Women 200lb+, Let's Be Dynamic This December!!!

MeowScout wrote: »

Friday Weigh In!
PW 254
WI 252.5 (-1.5)

I survived today! I had a light breakfast and lunch, and then had pizza. But this evening I was hungry. I took a page out of my olden days WW toolkit: celery and tomatoes and yoghurt ranch dressing. So 100 cal over but I met all my other weekly goals and even got 6800 steps in.

I hope all of you have a great weekend. I am sure I’ll be checking in!

Unless you're aiming to lose at a rate of 1/5 of a pound per week, in which case ~100cal/day would be your whole deficit, going over even by that much is still coming in under maintenance for the day, which is still a victory!

Time for my own Saturday Weigh-In...

Age: 30
Height: 5'3"
SW: 252.8 (11/13/2020)
CW: 203.4 (11/27/2021)
12/4: 201.4
12/11:
12/18:
12/25:
GW for December/2021: 196
UGW: 144 by end of 2022

Heck. I was hoping to see a one on that scale this morning. At least the Thanksgiving jump is gone and it took some friends with it. 196 is feeling a little bit more ambitious now, but again, I'll be happy as long as I get and stay in Onederland, honestly.

I really had a good time participating in the r/LoseIt Cryptid Hunt challenge in October and November, so I stuck around on the Discord server after it was over and I'll probably sign up for the next one as well. To pass the time and help everyone stay on-track between official Challenges, they do Saturday step goal mini-challenges - not quite the Ultrawalkathon, but it's a challenge on the app Stridekick where you set a step goal and compete against other teams to meet or exceed your collective goal. I set my goal for 12k steps today and earned the bulk of those revisiting a natural area. Last time I was there was over the summer, which is the rainy season here, so parts of the trail were a little flooded; it IS a wetland, so like, that's to be expected, but I still don't love walking around with wet shoes and socks. I figured since we've had a good week or so with no rain, the trail would be fine today, and I was right, it was not flooded in any places. But, the thing I did forget about and failed to anticipate was dew. Condensation. About ten steps in and my toes were soaked; by the time I got back to the car, I was covered in wet sand from the knees down and I could feel the water sloshing and squelching around in my shoes. So, lesson learned, no matter what time of year it is, if I want to go to this natural area early in the morning, I should plan to wear my waterproof boots. Probably if I had gone later in the day it would have been fine. Like, it's around 12:30 now for me, so the trail is probably bone-dry at this point. I peeled my socks and shoes off when I got home and carefully set them on the dehumidifier, and once they're done drying I should be able to brush the rest of the sand off.

I'm back. Mary from Pennsylvania
64 Heaviest weight 255 lbs twice :-(

UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.

My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs, hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my off work days(3) and 3 meals on my work days, exercise on my 3 off work days. My weigh in day is Sunday.

9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs

My December goal is 5 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
12/5/21-
12/12/21-
12/19/21-
12/26/21-
01/01/22-

December loss-
Total loss to date-78.8 lbs

@MeowScout I'm not aware of any official MFP discord(s), nor is there one for this group in particular afaik. But, if you're on Reddit, the r/LoseItChallenges sub leadership sets up Discord servers for each team during the challenge, and then afterward you get invited to join the main server to hang out and keep your momentum up until the next one. I think/hope/assume there will be another challenge starting soon, but the Cryptid Hunt was my first challenge so I have no idea what the general schedule is for them.

I'm back. Mary from Pennsylvania
64 Heaviest weight 255 lbs twice :-(

UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.

My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs, hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my off work days(3) and 3 meals on my work days, exercise on my 3 off work days. My weigh in day is Sunday.

9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb/1000-1200 calorie while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs

My December goal is 5 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs

12/5/21-171.8 lbs As of yesterday I AM NO LONGER OBESE! I AM OVERWEIGHT! Also am wearing size 10 jeans but found a brand new pair of 8's with Tags on and I just had to try them. I zipped them right up, no trouble. My flabby belly though hangs out bad over the waistband, so need to do abdominal crunches.
12/12/21-
12/19/21-
12/26/21-
01/01/22-

December loss to date-4.4 lbs
Total loss to date-83.2 lbs

Question for @swimmom_1 :

Your messages show that you recently lost 10 pounds within a month, several times.
Could I ask how many grams of carbs you are budgeting for each day?

I think I might have a misunderstanding about just what constitutes a low-carb diet.

And congratulations on getting yourself below that big 30 BMI -- that's a big deal !

@tahitig
I'm doing a combo of things:
-1000-1200 calories/day
-15 grams Net Carbs +/- 3 grams (some days it falls as low as 7-9) So keto low (not low carb low) but let the Fat and Protein fall where they may. But I do get protein at every meal. (When I was trying to do Keto, I had trouble getting all the % fat, someone on low carber told me to just watch my carbs and let the fat & protein, fall where they may. Just seems to be working for me and just had tons of labs done and all are great except my cholesterol elevated some, but I've been on statins for years d/t my bad family history.)
-2 meals on my non-work days instead of 3 (Eat after my elliptical exercise, so kind of intermittent fasting).
-Lots of time on my Elliptical (3.5 + hours now, built up to it, so about 2600 calories burned-per MFP app)on my days off (3/week) making up for no exercising on work days
-At least 70 ozs of water.

So work days I drink a low carb protein shake for breakfast, lunch is a chef salad, dinner is meat and veggie and sometimes a snack with leftover calories available. Like sugar free jello with homemade whipped cream from heavy cream.
Off days after my elliptical, 2 egg omlette with spinach, pepper, and cheese and some bacon ( its lunch time to early afternoon by then) supper meat and veggie and then snack if leftover calories. On these days I usually am up to 1300-1400 calories. I do not eat back my exercise calories. Definitely not for everyone! And some will probably disagree with it but it's working for me. And I feel very good and labs are good levels. Dr is ok with it after lab results.

December can be challenging for me, as my birthday is in December, and there are several family get-togethers around Christmas.

But I'm sidestepping cake and such by taking my boyfriend's mom (future in-law) and my mother to lunch as a gift to myself, and because I can usually go out to eat and stay within a rational portion, that's not so bad calorically. Those are a week separate. I'm also hosting Christmas dinner for my in-laws, and I can make sure that what I make is good and falls into my calorie budget.

I'm also seeing my endocrinologist and I'm going to ask to get my thyroid medication increased a bit. My eyebrows are regrowing, and my shins are less puffy, but I'm still having to work not to gain, and that shouldn't be happening if I'm eating between 1500-1800 calories. At that rate I should be seeing a slow drift downward. I'm also still dealing with a lot of feeling physically heavy and exhausted most of the time, and that will correct when I get on the right dose of replacement hormone.

Next month I get the rest of my thyroid taken out, which is good because it's stepped up to giving me the sensation that I have a slightly sore throat, and I'd rather that didn't keep going.

Next month also I see a plastic surgeon about getting a breast reduction. If they do want me to lose more weight before they'll do it, once my thyroid gets put in order, I don't mind a bit. I want to lose more anyway.

Melissa
5’4”, 40 years old
SW 231
GW 150
CW 224.8

December Goal: 218
WI Mondays
11/29- 231
12/6- 224.8
12/13
12/21
12/27


December Goals
Lower blood sugar fasting level
Lose 7 lbs
Start an evening walking routine

I was just diagnosed diabetic 2 weeks ago. Haven’t had an appointment with my Dr yet but I’ve been tracking blood sugars, they are not great. Can’t seem to get them lower even going very low carb. But I’m going to continue to eat better and try to lose weight this month and hope that helps with my blood sugars. I go to the dr last week in December and I hope I won’t need to go on medicine and be able to control it with diet 🤞