Women 200lb+, Let's Aim For The Sky This July!!!

This is a great thread! Very encouraging! I’m sick today: sore throat, fever, headache, cough, congestion. I did a Covid test last night and today. Both negative so that’s good. I’m bing watching stranger things and taking it easy. I’m only 11 days in… so far enjoying this app. It’s helping me stay on track. Down 6 pounds.

Good morning everyone! Hoping all of you who are under the weather feel better soon!

I have decided to officially Take A Break from weighing until after I've moved. I will do my best to eat mindfully in the meantime, but weighing right now is just a stressor I don't need (plus now I can pack up my scale).

I am in a much better place mentally than when I last posted. I think knowing I'll be out of this hot, loud, uncomfortable apartment in a week is really helping. I have been moving stuff out bit by bit over the last couple of weeks to my parents' place since I have a few days in between moves that I'll have to stay with them. Fortunately, this should make my official move out day pretty easy since most of my smaller stuff is out already.

This heat wave is pretty awful, and I know it's affecting a lot of people. Please make sure you are staying hydrated and doing your best to keep cool.

Have a great Thursday!

I have been eating low calories lately. We have been eating at home. Last week I skipped a day or two of walks but doing fine this week so far. Yesterday was a higher NEAT day so I had a shorter walk mostly because my husband wasn’t up for a longer walk. I usually get my longer walks when it is just with my youngest or when I am on my own and am up for it. However my weight is staying low but I haven’t had another loss yet.
I decided instead of coming up with new dishes I would focus on making dishes I make with no or very low salt and with no red meat. We already only eat lamb once a week and occasionally have some pork. Every 2-3 months my husband might make steak or we will have hamburgers out but usually we make lamb burgers at home. Now that we have remodeled our deck (last summer) and gotten a BBQ grill for Father’s day we had the lamb patties grilled and ate on the deck earlier this week. Our youngest had something she had made for them self. This week I have made Moroccan Chicken and plan to make either quesadillas or if my husband agrees fajitas. This means I need to make the pico de gallo and guacamole myself without salt. I have made them before but we usually buy it to keep the work down. I have been making salad dressings etc. Wondering about whether I should make homemade no salt mayonnaise so we can have my chicken salad sandwiches or for that matter potato salad. There is one no or low salt mayonnaise brand but haven’t found it yet at the stores. Next week I will make my spaghetti sauce without salt or Italian sausage. I won’t be able to use tomato sauce so it will be all diced tomatoes and tomato puree with a bit of lowest salt tomato paste. However I already made 2 new dishes earlier.

Last summer I planned to get caught up with all my dental and drs appointment etc. since I was fully vaccinated and COVID 19 rates were low. However I was soon diagnosed with breast cancer so I had to concentrate on that. So now that I am in survivorship as they say and am unemployed I finally set up almost all appointments. Some I couldn’t get scheduled until September but today had my eye exam and am fine there. You would think I would have gotten to it by now but I didn’t. Anyway I feel good about this.

As to finding a job, I have decided to slow up with applications and do some online training related to getting updated on some occupation related areas. Many of them are related to the job that I have been talking with my last place of work in which I would be trained for 3 months before the person doing the job now retires. The timing of this position got pushed back to this fall and I will have to go through the hiring process in September sometime. She let me know of some webinars online that would be helpful to be more qualified for this position and I realize now that they qualify as job search activities. I had an interview this week and if I get any more I will certainly do them. I have put in a lot of applications but hiring by public jurisdictions can be a long process. My focus has been my health but jobsearch has sometimes put it on the back burner on certain days in the week. This way I can schedule the webinars to fit my schedule. When I get a job I plan to take a short trip before it starts. I really haven’t taken advantage of being unemployed.

@sargemarcori I love that you realized you were doing okay and the comment about reading and commenting in your head. I am assuming this refers to posts. I agree about that kids will get a bit pudgy right before they shoot up and trim back down. I use to be just a bit heavier in the winter when I was growing up and later when I was normal weight then in the spring I would lose the extra few lbs.

@karibrandt Yay you are in the 246 realm! That is about my goal too. Hope the conference is going well. As you described I think that my youngest has transitioned from no salt to tracking their salt and keeping it under a certain threshold daily. I just have to send them my ingredient list now so they can track but I am shooting for no salt as much as possible because I know how picky I am with sweets. I like most of them but if I have to limit them then I want my favorites so I figure that is how my youngest feels. I want them to be able to choose their salty items instead of me using it up in the dishes I make.

@CupcakeCrusoe I bought the ebook version of East. I so agree with you about having treats. We had no sweets in our house growing up and I never learned to manage them. I didn’t do that with my kids and they are better able to manage them. However I made the mistake with chips etc. and sodas. I never had them around. We did have chips for camping trips though. For sleepovers I would make a snack mix with some junky snacks mixed with nuts and plain popcorn. That is what my youngest is having a hard time with now. Once they got where they could buy treats for themselves they went overboard with junk food snacks and also drinks. I never had soda in the house although eating out they could order it. Now they are learning to manage them over the issue of eating low/no salt and tracking calories. They weren’t overweight until they started to eat on their own. At their age I had no weight issues but they weren’t there then. Sorry about having a bad work out after skipping dinner. Nice anniversary pic. The last picture of the rice dish looks great. What is it?

@bojaantje3822 glad you survived you sisters scale. I am always bumping into things and people too thinking I have left enough space. Nice loss.

@kenziestabes nice! getting into med t-shirt! Hope your quads feel better soon.

@goal06082021 I avoided ordering online for a long time but now it is hard to avoid it. I ordered some clothes and some were ok but most were not. Mostly they were too big despite that being my usual size and I checked measurements. Some were too long although I ordered regular and I am medium height. So hope you get shoes that fit soon.

@The_Fat_Optimist you are not the only one who is over 300 lbs. And many who are at lower weight started in the 300s on this thread. Welcome. Congrats at losing 27 lbs.

@EmA-_5512 I like the way you organize your check in posts with The Good, Needs Improvement and goals for the Next week. Yes I had the same experience with ordering clothes. I used to like Macy’s but the one by me closed. They often had good deals.

@justanotherloser007 wonderful progress pictures.

@pamperedlinny glad you found a new doctor. When my kids came home from college they were pescatarian (mostly vegetarian but also eats fish) so when we went out for Indian we would eat the vegetarian dishes and I found I liked them better than the meat dishes. I love vegetable kofta too. Oh no your week of meals eaten already?!

@Altariel75 that does sound like an advantage to be able to fit shopping in at lunchtime. Lately I am having a hard time planning and shopping for a full week. However the meals are healthier. That is okay since I am between jobs now. I remember that I didn’t use to mind grocery shopping but now I really don’t like it. Glad you have a pot of soup. Take care.

@JAC581 I hope things settle down soon for you. It is hard to cook at home during a move.

@mshawski I am going to look into thredup too

I have to stop and have lunch before finishing reading your posts and the tag party. That's what I get for not checking the thread out for a while. I was doing pretty well but just didn't have much to post here.

@seltser_lover Hope you feel better soon.