Women 200lb+, Let's Be Mighty this May!!!
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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.10 -
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.8 -
@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.6 -
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.8 -
@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!!8
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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.21 -
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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 lol7
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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!
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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.6 -
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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...4
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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.
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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!
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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.8 -
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.5 -
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.5 -
@speyerj, go you! That’s amazing. Such an inspiration!
@jaresaross07, echoing what @RavenStCloud said, I can’t keep sweets in my house because I will finish it all within a day or two. That’s one area I’m still working on, however, I do love sweets! Have you tried any of the lowcal options? They have fudge bars, various popsicles, and some ice cream. It’s not AS good as the real thing, but sweet enough that I’m satisfied and don’t have the desire to go for more.
Happy Monday! I hope to be back later with a longer post. Hope everyone is doing well and saying healthy.5 -
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.
This is amazing! Congratulations!
It's really nice to check in on everyone's updates. I'm in Week 3 of getting back to counting and exercising. I've been weighing and counting everything. And doing an average of 10km a day on the exercise bike. Frustratingly, I'm up 0.5kg today compared to last Monday. And that's despite the fact I've done better with my calorie deficits this week than I did last week!
I'm going to try keep going with the logging and the bike. Hopefully things will start moving down again next week!
May 4: 130kg / 287lbs
May 11: 128.5kg / 283lbs
May 18: 129kg / 284lbs
May Goal: 125kg / 276lbs
June Goal: 121kg / 267lbs
July Goal: 117kg / 258lbs
August Goal: 115kg / 254lbs6 -
I find or make treats!
I love Enlightened ice cream. The chocolate peanut butter is my favorite. Comes in pints or you can get the individual ‘pops’. (This is a higher protein, low sugar ice cream)
Baked apples with a hint of sugar and cinnamon. Sometimes cool whip on top.
Lite cool whip with chocolate PB2 mixed in it.
Cut up strawberries with a hint of sugar. 🤤
Banana ( & PB) chocolate chip muffins (flourless).
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I haven’t been able to check in – every Sunday I’ve had something going on.
I am going to state at the outset: May, so far, has been as rough a month as I’ve had in about a year. So I’m full of negativity, but dealing with it. And I promise, I've got better thoughts and good things to say and it will cheer me immensely when I write those posts! There’ve been a few very good things happening, but there’s a lot here in this post that had to come out.
Height: 5' 6"
SW (09/08/2019): 239.2 lbs
May SW (5/1/20): 169.0 lbs
5/3/2020: 167.4 lbs
5/10/2020: 169.8 lbs
5/17/2020: 170.2 lbs
May GW: 163 lbs
GW: 150 lbs (then reconsider)
Goals for May- Running: Run my 10-mile run on May 3rd, the date of the Broad Street Run (rescheduled to October 4th) – I did it!!
- More running: back down from the training a bit to take a rest - in the process of that.
- Water: Keep drinking water, at least 128 ounces a day – could be doing better at this. Most days I’m only making it to 112 ounces. It’s easier for me to lose track at home. So no danger of dehydration, just not taking it in at an optimal level for me.
- Skin: Keep taking care of it, in hopes that it will gracefully shrink back in place. I’ve actually committed to this and have been doing this every day this month. Now if my skin would show some appreciation.
In addition to everything I’ve got going on – most of May has been a miserable month for me as I share below – the scale is acting a fool. Before today, I’ve been as high as 171, as low as 165.2. The day I weighed in a 171, it was a two-day streak when I gained 6 pounds in two days. I know logically it must have been water. But it basically happened again overnight last night, I was 165.4 on Saturday, and 170.2 on Sunday morning. Then this morning I weighed in at 172.6 pounds!! That’s 7.2 pounds gained in two days!! I at least have a little explanation for the gain overnight into Sunday: my niece’s physically-distant birthday party was Saturday, and I ate a whole bunch of salty and sweet foods I’m not used to eating. I have no idea how I gained an additional 2-plus pounds overnight. I will do everything I know today to start driving the water out of my system.
Thank goodness I keep 3-day and 5-day moving averages of my weight to keep me sane. And I do know that there’s no way I ate so far over my maintenance calories that I gained 7.2 pounds of fat in 2 days, and this is likely water.
Other things that help me cope with scale madness:- Lost 2 inches in my measurements. I wasn’t expecting as much as in previous months, nor do I think it’s realistic to expect it. Except my waist. I still look like I could be pregnant. And at least half-way through, not just showing.
- I “needed” some bottoms for the party Saturday. So I looked online at Target’s website, and went to the store that allegedly had all the possibilities in stock. Do you know how hard it is to shop right now? You can’t try anything on, and they’re not accepting returns! So color me unsurprised that the size 12 cropped jeans I wanted were not at the store – the Internet always lies about the in-store stock. I found a pair of size 10 Bermuda jean shorts and decided to roll the dice with those – if they didn’t fit, I’d wear one of my baggy backups and hope they wouldn’t fall down. And I just know I’ll fit in them before the end of the summer! Well, they fit yesterday! They do have some stretch, but even considering that, I can’t ever remember wearing anything in size 10!
It’s also been a difficult month for me overall. A few of the things I’m dealing with:- Living alone during a quarantine. And for where I live, they aren’t even going to reconsider if they should lift the stay-at-home order until June 4th.
- Working in a job where I’m training hospital clinician new hires and feeling both guilty and relieved I’m not them.
- As a nurse who did most of the required coursework for Microbiology, Cell & Molecular Biology, and Chemistry degrees before going through a second degree BSN program; as someone who has over ten years of bedside clinical experience as both a technician (a CNA with additional technical skills), and a nurse – I may have offered advice and some opinions on social media only to be kicked in the teeth and essentially called stupid by non-clinical, non-scientific people. I’m not sad, I’m very, very, very angry.
- Feeling vindicated when all the experts who are “way smarter than I am” appear on the national news and literally take the words from over a month ago right out of my mouth. I’m never helping any of those people again beyond telling them, “Hmmm, sounds like you need to ask a smart doctor about that.”
- Realizing that one of the people who has shown the most contempt for is supposedly my best friend of 30+ years. It has come down to this time in history, but in review this has been a long time coming – this isn’t the first instance or episode, it’s merely the one in which it has become clear what she really thinks of me and I can’t dismiss it. She’ll come back when she needs something…but the bank of good stuff between us really is empty, and truth be told I'm out of "good" for her to borrow. I’m done. (Distance runs have been really cathartic with respect to this particular item.)
- Also feeling emotionally tired of saying the same thing over and over. The nurse in me can’t help but still try and help others. But I’m at the end point of my patience, and I know it because I’ve started to think it is time to thin the herd and let them leave their butts hanging in the wind. I know how to keep myself as safe as possible.
- I have a tooth that needs to be extracted - no, let me be more precise. I have part of a tooth that needs to be extracted. Two thirds of it broke off or crumbled and left the root intact. This happened about two weeks into quarantine, and I’ve been trying to ride it out until stuff opens. Then last Monday the pain started, and despite brushing my teeth all the time I wake up every morning with the smell and taste of decay in my mouth. My dentist is not taking emergency appointments, but their office is reopening on Tuesday. I have an appointment on Wednesday. I’ve been monitoring my condition, and got most worried last Wednesday when I wanted to put my head down on the table to sleep, while working at my computer. Right now it’s just constant moderate pain, only severe if some food gets to that part of my mouth when I’m eating. I’m actually wondering if the weight fluctuations have anything to do with an inflammatory response related to this problem.
I’ve been reading and now there are so many individuals on the thread it’s hard to call everyone out individually. I might get to some theme posts at night this week, this is one I’ll need to play by ear.
Just about half-way through May! Feels like May should be over, though. Keep persevering through quarantine!
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So.... I decided to post here to help me in my weight loss journey. I was doing very good until this quarantine thing happened. Over the month and a half that I have been working from home, I've gained back 30 of the 50+ pounds I lost before.
I don't know about you, but changing my routine really did a number on me. I learned that I have at least another month and a half before I can go back to work. I need to make a new routine that does not include eating from stress, boredom, etc.
I got board with the same old exercises and had no motivation to get up and work out. So, I decided this weekend to bring back an oldie but goodie in exercise. I purchased Richard Simmons's Sweating to the Oldies videos. It may seem goofy today, but he got results.
Between getting back to a healthy eating plan and reviving my exercise routine, I plan to get off the weight I put on. If I can put it on in a month, I can get it off in a month.
I hope this time hasn't been as rough on you as it has on me.
Start weight: 257.8 (7/21/2018)
Current weight: 237 (5/18/2020)
Short term goal: 207 (by 7/6/2020)
Goal Weight: 14511 -
Hey, all!! My Monday weigh in (I weigh Saturday and Monday)
Height: 5’4”
SW: 4/2019 307
CW: 5/2 194.6
5/4 194.4 (-0.2)
5/12 194.2 (-0.2)
5/13 193.8 (-0.6)
5/16 192.6 (-1.2)
5/18 191 (-1.6)
GW: 160
May GW: 189.9
I’m super excited that I might actually make my May goal 😊👏🏽‼️
@speyerj Congratulations❣️ You are truly my #GoalModel‼️
@jaresaross07 I often use fresh fruit to appease my sweet tooth. I also love looking for health low carb desserts that I can make. I’m loving mug cakes that can be whipped up quickly and cooked in microwave. A lot of times I still pair with fresh fruit. I also have learned to enjoy Greek yogurt. They have some tasty flavors
Have a great week everyone❣️6 -
Monday weigh in
Height 5" 6'
s/w 202.5(12/19)
4/3 182.2
5/11 177.0
5/18 175.8
I am on track and losing a pound per week, this is a bit easy because the supermarkets is out of my favorite gluten free foods. I am eating more fruits but am shocked with the amount of the sugar in some fruits and have to keep an eye on my sugar intake.
@jaresaross07 I agree with @CupcakeCrusoe just log them in at night or first in the morning, sometimes it is hard to resist those craving. How many of us end up in the middle of the night in a dark kitchen having those snacks after trying to out run the cravings all day and eating a bit more than we should. Good luck to you and don't beat yourself up if you do give in sometimes, it is not the end of your weight loss journey. Tomorrow will be a better day.
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@Tiffanylynn1024 Yes. I am worried about when I go back to work because I don’t drink as much water there. I also don’t get enough sleep except for Sunday. Before the gym closed we would get up on Saturday morning and went to Aquafit so we couldn’t sleep in. Now that I am drinking more I wake up earlier to go to the bathroom. Sometimes I get back to sleep and sometimes I don’t. The week I lost last month I was getting enough water and sleep and my calories were lower. Hard to get it all going at once.
@hessjansen Sustainable is good.
@speyerj Congratulations on meeting your goal.
@changeforeverlj Our family time is still through zoom here for now. Hope this transition goes well for you.
@RavenStCloud good check in. I am hoping to get back to exercising this week too.
@jaresaross07 I do not eliminate but limit sweets so I choose a little of what I want most. Like @AlexandraFinds I sometimes have a small piece of quality dark chocolate.
@elainey13 how is the sleep and water intake doing?
@mmdeveau I am glad I am not the only one that has long posts. Yes that gain is due to salt I think. I think it would be a frustrating time to be in health care now with such ignorance being expressed and acted on and it impacts others. I also feel am really fortunate to have others to stay at home with including 2 twin kittens we got right before the stay at home order took effect. However my husband was so stressed last week that he got a bit annoying but we got through it. I worry about those who are alone during this time. It doesn’t help to have “friends” being unfriendly now. Sorry about that and your painful tooth. Tooth pain is the worst. I hope it gets taken care of soon.
@masdec7 I agree we should be able to lose as fast as we gain but I lose weight a lot slower than I gain it. We have all posted about our challenges with stay at home issues. As someone said we aren’t all in the same boat. We are in different boats facing the same storm. The day I started to work at home is the day my office closed. I was paid the 1st month but am now on a temporary furlough. We need routine so when one is disrupted we have to struggle to put in place a new one. It is ironic that I started bullet journaling when I wasn’t working but it is helping me with all these changes. I used to use my work outlook. This is a great place to help with your weight loss journey during these times. We keep hoping that each month will get better. Many of us have made progress despite this time. Some are accepting slower progress. Others are just weathering the storm.
I am going to post weekly goals to focus on this week since last week was disruptive to my routine and efforts. I need to look up my May goals since it has been a while since I checked in.
1. Get enough sleep and improve water intake I am finding the sleep issue harder since I wake up early because I am doing better at the water intake.
2. Log weight, food and exercise and stay under calorie goal I am doing well at this.
3. Get some exercise 6 days a week and up NEAT clean. Try to exceed 150 minutes of exercise a week. I was working on this until last week so this week plan to get back on track with this. I am at 5 days of weeks of exercise.
4. Get into the 240s this means my highs and lows get and stay below 255 I think I will probably get into the low 250’s. I am keeping my calories low and my weight down to my low but not seeing a small woosh.
5. Make healthy meals at home. Yes doing well with this.
So today I need to focus on drinking my water, getting exercise, & doing my chapter. The fridge delivery has been postponed for the 3rd day but is scheduled for tomorrow?!?
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@mmdeveau - The tooth ache sounds horrible! I can't believe you've waited so long. You must have a very high pain tolerance. Of course the weight gain is due to inflammation and stress! I'm not a nurse, so correct me if I have it wrong, but I have read that cortisol levels are high when your body is under stress. And cortisol makes you retain water. I can't imagine a worse stress than dental pain, then add in the daily hum of corona stress and the falling out with someone you considered your best friend. So yes, that seems like a recipe for water retention.
Regarding the disagreement with your friend, something that I keep reminding myself when I get fed up and want to write off people who do and say ridiculous stupid stuff- is that this virus is something new and none of us really understand everything there is to know - even the experts. So we are all making mistakes, drawing wrong conclusions and predictions. Hopefully the best of us are also learning and adjusting along the way as we learn more and our conclusions and predictions are getting better over time. I'm trying to be a little more forgiving of people and the mistakes they make while everyone is under a tremendous amount of stress. Not to say I'm always practicing this, but I'm working on it.
@jaresaross07 - I find that eating a bit of protein does a really good job of satisfying the munchies. Beef Jerky, deli turkey, low sugar Greek yogurt all do the trick or me. But I also agree that you should work in planned indulgences in your diet too. Don't deny yourself all sweets - this is a diet that you'll hopefully be following for the rest of your life. Just work it into your plan - make sure it fits with your macros, sugar limits (if you have one) and calories limits - and then savor every bite of your portion controlled treat. My personal caveat is that if I am going to indulge, it needs to be worth it. I don't want to eat an inferior cookie, cupcake or ice cream. If I've going to spend my sugar allowance, it had better be worth it.3
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