Women 200lb+, Let's Make It Count This January!!!

Hi there, and happy new year! Here’s to a better 2021!

I’m Lisa, and I’m back on the wagon, one of those new year’s resolution people I turned 40 in November, and to prevent my life being cut short, I need to lose roughly 70kg, half my body weight. I’ve successfully lost weight here in the past, but had a difficult pregnancy 7 years ago, that I’m only just now in good enough mental health to be able to recover from.

I look forward to getting to know everyone, and supporting each other! ❤️

Hello 2021! I'm really looking forward to the new year!

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)

12/31: 175.6
1/6:
1/13:
1/20:
1/27:
1/31:

Jan. GW: 172
GW: 160 (then reevaluate)

Weekly exercise goals:
- exercise bike 5 times per week
- strength training 2 times per week
- chair yoga 4 times per week
- step ups on aerobic step platform twice a day at least 3 times per week

Thanks for starting this new thread, @RavenStCloud . This group is so helpful! Happy New Year all!

Thank you @RavenStCloud for keeping this group going!

My first weigh-in for 2021 will be in...*checks notes* about seven hours, LMAO. I'm mentally preparing myself for what I'm going to see on the scale - I was more lax this week about both calories and exercise, although I think I was probably more active in general for more of the day. I did a 10-minute stretch instead of my usual 20-25 minute cardio/strength workout in the mornings, but I did a lot of cleaning and more labor-intensive cooking, since I was off work this week. It's been really nice to have the break, honestly. I have to go back on Monday, but at least I'm WFH that day.

I don't think I included all my demographic info when I joined the group in November, so I guess I'll go ahead and include it in my blurb that I'll copy and paste tomorrow for my weigh-in post.

Age: 29
Height: 5'3"
SW: 252.8 lb as of 11/13/2020
CW: 248.0 lb as of 12/25/2020
Weigh-in Progress:
1/1:
1/8:
1/15:
1/22:
1/29:
GW for January: 245 lb
UGW: 160 lb

January goals:
* Continue to be kind to myself. (I'm doing well with this one, pretty proud of that as someone prone to negative self-talk!)
* Continue logging my food as honestly and accurately as I can.

2021 goals:
* Keep my house cleaner - this has nothing to do with weight loss, but I've found that I just feel better and more functional when my house is clean, especially the kitchen.
* I think I can get halfway to UGW by the end of this year. I'm speaking it into existence, I'll be 50 lbs lighter in 365 days' time. My birthday is in June - it'll be awfully nice to see myself back in the 220s at that point.
* Be the best partner I can be to my husband, and the best catmom I can be to my furbabies.

Happy New year! Here's to a better one
Last year was - tough. A chunk of what I lost in 2019 is back on (less movement, more food and snacks, motivation zapped). But the pasts the past. And I'm planning to get to a point where I can feel good about myself.

Starting weight (April 19) - 234
Current weight (Jan 21) - 210
Jan goal - 205
First goal - 195 then reevaluate

How I'm gonna do it!
- get moving! Walk as much as possible, a workout if getting outsides not happening
- smaller portions - they've been creeping up through 2020. I can still eat what I want, just not as much!
- healthier snacks (kitkats don't make me feel good when I really think about it!)
- Be honest with myself about what I'm eating and log it properly

Weigh-in day!

Age: 29
Height: 5'3"
SW: 252.8 lb as of 11/13/2020
CW: 248.0 lb as of 12/25/2020
Weigh-in Progress:
1/1: 247.4, somehow!
1/8:
1/15:
1/22:
1/29:
GW for January: 245 lb
UGW: 160 lb

I am gobsmacked. I was absolutely not expecting to see a loss since Christmas, given how much I've been eating this past week and how comparatively little exercise I've been doing. I still suspect my scale is haunted. At least it's a friendly ghost, I guess?

Apparently a week of just stretching for my "morning workout" HAS set me back a tiny bit on that front, though! Friday mornings I normally need to be in to work about half an hour earlier than the rest of the time, so I do a quick 6-minute circuit (butt kickers, pushups/plank if that's too hard, squats, crunches, glute bridge, superman, 30 seconds each twice through) and it kicked my *kitten* this morning in a way it hasn't for a while. Now I'm a little worried about Monday, as I'll be going back through the Beginner Strength/Cardio/Dumbbell series that I just completed again for January/February. I remember that first workout being just absolute murder on the legs, lotta squats!

Highest weight 250 (7/19)
2021 Starting weight 209
GW: 150

This month:
1/3
1/10
1/17
1/24
1/31

January Goals:
Track my food
Yoga 5x a week
Walk 5x a week
Stay within calorie goal 5x a week

Last year I gained 40 pounds so my goal for this year is to stay on track and lose that weight. I'd like to lose 52 pounds this year and end up at 157.

Happy 2021! This year is a blank slate to write a new chapter. Let's be firm, but kind to ourselves.
"If you're tired, just rest don't quit".😊

January 2021 stats
38 years old
Height: 5' 7"
SW (6/9/2020): 330.0 lbs
Month SW (1/1/21): 253.8lbs
Goal weight: 180lbs
Weigh-in day: Saturdays
1/1/2021: 253.8lbs - 1st weigh-in of the year
1/2: lbs
1/9: lbs
1/16: lbs
1/23: lbs
1/30: lbs

Weekly and Monthly Goals:
* Keep logging in to MFP
* Continue the T-25 workouts
* Do either a quick yoga, stretch, or walk (Reps to the Rhythm) workout in the evenings in addition to my morning workout
* Get as much sleep as possible

Mid-year Goal:
* Get below 200 lbs (Hopefully by the end of May)

@RavenStCloud Thank you for the group. Motivational and encouraging as always!!

To all the oldies, great to see you back, and to all the newbies, welcome to a great support group.

As always, ladies... Feel free to add me as a friend on MFP. I tend to not comment on everyone's post (especially when stressed with exams), but, I will check on you if you are on my friends' list and I notice you haven't logged in or posted in a while. 😊 Let us go and crush 2021!!

Hello! After wondering why my wedding ring was painfuIly tight, I weighed myself Monday and was shocked to find the scale at 217, the most I've weighed since pregnancy. 😢

I'm am going to log every day and try to keep it to around 1000 calories and not eat back exercise calories. I'm hoping to be at 199 by the end of Jan. We'll see - that might not be realistic.

My ultimate goal is 170. I'm 5'11" so that's a healthy weight for me.

I've lost and gained weight quite a few times in my life - my goal is to get better at maintaining. I'm actually worried that my weight gain has made my blood pressure rise, so I need to realize that weight maintenance is a matter of life and death.

It's frustrating to be here again, but I know that every day I'll get healthier!

Happy New Year! Thank you Raven StCloud for all the threads in 2020 and for helping us start this year off right!

Keri
67 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs (Dec 2019)
2/1: 263.6
3/1: 261.8
4/1: 258
5/1:254
6/1:254
7 /1:250.4
8/1: 249.2
9/1: 247 lowest Sept weight 246.8
10/1: 247
10/19: 245.4
11/1: 248
12/1/2020: 249
CW: 251.2

1st GW: 220 The lowest weight I got to when I last lost significant weight.
2nd GW: Onderland 1st, maintain for a few weeks then
3rd GW: 186 overweight but not obese
4th GW: 150 lbs. Healthy weight Then evaluate what weight is best for me. I just want to get to a healthy weight for me.

January Goal weight: Under 245 make progress losing.

In October last year I mentioned I was scared since in 2019 I gained during the fall and early winter after losing earlier in the year. I was right to worry. I also knew that when I start working full time I tend to gain as well and I was starting a new job November 2nd. As you can see I did gain back some of the weight I lost earlier last year. I expected to gain around 5 lbs if I didn't watch out. I did adjust my calorie goal down a bit to adjust for being more sedentary working and not having as much having as much time for exercise. I set up a table on my work computer to track activity levels etc. The main problem was all the special dinners (Thanksgiving, husband's birthday, our anniversary and Christmas, New Years Eve not Sto mention Halloween). Except for today there are no special meals. In the spring there is my birthday and Easter and late in May my daughters birthday. In the summer there is the 4th. So all the meals are spread out. I need to get out of the obese range to be healthier and safer.

Goals:

• Get 8+ glasses of water, log in calories, and stay under my calorie goal.
• Up N.E.A.T. (steps, stairs, cleaning and cooking)
• Get regular exercise:
• 1-2 strength training a week (1 with weights and 1 with resistance bands)
• 5-6 days of exercise (Start with 25 minutes and work up to 45-60 minutes for most days)
• Take another step towards lowering sugar intake.
• Wait to have breakfast until I feel hungry while I am working remotely.

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As to last year I am grateful that all of my family and friends have kept safe during this Pandemic. I think my niece and 1 friend had mild cases. We don't get together except on Zoom. We are all working mostly from home or are retired. We are fortunate we can do that. Fortunately I was able to stay financially sound despite a long furlough and short lay off. My gratitude goes out to front line, health care, and essential workers. Please all stay safe until we beat this thing.

I will be reading your posts soon.

I'm going to be weighing every Saturday. My immediate goal for this week is to get into the habit of recording my calories in, water consumption and exercise. As I do this I believe the motivation will grow to become better at planning meals and routines. I think I've got about 50 lbs to lose, and that is going to take some time. Longer term goal is to be able to walk 3 to 5 miles at a time and bicycle 10 or more miles, hoping to hit that by summer and keep up the momentum. Eventually, I want to add in weight training and gain muscle that I've lost. I'd like to fit into a size 9/10, currently fluctuating between a 14 and a 16.

In 2019 I started losing weight without trying, losing a total of 12 lbs over the course of 6 months. The reason was likely because it also coincided with my volunteering to do childcare for two grandsons, age 4 and 7. We were very active and having fun! I was beginning to feel really good. In 2020, when Covid-19 hit, I couldn't do the childcare anymore and went into lockdown with my spouse. I gained the 12 back plus some from stress eating, boredom eating and just plain sitting on my fanny too much!

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Hello! After wondering why my wedding ring was painfuIly tight, I weighed myself Monday and was shocked to find the scale at 217, the most I've weighed since pregnancy. 😢

I'm am going to log every day and try to keep it to around 1000 calories and not eat back exercise calories. I'm hoping to be at 199 by the end of Jan. We'll see - that might not be realistic.

My ultimate goal is 170. I'm 5'11" so that's a healthy weight for me.

I've lost and gained weight quite a few times in my life - my goal is to get better at maintaining. I'm actually worried that my weight gain has made my blood pressure rise, so I need to realize that weight maintenance is a matter of life and death.

It's frustrating to be here again, but I know that every day I'll get healthier!

Welcome!

I don't mean to discourage you or anything, but I just wanted to mention that 1000 cal/day is really, really low for someone your height - I'm 5'3", and people my height need more than that to maintain, even the slim ones. You might have more success with a higher calorie goal, like 1500.

Also, losing 18 lbs in 4 weeks is...a lot, more than 4 lbs per week. That's not a safe rate of loss for anyone, but especially not someone as small as you are - you only have 47 pounds between you and your goal weight. 4 lbs a week is Biggest Loser/My 600 Lb Life territory, medically-supervised inpatient clinical setting kind of thing, and you simply aren't there.

If you're the kind of person that sets "shoot for the moon" goals and judges your progress by how close you came, then get on wit' cha bad self if that works for you. But, IME most people tend to do better when they set goals that are more attainable. A UGW of 170 is totally fine, just, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed and discouraged when you're not there by Easter. You might-could get there by about Halloween, though. Losing 47 pounds in a year is absolutely doable; doing it in 4 months is not.

I have enjoyed reading all of your posts. I went for a walk in the rain with my family. We stopped when we were soaked which meant it was shorter than I had hoped for. I see it will be raining all week so I might do some indoors strength training tomorrow. I hope I do a better job checking in to this thread more regularly this month. It usually helps.

Yesterday I worked but also had some downtime. So I set up exercises I can do at my desk. I started putting it together on another day I had some downtime and so yesterday I just completed it. I also brought my weights and resistance bands down to my art room/home office the day before to use during work breaks easier. I listed goals for the year. Some were financial and decluttering but most had to do with health and fitness. I am not getting as much sleep as I was before now that I am working fulltime and that affects weight loss. I also haven't been doing meal planning as well so I plan to do that this weekend. I did plan the meals for the long weekend already.

@aubintex think about starting to eating now the way that is healthy for you for the rest of your life. You need to find something sustainable for you for the long term. Maintenance isn’t much different from losing weight. Also it is an average of the week that matters for weight loss. I have some days I am not that hungry and not that active so I too only eat 1000 calories some days. However other days I have more calories when I am more active and if I feel hungrier but I stay below my calorie goal which gives me a healthy deficit. However I am shorter and heavier than you so lower calories are less a problem. I try to set my calorie goal between my BMR (calories you need when you are in a coma) and my TDEE (calories you need to maintain your weight). That way you have a deficit and will lose in a sustainable way. Then when I reach my goal weight I will adjust my calories to my TDEE so hopefully I won't gain.

I am relieved that after today we will get back to normal eating. I still need to adjust to working full-time again.

Hi there ladies! It's been a while. I took a bit of a break from MFP, but I missed you all and am trying to catch up. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.

I don't usually make New Years Resolutions but I did last year and I have to say, making them kept me focused through a rotten year and helped me to accomplish more than I ever expected was possible. My resolutions were to run a half marathon and join a rowing club. Well I did both last year and it was life changing. So here goes for this year:

Resolutions

1. Run another half marathon
2. Keep rowing when it returns in the spring
3. Stay healthy
4. Get a COVID Vaccine as soon as I am eligible
5. Maintain my weight below 165

So now with the check-in:

Name: Jane
Age: 55
Height: 5' 9''
Starting Weight: 286.5 (6/3/19)

Weight Goal: Maintenance at or below 165
Jan 1: 162.3
Jan 8:
Jan 15:
Jan 22:
Jan 29: