Women 200lb+, Let's Amaze Ourselves This April!!!
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@speyerj So, out of curiosity, I found a calculator that estimates calories burned while running, based on pace and duration (and all the other usual suspects, age/sex/height/weight). According to that, running winning your 10K burned about 600 calories or so for someone with your stats. (Awesome job, btw, that's a great accomplishment!) So...what kind of Costco-size cookies are you making that clock in over 300 calories each?? and can you send me some?? LMAO
That also puts the concept of calories and a calorie deficit in perspective - if I wanted to create my 500-calorie deficit by exercising only, I would need to run 10 km every day. I mean, it makes sense but I'd never thought about it before, I guess. It suddenly seems much easier to just stay out of the kitchen when I've reached my limit for the day.7 -
@goal06082021 - these were Costco sized cookies! The organization wanted large cookies because for a lot of these folks, this could be the one decent meal they are getting all week. So they want them to be extra special. And they were. I put the recipes in MFP. The Chocolate Chocolate chip one was 309 for one cookie and the chocolate chip was 259. Of course, I needed to have a large glass of milk with them too. This was after having a carb heavy breakfast (racing fuel) and post race snacks. And your calculation was pretty spot on - per my fitness tracker, it said I burned 659 on the race. The saying is true - you can't out run your fork, but it does give you room for dessert (just not two desserts!)7
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SW (Jan 2021): 219.6
HT: 5'4
Age: 48
Friday Weigh-in
April 2: 196.2 - Down .8lbs
Thoughts: Looking forward to a great month. I'm going to challenge myself to eat more whole foods... sticking with plant-based of course. I already made a vegetable soup that I will eat as a snack and before meals when necessary. It's only 39 calories per cup, which is awesome. Other than that, I plan to strength train at least twice a week.
Wishing all of you a healthy April. Let's crush our goals!!
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Although I logged in my food during the work week I haven’t gotten on to this thread to end March or start April until now.
Keri
68 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs (Dec 2019)
2/1/2020: 263.6
10/19/2020: 245.4
1/1: 251.2 gained after going back to work and being more seden
2/3: 250.4
2/6: 256.6 adjusted according to my new scale.
2/7: 255 -1.6 lbs lost of extra new scale weight
2/27: 254.8 -.2 but I went up to 257 so this is a loss of 2.2 lbs
2/28: 253.4
CW: 255.2
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.
April Goal weight: Under 245. What I want to see is progress relative to my lowest weight last year which would be under 245 but on my new scale. I usually am really happy with a 4-5 pound loss per month.
Goals:
Get 8+ glasses of water, log in calories daily, get enough sleep and stay under my calorie goal.
Up N.E.A.T. (steps, stairs, cleaning and cooking)
Get regular exercise:
• 2 strength training a week (1 with weights and 1 with resistance bands)
• 5 days of exercise (Start with 25 minutes and work up to 45-60 minutes for most days)
Meal plan so we avoid grocery shopping and make healthy meals at home. Limit take out to once a week.
Take another step towards lowering sugar intake.
Wait to have breakfast until I feel hungry while I am working remotely.
I have read the March posts that I hadn't seen this past week and the April posts.9 -
@Brooke2305Brooke2305 wrote: »
Hey Arralethec! Will you tell me more about your 12 week deficit cycle and the 2 week maintenance schedule? Does this avoid plateaus? How has this worked for you? Thank you! Hoping to avoid plateauing here soon!
This is actually my first time trying limited deficit cycles (but not my first attempt at losing the weight). And this is the first deficit period I've been in. The idea is more for psychological support - I started at 250.6lbs and have to lose 125lbs, so I have a long road ahead. However, if I allow myself to dwell on that and the idea that I'll be in deficit consistently for 2 to 3 years, it's just too much to handle. Plus, my body is likely to start fighting me at some point!
In the past, I do pretty well up to the 6 to 8 month point, then it all goes out of the window because I get diet fatigue. My plan this time round is to take it in 12 week blocks, maximise what I can for those 12 weeks, then take my foot off the gas a little and regroup for the next cycle. But in the 2 week diet breaks, I'll still be logging my food, finding out where my maintenance level is and working out.
My last deficit weigh in is tomorrow, but as of last week I'd lost 18lbs in 12 weeks, so a little over 7% of my total body weight. I'm aiming to lose between 5 and 10% of my weight each cycle.
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@speyerj
You certainly earned your cookies... enjoy! Great job with your race!3 -
Age: 54
Height: 5' 9"
Weight tracking:
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Apr 30:
Just putting this here for now! will fill in goals in a bit! Welcome to April all!3 -
Hello everyone, my name is Sarah and I am 32 years old. I weight 241.2 pounds and would like to set my goal to 200 pounds to start. I have always had difficulty loosing the weight and keeping it off. Before now my heaviest was about 220. Three years ago I had my son. While pregnant I gained about 40 pounds and after giving birth it came right off. However in the last couple of years since having my son, I have gained more weight. My body is in rough shape. My joints are sore, I sometimes become winded and playing with my son can become difficult at times. I want to loss weight to feel better about myself, to be happy and to do things with my family without feel tired or in pain. I have lost weight before and have fallen off the wage and had troubles starting over. I always felt discouraged. Especially when I was doing it on my own. I am happy to say that I am not alone anymore. I have my mum as my support system as I venture on this new journey. She has been on her own journey for the last four month and now we can do this together. I feel now, that I have the suppose I need to finally accomplish my goal.
Age: 32
Height: 5'6
(SW) 241.2
GW: 5 pounds
Weight in: end of the month16 -
sarahelton87 wrote: »Hello everyone, my name is Sarah and I am 32 years old. I weight 241.2 pounds and would like to set my goal to 200 pounds to start. I have always had difficulty loosing the weight and keeping it off. Before now my heaviest was about 220. Three years ago I had my son. While pregnant I gained about 40 pounds and after giving birth it came right off. However in the last couple of years since having my son, I have gained more weight. My body is in rough shape. My joints are sore, I sometimes become winded and playing with my son can become difficult at times. I want to loss weight to feel better about myself, to be happy and to do things with my family without feel tired or in pain. I have lost weight before and have fallen off the wage and had troubles starting over. I always felt discouraged. Especially when I was doing it on my own. I am happy to say that I am not alone anymore. I have my mum as my support system as I venture on this new journey. She has been on her own journey for the last four month and now we can do this together. I feel now, that I have the suppose I need to finally accomplish my goal.
Age: 32
Height: 5'6
(SW) 241.2
GW: 5 pounds
Weight in: end of the month0 -
@sarahelton87 - and you are not alone so long as you check in here for support. I've been posting on this monthly thread for 20 months and I can say that it's been a huge factor in my success so far. You can do this!6
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A little update. Lost almost pound. Hope this April is like last April in terms of weight loss.
Keri
68 years old, Height: 5'6"
SW: 266 lbs (Dec 2019)
2/1/2020: 263.6
10/19/2020: 245.4
1/1: 251.2 gained after going back to work and being more sedentary
2/3: 250.4
2/6: 256.6 adjusted according to my new scale.
2/7: 255 -1.6 lbs lost of extra new scale weight
2/27: 254.8 -.2 but I went up to 257 so this is a loss of 2.2 lbs
2/28: 253.4
4/3: 255.2
CW 4/4: 254.6
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.
April Goal weight: Under 245. What I want to see is progress relative to my lowest weight last year which would be under 245 but on my new scale. I usually am really happy with a 4-5 pound loss per month.
Goals:
Get 8+ glasses of water, log in calories daily, get enough sleep and stay under my calorie goal.
Up N.E.A.T. (steps, stairs, cleaning and cooking)
Get regular exercise:
• 2 strength training a week (1 with weights and 1 with resistance bands)
• 5 days of exercise (Start with 25 minutes and work up to 45-60 minutes for most days)
Meal plan so we avoid grocery shopping and make healthy meals at home. Limit take out to once a week.
Take another step towards lowering sugar intake. Up vegetables and fruit.
Wait to have breakfast until I feel hungry while I am working remotely.7 -
It's Monday Weigh-in!
Age: 44
Height: 5'4
SW: 242.4 (1/25/21)
Month SW: 226.4 (3/29/21)
4/5: 229.2
4/12:
4/19:
4/26:
April GW: 220 lbs
The gain was no surprise. I hurt my back on Wednesday jumping on the trampoline with my youngest. My core is definitely not strong enough for that yet! It meant no more exercise for the rest of the week. Then I got lazy with tracking and Easter and lots of salty food. Bleh. My body was like, "What are you doing, woman? This feels awful."
Good news, my back is significantly better, so I'll be back at the gym today. And our Spring Break is over, so a return to routine for me. I need to start figuring out how I'm going to handle the summer...6 -
@sarahelton87 Welcome! This group is so awesome for support and accountability!
@Arralethe I've been considering doing something similar myself. With 100 lbs to lose, I'm in the same boat. While I generally don't have problems with cravings or bingeing if I'm keeping to my calorie and macro targets, I do get a bit tired mentally from being focused on "lose, lose, lose" all the time. I also like the idea of "practicing" maintenance throughout the process. It's one of my goals that if life gets crazier than normal (which it inevitably has every time I've found my groove over the last decade), I will focus on maintaining rather than throwing the towel in and gaining it all back. I'm going to join you, if you don't mind, doing 12 weeks at deficit and 2 weeks at maintenance.5 -
Me: 44yo, 5'4, living with Me: 44yo, 5'4, living with depression and anxiety (medicated)
Highest weight: 250.6 in Jan 2021 (Pandemic gain of 54lbs)
Not my first weight loss rodeo, but hoping it will be the last time and for life.
April SW: 232.6lbs
5/4/21: 230.8lbs
12/4/21
19/4/21
26/4/21
UGW:125lbs ideally.
This 12 week deficit cycle has come to an end, and I've lost 19.8lbs. A little under my target of 21lbs, but it's a very respectable loss! I've also nudged my BMI *just* under 40.
According to Miffin St Jeor equation, my maintenance calories for being sedentary are 2,100 ish, so this week I will aim for that intake. My spreadsheet with Garmin total calories burns indicates that actually (with exercise), my average is between 2,200 and 2,500, so I'll try 2,100 daily to start and see how that works. I'm both excited and apprehensive - I have NEVER tried active maintenance before!9 -
@Arralethe That's awesome!! Way to go!!2
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The hike on Sat went well. Foot wasn't terrible yesterday compared to treadmill so I might look into high top sneakers to see if that helps; I had worn my hiking boots on the hike. Some soreness just not as bad.
Easter was well. Portioned the things we had, My mom hadn't told me about breakfast plans and that would have thrown me off a bit with what she had. We had only planned dinner foods so I went at our regular Sunday time.
The holidays like Easter I appreciate my sensitivities a bit more, especially ones that mom forgets about. My husband gets all the things I can't have. Most everything are things I can moderate and the things I could get into trouble with don't have very many so I should be just fine with the treats to work in.
Scale did not have the usual bump up today so I might be able to see new lows by Friday.7 -
I haven't lost any weight, but I think I am recomping because my jeans are fitting better again and I am having MUCH more energy and strength for daily activities. I'm doing machine weight work three times a week, and soon I will add in either walking or stationary biking on the off days. I have to be careful due to the exercise intolerance, but my body is apparently getting used to the weight work and isn't throwing a fit and making me lie down after lunch any more.
I'm having a lot of internal resistance to logging and so I'm not doing it, but I'm keeping my portions down so that I know if anything I'm at maintenance. I'm not sure what's up with that, but I know that exercise will also reshape me and help me work through this and so if that's working, I'll roll with it until I feel that I can log again.
I got through the first vaccine dose well; I had a fibro flare, but I have a flare whenever anything happens. Otherwise it was just a sore arm and swollen glands. I get my second one next Friday, and I'll plan to have a quiet weekend and know that I'll be back to normal on Monday. Then I just get to wait till immunity.6 -
Hi all,
Age: 24
Height: 5"7
SW:286lbs
GW: 150lbs
April goal weight: 275lbs. Hoping to exercise a lot more now I have more space to.
Not my first time trying this, but I've noticed that I tend to do better when I have a group to report to, so here's to restarting (for the last time)
Weighing in on Monday
05/04: 286lbs
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Hello ladies!!! Happy Monday!
I just came off my set at the hospital and it is super sunny and beautiful out, I'm feelin so good! I lost 1.6 pounds this week very happy. I'm just over 8 pounds away from onederland!! Haven't seen that in a couple years. Maybe I can even get there this April? Who knows.
I just started adulting more and started making meal plans and organizing my grocery lists and being more smart in the kitchen. I used to just wing it and go to the grocery store everyday and just try to throw something together for dinner. Now I'm looking up recipes everyday and planning the week out. This new house is changing me! Or I'm just getting older and more wise :P haha. I plan to make a lot for dinner and freeze the leftovers for quick meals during the week or for lunches.
Taking Max on another big walk today my favourite walking buddy. We took him down to the river yesterday in the sunshine and he finally went in the water for the first time! Not fully in, but he wouldn't even step in it before! Super happy, cause he's got husky in him and will definitely need to be able to cool down in the summer.
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the start to this new week!12 -
Hello everybody, I'm liking all the positive updates and new faces already in this thread!
Hubs and I went to bed early AF last night - we had planned to just take a nap in the early evening, but then we just...kept sleeping, lmfao. Ended up sleeping for 11 hours, it was awesome. I had today off from work so I relaxed, which was nice. I got all caught up on laundry and watched a few old episodes of Chopped, and got all my meal-prepping done for the week and everything. I also managed to snag a vaccine appointment for Thursday morning, so I'm excited for that!
This week's lunches turned out rather light (cabbage rolls made for a <300cal main dish, which I padded out to under 500cal with the addition of a hard-boiled egg, an orange, and a protein bar), so I went through and pre-logged as much as I could for the week so I know what kind of space I have for snacks. Sometimes the fake-Starbucks at work has some good stuff in the a la carte cooler, like interesting salads or sandwiches, so I'll probably treat myself to one of those at some point this week.
Tomorrow I'm starting to incorporate some very, very beginner kickboxing into my weekly exercise regimen. The video I found seems very doable. I'm not sure what the best way to estimate calorie burn from that will be, since I don't have a wearable of any kind and there are a few different entries in the database. It's an 18-minute workout: 4 sets of 4 minutes each of continuous movement, with 30 seconds' rest/water break between each set. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep moving through the whole 4 minutes, guess we'll find out - if not, that's something to work towards. I've also decided to check out more of the natural areas with short hiking trails scattered around the county for my outdoor cardio, so that will be nice. There's one really close to my house that I've driven past hundreds of times and never noticed until recently, with a teeny-tiny parking lot (literally 5 spots) and a nice 1.5-mile loop trail; I went yesterday morning to check it out and had the place to myself the whole time.11
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