200’s Club: Anyone weigh anywhere in the 200’s? Let’s support one another here!

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  • GuyanaGold21
    GuyanaGold21 Posts: 50 Member
    cory17 wrote: »
    The best day all week. Giving up sugar for Lent, I want to see a LOSS this month.

    Wishing you the best of losses!! You can do it! :)
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    Omg I can’t believe I’m out of the 250’s!!!! Finally!!!! I love this group but can’t wait to finally say goodbye to the 200’s. But even when I do, I’ll still show support... we got this!
  • ChickieBoom22
    ChickieBoom22 Posts: 80 Member
    Congrats Pecabonitas!! I can’t wait to get out of the 230’s. Been here too long.
  • timetolosethatweight
    timetolosethatweight Posts: 23 Member
    SW 260 + +
    CW 253
    GW 193 ish

    Anyone feel free to add me as a friend. It's helpful to have encouragement and to encourage others.
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    ChickieBoom22 wrote: »
    Congrats Pecabonitas!! I can’t wait to get out of the 230’s. Been here too long.

    Thank you!!!! What’s funny is I’d love to be in the 230s right now... lol
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    timetolosethatweight wrote: »
    SW 260 + +
    CW 253
    GW 193 ish

    Anyone feel free to add me as a friend. It's helpful to have encouragement and to encourage others.

    Yes indeed! Congratulations on your weight loss! Nice job!
  • cory17
    cory17 Posts: 1,502 Member
    Two months left to the new year. Let's leave this year better than we started it.
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    cory17 wrote: »
    Two months left to the new year. Let's leave this year better than we started it.

    Yes indeed!!!
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    I can’t wait to get to the 230s!!!! Who’s coming with me?
  • tlsr04
    tlsr04 Posts: 3 Member
    edited November 2019
    SW 265
    SD 8/1/2019
    CW 242
    First goal 230

    I started walking during my son’s soccer practices 3x a week in August. At first I could only do about 10 minutes. I was hard and I don’t always make it, but I didn’t quit. Now I walk about 30 minutes 3x a week and I’m adding strength workouts 3 x a week. It was overwhelming at first and seemed impossible. But i feel my first goal in sight. I use MFP to track food and workout with the Aaptiv app. It really helps to have that coach in my ear. Holidays are coming and I know there will be days I make the wrong choices on food and movement but I’m trying to stayed focused and realize a mistake doesn’t end the journey.

    I don’t want this to be all consuming. I would like it to just become a natural part of my life.
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    That’s amazing!!!! So proud of you! The journey of 1,000 steps begins with the first step!
  • gwensgrannie
    gwensgrannie Posts: 15 Member
    Hello

    Highest weight 268 current 250
    Goal weight 199

    I am also in a weight loss support group and in that group I have lost every week for the past 6 weeks. Total loss, though, is 2.6 pounds. But even a loss of .2 is a loss! Before that I have been up and down and kept within a 7 pound range. I am still in that range. Why oh why is it so hard to lose? In 2013 I got down to 235 eating 2000 calories a day and no I am not an active person. I was a bookkeeper who uses a cane off and off for the past 20 years. Now I find I can lose if I stay in the 1600-1800 calorie range. It took some work to get to where I could do that. Bread, usually white bread, is often the enemy. I have been pretty successful eliminate almost all sugary foods, but Salt! I need to learn to use herbs. I am stronger now that I was a year ago when I was using the treadmill set at between 1.8 to 2.3 mph. Now I range 2.0-2.6 so that's a plus. You don't burn fat quickly going that slow but progress is progress.
  • neugebauer52
    neugebauer52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    Started on 170 kg - 374 pounds 591 days ago. So far down 44 kg, 97 pounds a looking forward to the round 100.
  • gwensgrannie
    gwensgrannie Posts: 15 Member
    That's pretty fantastic!!
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    Wow! Welcome! I love how you never quit even though the process has not been easy. My heaviest 280 and my current 246. My goal is 155. I know I’ll get there.... I know we’ll get there!!!! I set April 2020 as a target....
    gwensgrannie wrote: »
    Hello

    Highest weight 268 current 250
    Goal weight 199

    I am also in a weight loss support group and in that group I have lost every week for the past 6 weeks. Total loss, though, is 2.6 pounds. But even a loss of .2 is a loss! Before that I have been up and down and kept within a 7 pound range. I am still in that range. Why oh why is it so hard to lose? In 2013 I got down to 235 eating 2000 calories a day and no I am not an active person. I was a bookkeeper who uses a cane off and off for the past 20 years. Now I find I can lose if I stay in the 1600-1800 calorie range. It took some work to get to where I could do that. Bread, usually white bread, is often the enemy. I have been pretty successful eliminate almost all sugary foods, but Salt! I need to learn to use herbs. I am stronger now that I was a year ago when I was using the treadmill set at between 1.8 to 2.3 mph. Now I range 2.0-2.6 so that's a plus. You don't burn fat quickly going that slow but progress is progress.

  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    Woot woot!!!! Way to go! That’s pretty amazing and inspiring!!!
    neugebauer52 wrote: »
    Started on 170 kg - 374 pounds 591 days ago. So far down 44 kg, 97 pounds a looking forward to the round 100.

  • mamakatiekat
    mamakatiekat Posts: 74 Member
    My starting weight was 287, I'm currently 205. My goal weight is 160. If anyone wants to add me, I'd love to make some new friends to chat with and support.
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    Hi and welcome! We have similar goals!!!! Oh I can’t wait to be where you are! SW 280 CW 246 GW 155.....
    mamakatiekat wrote: »
    My starting weight was 287, I'm currently 205. My goal weight is 160. If anyone wants to add me, I'd love to make some new friends to chat with and support.

  • aloe01
    aloe01 Posts: 1 Member
    CW: 218
    GW: 155

    @lmcgetrick are we the same person? Because I swear we are. I have never been over 200lbs (not even while pregnant with my kids) until the last year or so. I'd like to say that I don't know what happened, but divorce, depression, general malaise and such happened. Being so overwhelmed with life makes it hard to be consistent with lifestyle changes. This is where I struggle. I'm the epitome of inconsistency. I'll lose weight, have a binge weekend, and put it all back on. I have trouble with self-motivation and have yet to find a method that will stick with me.
  • cory17
    cory17 Posts: 1,502 Member
    @aloe01 I'm there too. Will go down 5 lbs and it'll come back the very same week, over and over. And the "self motivation" is in the wind.
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    Ha! I was feeling the same way! It’s a vicious cycle I was on with losses and gains when it came to my weight.... the good thing is we don’t stay down, we get back up again! Thank you for sharing!
    aloe01 wrote: »
    CW: 218
    GW: 155

    @lmcgetrick are we the same person? Because I swear we are. I have never been over 200lbs (not even while pregnant with my kids) until the last year or so. I'd like to say that I don't know what happened, but divorce, depression, general malaise and such happened. Being so overwhelmed with life makes it hard to be consistent with lifestyle changes. This is where I struggle. I'm the epitome of inconsistency. I'll lose weight, have a binge weekend, and put it all back on. I have trouble with self-motivation and have yet to find a method that will stick with me.

  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    Same. But each day is a new day to try again 💪🏾
    cory17 wrote: »
    @aloe01 I'm there too. Will go down 5 lbs and it'll come back the very same week, over and over. And the "self motivation" is in the wind.

  • torih941
    torih941 Posts: 208 Member
    Hi all,

    SW: 270
    CW: 263.5 and I have been stuck there for a few weeks, I've recently started working out so I know that it can take the body 2-3 weeks to drop that extra water weight from being sore, so I am just trying to stick to it, even when the scale is moving the opposite way. Bleh, hard to keep the motivation, but I am also tired of feeling this way, so I can't quit.

    Feel free to add me, I love having the extra support.
  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    I feel your pain..... I haven’t worked out in over a month due to multiple jobs keeping me exhausted. I’m a single mom trying to hold it all together and lose weight.... welcome!
    torihudson6 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    SW: 270
    CW: 263.5 and I have been stuck there for a few weeks, I've recently started working out so I know that it can take the body 2-3 weeks to drop that extra water weight from being sore, so I am just trying to stick to it, even when the scale is moving the opposite way. Bleh, hard to keep the motivation, but I am also tired of feeling this way, so I can't quit.

    Feel free to add me, I love having the extra support.

  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    😉
    cory17 wrote: »
    @aloe01 I'm there too. Will go down 5 lbs and it'll come back the very same week, over and over. And the "self motivation" is in the wind.

  • blackkitty73
    blackkitty73 Posts: 32 Member
    Ok. I’m currently 97kg (around 213 pounds). Earlier this year (May) I was 110kg (242 pounds). I’ve see-sawed around my current weight for months. I need to get to 58kg (127 pounds) for “healthy” weight for my height. I also have Hashimotos and am currently taking prednisone; both inhibit weight loss and promote weight gain.

    I’ve been overweight since I was a kid. I had a lap band installed 2010 (lost 45 kg but never left obese category). It failed me by 2015 and I regained all the weight back by 2018. The band now has no fluid or minimal fluid. Planning to have it removed one day

    So 39 kg (86 pounds) to lose now. Rebooting after being sick for several weeks and eating stuff that was quick and easy.

    Really need to steady myself for the ups and downs. Greatful for the community support.

  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    This is your journey, your testimony..... stay encouraged because you can hit your health goals, and you will! Believe in yourself, love on yourself no matter how much you weigh, and of course you have us for support!

    blackkitty73 wrote: »
    Ok. I’m currently 97kg (around 213 pounds). Earlier this year (May) I was 110kg (242 pounds). I’ve see-sawed around my current weight for months. I need to get to 58kg (127 pounds) for “healthy” weight for my height. I also have Hashimotos and am currently taking prednisone; both inhibit weight loss and promote weight gain.

    I’ve been overweight since I was a kid. I had a lap band installed 2010 (lost 45 kg but never left obese category). It failed me by 2015 and I regained all the weight back by 2018. The band now has no fluid or minimal fluid. Planning to have it removed one day

    So 39 kg (86 pounds) to lose now. Rebooting after being sick for several weeks and eating stuff that was quick and easy.

    Really need to steady myself for the ups and downs. Greatful for the community support.

  • pecabonitas
    pecabonitas Posts: 153 Member
    Man I love this group! My goals are getting closer and closer and it’s so exciting! When I leave the 200’s club in April 2020 by scale, I won’t be leaving by heart.... I’m still here for you guys with whatever you need motivation or inspiration on!!!
  • j3johns4
    j3johns4 Posts: 3 Member
    edited December 2019
    Great group here!

    My highest weight was 250. Then, In 2017, for the first time I was successful in shedding some pounds and got to about 180. Over the past 3 months my weight has climbed back up to 205. Once I got out of the 200 pound range, I promised myself i'd never let myself go back; so disappointed in myself.

    Today I am getting back on track. My goal weight is 160. I hope my wedding (August) will provide the motivation needed.

    My game plan is to track everything on this MFP and to avoid sugar.
  • TrueGrit732
    TrueGrit732 Posts: 52 Member
    Yeah,unfortunately I am over that 200 mark with a goal weight of 185.

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