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

Weighed myself yesterday and gained 2 pounds. So frustrating

SW: 210, (09,01,2019)
CW: 194.4
GW: 145-150
HT: 5'4"
03/7: 188.8

My body is still getting used to me exercising regularly. And hydrating properly. I expect my losses going forward won't be quite as extreme.

@Aerohead21 I have the same negotiations in my head, last night I was negotiating Chinese food. I ate a salad for lunch and had a quesadilla for an early dinner around 4pm but come around 6pm I was hungry again. I ended up negotiating on some spicy pork chop, no sides. I logged it and it put me over, but I satisfied my craving without throwing everything out the window. Can you make room for some chocolate in your calorie budget? I know you have a low calorie limit but I think making room for chocolate instead of denying yourself it may help this not feel so depriving. You may not need it but if it will make your weight loss journey less miserable then I would see if I can fit it in somewhere.

@katarina005 Reflect on your week but don't beat yourself up. A new week starts now

@Tarzan37 Stress definitely affects my eating too. I hope they can figure out what is wrong with your sister soon

@asthesoapturns I also started exercising this week, unsure of how it will affect the scale but I feel SO GOOD! That alone is worth it

@torihudson6 It is definitely a concern here in CA as well. Panic in stores with no water or toilet paper available. If your mom can stay home and avoid crowds as much as possible that would be best. Hoping that safety precautions (wash your hands!) help stop the rapid spreading. Also cute profile pic!

I signed up for a STEAM collaborative at work which means I signed up for Saturday work! Lol but its good money and stuff I can bring into my class so not complaining. I woke up early and you know what I did? I ran a mile! Took me 15 minutes lol but I did it. I was debating whether I had time to go to the gym beforehand or if I should go later and I decided to just get up and run now. It felt SO GOOD! My knees didn't ache, I was able to keep a steady pace. I still plan on going to the gym tomorrow morning to get my 4X done for the week. Who am I? Lol

For anyone struggling with motivation to exercise just know that its been about 4 months since I started this journey and I only now have strung along a weeks worth of exercise. Your motivation will come, just keep up your better eating habits, keep positive intentions for yourself and when the time is right you will get moving. Have a great Saturday everyone

Oof. Today we cleaned several large broken things out of the garage, and we have more to do, but we didn't have room and were too tired after one trip to the electronics recycling/Goodwill/ sports resale store to do a second. It freed up a lot of space, so now I can work on getting the smaller things packed up and all things in boxes tidily for the eventual move. I lifted and toted a lot today, and I am tired and sore. Definitely ate back exercise calories today. I can be a little hungry and be okay with it for an hour or so, but there's a level of ravenous especially when doing physical work that I feed. I may not always have to do that like that, because I used to not be able to be a little hungry that long, but right now I do.

In my first marriage I had someone who I could say, "Hey, good weather on Saturday, let's load the weight set we don't use and the broken electronics and get rid of them," and he would agree on Wednesday but once Saturday got here he'd absolutely refuse to do it because he wanted to go do something else, or he was too tired even to help me load it up, or didn't want me to use the car because he might could want to go do something. And then he'd snipe at me about things being a mess. So it was very healing for me to have Boyfriend willing to help me identify what was going, help me take it apart and load it up, and spend the late morning/early afternoon doing it even though he would have rather spent the day writing. Now I can handle boxing up the loose stuff and disposing of the things we don't want at the local resale place.

Thank you for your words of encouragement. Husband and his pneumonia are not very well and he’s sleeping in the spare room to try stop me catching it, I miss hugs!

Got through a huuuge work day today, wtom arrived, ate my exercise calories totally back for the first time this year, scraped and to be honest I don’t care...I’ve worked hard, done great and I was craving energy and carbs.

Hope you’re all having a good weekend, be kind to yourselves xxx

I really believe our weight loss results this week are squarely the fault of the time change tomorrow! Yes, that’s the culprit for sure!😊

A sudden death struck my family this weekend, my cousin's husband committed suicide this morning, any good vibes, positive thoughts, and/or prayers (whatever your preference) would be greatly appreciated for her and their 3 children. I felt so helpless in receiving that call this morning...what can you do or say in this situation...all I could muster was telling her I was there for her, anything she needed to just let me know.
Now to switch gears before I get too many emotions going...

Sooo...tomorrow is weigh in day for me and I DREAD IT...the weekend spent so far has been traveling and eating out...YUCK!! I haven't made myself exercise at all since this month began, so it isn't looking favorable for me to reach my 20 days of exercise goal, well we have 23 days left this month and if I am going to get anywhere close to accomplishing it I better get moving tomorrow. I have so been using this group forum as my outlet this month, which seems to be one giant nest of stress and I feel like a baby bird stuck inside it...hopefully soon I can get that push outta the nest and get back to flying!!! GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE OUT THERE and know I am sending encouraging thoughts to any who are struggling right now!

Sorry, haven't tapped in for a bit here. Twas a rough Feb/early March. I'm just getting over my second round of flu (2 weeks sick out of 3 - Boo!) This second one knocked me way down, didn't eat for over 2 days, barely drank because every time I did it would feel like I was gagging and make me throw up. Chills, sweats, too sore to move, the whole shebang. I was a sad, sorry Hurley. On the up side, it knocked the scale back 10 pounds in 2 days, on the down side, that's water weight and not a healthy way to drop a couple, besides. Had to laugh at my logging for those two days. My activity tracker showed me with daily steps of 186 and 875, but burning more calories than a normal day. That shivering and restlessness will do that to a person, I suppose. Egh. Glad it's mostly over. I finally feel human today with the throat and cough much improved. I wanted to burn the bed/bedclothes/bedroom, but settled for washing everything including myself until I could stand us. Feeling stronger today, mostly myself, finally.

Sooo, on that note, here's my current status for March:
SW: 310 lbs
GW: 150 lbs
CW: 272.6 lbs (-37.4 lbs after rehydrating back from 270.4)

End of March goal: 270 (-40 lbs)

Mar 1: 278.0
Mar 7: 272.6
Mar 14:
Mar 21:
Mar 28:
Mar 31:

Hope all you lovely ladies have been doing well! It's supposed to warm up tomorrow and the family and I are going to hit the trails.

Hi I have been Mia for toooo long back to it need to get going again
SW 204lbs
Mini goal 199lbs