Women 200lb+, Let's Double Down This December!!!

My goal for November was a big one-- to lose 10.8 pounds and reach an even 300. I fell short with a loss of 6.3 pounds. I suppose I am disappointed, but mostly I'm confused because I felt like I was acting within my parameters for success. I've been really battling with water weight this past month, I started out November at 311-ish, and I was seeing that number throughout the entire month, with just occasional glimpses of my progress in between. I saw my lowest weight on the 27th or 28th, but then have been 4 pounds heavier every morning since. I didn't participate in Thanksgiving, so I don't have an obvious culprit to point towards.

Regardless of water weight, a 6-pound loss for the month is still short of my goals and what I know I'm capable of. I am going to try increasing my deficit a little bit, and try to incorporate more activity as well. & more water!

I suppose it's just as well that my ultimate goal for the year is only asking for a 6.8 pound loss this month. I very, very much want to accomplish a 100-pound weight loss for the year! I'm at 93 now! So even if I have another slow month I think I can do it. I'm not going to begin my weekly weigh-ins for this month until Thursday or Friday, after my weekend! Work always drives up my weight with stress and physical exhaustion.

I'm in for December as well. I had just joined the November thread maybe 2-3 days ago, so I probably should have just held off, hahaha.

Height 5' 7
SW: 250

CW 12/2: 243.6
GW: 185

December Goal: Get under 240.0 lbs; daily tracking; log for 60 consecutive days on MFP. Cook at least 6 out of 7 weekly dinners this month.

I was guilty of binging on various foods this weekend, so I'm up 3 lbs from last week's weigh-in. I was basically at 240 last week. After being sick with GI issues most of November, it has been SO nice to finally be able to eat foods and hold them down. However, my mind now is wanting to eat with reckless abandon. I need to have more discipline. Finals are coming up for school, work is well on its way, kiddo is sick and I'm about 98% better from bronchitis and a stomach bug.

Ugh. I can't sleep, I can barely stomach food, I'm so stressed and everything is so hard right now.

How do you look at everything awful going on around you and not hate everyone?

Ok I want to be In With this! I’m currently about 205 and would love to break the 200 mark and stay under it! I was about 235 after I had my daughter 9 years ago. For December I would really just like to stay reasonable during the holidays! And hopefully get a workout 5 days a week would be ideal.

Hi is this still an active group

Believeinme35 wrote: »

Hi is this still an active group

Yes, you'll find this is an active group!

This is not an official MFP "group," with membership, moderators, and multiple threads.

This is a group of people who post regularly on a monthly thread, unofficially moderated by @RavenStCloud. Each month-end, that month's thread is wrapped-up and a new thread is posted for the following month. This December thread was started on 11/29 and we're up to 3 pages of responses already. Personally, I mark the thread as a favorite so I can easily see when it is updated with new posts and I can access easily to write posts.

Hope you can join us!

Hi all! I am here, been off track for the whole long weekend. Back to watching my carbs this morning. Scale reflected my choices over the holiday but I'm sure it will fall off fast since I KNOW I didn't actually gain 4 lbs in 1 day :-)

SW: 302
12/2/19 : 269.6
Goals for the month:
*Follow Low carb 100 % Including Christmas! (Cheating is causing landslides and I need to buckle down)
*Gym 3x week
*up water intake
*Don't go to Starbuck's more than 1x week (this is a big problem for me since there is one in my work parking lot....and I already went today so NO MORE this week!)

My friend posted this on Facebook, and I wanted to copy it here because I think it's a good read. I already know it's an article I'll return to, just to read and remind myself of why I'm on this path. The article is written by Brianna Wiest, and you can see it posted here: https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2017/11/this-is-what-self-care-really-means-because-its-not-all-salt-baths-and-chocolate-cake/

Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.

Hi. I’m tired of the weight up weight down. So I have made a decision for December to be mindful and do more cardio, more weights, no sugar and no carbs. Going to to what worked and that was healthier carbs like the brown rice, almond four and nuts and seeds. I want to drop 10-15lbs this month. And drinking my water, water, water.

Today was a good day.

I took a spin class, ate leftover thanksgiving food with a salad and skipped the sides and had a big plate of salad. Yay!!!!!