Women 200lb+, Let's Stay Fired Up This February!!!

I had a mixed day yesterday. We cooked steak at home for valentines so that was lower calorie than our usual Friday takeaway, and it was lovely getting tipsy on prosecco and talking politics.

But I probably had more prosecco than I tracked for, didn't track dessert and had a minor case of secret rating.

Ah well, c'est la vie. This stuff happens. I don't usually track on Saturday but I'll make an extra effort to make sensible choices today.

@lbostic89 I absolutely need to be tracking my measurements right now as the scales are wobbling about a lot but I swear I FEEL thinner!

I’m really excited. I was really down because I wasn’t seeing movement on the scale. I knew I was losing inches. My size 18 clothes were getting loose. Then boom, another 2.4 lbs gone this morning 🙌🏽. 100 POUNDS #GoneForever❣️

Height: 5’4”
SW(4/2019): 307
CW: 209.6 2/1
208.8 2/7
208.6 2/10
206.2 2/15
GW: 160
Feb GW: 199.9

I’m going to push to walk at least 1 mile 7 days a week.

Good morning everyone, did you survive Valentines Day, without going over your calorie intake? I did, which shocked me, because I planned on a free for all day, I even had 45 calories left over.

@Candyn617 Our Valentines Day dinner included a Turtle Cheesecake dessert and it was heaven. It's funny how slowly both my hubby and I ate it (we shared the entire meal). Just sitting their eating it looking at each other gave us both ideas LOL! We promptly went home, got undressed and....fell asleep! LOL! We were in such a food coma! When we woke this morning we COULD! NOT! STOP! LAUGHING!

So as I’m riding my bike today and enjoying the moment a question popped into my mind...”when did you start loving yourself?”

So that’s the question I’d like to pose to each of you lovely ladies🥰

@pamiede you go girl!!! That’s so fantastic and inspirational!

@BrownSugar174 that’s an interesting question and I’m curious to hear everyone’s answers. I’ll be entering my 4th week tomorrow so don’t have an answer myself yet.

@bluffgirl67 you’ve got me drooling lol! Enjoy!

Today is my official weigh in day. I posted yesterday that I somehow gained 300grams (0.6 lbs) overnight from eating those salt and vinegar chips. Well I’m pretty certain today that was water weight as I’ve dropped a good amount this morning.

My stats:

OW: 101.3kg (223.3lbs) 26Jan20
1Feb: 99.1kg (218.4lbs)
CW: 96.5kg (211.8lbs)

This weeks loss is a total of 2kg (4.4lbs).

Goals for this coming week.
Well last week my goal was to concentrate on my sodium intake. I’ve been quite on top of that (except for the slip up with the chips on Valentine’s Day) so I think that’s contributed to my loss this week.
For this week I’ll be concentrating on water intake. I’m not drinking enough. Some days I’ll take in 1.2litres and other days I don’t even reach that. I don’t drink any other drinks (only just started on green tea yesterday with breakfast only). So definitely need to up my water intake. I’m thinking of drinking one cup every hour from the moment I wake. Hopefully reaching 2litres a day.

February Tracker:

Height: 5' 9''
SW: 286.5 (June 3, 2019)
GW: 180
1/31/20: 206.8
2/8/20: 206.4
2/15/20: 204.7
2/22/20:
2/29/20:

Goals for February:
Strength train 3 x week: 83%
Continue 5K/10K training 3x week: 100%
Get 10000 steps a day: 93%
Go to bed by 10:30 on weeknights: 43% - Epic fail
Eat no more than 100 grams of net carbs (Carbs - fiber): 86%
Eat more than 100 grams of protein a day: 100%
Drink 140 oz of water a day: 100%
Log accurately every day: 93%- I had some pretzel sticks on the D/L after I completed my diary yesterday.
Get to Onederland!! - still working on that

My doctor took me off both high blood pressure and cholesterol medicine. I go back in 6 weeks to see how I am doing without medication.

Tomorrow is my 5K. Then I continue with training for a half later in the summer.

The scale has taken me on an adventure over the past two weeks. I keep losing and gaining the same 2 pounds.
But when I list my weight here, I can see progress, albeit slow progress. I believe my body is doing a little internal recompositioning right now and that I'll drop a bit more next week.

I want to make a special shoot out to @pamiede for her 100 pound milestone. That is huge!! I am so happy for you.

66 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs
2/1: 263.6 lbs
2/2: 263.4
CW (2/3): 262.2
GW: Onderland 1st, maintain for a few weeks then 150 llbs.

My February Weekly Goals are:
1. Continue to go to Aquafit 3 times a week
2. Improve my weekday breakfasts
3. Log weight, food and exercise
4. get into the 250s and stay in them
5. Make progress adding in exercise on days I don’t go to aquafit
6. Make healthy foods at home
7. get enough sleep and improve water intake
8. Check out this thread more often

@CupcakeCrusoe I like that you ignored the scale knowing you were doing all the right things. Hope your anniversary was nice. Yes I lose better when I get enough sleep.

@aliciap0166 love that you are trying things you haven’t in a while. That is inspiring.

@bluffgirl67 glad you are feeling better. I hope you enjoy your night out. I am going out to celebrate my Mom’s bday with my sister and brother and sister-in-law.

@sharpdust you’ve got this.

@theleadmare I hope the move goes well.

@lbostic89 I was not good at dinners with my kids did sports. Glad you have a plan.

@speyerj I agree it is really about new habits and thanks for sending info that helps with that. I will check it out. Wow that is so great you are off the meds . Hope the next 6 weeks go well!

@MuttiNM I am hoping that you have a good weekend and week ahead. You have been working so hard.

@vegasgirl0825 You are right you can’t log everything perfectly. What I like about MFP is that I always find a lot of different ethnic food on here. We go to Dim Sum since my husband is Chinese descent and I usually find most of it on here. The guy that started MF was Asian. Last night instead of the planned ballroom dance class and dinner out our daughter decided to make sushi. It was the best Futomaki roll I have had (not the best looking). I just found a futomaki roll on here and estimated how much of a roll I ate. You are right it probably differs exactly from what my daughter made. That is one reason I don’t eat all my exercise calories. This is not an exact science even if you were to exactly log every food and exercise perfectly there is the way each body metabolizes it. I calculated my TDEE and BMR to come up with a deficit but it isn’t exact it is just an estimate. No TDEE calculator can give you your exact Total Daily Energy Equilviancy or whatever TDEE is. So that is why I have a spreadsheet. It helps me evaluate whether what I was eating and how I was logging it was working or not. Sometimes we know we have logged really close but other times we just have to do our best and let go a bit. If you have 100 lbs to lose it is important to be rigorous but it is also important to be sustainable. I had to learn how to negotiate and log family gatherings but I can’t stop having those important times with my family. I would make sure I got exercise in the morning and logged the best I could. Enjoy that sushi and log the best you can!

@Savannah80 great loss since early January plus great strides in fitness! Very inspiring! I decided that although this is a monthly thread I am going to put my progress from the 1st of the year on. Thank you for that video. It is something I already believe is true. We need to have rests from calorie deficits. I took one after I lost 20 lbs for only 2 weeks and I actually lost weight on maintenance calories. Then when I went back to a much less deficit I lost the rest of another 20 lbs. I do not think many understand these concepts. I also think it is good to think about the idea of set points. Making that new lower weight one our body accepts as the one it is trying to maintain rather than our original higher weight. Before we go one to losing the next 10%. When I lost my 1st 10% I had an impossible plateau. The only way I got over it was to go on maintenance. I also realized the way I lost it was by eating below my BMR so the next time I made sure my deficit was lower and above my Basal Metabolism Rate.

@Lilann1961 I think that embarrassment with my baby belly was what lead me down the wrong path. I remembering getting a new job when my daughter was preschool age and my boss looking at me thinking I was pregnant. But I wasn’t. I just had had one c-section too many and didn’t know how to get rid of the belly and extra weight with a clingy kid. I did all the wrong things. You are doing the right ones just don’t give up. Take care of yourself which is hard when you are a Mom.

@RavenStCloud glad you are cleared to get back to exercise. I think food is much more than 50% but I need the exercise part to lose too since at my age slowing metabolism is much of the problem and exercise helps with that. Other things do too.

@BrownSugar I am glad you are looking into what is best for you. I know I have a small frame and I will take that into consideration when I decide on a goal beyond getting into a healthy range. I also know that my daughter has a larger one. I would see there was no fat on her body but in clothes she looked chunkier than a lot of the girls her age. Her doctor would give her a hard time when she really wasn’t overweight. She lost weight but her doctor wasn’t satisfied. Even though I gave her a different message the outside world was overwhelming. When she was healthy she didn’t get that message from the world. Now she is over weight but why even try when you do the world judges you on the basis of some air brushed model. We all have different bodies but we are all judged by some standard that doesn’t fit us. I applaud you for setting your own standard and your doctor for supporting you. There are also people who are skinny fat. They have fat around the middle internally and they don’t exercise. That is really unhealthy too. Some of us with more weight but who exercise and eat right may be doing better. I know that when I spiked to higher weights last fall I looked a lot better than when I started to lose. It is because even though I would like to exercise more like I did when I had more time I still get regular exercise and I do things to up my activity. My face isn’t as bloated looking as it was at the same weight.

@pamiede Congratulations on passing the 100 lbs off !

I seem to be able to check in here on Saturday to Tuesday but then my work week gets to be too much. My low hasn't changed yet. However my trend is still going down since my highs are much lower. I have been logging. Although I logged Friday late. I read all the posts since Wednesday and replied to a lot but not all.

My real progress this week is that I got exercise on 2 other days as well as aquafit. I will check in tomorrow.

I pretty much crashed food-wise today and did some emotional comfort food eating. My mom isn't doing well and the doctors aren't sure what to do for her. It's like a puzzle they're trying to figure out and it's hard because she isn't herself. Anyway, that combined with some other small things plus waking up very groggy put me into comfort eating mode by lunchtime. I'm hoping I will wake up feeling much better tomorrow and be able to get back on track this coming work week! More snow to shovel by Tuesday morning it looks like.

BrownSugar174 wrote: »

So as I’m riding my bike today and enjoying the moment a question popped into my mind...”when did you start loving yourself?”

So that’s the question I’d like to pose to each of you lovely ladies🥰

The day I left my ex-boyfriend

theleadmare wrote: »

Here are my February goals!

weight down to 280 by 3/1.
Gym at least four days a week each week.
Bike up to 15 minutes by the end of the month
Overhead press to thirty pounds by the end of the month
Keep eating under 1479 calories, eating back exercise calories as needed.
Have a pair of size 16 pants and size L shirts in the closet for when I need them!

don't eat back your exercise calories. You don't have to stay in your target that the app gives you. The app gives you slack and exagerates numbers. Use it just to track your own food and intake, and eat based on how you feel. I never eat what it tells me, but I always try and eat within the limits it sets for me.

@BrownSugar174 That’s a really good question. For myself, I’ve been overweight since a child. In elementary, junior high, & high school, I had to endure the bullying and teasing. When in high school, I may a conscious decision to ignore all of that and be me! I had close friends and a loving supportive family. They loved me for who I was not what I looked like. I still struggled some with self-esteem issues but not much. So, I’ve ALWAYS loved Me❣️ The older I become, the wiser, the more experienced... the more I fall in love with myself. I love me to show my sons the importance to love themselves. I started this most recent weight loss journey not as much for myself but for my sons. They are adults, in healthy relationships. I’m anticipating weddings within the next few years and grandchildren. I want to be able to be there, active, and able to run and play, Lord willing.

I’ve been overweight since childhood. There are for sure genetics to obesity. My daughter is a chunky girl and has been literally since she was born. We have been battling food obsessive behaviors with her since infancy - which...with infants...what do you do without traumatizing them??

Anyway today’s my weigh in day. You can see the effects of my bad food choices the past three days 😳 I gained!

Some is just the new scale. I decided to log what it said 😂 but most is me and my choices leading to weight gain.

Back on track!!!

We got this 💪