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

heatherbluebell wrote: »

Thanks @KMC55, @iloveeggnog @KeriA and @remedieigotcha for your messages! A supportive community makes such a big difference!

@MuttiNM Holy cow! As someone who started at over 400 pounds, reading your post was very inspirational for me. The thought of me getting to onederland is pretty much outside of reality for me (I'm currently 372), but seeing that someone can actually do makes a big difference in how I think about things. I once got down to 250, but it wasn't sustainable what I was doing, and ended up heavier than when I started that journey.

@torih941 , that sounds so tough. It's so easy for those overwhelming feelings to overtake us, and send us down a path we don't want to be on. I think though, it's ok to not be ok, and to have bad times. It doesn't mean forever. I just went through a really tough time personally as well, and I met with my psychologist who gave me some really great advice. In person I'd ask you if I can share that with you, but since this is online I'll offer it and you can decide whether to read it! LOL

100% recovery from where you are today is a big step and thinking about how you're gonna get there can add to feeling overwhelmed. She described being 100% recovered as 'Better' with a capital B, and capital B Better takes some time to get to. So, in those moments you feel angst, anger, frustration, despair, whatever, think about what can make you feel 1% better. This is 'better' with lower case b. She gave the example of someone uncontrollably falling to the ground in the middle of the kitchen out of grief, and crying their eyes out. Getting up and dusting off from the kitchen ground is probably not realistic in that moment, but what would make it 1% better? Maybe a pillow and a blanket to make the floor a little more comfortable when they find themselves there.

This is what I did. I didn't focus on Better with the capital B. In those tough moments, I thought about what would make me feel 1% better in that moment, and it really helped. I remember once in a really tough moment, I couldn't think straight and didn't know what to do with myself. I decided if I did something that also checked off some thing from my to-do list would make me feel 1% better, so I cleaned my bathroom. LOL And what do you know, it did make me feel a tad better.

Take care. I hope some others will benefit from this information too!

@heatherbluebell Thank you thank you for this post. I think it probably resonated with a lot of us. There are days I am almost completely overwhelmed with life for a lot of reasons and days I can pretty much handle it but I think I can always muster up 1%, even on those dark days when anxiety is high. 💕👊🏻

Age: 55
Height: 5' 9''
SW: 286.5 (6/3/19)
9/30 weight: 166.1
Maintenance Weight Range:162-168

Weekly tracking:
10/3: 167.6
10/10: 162.4
10/17: 163.5
10/24: 161.5 !!
10/31:

October Goals goals:
Maintain my weight between 162 and 168 🎃 - Slightly below target, so much the better.
Log food daily 🎃
Row or Run at least 6x's a week 🎃
Get at least 45 "active" minutes a day 🎃
Get at least 10,000 steps/day 🎃

I had one day last week where I only got 40 active minutes. I still call that a win. I continue to be really, really busy. I've been doing GOTV work, so between now and Nov 3rd life will be busy. On a sad note, this week was the last week of week day rowing. It's too dark and cold to row in the mornings. I'll still be rowing on Sundays for a bit longer. I am really enjoying it and can't believe how much I've progressed since I started in July.

laurajewalker wrote: »

Hi lovely ladies! I just found this thread but I’m a bit late to the party this month. Will look out for a November thread and join in.

I’ve been doing Slimming World but decided to move to calorie counting a few weeks ago. The one thing I’m missing from group is the support and having people understand the journey your on. This thread seems amazing and just what I’m missing

These are amazing and supportive people. There's a lot of wisdom and help here, and they make it so much easier.

I am struggling tremendously this month. I cannot seem to kick the sugar habit, and my sister in law who lives next door keeps sending me over cookies!! she loves to bake and my hubby loves her stuff. I keep trying to tell them not to give any so we don't have in the house but it seems to be a losing battle. I could use some suggestions on how to handle without hurting her feelings. The change in the light makes it hard for me too, so I am trying to get outside every day at lunch time, but it's been rainy and cold here making that tough. I did move my recumbent bike into the living room instead of the garage so now I can see it while I'm watching the news with hubby. that's a small victory!!

I was last on here on Thursday. My husband took Friday and today off so it was/is sort of a 4 day weekend for us. However we had an agenda. We had to get my home office/art room ready. Friday I donated 5 boxes of kids art supplies after sorting through and recycling it all. Then I worked on the hallways in the basement so I could actually get into my art room. I am not the one who piles things everywhere. Mostly it was older towels and linens. I sorted through them and had my husband move the shelves out of the way and put the towels and linens away all organized. Our upstairs newer linens and towels are put away upstairs. Then I put all the remaining art supplies away in my art room. He put up my desk and I put all the office supplies away. Then he vacuumed the room for me since by that time I was reacting to all the dust. It is done. I have a home office/art room. I have decluttered the basement hallways. I have organized and added shelves to the downstairs bathroom. My daughter is on task to clean it this week. Thursday it was beautiful so I actually went outside and did my strength training in the backyard. I didn’t do the indoor part since I have been getting more physical activity cleaning and setting up things. I am going to transfer my office corner of my living room to downstairs this week. So I will still get in those stair flights and more steps for a while.

This job is not permanent but it will get me past the pandemic and close to retirement. So when the office opens up and when my job ends in a year or 2 I will have this room set up to do my art in. Yay.

This morning I caught up with logging my food. We had more take out since we were so busy with this project. However it looks like I stayed under my calorie goal. My weight is up though since most restaurant food is saltier and just doesn’t help me lose. I will be back to home cooking and exercise this week. In fact we went grocery shopping this weekend and I meal planned this morning. I know it is supposed to be the other way around but we needed some things for weekend breakfasts so we got a few things for the week ahead.

Here are my goals for the week:
• Start back to my goals of water, exercise and healthy meals at home this week.
• Move office corner from upstairs to home office downstairs.
• Set up weekly schedule for when I start work which includes meals and exercise.

Now I get to catch up with all of your posts.

@AlexandraFindsHerself Congrats on 50 lbs down. That is a great accomplishment! And all those inches!
@Tarzan37 Nice weekly check in. It took us a few weeks to find our kittens but then we wanted a bonded pair. Actually it was my daughter who insisted on that so getting one may be quicker. It has been really fun. They are teens now.
@Lasmartchika You are so close to Onderland. Keep up the good work. Take care of yourself. Hope you feel happier soon.
@deadenddiva I am glad you survived and have found us. You are almost in Onderland. I found checking into this thread helped me a lot.
@RavenStCloud My kids both turned Pescatarian when they went to college and that is how I discovered vegetarian Indian food. I always liked Indian food but I really fell for vegetarian dishes. We usually get 1 lamb dish then the rest is vegetarian. I love it too when I don’t eat all of my order when we get take out. When you are limiting treats you have to pick the ones you love the most. I am fine with dark chocolate if it is just the chocolate and not covering candy.

I have been thinking about the holidays since we won't be having our usual extended family gatherings. I haven't cooked a turkey for years and was worried about whether I should order one. Then I got an email from my dairy that delivers some of our food each week. They have free range turkeys that you can order to be delivered with your weekly dairy order. Yay, that is all done.

I love this dairy. They have set up relationships with some of the best bakeries and other food providers in the area. So when we want something special we just put it on our order for the week. It means less grocery shopping for us. They have great granola and we get whole grain morning glory muffins every other week. Unfortunately my husband found out he is borderline prediabetic. So if there is too much sugar or white flour he knows. These muffins don't bother him. The whole grain pancakes we have on the weekends don't either. It helps me keep my sugar and processed carbs down to a minimum too.