Women 200lb+, Let's Seize the Day This September!!!
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(Cut and pasted to add in my weigh-in info)
In July I focused on consistent exercise and a goal of getting stronger, but I did not lose any weight. In August I did a sweeping review of my diet, pulled out my kitchen scale, and revamped my goals in three main areas. This month I hope to combine the best of the past two months. The changes I've made over the last 60-odd days have now become a habit and I'm proud of that. On my fridge is a note that says: LOVE YOURSELF ENOUGH TO SEE IT THROUGH. Meaning, honor the promise I made to myself to really work at this every day.
Age 49, Height 5'11"
Highest weight: 225.6lbs (8/28/19)
Lowest weight: 165lbs (goal is 173)
CW: 218.6
9/1: 218.6
9/8:
9/15 (halfway mark assessment):
9/22:
9/29:
Weekly goals (exercise):
🌸 Fit in one final swim before the pool closes on 9/1. Hit up more kayaking spots.
🌺 Incorporate free weights 2x week with YouTube workouts
🌸 Continue with daily planks challenge
🌺 Work out every other day
Weekly goals (diet):
🌸 Continue intermittent fasting (16:8)
🌺 More veggies / more protein. **Eat the veggies first, then the meal or snack.**
🌸 1400 calories and log everything
🌺 Watch the sugar count and pre-log all sweet treats
Weekly goals (mental):
🌸 STOP DOOMSCROLLING, especially in the morning and before bed
🌺 Set the timer for uninterrupted work sessions
🌸 Get back into the habit of sketching in the mornings
🌺 Less Facebook. Ugh, I hate Facebook so much.
💜 Message to myself: discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most 💜
This month will bring a few new adventures. We bought a little Airstream! The plan is to drive from Austin to Atlanta to see my mom for a few weeks in September. We'll be able to quarantine ourselves in her yard but still hang out with her and with my sister's family. Moving away from my family during the pandemic was really tough, and it's bee quite lonely out here on my own, so I'm excited to go see people. The other exciting thing is that I can now drive up to meet my husband when he's on location for his job, and we can go exploring when he wraps (he's a helicopter pilot with a 3 weeks on / 2 weeks off schedule). In August he was based in Park City, UT and in Twin Falls, ID -- two gorgeous spots! We realized if we had a camper van we could be doing lots of exploring and really make the most of it.
Other than that, I hope to do more kayaking with my new inflatable and I'm looking forward to some cooler weather!3 -
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.
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Ugg I think this is what I have going on in my right heel. I'm not a runner but with the gyms off limits I've been trying to run and walking a LOT - but it seems I should give it a break and stop beating on my poor heel. I ordered new cushioned running shoes too since my workout sneakers are very worn out
It is such a pain!! I think I had it briefly once a few years ago, but it kind of resolved on its own after a few weeks. This has been going on since May or June. It has gotten a ton better, but I still can't run (or even go for walks) without it flaring up. It really is driving me crazy. So I'm going to exhaust every option that I can this month to try and fix it.
I hope the new shoes work for you and fix the problem! My primary care doctor recommended Dr. Scholl's plantar fasciitis inserts too. You might want to give those a try too if the new shoes don't take care of it!
I started having heel pain during the pandemic. Why? I was walking around barefoot on hardwood floors. I couldn't go to aquafit so I was trying to find exercise I could do at home. I was wearing older exercise shoes. Doesn't matter if there was a hole in my toe since no one sees me, right? I felt and I had a hard painful area on my heel. I am not sure what is the problem but planar fasciitis was one of my possibilities I was considering. What I have done/am doing about this? I started wearing crocks around the house. Unfortunately these are a bit old. I ordered some running shoes that were supposed to be good but had to send them back since since somehow I got the wrong size. I just checked my heel and right now the hard place is smaller but it varies.
I just ordered the right size shoe after reading these posts. They should be here Friday.
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I started having heel pain during the pandemic. Why? I was walking around barefoot on hardwood floors. I couldn't go to aquafit so I was trying to find exercise I could do at home. I was wearing older exercise shoes. Doesn't matter if there was a hole in my toe since no one sees me, right? I felt and I had a hard painful area on my heel. I am not sure what is the problem but planar fasciitis was one of my possibilities I was considering. What I have done/am doing about this? I started wearing crocks around the house. Unfortunately these are a bit old. I ordered some running shoes that were supposed to be good but had to send them back since since somehow I got the wrong size. I just checked my heel and right now the hard place is smaller but it varies.
I just ordered the right size shoe after reading these posts. They should be here Friday.
You know, I hadn't thought about that! As a shoe-hating fellow work-from-homer....that could be contributing. I suppose I could try wearing shoes around the house, but ugh. I hate them so much. My feet need freedom!!
Good luck with your new shoes! Fingers crossed for quick relief!1 -
@KeriA Yes, the planks challenge is pretty new for me. It started because I was worried I wouldn't be able to get in and out of my kayak if I had to take out at a high riverbank (there's a move that you have to do where you use your paddle to brace and then you lift yourself out. It takes a lot of arm strength and balance!). I started with 20 seconds on / 10 seconds off (4 times) and now I'm at 30 seconds on / 10 seconds off (5 times).5
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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.6 -
Hello.
Robin
51 years old
5'1''
SW: 219 my heaviest
CW (8/31): 207
9/4:
9/11:
9/18:
9/25:
GW: Into the 150s
I have a long way to go. I maintained a 10 lb loss for a year, but my health took a major hit at the beginning of the year. I am finally feeling better, and have made it back to the gym (after 10 months). (I've done a lot of quitting since June. With the supplements I am on, in two weeks, I surpassed what I was doing at the gym 10 months ago and I finished 5 virtual races last month. My current goals is still to be moving everyday, but I am starting to look at the weight loss too. We will see what the measurements show later this week. Since I started logging food (yesterday) I see that my biggest problem is not eating enough calories.
Keep moving ladies.3 -
I love walking around the house barefoot. Sadly I'm pretty sure that's over for awhile. Hopefully if I am nice to my heel it will feel better and I can get on with life
Got Indian food with a friend tonight. It was DELICIOUS and I ate way too much - but not crazy crazy too much. The funny part is that after being back on the wagon for about a month, I don't FEEL good after a big excessive meal. I hope I can hold onto this feeling and go easier next time. Instead of a helping of five different dishes, maybe just a bite or two of each to end up with a reasonable portion in the end.
For now I'm just waiting to digest enough to go to sleep!3 -
Got Indian food with a friend tonight. It was DELICIOUS and I ate way too much - but not crazy crazy too much. The funny part is that after being back on the wagon for about a month, I don't FEEL good after a big excessive meal. I hope I can hold onto this feeling and go easier next time. Instead of a helping of five different dishes, maybe just a bite or two of each to end up with a reasonable portion in the end.
That's how I started and now I've got myself to where I really can only eat half to a third of a normal portion before I feel full, and moving rapidly towards too full. Of course, since I can't do volume eating, this is quite helpful.
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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.8 -
@chupacabragumbo - Your trip sound amazing! And with such an active vacation, I am sure that you'll end up losing weight while you are in the mountains. Your access to food will be limited while you are camping, and while I'm sure you are planning some yummy treats for yourself on the trip, you'll work them off. Since you have to plan your food for your trip anyway, why not log it in advance? When you get back to civilization you can make adjustments - but then you'll know just how many s'mores you can indulge in each night.6
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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!8 -
Hello.
Robin
51 years old
5'1''
SW: 219 my heaviest
CW (8/31): 207
9/4:
9/11:
9/18:
9/25:
GW: Into the 150s
Ok, weigh in on Friday, but I did my measurements this morning. Up one pound. grr. BUT, but but. down many inches - over 9! more than 3 on my waist. In just over two weeks. I am so glad to be back in the gym. This makes it worth it. The weight will move when it wants to.
Have an awesome rest of your week.6 -
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).8 -
Hi All,
I’m Beth. I am newly returned to MFP. I’ve gained over 50lbs since taking over caring for my dad in Nov 2019. He moved in, then COVID happened, then mom moved in too and hubs and I cleaned out their 2,609 Aw ft hoarder house of horrors ourselves. It’s been an emotional year. Hubs is my second marriage. We have 4 kids ages 15, 14, 8, and 3. My life is a whirlwind of caregiving and I have been neglecting myself. I quit my job to be home go make sure dad is safe. I’ve started my own web design business so I am hoping that takes off.
Age: 36
HT: 5’4
SW: 276.4
CW: ? Not sure. I am weighing in weekly on Fridays
GW: 195
Sep goals:
Logging all food in MFP
Drink 100 oz H2O per day
20+ min movement per day
7.5k steps
I am looking forward to getting know all of you better over this next month!11 -
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)
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I woke up and weighed and was at the new low of 250. That's a nice way to start the day!7
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@chupacabragumbo - a 3 week road trip sounds awesome. When I was your age (I'm old enough to say that now!) I used to camp all the time and it's still some of my best memories
@muttiNM - great job on the weight loss!
@honeyrobin20 - 219 was my highest too at the beginning of August. Great job so far!
@PennycillinEQ - I know what you mean about losing and regaining. I lost 25lbs three years ago and I can't even tell you what happened but I regained that plus 15 more. I remember being very excited about looking/feeling better and then it's like I just stopped thinking about it! We'll lose the 20+ and keep it off this time!!
@BethB554 - caregiving is hard. I helped care for my mom through cancer treatments and hospice for almost two years and it was mentally and physically exhausting. Try and make time for yourself.... even if it's little bits of time here and there.
@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 - best of luck at the gym! I joined many in my life and would work out for a bit and then fizzle out. For me it was finding the right gym - the place I'm at now is amazing. I don't even think about going to work out - I go because everyone I work out with is a friend and a motivation. The right gym will feel like home to you!
Speaking of amazing gyms, ours has been closed since March. He's reopening tomorrow but I'm not ready to go back (mostly because I have kids starting virtual learning and a few relatives that are immuno-compromised that I'm in contact with and want to protect) Our trainer has been posting workouts since shutdown and lent a ton of equipment out. I was running/walking as cardio but with the plantar fasciitis that's been difficult. Well, amazing trainer said he's not going to be using his assault bikes for the foreseeable future (because of the fans) so guess who's getting to bring an assault bike home to use?? Yup. This girl!!! I'm so excited!
I'm happy that having the bike will push me to get my workouts in more regularly. Eating has been ok. So let's think of some goals, since that seems to be popular in this group and sounds like a good idea!
Age: 47
HT: 5’7"
SW: 219.6 (08/01/20)
CW: 211.6
GW: 175, then re-eval
09/06
09/13
09/20
09/27
Goals for September:
Workout at least 3 times a week
10k steps daily
Drink 8 glasses of water daily
Track my calories daily
No mindless evening snacking!
Happy Thursday everyone!4 -
AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »I woke up and weighed and was at the new low of 250. That's a nice way to start the day!
Love early morning whooshes!
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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.8
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