Women 200lb+, Let's Keep On Fighting This February!!!

wanderinglight · February 2021

Weigh-in Day for me.

SW (April 2020): 225
February SW: 219.6
February GW: 214
Ultimate GW: 175

Feb 1 : 219.6
Feb 8: 219.6
Feb 15: (missed this somehow)
Feb 22: 219.4
Feb 28:

Past Week:
Ugh I can't seem to make any progress at all this month. I did see 218 on the scale a few times, and 217 once, so I'm hoping that I'm trending downward. And I definitely had a few days of overeating during that marathon ice storm in TX that kept me stuck at home for a full week. I could never get warm and just kept eating warm things hoping that would help

And my latest development is that I seem to be hitting menopause. All of the sudden in the past few months I'm getting horrible hot flashes and night sweats. The night sweats are so bad and happen 30 times a night and I wake up exhausted every morning. I ordered some supplements and am going to incorporate some of the advice I've been reading about cutting back and sugar and caffeine. I literally had no idea that symptoms last for an average of 7 YEARS. Why did no-one tell me?? I'm about a month before my 50th birthday and I'm having just such a hard time with it all.

This Week:
Aiming for 3 days of exercise, anything goes. Continue logging. Don't lose heart.

emmclean · February 2021

SW (Jan 2021): 254.1
February SW: 244.4
February GW: 238
Ultimate GW: 180

Feb 1 : 244.4
Feb 8: 242.8
Feb 15: 241.8
Feb 22: 240.6
Feb 28:

Was down to 238 on Saturday so I'm still confident I'll hit my goal this month. Fingers crossed!

KeriA · February 2021

Finally had a good day today so far. I am on track for water. I exercised for 45 minutes, I got in my flights of stairs. So far I am having a low calorie day with oatmeal and leftover tortilla soup. Dinner planned is healthy too.

trureflection87 · February 2021

Worked out four days last week. Enjoying today as a lazy rest and stretch day.

KeriA · February 2021

Well I have read your posts and realized that is another reason it is a good day. I got on here and didn't just log my food but checked in here as well:

@mumof6sv I am sorrow about Friday. I hope your daughter gets better soon. Great job finding a way to keep getting exercise despite setbacks and adjusting to a difficult time.

@uyister You will eventually see progress.

@starlite19 I hope it was a good day for you today. I too was struggling to get in exercise and today I just did it.

@wanderinglight. Menopause may be the reason for the slowing down of weight loss. I am glad you have survived the ice storm so far. I only get the night sweats but then I always have slept hot. But menopause has slowed my metabolism and made it harder to lose. But it can be done.

starlite19 · February 2021

Thanks @KeriA I got in some light walking in today hope to do more tomorrow but was way over my calories for the day.

pearsonlinda30 · February 2021

I often think I'm ok with technology, then I realize I'm not. How do you guys come to on each other's posts ? Do you have to be friends?

AlexandraFindsHerself1971 · February 2021

Still bouncing around the 50 pounds lost mark. I'd really like to start losing again but I also know that cutting my calories any more at this point will set off the disordered eating mess, and I am not willing to go to the gym until I'm vaccinated, so that's just that.

Boyfriend is logging calories and working on pulling his snacking in, so that he can lose weight he put on while dealing with trauma. Now that he's on therapy and on meds, he is finding that he can face the idea of putting limits on his snacking without total panic hitting. We're just observing and keeping a paper log so that we know what snacks work best for him and what we could eliminate without a lot of fuss.

goal06082021 · February 2021

pearsonlinda30 wrote: »

I often think I'm ok with technology, then I realize I'm not. How do you guys come to on each other's posts ? Do you have to be friends?

What do you mean, the @ tagging? No, you don't need to be friends to tag someone, just type @(their username) - the desktop site will even pop up a list when you start typing and you can select from there, because if you spell the username wrong it won't work. So i can't just @ pearsonlinda to tag you, i have to type @pearsonlinda30.

(Edit: turns out there is actually a user called "pearsonlinda," no numbers - i put a space after the @ to remove the tag, so as not to tag a random person. But if you're still around, pearsonlinda, you're welcome to join this excellent group!)

BeastlyMaple · February 2021

Name: Kat
Age: 30
Height: 5' 7"
Starting weight: 257lbs
Goal for Feb: 235
Current goal: 145 to hit healthy bmi. Anything below 180 would be wonderful

Dec 1st: 257 Highest
Started MFP AGAIN: 1/19 - 246
1/26 - 242

FEB
2/2- 241
2/ 9- 240
2/16-237.6
2/23- 236.6

I weigh myself daily, first thing. However, to keep it simple for me, I record my weight separately once a week. It works for me to weigh daily to keep myself accountable, and for me I find that my "weigh in day" is usually the highest for the week, lol.

I do a half hour of yoga every day, which has really helped me a lot in many ways. Have a young german shep malamute that I walk too much a day, lol. Monday I started a new resistance band/ dumbell/ body weight program that my boyfriend and I tailored to my needs. I've only done arms and back, and let's just say I slept heavily afterward, LOL.

I'm struggling to allow myself treats, I find I'm eating just to be close enough to my calorie goal or atleast over my BMR some days. I'm one of those people who would go days not wanting to eat at all, to just binging sugar the next day. So using MFP has helped me balance it out. I love my veggie shake and casein, which has been a huge change for me. Struggling to find energy and be happy though, only getting about 4 hours of sleep at night is hard, but I'm getting by.

xxxtarable27xxx · February 2021

Age:31 (Turning 32 in April)🎁
Height: 5'2"

Original MFP weight:292 lbs. (Started November 6, 2020)😢
February Start Weight:250 lbs.👍
February Goal Weight:240 lbs.⭐
Ultimate Goal Weight: 150 lbs.⭐

I do weigh in's on Mondays.✔
Current Weight: 239 lbs. on February 22, 2021.
I've lost a total of 53 lbs. since November.

February 1: 250 lbs.
February 8: 247 lbs.
February 15: Snowed In and didn't weigh.
February 22: 239 lbs.
March 1:

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 💕

WasteNotWench · February 2021

Age: 31
Height: 5'6-7"
Starting weight: 242lbs
Weigh in day: Mondays.

February progress (SW: 242)
Feb 8: 239 (-3lb)
Feb 15: 236 (-3lb)
Feb 22: 233.5 (-2.5lb)
Goal loss: -6lb
Actual loss: -8.5lb

Really happy to have surpassed my goal this month! I know I'm still early into this whole weight loss journey thing but I'm really pleased with how far I've come so far

I've found having step goals as motivation each day has really motivated me so far. I'm aiming for 7k a day but last week I averaged over 10,000

I think I'm going to go for 10k a day in March! It's a looonnggg month and I may be biting off more than I can chew but I'm determined to get this badge on my Garmin watch for doing it haha.

Goals for this week
1. Walk every day
2. Track everyday
3. Steps cardio at least 4x
4. Lose 1.5lb (to even it up!)
5. Start waking up before 8am again. I feel so much better and more motivated when I get an early start. It's when I stay up late at night that my diet goes to pot!

pearsonlinda30 · February 2021

@goal06082021 thank you so much

pearsonlinda30 · February 2021

@goal06082021 much easier than I thought

KMC55 · February 2021

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
02/03: 233.2
02/10: 237.2
02/17: 235.2
02/24: 237.6

February: 229 – 228.2 (5lbs a month) ☹

This last week has been a very rough week with being in the right head space for weight loss. I have just had munchies and wanted to eat junk food. I haven’t been able to resist the temptations and didn’t eat what I should have. I feel like the I have been saying the same thing over and over again. I don’t know if I’ve been fighting this battle so long that I am just tired and worn out or if I am so frustrated with lack of progress, I just can’t make myself resist temptations. I need to do something because I don’t want to give up and gain the weight back which is what will happen if I give up. I just need to find a better plan to help with temptations and make sure that I truly remember why I want this. That the sweets and heavy meals, even once a week, is not going to make me feel good. I am getting tired of being frustrated every day or every week when the weight goes up. I know it isn’t a surprise when I think of the sweets, I have had but it still doesn’t make me feel better. The mindset in the moments of emotion and closing down the voices in my head of “I want that”, “This sounds good” is what I need to work on the most. But, of course, that is biggest struggle of weight loss.

goal06082021 · February 2021

@pearsonlinda30 Glad to be of service, LOL!

@WasteNotWench amazing progress!

@KMC55 Are you a moderator or abstainer? Can you moderate treats - if there is a box of chocolates in the house, can you plan to have two each day, adjust the rest of your meals for the day to make room for those 250 calories, and stick to that? Or is it the case where if there is a box of chocolates in the house, you will grab one every time you walk by and eat them all unless and until someone else does, so the only way to not eat 1000 calories worth of chocolates in a single day is to not have them in the house? It's not better or worse to be one way or the other, just a useful thing to know about yourself and how you operate. I'm an abstainer when it comes to things like that - for Christmas one year, a relative got me and my husband a box of chocolate truffles from Costco (so it was like two pounds of truffles - aka an unreasonably huge number of truffles). I kept them in the fridge, and could not stop myself from grabbing one, or two, or five, every time I went into the kitchen...and I sure did find a lot of reasons to go into the kitchen...until they were gone. It took a week. So, the way to not gorge myself on chocolates and candies is to simply not keep them in the house (the converse is also true: if there are chocolates and candies in the house, I will eat them until they are gone irrespective of calorie content. My husband is useless for helping me with this, as he doesn't have the same compulsion/sweet tooth, and also thinks I love them so he wants to save them for me. Bless him.). I do find that I'm able to moderate better when things are individually packaged; so, taking a big bag of chocolate-covered almonds, portioning them out into 1-oz cups, and pre-logging that snack for the week makes it easier to not eat all of them at once.

azalea4175 · February 2021

@KMC55 it seems like this time of year is tough for a lot of people. Are you snacking because you are bored, dehydrated, tired (not sleeping well), not getting enough protein? those are all good starting places. Check your macros, that may help! I have been plateauing this month too, but am now starting to see a tiny bit of movement! we are here for you.

kali31337 · February 2021

goal06082021 wrote: »

@pearsonlinda30 Glad to be of service, LOL!

Are you a moderator or abstainer? Can you moderate treats - if there is a box of chocolates in the house, can you plan to have two each day, adjust the rest of your meals for the day to make room for those 250 calories, and stick to that? Or is it the case where if there is a box of chocolates in the house, you will grab one every time you walk by and eat them all unless and until someone else does, so the only way to not eat 1000 calories worth of chocolates in a single day is to not have them in the house? It's not better or worse to be one way or the other, just a useful thing to know about yourself and how you operate. I'm an abstainer when it comes to things like that - for Christmas one year, a relative got me and my husband a box of chocolate truffles from Costco (so it was like two pounds of truffles - aka an unreasonably huge number of truffles). I kept them in the fridge, and could not stop myself from grabbing one, or two, or five, every time I went into the kitchen...and I sure did find a lot of reasons to go into the kitchen...until they were gone. It took a week. So, the way to not gorge myself on chocolates and candies is to simply not keep them in the house (the converse is also true: if there are chocolates and candies in the house, I will eat them until they are gone irrespective of calorie content. My husband is useless for helping me with this, as he doesn't have the same compulsion/sweet tooth, and also thinks I love them so he wants to save them for me. Bless him.). I do find that I'm able to moderate better when things are individually packaged; so, taking a big bag of chocolate-covered almonds, portioning them out into 1-oz cups, and pre-logging that snack for the week makes it easier to not eat all of them at once.

Gosh I'm totally an abstainer and EVERY time I think that I'm a moderator, I eat the entire bag of whatever I have. So I have learned it's better to just get the pack of M&Ms when I want them rather than getting something that's individually wrapped and may be lower calories than M&Ms but comes in a pack that blows the M&M calories out of the water...looking at you Ghirardelli chocolate squares

MuttiNM · February 2021

Weigh in Wednesday

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)

1/31: 167.4
2/3: 166.2
2/10: 165.8
2/17: didn't weigh--out of town
2/24: 161.0
2/28:

Feb. GW: 163.8
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 -

I didn't post last week because I was out of town. I left my exercise goals above so I would have the template for next week. I did get some of the above exercises in during the last 2 weeks but my son had a week off of work and agreed to go on a road trip with his old mom.

We went to Florida for a hiking and biking trip. We were mostly in the panhandle and Gainesville areas. He took his tent and I "car camped" for the first time so we could avoid hotels. The weather was not the greatest. I think we saw the sun twice. One day it did get up to the low 80s and we made use of the sunscreen we brought. I think it was around 37 degrees on the coldest night we camped with highs usually in the upper 40s or low 50s. Still much warmer than the frigid weather we left behind. We had drizzle on a few hikes and 1 bike ride and out and out rain on half of another ride but it was still a lot of fun. We went on 6 different bike trails and did at least 13 hikes of varying lengths. A couple days I think my son was more tired than I was!

I can't believe I'm almost at my original goal weight and that I actually might reach it in a week or 2! I would technically still be an "overweight" bmi at that weight and I still have plenty of fat to lose so I will adjust it. For some weird reason, I just want to hit it before I set a new goal.

I'm still trying to catch up here on MFP. It's so great to see so many women participating in this thread. This group has been so inspirational during my journey and I appreciate everyone being willing to share their struggles and successes.

Happy Wednesday!

goal06082021 · February 2021

@kali31337 right?? if I want some g.d. M&M's that badly I'll have a much easier time if I just budget 250 cal for a packet of them out of the vending machine.

The freezer is also a friend to abstainers, I've found. "Out of sight, out of mind" mostly works - there's so much other stuff in the freezer that I need to think about, like the ground beef I need to thaw for Monday night's meatloaf and the frozen pork chops for next Wednesday, etc., etc., that I can't fixate on the Thin Mints I also have in there right now (I never claimed to be perfect, but it HAS been nearly four days since those Brownies shook me down* and the box is still unopened, so I'm counting that as a win).

(*I kid, of course. I used to be a Girl Scout, I know how important the cookie sales are, I throw a few bucks at a booth when I see them. Hopefully my five dollars** will go toward the Most Amazing Camporee Ever in 2022, since I'm sure they can't have one this year.)

(**five entire dollars!! when I sold 'em they were tree fiddy, and the box had almost twice as many cookies in it!)

edit to add
@MuttiNM you're doing amazing!!! And yeah, you picked a bad week to visit the so-called sunshine state, LOL. I'm way down at the other end of the state, nobody down here is ever ready for it to be cold. I'm glad you and your son had fun!

Women 200lb+, Let's Keep On Fighting This February!!!

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