Women 200lb+, Let's Jump To It This July!!!
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sandielewis2001 wrote: »...I know my whoosh will come.
Now I'm singing "someday my whoosh will come..."
Congrats on the lowest weight you've seen on MFP!!
@seltzer_lover go you!
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Friday weigh in!
Age: 31
Height: 5’6”
SW: 222 (Feb ‘21)
July SW: 176
July GW: 170
UGW 154
July 2: 175.8
July 9: 173
July 16: 171
July 23: 169.3
July 30: 166.4
After a really slowww loss in June, July has been an out of this world weight-loss month! I’ve lost a staggering -9.6lbs this month. 😱 I’m eating exactly the same as I have been eating throughout the journey, with the exception of starting to take my coffee black (instead of with milk). I’ve always wanted to be one of those cool people who could just pour a cup of coffee straight from the pot and drink it - and now I am! I’ve also upped my fitness significantly this month, which could have something to do with the drop I’m seeing.
UGW is starting to FEEL really close and achievable - even though it’s still 12lbs away, I’m starting to make my plan for transitioning to maintenance so whenever the time comes, I won’t be taken off guard. I definitely am having some sagging skin on my lower belly but it’s not too bad (definitely not as bad as the +55lbs I was carrying around with me every day) and I’m trusting that a lot of it will go away after 1-2 years in maintenance.
My NSV this week was that way back in 2015, I bought a pair of maroon pants, size 8. They looked great in the store, I bought them, took them home and washed them - and they shrank so badly I could never wear them again! I have memories of forcing the zipper to close because I thought they were so cute but never being able to find a top that covered up the subsequent muffin top to my satisfaction. Well… take a look at the pic now! Doing a happy dance all over my living room!
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@girlinkaz excellent victories! I am so jealous of your stomach!3
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@girlinkaz you look so great and so very happy. Your hard work has paid off - pretty soon those pants will be too loose! Take time to enjoy your success!4
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@jazzadesigns I still can’t believe it’s mine! 😉 6 months ago me would never have believed it was possible. Best of luck to you on your journey!
@57pattycake Thank you!!!3 -
Hi everyone, new to My Fitness Pal and my physician told me to join and start my weightloss journey this summer. I’ve been doing it for 1 week so far and feel motivated to keep going. I am following a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy program with strict diet protocol and exercise regimen. 10,000steps a day + reading assignments ans group therapy with other patients. I’ve never taken my chronic obesity as seriously as I have this summer because illness was creeping up and general malaise was a daily thing. I’m glad to be doing this for me, for once.
Age: 41
Height: 5'10”
SW: 245.7 (Jan 2021)
CW: 235.4 (July 30,2021)
7/22: 240.1
7/23: 239
7/24: 238
7/25: 237.4
7/26: 237
7/27: 235.8
GW for Aug : 225
GW for 2021: 200
UGW: 150 but my physician doesn’t want me to concentrate on UGW because it’s not always possible and body composition is 70% determined by your genetics and at this point in my journey of rather just focus on health and general wellbeing.
Hope we can cheer each other on!9 -
Age: 55
Height: 5' 8"
SW: 257.2 (12/28/20)
GW: 160
MSW: 232.2
7/9 234.4
7/30 233.0
This has been the first month that I did not lose weight! I have actually gained! It seems that I hit the 25# mark and bounced up a bit. Yikes.
Nothing has changed with my eating other than going over a bit last Saturday. I have lost inches at waist, hips and fanny, however. Also, I started taking vitamins because I was having a hair shed.
NSV: This month I have gone from 20-60mph with regard to energy and exercise. I have more than doubled my steps and have been doing a lot of heavy gardening... moving logs and rocks on our property in the mountains. This has been huge for me because bending to pick up anything, before, caused a lot of hip pain that would last throughout the day.
The way I feel has been very good for my confidence and offsets my worry about the number on the scale.
@girlinkaz you look amazing... great job!
@Uyi you are an inspiration and doing awesome!
@KeriA I am sorry to hear that you are having health issues... Hugs!
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So my team at work has a weekly meeting on Fridays, and a coworker has taken it upon herself to set up a rotation for people to bring snacks/breakfast to this meeting. It was my turn this week and I really wrestled with what to bring in - I super don't want to get into my health journey at work, I've already gotten comments at other times when the office has ordered lunch from like Panera or something and I get soup and salad (which tbh has always been my go-to regardless, their salads are bomb, but you can't eat salad while fat in public without somebody feeling some type of way about it). I was originally going to get a box of donuts from Dunkin or something but then I decided I didn't want to spend 300 calories on a crappy donut, or spend the whole meeting actively resisting doing that. I ended up getting a couple boxes of mini muffins from the Publix bakery - they're like 110-112cal apiece, that's fine, I can spend 200-300 cals on a couple of tiny muffins. I still might pop over to the fake Starbucks on campus and see if they have anything with a little more protein to supplement; I do have about 600 calories to play with after accounting for the rest of the food I plan to eat today. I just wish they would have been open at 8 when I got here.4
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Friday weigh-in
Age: 58
Ht: 5'3"
Highest weight: 221
SW: 205. (7/5/21)
UGW: 145-150 TBD as I get closer
GW for July: under 200
Last week's weight: 200.2
CW: 199.6
I'm very excited that I'm under 200 and met my goal weight for July! I'm realizing what a slow process this is but I'm so determined to get healthy.
I wish everyone on here such great success in this next week. We can do this!!!6 -
Spotteddingo wrote: »Age: 55
Height: 5' 8"
SW: 257.2 (12/28/20)
GW: 160
MSW: 232.2
7/9 234.4
7/30 233.0
This has been the first month that I did not lose weight! I have actually gained! It seems that I hit the 25# mark and bounced up a bit. Yikes.
Nothing has changed with my eating other than going over a bit last Saturday. I have lost inches at waist, hips and fanny, however. Also, I started taking vitamins because I was having a hair shed.
NSV: This month I have gone from 20-60mph with regard to energy and exercise. I have more than doubled my steps and have been doing a lot of heavy gardening... moving logs and rocks on our property in the mountains. This has been huge for me because bending to pick up anything, before, caused a lot of hip pain that would last throughout the day.
The way I feel has been very good for my confidence and offsets my worry about the number on the scale.
Glad you're seeing the inches lost even if the weight isn't budging much! Must be all that activity.
That's a win for sure!
Also, @girlinkaz - GREAT WORK!!6 -
Bit of a WHOOOSH day for me today.
Weighed in at 234.3 this morning, which is 1.8# less than yesterday, so total July loss now 5.6#.
Still short of the 8# I was striving for, but still progress.
Keep it going everyone!!!OnceAndFutureAthlete wrote: »And now for July....
Age 59
Height 5'6.5"
SW: 278 (March 2021)
CW: 236.1 (42# GONE!)
GW for July: Below 232 = 8#
GW for 2021: get to Onederland = 7#/month
FGW: 150 (will then re-evaluate)
7/1: 239.9
7/8: 238.1 (-1.8#)
7/15: 239.4 (+1.3#)
7/22: 241.1 (+1.7#)
7/29: 236.1 (-5.0#)
Total month loss: 3.8 pounds
Total loss so far: 41.9 pounds
Weellllll...... I fell way short of my monthly goal of 8 pounds. Only gonna make about half of that by the 31st.
Thanks to everyone for keeping this thread going - It's helping me a lot!
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@girlinkaz thanks!
@JoseeOHara I didn’t know they had groups like that. This is a great group to be in!
@Spotteddingo it’s good that your having NSVs. Sometimes that’s more important than the scale.
@goal06082021 I hope you found something good. I love to bake and have always brought in sweets to work. This last time I made homemade hummus with veggies, something healthy.
@drj63 congrats on reaching Onederland!
@OnceAndFutureAthlete congrats on the woosh! Wish I’d have one!4 -
@Spotteddingo I am having the WORST hair shed too! It has happened to me once before when I lost 70 points way back in 2005 so I keep telling myself that it is temporary and will stop.. but if anyone has any tips, I am all ears! Vitamins and protein is so far what the internet has told me to do (that and not worry which is HARD) but if anyone has done something different, I would love to hear it.5
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@girlinkaz I started taking prenatal vitamins and it is definitely helping! I will be 56 next week so do not need them for pregnancy but they are good vitamins.5
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jazzadesigns wrote: »@girlinkaz thanks!
@JoseeOHara I didn’t know they had groups like that. This is a great group to be in!
@Spotteddingo it’s good that your having NSVs. Sometimes that’s more important than the scale.
@goal06082021 I hope you found something good. I love to bake and have always brought in sweets to work. This last time I made homemade hummus with veggies, something healthy.
@drj63 congrats on reaching Onederland!
@OnceAndFutureAthlete congrats on the woosh! Wish I’d have one!
@jazzadesigns Thank you so much!!!2 -
I missed my family reunion this week because of work… but not to worry, the out of town family decided to come to me 🤪 So tomorrow I am spontaneously hosting dinner at my house. 12 adults, 2 kids under 3yo, 3 dogs and a cat. I am also providing accommodations for 4 of the adults and 2 dogs overnight (in addition to my own family, dog and cat). All the prep work and running around burns calories right?
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Last day of the month weigh-in:
Name: Marilyn
Age 68
Highest weight: 252 (2016)
Restart: 218.6 (April 2021)
Today: 202.6
Lost 4.2 this month and 49.4 total
Still need a little more to get to onederland before surgery on the 20th. I CAN DO THIS!!!7 -
Hi I’m 53 and 5’6”.
Starting weight: 257.8 lbs Jan 14, 2021
July Start Weight: 226.5 (6/30/21)
July Goal Weight: 223.0
Ultimate Goal Weight: 170
July 3: 225.6
July 10: 224.3 (-1.3)
July 17: 223.9 (-0.4)
July 24: 223.7 (-0.2)
July 31: 221.5 (-2.2)
I finally had a woosh and met my monthly goal! I met my step goal 5 days this week (goal is 4 days). My step challenge at work is over today. I’m nowhere near the top of the leaderboard, but still am closer to the top than the bottom so I’m happy with that. I need to try to figure out the fitbit challenges so I can try one. And I worked out 5 days this week. I still have to work on increasing my workouts time-wise.
@tuddy315 you CAN do it!
Hope everyone had a great month! Onward to August!7 -
I forgot to weigh myself this AM because I was up and out so early for a 615 exercise class. But that’s ok because I’ve been on track.
Exercise class today was amazing! Signing up for more.8 -
I’m 5’9 and 209 lbs this is the heaviest I’ve been. I’m not happy about it. I want to lose about 85lbs and feel happy again. But I don’t know where to start5
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July recap - Moto Slow and Steady Wins the Race - but this turtle got distracted by the squirrels again
SW 230 Nov 27/2020
July 1 198.2
July 31 203.4
Had an interesting month weight wise, needed to do a readjust with the scales and also really played with the same 4 pounds. Got off track with my walking( 3 days instead of 6-7)
No worries, following own advice, have readjusted and pressed reset so goal for August an ambitious 196.
Seeing my daughter, son in law and grandson in end of August, coming from UK so very excited and a girl's overnight with my other daughter in two weeks.
Have a wonderful August everyone
Vicky4 -
Age: 61
Height: 5'4"
SW: 254 June 3, 2021
CW: 239.4 June 30, 2021
7/03: 238.6
7/10: 236.6
7/17: 233.4
7/24: 234.8
7/31: 233.2
GW for July: 232
UGW: 160
End of the month and time to measure up!
Loss for the month 6.2lbs
I'm disappointed I didn't make my goal but came close at 6.2 pounds. Its a reminder that I am only at the beginning of my journey - I started 60 days ago. I'm trying to be mindful and go with the ebbs and flows so at the end of the month any loss is good. In the NSV department I lost 2 inches in my waist and have more flexibility than before.
Good luck to all in the hot August days ahead.
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Check-In!
Age: 43
Height: 5'10"
SW: 290.6 (4/19/2021)
CW: 287.4 (7/15/2021)
7/17: 284.6
7/24: 281.8
7/31: 277.8
GW for July: 280
GW for 2021: 240
UGW: 180
Really happy I hit my first goal :-) This past week I really struggled to keep moving... I managed, but just barely. Had planned to try and add some weight/resistance training but it was hard enough, so I am putting that on the back burner for now.
Will there be another of these threads for August?7 -
Starting weight: 270 March 2021
July Start Weight: 232.8
July Goal Weight: 228
Ultimate Goal Weight: TBD
I weigh in on Sundays.
July 4: 232.8
July 11: 229
July 18: 229
July 25: 229
July 31: 226.8
Wahoo! The scale finally moved again. I ended up making my July goal weight after all.
I am looking forward to the new month and see where it takes me!
@tuddy315 Wahoo, you are almost in onderland. That is so exciting. I know you can do it. If you don't mind me asking what surgery are you going to be having?
@Spotteddingo and @girlinkaz Funny you mention it. I am having a lot of shedding too. I started to notice it this past week. Though mine I believe is from my medication. My meds are known to deplete B12. Being plant based I already take B vitamins. I am closing in on my 3 month check up with my doctor and blood work.
@seltzer_lover I am so glad you loved the class and are going to sign up for more. That is fantastic!
@Kfurious Welcome! Personally I find it is easier to make mini goals rather than trying to change everything all at once. For example, instead of looking at the total amount of weight to lose focus on losing 5lbs by a certain date. Pick goal that are interesting and doable for you then go from there. As you progress you can add in more goals. The great thing is this is your own personal journey. There is no right or wrong way to approach it as long as it is a way that works for you!
@Imgoff232 Congrats on meeting your first goal. Yes. There will be a separate thread for August. Keep an eye out for it tomorrow!
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Weigh-in day!
Age: 30
Height: 5'2"
SW: 252.8 (11/13/2020)
CW: 220.2 (6/26/2021)
7/3: 222.0
7/10: 221.6
7/17: 220.0
7/24: 218.4
7/31: 216.4
GW for July: 215
GW for 2021: 196
UGW: 144 by the end of 2022
All right, I'll take it! That's close enough for jazz, lol. I'm looking forward to August - I'm ramping my activity up a little bit, with the intention of building momentum as we head into the back half of the year. The intention is to both keep me on track and have a "buffer" so I can stay on track to meet my 2021 goal.
This weekend's cooking projects involve just, so very much chicken. I just finished a batch of tom kha gai (Thai coconut-chicken soup) - it's delicious, but I think it needs some glass noodles or rice vermicelli to really round it out. I also have a big batch of chicken enchiladas that I need to figure out how to store; I'm running low on containers right now. Maybe I'll go back out to the store and get more containers as well as a packet of noodles, solve both problems at once. I also have some chicken thighs marinating for chicken tikka masala, and I need to make some rice to serve alongside the tikka as well as the enchiladas. That's dinner this week sorted - tomorrow I'll tackle lunches, which will be salisbury steak with potatoes and broccoli. The plan was mashed, but Instacart gave me mini potatoes instead of the regular ones I asked for, so we might do roasted instead. Or just rustic mashed (i.e., skins on), I'm not about to try to peel a one-inch-long potato in any case.7 -
@JNettie73 I am having a total left knee. So for the last month and a half I have had to use my cain to get around making it almost impossible to get any exercising done. I will be so glad to get it fixed!!!5
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Age: 30
Height: 5'4
SW: 320lbs May 19 2021
CW: 268lbs (7/31)
7/3: 282lbs
7/10: 279lbs
7/17: 276lbs
7/24: 272lbs
7/31: 268lbs
-14lbs this month
I've been working my a** off with a healthy diet and exercise. I'm proud for all I've done this month and looking forward to crushing it in August. I am aiming for an 8-10lbs loss for August. I'm glad everyone is doing well! We should definitely do an August thread.
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Age: 36
Height: 5'5"
SW: I've started/stopped so many times.
CW: 200.6
7/4: 200.6
7/11: 199.2 (-1.4)
• coming up short on my steps
• coming up short on the number of workouts
• nutrition is more intentional: had 3x meals out this week and had a few drinks 1 night: need to respect my deficit goal more
7/18: 198.6 (-0.6)
7/25: 199.2 (+0.6)
• 3 days out from TOM, so not surprising
• had a few carb heavy/veggie light days
• still inconsistent with ... everything
• best step day = 17,000
• worst step day = 2,500
• average step day = 6,000
• no form of consistent exercise, no sleep routine
7/31: 198.6 (-0.6)
GW for July: Anything less than current!
2 pound loss this month.
Goals:
- 8k daily step count, minimum
- Workout 4-5 days/week
- dial in my nutrition4 -
Hello everyone, I haven’t posted here in about a year! I’m starting over after an injury and general depression about/due to the pandemic. I’ve got myself in a good place and even though I’ve gained 20+ I’m looking at getting myself to my healthiest self and taking my weight loss in 10 lb increments.
So, starting today 7/31:
SW: 260
5’ 9”
61
Goals: at least 5 mi a day on my recumbent bike - 2 liters of water - 20 mins meditation
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💜Hello, Ladies!!!💜
Next month's group has been posted in the Motivation and Support forum:
☀️Women 200lb+, Let's Be Unafraid This August!!!☀️
See you over there!8
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