Women 200lb+, Let's Shine This September!!!

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.

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 ♥️

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.

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.)

NSV. IFYKYK.