Women 200lb+, Let's Get The Job Done This June!!!
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@goal06082021 @flossyposse @AlexandraFindsHerself1971 thanks for all the great suggestions. I can keep the ice cream bars in the basement so I get extra steps to go get one too. I'll see if we can buy those items locally. We live in a remote area with limited options so hopefully i can find some! thanks ladies!!3
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Well, not a great week.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday were kind of blow-outs. Happy hour, travel, family gatherings, moment of weakness in the supermarket resulting in being UP 1# on the scale. Need to work on better strategies.
Although I did complete my food diary religiously. And was above weekly goal by only about 3500 calories. Given that I'm supposedly set at a level to lose 2 pounds per week, I still should have lost ~1 pound (instead of the normal ~2). But it's a small window of time, so I'm going to see how things work out over the next week or so now that I'm hopefully back on plan.
Goal for the week: don't let the small voice in my head telling me to give up because I've already blown it and it's futile anyway defeat the part of me that wants to do this. Onward and downward!
Age 59
Height 5'6.5"
SW: 278 (March 2021)
CW: 247.5 (30# GONE!)
GW for June: Below 240
FGW: 150
6/1: 247.5 lbs
6/8: 246.7 lbs (-0.8)
6/15: 242.5 lbs (-4.2!)
6/22: 243.5 lbs (+1.0)
6/29:
Total month loss:
Total loss so far: 34.5 pounds8 -
June Challenge Weigh In Day
Age 44
Height 5'4"
SW 249 3/2020
CW 221.8
GW for June 218
UGW 145
6/1: 222 lbs
6/8: 222 lbs
6/15: 224 lbs - accepted; off rails a bit yesterday
6/22: 221.8
6/29:
Total month loss:
Weekly goals:
-Continue logging on MFP
-Work out 5x per week – 3 cardio & 2 strength
-64 oz of water each day
Gym clothes have been getting loose lately. Didn't mean to do Intermittent Fasting yesterday but ended up not eating much until late afternoon. Allowed some usually off plan items for needing the calories so late. Wasn't hungry most of the day and just kept doing other things. Normally I don't eat late so didn't think IF would help me much but as long as I don't see an increase from having regular meals maybe I'll try another day. Multiple friends have been doing it. I already give myself roughly 12 hours before breakfast and night eating isn't a big thing for me. Something to think about, if I see it helps with what I'm already doing.
Work finally gave us the date for going back to the office. Mid next month I can start to go back. We'll see if I still like doing so. Also will be deciding if I'm keeping the gym membership that's there as well.
Haven't done measurements for a bit since being at Mom's house without a tape measure on Fridays. We'll see this Friday.5 -
Something I've been thinking a lot about lately:
The outdoors is for every body. Adventure is for every body.
I love being outside and my dream workout always involves something on or in the water. But I've lost confidence in my body. Not in how I look (of course there's that too, but it's in the background), but more in how I feel in a body that's 60lbs heavier than it should be. I've never been so unsure of what I physically can or cannot do. I'm so reserved with everything I try because I hate looking foolish and I dread thinking of people making fun of me. I'm constantly comparing now-me to past-me, who didn't have any of these issues and who wasn't so damn scared of everything. And I'm missing out on SO MUCH because of it!
I've been putting off going Stand Up Paddling, even though I think I would love it, because I'm worried about being unsteady on the board (I have nerve damage from a prior back surgery and have no feeling in my right leg and most of my right foot). And what if I fall and can't haul myself back up? I tell myself it's just not worth taking the risk. Maybe after I lose 30lbs I can try it. Maybe it's not something I, a middle-aged overweight woman with physical disabilities, should be doing. Maybe it's for other people...the ones who aren't scared and uncertain.
But really, my heart wants to do it. My heart wants to do ALL of it! Waterfall hikes and sailing lessons and boogie boarding and ocean swims and outdoor yoga and so much more.
Just because I suck at it doesn't mean it's not for me. Adventure is for every body.
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Hello everyone, I'm a newbie to community posts and MFP as a regular user but new mindset from today, 22nd June 2021
Age 57
Height 5'5''
SW 220
GW 150
Lovely to meet you all, belated Happy Summer Solstice10 -
I have been thinking a lot about the post from yesterday about rewarding ourselves for all we have been doing. I decided that I deserved to be treated. It is very rare I buy things just for myself, I am always buying things for my daughter. Well today I decided to change that and take advantage of Prime Day! I may have gone a bit overboard but it's been so long since I've treated myself. I've been working so hard on my life style changes. I bought myself new equipment for working out. My purchases will, hopefully, keep the momentum going. I bought new resistance bands, a thigh master, a balance trainer (similar to a Bosu), and an abdominal machine. I cannot wait for my purchases to arrive. I am so excited!
@wanderinglight Your post resonates with me. I love being outside too and am drawn to the water. I used to be extremely active in my early 20's doing all sorts of outdoor activities. I loved it then and still love it. Though, I don't engage in those same activities anymore due to my weight/size. Physically I have difficulty doing the activities then, like you, I have the same concerns. I will fall and won't be able to get back up, I will manage to get my body stuck and won't be able to get out or I will try to sit and discover I am too big and don't fit. (thinking kayak on those last two) My daughter shares the same love for the water as I do. I want to be able to try these things with her. I don't want to be the mom standing on the shore while my neighbor takes her out in the kayak or on the paddle board. As much as I love my neighbor, I want to be the one sharing those experiences with my daughter.
I 100% agree adventure IS for everyone!
@MissiePK welcome!5 -
@wanderinglight I too was that way but now, I couldn't give a rats *kitten* about what others think. I figure I don't know you and probably won't even see you again. I know my limitations with my knees and back and there are some things that I just won't attempt to do. You have to put your own health risks first.7
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Hello Everyone, am I too late for this group? I’m new to MFP I’ve only had app for about 4 days or so. I’m trying to figure out how this works. I need to lose over 100lbs and have been battling with my weight for years now. I don’t have any support from anyone near me. Everyones milestones and updates are very inspiring to me. Keep up the good work!! 👏🏻💪🏻13
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Wed Weigh In
Age: 38
Height 5'4"
June GW 195
6/2: 203.8
6/9: 204.6
6/16:200.0
6/23:198.6
6/30:
I've made it to Onderland! The trip has been long and bumpy but I'm finally here. It's as nice as people say and worth making the determined trip here. Don't give up. I'll be waiting for you when you arrive.16 -
Age: 55
Height: 5' 8"
SW: 257.2 (12/28/20)
GW: 160
MSW: 235.4
6/4 234.4
6/23 233.4
@wanderinglight Get out there and do everything that you want to try! You can do some if not all of it and it will give you confidence to do more! Come back here and let us know about all your new adventures. You may be surprised that others are not even paying attention to what you look like or what you are doing... if anything they may think that you are really bada@@ for getting out there and doing cool stuff!
@itisjessdarling woohoo! Great job getting to Onderland!
@OnceAndFutureAthlete you are screamin right along. Nicely done!6 -
justcandi12 wrote: »Hello Everyone, am I too late for this group? I’m new to MFP I’ve only had app for about 4 days or so. I’m trying to figure out how this works. I need to lose over 100lbs and have been battling with my weight for years now. I don’t have any support from anyone near me. Everyones milestones and updates are very inspiring to me. Keep up the good work!! 👏🏻💪🏻
NEVER too late!! welcome! this is where you need to be for a strong group of folks facing and overcoming the same hurdles you face.7 -
@itisjessdarling Congrats on making it to Onderland!!!6
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OnceAndFutureAthlete wrote: »Well, not a great week.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday were kind of blow-outs. Happy hour, travel, family gatherings, moment of weakness in the supermarket resulting in being UP 1# on the scale. Need to work on better strategies.
Although I did complete my food diary religiously. And was above weekly goal by only about 3500 calories. Given that I'm supposedly set at a level to lose 2 pounds per week, I still should have lost ~1 pound (instead of the normal ~2). But it's a small window of time, so I'm going to see how things work out over the next week or so now that I'm hopefully back on plan.
Goal for the week: don't let the small voice in my head telling me to give up because I've already blown it and it's futile anyway defeat the part of me that wants to do this. Onward and downward!
Age 59
Height 5'6.5"
SW: 278 (March 2021)
CW: 247.5 (30# GONE!)
GW for June: Below 240
FGW: 150
6/1: 247.5 lbs
6/8: 246.7 lbs (-0.8)
6/15: 242.5 lbs (-4.2!)
6/22: 243.5 lbs (+1.0)
6/29:
Total month loss:
Total loss so far: 34.5 pounds
Well, whaddaya know - the science works!
This morning, I'm at 241.4, so 1.1# down from a week + 1 day ago, now that a couple days have passed from my weekend "splurges." Just as the formula would predict!
@Spotteddingo - thanks for noticing! MFP has been a great help in keeping this going. I know it will slow as things progress, but I'm pretty happy so far. I sent you a FR as we're pretty similar in age/weight/goals.
@justcandi12 - welcome! I've found this a good way to stay accountable - hope it works for you, too.7 -
Thank you @azalea4175 @OnceAndFutureAthlete! I’m glad to have found this group I will weigh in and do measurements later! 🙌🏻4
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Starting June 23, 2021
Age: 51
Height: 5'6"
Starting weight: 230 lbs
Goal Weight: 150 lbs4 -
sargemarcori wrote: »I didn't forget, I was camping yesterday!sargemarcori wrote: »SW: 265 (this round. Highest was 295.)
CW: 253.8
June GW: 250
UGW: 150 maybe? That's what I was when I was fifteen (and it didn't feel great) We'll see.
Age: 51
Height: 5'
My weigh-in dates will be Sundays.
June 6: 253.8
June 13 (14th) : 249.8
June 20: 250.2
June 27:
Well, if I'm going to hit my June weight goal already, maybe I'll just go for 245?
okay, this time I forgot. I also wasn't excited about my weigh in. But I keep telling myself the scale is a TOOL, that number is not what I care about! Probably not going to hit that stretch goal of 245, but that's okay. Slow and steady wins the race! And then stays on, plodding through maintenance and doing JUST FINE.9 -
@wanderinglight Just get out there and try all that interests you. See if there's a class or activity group that you could discuss or help you try close to you. If you fall, you fall.. as long as you can swim back to where you started it should be just fine. One activity I tried a few years ago that accommodated all shapes & abilities was dragonboat racing. It's on the water, challenging, and gets you involved with a group of people. My area had quite a few teams and one really accepted newbies. Just tossing that up there should that interest you. Most of the time, we're the only ones judging how we do things so just a reminder that most people aren't caring what we're doing.6
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@itisjessdarling amazing job!!! I'm on-track to join you there in another 6 months or so!
@wanderinglight I agree with you, the outdoors is for every body. I LOVE to swim and play in the water - as a kid, my family had YMCA memberships just for the pool, and it was all my poor mother could do to convince me to get out of the water once I was in it. My husband and I had a little beach picnic this year on Memorial Day; he didn't swim but I did, and I was beaming and giddy the rest of the day after getting to noodle around in the ocean for a few minutes. My hangup is mostly that I don't want to eff around with natural bodies of water alone - the property I live on backs up to a river, I have free access to a dock and a kayak, I could Just Go Kayaking basically whenever. But I don't want to be out there alone, for safety reasons.
Today started out terrible. I woke up with a constellation of pimples all over the tip of my nose, impossible to hide, and wasted 10-15 minutes in the morning effing around with those. My cat threw up this morning, twice, for the third day in a row (hubs has him at the vet now, good vibes are appreciated). Between messing with my pimples and cleaning up cat puke, I ended up leaving late to head to the gym, and I drove all the way there before realizing I left my phone at home (somehow the fact that my car didn't automagically start playing music/podcast didn't clue me in), so I went back for the phone and tripped over a chair in the dark bedroom. At that point it was way too late to do what I needed to do in the gym and still make it to work on time, so I had to skip the gym this morning. Then I got to work and my office shares its paper-thin walls with a classroom and my coworker's office, so I was caught in the crossfire of a lecture about the American civil war and a phone call about veteran's benefits for college - seriously, for as clearly as I could hear the professor he must lecture by standing with his back to the students and shouting at the wall - when my boss comes in and tells me I screwed something up on an account. I am neurodivergent, I have some level of rejection-sensitive dysphoria and am just generally very bad at Handling It when told I've done something wrong, so it takes basically every ounce of willpower that I have to keep it together and maintain a professional façade when that happens at work, and I was already running VERY low on mental energy from all that other crap above. Did I mention all of this happened before 10 AM?
Anyway, the silver lining is that I have like 600 calories left to play with after accounting for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Hubs agreed to come with me to the gym tonight - 6:30 is peak time for all the gyms I have access to so I'll have to come home and go back out later, like 9ish - and afterward we're going to walk down to the other end of the strip mall where our gym is to get some g** d*** ice cream at a really good local place.12 -
@goal06082021 Sometimes all you can do is push through the bad day and hope for better tomorrow. Great job not letting the bad morning mess with your eating plan and for setting up an alternative for your workout. You can do this and I hope that the day gets better for you.3
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@itisjessdarling Congrats on reaching Onederland! 🎉👏🏻👏🏻
@goal06082021 Sorry you had such a bad day! That’s one of those days where you turn around, go home, and go back to bed.🙂3
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