Women 200lb+, Let's Jump-Start This January!!!
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@bluffgirl67 here is my recipe. I really make this from my head but have written it down for my family as best as I can.
Keri’s Chili Con Carne y Verduras
Ingredients:- 1 onion chopped, can add a pressed garlic clove
- 5 T chili powder ( I just shake some on the onions, the meat, and the vegetables as I cook)
- I teaspoon cumin powder
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 lb chorizo
- 1 lb cheaper cut of steak cut in small bite sized pieces
- 2-4 chipolte peppers depending on hotness desired
- 1 carrot or a handful of baby carrots chopped
- 3-4 tomatillas depending on size chopped
- 1 zucchini
- 1 yellow bell pepper chopped can be added after onions if desired
- 1 can of black beans
- 1 can of garbanzo beans
- 1 can of pinto beans
- 1 can of Rotel diced tomatoes and green chilies
- Giant can of diced tomatoes
Sauté each item as you add it for a minute or two (meat so not raw) as per its order above. Bring to gentle boil for a minute or 2 then turn down to a simmer for at least 40 minutes so that meat is cooked and carrot s are soft and thickness of the broth is the way you like it. The first night we eat it somewhat soupy and then it thickens up more.
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Weekly Weigh In:
SW: 272
12/30: 255.5
1/6: 253
1/14: 253
1/19: 251
January goals:
-Attend ALL kickboxing classes: so far, so good! Finished the first week and I’m slowly adjusting to the continuous soreness haha, but it’s the good sore, where you know you put in some work.
-Continue logging all my food honestly and accurately: doing well here! I’ve stayed under my calorie goal often, I just struggle with sodium.
-Lose 5 more pounds and hopefully inches as well with the kickboxing—so close! I think I can do it.
I weighed in a little early this week forgetting I had delayed last week, but I’m still pleased with the number. I hit the 25lb mark! I almost cried in my bathroom. I haven’t consistently been in the 250s in an extremely long time. I can’t even remember when I was in the 240s, so I’m looking forward to that. I just feel so happy right now, like all the hard days have paid off. I’ll be back to reply to everyone later! Have a happy Sunday13 -
Happy Sunday!
@bluffgirl67 I just saw that you made it into the 100's!!!! I am so excited and proud of you. You've been so consistent and working so hard, and also have been such a huge supporter of us all. I am looking forward to cheering you on as you head to your next mini goal!
@torihudson6 congrats on the 25 pound loss!!!! That is a major accomplishment. Enjoy the feeling of all that hard work leading to success!
@Terytha you are almost there. It could happen any day now!
@KeriA thanks for posting that recipe. It sounds amazing. It will get tried this week in my house!
Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday. The rain has finally stopped where I live and my goal is to get outside in some way, shape, or form.6 -
@Tarzan37 – I used to be a regular Shape reader, but they had an editorial change and that person decided to fundamentally change the format of the magazine. I wasn’t into to the new format, though I’ll still pick it up off the magazine rack every once in a while if I see something of particular interest. I have found awesome routines on their websites, though. I’m not sure why MFP doesn’t have certain exercises in its database. I have another app I use to track my workouts and since MFP doesn’t count calories for strength workouts I don’t plug them into MFP. I also add my own descriptions for cardio workouts.
@pamiede, @amethystEFC, @stefsc1, @MuttiNM – losing 100 pounds is such an achievement and also so emotional. I’m happy for all of you, and sorry if I forgot anyone else who has lost so much or is so close. For me it is a mixture of things: pride at sticking with this long enough to have lost so much; weariness because there’s more to lose; wonder at how my body could have carried 100 pounds for so long because I know I couldn’t carry that amount right now; and a bit of beating myself up by asking myself how it is possible that after saying I’ve lost 100 pounds I could have more to lose. Maybe you don’t think these things, but if you do you’re not alone. I’m trying to focus on the positive, and I hope you do that as well!
@bluffgirl67 – First, congratulations on getting to onederland! Second, I was able to find a link to the Phit-n-Phat podcasts on her website: [url=" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/losing-100-pounds-phit-n-phat-com-real-diet-talk-from/id1233384453"] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/losing-100-pounds-phit-n-phat-com-real-diet-talk-from/id1233384453[/url]. You can listen to her podcasts on your computer via this link. I reiterate my warning for all: she uses explicit language in her podcast. It can be quite a bit if you have a low threshold for the amount of it you tolerate before you find it off-putting. I have a high threshold myself and find her overall message to be important, but your mileage may vary.
Height: 5'6"
SW (09/08/2019): 239.2 lbs
January SW (1/1/20): 202.4 lbs
1/5/20: 199.2 lbs
1/12/20: 195.6
1/19/20: 195.4
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 – Check. I even got myself outside before the snow hit here. It was snowing for the last 15-20 minutes of my long run and it was getting slippery on the trail. It was also 23 degrees outside when I went out. No matter, I put a thermal layer on underneath my usual layer, a thermal outer hoodie jacket, gloves and a warm headband. Both layers were wet from my sweat when I got back home.
- Core exercises at least 3 times a week – Check.
- Take better care of my skin in hopes it will start to regain its shape. Keeping the faith with this one. I’m hoping my skin is in a forgiving mood this time and will mostly bounce back though I think I’d be unreasonable to expect that it will be perfect.
This was another exciting week of ups and downs, on the scale and in life. I had a tremendous loss last week, then within two days was back up at 199. I felt I was following my plan. Now it was TOM at the beginning of the week, but I still discount that because I’ve never had issues with it before. I do think I was unnaturally low last week and I think that’s more likely to be the reason for most of the rebound. I’m happy to be down 0.2 pounds this week when all is said and done. I don’t take any forward progress for granted.
I do want to mention something in brief, and only because it relates to two factors that seem to be intangible but also play some role in weight gain or loss: sleep and stress. For the past month, I’ve be dealing with a neighbor who is complaining about my alarm clock playing too loudly. This neighbor is bipolar/schizophrenic, which I learned second-hand via another neighbor who was told by the complaining neighbor’s mother. I don’t know if the person is off her meds, but I didn’t need to be told she had a psychiatric diagnosis because her behavior clearly indicates it is the case – at least to me, with training and experience dealing with it in patients. In order to counter her spurious claim, for the past two weeks I’ve been sleeping on my couch and using my (somewhat ineffective) phone alarm to wake myself up. I actually have a seven-page document to submit to the local police for a harassment report, and based upon my own follow-up on the issue I am looking into my responsibility for reporting a potential abuse situation, as the problem individual is terrorizing her 83-year-old neighbor to the point that the older woman does not want to leave her home to take a walk around the community as she usually enjoys. There’s even more…but like I said I want to be brief. I got a partial resolution at the condo board meeting earlier this week, but I do not think it’s over. I am moving back to my bedroom today and will start using my alarm again tomorrow.
I did survive my night out during restaurant week, and will likely have additional adventures this week. I’m going to paraphrase something I read in a book one time which reflects a perfect description of the Philly restaurant scene: Philadelphia may live in the shadow of New York City and be deemed inferior in many aspects, but Philly is no sulky second sister when it comes to restaurants. The best restaurant in the country right now is here in Philly, and there’s no end to the fine independent restaurants found throughout the city. I pointed the visiting consultant to this small Italian restaurant – Barbuzzo – because they have a fabulous, fabled dessert called the Salted Caramel Budino which is a must eat if you go to this restaurant. Every other course was spectacular as well. But when I logged the meal, I had to use my best estimates to enter all the things I ate that night, except the Salted Caramel Budino. That’s right, this non-chain restaurant’s dessert was actually already in MFP’s database! But thank goodness for restaurant week, because the dessert served as part of the prix-fixe menu was half the size or even a bit less than the full-size, 512-calorie dessert! I had my eye on the prize the whole meal – I had leftovers from the first two courses but there were no dessert leftovers!
I also want to go into C25K a bit more. I love C25K because I am mostly type-A and I like the timed intervals and the weekly (if you choose) progression. But if you’ve ever read other threads about C25K, I think you’ll find plenty of stories of people who realized they’d been doing some version of C25K all along. Sort of like what @Hurleyhurley does but probably not as adventurous, as a lot of the stories are about how they’d run an additional block or to the next telephone pole to advance. I also love C25K because there are a number of apps you can use as you run to cue each interval and play your music as you work out.
I have done a lot more with this program to tailor it to my own needs. If I’m going to be running or mostly running 10 miles a little more than three months from now, I need to be increasing my distance and endurance. The C25K workouts are about 30 minutes, at least in the initial weeks. So what I do is I take the “guts” of the work out – the intervals sandwiched between the warm-up and cool-down – and I repeat them to get a longer workout. Currently I am working the week 3 intervals. During the week, when I am on the treadmill and am limited to an hour at most if working out in the morning before work, I repeat the guts for 2.5 times or five 9-minute intervals. When I ran yesterday, I repeated the guts 3 times and if my phone hadn’t crapped out I would have done a small part of a fourth repeat. My objective yesterday was to cover 6 miles, so I wasn’t as controlled by time.
One of the other things I’ve done with C25K is use the intervals for other workouts in the gym as a means of increasing my performance for that machine. I’ve found this website useful when following C25K on any machine: c25k.com/c25k_treadmill.html. The chart on that page also helps understand what I mean by “the guts” if it was hard to follow my description above.
I’ll end this huge post here and wish everyone well this week! January is a long month it’s hard to believe there’s almost two weeks left, plenty of time to work towards and meet goals!
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@mmdeveau I agree with you about this weight loss being so emotional. I'm definitely happy that the 100+ pounds are gone but it is hard to accept I have so much more to go that I'm not really close to my goal weight. Also, while I do feel better physically, I am nowhere near where I would like to be. It's sometimes hard to celebrate the improvements when there's still such a distance to go. I have a tendency to get down on myself for letting me get to this point. Like you, I try to focus on the positive but some days that is harder than others. I really appreciate this group, especially since none of my family and friends are obese. A couple might be in the overweight category but most are in the healthy BMI range. It's so helpful to connect with people who can understand the ups and downs of this journey. Thank you all!9
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So far behind on this thread, am skipping foward. This week was a rough one at work, never home before 10pm, not getting/taking lunch, first week since I've started that I haven't stuck to my gym schedule. We're snowed in currently, though working on breaking free from the garage. With the lack of workouts, I've at least stuck overall to a decreased calorie intake for the week. I've been kind of stuck on the same weight more or less for 10 days, but am happy to see the drop this weekend finally. I was soooooooo close to -25 pounds today, just another .4 to go. Overall I'm bouncing around the trendline in a steady decline, so am happy about that. I am proud that with a rough week where traditionally I would have said fudge this, I have accepted that the workouts didn't happen, tried to be good with my diet, and am going to get back to my exercise goal this week and try to stay positive. So hard when you are mentally and physically exhausted from going full bore 16 to 20 hrs straight daily all week. I took yesterday off entirely from life, slept, played my piano, played video game with hubby, with the goal to fix my mind. I'm in a better place today, I think.
Hope you all are doing well. I've missed reading the threads. Have felt like I haven't seen anyone but my staff in a week.
Starting Weight: 310
Jan 1 - 289.7
Jan 5 - 287.7
Jan 12 - 289.7 (gar)
Jan 19 - 285.4 (woot)
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A MFP friend who is struggling asked me how I stay motivated. I copied what I wrote to her because it seems worth sharing to a wider audience:
"Staying motivated. That's a hard one. In the beginning my motivation was really easy. I had searing, burning stabbing pain down my thigh that was entirely caused by my weight. And the only cure was to lose weight. The pain kept me on the straight and narrow. It also made me really inpatient - I needed a fast cure. But weight loss isn't fast. Thankfully acupuncture helped. I only get an attack every once in a while now. And when it happens, I'm thankful of the reminder.
But today, motivation is something different. I've come to accept that weight management doesn't have a beginning, middle or end. I'm going to need to keep doing what I'm doing every day, for the rest of my life, The only thing that will change along the way is how many calories I have to play with. So I need different goals to keep me on track. I would say that establishing fitness goals outside of weight loss helps.
One of my goals is to run a 1/2 marathon this year. I'm starting with a 5 K in February, an 8K in April, a quarter marathon in May. Every pound I drop makes running easier. So, that is a good motivation for me right now.
But I have to say that joining some groups and participating in a few threads has probably helped me more than anything, Providing support and encouragement to others who are going through things that I went through reaffirms my own commitment. It brings me back to the app every day. It helps me walk my own talk. It's great to have a cheering section and its great to be part of someone else's cheering section. I think that may be why people who have been sober for decades still attend AA. Helping others in their recovery reaffirms their own commitment."
So thank you everyone who posts. You have buoyed me up through the journey and I so appreciate you.11 -
Wondering if anyone else has been having issues with MFP logging food? Beginning yesterday, it won't let me edit anything on my food list and everything I have ever entered is showing up alphabetically even when searching under "most recent" or "most frequent". This site has been so glitchy for me and I'm getting a bit frustrated with it.
Edit: Fixed the listing back to default - somehow it was changed to list foods alphabetically (the two options are "names" and "default"). I don't recall ever changing this and actually didn't know the option existed.
Now to figure out how to edit foods - there used to be a minus (-) on the right hand side of the foods listed but that has disappeared for me.2 -
@mmdevaux "I used to be a regular Shape reader, but they had an editorial change and that person decided to fundamentally change the format of the magazine. I wasn’t into to the new format, though I’ll still pick it up off the magazine rack every once in a while if I see something of particular interest. I have found awesome routines on their websites, though. I’m not sure why MFP doesn’t have certain exercises in its database. I have another app I use to track my workouts and since MFP doesn’t count calories for strength workouts I don’t plug them into MFP. I also add my own descriptions for cardio workouts."
Shape has actually changed recently and they are now just online - no print magazine anymore which is kind of a bummer since I'm the type who likes to hold a book or magazine rather than use a kindle (don't own one) or my laptop. Oh well, they do still have good information on their site though!5 -
One of the things I'm personally trying to do, along those lines, is to view the dietary changes I am making as akin to the ones that I had to make to get my IBS under control. This is just a condition I have, and to manage it, I have to eat a certain way, and that's just the way it's going to be for the rest of my life. And I accept this and am okay with it, and with the restrictions it puts on me, and I know I can live a good and happy life with these restrictions.7
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Height 5' 7" (169cm)
SW: 208lb/94.4kg (31/12/2019)
CW: 197lb
TW: 147lb/66.7kg
13/1/2020 - 197lb (-11lb)
20/1/2020 - 197lb (0lb)
Well after an amazing loss the first week, I’m bitterly disappointed not to have lost at all over this last week. Don’t know what I’ve done wrong 🙁
I’m targeting 1200kcal intake per day and trying to drink 2 litres of water a day as recommended. I’ve started back at weekly circuit training class and also been out running again. My last run was 7.15km (4.4miles). Why didn’t I loose this week??9 -
Savannah80 wrote: »Height 5' 7" (169cm)
SW: 208lb/94.4kg (31/12/2019)
CW: 197lb
TW: 147lb/66.7kg
13/1/2020 - 197lb (-11lb)
20/1/2020 - 197lb (0lb)
Well after an amazing loss the first week, I’m bitterly disappointed not to have lost at all over this last week. Don’t know what I’ve done wrong 🙁
I’m targeting 1200kcal intake per day and trying to drink 2 litres of water a day as recommended. I’ve started back at weekly circuit training class and also been out running again. My last run was 7.15km (4.4miles). Why didn’t I loose this week??
If what you are logging is accurate, you body could be retaining water due to your workouts. Don't be too frustrated about a week plateau, it happens to all of us. Just keep on doing what you are doing.
Don't forget to also take pictures and body measurements because sometimes you can see a difference there when the scale isn't showing one!4 -
Lost 3.3lbs this week I'm just trying to keep on track, planning ahead and getting to my classes, despite how busy life is.
SW: 457lbs
GW: 152lbs
Height: 5'9
30/12: 308.8
06/01: 302.4
13/01: 297.1
20/01: 293.8
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I didn’t move a lot this weekend, I actually fell asleep Saturday afternoon which is so unlike me! Got my crazy dog and we are going to get 10,000 steps every day this week.6
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If what you are logging is accurate, you body could be retaining water due to your workouts. Don't be too frustrated about a week plateau, it happens to all of us. Just keep on doing what you are doing.
Don't forget to also take pictures and body measurements because sometimes you can see a difference there when the scale isn't showing one!
My scales show water, visceral fat, bone mass etc as well as my weight. It actually shows my water % as down from last week so I don’t think fluid retention is the reason.
It’s a bit soul destroying when I’ve been recording my calorie intake accurately and don’t loose. Hoping for a better weigh in next Monday. Fingers crossed.
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Good morning Ladies. Is it too late to jump in? I can start with February.9
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Quick post to say Hey!! Still here just haven't had time the last couple of days other than for logging. Hubby and I went out for our 34th anniversary yesterday. So happy he like the Mexican buffet because I can make a good salad with the fajita mix. Made a fresh batch of broccoli salad and chicken salad to have for this week. Best news is I was finally able to do a decent log worth yoga/strength session today. That felt really good and only the overhead press gave me some discomfort. Need to read and catch up. I did see @KeriA posted the chili recipe as I scrolled down to post. Thank you very much. Be back later in the day to see what all everyone has been up to.9
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@Savannah80 it could be that your not eating enough to support your workouts and your body is holding on to your intake (water and food).5
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@savannah80 sorry you didn't lose when you did everything right, when that happens to me I've found that I usually lose the next week, just keep doing the next right thing and your body will catch up soon!
@theleadmare I really relate to what you said about getting your head around what you need to eat and not eat and just accept that's the way life is going to be from now on. (You said it better, but that was my understanding of it). I'm trying to get into that headspace too, trying to not think about this is a diet that is going to finish when I reach my goal, but just working out what I need to do to keep healthy and doing it forever (including normal things like eating out etc).5 -
SW 105.5kg (aug 2018)
CW 96.6kg (lost 0.3kg this week)
goals for 2020
to get under 90kg,
to change my relationship with food
to handle anxiety better
goals for january
to get under 95kg - working on this
average weekly cals under 1950 - wk 1 - 1923, wk 2 - 2157, wk 3 - 2131
average weekly snacks under 23% - wk 1 - 12%!!! yay!!, wk 2 - 22%, wk 3 - 18%
meditate 3x week - not this week x3
run 5k - not yet but upped it to 43 mins
Happy with my week, could do better on the cals
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