Women 200lb+, Let's Have A Noteworthy November!!!

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  • Deanner03
    Deanner03 Posts: 371 Member
    goal06082021 wrote: »
    Weigh-in Day!


    Broke the 50lb mark! Now I'm in the unenviable position of needing new clothes. I can still just about get away with wearing most of my work pants, but the fit is edging toward "baggy" rather than the more on-trend "relaxed." The thing is, though, I know that my body is going to change a lot more over the next 50 lbs than it did for the first, in terms of how clothes fit. I don't want to go wild replacing my whole wardrobe right now if none of it will fit by February - I've already done that, twice now, with bras. A UK 40G is still presently my best fit (which is what I have), but I think I might go back to Walmart/Target/Marshall's for bras for the next little bit - I do still have a 42DDD floating around from the Before Times that...is a boob hat but it's good enough for work. Maybe I can snag a 40G/US 40I at Nordstrom Rack - if I'm lucky it might not even be a Wacoal! (I don't care for the shape they give, Wacoal seems to think anyone with titties like mine MUST want a minimizer and I *don't*, I'm quite wide enough, I want these girls facing forward, thanks).

    I tend to hit second hand stores for clothes, but I scored some bras from Kohl's on an early Black Friday deal for $12.73 each. They had up to a G cup.
  • JNettie73
    JNettie73 Posts: 1,211 Member
    Starting weight: 270 March 2021
    Total loss to date: 58.2

    November Start Weight:212.4
    November Goal Weight:
    Ultimate Goal Weight:TBD

    November 7:212.4
    November 14: 212.4
    November 21: 211.8
    November 28:

    Earlier in the week I saw 210 and was excited. I didn't log it because it was not my weigh in day, I also wanted to see if that number stuck. This morning I weighed in at 211.8, it's not as low as I had hoped but still a loss so I will take it. I've been sticking to my strength training routine and really feel good about it.

    @justanotherloser007
    I love the Oompa Loompa analogy!!!

    @goal06082021
    I am glad your husband is doing well. Congrats on hitting the 50 lb mark! I really admire you for not becoming derailed with all that is going on in your life and sticking to your plan. You are AMAZING!!!

    @finngirl61
    I am so sorry for your loss.
  • drj63
    drj63 Posts: 59 Member
    Age: 58
    Ht.: 5'3"
    MFP SW: 205 (7/5/21)
    October Ending weight: 195
    Last Week's weight: 196.4
    Current Weight:194.6

    First time I've lost weight since the beginning of October! Wooohooo!

    I haven't had any access to the community on here for over a week since they've been redoing the boards. It took me forever to find this thread again. I hope they work the bugs out soon!
    I holding on that I'll be under 193 at the end of November. That was my original goal for this month.
    I hope everyone has a wonderful week and a very Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate!
  • swimmom_1
    swimmom_1 Posts: 1,302 Member
    Well I didn't get to the 180 or below. Had an uptick to 181.8 lbs but I was true to my calories, carbs, water and exercise so just a normal weight fluctuation. So I lost 30.2 lbs during the 3 month challenge. Which is excellent!

    So starting 11/1 at 181.8 lbs with goal of 5 lbs for the month. This 10 lb average / month that has been going on has got to slow down soon, I'm thinking.

    Welcome back to past challengers and to the new ones!
    64 yo 5' 4" Heaviest Weight twice-255 lbs, got down to 122 lbs 2010 and kept it off 5 years then got lazy.
    11/1/21-181.8 lbs
    11/7/21-180 lbs! Down 75 lbs. 58 lbs to my 122 lb goal. Did 200 minutes on my Elliptical today, 14.25 miles.[/quote]
    11/14/21-176.6 lbs, Down 78.4 lbs, about 60 % of my 133 lbs loss goal, 5.2 lbs of my 11/1-1/31/22 (or 2/1/22 AM) 15 lb goal. Have been bumping up my Elliptical, was up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) Today I did 223 minutes because I wanted to finish the last 10 minutes of the last movie and I wanted the 16 mile mark!

    11/21-177.4 lbs, Yuck! But has to be water weight as I stuck to my calorie and water goals. So it's ok. Also I have been losing 10 lbs/month and expected it to slow down a month or 2 ago. Guess it's now.



  • seltzer_lover
    seltzer_lover Posts: 261 Member
    SW (7/23): 300
    11/1: 277.5
    11/8: 277.6
    11/15: 273.5
    11/22: 273.1
    GW for November: 271 - 274

    I ended up resting all weekend, trying to nurse my lower back back to health. While I do feel a LOT better today, I'm not well enough to get back to my HIIT classes. :disappointed: I have 3 scheduled while I'm at home for the holiday, so I'm hoping that by taking it easy today and tomorrow, I'll be able to go.

    What are your plans for dealing with Thanksgiving? I'll be home Tuesday - Sunday and am planning on going to my HIIT classes Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. I've convinced the fam to walk a 5K on Thanksgiving morning (gotta tucker out the kids and the dogs!). We tend to not make a ton of "bad" food on Thanksgiving - it's turkey and a lot of veggie sides like green beans, asparagus, etc, so I'm going to focus on taking reasonable helpings of alllll the veggies and some turkey breast, and then a small serving of gravy and stuffing. If I do seconds, only veggies.

    Hoping that keeps any potential pitfalls at bay. How are y'all coping?

  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    edited November 2021
    I started today by revisiting the PF workout video that started it all ("Beginner Strength 1" with Zac Marion). Got up at 6, fed the cats, strapped myself into my workout gear and got jiggy with it in the living room. The difference from the first time was dramatic. Everything was just so much easier. I remember after finishing that video last year, having to sit on the couch for a minute to catch my breath and feeling a little shaky in the shower afterward, and having hella DOMS the rest of the week. I still have trouble with triceps dips sitting on the floor, but that's more down to my proportions being different from the trainer's, I think (he's a tall guy, I'm neither of those things - I got shorter arms and a lower center of gravity) - what I should have done, I think, was hold my feet off the ground (engage that core!) and just rock backward and forward by bending and straightening my arms. I kept wanting to use my hips and legs to raise my butt off the ground, and not my arms, which was the point of the exercise.

    And, after I finished, I laid my workout clothes flat so they could dry all day rather than crumpling them up and chucking them into the laundry bin, because I'm gonna put 'em back on and take a walk this evening. The 2-ish mile loop around my block is actually a really pleasant way to spend ~40 minutes - I've caught up on all my podcasts, LMAO. Part of me *is* planning on two-a-days this week in particular because Thanksgiving, but I think I could keep doing the videos in the morning and also taking walks in the evening through the end of the year - there certainly won't be a dearth of treats, so I'll want to do something to stay ahead of that. Might keep that going into the new year, even. I don't know if Hubs is up for the distance just yet, but maybe later on when he's more healed I could even get him to join me; if I say it enough times, maybe he'll believe me that if you want to keep moving, you have to keep moving.

    edit to add: The two-a-days and just being really meticulous the rest of the week is my plan for Thanksgiving. I'll probably try to log after the fact as best I can, just to get a ballpark, and I'll be banking calories as best I can the rest of the week as well. Ultimately, though, this one day is not going to undo everything I've worked so hard for. One day a month isn't going to do it, either (that's roughly how often I end up having excessive/difficult-to-log "special occasion" type dinners, between holiday gatherings and birthdays and the like). I lost six pounds during The Holidays last year, I can damned well do it again.
  • kenziestabes
    kenziestabes Posts: 338 Member
    Height: 5'10"
    Age: 26
    SW: 246.9 (07/13/2021)
    CW: 219.9 (11/01/2021)
    GW for November: 213.0 214.9
    GW for 2021: 208.5
    UGW: 172 by June 2022
    11/1: 219.9
    11/8: 218.1
    11/15: 217.3
    11/22: 216.5 (-0.8)
    11/29:

    So, the good news: I've officially lost more than 30 pounds. The bad news: there's no way I will be able to lose 3.5 pounds in a week, so I won't make my original goal for the month. No sweat; I'll just adjust.

    Puppy gets her follow up appointment on Wednesday to get the remaining stitches out. She's doing well!

    I am slowly getting back into my pre-October fitness routine. Puppy interrupted my sit ups, lol.

    If I can up my weightloss back to 5.5 pounds a week, I should be able to meet my weight goal for 2021. I'm thinking I will focus on upping my exercise as apposed to dropping my caloric intake because I really like the amount I'm eating, and I'm still losing weight, regardless. I just want to see an uptick in my rate. Also, one of my primary reasons for losing weight is so that it'll be easier to be more active, so working out is a priority.

    In other news, I have officially switched to a smaller belt.
  • sargemarcori
    sargemarcori Posts: 301 Member
    Age: 51
    Height: 5'
    SW: 266.6 (1/4/21)
    SW November: 233.5
    GW for November: 229
    GW for 2021: 220
    GW for October 2022 because that's my focus: 165

    Forgot to choose a day! My weigh-ins will be Fridays as the weekend tends to get away from me.
    11/5: 231.5
    11/12: 231.5
    11/19: 232.6
    11/26

    Saw 233 (which is the wrong way!) for the first time in two weeks today. It's been a ROUGH week-and-some for me, though, so I'm not going to stress about it.

    ROUGH week-and-some is also why I won't be replying to everyone this time, but I am still cheering you ALL on!
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    Deanner03 wrote: »
    I scored some bras from Kohl's on an early Black Friday deal for $12.73 each. They had up to a G cup.

    Thank you for the news! I will try to get there to shop tonight. I am literally in tears, because at 97 lbs or whatever I am down my measuring tape has joined the oompa loompas with some weird alternate reality.

    So I guess I have some loose skin, mostly doesn't really look that bad to me? But, it messes with the measuring tape!! Well, I was fixing my clothes on the sewing machine.. bought $3 tees.. but I measured my hips before I bought undies and they were too loose. I don't have a car ya'll cuz seizures and all, so getting out is difficult.

    But I think I will have to get some shapewear, the most offensive being the arm area really, but I will probably need a whole shapewear supersuit to go with the weight loss. Peasant skirts are for the win when you are losing weight, they have elastic waists, I have some maxi's with elastic waists I mean it is a five second fix - and I have been able to wear the 2x til now with very little effort. But the bras and undies are now in a pitiable state, I have fixed them.. but now I need some sort of heroic assistance.

    I bought some armshapers online, but afterwards remembered that the tape measure is not reliable. How am I supposed to deal with that?? So your news is a balm on a difficult day. Thank you Deanner. I will try to get someone to take me to Kohl's ... shudders.. I think they have shapewear and then maybe the measuring tape will work again.

    Then maybe I can figure out what underwear and what bra's to wear while I am at it. I don't remember anyone mentioning previously about the tape measure not working before this. I can't say I am able to wrap my head around it.

  • kenziestabes
    kenziestabes Posts: 338 Member
    @justanotherloser007 My tape measure has me at about 1.5 inches larger than I currently am. I know this because the belt I'm currently wearing is 34 inches in circumference and the tape says I'm 36. In reality, I'm probably in between.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    kenziestabes wrote: »
    @justanotherloser007 My tape measure has me at about 1.5 inches larger than I currently am. I know this because the belt I'm currently wearing is 34 inches in circumference and the tape says I'm 36. In reality, I'm probably in between.

    Did you measure the belt? We all know women's clothing with its utterly arbitrary size indicators (what the hell is a "12," anyway? Twelve *whats*?) has been vanity-sized to hell and back, but in recent years, even clothing that's labeled in a way that supposedly corresponds to actual tangible measurements has fallen victim. My husband's newest "34"-waist pants measure closer to 36 inches.

    And also, are you measuring your waist at the same place and with the same tightness that you're wearing the belt? I know my natural waist and the place where the top of my pants actually sit on my body are two different places, and my pants don't just sit on top of my skin, they do compress some or else they'd fall down. That soft, loose skin that comes with weight loss can be especially misleading, if you're only pulling the tape tight enough that it stays flush without compressing the skin, and not actually matching the tightness of how your clothing fits. It can be hard to measure yourself without help, too - trying to turn and look to make sure the tape is straight can push it off-kilter, that kind of thing.

    Much like the scale, measurements should also be considered in the aggregate to see if the trend is moving in the direction you want rather than fixating on a single data point. Human hands and eyes are fallible, and especially if you don't take measurements every single day, you're probably measuring slightly different places on your body each time. It's a bit trickier if you're trying to measure yourself for clothes, though (don't I know it).
  • kenziestabes
    kenziestabes Posts: 338 Member
    Admittedly, I have not measured the belt. That said, I tend to wear high waisted pants, so my belt sits at my natural waist. It is a smidge tighter than when I have my tape measure resting on the surface of my skin, but I found that if I use that measurement, my pants would fall off! Then again, I probably see more flights of stairs than average in my daily life, so a tighter fit is absolutely necessary for me.

    As for accuracy, I used to have to take measurements a lot, both on myself and others, when I was involved in theatre and have a defined enough waistline (even with an obese bmi). I measure myself pretty accurately.

    I guess, if anything, my phrasing was off. My base measurement (for pants and skirts) is about 1.5 inches less than what my resting-on-surface tape measurement is.

    Point is, when losing 30+ pounds of weight, depending on how tightly or loosely you want an article of clothing to fit, you may have to stray from the exact tape measure number, and I don't think that's particularly odd.
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    seltzer_lover wrote: »
    SW (7/23): I ended up resting all weekend, trying to nurse my lower back back to health.
    I hope your back feels better ((hugs)) If you can do the 5k maybe you can move up a little more walking. The veggies sound like a perfect plan! I love veggies, but the hubby's family is ridiculous with veggies.. meaning, green beans: covered in fried onion things with cream. Sweet potato: covered with huge marshmallows. I mean, I figure they don't believe in veggies at all. So I can't really have them, much less have seconds. I am planning on bringing a sugar free pumpkin pie, but I am pretty sure I will be the only one eating it even though there are 4 diabetics out of 14 people. I don't even have diabetes, I am just trying to deal with sugar for my brain issues.
    @sargemarcori I really hope things get better for you (((hugs)))
    @goal06082021 Your fitness is stellar! You work really hard, and hard work pays off!
    @kenziestabes I guess since I was just winging it till now, I didn't realize there was such a discrepancy. Another lady who lost a bit of weight said that the measuring tape has her 5 sizes larger.. ya, I don't understand it at all.


  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    kenziestabes wrote: »
    Point is, when losing 30+ pounds of weight, depending on how tightly or loosely you want an article of clothing to fit, you may have to stray from the exact tape measure number, and I don't think that's particularly odd.

    So I sew patterns, AND geometry is my weakest mathematic suit. Why can't sewing be algebra?? So I figured, you measure.. you sew. But, I will have to find another way to algebraically understand geometry lols because in the end that is what is happening in my mind. Previously I would NEVER have strayed from the tape. I wouldn't have dreamed that was a thing. Also the reason why I consider myself a baker, not a chef. Baker=exact, chef=chanting, tossing a "dash" of things around, raising dead ancestors to get their gumbo recipe. Just not for me lols. I just have to adapt, somehow.

  • sarah12277
    sarah12277 Posts: 212 Member
    Deanner03 wrote: »

    I tend to hit second hand stores for clothes, but I scored some bras from Kohl's on an early Black Friday deal for $12.73 each. They had up to a G cup.

    Thanks for the tip on the Kohl's bras!! I usually stay out of the store as it's safer. Definitely in need as I'm reluctant to buy more at regular pricing. Torrid's bra prices are horrendous so only have a few that have measured weird so don't fit well.
  • FushiaKat
    FushiaKat Posts: 551 Member
    edited November 2021
    FushiaKat
    Week 4
    PW = 192
    CW= 188.4

    56.6 pounds down, 43.4 more to goal weight.

    One more week to go, I think I'll meet my November goal of 188. I have prevailed the last week and stayed on track and under my calories goal even though my new medication is making me super hungry. I've been drinking more Iced Tea to combat that. I admit it's been very difficult. Yesterday was better and so is today, maybe I've finally gotten used to it.

    I bought a Fitbit Versa 2 and linked it to MFP

    According to MFP's BMI score I need to weight 174 before I will move out of the obese category and into the overweight BMI score. My next goal will be 180 for the month of December.

    I want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you get to spend time with your family and loved one's.
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    @FushiaKat (((hugs))) meds that make you hungry are just the worst! You are very close to being overweight!! That is super exciting!! Only someone on this thread would understand how amazing that is and all the hard work you put in to get here.

    I also want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍗🤤🌽🥔🥦🥑🌶🍄🧄💖
  • kenziestabes
    kenziestabes Posts: 338 Member
    Man, I am just *hungry* today. Problem is that I don't want to snack right now because I have to make what I've packed for dinner last until I get home tonight in 6.5 hours. Definitely drinking plenty of water, though.
  • sargemarcori
    sargemarcori Posts: 301 Member
    @kenziestabes I keep a jar of mixed nuts on my desk for those situations. I like nuts, but I don't eat them like I do, say, peanut butter cups, so five pieces is fifty calories and enough to hold me a while--plus healthy fats!

    @justanotherloser007 I am soooo looking forward to being confused by my laundry. :smile:

    @FushiaKat I'm cheering you on! How do you like the Versa 2? I have an Inspire HR (I think) and it has its good and bad aspects.

    that is a WOW price on the Kohl's bras!

    Today the Adult Skills class brought me a plate from their Gratitude Feast, and I managed to NOT eat everything on it! I was very proud of myself.
  • kenziestabes
    kenziestabes Posts: 338 Member
    I decided to split my dinner into 3 servings. Ate the first portion at 2 hours ago, the second just now, and I will eat the third (and largest) in an hour. Then, I have a pre-logged snack to eat when I take my nightly medication. Problem solved.
  • FushiaKat
    FushiaKat Posts: 551 Member
    kenziestabes wrote: »
    I decided to split my dinner into 3 servings. Ate the first portion at 2 hours ago, the second just now, and I will eat the third (and largest) in an hour. Then, I have a pre-logged snack to eat when I take my nightly medication. Problem solved.

    I do that too; I eat some at lunch and some save for later. And then I can have my popcorn snack too! When I make squash noodles with shrimp it's just too much food to eat at one sitting.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    So, today my office is having a little pre-Thanksgiving potluck. I'm thankful that we decided on the menu publicly and in advance, so I could ballpark the calories - homemade food is always a bit of a crapshoot, but I know what I put in my homemade dish, there's only so many calories one can pack into the rice and peas that a coworker is bringing, and everything else is going to be either storebought prepared or from a box per package directions. The meal is going to be pretty carb-centric, it looks like, so to get a little more protein in me today, I made a protein shake from the protein powder SIL sent us for Hubs, using the shaker bottle I bought over the weekend for him. It was...okay. The package doesn't actually have a recommended ratio of powder to liquid, so it took some experimenting to get to something that wasn't too unpleasant to drink. Probably mixing it with milk or OJ or something other than plain water would also have helped. I don't think I could rock the protein shake lifestyle permanently - I like food too much - but we'll see how this goes for me today. Between this and my big mug of coffee I think I should be okay.

    My turkey has also been defrosting in the fridge since about midday Saturday and, as of last night, was still troublingly firm. I'm planning to spatchcock it so it won't take as long to roast, but when I get home today (work is closing early for the holiday, so that helps), I might need to take it out of the crisper drawer and transfer to a water bath to finish thawing. Hubs can't lift the turkey right now, and someone will basically need to babysit it the whole time to keep the cats away from it; they love both poultry *and* the plastic it comes wrapped in, the goblins.
  • danikat15
    danikat15 Posts: 113 Member
    38

    5'7"



    9/9/21- 252 (SW & ATH)

    11/1/21- 231.4

    11/5/21- 230.2

    11/12/21- 225.7

    11/19/21- 223.6

    11/25/21- 220.5



    November weight lost- 10.9

    Total weight lost- 31.5

    I'm checking in a day early because weighing in the day after Thanksgiving just doesn't seem like a good idea 😂

    I've tried to create a slightly bigger deficit this week to account for today. I'm not going to log and I'm going to enjoy everything. I'll get back to it it tomorrow.

    I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! 🦃
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    I thought about trying to "cheat" and weigh in this morning, but you know what, it is what it is. If I see an increase on Saturday it's going to be retained water and food in transit. Restarting those PF workout vids has me retaining hella water, I've been sore all week LMAO. It'll come off by next weekend, I'm sure.

    Turkey is spatchcocked and drying in the fridge - it was pretty much thawed but the neck was trapped in a block of ice inside it, so I had to pull out the giblets bag and then cut out the backbone before I could pull the neck out. Spatchcocking makes for a bird that cooks almost twice as fast as "traditional" roasting, with 100% more crispy skin, so that should be really good. Serious Eats says their turkey took about 80 minutes, my oven tends to need about 10-15 more minutes than the recipe usually says so I'm expecting closer to 90-100 minutes, plus a 20-minute rest is about 2 hours from entering the oven to carving that bird up. I'm confident that my turkey will come out well, but the stakes still feel weirdly high - I've never been responsible for The Holiday Meal Centerpiece like this, I guess. I just need to stop worrying. I'm a good cook, I've read way too many articles about how to do this, the expectations of the guests are not outlandishly high.

    I'm torn between trying to ballpark and pre-log something, going in after the fact to see what the damage is, or just Quick Adding 2000 calories and calling it a day. I know roughly what is on the menu but not all the recipes. I drank a big mug of coffee this morning so that should help curb hunger for the next 6 hours. I would very much like to pour myself an adult beverage of some kind, but my husband is on so very many medications right now that alcohol is probably inadvisable, so in solidarity with him I will probably abstain. It is what it is.
  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    I ended up having a couple of drinks anyway. I'm about 600 cal over budget today and uncomfortably full, but just for funsies i decided to look back at my diary from last Thanksgiving. I went over by 1600ish last year, more than double what i did today, and i don't think i felt this stuffed. I feel like I've come incredibly far in just a year, I'm proud of me, and i just wanted to pop back in here and say so.

    Also my turkey and gravy turned out awesome and I'm extremely pleased about that too. 👍
  • swimmom_1
    swimmom_1 Posts: 1,302 Member
    edited November 2021
    Well I didn't get to the 180 or below. Had an uptick to 181.8 lbs but I was true to my calories, carbs, water and exercise so just a normal weight fluctuation. So I lost 30.2 lbs during the 3 month challenge. Which is excellent!

    So starting 11/1 at 181.8 lbs with goal of 5 lbs for the month. This 10 lb average / month that has been going on has got to slow down soon, I'm thinking.

    Welcome back to past challengers and to the new ones!
    64 yo 5' 4" Heaviest Weight twice-255 lbs, got down to 122 lbs 2010 and kept it off 5 years then got lazy.
    11/1/21-181.8 lbs
    11/7/21-180 lbs! Down 75 lbs. 58 lbs to my 122 lb goal. Did 200 minutes on my Elliptical today, 14.25 miles.[/quote]
    11/14/21-176.6 lbs, Down 78.4 lbs, about 60 % of my 133 lbs loss goal, 5.2 lbs of my 11/1-1/31/22 (or 2/1/22 AM) 15 lb goal. Have been bumping up my Elliptical, was up to 210 minutes (3.5 hours) Today I did 223 minutes because I wanted to finish the last 10 minutes of the last movie and I wanted the 16 mile mark!

    11/21-177.4 lbs, Yuck! But has to be water weight as I stuck to my calorie and water goals. So it's ok. Also I have been losing 10 lbs/month and expected it to slow down a month or 2 ago. Guess it's now.

    11/25/21-176.8 lbs! Not my normal weigh in day but some of this water weight finally dropped, so I had to share. Did only meat and broccoli, no gravy, for my Thanksgiving lunch. But I did try a small amout of a homemade flan, as I have tried it before and I am dulging in a piece of pumpkin cheesecake right now. I did 217 minutes on my Elliptical this AM and hope it wards off a gain. I'm still below my calorie allotment with the exercise. (3810 allowed) Estimated calories at just under 1300 but hard to log when you don't know the recipes. But I am savoring every bite. Crossing my fingers.





  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,755 Member
    edited November 2021
    Age 61 / height 5' 4.5"

    8/13/2021 - 298.8 (SW & ATH)
    October- 278.8 (Down 20!)

    11/1/2021- 280.0 (darn Halloween 🎃)
    11/5/2021- 277.8
    11/7-19/2021- vacation
    11/25/2021- 274.0

    I will be in Hawaii 🌴 (on Kauai,  cannot wait) from Nov 7-18th so unable to weigh in then - seriously considered bringing the ⚖ but too heavy! I normally weigh in almost daily but will record weekly, Fridays or Sundays if not at home Friday morning.

    November goals-
    [●] Get Fitbit charged & synced and start tracking steps  - DONE!
    [○] Go for minimum 15 minute walk each day when at home (will do a ton more on vacation!) - Missed a few days, but not on vacation - had good activity while away!
    [○] Get my water in, minimum 6 glasses, especially while away - doing pretty good on this goal, peeing a lot 🤭
    [●] Continue tracking food daily, making  best guesses & choices while away - DONE!
    [●] Get right back on track once home - OH YEAH!!
    [●] November Weight Loss Goal- 275 - MET!

    I am super happy to be down after my vacation,  I was up exactly 2 lbs the day after my return, but got back to proper eating habits + focused on getting my water in, and today saw a new number on the scale  - yay! And it beats my 5 lb goal for November.  I will check it again on Sunday just to be sure 😜.

    I tried to catch up on reading posts!
    The Libra (android) / Happy Scale (apple) just upsets me, I do not get the trend at all, it seems when I post a gain it goes berserk and needs many losses to calm down again lol, I probably should just delete it 😄
    The oompa loompa song is in my brain 🎶
    Made mental notes about the tape measure. 📏

    Hope all my neighbours to the south had a lovely Thanksgiving ❤
  • justanotherloser007
    justanotherloser007 Posts: 578 Member
    48 yo 5’3” 6/2013 SW 277
    November goal - lose 3 lbs
    11/1 184
    11/8 182
    11/19 179.6 - hit goal!!
    11/26 178.4 - TOM so actually doing well
    11/30

    Use true grit, dig deep and pray for the virtue of mortification!

    My non-scale goals:

    🦃 Walk 3 miles every single day (up from 2 miles last month!!) Now walk faster!! Then longer!!
    🦃 Be patient! and remember that increments are where it is at - every little bit really does count
    🦃 Be grateful and give thanks every single day, more than once a day!
    🦃 Remember: Total loss of 98.6 lbs!! (next month could be the 100 lbs gone)

    NSV: Today I finally did a 3mph speed for an hour!!!!! Yep, first time ever! I usually lumber around at 2mph and my hips - oooh, the pain. So I wiki’d how to walk faster and found out what I was walking all wrong. So, I thought to go faster I needed a longer stride - and it turns out THAT was what was killing my hips. I actually needed to do super short strides!!! The awesome part? It was easier to go 3mph than it has been to go 2mph!! So long story short, I am really stupid and didn’t know how to walk!! Thanks wiki!!

    So instead of taking 2 hours to walk 3.5 miles... you get the picture. Of course, my ultimate goal is 5 miles every day for life. I think I can do this now! I wasn't sure at first. Hip pain, a long obesity past etc.

    I also looked up how much fat I need to lose, instead of only focusing on weight. I have 30ish lbs of fat to lose. So I am changing my maintenance weight to 150 for now. Then I will just recomp - and I shouldn’t weigh that much lighter after that, I should simply be turning fat into muscle - if that is at all possible.
  • MeowScout
    MeowScout Posts: 103 Member
    Lisa, 47, 5’2”, SW 155

    11/27 154.5

    Hello everyone! I need help, and that’s why I am here. I am not giving up. With only a few days to go, I believe I can manage to track for the rest of the month.

    Any words of wisdom from when you finally got going on losing weight?

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