Women 200lb+, Let's Make June Joyous!!!

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  • EDTake2
    EDTake2 Posts: 165 Member
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    Hi everyone, need your help. My food scale completely died, it’s not turning on even after putting in brand new batteries. I am looking for a new one. Can you please recommend a brand that is good?
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,270 Member
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    @bojaantje3822 for a lot of the last year or 2 my whole household was working remotely at home. My husband is overworked since so many co-workers are retiring. I had a pretty demanding job although there were some lulls and our youngest living at home is working at their 1st job in their field after graduating from college finally. So I struggled to meal plan and for us to eat home cooked meals. It is always one of my goals because when we eat at home with no or few take out I lose. Being unemployed (my job was a limited duration job that came to an end) I was doing a lot better with this but last week I applied for job teaching college in my field. It was a huge application and I have to do 3 job applications a week so I gave up on a lot of my goals for the week. I still lost some weight since I was up after celebrations the week before.

    Although we set daily calorie goals it is really the weekly average that matters. For a while if you are obese 1 kg is probably okay but you are right that it is best later to slow down to .5 kg weekly weight loss. If you are under in calories nuts, avocado, yogurt, dark chocolates, cheese, eggs, milk and fruits are good. Maybe peanut butter on apple wedges instead of soda. One day of being low isn’t going to be bad if it is sedentary and you aren’t hungry. In other words I think you know the basics. Periodically I would recommend a rest from a calorie deficit. I actually lost weight the time I did this because I had been on too big a deficit. I had only set MFP for a 1 lb loss a week but it set my calorie goal to below my BMR and I wasn’t adjusting my calories as I was adding in more exercise. That was a while ago. I ended up losing 40 lbs until I went back to work full-time. You are doing a lot of exercise. You will be building muscle. If you are sore your muscles will be retaining water. Are you drinking plenty of water? Your TDEE is about 3,044 for exercise 4-5 times a week to 3221 for daily exercise. You don’t want to just look at your low limit but also if your deficit is too much for the amount of exercise you are getting. That is what slowed my weight loss before was when I had upped my exercise to an hour a day 6-7 days a week and I hadn’t adjusted my calories for that amount of exercise. That is when I finally figured out I was eating too little and had stalled. I slowly upped my calories to MFP maintenance level for 2 weeks and started to lose again. After the 2 weeks I set a more appropriate deficit for the amount of exercise I was getting. It depends on how long and at how much a deficit you have had whether you need to reset with a rest from a deficit or not. I was slowly upping my exercise and hadn’t realize what a deficit it was making. I lost 20 lbs then went into a long plateau where I tried everything but eating more. When I realized I needed to eat more I started losing again. I am at a totally different situation now. I am trying to up my exercise again but I am older and had a major health crisis last year. So I am still pretty sedentary. Then when I had that plateau, I did aquafit, run-walking, weight training with some machine cardio and exercised 6-7 days a week. Exercise makes losing weight more complicated but if we are losing for our health it makes sense to deal with the complications.
  • sargemarcori
    sargemarcori Posts: 301 Member
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    +1 Your Body Is Not A Garbage Can, Stop Treating It Like One. I am also prone to thoughts like "I'd better eat this or else it will go to waste." Here's the thing, though - it is just as wasteful for me to take in calories that my body does not need as it is for me to chuck those calories in the garbage. It doesn't help anyone, including me, to take in extra energy in the form of food, and in fact me eating the leftover slice of pizza or whatever is actually harmful to more people (i.e., me) than throwing it out would be.

    Yes, yes, YES. I've been working for years to teach myself that "Do it now" saves me effort in the long run--so how about "toss that food NOW, instead of doing the work of taking it back off your tummy after you ate something you didn't even want?"

    @EDTake2 I read a lot of reviews, and this one was highly recommended. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09HM2TN5Z It is not the one I have! This is the one I have, and it works fine two years after I bought it. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JTDG084/

    @KeriA hurray for a new low and no one you know having COVID!

    So in the long term, I'm losing weight for my health. in the short term, I'm looking to make an amazing vacation more fun. Years ago when I was taking my daughter for a horseback ride for her birthday, the staff worried about which horse could take my weight. On this trip, we have a camel ride planned, and I would really hate to overload the poor thing (esp don't want staff discussing which camel can handle me!) (No one tell me if camels can handle lots of weight, k?)

    So my mantra for this week as I get back on the wagon is "do it for the camels!"
  • swimmom_1
    swimmom_1 Posts: 1,302 Member
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    @porquenoirl Thank you. I needed the reminder how far I've come. One of the Drs told me on Monday, "You need a new ID badge." Also had a patient last week say, "How old is that picture?" It's only 1.5 years but over 100 lbs does make a big difference. And he could tell with me wearing a mask too.
  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
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    @KeriA I moved out in the middle of the pandemic (sept 2020) so I struggled with how to cook for one person. It took me a year to learn to consistently meal plan. Fortunately the miscalculations I made were often vegetables so I had days where I ate 800gr of vegetables. I also taught myself to eat fruit at that time. It must be a lot harder with a family, though I imagine a large freezer helps. There's also some websites where cooks plan out whole weeks of meals. I used to be subscribed to some of those, not to follow their plan exactly but to get some inspiration and learn how to approach meal planning. I'm still not really pre-preparing a lot since my freezer is the size of a shoe box but I have a plan for all the produce in my fridge and some back up ideas in case something comes up.

    That's really insightful advice, thank you! I will stick to my current plan for the next two weeks until my next weigh in and if nothing changed, I'll try to slowly add some calories and get close to maintenance for a bit.
    I do think I've got my water intake sorted. It's anywhere between 1250ml and 3250ml, with 1500-2000ml being the recommended average. The 1250 usually follows the 3250 day and most days I'm between 2250 and 2750. This is just measured over winter and a fairly cool spring. I imagine in summer it'll be about 500ml more on average. I bring a water bottle everywhere with me and typically drink about 1000ml during and right after my workout. I don't count hydration from soup or milk in my cereal in this, just stuff I actually drink from a glass or bottle.

    Aquafit is such great exercise, I hope you can get back to it. For me I've always been pretty active except during the pandemic and my bicycle was my main mode of transportation everywhere so I don't feel right when I don't do any for a few days. My mum used to run but then she got shoulder issues so now her main exercise is also aquafit. I love hearing that she went because I know it helps her feel better, though I think her back-and-shoulder specialist's exercises help too.
  • NoNameWonder
    NoNameWonder Posts: 110 Member
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    I'm still trying to learn how to use all the MFP features. I just wanted to let everyone know thank you for the welcome messages. This feed is really great and it's been so helpful to know so many others are having the same struggles.

    You all are doing GREAT, don't let small annoyances stop you!
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    edited June 2022
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    EDTake2 wrote: »
    Hi everyone, need your help. My food scale completely died, it’s not turning on even after putting in brand new batteries. I am looking for a new one. Can you please recommend a brand that is good?

    This is the one I have. It goes negative and has a capacity up to 22lb.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S6F6LHQ

    It's my birthday and I've officially hit the -69lb mark! Reaching that nice round 70 by the end of the month feels extremely doable. My sister sent me a Lularoe dress with a really cute ladybug print that is a little snug in the shoulders and bust but it's just so dang cute that I'm making it work today. I'm attempting a little bit of a fast - I have a burrito on the menu for breakfast today but I'm planning to eat it when I get to work, and I've left out a few of the snacks I normally bring with my lunch, to save room for a delicious dinner and a couple of delicious beers tonight.
  • kenziestabes
    kenziestabes Posts: 338 Member
    edited June 2022
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    I'll have to see if I can upload a more up to date pic of her soon. She's my profile picture, though!

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