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

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  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,345 Member
    @sharpdust nice to see you. I am glad that habits are similar to goals. In fact these seem as if they are things that you are working on becoming habits or habits to be. Some goals are 1 time things. But most of the goals we list when we check in are really habits we are working to establish. If we thought of them that way we might do better at achieving them. I either drink my water or not but even if I do most days it would make sense to make it a habit I do not need to think so much about. In trying to drink my water I have begun to try to establish a habit of after drinking my coffee drinking a glass of water every hour until my goal is pretty much a foregone conclusion. Before I just tried to drink more it didn’t work too well.

    @AlexandraFindsHerself So glad you found a house. It sounds very nice. Glad for your pound loss too.

    @Rosie3579 I like your plan to get into the 170s and maintain for a while especially for weights that were hard to achieve it is good to take a time to reset. Yesterday I did my chapter but not my exercise. Today I am trying to do both but doubt I will have time to make the dinner I planned. It is okay because I don’t think the chicken has defrosted anyway. I make a list, set priorities and get as many as I can done. I call it good because it is. Yes I love the days I do all the things but to expect that every day is too much.

    @speyerj Wow, just wow!

    @sweetirish that would be a challenge. No soup? I love soups. I made 2 last week that we have been enjoying.

    @finngirl61 decluttering is on my list but it isn’t at the top. We have done some. I hear that it helps with weight loss and vice versa. Love your quotes. I just got back from a walk with my husband. He is taking Fridays off this summer. I can only go so far before I get twinges in my bad knee. Today I was feeling stronger and wanted to go another block before turning around. But then my knee started to do its thing. On the way back we stopped and looked at irises that were blooming. I realized my knee was fine. I think next time I will try walking until I feel that twinge and then stop and rest and then keep going and don’t quit until I make it all the way to our old walk that looped back around on another street.

    @duebedm I hope the rest of you PTO goes better

    @CupcakeCrusoe I usually skip lunch on weekends. My husband makes a lovely breakfast that is a bit later. We are always hoping our daughter will wake up and join us. Then we have a nice dinner. If I am hungry I have a healthy snack instead of lunch but not if I am not. If I make a dinner I sometimes find I need something to have enough energy to make dinner.

    @wholebygrace great check in.
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,345 Member
    @procolorer Nice check in, what a month! Happy Birthday!
  • cesse47
    cesse47 Posts: 947 Member
    AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »
    Well, we found a house!
    It's been stressful finding it, but now that that stress is off, I can just enjoy the effects of the extra physical work and hopefully the scale will move. It's been stuck for a month.

    I'm so very happy for you!! The house sounds lovely. Congrats!! :)
  • finngirl61
    finngirl61 Posts: 122 Member
    Hi all,
    First, thanks to @RavenStCloud for doing this post! You are a treasure.
    @AlexandraFindsHerself1971 , continued good luck with the new house!
    @supersparklyk -glad you're in the 80's! I am down 2 lbs and am at 269. But at least I'm in the 60's. It's the first time in a LONG time.
    And finally, sharing a few quotes; one is serious and one cute.
    1. Be stubborn about your goals, but flexible about your methods.
    2. If you're going to be weird, be confident about it.

    Ok then, everyone be kind to yourselves! ❤
  • sharpdust
    sharpdust Posts: 105 Member
    @CupcakeCrusoe I’m also trying to create the habit of exercise, being open-minded to some types of exercise I wasn’t before. My boyfriend and I did a youtube kickboxing class and it was not only got my heart rate up but it was fun! Walking around the neighborhood has also been a fave of mine, both for my mind and body.

    @AlexandraFindsHerself1971 congrats! I know its been a stressful process but glad you found something.

    @KeriA I definitely see the connection between habits and goals, the habits get you to the goal. Like @speyerj said, its about doing the habits that you can adhere to everyday aka the lifestyle change we all hear about. I feel like I personally get caught up on the end goal result so rather than focus on that, I want to focus on the behaviors/habits that will lead to those goals. Its a shift for me in what I’m focusing on, my habits versus my weight/size.

    @pamiede amazing results! You are in inspiration <3
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,345 Member
    @RavenStCloud so glad to hear you made such good progress this month. My mother-in-law makes the best Chinese fish cakes but the fish she uses isn’t available in Seattle. She gets it in Honolulu Chinatown open market. Have you tried beanthreads? Is this different from tofu noodles? I use them when making Hawaiian Chicken long rice. The long rice is really bean threads. They have other names as well (glass noodles, cellophane noodles). In Texas people get Cedar Fever in the spring. It turns out the trees are really junipers not really cedars. Their pollen blows from the hill country and even people in Houston are affected along with closer cities like Austen and San Antonio. So I think it is likely it maybe quite a different tree than pines where you are from. Thanks for setting up Junes thread.

    @supersarklyk, @Tarzan37, @MuttiNM, @CupcakeCrusoe and @mmdeveau great job this month! Yay for those making your goal.

    @cesse47 I hope you repost your June goals on the June thread. Hope things are improving.

    @pamiede great month! I just entered in the calculator to check it out. I try to eat between my BMR and TDEE and use calculators to estimate these. I am curious to compare your calculator/method with it. Your method is working for you. You look great and so much younger.

    @speyerj your last May post was inspiring with all those goals achieved.

    @torihudson6 I went up a bit at the end of the month too. I am able to drink more at home somehow. I get caught up in my work and don’t stop. Too bad because they have great water there with a special filter system.

    I am going to keep my last check in as my last May check in since it was recent and I haven't lost since then. I was curious then since I felt I wasn't losing this month as much as the last 2. It was a similar pattern where I lost mostly in one week and maintained in the early weeks. So I checked my spreadsheet. I calculated my weights at the beginning and end of each month for those months I had data for the whole month. I had very slow loss in December and January and a little bit better in February. In March and April I lost 4 lbs each which is actually the rate I would like to lose (1 lb a week). However in May I had lost only 3.2 lbs with my last check-in this month which is better than February. I was hoping to at least lose 4. Looking forward to seeing all in next months thread.
  • havalynd
    havalynd Posts: 54 Member
    Looking for advice on ways to squeak in some work outs & any dairy free recipes that are on the healthier side. I'm facing some difficulties with food (testing for celiac among other things,) which is ironic considering it's not helping me lose anything! I'm just binging on what I know is safe. : (
  • orangequilt
    orangequilt Posts: 4,750 Member
    Age - 51
    Height - 5'6
    Heaviest weight - 105.5kg (Aug 2018)
    Goal weight - 80kg

    23/3 94.7kg
    30/3 94.8kg
    6/4 96.5kg
    13/4 96.6kg
    20/4 97.7kg
    27/4 97.2kg
    4/5 95.5kg
    11/5 95.9kg
    18/5 95.8kg
    25/5 96kg
    1/6 95.8kg

    May goals
    Get under 94kg[b No [/b]
    Average total cals under 2000 - wk 1 - 1899, yes!, wk 2 - 2245, no, wk 3 - 2188, no, wk 4 - 1972, yes!, wk 5 - 2514, definite no!
    Average snacks under 20% - wk 1- 22%, not yet, wk 2 - 18% yes! ,wk 3 - 17%, yes! , wk 4 - 13% yes!, wk 5 - 25%, no
    Yoga at home at least 2 times a week - no
    Meditation at home at least 2 times a week wk 1- yes, wks 2-5, no

    A bit of a holding pattern this month, doing better on the snacking though.




  • aliciap0116
    aliciap0116 Posts: 231 Member
    Final May post to close out the month:

    SW: 236.4 (9/8/19)
    3/1: 195.6
    4/1: 186.5
    5/1: 187.0
    5/6: 185.0
    5/13: 184.4
    5/20: 185.5
    5/27: 184.3
    5/31: 186.8
    May goal: 182

    Not a great end to the month but on to June!

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