Women 200lb+, Let's Make June Joyous!!!
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Hey, My name is Ariel. Age 27,
Sw: 244
Cw: 213
Gw: 130
I seriously need friends to help keep me motivated. This plataue has lasted weeks and nobody in my life is with me on this. Family is all 800+ miles away.
Anyone looking for friends on here? I can post updates but really hoping to find a group of other women going thru this all with me. I feel so alone in this and some days are so hard to stay on the wagon.
Anyone have any tips to keep myself in my calorie goals?9 -
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
6/1/22-152.2 lbs
6/5/22-158 lbs :-( Not doing great. Been eating too many carbs (Problem is they are so tasty! And trigger me to eat more.) and then probably retaining water with them too.7 -
Starting weight 5th March: 130kg
4th June: 123.kg
5th June: 122.8kg
6th June: 124.4kg
Stupid, stupid *kitten* pizza. I didn't even want it, I just didn't want to throw half a pizza away 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Goals for this week:
Log every day (I always do breakfast and lunch so this is just here so I can meet 1 goal!!!!)
Log EVERYTHING
Bike ride at least twice
Lose 1kg?5 -
Hahaha haha although I love that it changes swear words to kitten!!¡!!!!2
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Good morning everyone!
189.2 today, which at least isn't one of three weights I've been seeing for the last week and a half. I'm sore, and I'm fully on board with slightly lower calorie intake. Tonight is double feature at the gym, ready to do this.
Pirate and greek fest yesterday was fun, I did manage to stay under my calorie goal, mostly by delaying breakfast until lunch, lol. It helped that I had to manage the kids, so I didn't have time to eat the delicious baklava until after we got home.
I watched a youtube video yesterday about an oreo protein "ice cream" that had me so intrigued I bought all the stuff for it, lol. Some of it is here already! It's this one. youtu.be/4XKOmQvcRLY
Monday, Monday... tag party time!
@bojaantje3822 yeah, it'll be interesting to see what my body can do, and what limitations I do have.
@arkansasariel hi! welcome! A couple things:
- I would send you a friend request, but I don't monitor my feed, lol, I only come here. A lot of ladies here would love to friend request you and use MFP as intended, lol!
- I'm sorry you're so far away from everyone, that's so tough. The community here is a great one- Lots of people come and go in this thread, and some of us (like me!) even come back from time to time. You get out of this thread what you put into it, and it doesn't have to be just weight loss related. I'm interested in your life, and what you're going through, even if it doesn't have anything to do with weight loss.
- But also I love hearing about your struggles, because maybe I've been there and can give advice!
I know the feeling of white knuckling it through the deficit, just going to bed so I don't snack, that kind of thing. I would say, first, to mess around with increasing your protein. Lots of people find that increasing protein helps them stay fuller longer, and it's certainly true for me. The other thing I would say is, make sure your logging is accurate. If you don't already, get a food scale and weigh everything you can weigh, and log it in grams. Sometimes you'll be surprised how much you can eat and stay in your deficit!
@swimmom_1 I doubt very much you've gained 6 lbs over this little time, so it's just glycogen. Keep on keeping on, and most if not all of that will leave.
@DeterminedKins and you didn't gain 2kgs from a pizza, it's sodium weight. Some or most of it will come off, today is a new day, get back at it! I love the *kitten* censor, haha.
Have a great day, everyone!
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Since complaining about lack of loss, the NSVs have piled up.
My mum is in the process of cleaning her house because she's moving early next year and she's gonna be part of a yard sale type thing. She asked me to try on a bunch of clothes that never fit me and some old clothes that fit years ago. Everything fits.
My calf is looking very pronounced. Also, my mum, who notices body changes in people very quickly, said my ankles looked skinnier and bonier.
I did a 37,5kg double power snatch.
I couldn't comfortably lean against the train window on my way back home yesterday because my shoulder got bonier so I was uncomfortable for 2 hours.
A woman at the gym who hadn't seen me in a few weeks asked me if I'd lost A LOT of weight because I looked way different. I was wearing light blue sportsleggings that show everything. I don't mind her saying something because she's also one of us 200lbs+'ers and it's just different, you know? I could tell she was neutral/kind.
So even though the weight isn't budging, I take these as signs that maybe I'm doing okay after all.
As an aside, I managed to eat a 1770kcal breakfast this morning and somehow still managed to plan two more filling meals with room for a snack within my calorie budget. I know I have a really large calorie budget but even I was baffled at my planning skills that made this work. Breakfast is usually 700-1000kcal so this was an anomaly.3 -
Hi everyone! I'm definitely late joining June's thread, but I made it!
Jamie, 37, 5'6", Pennsylvania
SW: 248
6/1: 239.6
6/6: 241
Okay, so I forget which of you ladies said this, but muscle pain = weight gain. I just started some strength training, and I have been SORE the last few days. As soon as started feeling sore, my weight shot up two pounds and has stayed there. But now that I understand that it's water weight and will eventually go away, I'm not stressing about the gain and instead am focusing on getting stronger!
I've been trying to find a good arm/upper body workout, and yet somehow I keep ending up doing squats and my thighs are crying today. First I tried to do a low intensity upper body workout on FitOn, but it was too difficult for me and I was frustrated by the lack of modifications, but I still felt sore all over, so I took a rest day and then tried again yesterday once I was feeling better. Has anyone heard of/tried HASfit? I found it on YouTube and they have a ton of videos, including a bunch of beginner videos. I took a walk yesterday morning, then did a 15-minute strength training video (got a good sweat from it! and more squats lol), THEN ended up hand washing my car in the afternoon, which I didn't realize was going to be such a big job! I was beat. Today is going to be another rest day because it hurts to walk and lower myself to sit down.
I'm starting to slack on hydration. I'm trying to drink 64-96 ounces of water a day, and I have a 32 ounce bottle that I use throughout the day. My first bottle full is usually pretty easy to down during the morning, but then I get lazy the rest of the day.
Looking forward to this week. Tomorrow, I'm going to a minor league baseball game, so I will have to really plan my meals and allow myself a beer and maybe a walking taco at the game. Then Saturday is my town's Pride parade and festival which we plan on walking downtown for (a little over a mile each way, plus whatever walking we do downtown). I'm excited for all the fun stuff this week!
Have a great week everyone!4 -
Hi everyone,
My name is Lynn. Age 41,
Sw: 230
Cw: 230
Gw: 225 by July 1st
I'm new to this thread and just trying to do what I know I need to. Feel free to add me as a friend, I personally do much better sith support and accountability.
This week's goals:
start logging again and aim for my daily calories.
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I'm really taking the advice I can get here! Got a food scale and my groceries I usually do frozen pasta meals for dinners cause I'm lazy but this time I got more chicken and veggies to have as sides. And got some protien shakes! Ty7
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User name: EDTake2
Weigh In Day: Monday’s
PW (Previous Weight): 186.6lb
CW (Current Weight): 183.6lb
Goal for June low 180 (maybe enter the 170s 🤞)
I started going to the Y. Using the elliptical and getting some running/jogging in. I guess that worked. Trying to create a lasting exercise system that I can easy incorporate in my life and make it a habit.7 -
... but it's hard when everyone else is eating cakes and mum keeps offering and saying 'there's not much point putting one back in the fridge' etc. I mention I'm cutting down and trying to lose weight so I feel better. And I get 'you don't need to' /'one cream cake won't hurt' /'you can still treat yourself', which is kind of why I'm in this place to begin with
I find it very hard to pass up free food for some reason. Especially if it's going to be thrown away. I've had some success reminding myself (and occasionally my daughter, who takes more than she needs and then tries to pass the extra to me) "I am not a garbage can!" I deserve better than to be treated as a disposal.
I do. And sometimes, I can remember that.
@arkansasariel welcome! this is a great thread of supportive, hardworking ladies. I hear you on the "lazy" about dinner! I've worked to get my lazy to work for me--I meal prep to do all the work at once, and then I eat what I fixed bc otherwise I have to put in the effort to acquire something else. I am one who can eat the same thing (if I like it) a lot, so I make overnight oatmeal five days' worth at a time (super easy to vary flavors,) a soup or a grain salad for work lunches (Southwest Quinoa salad this week) and a bunch of mason jar salads to grab to eat while I'm figuring out what protein I want for dinner. on my desk I keep a jar of mixed nuts for some healthy fats to snack on as needed. If you've already weighed and portioned everything, it also makes logging easier!
@DeterminedKins see above! you are not a garbage can! (I hear ya. I so hear ya. This weekend I ate nearly week-old box-made mac and cheese bc it was that or throw it away. Should have tossed it!)
Welcome Lynn @NoNameWonder !!
Go, @EDTake2 !! You got this.
ETA: Regarding me, I *did* meal-prep this weekend! Last week was rough bc I never quite made my foods, so every meal was a scramble and while I ate more health-fully than I would have before, there was also an amount of fast food. Yesterday, though, I made a big vat of Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup (I freeze it, so I always have something to grab.) I also made my overnight oatmeals (three blueberry pomegranate, two cinnamon apple,) five mason jar salads, and five mason jar servings of SW Quinoa Salad. Also making plans to get my exercise in (though I managed to forget my swimsuit today, so I'll need another plan for today, sigh...) (Next time, KD, pack it the night before!)
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Good day ladies! I just wanted to say thanks for the support in regards to weight loss and comments from family. It helps knowing that it's common (even if it's terrible). I really appreciate the support.7
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@sargemarcori @DeterminedKins
+1 Your Body Is Not A Garbage Can, Stop Treating It Like One. I am also prone to thoughts like "I'd better eat this or else it will go to waste." Here's the thing, though - it is just as wasteful for me to take in calories that my body does not need as it is for me to chuck those calories in the garbage. It doesn't help anyone, including me, to take in extra energy in the form of food, and in fact me eating the leftover slice of pizza or whatever is actually harmful to more people (i.e., me) than throwing it out would be.
It can be really hard to overcome childhood programming around food and "wasting" food. If you feel strongly about it (and that's fair, food waste IS a problem, but the solution is not that you eat things you don't need), find ways to get extra food that you have and don't need into the hands and bellies of people who do need it - volunteer at a shelter or soup kitchen, make friends with your neighbors like people used to do. But leftovers from a week ago, stale cookies you brought home from work, the bag of chips that came with your lunch that you decided to "save for later" - bin it. Toss it all. It's no good to you or anyone else anymore, you won't even enjoy it, and your needs and goals matter more than "wasting" two dollars by throwing out a slice of dry-*kitten* old pizza.8 -
goal06082021 wrote: »@sargemarcori @DeterminedKins
+1 Your Body Is Not A Garbage Can, Stop Treating It Like One. I am also prone to thoughts like "I'd better eat this or else it will go to waste." Here's the thing, though - it is just as wasteful for me to take in calories that my body does not need as it is for me to chuck those calories in the garbage. It doesn't help anyone, including me, to take in extra energy in the form of food, and in fact me eating the leftover slice of pizza or whatever is actually harmful to more people (i.e., me) than throwing it out would be.
It can be really hard to overcome childhood programming around food and "wasting" food. If you feel strongly about it (and that's fair, food waste IS a problem, but the solution is not that you eat things you don't need), find ways to get extra food that you have and don't need into the hands and bellies of people who do need it - volunteer at a shelter or soup kitchen, make friends with your neighbors like people used to do. But leftovers from a week ago, stale cookies you brought home from work, the bag of chips that came with your lunch that you decided to "save for later" - bin it. Toss it all. It's no good to you or anyone else anymore, you won't even enjoy it, and your needs and goals matter more than "wasting" two dollars by throwing out a slice of dry-*kitten* old pizza.
Yaaassss!! I've been thinking of it lately as if I eat that left over item I'm still paying for it! I'm paying for it with money or with my health. I would rather waste the money than my health.
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Helloooo everyone and Hello JUNE!
I liked weighing in on mondays in May, but missed last week. Glad to get today's weigh-in posted just in time to get June started off on the right foot.
Life is feeling a blur as kids are home for summer vacation and I'm daily feeling in a perpetual state of being behind. It's been great to have them home, too though. i know summer seems like it will always be long but it gone in a blink.
So, I haven't taken much time to think about those Non-Scale goals very much. I'll try for 3 and hopefully add more or hone them. i do love having things to think about fitness-wise that are not just about that number!
Please friend me if you like, I will def give a like to any posts on my newsfeed!
**Goals for June**
Try a new healthy recipe 1x/wk
Actively play with kids while swimming
Cut out snacking between meals
Starting weight: 218.4
Current weight: 211.4
June Goal: 206
Long Term Goal weight: 170 (or 25% bf)
May '22: 212.6
weekly weights->
6/6: 211.4
6/13: ______
6/20: ______
6/27: ______
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Thank you for all your comments!!
You're absolutely right, it's still a waste of money cos it wasn't wanted or needed and better in the bin than in me!!!! Next time.. ....
Starting weight 5th March: 130kg
4th June: 123.kg
5th June: 122.8kg
6th June: 124.4kg
7th June: 124.7kg 😡😡😡
Need to drink more water today. Have a great day everyone!
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Good morning everyone,
187.8 today! I didn't expect to see 187 again so soon, but no complaints here. My changes are working as intended.
Had a good night at the gym last night, did lots of things I'd never done before, which keeps things interesting. The split class was great, and I want to take it all the time. The lady who helped me during twerk class was there, and it looks like I have a gym friend! Tomorrow is poles and then a class called Sittin' Sexy, which is going to be a chair routine. It's taught by the same woman who taught the split class last night, and I really like her. She liked my dance name. 🥺
Anyway! Breakfast and lunch are all packed, maybe I'll make ravioli casserole for dinner tonight? We'll see. Ravioli casserole is so easy, it can be my backup for something more ambitious. It's just frozen ravioli layered with sauce and cheese (and sausage if I have it) and baked at 350 for half an hour or so covered, then a little bit uncovered to melt the cheese all the way.
Tag party time!
@bojaantje3822 Look at you fitting into all the things! I love this for you, NSV!
@JAC581 yesss hurting muscles = water retained. I like the muscle pain = weight gain, easy to remember because it rhymes. Watching baseball is so nice and relaxing, have fun.
@NoNameWonder Hi Lynn! You've got this!
@arkansasariel I love this When I was single, almost every night's dinner was chicken grilled in the George Foreman grill and microwaved vegetables, lol. I'm also very lazy when it comes to cooking just for me.
@EDTake2 you're doing great! Everybody says exercise is the key to maintenance, so your idea is a good one.
@sargemarcori"I am not a garbage can!" I deserve better than to be treated as a disposal.
It's true though!
I also prelog food, breakfast and lunches, only even lazier than you do, haha. I just put some chicken in the crock pot on Sunday with some seasoning on top, portion it out for lunches, then add veg to them through the week. For breakfast I throw a sausage in a tupperware and dump egg whites and seasoning in, lol. And snacks are protein bars and apples. It's scary how I don't get tired of this formula.
Dinner is always whatever the family's eating, that probably helps.
@sbortnick you're in a good spot for all of us knowing what you're going through.
@goal06082021I'd better eat this or else it will go to waste.
Yup. I've gotten better about it recently, mostly because my calories are so precious, I'm going to "spend" them on things that taste good, not things that the kids cast off/things that are about to go bad.
Also, protip: If you have an air fryer, it does a great job reheating pizza to maybe even better than fresh after a day or two in the fridge. Just sayin'.
@PansyLass13 oooh, I loveTry a new healthy recipe 1x/wk
@determinedkins drink that water, you've got this!
Have a great day everyone!
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SW (Feb 3rd): 220
Feb: -6lbs
March: +3lbs
April: -10.2
May: -5.4
6/1:201.4
6/9: 202.2
6/16:
6/23:
6/30:
🌼🌼🌼 June GW: 196 - aka Onderland! 🌼🌼🌼
Only getting time to come in and log for Sat, was up nearly a lb (I'd say I'm up way more now! Lol, this weekend was all over the place, I can't wait to get back to cleaner eating this week).
Hope everyone is keeping well. Oh we did our first trip out to the forest for archery as full members with our own bow! It was so fab walking around for a few hours, focusing on technique. Manage to destroy one arrow already, it got logged in a root in the ground! But I hear that's part of the joys of archery.4 -
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
6/1/22-152.2 lbs
6/5/22-158 lbs :-( Not doing great. Been eating too many carbs (Problem is they are so tasty! And trigger me to eat more.) and then probably retaining water with them too.
I know you aren't delighted about the gain, but honestly I look at your journey and it's so bloody inspiring! Don't forget the progress you've made over all, really it makes this a little blip (ps I need to remind myself of the same, not just in health but other stuff too).1 -
I weigh in on Mondays.
Started 2/5/22
SW: 288.8
CW: 264.2 (-24.6)
GW for June: 259
5/30: 264.2
6/6: 261.2 (-3.0)
6/13:
6/20:
6/27:
Goals for June:
🍎 Keep eating 4-5 fruits and veggie servings per day, at least 5 days a week
🧘🏼♀️ Work up to 8 minutes at a time doing Leslie Sansone workouts by the end of the month
👦 Survive the first month of summer break and taking care of my nephews (my health has gone downhill a lot since last summer)
🏊♀️ Start water exercise once the complex pool opens
👩⚕️ Set up the appointments I need to have with my primary doctor
⬇️ Lose 5-6 pounds and enter the 250s (I’ll be happy with any loss)
Past week update:
I believe I hit the fruit and veggie goal except maybe one day at most. It’s time to aim for 5 a day nearly every day soon. Only exercised with Leslie sansone once this past week with being sick and doing other unplanned activities. First week of summer break went pretty smoothly but still exhausting. Thankfully my brother is taking the oldest to work with him again and I’ve only had the younger one yesterday and today. Much calmer and easier.
I’m still sick. I’ve got more symptoms and hoping I don’t have a sinus infection. I overdid it way too much last week with unplanned tasks and now I’m in day 5 of a flare up with pain all over, fatigue, loose joints, etc. So there probably won’t be much Leslie sansone exercise this week either.
On the bright side I lost 3 pounds this past week (or two weeks since I stayed the same last week). I’m happy about that!2
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