other weight loss spreadsheet with the averaging graph. :smiley:

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    Omg that's a thing of beauty 🤩
  • porquenoirl
    porquenoirl Posts: 76 Member
    sandielewis2001 wrote: »
    Age: 39
    Height 5'10"
    SW Jan 7 2021: 271.1
    SW Apr 2022: 184.6
    GW this month: 179
    Goal for 2022: reach maintenance (160-170?)

    4/7/22 - 182.0 (-2.6lbs)
    4/14/22 - 184.0 (+2lbs)
    4/21/22 - 180.6 (-3.4lbs)
    4/28/22 - 183.6 (+3lbs)

    April Loss: 1lb
    LTD: 87.5 lbs

    So frustrating! I suspect this is TOM related water weight but still a bit of a letdown to see on the scale. I guess I will be thankful that I had an overall loss this month and that I am still trending in the right direction.

    NSV last week: I was shopping around for a dress and found a few I liked but they only had up to a size 8. The sales lady came over to help me and I told her I think I needed a 10 or 12. Her response "I think you would fit in the 8, why don't you try it on." I tried both dresses in an 8 and they both FIT! I may never get to an 8 in pants (because hips) but it was pretty neat to fit in an 8 dress.

    🙌💃
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »
    but it's not anything I couldn't do for free with a few more steps.

    Fun with TDEE spreadsheets!! I will do this, as I have some information from the past couple of months!! woo hoo!!
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    sandielewis2001 wrote: »
    "I think you would fit in the 8, why don't you try it on." I tried both dresses in an 8 and they both FIT! I may never get to an 8 in pants (because hips) but it was pretty neat to fit in an 8 dress.
    Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is awesome!! I also feel you on the hips. I remember literally splitting jeans in the hip area when I turned 13, and I never fit into one of those "tiny" hip numbers again. Which is fine. Because curves and what not.

  • biohazardinc
    biohazardinc Posts: 95 Member
    @rockitwell86 I do highly recommend them!

    I’m kinda bad a meal prepping. I hope to get better. And yeah the brokenness of the app is frustrating. Especially since I’m on the free trial.

    @sandielewis2001 i dream of single dodgers. But I think a more realistic goal for me is 0 at torrid. Congrats though.

    @justanotherloser007 I hear that although it’s not my hips it’s my chest I’ve been cursed with.

    @Generic_Excuse congrats on meeting alot of your April goals! Nice work!👏🏻👏🏻

    @AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I have Hoshimoto’s but just found out aft a year my levels are actually good.

  • Cluelessmama1979
    Cluelessmama1979 Posts: 129 Member
    Really want to reply to everyone... lots happening!

    But I have no spoons left. Had to go shopping today, and it takes a LOT out of me.

    Highlights:

    Weight still going down. :smile:

    Did NOT "reward" myself with fast food. I haven't gone shopping without using fast food as a reward in years. :smile:

    DID reward myself with a Mtn Dew, breaking my streak of days without. :frowning:

    Got my own bags into the car, instead of my worker doing it for me. :smile:

    Bought a food processor :smile:

    Stayed in budget :smile:

    Didn't do any small movements, but I did shopping, so that's okay. :neutral:

    Not sure when/if/what I will be able to move again. :confounded:

    I will try to check in tomorrow if I can move lol

    Stay strong yall are doing great!
  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,440 Member
    Good morning everyone!

    Friday weigh in day!

    Christina
    33 years old
    5'4"

    SW: 220ish
    Re-SW: 200.4
    Halfway GW: 183
    UGW: 150

    April GOALS! 🌻

    🟨 Log every food in grams. ✅
    🟨 Get 7k steps every day, no excuses ✅
    🟨 Lift weights 3x week❌
    🟨 More than 100g protein every day ❌

    Weigh-ins:
    4/1: 193.4
    4/8: 193.4
    4/15: 192.4 (-1)
    4/22: 193.0 (+0.6)
    4/29: 189.4 (-2.6)

    I will be away from home tomorrow, so I won't be able to do a final April weigh in, so we're calling this it. Not bad, 3 lbs in a month where I maintained for 10 days. That's good progress right there.

    Slacking on lifting, and didn't get my protein target Monday because of that stomach bug, but very happy with my weight staying, instead of shooting back up.

    Still torn about whether I want to pay money to log food, lol. I'm a libra, indecision comes with the territory. But $6 a month might be worth it. We'll see.

    Tag party!
    @sandielewis2001 OMG :smiley::heart: this is wonderful! What a great feeling!

    @rockitwell86 I hope all the functionality is back or comes back very soon. Pushing changes to production without rolling back when it doesn't work, that's not good practice. It's going to be the weekend soon, and you can reset for next week!

    @justanotherloser007 Do it, do it! :smile: It always makes me happy to see a new spreadsheet I can play with. :lol:

    @Generic_Excuse You've lost a lot of weight! And drastically reduced your sodium, to a level not many people are capable of. I would say many more ups than downs this month. Well done.

    @AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I'm so happy to hear this. :smile:

    @Cluelessmama1979 That's wonderful! I'm so happy for you, that you were able to accomplish so much toward your goals today! I hope you have more spoons today, and that you are able to do your movements.

    Happy Friday, everyone!

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