Women 200lb+, Let's Seize the Day This September!!!

Not sure if this is out of place or not but I have a funny story that I'm sure many of you may relate to! I have to get an MRI of my shoulder (torn rotator cuff last winter; wasn't able to get in to MRI til now due to covid restrictions) and they called yesterday to book the appointment. The lady on the phone had a whole list of pre-screening questions to ask me, including my current weight. I very excitedly and proudly told her TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR!! Cause I had just weighed in and was soooo proud to get there! Funnily enough, she didn't seem to find it as wonderful as I did haha. She responded, um, okay. Hope she is there on the 17th when I go in and have to get weighed! The weight limit is 300 lbs and when I was told that last winter, I realized that they would take one look at me and wonder if I met the limit. Was a sobering moment. Anyway, I shall gleefully explain to her why that 204 was so exciting if I get the chance! Hope everything is having a great first day of September. It is sunny and warm where I am...and it fills me with hope that we all "got this" and will indeed seize the day in September!

Hi everyone! I started lurking last month, and I really want to join you all for this month. Thank you for setting up this thread.

Age: 39
Highest weight: 230 (earlier in August 2020)
CW: 222
Goal weight for September: 218

Weekly tracking:
8/31: 222.6
9/7:
9/14:
9/21:
9/28:

Other September goals - keep track of my food and hit my 10K steps/day. Try to get more sleep as it helps everything.

I work from home full-time and have a 4th grader at home with me doing remote learning this year. It will be interesting trying to carve out time for exercise and meal prep, but I'm hopeful we'll get into a good routine.

I just enjoyed reading all of your September posts to start the month. Thank you all for your insights and inspirations.

@wanderinglight I usually do planks on my strength training day but looking at your goals and doing a google search I realize now I do not need a rest day for them like I do for other weight training exercises. I am considering doing these more days a week.

@TeacherMamaJen I don’t consider myself an emotional eater. I don’t eat when sad, or stressed but reading your post I realize that I do incorporate food and drink to celebrate. So technically I could be considered an emotional eater. However I am not sure I want to think of food merely as fuel. I want to think of it as primarily as fuel and eat healthy. However I think if this is going to be sustainable process for me I want to enjoy my food and have it be a positive aspect of my life. However I am getting some gems reading everyone’s goals for September and realizing that positive emotions are part of being an emotional eater and one I will be evaluating.

@Sweatpants_Sassy after giving blood yesterday I got an urge for one of my favorite binge foods – corn nuts. I guess it is a binge food in that I eat all of whatever size package they come in so I try to find a small size. Fortunately I didn’t have any in the house. I am too working on eating these foods in moderation.

@jayemes I know how you feel about joining a group. There was one on MFP I kept trying to join but I gave up. Everyone replied to everyone and there were so many of them. You blinked and there were so many posts. This group isn’t like that in that you don’t have to reply to everyone. I think it is nice to read the page you post on and only reply when there is something that hits you. But even if you just post your own progress, that is fine. However there are many gems in these posts that I feel you will do more than that. However just like this journey of getting healthy take baby steps. No pressure. When I first started I actually made checking out this group regularly a goal because it was so helpful. Now I don’t need to put it as a goal.

I have to wear shoes in the house because I have a leg length difference. Barefoot one leg is a quarter inch longer. That doesn't sound like much, but you should see an x-ray of my lumbar spine. (wry grin) So to prevent one-sided back cramps I wear shoes that let me put the lift under the insole, which is more comfortable to wear, and if I'm standing or walking, except to the bathroom in the morning, I'm shod. I used to like being barefoot, but I like not having back pain more.

I got NOTHING done today because TOM showed up and my cramps are about at a six. If I sit very still and don't breathe too deeply I can handle it. (sigh) Boyfriend got me dinner and is doing the accumulated dishes. He knows I prefer that to flowers.

Hey y'all- I can't believe it's September already, jeez. What a flippin' year 2020 has been.

This is going to be kind of weird month for me- I'm taking three weeks off work to road trip up north with my sister, help her do some projects in her new house, spending a week camping in the mountains of Wyoming, and then driving back down south with my mom.

I'm going to focus less on super strict logging and calorie goals this month, and more on moving/running/hiking, and eating lots of veggie heavy meals. heck, for the week I'm in the mountains I won't be able to log anyway, no cell reception! I am kinda bummed I'm gonna lose my streak, but oh well.

As such, most of my goals this month are going to be about running and hiking. I won't even have access to a scale until I get back home in late September, so who knows what my weight will be.

I'm a little anxious, because I do want to make sure I don't backslide and undo a bunch of my progress. But I think as long as I focus on eating well and moving a lot, it might almost be a good experiment to see how much of the work I've done over the last few months has become habit.

I'm 28 years old and 5'8"

Start weight 4/23 - 252 lbs
5/28 - 236 lbs (down 16)
6/25 - 227.9 lbs (down 8)
7/31 - 220.8 (down 7.1)
8/31 - 213.1 (down 7.7)
Current amount lost - 38.9 lbs
End of September goal weight - 205 lbs
ultimate goal weight - 160ish? this one's kinda up in the air. I've never been a "healthy" weight as an adult, so I honestly have no idea what I'll look/feel like once I get around this size.

My non-scale August goals were:
- do a 5 mile run with an average pace of 12min/mile ~ didn't quite make 5 miles, but I did get 4.5!
- do a 15 mile bike ride ~ nope. but I got 12, so I'm getting there!
- bike or run 5 times a week ~ more like 3-4, but that's good progress.
- walk dog at least 20 min every day he doesn't go to daycare ~ yep! my vet pointed out my pup has gotten a little chunky, whoops. guess he needs to slim down a bit too.
- have 15 days this month be meat (not counting fish) free ~ yes! I haven't had meat since August 3rd.
- eat vegan at least 5 days ~ yep
- eat takeout/pre-made/restaurant food 5 times max ~ yep! only 4 times total
- finish 2 books ~ done
- no soda! ~ yep!
- don't let laundry or dishes pile up ~ dishes are a success, laundry a little less so, lol
- try 5 new recipes ~ yes! I did so many new recipes this month!

Non-scale September goals:
- do a 5 mile run
- run or hike 5 times a week
- walk the dog min 30 min a day (he's coming with me on my trip)
- 15 meals or fewer with meat
- no soda
- no processed sugar/chips/junk 4 days a week (candy, sweets, etc. If I made it, it's ok. if I bought it, it isn't) Something I've realized is that junk food just makes me feel like poop the day after, and also crave it again. which sucks. and is self-perpetuating. so I need to just try to cut it out almost entirely. this is where I'm gonna start, cause I don't do well with going cold turkey.

I love fall, even though I live in the deep south, and it isn't all that fall-ish, usually. I'm very excited I'll be up north for a big chunk of time, and get to experience some actual fall weather!

feel free to add me as a friend! I might be a little less active this month, but usually I log every day, and my diary is open too, if you wanna look at it.

I guess I'm a creature of habit so I'm doing my Wednesday weigh in even though it's only 2 days since I posted for the end of August...

Highest weight: 435 (11/1/18)--lost 50 lbs. by the end of 2018 but got off track and gained back almost 31 lbs.
SW: 415.8 (4/17/19)

8/26: 213.6
8/31: 211.2
9/2: 210.4
9/9:
9/16:
9/23:
9/30:

Sept. GW: 204.2
GW: 160 (then reevaluate)

Weekly exercise goals:
- bike ride or exercise bike 5 times per week - 6/5 (bonus bike ride with my son!)
- strength training (including core specific exercises) 2 times per week - 2/2; plan to add a new exercise, maybe 2
- chair yoga 4 times per week - 4/4
- steps onto aerobic step platform twice a day at least 3 times per week - 4/3; plan to increase reps again this week
- bonus: only 1 hike this week

Only 1 trip planned to help my parents this week so there should be no reason I can't meet my exercise goals. We've had some hot weather and then some rain but the coming week looks a bit cooler and drier so I'm hoping to get a hike or 2 in or maybe a bike ride on a new trail. I just have to hope the extended forecast is at least somewhat accurate!

I know I still have a long way to go but I'm just so thankful I've made it this far. Life is so much easier with what I've lost so far. It's also much more fun. I still can't believe I'm able to ride a bike! I'm enjoying that so much. Now to build up my endurance so I can ride a bit longer than 10-12 miles or so. I rode a new trail this morning. It wasn't a rail-trail like I usually ride so that meant a lot of hills and twists and turns. A couple of the hills were a bit challenging going up but a lot of fun on the way back when I got to go down them!

Hope you all are well and have a good week!

This looks like the group for me! For the last three years I lost 20 lbs (quickly) in the spring and gained them all back by the next spring and had to start all over. Each time I would drop right below 200 and I was so pleased to be in Onederland I treated myself to a "break". The break didn't end until all the weight came back. I vowed this year would be different: since Covid has altered our social life and taken away opportunities to overindulge, I would use this time to cook and eat sensibly, track on MFP and not be in a hurry for anything.

Age: 70 5'7" SW 220 GW ??? Right now I am much more interested in sustaining the 20 pound loss I achieved this summer and to keep me engaged, I'm going to strive for 5 lbs. this month

Sept. weight goal = 5 lbs.
Sept. exercise goal = minimum 5 sessions weekly of 60 minutes on recumbent bike (knees replaced last year)

9-1 196.5


BTW, I don't do weigh-ins on specific days. If I haven't cheated and the scale hasn't budged one week after previous weigh-in, I just won't log a weight until the scale goes down. I can't bear to fail. Not too mature of me, I know, but that's just the way I am (and probably why I fail at WW after the easy weight comes off; I won't go to the meeting if I haven't lost).

Wednesday Weighin!

Alexandra
Height: 5'7”
Starting weight: 296 (1/1/20)
Current weight 252
Goal weight 180 and appraise.
Ultimate goal 150-160ish, probably.

I am holding steady at 252, and that is what I'm going to probably do for the next couple weeks. That's my pattern.
I have joined the local gym, and Saturday I see the trainer to do an initial assessment and work out an exercise program for me. I haven't gone over there yet and done anything on my own because TOM arrived with a roar the day after I joined, and I've spent two days on the couch breathing very carefully. I hope things are calmed down enough Saturday for me to actually do something. This has been one of those days where it was an accomplishment to plate up a dinner that was delivered and to actually do a sinkful of dishes. (sigh)

Hi, I'm new here!

I'm a serial restarter. I've finally figured out what I need to do to lose weight - I just struggle to keep it off.

Age: 36 Height 5'1”/157cm
Starting weight: 122.4kg/270lbs

Current weight: 116.5kg/257lbs

1/9: 116.5kg/257lbs
8/9:
15/9:
22/9:
29/9:

My goal for September is to break below 110kg/240lbs.