MY 100 POUND JOURNEY
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Hello everyone. I don't know if it's too late to join the group but I started my weight loss journey on April 15th at 253 lbs. I want to get down to 150lbs as my long term goal but have decided to do this journey 5 lbs at a time. Today I weighed in at 228.8 lbs.
SW 253 lbs
CW 228.8 lbs
STGW 175lbs
LTGW 150lbs
Looking at your progress, I can see that you all are motivated and determined as well. Congratulations to you all!3 -
May Month update
Start of May weight: 337.6lbs
End of May weight: 327.6lbs
Total Month Loss: 10lbs
Current weight: 325.6lbs
Hope everyone else is doing well and keeping focused. Best of luck, hoping June brings much success to us all!
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Yay Monika! Despite the fact that you've lost 23 lbs, "Maintaining" is also a major success. 👏🏼 You're doing good. Only 3 more weeks until your work commute is over. Time goes by so fast, it'll be here before you know it. Then you'll have plenty of time for some "self-care." Yay! 👏🏼 😀gesundundmunter wrote: »SW 258.4 lbs July 2023. CW 235.8 lbs. I managed to maintain my weight +/- 0.5 lbs. 3 more weeks of work commute and closer to self-care.
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Hello. It's never too late to join us on MY 100 POUND JOURNEY. Welcome.mrivera713 wrote: »Hello everyone. I don't know if it's too late to join the group but I started my weight loss journey on April 15th at 253 lbs. Today I weighed in at 228.8 lbs. SW 253 lbs. CW 228.8 lbs.
If my calculations are correct, you've lost a whopping 23 lbs in only 46 days. That's about 4 lbs a week 🔥 Wow! You're doing great. Tell us how you did it. What have you been eating? I want to know. 😎
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Hey Lisa. You've lost about 2.5 lbs a week last month. Nice work. Way to go! 👏🏼 I have a good feeling about the month of June. 🤠lislisa123 wrote: »Total Month Loss: 10lbs Current weight: 325.6lbs. Hope everyone else is doing well and keeping focused. Best of luck, hoping June brings much success to us all!
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I'm down another 0.5 lb since yesterday.
So far today, I've eaten 2 packs of Walmart Great Value instant apple cinnamon oatmeal, 2 hard boiled eggs, 1 naval orange and 1 cup of coffee. ☕️ 🥣 🥚
For Dinner, I plan on eating a Baked russet potato with butter, salt & pepper, 1 can of del monte spinach, a tossed green salad with red onions, garbanzo beans, and Ken's thousand island dressing. Frozen mixed fruit from Costco for desert. If my menu changes, I'll let you know. 🥗 🥔 🍊
The box of hard boiled eggs I bought from Costco is almost gone. I have 6 left. When those eggs are gone, I plan on leaving eggs out of my diet completely. They seem to be slowing me down. 🥕 🥔 🥦2 -
Hi Everyone I tried in Jan to start losing again but I was not in the right frame of mind. It is June 1st and I am ready to get back on track. I had previously lost 280 pounds, but never made it to my goal weight. In 2020 I started gaining my weight back. Tomorrow I will weigh in, post my weight, and set new goals. I did look around today and see things have changed since I was last here or maybe I am just older and have forgotten how everything works in the community and on the tracking of what I eat. Please bear with me as I learn everything all over again.2
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Hi Amanda. It’s nice to see you again. You first joined MY 100 POUND JOURNEY in January. Welcome back. Tomorrow you’re off to a fresh new start. I’ll be rooting for you. 🦋ssflbelle2012 wrote: »Hi Everyone I tried in Jan to start losing again but I was not in the right frame of mind. It is June 1st and I am ready to get back on track. I had previously lost 280 pounds. In 2020 I started gaining my weight back. Tomorrow I will weigh in, post my weight, and set new goals.
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I've lost 2 pounds since yesterday. Today's menu:
BREAKFAST: 2 packs Apple cinnamon instant oatmeal. 1 naval orange. 2 hardboiled eggs. Black coffee. ☕️ 🥣 🥚
DINNER: 3 Veggie Tacos made from--- 3 crunchy Ortega taco shells. 0.5 cup of Morning Star Farms Chorizo Crumbles. Chopped iceberg lettuce. 1 small chopped tomato. 1 Kirkland Chunky guacamole mini cup. Crystal hot sauce. 🌮 🌮 🌮
DESERT: about 3 cups of Costco frozen mixed fruit and 1 cup of chamomile tea. 🫖 🍑2 -
Correction: The Taco Shells weren't Ortega They were Old El Paso crunchy taco shells.
Some of my favorite snacks that help me lose weight are: Skinny Pop Popcorn from Costco, and canned Goya brand garbanzo beans (Goya tastes the best). I pour them in a strainer, rinse them well with water, and eat the entire can of beans like popcorn. 😋0 -
7freshflowers thanks for the support! I am in 2 groups Woman 220Lb and this one. I got confused yesterday and thought I posted to this group. Sorry for my confusion but I am an older woman and confusion is happening the older I get. I did weigh yesterday and did not gain since January. I lost 5 pounds. So please let me know if I did this right.
Highest weight 497
Starting weight from Jan 265.6
Current weight 260.6
June goal weight 250
Overall goal weight 170
I have logged my food eaten for the past 3 days and yesterday I even downloaded some chair videos I hope to start doing them on my 5 days off.3 -
Yes Amanda. You're doing it right. Thanks for re-joining MY 100 POUND JOURNEY. Looking forward to seeing your progress. I need to download some chair exercise videos too. 🪑ssflbelle2012 wrote: »7freshflowers thanks for the support! I lost 5 pounds. So please let me know if I did this right. Highest weight 497. Current weight 260.6 I have logged my food eaten for the past 3 days and yesterday I even downloaded some chair videos I hope to start doing them on my 5 days off.
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I find this quote to be so true. I used to faint every time I had to get my blood drawn until I finally changed my attitude about it. Now, it doesn't bother me at all. I even help the doctor find my veins and watch her put the needle in. Never could do that before. The mind is a powerful thing.
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The lady in the polka dot dress is me.
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Im new here! Gave birth my 5 months old and got done with breastfeeding and eximent stage in my life but also gained more weight than when pregnant. Im so ready to start this journey goal is to loss 100lb avoiding gastric slave and more importat be healthy to take care of my new baby im 39 many reasons more to be healthy and sexy
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Hello Lucy. Welcome to MY 100 POUND JOURNEY. Yes. Avoid bariatric surgery if you can. 👏 MFP is the way to go.LucyMendez2024 wrote: »Im new here! Im so ready to start this journey goal is to loss 100lb avoiding gastric sleeve.
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I always wish I knew what others were eating. That's why I occasionally post my daily menus. Post yours, if you like. I'd love to know. I've lost exactly 1 pound since yesterday. Today's menu (same as yesterday):
BREAKFAST: Big bowl of Kellogg's corn flakes with about a tablespoon of sugar, 2 cups of soy milk, 2 hard boiled eggs, and 1 cup of strong black coffee.
DINNER: A big bowl of homemade vegetable soup, ! small avocado, and 17 (1 serving) Simple Mills Almond Crackers.
Every ounce counts, you know. I always weigh myself naked.
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OK, I'll be brave and show my food intake. Lol. I'm definitely not a role model when it comes to food choices. I eat a lot of processed food as I don't cook, the microwave is my friend. I need to work on my salt intake, thanks to the seasonings I use, but other than that, I'm usually under in every other category. I used to be very restrictive with eating only allowing myself 1,000 to 1,200 calories a day plus working out but I found that left me very moody and feeling starved. Not everyone is the same, not everything that works for you will work for someone else. We all have to find our own paths and things that work for us. I found eating between 1,500 to 1,700 calories works best for me. However, I also burn a lot of calories from my workouts, anywhere from 600 to 800 calories and up.@freshflowers: I always wish I knew what others were eating.
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lislisa123 wrote: »
OK, I'll be brave and show my food intake. Lol. I'm definitely not a role model when it comes to food choices. I eat a lot of processed food as I don't cook, the microwave is my friend.@freshflowers: I always wish I knew what others were eating.
THANK YOU Lisa for showing us your food diary. It looks healthy enough to me. I'm going to try some of the stuff you eat. Especially the Crystal light, apple chips, and pineapple tidbits. 😋
You're always eating under your calorie limit. You must be losing weight like a maniac.
LIsa, I always eat over my limit of sodium/salt too. I LOVE MSG ❤️. The idea that MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is bad for you is an "old wives tale." It simply isn't true.
Chinese food used to taste so much better when restaurants used MSG.
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@7freshflowersYou're always eating under your calorie limit. You must be losing weight like a maniac.
LIsa, I always eat over my limit of sodium/salt too. I LOVE MSG ❤️. The idea that MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is bad for you is an "old wives tale." It simply isn't true.
Chinese food used to taste so much better when restaurants used MSG.
I wish! Lol! It's still very much a struggle to lose weight. I lose about a pound or 2 a week. However, I did have a rough week last week, with a family event where I had no choice but to eat the food served there, which was not healthy. I ended up gaining weight ( probably water weight ) I worked my butt off to lose it and at the end of the week, I was able to lose the water weight plus an additional 4oz. It probably would have been a 1 or 2-lb weight loss if I didn't have the event.
Salt has always been a problem for me. It's in all processed food, heaps of it. I try to be more wary of it but there is only so much you can do. I found that drinking lots of water helps flush out salt in your system and helps to keep you from gaining the water weight from the salt. If I know I'm going to eat something really salty. I try to have an extra glass or two of water to help dilute it in my system.
I also found out recently Greek yogurt is great for losing weight. I started having vanilla Greek yogurt with fresh strawberries and blueberries along with some granola as a dessert on certain days.
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Salt has always been a problem for me. It's in all processed food, heaps of it. I try to be more wary of it but there is only so much you can do. I found that drinking lots of water helps flush out salt in your system and helps to keep you from gaining the water weight from the salt. If I know I'm going to eat something really salty. I try to have an extra glass or two of water to help dilute it in my system.
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So true, Lisa. I weaned myself from salt seasoning - as it is in all processed food - a long time ago. Once in a big while I have salted fries. I use tumeric for white rice and to emulate curry chicken salad, Italian seasoning for tomatoes/pasta, basil and a real basil plant to treat myself with tomatoes and fresh mozzarella (caprese style) or brie on baguette.
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@gesundundmunter Yeah, I still remember my high school biology teacher telling the class once that you should never add salt to food, that you don't need to, there is already so much salt on food.
Which is definitely true with preprocessed food or take-out food. I try to not add salt if I don't need to. It's only if I'm having cooked chicken/meat that is plain that I need the seasoning on. I didn't realize till recently how much salt is added in some seasonings.
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I'm an Hourglass. My mom was an apple.
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@7freshflowers
You're lucky, you have some curves. Hourglass is usually the most flattering body shape. I'm unfortunately the ball of fat-looking apple. 😆
They should change the last shape's name from Rectangle to Poptart shape. Lol.
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Hey Lisa, just stumbled across this and found your story interesting. Can you say how much you have lost? It may be here somewhere, I only read the first and last few pages.
I no longer need to lose 100 pounds, but I did once. My highest weight was 360, today I weighed 185. I got down to a low of 143 a couple of years ago and felt awful, underweight and malnourished. So I can appreciate your desire not to go too low. I've been up and down since, and would like to lose about 20 pounds, I think something in the mid-160s would work best for me.
My biggest problem was and still is bingeing. It's not as bad as it once was, I have been a couple of weeks without bingeing and trying my best to manage it. Do you have the binge problem, or are you just a big eater?
Anyway you gave me a feeling of having been there once. I sure hope you are successful, and you seem to be doing a lot of things right, so I think you will be. I may check in on you from time to time, if it's ok. Best of luck with it.
You asked for others to post their food, so here is mine from yesterday. I claim to be no expert, and am
not suggesting anyone try to do the same as me, but here it is.
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Yeah, but you have great legs. I always envied my mother's slender legs. I carry most of my weight in my legs. She had a large chest and stomach, and beautiful legs. 🦵🏼lislisa123 wrote: »@7freshflowers You're lucky, you have some curves.
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For those who are low-carb, Costco has a great deal on hard-boiled eggs. 🥚
You get 16 packs of 2 organic eggs. Very convenient. You can find them in the refrigerated dairy room with the milk and raw eggs. 🥚
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