Women 200lb+, Let's Astonish Ourselves This April!!!

@justanotherloser007 - my friend's dad is wonderful & said he can come by tomorrow afternoon! Thank goodness that will be fixed.

It definitely derailed my evening yesterday. Came home with all this motivation to work on decluttering my office. Spent an hour trying to drain the kitchen sink instead. Ugh. Hopefully tonight I can get some stuff done in the office. COVID quarantine hit my house hard & I've been playing get yourself organized for a year now. Oops. Oh well.

I definitely think my clutter & eating are related. I know both, for me, are a sign of when my ADHD get out of control. ADHD High as I call it. When I start to feel more focused & in control is when I start organizing things & getting a better grip on my eating. I spiraled quite a bit the first year of COVID & then spent 6 months playing "find the right meds" game. Finally coming out of all that & feeling in control again.

@JAC581 - I love Leslie Sansone videos! I have some of her DVDs. When I lost a lot of weight previously I did her stuff primarily for my work outs. Very easy to follow & seems to go by quick.

@JAC581 @rockitwell86 Walking is awesome!! A while back now, someone on this thread told me about Leslie Sansone - at the time I didn't think I would need it since I am a general outside walker (yes I do take my dog out during hurricanes, why do you ask?) But in January, the hubby got sick and I was stuck inside the house while attempting to get dizzy (walking in circles for 1-2 hours) in the house lols... Leslie to the rescue!! So wonderful!! I still watch it for when the dog is being lazy and doesn't want to walk long distances. I have done some growwithjo, and she is good and that is nice, but I like how I can put on a show and match Leslie's beat with the stuff and just rewind until I get it the hour or more I want in. Growwithjo, I pretty much can't do anything other than maybe podcasts - and I will do that some days, most days I just wanna stomp it out.

@seltzer_lover thank you for sharing your story!! So wonderful!!

@CupcakeCrusoe awww yeah for the bike riding!!

@roz0810 looking good! I am not sure if you know this, but you really should not expect to lose a pound a day, every day during this weight loss journey.

Happy Thursday all,

I am doing bullet journaling and yesterday didn’t have any to dos on the list after my Jobsearch workshop. I often go into my bedroom and lie down to regroup. I didn’t get anything come up to do besides a walk. Then we got the estimate for replacing our hot water tank that is slowly leaking. It is connected to a radiator which heats the water and house. They recommended some improvements to the piping. We got sticker shock. I thought it was like the cosmos knew I had this to deal with instead of anything else. I did get a walk in with my youngest but we decided to have a shorter one since I have been pushing it for me all week. This week I planned easy meals many of which were from our weekly dairy delivery. They partner with others and have healthy prepared meals you can add to your order. They saved us through the pandemic so we didn't have to go grocery shopping as much.

My workshop is actually very helpful. I am really looking for my last job. I am in transition and this is helping me think things through. I am being considered for a planned/probable but not official position where I was working recently. So I want to see if that pans out since it will pay me the same good salary and the job transition should be less effort. There are a series of 5-6 modules in this workshop so I have a few weeks of this. I just need to set up a healthy routine and outline tasks I want to get done now that I have more time.

So far I have had exercise every day. I am sort of eating what I was when I was losing slowly but now I am logging it and tracking things on the spreadsheet so I get a sense of the next step to lose a bit more quickly or reliably.

@justanotherloser I think weight loss and de-cluttering are related at least for some
@porquenoirl and @tlucas2017 I appreciate your sharing about your experience recovering from COVID. Why? it reinforces my feeling that I do not care if I have been vaccinated and boostered. I still do not want to get it even if I probably won’t die. I am still wearing my mask in indoors public places. Now it is a N95.
@CupcakeCrusoe enjoy your time playing with friends.
I am seeing some progress from a lot of you
@JAC581 I like how you are responding quickly to the weight gain. I am learning to do that better. I agree even a little exercise helps a lot.Glad you reminded us of the Leslie Sasone option
@seltser_lover I loved your NSV story.

SW: 273.4

4/17 272.8 (-0.6)
4/18 271.8 (-1)
4/19 270.2 (-1.6)
4/20 268.6 (-1.6)
4/21 267.2 (-1.4)
4/22 264.2 (-3)
4/23
4/24
4/25
4/26

Total loss: 9.2lbs

TOM due. Tracking everything, drinking 2+ litres of water daily and walking. also doing intermittent fasting, most days 18:6 😁

@CupcakeCrusoe I have a funny story about shoes in the house!! Okay, so I totally ignored (and continue to) Flylady on the shoes thing. I have hot foot, and it is Houston, TX. I wear flip flops everywhere except church. Well, me and my great-nieces from the Phillipines - we all got hot foot. So one day, I was barefoot around the house and BAM broke my toe on the coffee table! Oh, it was brutal. First question my mother-in-law asks me, "How did you break your little toe on a coffee table? You would think shoes would stop that from happening." Well, maybe they would - if I wore them in the house!! She is not a Flylady follower - because that woman is sorted and so is her home. So I learned. I got rid of the coffee table and have not broken another toe since!!

@roz0810 Some quotes I found helpful to keep me focused on weight loss, maybe they can encourage you too:

@ferousavocado quote: “You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to always be disciplined. There is no one big step that does it. It is a lot of little steps. The hardest part about weight loss is not diet or exercise - it's PATIENCE. It takes a long time. I constantly remind myself that we are in this for the long haul. We are in this for life! If I have a bad day, I log it and move on - the most important thing is getting right back to it the next day. It's about sticking with it. Dedication and persistence will pay off over time.”

@danp quote: "Lessons I've learned in previous failed attempts that have helped me to succeed this time.
- It's about weight management, not weight loss. Weight loss has an end date, weight management is for life. Weight management is about being in control of your weight. Making conscious decisions about when you'll eat in a deficit to lose weight, eat at maintenance, or even eat in a surplus to splurge and enjoy life.
- It's all about consistency. It's better to eat 'pretty well' forever than 'perfectly' for a month or two.
- Weight management is simple (but not necessarily easy) so don't overthink it. When it comes down to it weight management isn't complicated. Find what works, do what works and keep it simple.
- The old saying you can't out run your fork. While there's a small degree of overlap, generally speaking weight management happens in the kitchen and fitness happens in the gym."

@cheesy567 quote “Goals must be focused on the habits. You can control your habits, you can control what you *do.* You cannot control the outcome. You can chose to follow your meal plan and exercise plan to a T. You cannot control what the scale says. You cannot control your weight. Weight is a byproduct of the balance of your lifestyle, the balance of all your eating and fitness habits. Focus on your habits, one by one.

@justanotherloser007 - 259 for the amount of filling I used. About half can of diced jalapeños, 2oz cream cheese, half cup shredded cheddar.

It's crazy how ADHD does different things to each of us even though the symptoms are the same. I had to stop meds because they were actually making things worse for me. My home was SO BAD and my diet was absolute crap. Work life has never been my issue, thankfully I can set my day up based off how my brain is working that day. The meds caused such a depression crash and lack of sleep I wasn't eating properly, wasn't cleaning, half the time I was drinking WAY too much just to feel something. I definitely have bad days, but much better without meds than with them. I hope you ladies who also are in this boat have found treatment that works best for you.

Good morning everyone!

Managed to sleep in AND get up before everyone, great times. Weight is 192.0 today! So we're slowly getting back to it.

Plan for today is to clean the house, obtain a birthday present for my niece, get groceries (that fell through yesterday), help Oldest cook something, and pack for the trip to niece's birthday next weekend. I hate a long road trip, but it's important to do this kind of thing. And then make cheeseburgers* and play video games!

*I'm going to be making a cheeseburger platter for myself, ground beef, mushrooms, cheese, and seasoning, on a bed of spinach, with air fried potatoes, and the correct condiments (but not mayo). The best.

Tag party time!
@JAC581 you know, I see a lot of myself when you say

Once your "main" priorities are taken care of for the day (whether it be job, kids, etc) it can just feel like you need the remaining time to "survive" and regroup. This usually results in me laying on the couch playing word games on my phone

I definitely do this sometimes. In fact, I would say I do it quite a bit, and the only way I've found to mitigate that is to move my movement (lol) earlier in the day, or to lift weights while I'm doing other things (like cooking). If I say to myself "I'm going to exercise after everything else is done," no I'm not. I know this about myself.

@rockitwell86 Ooooh, thanks for the recipe! I like to go lighter on breakfast so I can have snacks of a fruit and a protein bar, so I modded yours a little, looking forward to something different for this week! We'll see how me changing the eggs to egg whites does- I know in a normal quiche, the egg to dairy ratio is important. Either way, I'm going to eat it, lol. And I never add seasoning to the recipe calculator- not worth it to me, but I love penzey's sandwich sprinkle, so probably that, and maybe some poultry seasoning.


@justanotherloser007 it's so interesting how that works out. At the end of last year, I was aware of my weight in the 190s, I was watching it, just wasn't willing to do much about it at that time, and I was just maintaining for quite a while- until the holidays, when I'm doing a ton of cooking and there are treats everywhere I'm a firm believer in treats, so all of my efforts this time, this last time, are to make sure I know how to balance them out- because if I want them, I'm going to have them, it's just a matter of when and how much. Life is too short.

Also, flylady would say "told you so" about your foot. And those are great quotes!

@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 anecdotally, my husband forgets to eat on ADHD medication all the time. It's a real problem for him, as he's normal weight. He'll often joke with me that I just have to get on speed, that's all. But I have a feeling it wouldn't work that way for me!

@77topcat the most important thing while you're sick is to get better. I hope you do quickly! Drink some good tea and soup for me! If there's a "favorite" part of being sick for me, it's endless cups of herbal tea with very liberal amounts of honey, lol.

Have a great Saturday, everyone!

I've mostly been lurking this thread the past few days but I've skimmed the last page or two of posts and it looks like everyone is making progress and figuring stuff out. You love to see it. Welcome to the new folks sliding in right at the end of the month - glad to have you, hope you'll come with us into the May thread as well

Weigh-in day!

Age: 30
Height: 5'3"
SW 252.8 (11/13/2020)
CW 188.6 (4/1/22)
4/2: 187.4
4/9: 186.4
4/16: 186.0
4/23: 187.4
4/30:
GW for April: Weigh less than my husband by 4/30
GW for 2022: 145

HECK. I think I'm gearing up for yet another period and retaining water, but also, last week was far less disciplined than it really needed to be, so some of that could also be fat gain. Womp womp.

I have been getting more steps this week, so hopefully I'll see that reflected on the scale soon - now that the new LoseIt Challenge is well and truly underway I have that little extra push of motivation to move more, and on top of that my SIL and BIL and I have joined a Lord of the Rings-themed Conqueror challenge. It's an app where you log distance traveled (walking, running, or cycling, outdoors or on a machine) and the app gives you little themed rewards for racking up certain distances. You can form a group ("fellowship" with this theming) and pool your distances to finish faster - so if I walk 5 miles and SIL walks 5 miles and BIL walks 5 miles, we all earn 15 miles. They have a bunch of different challenges themed around real places (Appalachian trail and the like), but the LotR-themed one follows the journey of Frodo and Samwise from the movies. It's a five-part challenge and you get an actual, physical medal, like in the mail, for finishing each part. The first part is about 145 miles; all five parts together, from Bag End to Mount Doom, is about 1900 miles. We've covered over 40 miles between all of us in 5 days, and I'm working on getting my husband in on the fun as well, since he certainly racks up enough steps just on his clinical days, but he also knows he should be walking more.