Women 200lb+, Let's Have A Nifty Novemeber!!!
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RavenStCloud
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🍁Hello, ladies, and Happy November!
🍂We've got two months until the end of 2023! Let's try to fit in as much neat and nifty stuff as we can. We've still got time to make a dent in our goals and we're going to continue to work hard.
🍁What do you hope to accomplish this month or before the year is out?
🍂Sometimes, we put ourselves last, especially towards the end of the year with so many holidays and family obligations to keep us busy. Let's remember that we are also important and deserve time to nuture ourselves.
🍁 What's something that you can do exclusively for yourself this month?
🤎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 rainbows. 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!
🍁This November, let's remember to never give up, to never surrender, and to be as nifty as we can be!🍁
🍂We've got two months until the end of 2023! Let's try to fit in as much neat and nifty stuff as we can. We've still got time to make a dent in our goals and we're going to continue to work hard.
🍁What do you hope to accomplish this month or before the year is out?
🍂Sometimes, we put ourselves last, especially towards the end of the year with so many holidays and family obligations to keep us busy. Let's remember that we are also important and deserve time to nuture ourselves.
🍁 What's something that you can do exclusively for yourself this month?
🤎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 rainbows. 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!
🍁This November, let's remember to never give up, to never surrender, and to be as nifty as we can be!🍁
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May 1: 220ish (first goal weight)
Happy November, all!
I'm back in the saddle and ready to commit. I have an event in early May and I'm hoping a six month mini-goal will help me keep on track. This means around a 7.5lb weight loss goal a month, which I think is doable. I'm not so focused on the numbers, but I'd like to lose a chunk of weight before May, if only because it would make flying in those small airplane seats a little more comfortable.
My goals for the month:
🍁 Log all my food/stay within my calorie range
🍁 Pool twice a week/Gym twice a week
🍁 Take a daily vitamin
🍁 Check in here twice a week
🍂This month I'm going to buy myself some swim paddles for the pool and also maybe a subscription to Canva because I like creating things and the free version just isn't cutting it anymore!6 -
GOALS:
* walk at least three miles whenever the weather allows
* go the HOA clubhouse to use the gym when it's too rainy to walk (15 minutes bike; 30 minutes treadmill, and arm exercises)
* portion control, portion control, portion control
* make good food choices (going to be hard with the holidays coming up)
SW: 294 (7/4/23)
November SW: 226.6
CW: 226.0 (11/1)
GW (short term): 220
GW (long term): 165
11/1 update: I'm getting surprisingly close to be out of the 200+ category. Just 26 more pounds. I think I might actually do it this time. The last time I was 226lbs was probably after my first child was born in 2000. Last time I was below 200 was in the summer of 1999. I was 195lbs until I met my husband and he started driving me everywhere (before that, I walked because I didn't have a car). Thinking about it is what's keeping me motivated. That and just all the weird changes I've noticed. Not just my clothes no longer fitting (they're too big) but I can move in ways I couldn't just a few months ago. I also feel more steady on my feet. I used to have to hold onto both railings on our staircase because I felt like I would lose my balance and fall down the stairs. Now I just go up and down them without even thinking. Just strange things like that that I never thought about before.8 -
@justanotherjen13 Congrats on all your progress so far! You can definitely do it! And I love NSVs, especially when it's something that was such a hassle before and now is something that you don't even notice.2
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Hi all!
SW: 290 (7/4/23)
November SW: 206 (84 lbs. lost)
CW: 206.0 (11/1)
GW (short term): 199 lbs. (Onederland)
GW (long term): 130 lbs.
I am coming here for accountability. I had a t-shirt that used to be too small fit me. My energy and stamina increase when I exercise. I have a better mood while exercising, and after. I don't like most fast food or pop anymore.
Sometimes the eating plan is a struggle, and other times, it is simple, not easy. Hope to hear from more people.4 -
Linda
5'7" & 40 years old
SW: 300 lbs
Prev Low: 191 lbs
Oct 30: 216 lbs
🍁What do you hope to accomplish this month or before the year is out?
I'm hoping to lose at least 5 lbs this month. It's not a huge amount and it feels realistic. Given I hit my low weight earlier this year and then put 27 lbs back on almost immediately, I need to really focus on just getting my weight and blood sugars back in control. December I'll probably focus on moderation and overall blood sugars rather than weight. We'll see how it goes.
🍁What's something that you can do exclusively for yourself this month?
I plan to read a lot this month. Audiobooks, physical books, and ebooks. I also plan to start watching cheesy Christmas movies even though my husband hates them.
Whenever I'm not reading and he isn't around I'm going to have them on. They just bring me some joy that I can't even explain. You know what will happen. You know it's super cheesy and unrealistic. But I can't stop watching them from November 1 through the end of the year.
I'm getting to my Zumba class tonight. I actually spoke to my neighbor on Halloween so I know we're going together. Accountability is definitely key for me.7 -
I went to Zumba last night. I've only been a couple times over the past 4 months when I used to go 3 to 5 times a week. I always forget how much fun I have until I'm there. Like I just DON'T want to go to the gym but then I have a great time once I'm there. It helped that the teacher was actually my daughter's room mom a couple years ago and her son was on a soccer team with my daughter. So she's always a lot of fun. And I had 2 other friends in the class last night too. Definitely need the accountability of people checking in if I don't show up.
Tonight I'm going to a watch party with my big book club. We read Black Cake a few months ago and now it's a show on Hulu. We are all going to get together and watch the first 2 episodes together.
Tomorrow is one of my movie nights. I haven't posted about them in a while, but we actually started doing 2 a month because our list of movies has gotten so long. All my best women friends come over and we do pot luck food and snacks. The kids all run around and play together. And once we send the kids outside or upstairs, we also watch a movie. The movies are usually drawn from a bucket at the end of the previous movie night, so the order of movie watching is completely random. This time the movie is Roxanne starrring Steve Martin from 1987. Also, we're doing a Friendsgiving theme pot luck. So far we have turkey, butternut squash soup, mashed potatoes, green beans, and an apple cobbler all claimed. I might just eat really light throughout Saturday and let myself enjoy all the homemade food on Saturday night.7 -
🍁So the first week of November is done and I'm doing really well. I've been to the gym once and the pool three times. I'm also eating more, which sounds counterproductive, but I'm eating at my recommended calorie goal now (about 1850) and I'm feeling better all around.
🍂What I've decided to really focus on for the next couple of months, is my relationship with food. I know this sounds weird, but I've decided that when I'm hungry I'm going to eat a full meal. Usually, I'd get crazy hungry and feel the need to just eat any snack that I had laying around, regardless of how healthy or unhealthy it was. And then I'd be hungry a short time later because it wasn't enough/it wasn't filling.
But now, if I get hungry, I'm like okay, let's sit down and eat a full meal.Thats not to say I'm not having some snacks, but just trying to get into the pattern of regular meals at regular times and listening to my body.
I watched this video the other day by Adam Wright Fitness (he's fitness coach and makes videos about healthy vs unhealthy food and exercises choices). In this particular video, he'd had a meeting with a potential client, but he had rejected her. She had an eating disorder and he told her she needed to focus on getting better mentally/emotionally before he took her on as a weight loss client.
So I think this is my take on that. I used to make crazy charts that would track my meals, my exercising, my steps, my vitamins, my water, etc and make myself jump through all these hoops that I would eventually get tired of jumping through and then I'd just give up.
But now, the only thing I'm tracking is my food on MFP. AndI'm going to the gym/pool when I feel like going (not because I'm looking at a chart and feeling guilty about my lack of entries).
I know I previously said that I'd love to lose 45lbs in the next six months, but I think if I commit to treating myself better and taking things slowly and less rigidly, I'll be in a better place, both mentally and physically, and any weight that I lose, I'll be happy with.
So that's what's going on with me. Happy November everyone.6 -
SW: 252
CW: 247
Goal by end of November: 240
Happy November, sorry I’m late to the party! 🥳
I went to the doctor recently and was told I have diabetes. That was my wake up call! I’ve lost and gained the same 30 lbs over the past two or three years. It’s been ages since I’ve been under 200. But this time I’m going to do it! 💪🏼 Glad I found this group. Can’t wait to celebrate successes with all of you.
My goals for the month:
🍁 Log all my food/stay within my calorie range
🍁 Walk/work out 3x/week
🍁 Take a daily vitamin
🍁 Check in here twice a week4 -
I had sooo much food at movie night on Saturday and then ate so many leftovers yesterday. I still have quite a few leftovers to eat but I'm back to moderation after a weekend of having whatever I wanted of what was around. In good news (or bad depending on how you look at it) I'm out of mashed potatoes. Since that's my favorite food and a major weakness I'm going to say it's good to not have that temptation still in the house.
@RavenStCloud I think we all need to examine our relationship with food from time to time. I know sometimes I’m really healthy about how I’m eating, how I’m reacting to situations, how I feel about little indulgences. I know at other times I go into binging or guilting myself or all other manner of bad ways of dealing with food. I’ve said before that food is an addiction that I fight from time to time. Unfortunately, unlike most other addictions we can’t stop eating. So all we can do is address our relationship with it.
@flacachica2 I have diet and exercise controlled type 2 diabetes. It's really hard to get that news, for sure! It was my wake up call too.2 -
Thank you @RavenStCloud for creating this forum every month
! Like everyone, I had a few challenges in Oct including a wine tasting weekend celebrating a friend's 50th + travelling 9 days. I was able to log my food other than 3 days. My exercise was non-exsistant last month but I started a 21 jump start fitness program and am happy to report that I have done 1 day in a row 
I have my annual physical 11/22 so we'll see what happens with my numbers. Doc put me on a low dose statin last year and HBP meds a few years earlier that I would really like to ditch- My goals are to log EVERYTHING: The good, the bad and the ugly (with the notable exception of
Thanksgiving - I am not a masochist) - Complete my 21 day fitness challenge. (hopefully in 20 days)
- Cutting out alcohol M-F (started this last month and it was not as hard as I thought)
- Logging updates here once or twice a week.
- Spend time each day meditating which I have been doing so that's a quick win.
SW: 212.4 (10/3/23)
CW: 210 (11/6)
GW (short term): 195 by EOY
GW (long term): 1653 - My goals are to log EVERYTHING: The good, the bad and the ugly (with the notable exception of
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Good morning!!!!! I got my newest recipe up on my blog for Slow Cooker Adobe Chicken and Rice. https://www.healthyeatingwithlinda.com/post/slow-cooker-adobo-seasoned-chicken-rice-with-a-hidden-vegetable
I need to text my neighbor/accountability partner about maybe going to the gym tonight. I know if I'm left to my own devices I'll stay home and read now that Iron Flame came out today. So I need someone to make me get out and move.
@Mywishnow Welcome!!!2 -
I need to have more help. I was almost down 30.
Today 227.4
short term goal 217
by january 207
overall goal 165
feel free to add me3 -
Here I am , trying again. I just seemed to lose it in August. Got below 95 kilos and then stopped everything.cos now I’m somewhere between 98 and 100 kilos.. I really want to get below 95 before Christmas. I need to log all my food , weigh daily , post here at least twice a week. I need to make healthy choices, eat good food, cut out the crap. I’m trying to swim at least 3 times a week, gym twice, walk daily.
Ive had some bad things happen lately, but I cant let that derail me. Obesity does not help!3 -
This is my first post. I started on MFP on 10/23/2013. I entered my info and MFP came up with 1290 calories a day. I have done exactly that, recorded every morsel, and have lost 8 lbs in the first two weeks!!! I realize part of that is just water weight but I'll take it! I just turned 68, am pre-diabetic, so I'm here for the long term.
SW: 246
CW: 238
Short term goal: 195
Long term goal: 166 (80 lbs)
I started going to the gym twice a week and walking other days. This isn't easy as I have chronic pain but I'm hoping that as I lose more weight, it will get easier. My exercise goal is to walk or go to the gym at least 4 days a week. I want to make this attainable without setting me up for failure. My husband is very supportive and is on the program with me, which has helped tremendously.
Current Goals:
~ Log calories, water and exercise every day
~ Exercise at least 4 days a week
~ Drink 80-100oz. of water daily
~ Limit alcohol to no more than 2 drinks per week
~ Survive Thanksgiving!!!
Thank you for sharing and good luck to everyone!
Have a great week!
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GOALS:
* walk at least three miles whenever the weather allows
* go the HOA clubhouse to use the gym when it's too rainy to walk (15 minutes bike; 30 minutes treadmill, and arm exercises)
* portion control, portion control, portion control
* make good food choices (going to be hard with the holidays coming up)
SW: 294 (7/4/23)
November SW: 226.6
CW: 220.4 (11/8)
GW (short term): 220 200
GW (long term): 165
11/8 update: So far this month has be a piece of cake. I really thought it would start to get harder to lose with the weather changing so I wouldn't be out walking as much and the holidays coming up (lots of yummy food and desserts around), but so far, our weather has been great so I've been walking just as much as I did in October and Septemeber, if not more (expaned my walking route to 4 miles). I had hoped to get to 220 by the end of the month but I hit it yesterday! Today is my first test of controlled eating when there's lots of temptation. I'm making pizza for the first time in months. It's my favorite but high in calories. I think I'm going to have a very light lunch (like half a small salad and nothing else) so I can enjoy the pizza for dinner. Then I told my grandson we can bake cookies on Friday (eep). Keeping away from the cookies will be the true challenge because they tend to just sit out on the counter, and I just grab one or two every time I'm in the kitchen.3 -
Hi there!
New to the community. Old hat at diets and weight loss. Two kids under 6 and some medical issues has left my body pretty lumpy and dumpy. Trying to find the balance between self-acceptance and making a change that’s a good move for my long term health and vitality. I think BMI charts are *kitten* and I haven’t been under 200 lbs since I was 21. Breaking that barrier would be excellent. I also don’t own a scale but I’m going to get one and weigh myself today. I’m scared about the emotional toll that will take but am trying to frame my mind to take the number just as information. We will see how it goes! Looking for support and community if you’re interested.4 -
Hi everyone,
I’m new to this community going through and reading everyone’s comments have really helped a lot. I have 75 pounds to lose and would love to have friends in the same position as I am. I am 62 years old so losing has been slower than when I was younger lol. I have lost 117 pounds since Aug 22 but since fracturing my ribs in September have had a rough time getting back on track and have gained 16 pounds.
My goals:
Walk 10,000 steps a day
Work out 4-5 x week
Lose 10 pounds in month of November
Increase protein
Increase endurance
Decrease A1C (I am a diabetic 2)2 -
sandramarshall200 wrote: »Here I am , trying again. I just seemed to lose it in August. Got below 95 kilos and then stopped everything.cos now I’m somewhere between 98 and 100 kilos.. I really want to get below 95 before Christmas. I need to log all my food , weigh daily , post here at least twice a week. I need to make healthy choices, eat good food, cut out the crap. I’m trying to swim at least 3 times a week, gym twice, walk daily.
Ive had some bad things happen lately, but I cant let that derail me. Obesity does not help!
Hi, Logging all my food really has been the only thing that is working for me. The days I log I am more mindful and that really helps rather than just guessing on the days that I do not log. I am not saying I don't stall losing weight at times, but for the last 6 months I have done better by logging and weighing myself daily. Good Luck!2 -
Hi everyone,
I’m new to this community going through and reading everyone’s comments have really helped a lot. I have 75 pounds to lose and would love to have friends in the same position as I am. I am 62 years old so losing has been slower than when I was younger lol. I have lost 117 pounds since Aug 22 but since fracturing my ribs in September have had a rough time getting back on track and have gained 16 pounds.
My goals:
Walk 10,000 steps a day
Work out 4-5 x week
Lose 10 pounds in month of November
Increase protein
Increase endurance
Decrease A1C (I am a diabetic 2)
If you lost 117 lbs since August 22nd, I think you are doing fabulous. Did you mean to type 17lbs?
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kathyandreasen67 wrote: »This is my first post. I started on MFP on 10/23/2013. I entered my info and MFP came up with 1290 calories a day. I have done exactly that, recorded every morsel, and have lost 8 lbs in the first two weeks!!! I realize part of that is just water weight but I'll take it! I just turned 68, am pre-diabetic, so I'm here for the long term.
SW: 246
CW: 238
Short term goal: 195
Long term goal: 166 (80 lbs)
I started going to the gym twice a week and walking other days. This isn't easy as I have chronic pain but I'm hoping that as I lose more weight, it will get easier. My exercise goal is to walk or go to the gym at least 4 days a week. I want to make this attainable without setting me up for failure. My husband is very supportive and is on the program with me, which has helped tremendously.
Current Goals:
~ Log calories, water and exercise every day
~ Exercise at least 4 days a week
~ Drink 80-100oz. of water daily
~ Limit alcohol to no more than 2 drinks per week
~ Survive Thanksgiving!!!
Thank you for sharing and good luck to everyone!
Have a great week!
I am 69 and have bad knees, so I can relate with the chronic pain. I am now at 228 but it has taken me a very long time getting there. Years and years. Keep up the good work! It is tough, but as I keep losing, even though it is slow going, it sure makes me feel better about myself.4
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