Women 200lb+, Let's Be Fang-tastic This October!!!

My food plan and making a strict list from that for the grocery store helps a lot. One of the things that I've identified is when I'm in pain from the fibro I get snacky, and that sometimes two ibuprofen will make me feel better than food would.

We've had wet weather with several thunderstorms lately, and my fibro has made it clear that I still have that. But my partners are being very considerate and helpful, and understanding of my problems with focus and action when I'm sore.

Tonight I will make dinner, clean up the kitchen, and tomorrow is another day, and maybe I won't hurt so bad tomorrow.

@AlexandraFindsHerself Thanks for the acknowledgement. It means a lot since my loss is so much slower. I hope you feel better soon.
@heatherbluebell Wow what changes. You are making such progress with your weight loss. I try to check in here on weekdays now but for a while I made it a goal and it helped me. Now I just want to do it. I think that is how goals on here work. Many think of them as just establishing healthy habits like getting enough sleep and drinking enough water (still on my list :P ). My Y opened but I am still on standby because what I really need is Aquafit and indoor classes are restricted still where I am. I am doing home strengthening too.
@MuttiNM Glad you got hikes with your son and daughter. I suspect you will see that loss down the line.
@xofarrah That’s the way to keep things going in the right direction!
Welcome @keksbalance and @JAC581
@torih941 In reading one of your last posts I felt that your life now is overwhelming. Yes losing weight is mostly about food. Exercise is mostly about staying fit and healthy. They relate to each other but it isn’t a direct relationship. If your post is long mine are super long. There is a reason why I didn’t start really losing until my kids were almost grown. But that isn’t the way it should be. Taking care of our health should come 1st so we can do the rest well. Keep on working on it!
@KMC55 sometimes I go off the rails on the weekends but I often do better. The reason is my husband makes a healthy big breakfast on the weekends. That sounds counter intuitive but often I only have 2 healthy meals on weekend days. We have grapefruit, eggs, lean bacon, and healthy whole grain pancakes and of course our house blend coffee. I only have 1 egg and one slice of bacon and I drink our coffee black. Also getting enough sleep helps on the weekends. That isn’t an issue for me now but when I start back to work in a few weeks I suspect it will be again for me. However sometimes something special comes up on weekends. I think the trick is to have a healthy weekend routine that is special/different but still healthy. Then if every once in a while something spontaneous happens it will not hurt in the long run. Having to make up for a weekend once in a while is easier than every weekend.

I think it is important to have a meal plan that has some joy in it whether it is weekday or weekend. Otherwise it isn’t sustainable. When we reach our goal we will still need to have healthy diets to maintain. That is the real point of this. It isn’t to lose weight it is to get healthy. To be healthy we don’t just need to lose weight we need to maintain a healthy weight. If we got there by an unsustainable route, then we have a lot of work to do when we hit our goal weight.

I am happy that I got an email from the place I am donating my kids art supplies to. They say they are happy to get them and I have an appointment tomorrow to take them in. My husband can help me since he is taking tomorrow off. They will be gone before I start working. I thought I would have to use a background on my MS Teams meetings to hide those boxes but the nice wood paneling on that wall will be fine without those boxes. Today I plan to work on the hallway outside my art room to clear it out.

Tonight is pizza. I get thin crusts through my dairy delivery from a great local bakery. Then we put sauce, mushrooms, onions, Italian sausage, freshly pressed garlic, and fresh basil. My daughter made sun dried tomatoes from her boyfriend’s garden so we will add those. They are really yummy. The chili was really good last night. It was a rainy day with even some hail so perfect for chili. I put a lot of veggies in my chili but I am picky that all ingredients are authentic. It is really Chili Con Carne y Verduras.

Today is really sunny and beautiful and is making me think about getting some exercise out there before starting on my clean up in the basement.

I am fifty pounds down! This morning I weighed 246. That's really exciting. I'd LOVE to be 75 pounds down by Christmas, but I don't think that's going to happen with the pace I'm setting. It's not a bad pace; I've lost this 50 pounds in 10 months, and that's five pounds a month. I'm not really deprived, and I eat the things I like, and while I could probably tighten down a bit and exercise more to get it up to 10 pounds a month, I'm busy with the family's mental health, and am preferring to err on the side of comfort.

So in 10 months I've lost 50 pounds, 5 sizes in jeans, and 10 inches off my waist, 10 off my bust, and 8 off my hips.

OFFICIAL FRIDAY WEIGH-IN

Age: 41
Height: 5'3"
SW (8/10): 208.6
Aug end: 205.6
Sept end (9/25): 204.6
10/2: 206.4
10/9: 204.0
10/16: 202.8
10/23: 202.0
1st GW: 200!!
UGW: 140

Goals so far:
Log my food every single day, good and bad


Drink at least 64 oz of water daily
I know I didn't reach this goal any day of this week.

Workout 5 times a week, but also I want to increase the time that I workout each day from 30 minutes to one hour (gradually).
I barely worked out 2 days this week and each workout was about 20-25 minutes.

This wasn't a great week at all. My cousin's husband passed away sometime at the beginning of the week, maybe because of leukemia... If I wasn't shunned by my family I would know what's been going on with them. My mom told me on Tuesday, but she wasn't quite clear about it... she wanted to rush the call and hang up ASAP. It did come as a complete shock because I didn't even know he was sick. He was only 42. His brother passed away a couple of months ago as well, from a sudden heart attack. Found out about his death maybe a month after the fact. He looked healthy, ate healthy... he was about 47 years old.

So this week has been a mixture of sadness and anger, and I just didn't even feel like exercising at all. I tried to push myself to do something yesterday, but it was a half-assed effort. Even using the 3lb dumbbells felt so heavy, like I was lifting 300 lbs instead. I ate out twice this week... I'm actually amazed that I lost any weight this week. I logged everything I ate anyways. That definitely feels like a habit now, so that's good.

I kept trying to weigh myself this morning and every time I got on the scale it read 34 instead of my real weight. The dog was barking her head off to go out and I had stripped down to get the lowest possible weight, so I couldn’t keep standing there trying in case someone went by the house and saw me in all my nakedness through the window! I took the 34 as a sign that today was not my day to weigh and I’ll try again tomorrow when I am relaxed and Gracie has already gone out, and I can give myself the time I need. I have just made the decision to put my home on the market and it will go live on MLS on Nov. 18 so I have time to fix a few things. I am going to have to be really mindful of stress and food and drink choices so I don’t go off like a house on fire during this process. I’m going to try to make it as stress-free as possible.