Women 200lb+, Let's Make It Count This January!!!
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Thank you everyone for the great insight! I am being patient and trusting in the system of strength training. I feel better working out and I'm not a huge fan of straight cardio workouts so lifting and core strengthening is what I need to feel fulfilled working out.
I've never been someone that workouts regularly so I don't really know what I'm doing but I just keep putting in the work every week and keep having faith that my hard work will have results in the coming weeks. I start week 4 tonight. Maybe this week is when I experience the "whoosh". I will keep you ladies updated!
Thank you to all you empowering women for keeping me motivated 💜5 -
@uyister - Here's the link to the recipe. It's definitely something you need to save up calories for. A whopping 835 calories per serving that was with subbing brisket out for leaner chuck roast. And it's a project - takes the better part of the day to make. But it is a one dish meal - you don't need sides.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012397-guinness-pie1 -
starlite19 wrote: »Hi I am new to this support group and thought I would give it a try since I am a little frustrated with my weight. I said this year I would start being more active so started walking 2 weeks ago at least 30 mins 3 times a week and instead of maintaining or losing I have gained 3 pounds since which puts me up to 270 I never thought I would be. I need help getting the motivation to do this before I reach 300. My goal for the month would be to lose a pound or two but it's not going so well. I have trouble eating healthy meals and not snacking. along with exercising since walking is not enough. I look forward to hearing back from you ladies and wish you a happy January hopefully your month is going better than mine. ~Alisha Star
If you've been watching what you eat for the past two weeks as well, those 3 lbs are probably mostly water - the body retains water to help your muscles repair themselves after you exercise, and yes, walking is exercise!
You'll see folks say it all over the place around here - weight loss comes down more to diet than exercise. If you eat fewer calories' worth of food in a given time span than your body needs to burn to keep you going, your body will be forced to dip into its energy reserves (i.e., your stored body fat). It's much easier to withhold 500 calories' worth of food than it is to burn 500 more calories than you normally would to create that deficit, so you can lose weight by only counting calories. Exercise is for overall health, fat loss is just a bonus.7 -
starlite19 wrote: »Hi I am new to this support group and thought I would give it a try since I am a little frustrated with my weight. I said this year I would start being more active so started walking 2 weeks ago at least 30 mins 3 times a week and instead of maintaining or losing I have gained 3 pounds since which puts me up to 270 I never thought I would be. I need help getting the motivation to do this before I reach 300. My goal for the month would be to lose a pound or two but it's not going so well. I have trouble eating healthy meals and not snacking. along with exercising since walking is not enough. I look forward to hearing back from you ladies and wish you a happy January hopefully your month is going better than mine. ~Alisha Star
Alisha, I appreciate your frustration. You are absolutely doing great with the walking. It is making a difference, both on your overall health and wellness. Snacking isnt easy especially if you are feeling discouraged but you are absolutely in the right place. If I can encourage you to ensure you log on everyday and log your food intake and you will begin to get in a rhythm. Remember this is a journey, one day at a time. You have got this!!!!!8 -
Thanks everyone for the positive comments I will be using you guys advice and try to log my food everyday and keep up the walking. I will also check out the you tube workout videos uyister recommends. Thanks!6
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Hope everyone's last week was well! I forgot to log in yesterday as was super busy. I have been on track of logging in everyday still, which is this months goal.
1/11: 230lbs
1/18: 226 lbs
1/26: 225 lbs
Slowly but surely I am going down, though I did not do well on Sunday as I was celebrating my oldest 12th birthday and I ate more then I should have!5 -
Age:31 (Turning 32 in April)🎁
Height: 5'2"
Original MFP weight:292 lbs. (Started November 6, 2020)😢
January Start Weight:261 lbs.👍
January Goal Weight:250 lbs.⭐
Ultimate Goal Weight: 150 lbs.⭐
I do weigh in's on Mondays.✔
Current Weight: 252 lbs. on January 25, 2021.
I've lost a total of 40 lbs. since November.
January 2:261
January 4:260 (-1)
January 11:254 (-6)
January 18:253 (-1)
January 25:252 (-1)
February 1:
Well, To be able to get my January goal, I got to lose 2 lbs. in the next week. It's possible, but we shall see. 🤞
Goals For the Month is to
-Continue to maintain a healthy diet.🥗
-Make sure I am weighing everything.
-Watch Sodium Intake. (Not required by doctor, but is my choice.)
-Drink more water💦
-Go to the Gym more (Go with my Zumba instructor at 4:30am to workout.) 🏋️♀️
-More Routine on my weekends.
Goals For the Year is to
-Become a healthier person🏋️♀️
-Love myself 💕8 -
@xxxtarable27xxx Daaaang! You're doing amazing! I must have missed your 1/11 update, nice whoosh!3
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I am so happy!! I was released from quarantine today after 3 weeks and was able to go swimming for the first time in almost a year!!! Even though I was scared, I was able to remember the moves and swam ~30 minutes today. I hope to incorporate this at least 2x a week now into my regimen. My whole body feels sore and that makes me happy!! Also just realized that I typed up a rant/vent yesterday on being stuck in quarantine and never posted it. Oh well. It's all good now.14
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goal06082021 wrote: »@xxxtarable27xxx Daaaang! You're doing amazing! I must have missed your 1/11 update, nice whoosh!
Thank you!0 -
@uyister That's awesome! Happy swimming.
@xxxtarable27xxx Impressive! Your commitment and determination is contagious.
@ajverloop158 No one can do everything right everyday, but everyone can do something right everyday. Do your best, and you will reach your goals!! Happy 12th to your oldest!
Hope everyone is having a great week!2 -
Was teaching Mindfulness to my class yesterday. Lol while they were doing the exercise on Zoom I was checking my messages......... sometimes life is ironic....... . Today is my second full month based on date.
Start Weight 230
Jan 27 217.6
Inches lost 3 in tummy( hips and around tummy)
2.5 in waist
Needed to adjust my weigh ins as was balancing on the scale to get a lower weight so this one is accurate.
Positives
Clothes feel looser
Logging in everyday
logging faithfully( even when I eat 10 chocolates lol)
walking everyday( or at least five times a week )
feeling more hopeful and realistic to how long this will take
Next goal is
End of February 213
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Weekly Check-In, no matter the outcome to be accountable to myself
Age: 39 Height: 5'6"
Highest: 272.2 (August 2019)
10/1: 239.4
11/1: 238.0
12/1: 236.7
01/04: 239.1
01/13: 239.1
01/20:234.5
01/27: 236.5
January Goal: 229 - 10lbs a month for the first 4 months of the year.
New Goal to be more realistic – 5lbs down a month
[Didn’t make my January goal but will keep fighting and working toward a better way of life]
The last week wasn’t too bad, had my one meal out and didn’t beat myself up about it. Did have a touch of an emotional week which didn’t help with the munching. This week will be better! I need to ensure that I plan meals on the weekend because that seems to be an issue with not having a solid schedule and plan for the day. I am going to stick to the plan of 1 meal out and 1 sweet for the week so I can look forward to something. I do want to bump up my exercise and not let “life” get in the way of doing it. Also, I’m going to work on ensuring continuing water intake throughout the day. I have a tendency to drink a bunch at the end of the day and need to make sure that it is a little all day long.
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@KMC55, you're still ending this month with a loss and that's awesome. It sounds like you have a good handle on what you can change to meet your goal for February - that's all we can do, is assess the data we have and make new and better choices next time around.
@VickyEltonGreen amazing job! Great NSVs too, it's nice to see evidence of your hard work in places other than the scale, in the form of things like clothes fitting looser or activities being easier.1 -
Wednesday weigh in
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: 174.4
1/13: 175.4
1/20: 170.6
1/27: 168.8
1/31:
Jan. GW: 172
GW: 160 (then reevaluate)
Weekly exercise goals:
- exercise bike 5 times per week: 3/5
- strength training 2 times per week: 2/2 (increased reps on 1 exercise)
- chair yoga 4 times per week: 3/4
- step ups on aerobic step platform twice a day at least 3 times per week: 3/3
I didn't quite hit all the exercise goals but I had to make a couple trips to my parents so I'm happy with what I got in. They continue to slowly improve from their bouts with Covid so that's good news.
I just want to elaborate on what @goal06082021 said about seeing evidence of your efforts in places other than the scale, in particular activities being easier. At my highest weight, everything was hard. I felt like I needed a rest after taking a shower and another break after getting dressed. Cleaning my small condo took forever because I couldn't work for very long at a time. Daily activities being easier has been such a motivator for me. Being able to walk longer distances as well as now being able to hike and bike has made such a difference to the quality of my life. When I get down about how long I've been eating at a deficit and how much I still have to improve with my physical fitness or when I worry about if/when I'm going to gain back all my weight, I try to focus on all the positive changes weight loss has given me. It's so hard to believe how much easier so many things are now. Those changes are really so much sweeter than any number on the scale.
Hope you all are well!7 -
@speyerj Thanks for the kind words! I hadn't actually done the math. It wasn't my intention to lose that much. My weigh ins are all over the place, up and down, so even when I think I have the right calorie amount for the rate of loss I'm aiming for, I just never know. Maybe this means I'll have a few more calories than I expect when I hit maintenance. I can dream anyway!5
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Hi group, I am recently new here and have read through these posts which are all inspiring. I had lost 25 pounds by March, 2020, (started at 182 went down to 157) then bam, I gained covid weight and when I stepped on the scale about 4 weeks ago, I was horrified to see 191. So started the cycle again! In 3 weeks I am down to 185, still super depressed that that is 3 lbs more then when I started last year, but nevertheless, a start. I always find the first 3 weeks are the toughest, but on a path now. I have been working at home and likely will be until the fall of this year so bought a treadmill and this great squat\row machine...it is an amazing workout and was very inexpensive for anyone interested.
So what got me heavy again is my movie night chips...:) Of course, I have been avoiding all unhealthy snacking, but wondering what folks snack on instead of chips? My trainer had mentioned that skinnypop popcorn was decent or lays baked chips. Just thought I would ask what others do.
Sorry for the long post, but thank you for allowing me to post and share in all your stories!
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@gfinley49 I'm not a chips person but I do like popcorn. When I do snack, popcorn is usually my go to. Sometimes nuts or pumpkin seeds but those are very small servings for the calories compared to popcorn. When I first started eating at a deficit, I had popcorn almost every night. I found the fiber in popcorn to be very filling. I sometimes eat Skinny Pop, which is about 150 calories for 3.75 cups. Eat half of that (if you can ) for only 75 calories. I usually eat popcorn that I make in my microwave corn popper. I can use just a drop of oil to keep the calories slightly lower. I find that little bit of oil makes it taste better to me than air popped popcorn and it will allow the little bit of salt I put on it to stick better as well. Welcome to this great, supportive group!2
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