Women 200lb+, Let's Be Unafraid This August!!!

We got a new scale, a "smart" scale. It was a .8 lb over the old scale (of course!). I will weigh in on Tuesday. My weight has just sort of stopped for the past couple weeks, but since I made goal I don't really care lols. Since I am in Onederland - I figure my body is probably going something like "what is going on? where are we? what am I supposed to do here?" I look at the odd losing weight shapes of the body parts and I just need to be patient. I hear the configurations can get weird at about this stage, so I will wait and hold the line. In a "I will not pass" 200 lbs ever ever ever ever again. So if I don't lose immediately, and I keep to the plan 1200 a day 1445 Sundays, I am doing great regardless of what the scale is randomly doing. I bet you can tell, I have to tell myself that a bit. I think I might be building muscle, as I am more active than usual and the PT is about building muscle for weird places that I haven't exercised since I was doing "buns of steel" in the early 90's. Might be muscle, might be adjustment, might be that losing weight is not robotic (it isn't). Probably a little bit of all of the above.

@goal06082021 I was glad I wasn't drinking something when you wrote about the watermelons very hilarious! And messy!

@drj63 You are doing great! Happy dance!

@57pattycake Doing awesome, that is a good loss.

Keep going strong ladies!! Ya'll are killing it!

@pandemonium1997 Maybe I should make an exercise plan and stick with it; doing 30 sit ups instead of 50 until I can handle it? Or trying to recognize when my body is at it's limit? If so, how do I tell if I'm at my limit in the middle of exercising?[/quote]

First things first start at the beginning, your muscles have atrophied for a bit. Do not start at when you were you healthiest and try to work up. If you haven't attempted sit-ups since the 7th grade, you don't need to start with 30. I try to google beginner exercises for obese, I find that lots of people for x reasons have been in the same situation. They have good advice, don't freak if they look awesome, they have been at this longer. I was interested in calisthenics, I googled beginner stuff and got some good things. For example I want to do push ups. But I have to start with wall push ups. I want to do squats, so I started with 10 squats rest 30 squats in all once a week. While that worked out well, I had the doms three days later, which has to be the longest time between doms I have EVER experienced. But by the 2nd week I was down with doing the squats circuit 3 times a week with no doms and now am up to 6 times a week cicuit, rest on sundays. I like my legs to work, and my knees creek but they are okay so far. I also started with having the counter at hands reach to stabilize.

I was not going full tilt, and when I did the squats - while I was doing them I was totally fine and thought I could do them all day. Then on the third morning, I was glad I hadn't done more. Building muscles is slow, and while younger you is in your muscle memory... just ask her to be patient and someday you will be back to 7th grade abdominal muscles. Just not now.

@lmgoff232 Your weight loss is amazing! Way to go! I am very sorry to hear about your father. There is nothing easy about end of life issues. I have heard all my older friends say things like, "You do your best, pray, and love." These are good to keep in mind, however at night it doesn't really keep my heart warm - nor stop my questions. We are trying to navigate the hubby's parents. His Dad has severe dementia, and by Thanksgiving we realized Ma is having such severe memory problems (she was caring for Pa). We have had to do a number of crisis interventions: financial, house, cleaning, food you name it. I am currently resizing all their clothes, because I sew. But this doesn't really address that now that Ma can't cook because she can't plan and execute a recipe nor shop at a grocery store properly - they are losing weight so fast. And, they seem to be "forgetting" to eat. This just won't end well, at first it was okay because they were a little overweight, but it hasn't stopped and they are continuing to lose weight. Siblings are involved, everyone is in different stages of denial. Because grief is kinda brutal. I am with you, it is sorrowing.

@drj63
I know what you mean about extremes. That's me too. I have started here so many times with high enthusiasm only to burn out. I came back here recently because I have been doing something different almost accidentally and I wanted to read about others journeys. My weight loss is very small and slow, but better than the constant gain. I think I am on a heartburn diet. Lol. I was 223 in April and am 211 now. I would like to be 200 by the end of November. In the spring I stopped eating chocolate because it gave me heartburn. My skinny husband always has chocolate around and now I don't even want it. We used to have ice cream every evening. I realized that was also giving me heartburn. Mostly I think from eating too much too late. I started having a small ice cream earlier in the day sometimes. I cut back dinner portions...heartburn. Now none of this was to lose weight. It was to avoid pain. Recently I tried the 12:12 intermittent fasting mostly to stop heatburn. I don't know how this will go, but I also started strolling after dinner. Or decluttering. I am not dieting. Just slowly changing habits. This August I just want to enjoy my life. The heartburn is improved.

@drj63 Have you tried drinking Apple Cider Vinegar? I used to have horrible indigestion that would even wake me up at night no matter what I ate. A few years ago I started drinking 2 TBSP of Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with about a 30 oz of water. I drink it down all at once in the morning 2-3 times a week. I haven't had a problem since.

swimmom_1 wrote: »

SW 9/14/20-255 lbs (Heaviest wt second time).

UGW-122 lbs ( lowest wt 2009, kept off about 5 years.)
My short term goals is to be under 200 lbs by September 1/21. 190 lbs by November 1/21. Figure my average weight loss will slow down sooner than later.

5/3/21-240.5 (Emergency Gallbladder Surgery, first and last attack!)
MFP SW 5/14/21-232.2 lbs
10/31/21 GW-190 lbs

8/1/21-212.0 lbs
8/8/21-209.2 lbs
8/15/21-207.8 lbs
8/22/21-204.4 lbs
8/29/21-203.0 lbs. Doing well. Staying on track. Started using my Elliptical last Sunday, instead of walking, it was raining all day. It burns more calories and gets my heart rate up better. Hadn't been on it since at least pre 10/15. Not sure if I'll hit my monthly goal of 199.9 lbs by 9/1 AM weigh in, but maybe. Can't complain about 9 lb loss so far! Doing a procedure prep today for Monday. Clear liquids +, so it may help me get there! The upside of the test and a clean bill of health I pray. Its routine, for a bad family history for 3 generations.
9/1/21-
ML-
MLGW-199.9 lbs

9/5/21-
9/12/21-
9/19/21-
9/26/21-
10/1/21-
ML-
MLGW-195 lbs

10/3/21-
10/10/21-
10/17/21-
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10/31/21-
11/1/21-
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MLGW-190 lbs

Amazing @JNettie73

goal06082021 wrote: »

swimmom_1 wrote: »

The disagree was an accident! Sorry. My finger just happened to touch the screen right there. :>(

If you accidentally tap a reaction that you don't mean, you can just tap it again to "undo," or tap a different reaction - you can only react to a post in one way at a time. If you look, you'll see that if you tap a given react and then tap it again, the count will go up and then back down by 1. Also, as far as I know there's no way to be notified of specific reacts to posts, so nobody's getting a message that "swimmom_1 disagreed with your post" or anything like that.

edit for clarity

Thanks. I found the disagree disappeared after I sent the sorry message, when I hit the like button.

Hi I’m 53 and 5’6”.
Original starting weight: 257.8 1/14/21

Aug Start Weight: 221.5 (7/31/21)
Aug Goal Weight: 217.5
Ultimate Goal Weight: 170

Aug 7: 221.8 (+0.3)
Aug 14: 220.8. (-1.0)
Aug 21: 219.4 (-1.4)
Aug 28: 219.8 (+0.4)
Aug 31: 219.2 (-0.6)

I lost 2.6 lbs for the month which isn’t great, but still a loss so I’m happy.🙂

@justanotherloser007 Congratulations on hitting you goal and Onderland!

Enjoyed looking at all of your posts since last week. Hope to see you all in the September thread.

Age: 62
Height: 5'4"
SW: 260 June 1, 2021
CW: 233.2 August 1, 2021

8/07: 230.8
8/14: 228.4
8/21: 225.4
8/28: 224.6
8/31: 223.8
GW for August 225lbs -8.2lbs
UGW 160ish
Hit my goal plus a little - very happy about that. Total August loss is 9.4. We start all over again tomorrow. See you in September.