100+ lbs to lose support group

stargazergrl82

I'm about 10 pounds heavier than my friend (we're in the 310's)and she gets around 2000 calories to my 1730. It seems kinda crazy, no?
But she said it might have to do with height since she's 6'0 and I'm only 5'7. Who knows?

I'm okay with my 1700 but I wonder how it will be when I only get like 1400. Crazy! But I guess I'll know when I get there

LaJauna

Hello new people!! Welcome!!! :-)

sbrown - I actually have the opposite problem. MFP gives me like 1900 cals for 2lbs loss per week. Granted, I'm about 100lbs heavier than you, but it's entirely too much. I've manually adjusted mine down to 1500, and even that is a challenge. I'm lucky if I can eat 1200 cals for the day.

I try to keep my goal for calories in at 10% of my current weight. It will change as my weight loss increases. I am at 272 lbs and I COULD eat up to 2700 calories a day and still lose because I am eating a low carb lifestyle. I actually only eat around 2000 calories a day because I am not hungry and that is where my body just wants to stop.

RENAEJAE

Back from a great long weekend (Took our 2 daughters to a Taylor Swift concert). Sound like some good success going on and some super motivation to join some challenges. That's awesome!! I'm just finishing up one challenge where we tracked our total # of minutes exercised and traveled that many cyber miles to visit each of our locations! A dozen of us covered 4 countries and over 25,000 miles! It's a great way to push yourself towards your ultimate goal.

Traveling and eating out was a bit rough over the weekend, but I had packed some healthy snacks and ordered smart. I am up a couple of lbs today due to the extra sodium and TOM arriving today, so I feel pretty good about being able to level that out in a day or so. I am 4lbs from reaching my 10lb goal for June. I'd LOVE to reach that by Friday or even by next Monday so I can have a huge strawberry daquiri on the 4th!! I guess I'd better shut my office door and get some sit-ups done ASAP!

Have a great day losers!

PS - I'm at 1200 cals a day. I'm sure height, current weight, age and activity have the most to do with it.

ReNae

tlems

Count me in! I am 36, have a long way to go and could use all of the support and information I can get. I am a mom to three girls, I work a desk job and I am in the TEAM weight loss program at Lifetime Fitness. We are on week 10 and i have lost 26lbs so far. It meets three nights a week and basically a trainer kicks your rump on a treadmill for an hour three times a week. I recently added weight training into my routine.

I'm 5'8 and I try to keep my calories between 1400-1500 a day.

Feel free to add me as a friend.

cobarlo14

Hi!! Is there room for me?

morganginga

Hello Everyone,

I am curious what your daily allowable calories are. Many of my MFP friends have open diaries and I see that most everyone is allowed more daily calories than I am and I am curious about it. I know it varies based on current weight, activity level, and how much you want to lose.

I am allowed 1240 cals (not including any exercise cals). My current weight is 235, I'm 5'7" and 36 years old. I am sedentary (sit at a desk 8-9 hrs perday) and want to lose 2 lbs per week.

Is that similar to anyone else here?

Very close to me. Current weight is just shy of 206, I'm also 5'7" but at 31 years old. I work as a system administrator so I'm definitely in the sedentary lifestyle starting out. I originally put my target loss at 1.5lbs per week, but after hitting the 10lbs lost mark, MFP asked if I wanted to recalculate my goals (it recalculated to 2lbs per week). The total allowed calories per day MFP assigned me is 1200 cals (not including exercise cals). My calories per day didn't change when it recalculated my goal to 2lbs per week, little odd but I'm not gonna argue.

I'm hoping to join in this group. I'm also participating in the 5lbs in July group, although I think I may need to adjust my goal weight for that one closer to starting (I may be too close the the original goal weight I picked for that group by the time I start July :-) ).

Feel free to add me if you would like

emancipateurself

I'm in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spicybaer79

I'm so in...
Intro-
I'm a 32 yr old single mother of two amazing children...I've always struggled with my weight and depression which is a double whamie...I've never been above 214 lbs but then I made the mistake of using the depo shot (Birth control) and escaluted to 258 I hated the way I felt, hated the way I looked and in general hated my life....My regular OBGYN told me that was a big mistake that depo is horrible for women over 30, mess with their emotions and weight hard core. So here I am...Could use all the friends and encouragement that I can get.
I started back in Jan but have only been serious about in the last two months...
SW- 258
CW- 248.5
Feel free to add me and lets help each other.
Thanks

rosemiller11

Jen~ I would love to oin your challenge, but I have so many going on already that I am afraid I won't get anything accomplished but spinnin my wheels, so yeah... guess I will quit on that one. Good luck tho! Oh, and btw, totally know what you mean about hating Jillian. I do have to stop and rest about once through the workout, and I take quite a few 5 second breaks as well. I know it is gonna help though, so woohoo!

Also, I have another problem.... the weightloss group I joined at work has a scales that weighed me 5 lbs heavier to begin with, but now since I weighed in today, it shows that I have lost 4.8 lbs total! In 1 week! Which is awesome, however, my scales weighed me 5lbs lighter to begin with, and now it only shows that I lost 3 lbs total the last week. Which should I believe? If I switch to the work scales... Well, what will I do when our 90 day challenge is up?

Oh, and.... my last inspiration? Extreme makeover weight loss edition with Rachel! She looked AMAZING at 208lbs. Course, I wanna get far below that, but still, shows me that there is hope. I love Chris Powell! Wish I could get him to take me on, but I know I wouldn't qualify, so I just use the show for inspiration.

dontstopnow

Hello Everyone,

I am curious what your daily allowable calories are. Many of my MFP friends have open diaries and I see that most everyone is allowed more daily calories than I am and I am curious about it. I know it varies based on current weight, activity level, and how much you want to lose.

I am allowed 1240 cals (not including any exercise cals). My current weight is 235, I'm 5'7" and 36 years old. I am sedentary (sit at a desk 8-9 hrs perday) and want to lose 2 lbs per week.

Is that similar to anyone else here?

5'9, 233, really close to turning 21 years old, set to lose 2 lbs a week and i'm allowed 1380 not including exercise cals. oh and i'm set on sedentary as well!

Thriceshy

A happy scale victory today! After three days of basically going nuts (400-500 calories over my goal per day), I'm still weighing in at exactly where I was before the trip! So no ground lost, and a happy trip!

MFP has me set for 1,600 calories a day. I was set for 1740 (or thereabouts), but it knocked me down after I lost 30 lbs. I'm 5'5", and 311 pounds, and I think I'm set at sedentary. I've been wicked sick the past week, so I haven't been working out. That doesn't seem to be affecting my loss at all, though I have been walking around more (no motorized cart in the store, walking to the pool, walking around in the desert checking out ghost towns, etc.).

Loving all the new folks--you inspire me!

Kris

Ballybabe1

Count me in too and feel free to add me as a friend. I need all the encouragement I can get and hopefully I can help you too.

annacataldo

I have 102 pounds left to loose; had more, have lost it already.

annacataldo

Hello Everyone,

I am curious what your daily allowable calories are. Many of my MFP friends have open diaries and I see that most everyone is allowed more daily calories than I am and I am curious about it. I know it varies based on current weight, activity level, and how much you want to lose.

I am allowed 1240 cals (not including any exercise cals). My current weight is 235, I'm 5'7" and 36 years old. I am sedentary (sit at a desk 8-9 hrs perday) and want to lose 2 lbs per week.

Is that similar to anyone else here?

5'9, 233, really close to turning 21 years old, set to lose 2 lbs a week and i'm allowed 1380 not including exercise cals. oh and i'm set on sedentary as well!

Im not similiar since im heavier; but thought it would give u perspective. Im 272, 5'10", sedentary, and im allowed 1570 calories a day. Im 26.

kimmisatch

WOW hi to all the new people!

Man my week is crazy, learning a brand new job you've done nothing like before (they hired me as a blank canvas to mould to how they want me to do it). My job until last Friday was all tax, and now it's all invioces and farm equipment lol. Learning is tiring, and you have moments of wondering if you made a mistake leaving the old job. I've been told it will get better though so am toughing it out.

New job is really helping my good eating though - no shops near by to tempt me, there is a BP garage but I haven't been tempted and Marlow pies is down the road but im not really a pie person. Thank goodness hehehe. I have been really organised with my lunches and getting into a good routine.

OMG tonight I discovered Fantastic sweet chilli and sour cream rice crackers - they are soooo good. My new favourite me thinks. A good snacky filler.

Hope you are all having a good week. It's Wednesday night here so all downhill from here, phew. Am off to play some Wii now. Am going to combat again for the first time in about 3 or 4 weeks on Saturday, and then a cemetary tour on Saturday night (you get a free glass of goats blood (mulled wine) at the end hehe yus).

By the way - the ad on the side here is for restaurant vouchers - burgers, donuts, steaks, sushi, brunch and ice cream. ARE THEY TRYING TO BE FUNNY? Lol all like 60 to 70% off!!!

tlems

Just wondering, how do you break down your calories. How much at breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, etc?

KnottyJen

Hello to all the new peeps!! This group just keeps on growing!! I'm lovin it! :-)

I'm going to post this again, in case any of our newer friends are interested and/or in case anyone else missed it.

We're looking for teammates to join us in an around the world "rowing" game. Here's how it works: the guy that is organizing the challenge calculated the number of calories that HE burns in rowing one mile. He will use that as a conversion. Every day, as a team, we total up how many calories we've burned - doing WHATEVER: walking, running, swimming, cleaning, cooking, etc - and then plug that into his spreadsheet. It will take the number of calories that we've burned and uses the conversion to see how many miles we've "rowed". Whichever team makes it to the finish line first is the winning team!

Here is the post from the guy running the challenge/game:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/273284-row-the-world-game-starts-1st-july-still-open

We have ten people on our team so far, and need five more. I will be team captain, which means I'll take care of totalling our calories burned and submitting them on the spreadsheet. All you will have to do is log your exercise! I think this could SO fun and motivating!! If anyone is interested in playing with us, please let me know. The game starts this Friday, July 1st, so we need to get the rest of our team together soon!!!

LASH3S

Hello Group...

Jen - Count me in.. this sounds like just the thing i need to get me started!!! NOthing wrong with a little friendly competition to get the metabolism roaring..;)

Hannah

KnottyJen

Hannah - You're in! Glad to have you!! :-)

Kinda79

Hello Everyone,

I am curious what your daily allowable calories are. Many of my MFP friends have open diaries and I see that most everyone is allowed more daily calories than I am and I am curious about it. I know it varies based on current weight, activity level, and how much you want to lose.

I am allowed 1240 cals (not including any exercise cals). My current weight is 235, I'm 5'7" and 36 years old. I am sedentary (sit at a desk 8-9 hrs perday) and want to lose 2 lbs per week.

Is that similar to anyone else here?

Really! That seems low to me. I started at 231 I'm 5'2 and 32 years old. I at first chose the sedentary and lose 1.5 lbs per week but they set mine at 1640, I've since then change to light active since I exercise about 5 times a week now, kept the 1.5 lbs per week and they changed it to 1510. I can't imagine only eating 1200 cals a day even with exercise and I usually eat pretty good. Eventually I want to lose 2 lbs a week but I thought that might be to high a goal for me right now since I do sit at the computer a lot doing my school work and other office work.

Kinda79

I'm so in...
Intro-
I'm a 32 yr old single mother of two amazing children...I've always struggled with my weight and depression which is a double whamie...I've never been above 214 lbs but then I made the mistake of using the depo shot (Birth control) and escaluted to 258 I hated the way I felt, hated the way I looked and in general hated my life....My regular OBGYN told me that was a big mistake that depo is horrible for women over 30, mess with their emotions and weight hard core. So here I am...Could use all the friends and encouragement that I can get.
I started back in Jan but have only been serious about in the last two months...
SW- 258
CW- 248.5
Feel free to add me and lets help each other.
Thanks

I totally know what you mean. I used the Depo shot as well for about 6 months or 2 shots and my mom called it the Witch Shot but with a B. She said I was super cranky and I gained almost 30 lbs while on it, I also feel crappy and just down right icky. I've sense changed to the ring which is okay. I'm 32 with 4 kids so yea don't really need another one. Anyway, I'm at about 221 right now and have lost almost 10 lbs so far. I'm tired of being tired and to overweight to play with my kids. My oldest will be 12 in October and my youngest turned 4 in January. With me going to school and taking care of them I'm busy but spend a lot of time on my tushy on the computer since my schooling is all online. I want to be able to play with my kids not sit and watch!

I'm changing how I eat, I'm drinking 12 glasses or water a day and I feel amazing!

kaaatielove

I'm so in...
Intro-
I'm a 32 yr old single mother of two amazing children...I've always struggled with my weight and depression which is a double whamie...I've never been above 214 lbs but then I made the mistake of using the depo shot (Birth control) and escaluted to 258 I hated the way I felt, hated the way I looked and in general hated my life....My regular OBGYN told me that was a big mistake that depo is horrible for women over 30, mess with their emotions and weight hard core. So here I am...Could use all the friends and encouragement that I can get.
I started back in Jan but have only been serious about in the last two months...
SW- 258
CW- 248.5
Feel free to add me and lets help each other.
Thanks

I totally know what you mean. I used the Depo shot as well for about 6 months or 2 shots and my mom called it the Witch Shot but with a B. She said I was super cranky and I gained almost 30 lbs while on it, I also feel crappy and just down right icky. I've sense changed to the ring which is okay. I'm 32 with 4 kids so yea don't really need another one. Anyway, I'm at about 221 right now and have lost almost 10 lbs so far. I'm tired of being tired and to overweight to play with my kids. My oldest will be 12 in October and my youngest turned 4 in January. With me going to school and taking care of them I'm busy but spend a lot of time on my tushy on the computer since my schooling is all online. I want to be able to play with my kids not sit and watch!

I'm changing how I eat, I'm drinking 12 glasses or water a day and I feel amazing!

I've heard a lot of negative things about the "depo" shot. Number one being that it makes you gain weight! I do the regular pill and never had a problem with mood/weight gain or loss (that i know of).
I'm glad someone started this 100+ support group. I'm 22 years old and started at my highest weight of 282 lbs. After meeting with a dietician and going by a meal plan she wrote up, ive lost 4 lbs in a week. I'm 5'8 and the only thing i have going for me is that im evenly proportioned. Im not just large in one area, i've got it all over so it looks better lol.
I can definately use the support from you guys/girls- i'm ready to make a change!! Feel free to friend me, i'd love to chat!

PurpleCoookie

I started Hip Hop Abs today and it really showed me how uncoordinated I am, but overall it was fun. Worked up a pretty good sweat and had a fun time doing it. I'm ready to start again tomorrow and will try to be on beat this time.

KnottyJen

That's awesome Coookie! I want to get into some kind of dance workout. The idea of it sounds like so much fun!!!

kimmisatch

OMG Cookie that sounds fun!!!!

So, my work had a morning tea for highflyers today and it was savouries galore, now I could have had one and been fine and within my caloies etc. But I chose not to out of sheer principal, and I feel soooo good for it now!

Does anyone have a treat day? Mine is Saturday. They say you shouldn't deny yourself of stuff, just have a little bit. So I kind of feel if I have a treat day where I can have something I really want guilt free then so be it. I don't mean go nuts and stuff myself silly. I mean if I want a packet of chips I can have it without worrying. I more want something breaddy on treat day as I don't eat bread any other time. I also still log it.

Hope you all have a super day/night whatever it is where you are (its night here).

:flowerforyou:

LaJauna

OMG Cookie that sounds fun!!!!

So, my work had a morning tea for highflyers today and it was savouries galore, now I could have had one and been fine and within my caloies etc. But I chose not to out of sheer principal, and I feel soooo good for it now!

Does anyone have a treat day? Mine is Saturday. They say you shouldn't deny yourself of stuff, just have a little bit. So I kind of feel if I have a treat day where I can have something I really want guilt free then so be it. I don't mean go nuts and stuff myself silly. I mean if I want a packet of chips I can have it without worrying. I more want something breaddy on treat day as I don't eat bread any other time. I also still log it.

Hope you all have a super day/night whatever it is where you are (its night here).

:flowerforyou:

I am living proof that "treat day" turns into "treat week" and then "treat month" and then back to square one, plus a few pounds that came along for fun. I am learning that as an addict of all food-carbage, that I cannot have ONE BITE. I am no different then an alcoholic in this instance. I am my own worst enemy when it comes to sabotage. I took last weekend off and it has taken me a week to just get back down to where I was before the "bender". Was it worth it? Hummmm.....let's see...
1. Headaches came back
2. Muscle spasms came back
3. Joint pain came back
4. Fell out of ketosis for 3 days
5. Was irritable and weepy.
Nope, it isn't worth it. I am making a pledge today. I am staying on plan until the end of the summer. Then I will re-evaluate my progress and see if I need to adjust my plan.

KnottyJen

Does anyone have a treat day? Mine is Saturday. They say you shouldn't deny yourself of stuff, just have a little bit. So I kind of feel if I have a treat day where I can have something I really want guilt free then so be it. I don't mean go nuts and stuff myself silly. I mean if I want a packet of chips I can have it without worrying. I more want something breaddy on treat day as I don't eat bread any other time. I also still log it.

I don't do a treat day. I treat every day as an equal. :-) Honestly, I think it's better (and easier for me) to just stick to it. I don't feel like I've really denied myself much. I just make *better* choices. And I eat less of EVERYTHING. My "treat" days are the ones in which I don't work out. That's totally a treat. Despite feeling TOTALLY guilty about it. lol

LaJauna

Does anyone have a treat day? Mine is Saturday. They say you shouldn't deny yourself of stuff, just have a little bit. So I kind of feel if I have a treat day where I can have something I really want guilt free then so be it. I don't mean go nuts and stuff myself silly. I mean if I want a packet of chips I can have it without worrying. I more want something breaddy on treat day as I don't eat bread any other time. I also still log it.

I don't do a treat day. I treat every day as an equal. :-) Honestly, I think it's better (and easier for me) to just stick to it. I don't feel like I've really denied myself much. I just make *better* choices. And I eat less of EVERYTHING. My "treat" days are the ones in which I don't work out. That's totally a treat. Despite feeling TOTALLY guilty about it. lol

I am with you on the day off from work outs! I have just started to go to the gym with my hubby. He does the treadmill for 45mins at 4 MPH and I am now up from 10 mins at 2 MPH to 30 mins at 2.5 MPH. Slowly but surely. I am going to get on that dang elliptical machine!

RENAEJAE

Jen - our DH's share the same BD! Looks like you reached your goal early! Congrats!!

I don't do a treat day. Every once in a while I'll cave to a crave and just try to keep it within my calories for the day. I can usually talk myself out of eating it since that one splurge is generally equivalent to an entire meal most of the time. I would rather eat 5 different healthy items for lunch than one slice of cheese pizza. For me it's a mind game. I calculate how hard I will need to workout to release the calories I'm putting into my mouth. I want calories that are going to fill be up not just safisfy a craving for 5 minutes.

Looking forward to the long weekend. I'm hoping things will slow down a bit now that summer is here. We have some fun camping plans made and really look forward to some downtime with our girls.

It's Thirsty Thursday so drink up ladies!!
ReNae

PurpleCoookie

@kimmisatch&jagrib0112 I recommend it!


I don't have a specific day for treats its usually every...other..day. lol I have to stop that!