Women 200lb+, Let's Be Mighty this May!!!

AlexandraFindsHerself1971 · May 2020

Got through a day of being out of the house and having to eat whatever.

1: Fast food just isn't that great. Next time, for the money and the calories, I'll go across the street and get barbecue.

2. Even when I'm not particularly trying, I can still hit my calorie budget. I figured that a bacon cheeseburger for lunch and two slices of absolutely dropped-from-heaven local pizzeria pizza would put me over calories. Nope, just under. Barely, but just under.

3. I'm tired and worn out from a lot of driving and talking and worrying and working....and I don't want food. I want to drink my hot tea, and have a hot bath with a new cozy mystery and go to bed. Hot tea is apparently my new comfort food.

finngirl61 · May 2020

speyerj wrote: »

Name: Jane
Age: 55 - I had a birthday this week!
SW: 286.5 (6/3/19)
GW: 180

4/30: 185.3
5/2: 183.3
5/9: 183.7
5/16: 180.6
5/23:
5/30:

Goals for May:
1) Reach my goal weight!! - So very close!
2) Keep logging - Check
3) Get 10000 steps/day - Check
4) Finish a 9 mile run - Completed last week, about to set off to do it again today
5) Stay well - Check

Been thinking about what do next when I hit 180. I think I will try for 175 and then ponder whether 170 is sustainable. I still have a lot of subcutaneous fat that I would like to lose and maybe 10 pounds is all I need. It's nice to be thinking now in 5 or 10 pound increments instead of 100 pound increments. Makes the whole task less daunting, but truly we all end up reaching our goals 1 pound at a time regardless of how long the journey is.

Congratulations! You've done so well. You're very disciplined and I hope you get yourself something for all your efforts! You deserve it. I'm still logging but scale doesn't move. So struggling with my inner voice saying what the heck is wrong with you.

Tiffanylynn1024 · May 2020

KeriA wrote: »

@cupcakecrusoe I think all the gree checks after be kind to myself shows it was a win this week. Great job analyzing what went on this past week in a non-judgemental way. Glad Saturday is seeing results.

@mmccloy12 It takes a while for one to get used to having days without going to work. You are right to focus on one thing each day. You can make a daily list. Then Identify 2-4 priorities then make sure you get one done. You have a lot of May goals and are doing so well with most of them.

@wholebygrace when my kids were out for the summer I still had them do some math because it is something that if you don’t use it you lose it. I would get a work book and tell them to do every 3 problems on a page on the weekdays. I didn’t get anything too hard but didn’t want it to be boring either. It didn’t take any time at all but when they went back to school they were ahead of everyone else who had forgotten everything from the year before. Also reading is good otherwise they got to play. However that is hard when you are working at home. I hope it goes well. My daughter bought a book for me to read this week on my kindle (using my account so I paid). It was good and she was happy I followed up on her recommended reading. I am back to my series I was on.

@Tiffanylynn1024 How much are you drinking water. I think you are probably losing inches. Also make sure you are getting enough sleep. Those 2 things are the base of everything else. Even if you are counting calories also pay attention to eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are satisfied. It will happen.

@Terytha sounds like happy problems to me - glad you had fun shopping. Sorry your back hurts.

@procolorer I had to look up enlightened ice cream. I was wondering how you were losing so well. But substituting water for Dr Pepper (even Diet) would do it. Great! I do not think it is the caffeine. There is a health benefit to caffeine 2-3 cups of coffee for women and 3-4 for men. I use to have one double tall latte and 1 cup of tea a day when I went to work. Now I have one black coffee. Should probably have tea but I am too busy drinking water.

@cesse47 I was worried when I saw I had 22 new posts to reply to then saw that many were you quoting and sweetly replying to others. Phew!

@Rosie3579 Best with starting C25K

@speyerj Hope it was a wonderful birthday. I wonder whether it would be good for you to maintain at 180 for a couple of weeks before deciding what to do. That resets your weight. Your body wants to go back to a weight it thinks you should be from before you lost weight. It is usually a weight you maintained for a while. If you can maintain at a certain weight it convinces your body that is your new weight. Then it is easier to lose another 5 – 10 pounds. After 10% weight loss your body will fight you harder. Maintaining is as important a skill. However you have done so well at losing that it would be tempting to lose another 10.

@pamiede so inspiring one victory after another.

So today I just want to get my water intake up again and keep my calories down. If I feel like exercising fine, but if not, fine. It has been a stressful week and we still do not know when we will get the refrigerator we bought. I am tired of my husband going out so much to buy things because we don’t have enough room or we need ice. Now we need different pans to cook on this range! The bright side is my house is cleaner. We had a zoom family party last night since my sister turned 70. We only celebrate birthdays together for the big ones. Like 40 or 55. Not 33. There are just too many of us. It was fun. We used the shared white board to play Pictionary.

My focus for the weekend is to get prepared to have a productive week getting in shape, learning my updated software doing exercise each day. Right now I do not want to even think about food planning since it just means yet another trip to a grocery store. I don’t want to do that until we have the fridge. I want the cooler out of my living room! Fortunately I have a few meals I planned for last week that we didn’t get a chance to make.

Hope all have a great weekend.

I don’t drink as much as I should in water 💦 lately I’ve been only getting about 6 glasses in a day so I need to up my water in take. As far as sleep goes, I’m sleeping at least 8 hours a day as of right now, but I do go back to work Monday and usually I was only getting 5-6 hours of sleep a night because I’m a night owl but I have to be up at 5am for work.

hessjansen · May 2020

Check in!!
SW: 214.4 (5/2/20)
W1: 209.3 (5/10/20)
W2: 208.9 (5/17/20)
TWL: 5.5 lbs

As you can tell I lost most weight during the first week but i’m going to try to be more active again. I also have started to eat more when I gain calories from exercises so that’s probably why. I’ll just be losing at a slower rate but I won’t be hungry all day so I know it’s more substaibable long run. It’s a bit discouraging eating under proper calories and only loosing .5 but i’m still going cause I feel the 100’s coming soon in the next few weeks. Next week won’t be good because it’ll be my birthday but one bad week doesn’t mean i have to gain weight, I will just maintain and that’s okay.

speyerj · May 2020

@hessjansen, it's completely typical to drop a ton of weight the first week you eat at a deficit. It's a nice little motivator at the time but for some people it creates unrealistic expectations that every week should be like that. The reason most people drop a lot in the first week or two is that most people will end up eating fewer carbs. Carbs make you retain water. When you eat less of them, you drop water excess water. But your loss the second week was likely fat, not water - which is what you really want to lose. So, don't be discouraged - you are doing great. And good for you for giving yourself permission to celebrate your birthday - having your cake and eating it too. Happy birthday!!

speyerj · May 2020

Ladies, I did it! I clocked in at 179.9 - GOAL!!

I resent my goal to 175 and my deficit to lose at 1 pound a week. I am going to take this 5 pounds at a time, slow and easy.

Rosie3579 · May 2020

Crushed it!!!

speyerj wrote: »

Ladies, I did it! I clocked in at 179.9 - GOAL!!

I resent my goal to 175 and my deficit to lose at 1 pound a week. I am going to take this 5 pounds at a time, slow and easy.

MuttiNM · May 2020

@speyerj Wonderful! Congratulations!!!

Terytha · May 2020

speyerj wrote: »

Ladies, I did it! I clocked in at 179.9 - GOAL!!

I resent my goal to 175 and my deficit to lose at 1 pound a week. I am going to take this 5 pounds at a time, slow and easy.

Awesome! I'm almost there too, I'll be joining you soon.

procolorer · May 2020

speyerj wrote: »

Ladies, I did it! I clocked in at 179.9 - GOAL!!

I resent my goal to 175 and my deficit to lose at 1 pound a week. I am going to take this 5 pounds at a time, slow and easy.

Congrats!!

Tiffanylynn1024 · May 2020

Back to work for me tomorrow. 6am eastern time is when I start and I’m use to going to bed at 3am since I’ve been off for 2 months...it’s gonna be a tough one. But at least I move around more at work than I do at home and plus I can’t eat whenever I want at work so I guess there’s a plus side to it lol

changeforeverlj · May 2020

Monday Check-in
SW 230.78 lbs (16/03/2020) 104.9 Kgs
04/05 95.9 Kgs 210.98 - 19.89 lbs (-9 Kgs)
11/05 94.3 Kgs 207.46 (-23.32 lbs) (-10.6 kgs)
18/05 93.4 Kgs 205.48 (-25.3 lbs) (-11.5 Kgs)

I realise long term consistency is the goal for me!

My young niece and nephew came over to spend time with us and have a sleepover, this is the first time in 2 months we have seen them! So it was a flurry of activities and endless baking/cooking to feed all 3 kids! I found it hard not to shove things in my mouth! The last two months I’ve been on track and focused, however we have been in lock-down so no outside influencing, as we start re-entering a more social life I know it will be more difficult!

@Tiffanylynn1024 I hope your first day back at work goes well!

@speyerj Wow Jane, that’s so encouraging!! Congratulations, I’m doing a victory dance for you! & a belated Happy Birthday, hope it was special

@hessjansen We are at similar parts in our race! I’m trying not to focus on the scale too much (although hard not to) Just logging my calories and exercise each day and the numbers tally up eventually! Enjoy your birthday, don’t restrict, have fun and then carry on afterwards!

@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I am also wondering how I will be being out of the house and having to eat whatever! I agree fast food in my mind is much tastier than in reality! Tea is my comfort drink, I love it!

@Terytha I hope your back is much better and your magic bag has done its ‘magic’

@Rosie3579 Well done on starting a C25K! I like the way you have been conditioning your body slowly to get ready! I wish I could run, but I’m top heavy! I jog a bit but my legs feel like lead!

@bellanbear Have you managed walking with your dogs? Good luck with your goals

@pamiede I love your pics you posted, so inspiring!

@KeriA I hope this week is less stressful!

@cupcakecrusoe Good result on Saturday, and it sounds like you had a great day!

RavenStCloud · May 2020

May 4th : 245lbs
May 11th: 241lbs
May 18th: 238lbs

Week Two Wrap Up:
1. Log all meals 7/7
2. Avoid meat/dairy 7/7
3. Long Walks 0/3
4. Make good food choices at work 6/7

So definitely didn't get my exercise in this week, but this week I'm going to try walks and home work outs.

CupcakeCrusoe · May 2020

speyerj wrote: »

Ladies, I did it! I clocked in at 179.9 - GOAL!!

I resent my goal to 175 and my deficit to lose at 1 pound a week. I am going to take this 5 pounds at a time, slow and easy.

Wonderful! Congratulations!

jaresaross07 · May 2020

What are some things you all do to help fight the sweet tooth cravings? Do you make healthier sweet treat options, eat something salty, or just have amazing will power? Looking for some advice in this department...

AlexandraFindsHerself1971 · May 2020

jaresaross07 wrote: »

What are some things you all do to help fight the sweet tooth cravings? Do you make healthier sweet treat options, eat something salty, or just have amazing will power? Looking for some advice in this department...

Well, sweets often give me a headache and nausea if indulged in too freely, so there's that. (Unfortunately, this also means I don't eat fruit. Fructose is fructose, wherever it comes from.) I've learned that that delicious gooey desert means a bad bout of nausea and headache, and eventually it doesn't look good any more.

I have a lot of small things, both sweet, salty, and savory, that I fill in at the edges with. I often eat a one-ounce packet of chips with my sandwich at lunch, so I'm not missing that. (And sometimes I forget the packet, so eventually that won't be something I need.) I have small very good dark chocolate bars that are about 130 calories or so, and sometimes I have one of those. I have trail mix, and a quarter cup of that with the raisins and chocolate pieces in it is sweet and salty and about 150 calories and just right to get me through til dinner. Sometimes in the evening I have a cup of sugar-free hot chocolate with real whipped cream, which gives me a little hit of calories just before bed so I don't go to bed hungry, and the real whipped cream feels indulgent in my mouth and isn't so much that it throws off the calorie budget. (I believe in using fat to satiate in sensible and healthy ways.) And I have little 100 calorie cups of ice cream, and with another 50 calories in a tablespoon of chocolate syrup, that's pretty tasty and satisfying without throwing me off my diet.

It also means that if I'm in a mood where I want to eat something and I don't care any more, what I have to snack on is usually about 150 calories and takes long enough for me to eat to kind of regain control, have some water, and just go to bed. So I'm not going to go over my calorie budget by 800-1000 calories, and that helps too.

I don't HAVE large bags of chips, pints or quarts of ice cream, or boxes of cookies in the house. I know I have no portion control abilities unless I control them by buying individual servings. I have a lot of little bowls and small plates, and knowing that my small glass pinch bowls hold exactly a quarter-cup of trail mix is useful.

And by now, I have experience to fall back on. One small serving of trail mix is enough. One cheese stick and three crackers is enough. Even if it doesn't feel like it will be enough, I know that if I eat it it will be, and that helps a lot too.

Rosie3579 · May 2020

jaresaross07 wrote: »

What are some things you all do to help fight the sweet tooth cravings? Do you make healthier sweet treat options, eat something salty, or just have amazing will power? Looking for some advice in this department...

For the warm months, I will make protein ice cream which is basically ice that you blend to “snow” with a little of your choice of milk, protein powder, and a little xanthum gum. There are a million different recipes out there. But it makes a huge bowl, and it is delicious. In the food & nutrition section, there is a long thread called “Volume Eaters” that has tons of pages with protein ice cream recipes. You should check it out.

If not that, I will do chocolate banana ice cream which is just frozen banana in the blender, a little milk, enough cocoa to make it chocolatey enough for your liking. If you need it, a little sweetener. Usually the sweetness of the banana is enough for me. I will sprinkle PB2 powder on top to get that hint of peanut butter without all the calories. Has a great consistency and good for breakfast or dinner!

CupcakeCrusoe · May 2020

jaresaross07 wrote: »

What are some things you all do to help fight the sweet tooth cravings? Do you make healthier sweet treat options, eat something salty, or just have amazing will power? Looking for some advice in this department...

I eat a treat. I'm a big advocate of treats. Sometimes healthier swaps don't make the craving go away, then you're left having eaten the healthier option AND eventually treating yourself.

Ways I make sure this doesn't go off the rails:
1. immediately portion out treats that aren't individually packaged. Weigh them, put them in bags or whatever, put the rest of the portions somewhere I can't immediately see them. Eat the one portion and enjoy it.
2. Make sure I don't have more than 1 treat a day, if at all possible.
3. Up my fruits and vegetables for the day in place of a meal, if my treat is particularly indulgent, to make sure I've got calorie room for it.
4. Have an accountability person. I tell my husband that I only want to eat 1 brownie. I eat the brownie in front of him. Now if I want another brownie, I'd have to do that in front of him too, which I don't want to do, because he thinks I'm an amazing Amazon with lots of willpower (jk, but he is my biggest fan).
5. plan my day around a treat. It's the first thing I pre-log when I pre-log my food for tomorrow at night, because it's the thing I'm most looking forward to eating.

CupcakeCrusoe · May 2020

Rosie3579 wrote: »

jaresaross07 wrote: »

What are some things you all do to help fight the sweet tooth cravings? Do you make healthier sweet treat options, eat something salty, or just have amazing will power? Looking for some advice in this department...

For the warm months, I will make protein ice cream which is basically ice that you blend to “snow” with a little of your choice of milk, protein powder, and a little xanthum gum. There are a million different recipes out there. But it makes a huge bowl, and it is delicious. In the food & nutrition section, there is a long thread called “Volume Eaters” that has tons of pages with protein ice cream recipes. You should check it out.

If not that, I will do chocolate banana ice cream which is just frozen banana in the blender, a little milk, enough cocoa to make it chocolatey enough for your liking. If you need it, a little sweetener. Usually the sweetness of the banana is enough for me. I will sprinkle PB2 powder on top to get that hint of peanut butter without all the calories. Has a great consistency and good for breakfast or dinner!

Oooh, I also love greek yogurt with walden farms maple syrup, and some chocolate chips thrown in. High protein, low calorie, very filling.

RavenStCloud · May 2020

jaresaross07 wrote: »

What are some things you all do to help fight the sweet tooth cravings? Do you make healthier sweet treat options, eat something salty, or just have amazing will power? Looking for some advice in this department...

I've been making a smoothie with lunch every day and bringing it to work (6oz almond milk, 8 frozen strawberries, 10 frozen diced mango cubes). That way I have already "booked" myself a sweet treat and I can look forward to it each day.

Through trial and error I have learned about myself that I can't have anything I really, really love in my apartment, because I have no portion control when it comes to things like that. However, I can have things around that I sort of like. For example, if I got a big bag of fun size m&Ms, I'd just eat all the packets in a few sittings. I can't really just eat one. But I can have chocolate drizzled protein bars around, because they're not something my brain automatically craves and they satisfy me if I need something sweet.

Women 200lb+, Let's Be Mighty this May!!!

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