Women 200lb+, Let's Be Majestic This March!!!

SW: 129.9kg 5th March

12th March: 127.2kg
13th March: 127.4kg

Fully expected, had a couple of vodkas last night!

Age 50, 5'6"
Starting weight: 223.5 (1/1/22)
Ultimate goal weight: 160

1/1 223.5
1/8 222.4
1/15 221.2
1/22 219.9
1/29 219.4
Jan. loss: 4.1

2/4 218.9
2/13 217.5
2/20 216.1
2/27 Out of town
Feb. loss: 3.3

3/6 216.2
3/13 251.3
3/20
3/27
March loss:

CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »

Good
maybe make a big salad so I can amuse myself doing this number:

Proof of concept, haha:


The salad is cabbage, peas, and green onions, with chicken and crushed up ramen noodles, with a dressing of sesame oil and rice vinegar and a little of the ramen packet seasoning.

Good morning! ☀️ Hi ladies here’s to a great week. Thanks @CupcakeCrusoe @hap2go for the encouragement!

I’ve been struggling a little bit with my food choices but I’m determined to get back on track. My legs and my back are starting to hurt and I know it’s because of weight.

I’ve been working from home since October, and one thing this site does is let me see my patterns from tracking. I don’t move much working from home. So more food and less movement = extra Me . Stress eating too so I’m going to find solutions to what’s bothering me , Instead of overeating find a non food activity to do

Now that I’ve identified the pattern, I can make better choices. @justanotherloser007 that quote is so true. We won’t always be motivated so he have to be disciplined.

So I’m taking it a day at a time .Today I’m going to prep meals to last about 3 days, and get some exercise. ❤️🙏🏽👍🏽🤸🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️🥦💪🏽

@jazzadesigns - On the plus side, you're not gaining! I know it's so frustrating when you're just. not. losing, but there is a bright side, and that is that you're maintaining and not regaining.

@goal06082021 - any chance you could share that baked oatmeal recipe? Cherry and chocolate together are my favorite! Congrats on being so productive.

@lmgoff232 - congrats on successfully maintaining! AND for ordering some two-pieces!

@CupcakeCrusoe - it sounds like you've arrived at a very healthy mental place in your approach to food, which is amazing! It's still hard for me, sometimes, even though I know logically I'm still eating under maintenance and one meal won't kill me. But all-or-nothing thinking is a powerful demon and I'm still definitely working on exorcising it.

Username: EDTake2
Weigh In Day: Mondays
PW (Previous Weight): 197.4
CW (Current Weight): 197.8

I am shocked that the gain is so little. I have been very busy at work and have been eating take out all week. My daily weight was a roller-coaster, it would go up 3lbs/down 3lbs from the salt intake/food in transit. I estimated my calories the whole weeks (tried my best with portion control) and no exercise.

Last night stayed up till 1AM doing meal prep for the week. Cannot have another repeat of last week. not so much for the weight, but the way i felt the whole week was horrible (swollen, bloated, cranky)

Proud of myself for not giving up and still working hard towards the goal. Wishing everyone a happy, healthy week!!!

@seltzer_lover (and anyone else interested):

Cherry Chocolate Baked Oatmeal Makes 6 servings
Ingredients:

1. 4 large eggs (~180g egg)
2. 160ml whole dairy milk
3. 28g (~1 scant scoop) vanilla protein powder
4. 7g (~1 tbsp) Hershey's cocoa powder
5. 56g (~2oz, about 2 tbsp) Hershey's semi-sweet chocolate chips
6. 270g (~3 cups) rolled oats
7. 420g (~2 cups) frozen mixed berries and cherries

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400F and spray an 8x8 baking dish with your food-lubricant of choice. I used canola oil spray. I recommend a glass baking dish.
• Whisk together eggs, milk, protein powder, and cocoa powder until well-combined. I used a stand mixer with the wire whisk attachment.
• Meanwhile, blitz up the frozen fruit in a food processor, so as to more evenly distribute it in the finished product. If your fruit is of more uniform size (mine had some pretty big cherries and strawberries), you may not need to do this, but whole blueberries and such may sink to the bottom.
• Fold together the egg mixture, fruit mixture, oats, and chocolate chips with a spatula until well-combined.
• Pour oat mixture into the prepared baking dish and bake for about 50 minutes or until set and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. You can cover the top with foil if it starts browning too much. Important: don't let the mixture sit too long before you put it in the oven, or it will settle into layers with all the oats at the top and the egg-protein powder-chocolate-etc mixture on the bottom. It's not unpleasant, but not really what we're going for.
• Once set, allow to cool to room-temperature before unmolding your oat-cake. Cut into 6 pieces and wrap in foil. Will keep at least a week in the fridge, several months in the freezer. If frozen, thaw in the fridge overnight. Reheats best in a toaster oven, 15 minutes at 450F, but you can also use the microwave (remove the foil first or wrap in something microwave-safe, of course!)

Nutrition and notes:
~300cal per serving, 46g carbs/10g fat/14g protein

* Feel free to swap in your favorite alternative milk if dairy is no-go for you.
* You could use an equivalent amount of just egg whites (about 190g all told) and skip the yolks, if you want lower-fat; the eggs are structural in this recipe, so you could probably also use aquafaba or your favorite egg sub, but I haven't tried that - consult your favorite vegan baker for advice on structural egg substitution.
* This recipe uses rolled oats, instant would also work, but not steel-cut - those cook differently.
* The base recipe is really the eggs, oats, and just enough liquid from whatever source you like; you can put whatever else in there you like. I've made pumpkin baked oatmeal (use canned pumpkin puree and spices or pumpkin pie filling), cranberry-orange (dried cranberries, orange zest, some OJ instead of milk), mixed-berry and double chocolate separately (this recipe was basically combining both of those), etc.
* If you're a fan of thinner oatmeal, use a lot less liquid than you think you need; if you, like me, prefer your oatmeal Thicc N Chunkay, use about as much liquid as you think you need. Err on the side of too much and just bake it longer if it's not quite set. It's very forgiving.
* If it comes out not sweet enough, which has happened for me in the past, I've warmed up a little bit of maple syrup to drizzle over it. I have these little metal sauce cups, so I pour about 10-15g of syrup into one of those and set it on top of the toaster oven, which gets warm while doing its thing. By the time the oatmeal bar is ready, the syrup is warm and delicious and easy to drizzle over - and warming it up also thins it out a bit, so you get that coverage without needing to drench your breakfast in the thicker, refrigerator-cold syrup.

March goals: I want to get better at reaching my protein, continue eating less sugar, continue taking steps to improve my mental health. Make it to my appointments. Also, start exercising again (carefully). I’d like to lose 4-10 pounds for the month.

2/28/22: 284.2
GW for March: 280
3/7/22: 282.6 (-1.6)
3/14/22: 280.8 (-1.8)

Our fridge was finally fixed Thursday so I can have more choices again. Time to get my sodium back down. Shelf stable foods are high in sodium. So I did well during this time but sodium was high. Doing pretty well with keeping my sugar in check.

Mental health update is I need to get on top of that. I met with the counselor again virtually last week but I need to find a therapist for talk therapy and life has been insane so I haven’t done that yet.

I exercised every day last week, except Monday. Still lightly and carefully. Most was 10-20 minutes per day. Seated exercise videos and walking around my apartment.

I went back to the doctor today. I lost 5lbs since last month. My blood pressure is still high so she put me on more meds for that 😕 and sent me home with a BP cuff to check daily at home 😬

Hello ladies! My name is Liz and I’m 37/ 5’8”, married with 2 kids. Mileena is 6 and Jax will be 4 this month. They keep me busy that’s for sure. I’m ultimately trying to be healthier for me and my family BUT my brother is getting married in October and I’m in the wedding. We tried on dresses a couple Sundays ago and that jump started this. It was embarrassing and I felt so down on myself. I’ve been using that as motivation to keep going strong.

Goals:
🍀 10k steps each day
🍀 track my food honestly and consistently
🍀 workout on elliptical 3-4 times per week
🍀 alcohol once per week
🍀 8-10 lb loss

SW: 216.4 (2/21/22) - well a restart weight
Feb ⬇️ 6.4

Mar 1: 210
Mar 5: 206.6 - I had a great week and am hoping I can keep going strong!!
Mar 12: 204.8- not exactly what I wanted but at least it’s a loss. I’m going out for March madness this week and hoping I can maintain. It’s always dangerous having cheat days .. always the fear is not getting back on it!
Mar: 19
Mar 26
Mar 31:

Morning all. Had the doctors call back yesterday afternoon. She was reluctant to give me Orlistat but thankfully she did. I'll pick them up in a few hours and start them. I've also got a two week trial with Noom, then it's £19 a month after so we'll see how it goes. On top of that I'm doing weight watchers too! I need to do this this time round. I'm not going to mess up like i normally do. Please feel free to add me. I'm also near the end of my 12 week challenge Jan-March and will be starting another 12 week challenge. How is it the middle of March already, what the hell! Looking forward to seeing my results. Still weighing in daily for now.

13/03: 269.6
14/03: 267.6
15/03: 267.6

Well, progress is progress...

Age: 26
Height: 5'10"
SW: 246.9 lb (07/13/2021)
CW: 198.6 lb (3/1/2022)
March GW: 194 lb
GW: 165 lb
Weight lost: 48.7
Pounds until goal: 33.2


3/1: 198.6
3/8: 199.3
3/15: 198.2 (-1.1 pounds)
3/22:
3/30:

Random question for you ladies: how many times a week do you wash your hair? I have a coworker who is... frustrating. Always has opinions and advice, even though it's none of his business and I didn't ask for it. I mentioned I only wash my hair when I've worked out hard enough that my scalp gets sweaty, which is about 3 times a week, or every other day during the work week. He insisted I was over washing my hair and should be washing it only 2 times a week. Even though sweaty scalps are itchy scalps and it would feel gross if I just let the sweat sit in there.

For further context, he has dry, coarse hair that he put in locs. I have fine, oily hair (although I have a LOT of it), meaning that oils can get trapped in there pretty easily. Never mind that I've had this hair for nearly 27 years and have learned how to care for it best. So I guess my question is what do you do when you have a coworker who's a know it all when it comes to how you specifically live your life?

I love this thread. I gained a lot of strength and confidence in February with being consistent with my nutrition and working out. I haven't completely lost my motivation, but I am definitely being fueled by consistency vs motivation.

March Goals: Same as February. Make good food choices and since I am doing a 90 program I want to stick with the program schedule and not fall behind.

Age: 35
Height: 5'7"
SW: 280
GW: 150
March SW: 262.2
March GW: 252.2

March 1: 262.2 - Down 17.8 pounds - I started a new workout program yesterday which is cardio heavy, but also more on par for my fitness level. I'm able to push myself more because I can actually do the moves well. Looking forward to a great month!
March 8: 260.4 - Down 19.6 pounds - I'm really late with this weeks update. I had a really long hectic weekend and my body was like girl take a break. This week I have been feeling so out of it. Like who cares about healthy food and exercising, but I'm still here, and I'm still pushing.
March 15: 259.4 - Down 20.6 pounds - I am back in the groove. Eating good and working out. I am slowly but surely getting used to these weekend clinicals. I have less time than ever, but I am motivated to keep pushing. So excited to finally break into the 250's. Only 9.4 pounds away from my pre pregnancy weight.
March 22:
March 29:
March 31:

Good morning everyone!

Thank you for all the mojo and stuff yesterday, I feel slightly better today. Less achy, throat hurts less. DayQuil/NyQuil for the win.

Yesterday I got to take another food off a pedestal: I didn't want to cook, and Whatsisface wanted Arby's, so with my throat sore, I got a Jamoca shake. It just wasn't as good as I remember it being. Like sipping soft serve through a straw. Ew. So I won't be getting that anymore. Did feel good on the throat though.

And I weighed in at 194.0 this morning! Weight loss is not linear, etc, but I am always happy to see the scale down a bit more.

Tag party time!
@roz0810 I have no doubt you can do this. I'm glad to hear you're not using all three as advertised, trying to log in all three, because yikes
@bonniemcc4 that's very kind, thank you
@kenziestabes I wash my hair every other day in the winter, and almost every day in the summer. It's very fine and only a little wavy, and gets oily quickly, so needs must. That coworker needs to butt out, lol. His opinion is not required or desired. Whenever someone is telling me how to live my life, I nod politely and proceed to let it go through one ear and out the other. To me it's usually not worth fighting about, people who are going around telling people how to live their lives are convinced they have The Only Answer, and no amount of talking is going to dissuade them.
@KatieHall77 Wooo a loss!
@RealTamaraB yesssssss I'm so glad you've found what works for you, given a really hectic job
@sbortnick As long as you're logging everything and have a good handle on what you're taking in, yeah, absolutely just ride it out. It's going to happen.
@seltzer_lover

Have a great Wednesday everyone!