Women 200lb+, Let's Shoot for the Moon this June!!!

Finally I get to do a check-in. I do check-ins when I lose since my weight varies so much.

Name: Keri
67 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs
2/1: 263.6
3/1: 261.8
4/1: 258
5/1:254
6/12: 250.8
Lowest May weight: 251.4 (5/28)
June 1 SW: TBD
CW: 250.4

GW: Onderland 1st, maintain for a few weeks then 150 lbs. Then evaluate what weight is best for me. I just want to have a healthy weight for me.

June Goal weight: 246 247. This is 5 lbs lower than my lowest May weight but I will be happy losing 4 lbs. Update: I want to at least get into the 240s and stay there.

My June Goals are:
1. Continue to Get enough sleep and improve water intake
I have been good at this with the exception of last weekend I didn’t get as much water.
2. Continue to Log weight, food and exercise and stay under calorie goal
I am doing well at this for the last 3 months.
3. Get some exercise 6 days a week and up NEAT by cleaning. Try to exceed 150 min. of exercise/ week I am doing well at this recently. I added a few lines on my spreadsheet mid month and have gotten 200 + minutes of exercise each week. I have exercised 30-60 minutes every weekday and usually 6 days a week. I had one day I did 20 minutes only on my Gazelle this week.
4. Get into the 240s Close but still working on this.
5. Continue to make healthy meals at home.

I need to get the rest of this weight off to get into the 240s before the end of the month. It sounds easy but the losing this month has been excruciatingly slow. I will keep up what I am doing this past few days to hopefully continue this downward trend. I was trying to look at the weeks I lost better and realize I have to do some work on my spreadsheet since it isn't really calculation weekly figures I need to evaluate what is working. I can tell that the week I lost alot I had higher deficits than I should need to lose at a reasonable rate but that month I did lose at the rate I wanted it was mostly lost in one week where I was not that hungry. In March the loss was spread between 2 weeks.

My Weekly goals: (or the rest of the month)

• So for this week I have a goal to work on my spreadsheet to be able to determine what is a good deficit to lose a pound a week.
• Try to lose as close to 4 lbs for the month as possible. The question is do I use 251.4 (lowest May weight or 254 6/1 weight)? I think I should use 252 - 4 is 248. Which means I have to lose 2.4 lbs in 5 days.

I really had 2 areas I was focusing on this month. Weight loss and upping exercise hence these 2 goals for the rest of the month. I have made some progress on both but not enough on weight loss. An area that I have only touched on is general physical activity or NEAT. I have only upped this a little. It is hard when you are staying home all day. It is easier to see how much exercise I am getting. Since I stopped using my fitbit due to skin irritation it has been hard to measure.

More later.
I will read posts later today and reply as appropriate. I have some work to do. Exercise for the day, Working on my spreadsheet. Luckily dinner is leftovers, yum, Caribbean Chicken Curry.

We started our day off with a wonderful bike ride today!


My weight has not fluctuated more than 1/2 a pound since my last weigh in. My waist has gone from 46 inches to 39.1 inches in the last 8 months. I’d gone from a size 22W to a 14W...I tried on the 14W this morning and they are looser than they were when I first got into them.

I look at photos like this and I’m very happy!


I feel so very good! Amazon just delivered my “Beyond Greens” Light Matcha Power and it is sooooo good in my smoothies! One day at a time!!

Sarah
43 years old; 5'3
SW: 225
Last May Weight (5/29): 208.6
CW: 204.4
6/5: 207
6/12: 206.6
6/19: 205.4
6/26: 204.4
GW for June: 203
UGW: 125


June Goals

☀️ Complete C25K: Done!
☀️ Read 4 books per month (Done! I finished Thunderhead, Just Mercy, The New Kid, and Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth) Currently listening to Heft and reading a Cold Trail!
☀️ Close my Apple rings every single day
☀️ Find good snack alternatives
☀️ Eat a veggie or fruit with every meal

I do not think I am going to meet my June goal between now and next Wednesday, but that is ok. I have been meeting my other goals apart from the weight loss portion. I would love to see 199 by the end of July and I am confident I can do that if I keep on with what I have been doing. And, honestly, I am happy to see the scale moving down, but nothing has made me more proud than getting up at 5:00 am and actually running outside for 3 miles. It is becoming my therapy.

@KeriA you are almost to the 240s! You can do it!

@BrownSugar174 You look lovely and that hard work has paid off!

@changeforeverlj What a gorgeous walk! Good for you for getting out there.

We went to the gym for the first time since the end of February shut down.

I'm not even level one anymore. I'm like, level -2. I'm honestly crushed by how weak I am, how much progress I've lost.

I hit 199.4 lbs and am hovering. Hit 200 again a day later but I know that's not saying much... but I'm trying to stay positive, energized and on track. I just wish I'd see a little bit more of the results after punching up my exercise lately.

Age: 33
Height: 5'9"
Starting Weight on 4/16: 270

Here's what my weigh-ins look like this month so far (I weigh in on Saturdays)
-6/6 245.0
-6/13 243.4
-6/20 239.8
-6/27 238.8

My goals for June
-Log food every day and stay under 1650 calories check
-Drink 128oz of water per day check
-Stick to workout schedule
-Day 1 Chest/Shoulder, 30min treadmill check
-Day 2 Legs/Abs, 30mins treadmill check
-Day 3 Arms/Back, 30mins treadmill check
-Day 4 Rest day check

So I decided to recalculate my calories since I've lost 30 pounds and MFP set my daily limit to 1600 instead of 1650 so I'm going to use that amount now. One thing that I have really been thinking about lately though is what to do with exercise calories that it says I've earned. So far I have not eaten any exercise calories, I've always just stayed within my set daily limit. I've been doing strength training for a couple months, and just added the cardio in a few weeks ago. I feel tired all the time and it's getting harder to complete my workouts due to feeling drained before the end. Is it because I'm not eating enough? The other day I had a hard workout and a really busy day and MFP said I had earned 1400 exercise calories. I feel that's a little ridiculous, but I think I'm going to try eating a portion of my exercise calories every day and see if it helps.

Do you guys eat your exercise calories?

Isn't it time for this year to be over??????????????

My Mom died in early March out of state. Had to arrange to bring her back her for her funeral. This was the first week of Covid shutdown. Funeral could only have 10 people in attendance; sad for so many reasons and on so many levels.

Then into full isolation due to Covid. Everything closed. Groceries delivery only. Dealing with isolation, boredom, major "cabin fever", lack of physical contact with other humans, etc.

Then, hit with 500 year flood and it's aftermath. Three days of Flood Watch to determine if I would need to evacuate while worried about family who already had to evacuate twice from two locations. Brother's house flooded over 5 feet inside house totally destroying everything. Can't help with cleanup so volunteered to do laundry (SIL major quilter so trying to salvage her finished work as well as other sheets, bedding, etc). Also making daily runs to Flood Distribution Centers for cleanup supplies, food, water, etc.

Finally, about first of June, Michigan starting to slowly open back up. Restaurants having seating available while following distancing guidelines, etc as mandated by state. Thrilled I'm finally able to get a restaurant meal occasionally, but still playing it safe for the most part.

June 9-10, had inspectors come in and they determined I had black mold in the house ... which grows and spreads mega rapidly. So, due to lung conditions and allergies, I had to move out of my house. Since all cleaning & restoration services in our state are heavily engaged with flood restoration, they are hard to get booked. Most were quoting 6-8 weeks before they could start. Luckily, I had an experience last year with Modernistic and promoted them heavily for their excellent work so they graciously worked with me this time ... but it was still almost 2 weeks before they could get into my house. Then had a house cleaning service come in to clean my house top to bottom and do laundry for any fabrics (like bedding, drapes, etc) that may have been exposed to mold spoor. Since I had never had mold issues in the 40+ years in this house, the inspectors felt I may have introduced it with the black plastic bags of flood contaminated quilts, etc that I brought into the house. GREAT!! I created this mini disaster myself.

So, I am back home (after living in a 10-foot camper for almost a month. Have laundry to do, inventories to do -- so I can put in an order for delivery, and make to-do lists LOL.

I seriously don't have the energy or time to read all the posts I've missed so will just start from here. Congrats to all who have lost during this time! Hang in there to those who've been maintaining or gaining!! Welcome to any folks who are new or who have returned after a time away.

It's great to be back. Hope to restart my new normal in this unnormal time we're living in right now. Hope y'all have a great day!

@cesse47 - Oh my goodness. I am so sorry. You have had a rough month. You were putting so much energy into helping others that you ended up making things worse for your own situation. May all the wonderful energy you created helping others be returned to you during your struggle getting your home back in order. (((Hug)))) ❤

@Tazaria87 - regarding eating back exercise calories: I've been training for a half marathon. If I didn't eat back exercise calories my body would be forced to burn muscle - that could cause permanent heart damage. So, if you are exercising with any level of intensity, yes, you should be eating more calories on days you work out. The question is, how many? MFP and exercise equipment tend to overstate how many calories you burn. Fitness trackers that measures your heart rate continuously and are programmed with your height, weight and gender do a much better job of calculating burn. I don't log my exercise in MFP, but I sync it with my FitBit HR and it does a pretty good job of calculating. I probably eat back about 2/3 of what I burn, but some days, I'm just hungry and I eat them all. I am still losing. If you feel wiped out after exercise, I would surmise that you are either not fueling enough before and after exercise or not hydrating enough. When I'm adequately hydrated and refuel before, during and after exercise, I am tired after a 2 hour run, but I still have energy. If I don't do those things, I'm a complete couch potato for the rest of the day, and even the next day. Look, we all want to lose weight, but there is no prize for getting to your goal a or two month earlier. It's better to lose weight slowly and sustainably and in a way that supports your exercise goals and that means eating back at least some of those exercise calories.

@cesse47 You've gone through so much, but look how strong you are in doing so! That's really inspiring. Sorry for all the hardships you're facing though, those must be super difficult to navigate right now. But you're going to be OK and 2020 may have a few months to go but here's to hoping things quickly turn around.

Name: Jane
Age: 55
SW: 286.5 (6/3/19)
GW: 175
5/31 weight: 179.3

Weekly tracking
6/6: 180.1
6/13: 179.1
6/20: 176.9
6/27: 176.0
6/30:

Goals for June:
Run 11 miles on June 22nd ✔
Walk for 45 minutes a day ✔
Get 10,000 steps a day ✔ - missing one day this month.
Maintain a 500/calorie deficit/day ✔
Maintain below 180 ✔
Stay well heal my injuries/Stay safe/Not sick - So far so good. I'm back to running and trying to practice social distancing.

Had nice drop! Weight loss has slowed way down per my plan, but even so, it's still going in the right direction.

I'm now within my temporary goal to maintain between 173 and 177 through the summer. I might restart weight loss again in the Winter or Fall - but right now, I want to stay my current size so I don't have to buy new clothes! I still plan to keep tracking my food and weigh myself daily. This will be an interesting experiment to see how many calories I need to maintain.

Last Saturday I went out and ran the 1/2 marathon course - ran most of it anyway. I ended up walking the last 2 miles, but it was an 11 mile run. I was pretty sore afterwards, but I am confident now that I can run the whole thing next weekend. This week is just short gentle runs, and hopefully lots of sleep. Plus, carbo loading!! Yum!

My husband and I are on a little weekend getaway on the Oregon Coast in Depoe Bay. (I'm sure @shorepine knows where that is). It's a great spot for whale watching - we saw several yesterday just hanging out at the sea wall. We are eating in restaurants for the first time since March 14th. Last night's choice was not a good one. The food, service and view was fantastic - but way too many people. While tables were 6 feet apart, we were all breathing the same air while dining. It felt too risky - fortunately the food came quickly, so we ate efficiently and got the heck out of there without lingering. Tonight we have a reservation at a smaller place - they only have a few tables so I am hoping it won't feel like I'm taking my life in my hands and can actually enjoy the experience. Tonight I plan on getting dessert! After all, I need to carbo load, right?