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

@LisaLethal You are going down so you are going in the right direction. Next week will be perfect!

@seltzer_lover Congratulation on one year. You made the best out of it! Thank you for the Friend request, I do feel a bit lonely here.

Keri
69 years old
5'6"
SW: 266ish
CW: 248.8 (I got down to 247.6 last month) new scale weighs me 6 lbs heavier than old one so not sure about how much I have lost.
Halfway GW: 199.5
UGW: 150
July GW: get into the mid 240’s

I post weigh- in when I lose.
7/2: 248.8
7/13: 248.6
7/15: 247.4 (new low)
7/22 247.2 (new low)

🌻 July GOALS! 🌻
🟨 Log daily on MFP and track on my spreadsheet Yes
🟨 Keep making progress with walking longer and walk 6 days a week Yes
🟨 Add strength training (weights, body weight and stretching)
🟨 plan and cook healthy meals at home Yes
🟨 Eat at a sensible deficit Yes

I really want to get to the mid 240s ASAP. My next goal since I started my last job and after I got my current scale is to get to the low that I had before I started that job and started to gain what I lost during the pandemic furlough. It is in the 245 lbs range. Which would recapture the 20 plus lbs lost I had worked for so hard after the pandemic started but also the 6 lbs higher that my current scale showed over my old scale. I am so close and I am being pretty consistent with lower calories. I still need to add a day of strength training. I think the reason I am not losing as fast as before (which wasn't that fast) is I haven't yet recovered my fitness level from before treatment from breast cancer at the end of last year. I have made progress on this but am not there yet.

Today was Friday breakfast which I got myself since my husband had to leave early for a site visit today. Tonight we are having my niece and her 2 little boys over with my sister and brother-in-law on our remodeled deck. We will have no-salt fajitas which means corn tortillas instead of flour tortillas and means I have to make my own pico de gallo and quacamole without salt. I am going to use fresh mozzarella instead of queso fresco since it is the lowest salt cheese I can find. I will see what I can do with sour cream today at the store. I felt bad I hadn’t called to get together with them since she came into town but with my family going to Hawaii, my youngest having new diet restrictions, and we are trying to clean up our carport I just can’t get the house straight. We have 3 boxes to sort through in the living room. I called and invited them only for outdoors and it turned out my sister felt the same and my niece felt safer on the deck and wouldn’t have come over if it was inside anyway. So this should be fun. It isn’t as hot as it has been. So I have a lot of work to do after this.

However last night we had very sad news. My mother-in-law died. After that the 3 of us just got on our bed and cried and talked and prayed. Then my youngest got down on the floor with her work computer and worked since they knew they would soon be going back to Hawaii for the funeral. I am so glad they got to see their Popo/mother so recently. I got to see my MIL just this spring. My son went not too long ago but he couldn’t come now since my grandson is due soon. I am blessed to have had such a sweet MIL. She gave me more jewelry than my husband has. She always supported me. She was a great Popo (paternal grandmother in the Chinese dialect of my husband’s family). I asked my husband did he still want to have the dinner tonight and he said yes. My sister and her husband are so sweet and I am very close to this sister. I lived with them when my niece was still young so I am close with her as well. She has been such a wonderful cousin to my youngest.

So we three will be off to Hawaii soon for the funeral. My husband may need to stay longer to help with things. So if I become MIA you will know why.

@Alatariel75 Sorry you are feeling so bad. This isn’t the time for dieting. This is the time to get well. However, eating healthy never hurts. Soup is good. Glad your friend came through with the pho. When our youngest who is living at home got COVID we directed them downstairs and delivered meals and beverages. We didn’t get it but it would have been harder if it was either my husband or me that got it. I am not surprised your husband got it too. Take care.
@CupcakeCrusoe I am at .2 lbs lost so I hear you. Thanks for telling me the name of the rice. I am finding it hard to find recipes in East. But then they all look good. I think I am not used to using an eBook cookbook.
@kenziestabes nice loss!
@justanotherloser007 Glad the spanakopita turned out well. You are making steady progress this month. I haven’t been able to get any nutritional yeast. Your post gave me some more motivation. It is on my shopping list. Yes I need to cut down on cheeses.
@cosmiccurves I wish there was a good term for getting down into of the next lower 10 lbs. I think of them as decades but that is for years not lbs. Maybe declbs. I am struggling to stay out of the 250s and get through the 240s. But I find making it into the lower 10 lb increment is challenging and feels like a watershed. My weight varies a lot so even when my low is in the 240s my high can be in the 250s. I have to be almost out of the lower 10 lbs increment to not see the upper one. That is what my goal is now to get low enough in the lower one that I don’t pop up into the upper one for a day or 2. It is almost like I have to be in the 230s for my highs not to be in the 250s. Anyway good job making it down into the next lower declbs.
@The_Fat_Optimist That is the way to show your stomach/body who is the boss. Sometimes we need to listen to our bodies and others we need to ignore it. It takes work to tell the difference. I find this with exercise too. There are some twinges I listen too and others I don’t. I am glad you clicked on getting healthy being the goal. Now that is progress. Nice to get both this month.
@selter_lover glad you are feeling better. Congrats on this year of getting healthier. I lost at first with eating a lot of what things like Starbuck’s and desserts but as I lose I find that I have to give somethings up. Mostly it is the amounts of those things. I lost 40 lbs while going to Starbuck’s for breakfast every weekday on the way to work. Now I just have it on Fridays. As to chocolates don’t ever give dark chocolate up. They are good for you. However it often isn’t the chocolate that is bad but the sugar and other ingredients that are combined with it.
@LisaLethal What a lot of progress this month. My youngest who is 28 is struggling with eating related health problems ate pretty healthy at home but when they went off to college started eating some more junk. I remember how I would sneak veggies into things and finally they liked them. It is a challenge. They never liked salads until we had a Caesar salad out. Because the egg issue I stopped making them but I mimicked the one we liked at a restaurant which used hard boiled eggs chopped up and they love my Caesar salad.
@bojaantje3822 I haven’t mastered ordering clothes online either. I am going to try thredup that was recommended though.

@kenziestabes great pics! I always have trouble picturing someone roughly my age and height losing weight from 100+kg. It sometimes seems like it's all tiny women who lose like 35 lbs and go down 6 clothing sizes and that never translates to my body. So even though your starting point is some 15-20lbs down from my current weight, this is so insightful, thank you for sharing! It's a very clear difference, which I didn't expect from 55lbs.

Good morning everyone!

184.4 this morning, which is fine. The baby decided I wasn't allowed to sleep anymore, even though she is being very sleepy herself.

Might as well use this time to write some postcards to voters. There's a constitutional amendment in Kansas that will be very important coming up in the August primaries.

Today is Video Vamp, which is a new class for me, but it's a choreographed dance of a popular music video, so I'm excited to see which one. And then poles.

Today I need to clean up, put the last couple things away that we moved to clean the carpets, go grocery shopping, go to the zero waste store, the gym, and then I get to be a cat in a video game. Tonight is cheeseburgers, last night ended up being leftovers.

Tag party time:
@bojaantje3822 I'm sorry about your story, that's absolutely horrible.

Ooh, I hate leggings that feel like tights! That cheap rip-any-second feeling. Hate that.

@pamperedlinny I hope you have a good rest this weekend.

@kenziestabes WOW incredible work! Well done! Happy MFPiversary. I'm sorry to hear you've exacerbated whatever your legs have going on, mojo it gets better soon.

@justanotherloser007 oof, having that kind of reaction to salt sounds terrible. I'm glad you're dealing with it well.

@cosmiccurves YASS way to go! In the 80's!

@The_Fat_Optimist I'm glad that the AIP is making you feel better, is this a long term thing, or do you start adding things back in, eventually? Congratulations on your progress, you're working very hard.

If I were on MFP for more than the forums, I would friend request everyone in here, but since I'm only here in the forums and don't use MFP for anything else (I log my food on MacroFactor), no friends. So if you've sent me a request and I haven't responded, it's because there's no point to being my MFP friend, I don't post anything outside the forums, lol.

@seltzer_lover oh no someone is cutting onions in here. WELL DONE. Happy MFPiversary to you, too. I'm glad to hear you're feeling better.

@LisaLethal weight loss is made in the kitchen, as you're finding out. I love the balanced approach you are taking, and you're making good progress! Weight loss is practice for life after weight loss, and the way you're handling the fair(s) is very practical.

@KeriA Condolences for your MIL. Thinking of you and your family. I'm glad you still had your sister over, sounds like a fun time and much needed.

@Ineedtolose50lbs I'm sorry to hear COVID got you! Rest up, hydrate, and yes, make sure you're eating something to keep your strength up! Mojo you get well soonest.

@sargemarcori sometimes dinners we throw together with bits and bobs can be the most satisfying!

I love that you flipped off your scale and got on with your day Scales can be lying liars sometimes.

@tahitig HOORAY YOU DID IT! CONGRATULATIONS! Have fun on your trip! I would like to see a picture of bears if you don't mind!

Time to get going, have a great Saturday, everyone!

@bojaantje3822 Congrats on your competition! And thank you for your kind words. I wasn't expecting that much of a difference either! I've gone down about 2.5 dress sizes, but my figure is pretty hourglass, so I don't expect to go down more than another 2. I'm just glad my boobs aren't lost in my abdominal fat anymore. I also feel like more people need to include face pictures in the before and after. My face is where I see the biggest change.

@sargemarcori First night with the new duvet was a success! It had the weight I wanted on my body but I didn't wake up sweating!

@CupcakeCrusoe

I will stay on the AIP for another 60 days. It's actually fun to try new things and the success I have rigth now (due to the number of lbs I have to lose) is keeping me going.

I will start to add certain foods back after 60 days, eggs and nuts first, then caffeine (if I still want/need it) lentils and dry beans, gluten-free cereals, oats and go from there. Oh my gosh, I have a plan 😍😍 I never had a plan when it came to eating healthy. Thank you for asking.

@KeriA Congratulation! I like your goals

@karilbrandt Sometimes we struggle and backpaddle, it's part of the journey.

@KeriA I am the boss now, my own hunger games :-) 32 lbs down weight in 331 lbs. I enjoy the AIP meals and trying the new recipes.

Wishing everybody a successful, and healthy new week.

My cousin and her family arrived about 20min after I did last night so I haven't had the chance to step on the scale. I was exhausted from my weightlifting thing and traveling over 3,5 hours because my train got delayed so I fell asleep around 9.30pm and slept until 9.30am. I did feel refreshed this morning. We didn't have breakfast until 11.30 because my cousin's daughter is 14 so she slept in. Thanks to this my calories have been very reasonable.

This morning she saw me in my PJs and commented on my weight loss. I ended up telling her it was 15kg and she was like omgggg I was telling your mum last night it had to be 15+kg!! But she was nice about it and accepted that I said no diets, just a little less food and more exercise.

Today I wore my nicest shorts out so my confidence was skyhigh. We went shopping and I got some great winter stuff in sizesI didn't expect to fit. Very nice

I just realised that I could breach the triple digits treshold by this time next year. My mum suggested we go on vacation to Montenegro next year together and I agreed but today it hit me that if I lose a little under 0,5kg a week, I could totally lose 23-26kg in the next year. This is super daunting to think about. I'm at 123kg now and hit 100kg back in late 2015.

Good morning everyone!

186.6 this morning, so weird. I certainly haven't been eating enough to justify a 2 lb gain, so I'm just going to keep on keeping on.

I banged my head really good on a doorframe this morning, so keeping tabs on myself for concussion reasons. I did not want to get going this morning after that, lol.

Tonight is Hot Seat and Sittin' Sexy, which I'm very excited for. AND I don't have to cook, because Whatsisface and the kids are hanging out with my brother this evening, and he's providing dinner.

That reminds me, I made the BEST chickpea salad yesterday, it was this one. We had it with salmon, but it would be just as good on its own. I needed (still need) to use up some red cabbage Whatsisface grew, and that one's going in the rotation. I doubled the recipe so I could bring some to work with me all week, with the chicken I prepped.

tag party time!
@bojaantje3822 new prs, congratulations!

And your hard work is being noticed, and I'm sure you rocked the shorts! Just good times all around!

@kenziestabes ooh, I'm interested in this duvet idea as well, time for me to look around, I think.

@KeriA you have new lows everywhere! Well done!

@karilbrandt I can't believe I missed you the other day, it took me forever to write that post, for some reason, haha. You've got this

@The_Fat_Optimist I'm glad you've got a plan.

@goal06082021 honeymoon planning, how exciting!

@sargemarcori this is what it's all about right here. we love to see it.

@EmA_5512 but you're still here! You didn't give up! That counts for a lot. There are 52 weeks in a year, one off week is not going to affect the other 51 if you don't let it. I hope you had fun at the pool.

@sbortnick I know how frustrating it can be to not see progress when you're working so hard. But going down sizes IS progress, and the only other thing I might say is, be sure your logging is tight- weigh and measure everything, log everything, so you know where you're at and what you expect to see. That will be handy information, especially if you think there might be something else going on.

Have a great day, everyone!

Seltzer_lover
Weigh-in Day: Mondays
SW (7/2021): 300
6/27: 236.8
7/4: missed
7/12: 234.4
7/18: 235.2
7/25: 232.9

July GW: 228 - 232

Finally feeling like I'm on the mend and attending OTF later today! I'm planning to ease back in since I'm still not close to feeling 100%, but I'm definitely improved.