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

Yay! I get to do Friday Check-in since I finally lost a bit. I have been waiting for this! Hope this is just the start.

Name: Keri
67 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs
2/1: 263.6
3/1: 261.8 lbs
4/1: 258
Lowest April weight: 253.8
May SW: 254
5/9: 253.6
CW: 252.8 (5/22)

GW: Onderland 1st, maintain for a few weeks then 150 lbs.

May Goal weight: 249 will probably not make this but hope to make progress towards it despite bday (my youngest's) celebrations and memorial day weekend before the end of the month.

My May Goals are:
1. Get enough sleep and improve water intake Saturday ✔
2. Log weight, food and exercise and stay under calorie goal ✔
3. Get some exercise 6 days a week and up NEAT clean. Try to exceed 150 minutes of exercise a week. lately have had some disruption to my daily weekday schedule. Hope to get back to this. Days with no exercise have been higher at NEAT.
4. Get into the 240s this means my highs and lows get and stay below 255 Hope to make it to 250 at least.
5. Make healthy meals at home. ✔
6. Each week do a SKS feedback on what is working and what isn’t look into what food journaling might look like. maybe today Not really doing this formally but I do think about this and make adjustments when needed.

Water Intake & sleep: I have only made it to 8 glasses a few days but I often pass the color test. What I realized is instead of getting down on myself for not making that I should feel good about how much more water I do drink now than when I was working at the office. I am getting alot more sleep but I give credit to being on temporary furlough.

Weight loss: This is only .8 lbs loss but the difference from before is I am staying near my low and if I vary it is not by much. Last month I didn't lose much until the end of the month. It is like my body is resetting the new weight and then I can have a week+ of more loss. I do not mind a slow loss but my fear is that gain is so much faster the losses can be sabotaged in what seems to be a blink of an eye and getting back the lost progress takes as much time as the 1st time it was lost. As I lose I will be resetting my BMR. What worries me is that to lose consistently I seem to need to eat very near or below it. That doesn't make sense.

Back to work: I found out that the money making end for my employer is starting to open up at a reduced schedule next week. That means that in the following weeks or month they will slowly in phases bring the rest of us back to work in phases. I have no idea what that means for me but I need to think about my priorities now for the time that I have before going back to work:

• keep losing, getting healthier and fitter
• complete the training book(completion in next 2 weeks).
• I would like to make some improvements to my home such as decluttering and getting my art room in working order.
• I want an espresso machine, and small pool so I can do Aquafit at home (Just kidding). The later is a dream for now. But not sure when it will be safe to go back to the Y and I need a pool. So it is a dream that is recent brought on by this pandemic. We have a small house and big yard for being in a city.

I will just say that this pandemic has changed our perspective since we are so much more at home and even when we all go back to work it will probably be from home. So home environment becomes more of a priority.

Let’s try this for the third time. I really need to stop doing this on my phone as I keep hitting the wrong button and erasing everything.

@rhsdancer5 have you been doing more exercise? I know sometimes this can cause a brief ‘gain’ that eventually dissipates for some people.

@KeriA congrats on the loss! I don’t know why weight loss can be so weird at times. Numbers don’t always seem to add up but it does make a difference!

Friday weigh in:
SW: 287.3
5/8 283.8
5/15 277.2
5/22 273.8

My weight loss has been great so far- over 13 pounds since 5/5. I know this is going to slow down soon but I’m enjoying it while it lasts.

My calories while I’m at work have been super low- unprepared for breakfast so I’ve been having ‘just a cheese stick’ or an apple and then low calorie lunches. End up with a big dinner and snack but it’s still working!
A definite goal of preparing my breakfast casserole for work lunches next week!

My birthday is coming up so I’ve decided that I’m going to make a chocolate cake (with diet Dr Pepper- something I’ve made before and is actually still good. Of course nothing beats the real deal but it’s satisfying) with whipped peanut butter frosting. Using pb2 and lite cool whip. I’m so excited!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Congrats on the loss @KeriA
Thanks everyone for your thoughts on the anxiety thing. I think maybe overeating slows my head down and that's why i do it (apart from all the other reasons we eat too much). So i'll have to get used to a busier head.
@speyerj yes i have also found the fat is protective against sexual harassment but i think in my 50s there will be less of that anyway plus better able to deal with it.
I'll be heading back to australia from london in about 3 weeks, and i'll have to do 2 weeks quarantine in a hotel room, you can't leave the room at all, and they leave you food outside the door. I think i'm a bit anxious about that, can't imagine it. Hopefully it will be a chance to reset some eating habits.

SW: 312 (4/15/20)
5/9: 294
5/16: 293
CW: 292
End of May GW: 288
UGW: 160

Good morning everyone! I hope you're all having a great Saturday.
I think I need to adjust my end-of-month goal. This one pound per week isn't going to get me there, but I keep telling myself that it's a good thing: slow and steady, better for my skin...right?

NSV: I bought a pair of size 16/18 shorts yesterday with the idea that I would shrink down into them over the summer (I've been a 22/24 for years). I tried them on when I got home and they nearly fit! They were tight, but not uncomfortable. I think every pound I've lost has been from my rear.

Name: Tamara
Height: 5'7"
Highest Weight: 254
End of December: 246.7
End of January: 244.7
End of Feb.: 242.2
End of March: 240
End of April: 240.4
5/1: 240.4
5/9: 239.1 (-1.3)
5/16: NA
5/23: 237.6 (-1.5)
5/31:
End of May Goal Weight: 236

I am on track to meet my goal for May which is awesome! My work reopened to the public yesterday so this week I burned a lot of calories in the mad dash to get everything ready. Things I need to improve for the last week of the month are getting more sleep each night (I've gotten 5-6 hours the past few nights when 8 would be ideal) and increasing my water intake.

Have a great holiday weekend, all!

Checking in:

It was not the greatest week scale-wise. The scale went up every day this week which is odd, and my average weight, high & low for the week are all higher than last week. I am not really sure what the cause is. I don’t feel like my sodium or water intake has been different, and I think I slept enough. I think I am just at a set point.

Other goals:
I got in my steps and had an average of 15,540 steps per day this week.
I did less stair climbing this week than last but did 150 flights of stairs so still more than my 120 weekly goal.
I finished Week 1 of C25K and have enjoyed so far. I am planning to complete Week 2 and then reassess each week whether or not I want to continue.
I only did 1 strength training session this week and hope to do 2 next week.

So what do I need to do differently this week? I need to tweak something.

1. I need to make sure I am 100% with my logging this week.
2. I don’t really record my water intake, so I will do that this week to make sure I am actually getting enough.
3. I still have some processed food in my diet. I have room in my calories for it, but perhaps this is something I need to decrease at this point to continue to make progress. So I am going to try to look at my meals this week to see where I can increase whole food.
4. Strength training - I need to give more of myself to make gains.

My small loss is continuing:

Name: Keri
67 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs
2/1: 263.6
3/1: 261.8 lbs
4/1: 258
Lowest April weight: 253.8
May SW: 254
5/9: 253.6
5/22: 252.8
CW: 252.2 (5/23)

GW: Onderland 1st, maintain for a few weeks then 150 lbs.

May Goal weight: 249 will probably not make this but hope to continue to make progress towards it.

Had another distraction yesterday so I will try to do my Friday Chapter and exercise today.

KeriA i wouldn't mind that so much, i wouldn't call that harassment if someone respectfully asks you out, it's more gangs of lads when you're walking home alone at night. But that tends not to happen at my age and weight, plus i don't go home late by myself often. Luckily i'm happily partnered so life is pretty good on that front.

@KeriA Thank you for replying, it's nice to know someone was listening to me. I turned to the thread just to have interaction or talk with others because the friends I do have seem so busy or so far away to talk.

As for yesterday I had WAY to much salt and let me tell ya I feel like a puffy elephant. I'm hoping today that I can get on board with eating. I think eating is my biggest battle. Yesterday I missed lunch and over ate at dinner. So today I need be better and eat a few times a day. Here's to a new day!!

@deegriggs28 doing well here too! Thanks for asking! Congrats on the weight loss! You are doing great!

@speyerj Congrats On reaching that goal!


Sore today from a huge gardening session. We had to pull all the weeds from our garden area and planted over 20 plants!! We now have 3 apple trees, one peach tree, a pear tree, a blueberry bush, 3 different kinds of grapes, 8 tomato plants, at least 8 sweet pepper plants, poblano pepper plants, banana pepper and jalapeño pepper! Also planted more parsley and basil!

Hoping for grapes this year off our oldest grape plant. 🤞 probably won’t get any apples this year but pears look good again!

I’m getting a canning kit from my parents for my birthday! Excited to try it this year. We had so many tomatoes last year we were giving away pounds of them.

Today looks like it’s going to be a hot sunny day. I can’t wait