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

Age 54 Height 5'9"
Highest weight: 240
Lowest weight: 127

CW:239
9/1:238
9/8:235.9
9/15 234.7
9/22:
9/29:


Slloooooowwwwllllyyyy.

@cppeace I have small feet and hands too. Actually I have a small frame. Time to get the rest of me down to size

@speyerj Glad to hear you are back to running and had a great shopping trip. I know what you mean, this past week I got hungry mid-afternoon when I usually don’t and my usual snack didn’t satisfy me. Unfortunately then I wasn’t hungry for dinner. I did what my daughter does. I ate a little of my dinner and then saved the rest for later. It has meant a stall in my weight loss but not a regain. You are exercising a lot except for that period when the air was so bad. Your metabolism may be faster now. I have found that eating when I am actually hungry doesn’t hurt my weight if I stop when satisfied. However the question is whether you were hungry or just craving certain foods. I think getting back to normal schedules with good air will help. You lost relatively fast so you may have had a significant deficit. It will take some trial and error to find your individual maintenance. TDEE calculators or the one used by MFP are only estimators. You have to find what works to keep you at a steady weight. Also it may be that you were avoiding foods that you now feel you should be able to eat. You still need to find a way of eating where you get to eat foods you love but not sabotage your maintenance diet. It may be that you found a sustainable way of eating to lose but not a sustainable way of eating for the rest of your life. You may still have work to do on that. We want it to be easier when we reach our goal weight. However I suspect it isn’t always that much easier than losing. I know you will figure it out.

@changeforeverlj You did week 1 C25K - great! Make sure you get in some core work to support your running . You may be including that in the strength training already.

I often don’t get on here on Sundays. I am coming out of a bit of a slump with bad air etc. I have been thinking this past month about what I should do since I was laid off and since I am retirement age. I just decided that it is best for me to go back to work for a few more years even with some improvements we are making to our financial situation. However it is not necessary for me to take any risks with COVID 19. We are doing fine with me on unemployment for now. I can retire at any point and look for work if need be.

So now that the air is good I can exercise, I can continue to work at losing weight and generally get fitter and healthier. I now have decided that getting back to work is the best thing for now. So I am going into this week with a renewed sense and clarity of purpose than there was before. Hope we all have a good week ahead.

My turn for Monday check in!
Starting weight 242 lbs (June 1, 2020)
September 1st: 205 lbs (-37 pounds)
September 21st: 199 (-6 pounds)
Goal weight for September was 199 which was reached ahead of schedule so still working on October goals! We have Hurricane Teddy headed for us so it looks like a wild couple of days ahead. Won't be much outdoor exercise. So I moved my run from this morning to tonight. Then will go Thursday morning and Saturday morning. That will finish up my learn-to-run-10k app. Without a program to tell me what to do and when, I'll need to be pretty strong in the goals to make sure I'm still progressing. Have a wonderful week, folks!

September GW: 191.4
8/31: 201.4 lbs
9/8: 199.6 (-1.8 lbs)
9/14: 199.2 (-0.4lbs)
9/21: 197.0 (-2.2 lbs)
9/28:

Yay! So maybe @KeriA was on to something suggesting I eat back more of my exercise calories? The bike program I'm doing also had longer rides this week, so that didn't allow me to do a lot of strength stuff this past week since I try to get whatever workout I'm doing done within 1 hour. So either one of those could be the culprit...we shall see. This week has a mix of lengths so I'll probably be able to get in some strength stuff. As far as the diet I found a low carb tortilla that I'm swapping for the one I was using so at least lunch will be a little less calories - I'll try to find a balance in what I'm eating overall. But in general I think my diet has been too heavy on the carbs - so trying to be mindful of that. And then maybe on the days of longer workouts I'll try to eat a little more.

Congrats on getting to ONEderland!! Let's stay here, and keep going! @iloveeggnog

I know what you mean @speyerj seems like at least every couple of weeks something will happen that will take away your focus, but then it always comes back to coronavirus. The hits just keep coming in 2020, when things get overwhelming I try to do my best to focus on the stuff I can control (like diet and exercise). I don't know anyone who has been able to completely bury their head in the sand this year (regardless of your political affiliation, race, gender, religion, or whatever else you may define yourself by), but sometimes you just gotta hit mute and tune it all out. Then you can reset and then it's back to work!

Something very cool happened last night. We have a big mirror on the wall of our bedroom, and the rug next to the clothes hamper happens to be in front of it. I have been looking at myself in the mirror every day and saying good things to myself in an effort to shift my self-talk about my body.

I saw my waist.

Not much, just a hint of it at the sides, but there's the beginnings of a curve in at the sides below my ribs. I've been able to feel it when I run my hands down my back but I haven't been able to see it til now. I've never seen my waist as an adult. I went from childhood straightness to adolescent pudginess to fat adulthood. This is very very exciting!

I am seeing some good Monday check ins.
@motiveatedsister One option is calorie cycling as others on here do. It keeps your body guessing. Low calories one week and a bit higher the next.
@AlexandraFindsHerself ….and yay her waist!

Well after my last post about concentrating this week on my jobsearch (and exercise) guess what? I got an email about a 2nd interview for one of the jobs I interviewed with (the one that I hadn’t heard from). So I guess I am still in the game with it. I got up had a healthy breakfast and then applied for all the jobs I had found in the last week and today (about 5). That is it for the week except for responding and going forward with any jobs I have already applied for.

Right now I am taking a break but I will decide about what exercise or other physical activity I am up for today. I should be freer the rest of the week for more exercise except a Drs appointment Thursday.

I sat down with Girlfriend today to work out a schedule for her, and realized it was going to help me in two ways:
First, if I'm supposed to wake her up around 6: 30 before I go to the gym, I'll HAVE to get up at six am instead of turning off the alarm, and if I'm up I might as well go work out. So that will get me over that hump.

Secondly, she is good with helping me clean up the kitchen after dinner. I do have fibromyalgia and even if losing 45 pounds has given me a lot more energy, often after I eat I crash a bit and by that point in the evening I've been awake for twelve hours, I've been on my feet for a lot of it, and I'm on the tail end of my ADHD medicine, so my willpower to get up and do it anyway is lacking. But if she will come in with me and we can talk, the job is lightened and that way I don't wake up to the depressing sight of all the dishes left to do the next day. If the dishes are done, filling the coffee pot and making tea for tomorrow is no big deal, and then everything happens in order the following morning, and that helps all of us.

I'm also dispensing and witnessing meds for her and for Boyfriend now, and that means that I always remember mine, cause everything's a bigger deal now. He's been on a med that needs witnessing for about a year now, so we're in the habit already. If we can all follow a daily schedule that will help all of us a lot, because that way she'll be tired out by bedtime and may actually go to sleep, and if I can get out of the habit of afternoon naps, I'll have time to get everything done, and if Boyfriend can go to bed on time he'll be able to sleep. Going to bed whenever you get tired results in staying up half the night and not being able to get up the following day, and of course there are emotional and mental health consequences.

Hello

New here

I'm Lisa
London, UK
36 years old
New mum with chronic health conditions.

SW : 312.5
CW : 299.5

I am terrible at making goals, I have a terrible fear of failure amd get terribly anxious and obsessive.

My goal is just to keep going. Keep going.

I was struggling with eating in the middle of the night when I woke up to feed my 4 month old.
I decided to have a carb free lunch so I could enjoy carbs at dinner and feel satisfied in the hopes that that would help stop me snacking.