Women 200lb+, Let's Jump-Start This January!!!
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Wait! ONEderland! I just got that @bluffgirl67 😂😂. I’ve seen it a few times but the lightbulb just clicked on...well it’s a new year😂😂11
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Hi, new on this thread. Just one goal for 2020 for me - lose 55 pounds (that does not get me to goal, but I just turned 55 so it seemed like a good stretch goal).
My January goals are to lose 8-10 pounds and get my blood sugar back to normal.
My plan (a goal without a plan is just a wish!) is to follow a low-carb diet, cutting out sugar, alcohol, breads, grains, and processed food as a kick-start to help my blood sugar, and get my taste buds accustomed to real food again! After January I'll look at adding back in small amounts of slow carbs and upping my activity level.13 -
@andreab861 Hello and welcome! I love the idea of losing 55 at 55. I'm trying to cut back on processed food and sugar myself. Cutting back on carbs, especially bread, is always the hardest part for me! But we got this!!!11
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🎉Happy New Year Ladies!!🎉 Let's make 2020 the best year yet!
SW: 288
CW: 216.3
GW: 144?
1/1:
1/8:
1/15:
1/22:
1/31:
I am excited to see us all pushing towards healthier versions of ourselves. My goals for this month are to stay focused! Even though I am only half way to my goal, I am hoping to hit it by the Summer. Would be nice if I could hit it by my 45th Birthday which is in June. But I will not beat myself up if I dont. I am proud of how far I have come. That alone is worth so much as I have never had the best self esteem. I am worth it!! We are all worth it!! Having people tell you that isn't the same as feeling it. So here's to a new year. New possibilities! We can do this!!
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@BrownSugar174 Congratulations on reaching your 2019 goal. I did not reach my weight loss goal but I did lower my A1C out of the diabetic range past pre-diabetic and into normal. So I am pretty proud of that. I am on two blood pressure medications that I am hoping to come off of. Good luck to us both on that goal!16
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Height 5' 3”
SW: 273 (July 2019)
CW 1/1: 247.6
1/6:
1/13:
1/20:
1/27:
Jan GW: 235
GW: 150
Jan Goals:
1.) Log food and meet macro goals 5/7 days per week.
2.) Gym 2X per week
For the year:
Onederland
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Happy New Year!!!
Thank you @RavenStCloud for this group!!!
SW:315 lbs (per my doctor/annual checkup)
CW:239
Jan goals:
I’ve learned that weighed doesn't matter as much to me as inches and other NSV victories!
That being said:
Walking 4-6x’s a week
Keep up with my face and skin routine.Weight loss has brought a TON of new changes to my skin😳
Find new vegetarian dishes to create.
Cheers ladies to a fantastic new year and new beginning!!11 -
Hi Everybody
CW: 332.8lbs
GW: 300lbs
Height: 5'5
Returning to MFP after an absence! Thanks for this group I'm excited for 2020... here are my goals for January:
1. Log every day (Jan Wk 1-2)
2. Drink 4 glasses of water per day (Jan Wk 3-4)
Blessings on the journey!
p.s. Please "friend" me
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Happy New Year! Warning, very long post ahead. Sorry, but I hope some will find it helpful!
Height: 5'6"
SW (09/08/2019): 239.2 lbs
January SW (1/1/20): 202.4 lbs
January GW: 195 lbs
GW: 150 lbs (then reconsider)
My goals for January are:- Cardio for 45-60 min, 5-6 times a week, 3 of the sessions Couch-to-5K workouts
- Advance in the Couch-to-5K plan to Week 3 workouts. I plan to repeat each week of workouts 3 or 4 weeks, depending on how my lower-body joints are holding up
- Core exercises at least 3 times a week
- Lose 3 inches in my measurements
- Lose 7 pounds
- Take better care of my skin in hopes it will start to regain its shape. If I don’t say it I won’t do it.
- Onederland for more than a day or two. I was 199.8 lbs for the last two days of 2019! I thought I would bounce up this morning after yesterday’s eating. I know I’ve got a lot of stuff in transit.
- Re-achieving my 100-pound weight loss from my original weight-loss efforts in 2013-2014.
- Signing up for the Broad Street Run in May (see more about that below).
“Ego depletion is the idea that we only have so much willpower to draw from, so it’s harder to stick to our resolve later in the day, once we’ve already made a number of good decisions. In his 2012 New York Times article, journalist John Tierney writes about this phenomenon with regard to New Year’s resolutions. ‘Most people are not going to keep their resolutions all year long. They’ll start out with the best of intentions but the worst of strategies, expecting that they’ll somehow find the willpower to resist temptation after temptation. By the end of January, a third will have broken their resolutions, and by July more than half will have lapsed. They’ll fail because they’ll eventually run out of willpower, which social scientists no longer regard as simply a metaphor. They’ve recently reported that willpower is a real form of mental energy, powered by glucose in the bloodstream, which is used up as you exert self-control…To be more successful, [Tierney] says, people should use their willpower less, not more. As in, don’t force yourself to resist M&Ms, just don’t keep M&Ms in your house. Control your environment. ‘Instead of fending off one urge after another,’ he writes, ‘[successful resolvers] set up their lives to minimize temptations. They play offense, not defense, using their willpower in advance so that they avoid crises, conserve their energy, and outsource as much self-control as they can.’”
One thing that strikes me as important for people wanting to lose a large amount of weight is the fact that we definitely have a long road ahead, compared to those who have lesser amounts to lose – however you want to define it, for me it is those who have more than 50 pounds to lose and those who have less than that to lose. Willpower seems to work for the most part for many of the people who have lesser amounts to lose, and it frustrates me when someone who has lost “a lot of weight” will give me advice about the “easy” things they did to lose weight with cleanses, supplements, etc. I smile and nod and return to what works for me, but I’m dying to scream, “I’ve lost more weight than you ever have, I know what works for me, please leave me to it!”
Most if not all of us on this thread are in it for the long haul. We know in our situation willpower runs out, and we need something to fall back on to keep ourselves moving in the right direction. I definitely need to outsource some self-control by establishing a routine and planning in advance. For me, I rely on meal prep and having a huge (and I DO mean months) stock of prepped main-dish meals so for any week I prep sides like rice, pasta or vegetables plus maybe make a fresh meal or two during the week at dinner to mix it up. It means I never have to think about lunch, I always bring something healthy and pre-portioned to work with fruit or vegetables on the side. And in terms of working out, I do get a bit of momentum that keeps me doing something every day.
I live alone, so for certain it’s easy for me to plan this way. But I hope that passage is insightful for you as it was for me. Find a way to do something different for yourself, it could make a world of difference!
About the Broad Street Run: I hope the next bit will not spoil the movie Brittany Runs a Marathon for anyone so I put this bit at the end - feel free to skip it! I saw that movie in the theater and I cried for a lot of the movie. I am not Brittany, though I nearly feel I could be - the real woman behind the story is from Philly and my “marathon” is really a 10-mile race in Philly held each May, the Broad Street Run. I have wanted to run this race for six years now.
In January 2015, I had been running a fair amount for about half a year. I ran 6-mile runs without thinking and felt great. If you knew how much I’d always hated running, you’d know that was a miracle itself. The sign-up for the run is at the end of January. You may not know much about races if you’re not a runner, but the Broad Street Run is 1) a very popular race (the current 10-mile record finish time is a Broad Street Run time and the overall course is downhill so people looking for their own PR sign up for this race in droves), 2) a lottery entry system, and only 80% of the people who sign up get in. If you do not get in the race, you are deferred; if you do not get in the race via the lottery two years in a row you are guaranteed to get in the third year. You read that right, it could take three years to get into this race.
The second week of January, I ran my usual run prior to my shift at work. At that time, I was still working 12-hour night shifts as a bedside nurse. I thought I felt a weird twinge of pain in my left hip during the run, but I was able to finish and get to work. As soon as I stepped out of my car, I knew something was off because I had a great deal of difficulty putting weight on my left leg. I shook it off, and as I walked the pain lessened but never really went away. I worked my shift, and over the next week the pain persisted so I made an appointment with an ortho doc for their earliest office appointment – about 5-6 weeks later – to get it checked out.
In the meantime I dialed my workout back. I was walking on the treadmill and using the elliptical at the gym. I was working my 12-hour shifts in the hospital, 3-4 nights a week. I signed up for the Broad Street Run and I did not get in.
Then I went for my appointment. I had a stress fracture in my pelvis. And even though the evidence was right there on the x-ray, I had trouble accepting it because of my level of activity. Currently, I’ve got other stuff going on in my lower limbs, including avascular necrosis in my right foot which seems to have calmed down, but now you know why I say I want to spend time progressing slowly in my running routine. I have the Couch-to-5-K program completely bastardized to suit my training. But this is already an overly-long post so if anyone wants to know about it I can put it in another post.
I can tell you the last thing anyone wants to hear in this situation is the following: “Oh, a stress fracture! Well, it’s a good thing you didn’t get in the Broad Street Run then, it must be God’s will!” Really, it was God’s will that I should suffer a stress fracture? Can the good lord at least be so kind as to allow me to help myself? The restraint it took not to punch those people in the face was remarkable. I could have deferred my entry and ran the next year, and who’s to say I wouldn’t have been able to run that year?
I am determined to enter and “run” in the race this year, even if it ends up being a walk/run for me! (I've been told that there are people who race-walk the entire course.) Registration opens at the end of this month and I will be signing up!
I hope everyone else is thinking about their “marathon” and planning how to reach their goals!
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“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind”
C.S. Lewis
I’m reading Hota Kotb’s “I Really Needed
This Today” and saw this quote and
thought it spot on!!!12 -
Yay the Jan thread is already hopping!!! Ok so here’s my stats for Jan:
5’6
283 lb SW
202 lb CW
140 lb GW
I’m working with a doctor and I see him 1/3 for an update on next steps. I’ve been really strict on my diet with only two reward days (Xmas and my anniversary which was yesterday - NYE). I worry I’m too strict but I also worry that if I’m not strict I can’t manage the diet. It’s kind of like all or nothing. I had the gastric sleeve 5 years ago and lost a total of 100 lbs but gained 50 back (proof it’s just a tool and if you don’t do the work you can gain it back). Ultimately, I don’t want to get sick again. I had diabetes and high blood pressure. I’ve kept it under control by managing my weight and have taken it for granted that my surgery would help me control it. Gaining weight back concerned me that I’d get sick again if I didn’t get back on track and control myself.
Here’s to a successful January my personal goal remains the same until my doctor tells me otherwise. 1 lb a week @ 4 weeks = 4 lbs13 -
@Aerohead21 Happy Anniversary 🎉🎊! Your doing a great job!3
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Thank you 😊 you’ve done really well yourself!!4
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@mmdeveau you always have something insightful to say. Now that you've quoted John Tierney, one of my favorite NYT columnists, you've won my heart.
You are so right about willpower only going so far. A good book on this subject is called Change Anything. Its by the same group of sociologists who wrote Crucial Conversations. The premise is that people who make big changes in their life don't have more willpower. Those who relapse aren't weaker than those who don't. It's not force of will. It's about employing outside forces to your advantage to secure your success, minimizing external forces that are working against you. Using MFP and posting on this community group is one way I employ outside forces to help cement my own success. Or as Hillary wrote, "it takes a village"
My fingers are crossed for you with the Broad Street run!9 -
Good morning everyone- I am new to this thread and I am glad I found you.
What an inspiring group.
Age:54
Height:5'7"
SW: 238.8 lbs.
GW: 160 lbs.
2018 and 2019 have been horrible years for me and I am glad they are in the rear view mirror, although I am still dealing with grief and loss. Probably not very well either.
But I need to move forward, for my sanity and health.
Health, physically, mentally & emotionally is paramount now.
I've said it before, and vowed to make changes but they never stuck. I didn't DO anything about it.
I liked reading your goals and plans for the coming year. They are very inspiring. Warning: this might be long and rambling.
My plans:- Meal planning- this is our biggest downfall. Not planning our meals, particularly dinner, makes us spend more $$ on groceries and eating out. It also leads to poor eating choices, which do nothing to help me lose weight. I am apt to blame others for this lack of planning (I live with my 25 year old son and my boyfriend of 15 years) but its me. Yes, they could help me and be more engaged but ultimately its just an excuse. I CAN and WILL meal plan. If they don't like what I cooked, too bloody bad.
- Budgeting- for those that want to get a handle on finances or get yourself out of debt, I highly recommend YNAB (You Need a Budget). Its a zero based budget and its the bomb. I increased my net worth significantly in 2019. It also lets you look back at what you spent your $$ on and I am shocked at the amount we spend on food and dining out. We also throw far too much food away. This stops now. We also went through a huge renovation on our house that took 2.5 months to complete so that was very expensive, needless to say. I want to replenish my savings account and be a lot more mindful of what I spend money on this year.
- Exercise- I don't do any and I need to. Walking-such a simple thing and so good for not only my body but my mind. I just need to MOVE. I need to get up from my desk at the office and go for a walk. Same once I get home. I am the Queen of excuses. I have some cardiac issues and you'd think I'd clue in and move my body. UGH.
- I want to be kinder, not stress as much as I do about work and stupid things, I want to see my friends more, go out more, be kinder to my partner, be happier, enjoy life more. Life is so very fragile and precious.
I hope I can get to know you all this year.
Thanks for including new members.
Happy New Year!
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Hi! Happy New Year!
I saw the December thread near the end so I'm new.
I got my stats today at the gym (leg day). I've been going for over a year but slacked off from August due to illness. I have surgery in March which I'd like to lose for and a festival in June. I ran a half marathon in October which due to zilch training from August was a poor 2:46. I'd like to improve it this October.
My goals this month:
To lose 14lbs
Eat within my macros with 1 'cheat meal' on the 30th when we go to a gig
Lift heavy
Improve my 5K time
Get to the gym 5 days a week
Do at least 1 outdoor run a week
Lose some inches (or at least a cm or two 😂)
x Kayla x
HW: 266lbs
Current Stats:
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I will be restarting my journey on Jan. 5th
SW: 265
GW 140
My plan is to go back on keto ....walk at least 30 minutes a day (will see how I feel since I am still recovering from 2 fractures in my foot) Wishing everyone the very best on their journey's ..Happy New Year15 -
My goal right now is to change my relationship with food. I recently was put on medication for extreme anxiety and depression. I'm also starting to see a counselor next week. Both of these are steps in the right direction. Obviously seeing a change on the scale would be huge but I really need to change my mindset and get healthy emotionally or any change I make on the scale won't last.
My mom's solution is "just stop eating". I'm 50 years old and not sure why I didn't think of that🤦
I'm looking for support and accountability from other women. I'm going to take this one day at a time and more than likely one moment at a time.
My goal for tomorrow is to not eat because of my emotions.
Height 5'3
CW 27315 -
Hi everyone! Happy New Year!
I've been reading these threads for a couple of months and finally decided to join in. This seems to be a very kind and supportive group.
Highest weight: 435 (11/1/18)--lost 50 lbs. by the end of 2018 but got off track and gained back almost 31 lbs.
SW: 415.8 (4/17/19)
1/1: 297.6--finally made it out of the 300s!
1/8:
1/15:
1/22:
1/29:
1/31:
Jan. GW: 287.6
GW: 160 (then reevaluate)
Non-scale goals for January:
- continue cardio (recumbent exercise bike) 5 times a week and increase the resistance level at least weekly
- continue doing short walking videos 5 times a week (I currently use a cane when walking and would like to build strength and better balance so I can try to stop using it, providing my bad knee continues to improve with additional weight loss.)
- continue strength training 2 times a week
- start doing some yoga before the end of the month--plan to start with chair yoga as I don't think I could get up off the floor doing regular yoga!
- work on my sleep schedule--I think I would feel better rested if I had some kind of consistency with my schedule. Time to work on this to see if it really makes a difference.
My main goal for 2020 is to get a bike this summer. I hope to be fit enough and a bit lighter so I can ride some of the bike paths available here in our area. I'd also like to be able to do some short hikes this summer. We'll have to see where I am fitness-wise when summer gets here. I guess I should be thankful that I have all winter to continue to work on my fitness!
Good luck to you all with your goals and plans for 2020!14 -
Hi all! I've used MyFitnessPal on and off for years, but I've always focused on exercise and not diet. Mainly just fewer calories and that's it. No nutrient... This year, I've decided to try keto! I'd love any tips or tricks anyone may have as I'm new to this.
Age: 31
OG Weight: 223
Current Weight: 212
Goal Weight: 150
Hope to be friends so we can support each other!8
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