Women 200lb+, Let's Have An UnBOOlievable October!!!

Age: 50
Height: 5'11"


SW: 226.6

October GW: 209
Ultimate GW: 175

This month I'll check in on Fridays.
October 1: 213.8
October 8: 211.8
October 15:
October 22:
October 29:

I had to put my soul mutt down on Wednesday and it's been so hard. She was such a gentle and beautiful soul and has literally been by my side every day for the past four years. I changed careers right around the same time we adopted her, which meant that she got to hang out in my art studio all day. She loved to scratch herself against the walls, so one day I installed this hot pink shag carpeting all along one section of wall. It is utterly ridiculous and she LOVED it. Just look at this sweet picture of my old girl and how happy she is!



I miss her so much.

I'm sure my loss this week is from simply not having an appetite. I packed a good lunch today with a lot of protein for my first day back at the studio. I'm feeling like I want to fall apart a lot of the time but I'm also proud of the progress I've made in the last two months and I don't want to drown my feelings in food and then feel bad about that too.

The good news is that my back is feeling so much better. I can get outside more, which will help with the sadness as well.

Plans for this month:
🍁 Keep my calories in the 1250-1350 range. I'm still not exercising because of my reherniated disc, so I'll stay in this range in October. Maybe in the next week or two I can get in the pool for some light swimming.
🍁 Keep monitoring my hunger levels. I'm getting much better at realizing when 1250 is too low, and bumping it up to 1400 or even 1600 as needed. And then other days I'm completely satiated at that number. I no longer feel the urge to eat just to reach a certain number, nor do I feel bad about the days when I'm simply hungrier. Progress!
🍁 Keeping my fiber intake up. This was a huge step forward! Adding Psyllium Husk got me so much closer to my fiber goals and I'm convinced it's why 1250-1350 calories feels okay. I just feel a bit more sated, but not bloated. This small change really had a big effect on my diet.

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

10/1 191.6 body fat 44.1% Oct goal 188.6: loss of 3 lbs
10/8 190
10/15
10/20
10/29

My non-scale goals:

🎃 walk 2 miles every single day
🎃 consider decluttering a bit for brain reasons - little bit at a time
🎃 concentrate on food as nutrition or as medicine
🎃 keep carbs under 100g daily
🎃 be patient
🎃 be able to retire my "towel sheet" and use a regular person towel

I am at TOTM, and doing well. I am still very grateful for the IV iron from cancer - wow the stamina iron gives you is no joke! Also, fibroids are no joke at wasting iron. I don't know why I put retire the towel sheet in there last week. I maybe could retire it right now. I am having issues with seeing what size I currently am, the hubby thinks that I could fit into my wedding dress from 26 years ago (27 years ago Jan 6) . He joked that he could carry me, and that he never remembers me being lighter. I may have to buy some lingerie, maybe something just for now. I tried to take in my old lingerie with the sewing machine and it was... awkward and weird. Things you just don't want to have be a description with a romantic date with the hubby!

I bought tights at the store for when we had a cool snap last Saturday. I got home and somehow picked up my old size of reliable 22 (to be fair this size did fit for over 20 years). I don't know what I am doing!! I have no idea what size I actually am. I got some more tights at the grocery store that are a size L/XL and they fit perfect.

The hubby wants me to try on my wedding dress. That will take some courage. It is in a state ladies, I bought it at a used clothes boutique in 1994. When we got married, I had hoped to have children and maybe even a daughter to pass it onto. Turns out, we have been barren the entire time. So I just sort of watched it stain and generally rot over the years. Never thought I would even be able to wear it again. Oh the feelings, they are pretty strong right now and all over the place!

One more random thought. On my daily walks, I have been seeing many Roseate Spoonbills. So imagine, regular America burb - with a pink bird that looks like it has a spoon for a bill. It looks like something right out of Alice in Wonderland. Why yes, I do wonder why they didn't name it something a little more exotic. Was "pink bird with a spoon" taken? Of course, now I just wonder how it tastes. The same with the white ibis I keep seeing in the morning. I am not THAT hungry ya'll but now I keep looking at all the local birds wondering, "I wonder how you taste?"

@goal06082021 The "wellies" I got are lose in the calf AND have a buckle with extra material to widen the calf further. Because I feel ya on having calf fit on waterproof boots!!

As my grandpa used to say, "tuck your chin so when you get hit in the face you don't get knocked out." Yes, he was a boxer, why do you ask? lols. I like how he never said "if" you get hit in the face, it was always "when".

Ladies we are killin it! And I don't just mean the zombies and ghouls in the front yard. Although, I mean, they need slaying too, can't have them shambling around eating the neighborhood cats, ducks and what not. Carry on!

SW: 221.4 (7/2021)
CW: 212.4
October GW: 209
Ultimate Goal: 150-160

Total - 9 lbs since July, 1.4lbs since Oct 1st.

October 1: 213.8
October 8: 212.4
October 15:
October 22:
October 29:

I've been tracking for 182 days now and just within the last 2.5 months or so have I finally started to lose weight. I'm doing what I guess can be called dirty fasting, where I only eat from 11am to 7pm, but I allow my self coffee with creamer and Stevia before my eating window opens. I'm also walking a lot more too, my husband, kids and I will take a 4mi walk with our dog, and when we don't do that, I walk for 30min to an hour on the treadmill. Walking has helped change my shape in a good way though! Ive lost inches off my hips and I can tell when I wear my work clothes.


I'm losing very slowly which is exasperating, but is better than nothing. My underactive thyroid doesn't help either. 😒. I'm hoping by then end of the month that I will be out of the 210s and into the 200s. We're going on vacation in November, and I'm hoping to be low 200s by then, and maybe onederland by then

justanotherloser007 wrote: »

@wanderinglight What a sweet precious puppy🐾 ! Thanks for sharing and many ((((hugs)))) during this time

Thank you so much!

Height: 5'2"
Age: 30
SW: 252.8 (11/13/2020)
CW: 210.0 (9/26/2021)
10/2: 210.4
10/9: 208.4
10/16:
10/23:
10/30:
GW for October: 205
GW for 2021: 196
UGW: 144 end of 2022

Onederland is getting so close I can taste it - I'm well-positioned to be right on the threshold at the one-year mark of my journey, my MFP-versary you might call it. So excited for that!

It absolutely poured last night, so I had to adjust my hiking plans for today. I didn't get quite as many steps in as I was planning, but I did manage to avoid the rain, so that's something. I also joined the Reddit LoseIt Challenge for fall, so now I'm tracking steps with an app on my phone.

Speaking of anniversaries, my first wedding anniversary is coming up later this month. Hubs and I dated/cohabitated/built a life together for ten years before making it official so it feels a little weird to think of this year as a "first" of anything. We haven't decided what we're going to do; the day of is a Tuesday, so if we do anything to mark the occasion day-of it'll probably just be dinner or something.

Height: 5'10"
Age: 26
SW: 246.9 (07/13/2021)
CW: 226.3 (10/01/2021)
10/2: 227.7 (+1.4)
10/9: 224.3 (-3.4)
10/16:
10/23:
10/30:
GW for October: 218-220
GW for 2021: 204-208
UGW: 173 by May 2022, then maintenance

Losing 3.4 pounds in a week seems like a lot until I remember that the 10/2 weight wasn’t as accurate. So, in reality, I lost 2 pounds in 8 days, which is much closer to the rate I’m trying to lose at.

Got the keys to my new apartment today. 4th floor, no elevator. I discovered I have more stamina than I realized, but moving boxes wore me out. I do get the luxury of time on this move, though. And professional movers for the furniture.

Other good news: Lost another half inch of my waistline. Only need to lose 1.5 more to have the coveted height to waist ratio. My hip measurement is staying steady, but I don’t know if that’s because fat disappears different places at different rates or because I secretly had an hourglass figure hidden in there all along or both. Interesting dilemma: at my bust, I tend to carry excess fat on my back and sides, not my front. Technically l, my cup size has gone up as I lost weight since only my band size has shrunk. Going to eventually need to get remeasured.

One more thing: Going on vacation this week to visit family and go to a wedding. Will probably be eating out a lot more. Going to try to fight temptation and get at least 2 workouts in.