Women 200lb+, Let's Shine This September!!!
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you GOT this, @Renewed2021 !! September better be scared!
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September Challenge Weigh In Day
Age 26
Height 5'10"
SW 246.9 on 7/13/2021
CW 234.8
GW for September: 228
GW for end of 2021: 205
UGW 180
9/1: 235.1
9/8:
9/15:
9/22:
9/30:
Total month loss:
Non-weight goals: Complete 30 day plank challenge. Do 12 elevated pushups in a row with surface at mid-thigh height. Knock 15 seconds off my 1.5 mile. Eat out only 2 meals per week.
Fall plans: Going to a wedding in mid October. Dress I picked to wear (old dress I can finally fit into again) is on the more snug side, so part of my goal is to fit in it a little better. Also moving apartments (no elevator!) and hoping to get some good exercise in moving boxes.
Successes from last month: Knocked 25 seconds off my 1.5 mile. Right now, I'm doing a jogging routine where I walk .25 miles for warmup, jog 1.5 miles, then walk another .25 miles for cool down, totally 2 miles per jog. I moved from only being able to do elevated pushups from hip level to being about to do about 4 at mid-thigh level. I am slowly working my way to doing full, on the floor, standard pushups.7 -
Friday weigh in!
Age: 31
Height: 5’6”
SW: 222 (Feb ‘21)
September SW: 157.4
September GW: Maintenance between 150-154
UGW: 150-154
(Aug 27: 161.1)
Sept 3: 156.4
Sept 10:
Sept 17:
Sept 24:
My Aug 27 weigh-in was inflated because of TOM but nevertheless I am shocked, delighted, and giddy over my loss over the last week. I’m going on vacation for a week tomorrow and it’s wonderful to be in such a great place mentally and physically prior to my trip. Over the weekend, I’m staying at a hotel that has a gym so I plan to keep up with my workout routine while there. Next week, I’ll be staying in a villa but I hope to be able to do some body weight exercises each day, as well as walking and swimming. Apparently, this new version of me craves an active vacation!
I met someone new this week and felt super nervous when they went to friend me on social media. I refuse to “clean up” my page because who I was is part of my story, even though I am a different person now. But still, it’s a little bit nerve-wracking because my physical appearance is SO different from what it once was. The last time I lost this amount of weight was in 2005, before social media really became a thing, so it felt more anonymous.
I’m starting to make a plan for a super slow transition to maintenance once I hit 154. My plan is to add back 100-150 calories per day every week until I’m in maintenance, so I don’t go back to eating loads of junk food because I suddenly have 800 extra calories available to me. My hope is that means I will slowly float down to 152-ish, with my “drop dead stop weight” set at 150 (I have a history of ED, though I’m doing tons better now, so I really need a stop weight).
I’m excited for the change from losing to recomp and I have a bunch of workouts planned for the next few months as I continue in my physical transformation. Fingers crossed I get to start moving in that direction this month!
Sending love to you all!12 -
Friday weigh in!
Age: 31
Height: 5’6”
SW: 222 (Feb ‘21)
September SW: 157.4
September GW: Maintenance between 150-154
UGW: 150-154
(Aug 27: 161.1)
Sept 3: 156.4
Sept 10:
Sept 17:
Sept 24:
My Aug 27 weigh-in was inflated because of TOM but nevertheless I am shocked, delighted, and giddy over my loss over the last week. I’m going on vacation for a week tomorrow and it’s wonderful to be in such a great place mentally and physically prior to my trip. Over the weekend, I’m staying at a hotel that has a gym so I plan to keep up with my workout routine while there. Next week, I’ll be staying in a villa but I hope to be able to do some body weight exercises each day, as well as walking and swimming. Apparently, this new version of me craves an active vacation!
I met someone new this week and felt super nervous when they went to friend me on social media. I refuse to “clean up” my page because who I was is part of my story, even though I am a different person now. But still, it’s a little bit nerve-wracking because my physical appearance is SO different from what it once was. The last time I lost this amount of weight was in 2005, before social media really became a thing, so it felt more anonymous.
I’m starting to make a plan for a super slow transition to maintenance once I hit 154. My plan is to add back 100-150 calories per day every week until I’m in maintenance, so I don’t go back to eating loads of junk food because I suddenly have 800 extra calories available to me. My hope is that means I will slowly float down to 152-ish, with my “drop dead stop weight” set at 150 (I have a history of ED, though I’m doing tons better now, so I really need a stop weight).
I’m excited for the change from losing to recomp and I have a bunch of workouts planned for the next few months as I continue in my physical transformation. Fingers crossed I get to start moving in that direction this month!
Sending love to you all!
That's so exciting that you are starting a maintenance plan! Congratulations!!!! It's so encouraging!!!!4 -
I haven't lost very much weight, but I'm definitely in better shape than I was; my posture is better, because my core is stronger, and I am up to being able to ride the bike for five minutes consistently. I have exercise intolerance, so this is a Big Deal. Now, onward to eight minutes! And if I can do more exercise, that will help with weight loss too. The EI just makes it really difficult because you cannot exercise to exhaustion because you will not recover for several days.8
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@NYPhotographer2021
Welcome and Happy Birthday!!!! I am from NY too.
@Renewed2021
I can empathize when you say that certain foods are trigger foods and right now you cannot have in moderation. Cheese is a trigger food for me. When I restarted my journey I had to avoid it all together. Now I can have it once in a while but I am finding that my taste is changing and I do not crave it like I used to. I also can relate to food effecting your health, especially making you feel lethargic, irritable and cranky.
I was where you are at one point in time. I know that disgust you feel all too well. My lowest weight on MFP was 215. I stopped because I was pregnant then my daughter came along. Stress, having no time to prepare meals for myself, relying on my husband to cook and so on... My weight moved higher and higher. That made me angry, upset and depressed. It and caused me to turn to food even more. My weight went even higher and higher and higher. It was a vicious cycle. I never felt okay, I was always tired, I couldn't walk and talk at the same time, all I wanted to do was sit down or sleep. I was always tired. Before I knew it I hit 270lbs and was hit with major health issues. I was forced to choose... continue my ways and die or make a major change. It is really hard to change our ways especially when we have been engaging in these behaviors for so long. I suggest rather than avoiding all temptations at once try elimating one or two at a time. Perhaps your first being oreos. Once you get through a week or two with none add in another temptation you want to eliminate. Personally, I found eliminating one item at a time made me less cranky and less likely to spiral into old behaviors.
Trust me when I say over time it does get easier. Before you know it you will start noticing some NSV (non-scale victories). These will motivate you! You will find yourself naturally doing more and more. This will motivate you even more. You can do this!!!! I believe in you.
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@JNettie73
You're right. I do need to go one temptation at a time. My desire to lose it all quick (which I know is totally unrealistic) makes me want to go extreme. I know that won't work. Thank you for the encouragement and congratulations on all your success!7 -
I was able to prelog today. I've been having a great mental resistance to logging, and I don't know why, so I just let it go and accepted that I was probably going to stay right about where I was weightwise or drift down very slowly. Apparently that resistance has evaporated today, so I prelogged today and the weekend while I was at it (I have a meal plan, so that's easy) and am going to see if I feel supported or confined by that and act accordingly. The one thing I don't want to do is to go full bore at it and bounce myself into a binge or other unhelpful reaction when a slower re-initiation of the full dieting life protocol would work better.
I do want to lose more weight before I see the plastic surgeon for the initial consult, but I also want to be rational and not mess with my head, so I'm being very cautious with myself. I don't ever want to regain the weight I've lost, so doing this slowly and putting in new mental habits and new physical habits is necessary, as is not being overly restrictive.6 -
Does anyone have any tips for avoiding evening snacking? I do really well until then, following the prelog, resisting snacks in the afternoon, etc. But there's something about those last two hours where all the daily tasks are done that somehow makes me want to start munching on things. They're not awful things necessarily—light string cheese, Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches...—but they do add up and nudge me over my calorie goal. I've tried brushing my teeth after my post-dinner shower to signal to my brain that eating time is over, but that doesn't seem to help.4
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Does anyone have any tips for avoiding evening snacking? I do really well until then, following the prelog, resisting snacks in the afternoon, etc. But there's something about those last two hours where all the daily tasks are done that somehow makes me want to start munching on things. They're not awful things necessarily—light string cheese, Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches...—but they do add up and nudge me over my calorie goal. I've tried brushing my teeth after my post-dinner shower to signal to my brain that eating time is over, but that doesn't seem to help.
Sounds like you've just got yourself trained to want a snack at 9 PM (or whatever time it ends up being for you). There's a couple things you could do. In no particular order:- Replace the reward: cultivate a hobby that requires clean hands or creates dirty ones, which you engage in right before bed. Perhaps a fiber art of some kind - you ever wanted to learn how to crochet?
- Exhaust the stimulus: when the clock strikes 9 and you start salivating, drink a glass of water and go do something else for 20 minutes. If it's 9:30 and you're still hankering for a little somethin', drink another glass of water and start your pre-bedtime routine, whatever that looks like for you.
- Accept it: pre-log the late night snacks, too. Find a way to fit them into your budget. The body doesn't know or care what time you eat something - unless you're literally an Olympic athlete you do not have to worry about nutrient timing, so if you can fit the cheese stick or whatever into your budget...just eat the damn thing and move on with your life.
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goal06082021 wrote: »Sounds like you've just got yourself trained to want a snack at 9 PM (or whatever time it ends up being for you). There's a couple things you could do. In no particular order:
- Replace the reward: cultivate a hobby that requires clean hands or creates dirty ones, which you engage in right before bed. Perhaps a fiber art of some kind - you ever wanted to learn how to crochet?
- Exhaust the stimulus: when the clock strikes 9 and you start salivating, drink a glass of water and go do something else for 20 minutes. If it's 9:30 and you're still hankering for a little somethin', drink another glass of water and start your pre-bedtime routine, whatever that looks like for you.
- Accept it: pre-log the late night snacks, too. Find a way to fit them into your budget. The body doesn't know or care what time you eat something - unless you're literally an Olympic athlete you do not have to worry about nutrient timing, so if you can fit the cheese stick or whatever into your budget...just eat the damn thing and move on with your life.
Thanks for the advice! I actually do know how to crochet, but it aggravates my carpal tunnel, so I'm afraid that's out. But I'll try a combination of the latter two! Perhaps allowing myself a single 150-calorie ice cream sandwich and then having some water will suffice.2 -
Oh! One more tip: you can't chug hot drinks, and tea is free if you don't sweeten or lighten it. There's lots of flavors of herbal teas/tisanes that you can get these days, they still feel like a treat even with nothing added to them.5
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Weird NSV: while I was waiting for my lunch to heat up I was sort of swaying side to side (gotta get that NEAT!), and noticed I could feel muscles flexing around my hips??? It was weird but in a cool way.6
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@swanjun I agree with @goal06082021 about the tea. When I started I would drink herbal fruit flavored tea with nothing added every night. I have a major sweet tooth and started eating fruit and greek yogurt instead of my old cakes, cookies, etc. I no longer crave sweets like I used to. I have been making homemade ice cream in my new ice cream maker, but I don’t eat it every day and I stick with a half cup serving. But I had to get past my sugar cravings before I could do that.4
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Hi ! In Wendy and new to this … I’ve gained about 130 pounds the last year or two and want to lose it… no need to for my health
Age 43
Height 5’7”
Weight 290
Goal weight 160 (prev weight)
I’d love to connect with other to encourage and support. I am disabled so it would be really nice to learn some alternative movement methods ♥️12 -
@wendygotthis Welcome! I love your username, that's a great attitude to have. When you say "alternative movement methods," alternative to what - what are your specific limitations?4
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Age: 50
Height: 5'11"
SW: 226.6
September GW: 214
Ultimate GW: 175
This month I'll check in on Fridays.
September 1: 219.6
September 3: 219.6
September 10:
September 17:
September 24:
Goals:
🌸 Focus on the 98% of my day that is mental mindset, good habits, and having a plan, rather than the 2% of my day that's the workout
🌸 Log everything
🌸 Stay hopeful
Things I'm looking forward to:
* Autumn. DIE, MOSQUITOES, DIE!!
* I have a big outdoor event coming up in November and I'd like my winter clothes to fit better. I want to be able to wear a sweater under my coat without feeling so uncomfortable.4 -
Friday Weigh-in:
Age: 58
Ht.: 5'3"
My highest weight ever was 221 a few years ago.
SW: 205. (7/5/21)
Last week's weight: 195.4
CW: 194.6
GW for end of September: Under 190
UGW: Under 150 (?) TBD
I'm very happy I made my goal weight for August to be under 195. I just barely made it! But...Yay!!!!😊
Have a wonderful 3 day weekend everyone!!!8 -
Hi I’m 53 and 5’6”.
Original starting weight: 257.8 1/14/21
September Start Weight: 219.2 (8/31/21)
September Goal Weight: 216.0
Ultimate Goal Weight: 170
Sept 4: 218.9 -(0.3)
Sept 11:
Sept 18:
Sept 25:
Sept 30:
My left hip has been bothering me the last couple of days. I have 2 bulging discs in my lower back so I have to be careful. I had L4/5 surgery 20 years ago. So I may back off of my exercise for a few days and see if it feels better.6 -
I have made it down to 241 again today. (I also weighed the youngest cat, Jeoffrey, who is ten pounds (!!!) of sleek muscular grey house tiger. And he's not grown into his paws yet...)
It would be nice to lose more, but right now I'm working on good habits toward that end and less obsessing over the scale. I still step on it daily but that's because that keeps me from playing mind games around it. I'm pretty reliably taking my meds, having the kitchen clean after dinner is starting to be The Right Way of Things (I am leveraging my autism to work for me) and now I am working on evening snacking habits. As was said above, it's not that my snacks are bad snacks, I just don't want to be eating one because one seems so often to lead to several and blow the budget. What I am trying is hot chai with cream in it. There's a few calories there so if I genuinely need a couple to go to bed on, that's fine, but it's not something you bite and chew. Also I just don't want to eat anything with chai because of its complexity of flavor. So we'll see if this becomes workable for me.6 -
Height: 5'3"
Age: 30
SW: 252.8 (11/13/2020)
CW: 213.8 (8/28/2021)
9/4: 214.4
9/11:
9/18:
9/25:
GW for September: 210
GW for 2021: 196
UGW: 144 by end of 2022
Welp. I was expecting to see an increase this week - intellectually I *know* it's water retention and food in transit, but it still stings a little whenever the number on the scale goes up. With how sore I was Thursday, Friday, and today, I'm actually a little surprised I'm not retaining *more* water, although maybe if I'd weighed myself Friday morning I would have seen that massive jump I was bracing for.
Since I'm training for Melonquest on Sundays this month, I moved my long outdoor walk to Saturdays. The natural area I planned to hit today was a good hour's drive each way from home, so I decided to go first thing, since that plus the two miles of trails translated to a three-hour trip all together. This one was nice enough; there's a paved loop and two natural loops on either side of it. I did walk through an upsetting number of spiderwebs*, though managed to safely move the completed webs with actual wholeass spiders in them safely off to the side and mostly just ran into the invisible single threads connecting branches across the very narrow parts of the trail. Thankfully, this natural area doesn't have many of the GIANT EFFING 4" SPIDERS that like to make webs at precisely my face level, or if it does they all wisely chose to make their homes NOT across the walking path; I encountered *three* of those at the NA I went to a couple of weeks ago, spent a good 10 minutes figuring out where the bottom of the web was and all but army-crawling under it. There were a lot of really impressive webs I could see in the early morning sunlight, thankfully well off the path, out in the scrub/marshland. I wish they were easier to photograph, because they're really beautiful when the sun is shining through them and they're covered in dewdrops like that, but my phone camera just doesn't want to capture that level of detail at that distance.
I didn't see much other wildlife besides the spiders, which was a little disappointing; usually I see at least a gopher tortoise having a snack. I did see a heron on my way out to the car, which was neat, and I saw a lot of pawprints suggesting at least one, possibly multiple bobcats had been through the area recently; I was kind of hoping it was still early enough to catch a glimpse of one, but they're really sneaky little buggers. Apparently there's also a population of feral domestic cats living in the area, judging by the Tupperware left near a bench a little ways in, and the signs from Animal Care and Control asking people to contact them if they're feeding the ferals. (My county has a trap-neuter-release (TNR) program, I'm hoping the plan is to try to capture and relocate the domestic cats that hang out around here so they don't bother the wildlife, especially the birds.)
*(You might think "an upsetting number of spiderwebs" would be "more than 0 spiderwebs," and you'd be right, but the property I live on has an incredibly industrious population of orb weavers, so it's not uncommon to walk through several strands of spider silk just going from my front door to my car some mornings. It's still terrible and I hate it, but I've had a lot of time to work through the EUUUGHUGHGHG NO reaction and be more okay with it when it happens.)6 -
Hello Everyone,
CW: 224
September Goal: 219
I'm excited for Autumn to be on it's way! There is a big feasting day for my family this month (Mabon), so my plan is to let myself enjoy the celebration, but otherwise keep to my calories. I know, from past experiences, that diet is my key to success. So, my only exercise goals this month are to get off my butt and walk. I enjoy long walks and am hoping I can get myself out for them 5 days a week, even if the pace isn't impressive.
I wish you all the best of luck!6 -
Age: 62
Height: 5'4"
SW: 260 June 1, 2021
CW: 223.8 Sept 1, 2021
9/04: 222.8
9/11:
9/18:
9/25:
9/30:
GW for September 215lbs -8.8lbs
UGW 160ish
Lost 1 pound exactly which is okay with me since it was a short week and I'm still adjusting to my return to work. Unfortunately, I did miss my usual daily exercise routine twice this week. Since the Covid layoff my sleeping and eating norms have changed – some for the good some for the bad. I’m not used to the standing work my job requires but hope I’ll adjust to that too. Thanks to everyone for being here again this month!
@JNettie73 – wow 50lbs! That’s wonderful! Good for you! I can't wait for the pics.
@sargemarcori -That 1 stinking pound is still a loss. And I don’t think of it as whining – I like to call it “venting”
@goal06082021 - You are braver than me with those spiders. Even the small ones give me High Anxiety and would have forced me to run as fast as my chubby legs would take me.
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Age 65
SW 6/1/21 212
Current weight 182.4
Goal weight for the end of september 175
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jazzadesigns wrote: »Hi I’m 53 and 5’6”.
Original starting weight: 257.8 1/14/21
September Start Weight: 219.2 (8/31/21)
September Goal Weight: 216.0
Ultimate Goal Weight: 170
Sept 4: 218.9 -(0.3)
Sept 11:
Sept 18:
Sept 25:
Sept 30:
My left hip has been bothering me the last couple of days. I have 2 bulging discs in my lower back so I have to be careful. I had L4/5 surgery 20 years ago. So I may back off of my exercise for a few days and see if it feels better.
I'm right there with you
I had L4/L5 surgery 8 years ago and L5/S1 8 years before that. My back has been hurting all week and I'm on Day 3 of total bedrest. I reherniated L4 a few years ago and it's always so scary to think it might be time again. I'm sincerely hoping that it will start to feel better on its own with rest, heat, gentle stretches, CBD/THC pain cream and massive amounts of anti-inflammatories.
Wishing you all the best spine health! 4 -
Age: 43
Height: 5'10"
SW: 290.6 (4/19/2021)
CW: 264.6 (9/1/2021)
9/4: 260.6
9/11:
9/18:
9/26:
GW for September: 255
GW for 2021: 240
UGW: 180
Well, today was another weird weigh in, lol. Was tempted to report in tomorrow when I am sure it will go back up but sticking with consistency. This week I struggled a little more - found myself in the kitchen looking for snacks even though I wasn't hungry quite a few times. I managed to divert with a glass of cold water or cup of tea or coffee, but the mental struggle was real. I was also having a hard time keeping up my motivation for exercise. I still managed to get started, but definitely reduced the time I was doing it. Hoping a quiet day at home tomorrow will recharge me for next week.6 -
NSV. IFYKYK.15 -
1st week back at it woop woop. 4.8lb loss yeay!
Aug 29: 257.4
Sept 2: 254.4
Sept 5: 252.67 -
Age: 38
Height: 5'3"
SW: 250 (6/27/21)
CW: 248
8/5: 248
8/12
8/19
8/26
September weight loss: 2 pounds
September goal weight: 240
UGW: 140
My body gave me a hard and painful reminder about how much it despises my bad food choices. Being sick over food choices is not worth it. Especially when that impacts my family and especially my kid.
My motivation is strong right now because of how upset my stomach is. We went to a fair and I ate pulled pork mac and cheese and a funnel cake. I got so so so sick yesterday from it! I already know not having my gallbladder means these foods are off limits but I ate them anyhow. Lesson learned. Sadly, pulled pork and Mac and cheese is one of my favorite things to eat. Well, was. It's just not worth it anymore. I'm calling that a huge win for me, as difficult as it was.8
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