Women 200lb+, Let's Be Extra Awesome This August!!!
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32F, 5’3”
SW: 245
Goal 1: 220
Goal 2: 200
Goal 3: 185 **Previous LW**
UGW: 140-170 (will reassess closer to goal)
Big hurdle this month is going to be avoiding stress eating & other forms of self-sabotage. DH received WARN notice last week; chances are good he’ll be laid off Oct 1. 😔
Still working toward our goals.
We’re down, but not out.
Weightloss Goals:
🌻 No snacking after 9pm
🌻 No more than one 12oz soda per day
🌻 Mitigate stress with exercise, not eating10 -
Keri
67 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs (Dec 2019)
2/1: 263.6
3/1: 261.8
4/1: 258
5/1:254
Lowest May weight: 251.4
6/1:254
6/30 251.6
July 1 SW:250.4
CW: 249 (7/29)
8/1: 249.2
1st GW: Onderland 1st, maintain for a few weeks then
2nd GW: 150 lbs. Then evaluate what weight is best for me. I just want to get to a healthy weight for me.
Aug Goal weight: 244
My Aug Goals are:
1. Continue to log, get enough sleep and water intake and stay under calorie goal with healthy meals at home.
2. Get some exercise 5-6 days a week and up NEAT. Try to exceed 150 min. of exercise/week. Now that I have my Zip I will see what steps I am getting and then set a goal each week to up it.
3. I want to get well in the mid to low 240s and not see any weight in the 250s again. I am close to 20 lbs loss.
4. My goal is to declutter my house starting with my art room. This should help with goal #2.
August will be a time of reevaluating and transitioning. My plans to work until 70 have been given a significant hit with being laid off. I will do a job search but it will be for a safe rewarding job and I am not going to let this waylay my efforts to lose weight and get fit and healthy.
@RavenStCloud Thank you!!!! 🌻
I put in todays weight.2 -
For the person who disagreed with my last post, did you disagree about my breaking open the 2014 Caymus? Or do you just not support teachers? Just curious.
@speyerj - I went back to check what kind of monster would disagree with you and...oh no...it were me! Clumsy thumbs. :flowerforyou:9 -
@lovinlilly Happy Birthday!
@eliezalot I like your 1st goal. I want this to be my weight goal once I get into Onderland.
@speyerj happy anniversary. Sometimes people miss the hug button and hit the disagree button accidentally. I agree that it is hard right now with the uncertainty with school plans. I know my niece who is a teacher had to submit lesson plans in June for on line teaching until January next year. Now, she is waiting to hear whether she is teaching in person, online or hybrid. I know she has been working on plans this summer because my sister and brother-in-law have been busy with child care. She is here with her parents since her partner got stuck out of the country and she needed her parents help with child care so she could work. She has 2 under school age boys. She needs to know so she can return home if school is going to be in-person. If it is online she doesn’t want to risk taking her kids on the plane so she will stay here. They will have to quarantine if they travel back home and her partner needs to know where to join her and where he should quarantine. I saw no judgement in your post just description of how difficult and uncertain things are for teachers and of course kids and parents. Unfortunately COVID 19 isn’t in our control and school districts usually have little extra funds to deal with the extra needs. Just this week a study showed that children may be even more contagious when they are positive with the virus than adults. We are learning more and more each day. I didn’t hit the disagree but I went back and hit the like button.
I get so involved in reading posts and replying I forget about those buttons. I am not replying to all now though just mostly reading such great plans for this month. Inspiring.
@ChrysalisCove sorry to hear about your husband’s job. I hope all works out well in the end.
Welcome new members.
We had a social distancing meet up with some good friends. 1st we went for a walk in this forested park and then we sat down to talk and had take out lunch. We were wrapping up when a man who was drunk and probably with other problems came up and started swearing abusively at me. He said he hated white people and I pointed out we weren't all white. He was getting too close for being safe during the pandemic although he had a mask, then he asked for money and even my camping chair. Then as we started to leave he threatened to damage our cars if we didn't give him $10. If he had just asked for help we would have given it to him. He was getting really close and verbally abusive to me so my husband had to get between us. Anyway we had to call 911 which was scary too. The police came and he ran away into the woods. Glad no one got hurt. Hope he gets help and others aren't threatened by him. We felt he needed a social worker more than the police. But they were cool. I told my daughter later there was no way I was giving him my chair. It took me 10 years of family camping trips to finally get this one that isn't so hard to get out of and has a side table although it is the cheaper version of those types of chairs. You never know what life in a pandemic will bring.6 -
@eliezalot - I was going to ask what kind of wine you would recommend. We did open the Caymus. It was amazing. I had a 1200 calorie dinner. I'm so full!!4
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Age 51
Highest weight 105.5kg (aug 2018)
Lowest weight 94.7kg (march 2020)
Goal weight 80kg
start weight 102 kg start of month
Goal weight 98 kg end of month
Basic plan
💛 To plan my meals in advance for the week
💛 To keep snacks under 25% of cals
💛 To keep average for the week under 2000 cals gross
In addition to the basic plan, this month I aim to do more of
🌻 16:8 - intermittent fasting
🌻 mediterranean eating
🌻 using non food ways to manage my emotions
Good luck everyone!
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@eliezalot - I was going to ask what kind of wine you would recommend. We did open the Caymus. It was amazing. I had a 1200 calorie dinner. I'm so full!!
So glad you enjoyed it and with the full support of everyone on here! Happy anniversary4 -
Hi everyone and happy August. I’m a girl of few words, but here’s what I’d like to do this month:
☀️Log everything every day and complete journal
☀️Focus on increasing water
☀️Give up Sprite!!!
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Alison
53 years old
5'9''
Starting Weight: 238
Lowest Weight: 130
8/2 236.5
8/7:
8/14:
8/21:
8/28:
GW for August 31st: 230
updating for Sunday weigh in.4 -
In the week ahead I intend to keep moving from unpacking and settling in to being settled and doing the necessary maintenance on the house. It doesn't help that it's raining and I have traumatic arthritis in my feet and ankles, but this is why I have medication. And I'll pace myself and get through it.
Here's the food that we are planning for the week ahead. As always, if you want a recipe or want to know how I meal plan, message me.
Monday: Lunch: chicken and jalapeno quesadillas.
Dinner: Out to the local diner with my sons.
Tuesday: Lunch: Hamburgers, chips, and pickles.
Dinner: Sweet-and-sour shrimp with steamed broccoli and white rice/cauliflower rice.
Wednesday: Lunch: Black bean stew with pork garnish, sour cream and pico. Cornbread muffin.
Dinner: Swiss steak, white rice, green beans with bacon drippings and pepper, homemade rolls.
Thursday: Lunch:Pulled pork with barbecue sauce in either wraps or sandwiches, with chips and pickles.
Dinner: rotini pasta with bolognese sauce, pan-seared zucchini chunks, and garlic bread.
Friday: Lunch: Leftover cleanup or chicken fingers with choice of dipping sauce.
Dinner: Beef and Bean burritoes to order, with rice and beans and salad.
Saturday: Lunch: Hot Italian Beef sandwiches.
Dinner: Curried chicken with spinach and cashew nuts. white rice/cauli rice, naan.
Sunday: Lunch: Mexican-style wraps to order, chips.
Dinner: Eggs and sausages and potatoes and toast. (Breakfast for dinner)
Breakfasts are always quichecake for him and an English muffin for me with butter and jam. He is finishing off a sausage, spinach, and onion quichecake and is moving on to one that has diced ham, onions, and multiple colors of sweet peppers in it.
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**Height 5' 4"
SW: 216.8 (10/10/2019)
CW 8/1: 207.2
Aug GW: 199
GW: 150
Monthly Goals:
Cardio/elliptical 3/week ()
Strength and Yoga 2/week ()
Water 8c/day ()
Yesterday got turned topsy turvy so all my starting plans got pushed to today. Fast food and loads of sodium so a little bit of current weight should be water since I was about 205 on Thursday. One day a little over a week ago I missed checking in and lost my 290 day or so streak. Even though I barely logged food in July I was still checking in to keep my intention within my vision. My heart fell when I realized I had missed bc I honestly thought I had logged in. Finding my motivation again after the past few months has been difficult but this month I will turn 53. Last October I had such plans for this month in regards to weight loss but here I am working on getting back to Onederland again for the third time. I need to remember how awesome it was to reach that a few months ago. Now I see that little tiny streak number when I log in to push me back to keeping things going and not giving up. Today will be getting food fixed up for the week and making friends with my elliptical again. Shout out to all my old friends still here and looking forward to making friends with all the new thread members since back in June I guess it was. Let's go be Awesome thanks to @RavenStCloud for always starting this off.
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@lovinlilly Happy Birthday!
We had a social distancing meet up with some good friends. 1st we went for a walk in this forested park and then we sat down to talk and had take out lunch. We were wrapping up when a man who was drunk and probably with other problems came up and started swearing abusively at me. He said he hated white people and I pointed out we weren't all white. He was getting too close for being safe during the pandemic although he had a mask, then he asked for money and even my camping chair. Then as we started to leave he threatened to damage our cars if we didn't give him $10. If he had just asked for help we would have given it to him. He was getting really close and verbally abusive to me so my husband had to get between us. Anyway we had to call 911 which was scary too. The police came and he ran away into the woods. Glad no one got hurt. Hope he gets help and others aren't threatened by him. We felt he needed a social worker more than the police. But they were cool. I told my daughter later there was no way I was giving him my chair. It took me 10 years of family camping trips to finally get this one that isn't so hard to get out of and has a side table although it is the cheaper version of those types of chairs. You never know what life in a pandemic will bring.
@KeriA that's so sad and scary! As a side note, I was shopping for camping chairs yesterday. I've got a little swim spot by the Guadalupe River with my book and my dog, taking dips in the cool river, and it would be bliss except for my incredibly UNCOMFORTABLE camp chair - it has no arms and kinda forces you to sit forward. It sucks! And then I happen to see this woman a ways away and she had a rocking camp chair. I have never been so jealous. So that started me off on my search. I even ordered the Bass Pro Camp Rocker but after a week they said they were canceling the order bc it's out of stock. Anyway! Could you recommend the chair you like?
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@bluffgirl67 So nice to see you post again! You and your family have been in my thoughts and prayers. Kind of a bummer about losing your streak here. I admire your determination to use that smaller number as motivation to keep making forward progress. Good luck!2
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Hey everyone! I'm jumping on board again. I lost 12lbs then lost my motivation and kinda fell off the wagon. I stopper logging as regularly as I had been and I stopped working out. I stopped working out mainly because I have plantar fasciitis in both feet, but my right foot has been giving me the most pain and even just my day to day stuff (working) is becoming painful. Luckily I have managed to only gain a little bit back. I was 215 when I started and got down to 203.8.
SW: 215
CW 206.2
GW: 150 (then reevaluate. BMI says 101 to 139 at 5'2" but I can't remember the last time I was that size (teens maybe), so for right now 150 sounds good.
7/31: 206.2
8/5:
8/12:
8/19:
8/26:
8/31:
Aug. GW: 195
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Hi again everyone. I know I went MIA last month and it’s only because I’ve really struggled to get back on the wagon. My motivation has been pretty much non existent and my snacking out of control. I’ve pretty much gained everything I worked so hard to lose 😫 this whole COVID thing plus winter has got me so lazy and I really don’t like it. So here I am again hoping that these last few days of warmer weather continues so that I get my mojo going.
So let’s start all over again. Hoping to go slow and steady, not too much pressure.
Age 32
Height 167cm
CW 99kg
GW for AUG 98kg
UGW 70kg
Goals for the month: cut down the snacking!!8 -
Not sure if there are other Hamiltonphiles here but I found this workout on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/RjeLjkwmc4s
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I tried having half an English muffin with my egg and sausage tonight so that Boyfriend could have the other half, and it worked out! I didn't miss the second half, although I would have eaten it if I had it. I'm really happy, cause that kept my breakfast for dinner meal under 500 calories, and leaves me room for a snack this evening. It's a small thing, but it really makes me feel like I'm getting the food addiction under control.6
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Age 51
Highest weight 105.5kg (aug 2018)
Lowest weight 94.7kg (march 2020)
Goal weight 80kg
start weight 102 kg start of month
Goal weight 98 kg end of month
wk 1 - 99.7kg
Basic plan
💛 To plan my meals in advance for the week wk 1 - yes!!
💛 To keep snacks under 25% of cals wk 1- 20%!! yes!!
💛 To keep average for the week under 2000 cals gross wk 1 - 1752!! yes!!
In addition to the basic plan, this month I aim to do more of
🌻 16:8 - intermittent fasting
🌻 mediterranean eating
🌻 using non food ways to manage my emotions4 -
@bluffgirl67 I have been logging here daily since January 2013. Several years ago I lost my streak when we went
camping and didn’t have wifi for a few days. I think I went to tech help and told them about it and they put me back to the original number. However, I missed a day for the same reason a second time and decided to just not worry about and didn’t try to start over again. Just a thought, you could try asking the help desk about it if you don’t want to start over.2
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