Women 200lb+, Let's Have A Momentous May!!!

@CupcakeCrusoe I love my Renpho scale, they have a tape measure to so you can measure body parts too.

Good morning everyone! Friday weigh in day!

Christina
33 years old
5'4"

SW: 220ish
Re-SW: 200.4
Halfway GW: 183
UGW: 150
4/29 CW: 189.4

May goals! 🌷🌷🌷

🤍Log every food in grams. ✅
🤍 Get 7k steps every day, no excuses ✅
🤍 Lift weights 3x week ❌
🤍 More than 100g protein every day ✅
🤍 20 minutes to clean each day ✅

Weigh-ins:
5/6: 188.8 (-0.6)
5/13: 186.8 (-2)

Reward for halfway (183): Ninja Creami

Not bad at all! Quite good actually, I'm pretty pleased. My trend weight is 188.8 this morning. I didn't manage to find my smaller jeans last night because...

A friend of ours gave us 25 lbs (!!) of brussels sprouts yesterday, and another 25 of yellow squash. I spent hours last night processing: washing, cutting, putting in reasonable sized bags (lol), and I'm not done with the squash yet . Still, very grateful he thought of us. I filled 40 quart sized bags with squash and brusssels sprouts so far, and I'm out of room in my freezer. I'm giving some away, because even with my big chest freezer, I can't hold all this. And people respond better to individually packaged things than a big crate of stuff. I need to go get more bags.

Anyway, lol, tonight is pizza and beer night, I look forward to this night every week, and we haven't been able to do it for the last couple since we've been travelling. Can't wait.

Tag party time!
@Generic_Excuse

Funny how wallowing in self deprication can be easier than motivating yourself sometimes.

I totally get this. This was me, except instead of about being out of shape, it was me about being fat. I was Funny Fat Girl.

@biohazardinc happy belated birthday! New bike! That's so great! There are so many neat rabbit holes you can fall down about customizing it, too. I put a rack on the back of mine, and I've got a little flat fix/tool kit pouch underneath my seat, and a removable basket for the front to get books from our neighborhood little free library, and a little silicon phone holder strapped to the frame... lol, 2020 was The Year I Tricked Out My Bike. I would load the baby on the back in a little seat mounted to the rack and we would go on Saturday mornings.

Now I want to go for a bike ride, but it's gonna rain all weekend.

Also I saw that renpho tape measure... 👀 it might be worth it just for that. I'm so bad about taking my measurements.

@lmgoff232 I've been thinking about a smart scale, if for no other reason than to automate my weight being logged in a couple places. I'll consider that one when I get there, thanks!

@sandielewis2001 those shark coochie boards look incredible! I was scrolling up and down to look at them over and over like I was on CSI or something: "enhance. is that tofu?!" It's so cool that you and your wife are going to play racquetball together! Racquetball is so fun.

@sbortnick let me be the one outside your brain to tell you: You absolutely didn't gain 4 lbs of fat in a short period of time. Also, I looked up RingFit: Sounds really fun!

@justanotherloser007 mustn't disturb the cheese!

Have a great Friday everyone, the weekend is almost here!

48 yo 5’3” 6/2013 SW 277 ((in 2021 lost 57 lbs from May 1- Dec 31))
May goal: lose 1-2 lbs
Ultimate Goal weight: 141 (normal BMI) No goal date, since the lower weights can take longer.

1/1 172.2
2/1 172.2
3/1 165.8
4/1 161.4
5/1 156.8 Hello May!
5/6 157.6
5/13 158.0 cycle
5/20
5/27

🌷Work in the ‘fitness lab’ every single day!
🌷Burn around 500 calories daily. The goal is to eat maintenance all the time at goal weight “1500 calories”. If I burn 500 calories from exercise a day I will lose around 1 pound a week, while eating the amount of calories I will need to eat for smaller me.
🌷Be patient! Remember that increments are where it is at, and focus on habits.
🌷Weigh the food in the ‘test kitchen’!
🌷Remember: Total loss of over 120 lbs!!

I am pretty sure I am still just having lots of water gain because of the angioedema, hives, prednisone and TOM. Let me just say, I always thought prednisone made me hungry before - but actually the thirst is what is killing me! I already drink 1 gallon a day, and at night I keep getting up because I am so thirsty, I am thinking I drank 2 gallons - I am really going to need to up the salt today if I don't want to pass out due to lack of sodium. I saw 155 two days this week, so I will keep on keeping on.

Ladies, you are killing me with the ninja creami, so expensive - but since I live in Texas and we are already in the 90's... I mean, yeah, I would use it all the time! The husband even okayed it, but I don't know if he was thinking about the price or all the delicious nutritious ice cream I would make that would: be safe for his diabetes, and hit some protein macros!

I posted a reply earlier but for whatever reason my phone wouldn’t let me post my reply! Anyways thank you guys for the birthday wishes!

@CupcakeCrusoe Yes! I had a few accessories on my old bike but the phone stand was crappy. We haven’t moved the kids seat over to my new bike yet but I’m so very excited to get everything moved over. I just ordered a new phone stand and a seat cover because yikes what the hell do the make bike seats out of?? I’m thinking it must be cement…It’s been ungodly hot the last few days but hoping to take the kids to the nearby state park. @justanotherloser007 We looked into top getting a Ninja Creami. I think you are right I think it WAS in the $100s but for some reason around Christmas last year they went way up in price and are hard to find in stores. We have the Kitchenaid attachement for ice cream maker the only complain I have is the advanced planning needed for that. You have to have frozen then bowl for at least 24 hours before you can use it and sometimes you just want ice cream NOW.


@pamperedlinny I always get worried I’ll look like a weirdo and that all these talented people will be dancing circles around my inexperienced and no stamina butt.

Welcome! This is a wonderful group of ladies. Always great to come to for advice or to talk about weight loss struggles. Don't forget to give yourself a lot of patience and grace. I'd invest in a food scale if you can- it'll definitely help make calorie tracking more accurate.

I've learned to actually enjoy cooking during this process. It's cheaper and more flavorful than eating healthy food at restaurants, plus it has less sodium, which causes me to hold onto water weight. So, if I had any advice besides "giving yourself grace," it would be to experiment and find what's fun. What type of activity do you genuinely enjoy? What types of seasonings make your mouth water, and how can you throw them into meals?

We are right along with you, and if you need to up your calories to 2000 to give yourself more energy, trust me... you're still gonna lose weight.

Good morning everyone!

Weight is staying at 186.8, no complaints here. Expenditure from macrofactor is 2213! Woop woop.

It's going to be gross today, so I'm going to either check out that strength yoga by adrienne or do some zumba videos to get moving today. Maybe both! Who knows.

Whatsisface really wants dairy queen, so I'm going to prelog everything, including a treat from there, and see how I can make my day fit around it. I've been wanting to try to order a "cupcake" from there, which is just an individual portion of their ice cream cake with some extra frosting on top. DQ doesn't have the nutritional information, but FatSecret says it's 440, and DQ says a portion of their ice cream cake is 250 without all the extra icing, so 440 sounds reasonable.

I'm also going to be making my cheeseburger platter tonight, which I love so much- ground beef and mushrooms with a little cheese, over a bed of greens, with air fried potatoes and all the appropriate condiments (except mayo). It's so good and filling, and only 650 calories. Well, 800-some with the beer I'm going to drink with Whatsisface.

Since we've got heavy dinner and heavy ice cream (which I'm aiming to eat around lunch), I'm going to load the rest of my day with vegetables and protein- for breakfast, cucumbers topped with a little soft goat cheese and smoked salmon for little healthier blinis with some egg whites to push me over 100g protein for the day, and for lunch, a low calorie wrap with vegetables hot and cold and a little cheese before we get DQ. I'm even building myself in three hershey's kisses after dinner, because somehow my sweet tooth never shuts up until it is satisfied after dinner. I might not even need them, if I don't finish the cupcake at lunch, I can eat that after dinner instead, we'll see.

Total for today planned: 1870. We'll see if I'm good with that, but that's well below maintenance, so I'm pretty happy with it as a plan with lots of good food (cheeseburger plate! beer! ice cream!)

My next diet break isn't until mid-June and I've been feeling tired of the grind lately, so today should be really good as a day I feel like I have indulged myself enough without a binge. A little re-feed.

Tag party time!
@pamperedlinny It sounds like an awesome, fun-packed weekend! If you log through it, nothing too bad will happen. I am a big proponent of eating close to maintenance if you have to for social events, because to try to make a deficit in those times is miserable. Best of luck with the blood sugar, though, I don't know a lot about that.

@justanotherloser007 I imagine all you've got going on is a classic recipe for water retention.

@biohazardinc oooh, biking at the state park! Sounds like a fun adventure! Glad to hear the kitchenaid attachment works well, even if you have to plan it out. I'll keep that in mind.

@Girlfieri223 I love your handle, lol. Welcome! Now, about that calorie goal... MFP's calorie goal is based on the rate you wanted to lose weight. If you set it for 1lb/week or 2lb/week and MFP gave you that calorie goal? Eat those calories! It will get you losing weight at that rate! BUT!

I understand the hesitation about logging, and why you might feel the need to put a "buffer" in there for inaccurate logging. The solution is to log as accurately as you can, which can be easier said than done. As @kenziestabes has already said, a food scale is a lifesaver. If you haven't got one already, they can be $10 or less, and I use mine every single day.

The nice thing about making your logging accurate- you will be amazed at how many calories/how much food you CAN eat and lose weight. I am going through that right now, as you can see above, lol.

Welcome! Please keep coming back, I find this thread so very motivating when I post often (lol, very often).

@sargemarcori Hi! Welcome back! Don't feel discouraged about leaving and coming back- that is a normal thing, and we can only commit to changing our lives when. we. are. ready. You are ready now! Keep posting here, keep thinking about how good you'll feel when you improve your habits, you've got this!

@samanthag0412 I love the broken down goals! Your goal to lose for May is a little steep, but might be done! Don't beat yourself up if it's not, though. Progress is progress! Welcome!

For all our newbies: You haven't come this far to only come this far. Keep engaging, and you'll get where you want to go. And we've got you. We've all been where you are.

Have a fantastic Saturday, everyone!

Glad to be back and Thank you @RavenStCloud for this thread. Great support here!
Mary from Pennsylvania 65 NOW! 5'4", 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. It doesn't know how to burn them and hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my days off(3) and 3 meals on my work days(which are long), exercise on my 3 days off. 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
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
12/26/21-165.6 lbs
1/1/22-168 lbs
2/1/22-157.4 lbs
3/1/22-155 lbs. Down 100.2 lbs so far!
4/1/22-156.4 lbs
5/1/22-158.8 lbs. :-( No way is this actual with all the Elliptical miles Friday, yesterday and stayed way under calories for what I was allotted. Hoping for a whoosh soon. Did Elliptical 300 minutes for 22.3 miles in first session and 54 minutes for 4.2 miles for 26.5 miles total today. Hopefully that gets me heading downward again. (Did long times on Friday 228 minutes and Saturday 240 minutes too.)
5/8/22-148 lbs :-) Glad for the whoosh of water retention from my OK trip.

5/15/22- 159.6 lbs. Well a short lived whoosh! I know its mainly water weight. Had more carbs the last 2 nights than my usual. Glad I didn't hit the 160's! Elliptical today 130 minutes for 10 miles.

Good morning everyone!

Weight 186.8 again, that's fine. MacroFactor recalibrated, as it does every Monday, and upped my calories officially, now in the 1700s. I'm unconvinced yet whether the 1700s will get me the loss rate I like, but I'm willing to give it a few weeks to find out. I know I don't gain on this much, and Flo is coming, so I'll have to keep that in mind while I go through it.

Another family bike ride yesterday, and did battle weeding our blackberry patch. It was great, again, to be out there as a family, and the kids enjoyed themselves.

Today, a local hospital is offering a free skin cancer screening, and ya girl has a lot of moles, so I figured I'd go and ask some questions about them. I am getting better about sunscreen as I get older. Whatsisface was curious why I'd go- I told him we were entering a period of our lives where we had to start thinking about these things. I think I have to start getting mammograms in a couple of years, based on my family history.

Tag party time!
@goal06082021 glad to hear your husband caught it early, it's funny in a not-very-funny way that it happens when he drives stick. Bodies is very dumb.

@mmdeveau I'm seriously considering both of those things, the scale and the tape! I get daily weighing inducing feelings. I'm at a point now where if I don't have the daily data, I freak out, like- I might see a high weight and think, maybe I'm gaining!? But if I weigh every day, I get a better picture, and it's funny how my period weight trends look exactly the same every time, see below. The yellow dots are my period, the red, my expected ovulation, the blue, my diet break. I hope the weather turns around so you can get out there on the trail!




@swimmom_1 wow, what a workout! Do you watch movies or anything while you do these really long workouts?

@porquenoirl I'm glad to hear the drama worked out some. Everybody has those weeks- I hope this coming one is better for you.

Have a great Monday, everyone!

@Girlfieri223 – I’ll never be bikini ready but I feel you not wanting to be the fattest person in the room. I hate that I automatically glance around every place I go to see if I am or not. One day I hope to break that habit.

@kenziestabes – That’s great advice. Eating more for energy when you’ve been exercising is so hard because I might set a plan for the day or have a number in mind but when I feel sluggish I know I need to add a few more calories.

@CupcakeCrusoe – That DQ cupcake sounds really good.

@lmgoff232 – moving is the worst. I told my husband in our last move we had better just stay put for at least 10 years.

@goal06082021 – I hope your husband heals quickly. Not a tumor but my husband had multiple back surgeries when he was younger. It seems anything they do on your back affects you forever. He has pain daily. I sincerely hope he fully heals quickly.

Seltzer_lover
Weigh-in Day: Mondays
SW (7/2021): 300
5/2: 243
5/9: 244.5
5/16: 241.9
5/23:
5/30:

May GW: 236 - 240

May Goals:
🌷 Continue to keep the house neat ✔
🌷 Push myself in my HIIT workouts ✔
🌷 Carefully meal plan and prep ✔
🌷 Read 5+ books 12+ books (I've already read 7 this month)

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I was a bit of a lump...wasn't feeling great Saturday and had a very mild migraine yesterday. So mild I was still able to attend my HIIT class in the morning, but enough that I needed to take some medication and laze about in the semi-dark for the entire afternoon.

Mostly better today - just really having a case of the Mondays and not wanting to work or be productive.

Starting again weight and date with MFP: 282 10/21
May starting weight: 205
AGE: 33
HEIGHT: 5'11"

May 2: 203
May 9: 204
May 16: 200.5
May 23:
May 30:
May 31:

I got my woosh! So, sooooo close to Onderland, but it can wait! Does anyone have/had the Mirena IUD? If so, did you experience any side effects?
Congrats on all of your success so far ladies! I don't have time for a tag party this morning, but I'll pop back in later today. Happy Monday!

May Goals:
=> make it to Onderland (under 200)
=> make it to the gym 3 times a week (weight training)
=> tone down the cardio to 2 days a week
=> work on my body image/confidence