Women 200lb+, Let's Keep It Moving This March!!!

Scale's up, but after the weekend I had (no regrets, it was delicious), I can see why. Back to it today!

Special shout outs (I've read everything, just on my phone!)

@aliciap0116 that dress looks amazing! And I'm so glad you liked the recipe. I make that one a few times a month because like your husband, my family can eat it with rice and I can eat it by itself with minimal extra cooking.

@speyerj I'm looking forward to following your maintenance break! Happy ONEderland!

@Aerohead21 so sorry about thinking you were a teacher, that was @sharpdust . You're both great and you're both going to be awesome this month. I get being tired of being in a deficit. It's hard, not only physically but mentally. It's times like these that are the best for trying to find those fallback habits- what can you do now without thinking about it that you wouldn't have done before?

For me, fallback habits are things like not bringing foods not part of my plan into the house, or going past fast food because I have food at home (yes, I have become my mother 😂) or eggs for breakfast instead of carbs. It's all in the autopilot. What you can do without thinking, you can do all the time.

It's Monday, it's already a busy one, but I have all my food pre-planned, got my protein in my bag, ready to kick it. I can feel that lifting I did yesterday in my hamstrings, good thing today's rest day.

Have a good day everyone!

So these are my totals for Feb:
Inches lost: 3
Pounds lost: 7
Body fat %: -0.8%
BMI: -2.2

I worked out a total of 1,462 minutes, which translates to a little over 24 hours!
SW: 256.5 lb
CW: 248.5 lb

My scale's up a couple pounds, but that may just be water. I'm not going to stress.

Today I got my heel lifts! Why do I need heel lifts, you may ask?

When I had my auto accident in my twenties that required my right foot to be put back together with pins and screws (tarsometatarsal dislocations/fractures) they put a heavy cast on my right foot after the first surgery. It had a chilling pad in it through which I could pump cold water to ease the pain. While it undoubtedly helped, once I started moving around on crutches, it exerted pull on my shin, and pulled my shin to grow a quarter inch. That doesn't sound like much to most people, but it is enough that my lumbar spine is a little crooked and my right hip is high, and this causes a lot of muscular pain when I walk or do physical work.

The solution to this is to put a quarter-inch lift in the left shoe, and thereby level out the hips. So as I have three pairs of shoes in rotation, I bought three heel lifts, and have been doing my morning housework, noting that I need to engage my core more and work it more in general, and feeling the muscles....surprise...as they have new stresses on them. Whether this will fix the spinal issues, I don't know, but not having the one-sided biting lumbar pain when I do anything is worth three times what I paid for the lifts.

Hello ladies!!! I found the March page!! LOL!!!

WOW!! So much activity, so much to read!!

SW (1/6): 201.4
Jan end: 199.2
Feb end: 198.6
1st GW: 190
UGW: 140

Ok, so February wasn't the best. At least I didn't go up, right? But with so many thing happening in the month of LOVE I knew it wasn't going to be the best. I'm so pumped and ready for March. I've been doing Zumba 3x/week since January, and I want to add a new, different type of exercise this month and I feel like I'm ready for it. I'm going to try some Hasfit beginner videos I found on Youtube. It's cardio, but they use weights as well. I'm thinking I might log it as circuit training. I'm still going to do my Zumba because I love dancing!!

- Hasfit 3x/week and Zumba 2-3x/week
- keep trying to get to 8 glasses of water a day
- I want to definitely reach 195 lbs this month
- keep logging the good and the bad days

So I have some 3 lb dumbbells to start my new workouts and I'll see how it goes for me with Hasfit. I'm really happy with this group, everybody with their posts motivates me to continue. After seeing my February results, it's usually at this point when I have decided to just give up in the past. Thank you @RavenStCloud for such a wonderful idea of getting all of us together to share and motivate each other.

Welcome to all the newbies to the group!!

@BrownSugar174 @aliciap0116 Loving your beautiful pictures!!

Hello Everyone. New Here.

SW (2/24/2020) - 357
CW (3/2/2020) - 354
GW - 150

Right now I am focusing on one day at a time. I got some very concerning medical DX - but I am also struggling with severe depression and anxiety, so actually working on loosing weight and getting healthy is a struggle all on its own. So any encouragement is welcome.

sjonathans wrote: »

Hello Everyone. New Here.

SW (2/24/2020) - 357
CW (3/2/2020) - 354
GW - 150

Right now I am focusing on one day at a time. I got some very concerning medical DX - but I am also struggling with severe depression and anxiety, so actually working on loosing weight and getting healthy is a struggle all on its own. So any encouragement is welcome.

You can do this. I have severe anxiety. And I've been finding that losing weight is helping my medical anxiety. I have made myself decals to put up reminding me not to self medicate with food. I can post some to share if you'd like to print one to put up somewhere.

@kathrynegrady I put my gym days on my calendar for this week for accountability, but having someone else to be accountable couldn't hurt! I'm going Monday Tuesday Thursday Sunday this week. I am aiming to do roughly 30 min of cardio (broken into 2 15-min intervals, one to warm-up and one after weights to end the workout), 20 min of weights (alternating days between glutes/legs, back/biceps, chest/triceps) and end with 10 min stretching. Gym bag is in the car, ready to go!

@Terytha Idk how many times I have given in to a craving only to be severely disappointed. Which goes to show how mental this all is, it always tastes better in your head than in real life. I also have told myself that if I want a cheeseburger (or fried chicken or whatever) then I can cook it myself and put all that work in.

@vegasgirl0825 Counting down the days until summer!!!

@sjonathans All you can do is take it one day at a time. Focus on one or two small things and then go from there. This a great group full of smart, encouraging women who have similar goals, but we all have different ways of doing it. There is something out there for you too, we just need to figure out what that is.

Like I mentioned above, my gym bag is in the car, I am going today after work. I am very excited and hope I can meet my 4X/week goal.

@Terytha: I live in an area that gets winter weather, and I always try to avoid going out the day of the first winter snow. I swear by all that is holy, people forget how to drive on snow over the summer! After that first day, all the idiots have found their ditch, and the rest of the populace has reacquainted themselves with the conditions, and it's much better.

I will say it is immensely, unspeakably satisfying to watch the expensive SUV being driven with no regard for traffic or conditions as it majestically obeys the laws of physics and slides into a ditch. It is a beautiful thing when karma is so swift.

Sableprncs wrote: »

Hello everyone. I'm new here. My head isnt in a great place right now so I think I'm going to just lurk for a little while. Hopefully by the middle of this month or by next month I'll be in a better position to participate. I do enjoy reading everyone's posts though.

I am new as well. I feel you @Sableprncs. I will be joining your lurking squad until I am ready to post something more

sjonathans wrote: »

Hello Everyone. New Here.

SW (2/24/2020) - 357
CW (3/2/2020) - 354
GW - 150

Right now I am focusing on one day at a time. I got some very concerning medical DX - but I am also struggling with severe depression and anxiety, so actually working on loosing weight and getting healthy is a struggle all on its own. So any encouragement is welcome.

OMG Sjonathans, the exact same thing happened to me. Left the doctors in tears the other day and came on the community that night. So I'm right there with you. It's been so challenging for me and I feel like I'm stuck in this never ending cycle. But ever since I've joined the community and was surrounded with all this positive energy I have started to feel a bit better reading everyone's posts and it's making me feel like "I can do this!"
But, like you said I'm taking it one day at a time!
So im telling you:
YOU CAN DO THIS!
WE CAN DO THIS!

@Sableprncs and @sjonathans we are glad you two are here, and I think most of us can relate to that overwhelming feeling of being stuck in a cycle. Being here is a great step! One day at a time- YOU CAN DO IT!

Start by making one little positive change, and roll with that for a few days, see how you feel, see where it takes you. After a while that one little positive change becomes the new normal, then maybe make another one.

@charsuzy my advice for feeling motivated to exercise is to find what really works for you. Don't try to do something you don't like! For me, I dislike exercising first thing in the morning. I will always hate that. If I try to make that happen, I end up not exercising nine times out of ten. So, find something you like, and figure out what time you feel most like doing it, and try that out. After a while, you'll feel so good you won't be able to imagine not having that as part of your routine.

@pamiede your progress is amazing. Wow- 100 pounds in less than a year! Thanks for the inspiration!

@CupcakeCrusoe – “…it’s about the form. Get the form right.” Yes, I spend a lot of time telling my left knee it needs to be pointing forward during my runs and my walks! Also I need to remind myself to stand up straight all the time!

@sonyaj989 – wow, meatless March! In the spirit of the Lenten season, I decided to try meatless Fridays, which might morph into meatless Mondays long-term.

@VictorSmashes – I keep a huge infuser pitcher of water at my desk. I do tend to guzzle about 24 ounces at a time. But my goal is for the water in the pitcher to be gone by the time I leave at the end of the day.

@sharpdust – giving up fast food was so great, and I could not believe I wouldn’t miss it. I think the last time I had McDonald’s, I was on a road trip and it was the only choice. But other than that, I think the last time I regularly had fast food was back in 2013. Once you lose the taste for it, you’ll have the same reaction as @Terytha: I can do this way better myself, at home!

@kathrynegrady – sometimes I tell myself I’m getting into beast mode! You already learned one important lesson, though, which is that it’s truly your food intake that matters for weight loss. Exercise helps but it’s not always the boost everyone thinks it is! And for exercise, find something you like to do because in the long run it’s consistency that matters, not the difficulty. And don’t discount weight lifting, it takes a lot of calories to repair that muscle tissue!

@sjonathans – during my better times, which would include the past nine months or so, it’s easy for me to slow down and think, “If I overeat and gain weight, how is that extra weight going to make any other issue I’m facing better or easier?” It’s not that the extra weight might compound my misery, it’s my way of deliberately separating my thinking about eating from other emotions I’m experiencing.

@vegasgirl0825 – was laughing today, reading that you live in Wisconsin! So far from Las Vegas!

@charsuzy – I’m going to share this thought from my favorite podcaster at Phit-n-Phat, since she does frequently address the topic of motivation. She coaches her group that you should not wait for motivation. “Do you wait for motivation to brush your teeth, or to do anything else that’s good for you?” To me that’s a fair point. Thinking in those terms, waiting for motivation sounds more like waiting for inspiration. Personally, I handle it by making myself start my planned workouts with a rule that I must put forth a good faith effort for at least 10-15 minutes, and if I still feel like I don’t want to workout that day, I stop and go home. I truly cannot remember a time when I’ve stopped at that point and said, “nope, not today!” Also, find something you like to do. Not everyone likes running! I want to love Zumba and Barre classes, but they are both hard on my knees in a way running is not!

@Brockka90, @charsuzy and @jellygrl Motivation. We all want it. I hear it said a lot on this site. The thing about motivation is, you just can't stay motivated. It's not a natural state. There will be moments when you will be motivated: seeing the scale move downward, seeing an old picture of you and realizing you're fitter now, seeing that one quote that pulls the day together. That is great. Those are good moments.

But the day to day- it's more about habits. Why am I weighing everything on a food scale to the gram? Because I know that if I make it a habit, then I'm going to get to my motivation- which for me, is Future Hotter Me. It's fine to be vain as long as it's the thing that keeps you getting healthier. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

But seriously- you find motivation where you find it: better health, lifting more weight, running further or faster, or just being Future Hotter You. All those are acceptable. To get there, we do the very un-hot, un-sexy work of building habits that will get us there. The motivation is a bonus.

So take a minute and think why you want to be smaller. What do you want to happen, who do you want to be?

@Danielle__S You are killing it, well done.

@mmccloy12 heck yeah you've got this.

@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I'm glad you have something that helps, that sounds horribly painful.

@Terytha I fall into that trap with food all the time. When I was pregnant with my second, all I wanted in the entire world was a Fish Filet sandwich from McDonalds. I thought about it for weeks. When I finally got it, it tasted like nothing and grease.

@Lasmartchika oh man I love me some Zumba. Get it!

@vegasgirl0825, @shorepine, @pamiede Those are great goals and you are all on your way! Pamiede you are killing it! I love seeing you complete your diary every day.

@sjonathans You can do this. We're all here for you.

@asthesoapturns your decal idea sounds fantastic!

@sharpdust get that gym time!

@sableprncs and @nesmith77 welcome! we're here for you even if you're just lurking!

@darksunapril crazy... like a fox! You can do this! But I speak for myself when I say I'd like pictures of this dress!!!

@mmdeveau I had some bad form going that had to be corrected- fortunately, caught it before it turned into an injury.

@BrownSugar17 thanks for sharing! I love that! You are so fit now.


Those meals I preplanned today? Yeah, one of them went out the window. I had planned for leftover chili, but turns out someone in the office ate enough where I only had enough for lunch and not dinner. Thank goodness for Subway's chopped chicken salad- just a pile of vegetables and chicken, yum. I don't even need dressing, because I get all the good sweet peppers and the relish in there. Mmmmm. My day went fine, Flo's coming, so who knows what the scale is going to do, but I know I'm on track. And those brownies are gone out of my house, which is also a huge help.