Women 200lb+, Let's Be Unafraid This August!!!
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@JNettie73 I totally get what you mean about feeling more comfortable in your own body! I was at a dinner with friends on Saturday night and one of my friends has the same body type I used to have before starting this journey. I watched him all night constantly have to adjust how he was sitting, adjust his clothes so they wouldn’t stick to his body, be more quickly winded, etc. Of course, I have absolutely no judgement for him at all because for so long that was me too - it just struck me that I don’t have those habits anymore! I am much more comfortable sitting on any type of chair (because I can comfortably CROSS MY LEGS, what!) I don’t feel the need to pluck my shirt off my fat rolls when I sit down because my bulge is so much smaller, etc. So many good changes!4
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Meal prepped my work lunches for the week.
A breakfast/snack box (252 cal)
and a hot lunch (191 cal).
Would love to hear your simple, satisfying lunch ideas!
Wishing you all a successful week ahead!
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@JuneyCleaves - One of my faves to prep is a taco salad from skinnytaste.com. Minimal effort, lunch all week! Is a little high in sodium, so I work in a lot fo extra water when I make this. https://www.skinnytaste.com/taco-salad-meal-prep/
Congrats on meal prepping for the week! It makes things so much easier.6 -
Hi everyone! Happy Monday!
I was a little absent from the forums last week - big project to wrap up at work, but stayed on track with eating and exercise (despite the weather was was 95 degrees or more every day). On recovery days from my HIIT class, I would normally take a long walk with the dog, but that just wasn't possible this week. Instead I did some YouTube yoga and walk at home classes in the air conditioned comfort of my living room!
Ally
39
SW 300
8/2: 295.8
8/9: 294.4 (-1.4)
8/16: 292.4 (-2 week over week, -7.6 total)
GW for August 288-2906 -
@JuneyCleaves that looks tasty!
This week for lunch I have a pasta salad (390 cal), accompanied by a hard-boiled egg (70 cal) and one of those mini bananas (about 100 cal). The pasta salad is tricolor rotini, red onion, yellow bell pepper, cremini mushrooms, black olives, feta cheese, Polish sausage, and some zesty Italian salad dressing. Very flavorful and a nice cold lunch for these hot hot days. Next week it'll be chicken salad with crackers - I sub most of the mayo in my chicken salad out for plain Greek yogurt, and use just enough to coat the other ingredients. I'm not a fan of gloppy chicken/egg/tuna/etc salad, LOL.5 -
Happy Monday❣️
Had a pretty good week. Managed to get to a wheelchair scale thanks to my sister. I can use it to monitor my loss. Happy to repost a loss 😊
Height: 5’4”
SW: 4/2019 307
CW: 7/22. 235
8/15. 231 (-4 lbs)
GW (Aug). 225
GW. 175
I’m going to continue hydration; increase cardio and core workouts, and use manual chair to increase steps!!!
Have a great week❣️13 -
5'3 48 Aug 1: 203.6 Aug 8 201 Aug 16 200.8 (mid-cycle with water retention, so very good). Last week kinda felt like I won the bonus round!
Added Physical therapy on Aug 12, 2021. So while it doesn't really give me any calories per se, I need to walk some day - I need the physical therapy. Man it is sooo hard!
New goal: PT Every day except Sundays.
Observed goal: 1200 cal or less every day except Sundays, 1440 maintenance on Sundays. KEPT! Woo hoo! This is a really good goal for me, a total keeper habit so I am ready for maintenance someday.
Also, on Sunday made a keto brownie for the hubby (who is diabetic), and was able to keep the calories low enough I could have 2 servings of it and only had 1245 calories on Sunday! Usually keto is so crazy with the fat calories so I modified it. Low fat butter, almond milk + sugar free caramel syrup made this a very very very good treat!! So yummy and satisfying! I plan on making a nice keto cake for his b-day that won't kill the calorie bank or the carb/sugar bank for him! Very excited for this. He always needs help with keeping to a low carb/low sugar diet. And since it is just us two, I need the calories to be reasonable.6 -
seltzer_lover wrote: »@JuneyCleaves - One of my faves to prep is a taco salad from skinnytaste.com. Minimal effort, lunch all week! Is a little high in sodium, so I work in a lot fo extra water when I make this. https://www.skinnytaste.com/taco-salad-meal-prep/
Congrats on meal prepping for the week! It makes things so much easier.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely check it out.1 -
goal06082021 wrote: »@JuneyCleaves that looks tasty!
This week for lunch I have a pasta salad (390 cal), accompanied by a hard-boiled egg (70 cal) and one of those mini bananas (about 100 cal). The pasta salad is tricolor rotini, red onion, yellow bell pepper, cremini mushrooms, black olives, feta cheese, Polish sausage, and some zesty Italian salad dressing. Very flavorful and a nice cold lunch for these hot hot days. Next week it'll be chicken salad with crackers - I sub most of the mayo in my chicken salad out for plain Greek yogurt, and use just enough to coat the other ingredients. I'm not a fan of gloppy chicken/egg/tuna/etc salad, LOL.
Sounds great!
Man, I wish I liked hard boiled eggs but I cannot get a hard yolk down.
They're something I try every so often to try to acquire the taste but it hasn't stuck yet!2 -
Mid month check in has me down 5 pounds. Woohoo!! continuing with early morning walks with a friend -a 30 to 40 minute zippy pace with some gentle hills. I find it so much easier to get up and go when I have a pal relying on me being there. so much easier not to ditch the walk if it's raining or if I don't feel like it when she has made the effort. Looking forward to exercise feeling a little easier in a month and two months time. I recognize how important the food tracking is for my weight loss though. The walking is to improve my heart and mental health but seems to have very little impact on weight loss for me. Still a challenge to stick to a sensible eating plan every day but I can plainly see on the days that I don't that the scale sees all.
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August Challenge Weigh In Day
Age 44
Height 5'4"
SW 249 3/2020
CW 218.2
GW for August 214
UGW 145
8/1: 217.2
8/8: 217.4
8/15: 218.2
8/22:
8/31:
Total month loss:
Weekly goals:
-Continue logging on MFP
-Work out 5x per week – 3 cardio & 2 strength
-64 oz of water each day
Up this week. Many reasons. Food was okay but probably had some high sodium items Saturday. With logging it doesn't seem such but still holding. Might have to experiment a bit on that.
My trending app I'm not liking at the moment. As reality is for it's predictions the next goal may not hit until next year. That may be about right for what happened the last year though. If I could speed up my cycles so they don't wreck things more that might help - HA.
Vet visits surrounding the weekend. Since it's in a nearby city I went to Mom's house as that's less travel. Nerve wracking for 2 of the pets. Well my oldest cat is the most concerning. She's being diagnosed as hyperthyroid. She was slightly high last year (and I thought she gained weight) and this year really confirmed (she lost weight now). The other vet had always been concerned with her weight (chunky) but now it's the opposite trouble. Had to survey friends and found a fb group to determine the best path to go with as my vet, while giving the options, wasn't giving any recommendations either way. The dog yesterday, I at least knew the troubles. Now it's following up with other vets to find who can accommodate her tumors she has.
Gym last night for strength training after picking up cat's meds and before leaving Mom's house to come back home.4 -
Age: 38
Height 5'3"
SW 250
CW 249
GW for Aug 245
UGW 140
8/1: 250
8/8: 249
8/15: 249
8/22:
8/31:
Total month loss: 1 pound
I'm late posting as we went away for a mini vacation and this slipped my mind. I'm still struggling with the mindset of, "I'll just start tomorrow." I need to get past that. I'm only sabotaging myself.
On our mini vacation we spent 2 days at a water park. I wore my swimsuit and basically looked like an apple with legs. I was horrified. I saw the stares and the pointing. I stayed in the pools and under the water as much as possible. At one point my son wanted to go down the water slide and I was legit afraid I wouldn't fit. My husband reassured me I would and I did but I hated having that thought!
I know the mechanics. I just have to follow them. I need to make that last switch over and do this. I hate how I am. I know people say embrace your body and love your body but I cannot embrace or love something that I have destroyed and is essentially destroying me. Gonna try again this week.14 -
@Renewed2021 I felt the same way when I first started this journey in 2016 at 252lbs. I kept telling myself that I hate the way I look and feel until I just finally said "that's enough. Do something about it". So I did and lost 89lbs in a year and a half. Then my mom got cancer and I put myself on hold to care for her and gained 50lbs back. Now I'm at it again because "I'm not going to put up with this!" Since April 1 I've lost 19lbs which is right on target for my 1lb a week loss. Maybe just thing about all the stuff you hate about carrying the weight around and then say, "I'm not going to put up with this!" You will get there. I have no doubt you can do this!!!! Re-read your profile logo "be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind" and believe it.8
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@JuneyCleaves have you tried cooking them less? I do them in my instant pot--5 minutes cook, 5 minutes natural release, 5 minutes in ice water, and they come out with the yolks creamy, not hard. they shell easier too!
@Renewed2021 maybe hating isn't the motivation you need? Being angry and hating where I was only made me want to hide more, which made me eat more. I have decided to love my body, and thus I will stop abusing it with fat. I love me, and I deserve to go hiking (a thing I love. Maybe waterslides and playing with your son can motivate you?)
I lost weight years ago, and gained it back, and spent five years kicking myself for not just getting back in the saddle, but just like yelling at my kid never helped, yelling at me doesn't help. My kid needed my compassion and teaching--and so do I.11 -
Hi, Wednesday post
Age 47
Height 5’ 6”
SW 244 (June 1, 2021)
7/28: 225.8
8/4: 224.8
8/11: 223.7
8/18: 220.2
Current goal: 220 by end of August and keep exercising when work starts up (school)
So! Great week, dropped 3.5 pounds, but I know it’s really 5.6 over three weeks and the weight loss is uneven from day to day or week to week but steady over time — so glad we post and track here! I hit my end of the month goal, I’ve worked out three days back at “work” (just teacher in service so far), and that was really my summer goal — 10% of my body weight.6 -
@sargemarcori
I don't see it as motivation, but rather what it really is: a sad state to be in. It's hard to love something that has never been celebrated or affirmed. I was never told I'm beautiful or pretty. I've always been the "cute" one which has been nothing more than a polite way to address me being fat without calling me fat. I've never been good enough, but always had to see how much better everyone else is. I do hope to get to the point where this is a thing of the past and I rise above it, and I'm cautiously hopeful that I will. In the meantime I'm trying to get some sort of foothold to move into that space. Thank you for the encouragement and best wishes for you on your journey!5 -
Renewed2021 wrote: »It's hard to love something that has never been celebrated or affirmed
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Friday weigh in!
Age: 31
Height: 5’6”
SW: 222 (Feb ‘21)
August SW: 164.6
August GW: 158
UGW 154
Aug 6: 164.6
Aug 13: 161.9
Aug 20: 161.2
Aug 27:
-0.7lbs this week, which makes sense after a larger loss last week. It’s still a loss and I’m happy about it! I ate significantly over my calorie budget over the weekend for my best friend’s birthday and had some wine too, which I mostly stay away from these days - no regrets, it was all delicious! 😉 On Sunday (the day after the event), I felt gross all day long though - I’m pretty sure it was mostly because of the sugar I’d had the day before. It was helpful to notice that small treats are usually consequence-free but larger deviations from my food plan really don’t leave me feeling my best.
This week I made stuffed peppers, chili, pesto chicken, and a chicken vegetable soup, all of which were winners! It seems like they might reopen my pool soon too (it’s been closed because we’ve been in quarantine), which would be a game changer.
I made an appointment today to cut and color my hair - I haven’t done anything to my hair in almost two years (I could blame Covid but some of it was me too) and it’s way past time. At first, I wanted to wait and update my hair as a reward for reaching UGW but then I figured that my reward will be all the cute clothes I will get to buy, so why not do the hair now! I’m hoping it will be a fun treat as I practice taking care of all parts of my body.
Hope you all have a fantastic week!10 -
I was really looking forward to buying a cute dress I found on Amazon as a reward for reaching the -40lb mark, which I should have been on track to hit this month, but I don't know if that's going to happen. I mean, I'm still going to buy the dress when I do reach 40lbs lost, but it's just going to take longer than I want it to, LMAO.
I am absolutely loving how my legs look these days. I'm not even specifically trying to build muscle right now, still eating at a deficit for weight loss and not prioritizing protein, but I've developed some amazing definition in my calves and quads. I also came across a post on the xxfitness subreddit today of someone asking for tips and advice for how to crush a watermelon with her thighs and damn, if that wasn't a goal before it sure heckin' is now! Now I gotta look up best ways to train hip adductors...
edit to add: one more NSV, my collarbones are back! I mean, they never went anywhere, but now I can see them at the top of my chest again. CW for parents having opinions about teenage daughter's bodies, but at one point in high school I dropped about 30 lbs and my mom commented--in an approving way--that my collarbones were prominent and looked nice.3 -
but losing weight will NEVER address your self-loathing or hatred, just as my God-daughter every time she gains a pound never likes herself a bit more. Your size will not change your attitude, you are going to need to do that.
@justanotherloser007
When I read what you wrote I wanted to be so angry at you. I wanted to write a long, nasty reply and just unleash every thought in my mind. Instead, I walked away and tried to put your post out of my head. It didn't work. It stayed with me all day. Almost haunting me in every silent moment. I slowly began to realize that I wasn't angry because of what you wrote. Your words were so kind. I was angry because I realized that you are 100% right and that cut straight to my core. You helped me to start to see why I am so scared to do this and why I haven't succeeded....I'm terrified to face my demons and every bad thought that's landed me where I am. I've fooled myself that food isn't my comfort or my escape. I've fooled myself that I'm not hiding behind the fat. That's exactly what I'm doing.
From the bottom of my heart...thank you for helping break through and make a crack in this armor so I can see the light. You made a tremendous impact on me and my journey today. I am deeply grateful.18
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