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

Good morning everyone, happy April!

Thank you @RavenStCloud for keeping this group going!

Christina
34 years old
5'4"

SW: 220ish
Re-SW (Feb 2022): 200.4
UGW: 150

SW 4/1: 173 (174.1 average)

🌻 April Goals! 🌻

🌻 April GW (average): 172.5

🟡Log everything in grams
🟡Do at least three fitness classes a week
🟡More than 100g protein every day
🟡No doomscrolling after 7PM each night
🟡At least 64oz of water a day

RavenStCloud wrote: »

🌻The weather is changing, and we're changing with it! What are your goals for this month and the spring overall? And how do you feel the first three months of the year went?

I feel like the first three months of this year have gone pretty well. I'm in that good positive feedback loop of seeing progress -> being motivated to make more progress. For that, I really have to credit how much I love my gym, and want to be there.

For this spring, my goal is to work my way into the 160s by summer, even if I just barely hit 169 on June 20th, haha. Also for this spring: to hit the yoga block in the lowest orientation for my front splits! So that summer can be getting just as flat as possible.

🌻There are lots of holidays this month, and some have already begun! What are you looking forward to the most? Do you have plans in place to navigate any of the trickier aspects of your holiday?

This month is spring break, and Whatsisface and I are going to Boston. I absolutely cannot wait, and I intend to take a diet break for that time- eat at maintenance the whole time.

Now, maintenance calories is only 200-300 more than I'm currently taking in, so it's going to be tough, and I'm going to have to decide when I really want to splurge those calories, and when I want to save them. But that is good practice for my eventual forever-maintenance.

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I had car trouble yesterday, so unfortunately my planned gym days today and Monday are out. For those days, I'm going to do an at-home pole conditioning workout without a pole, thanks to a webinar I took a couple weeks ago, and an at-home splits workout.

I know we're eating sushi tomorrow, but I don't know what I'm fixing for dinner tonight- lots of veg, as we've got some from our garden in, but for the meat, I'm not sure yet. I'm going to do my favorite thing, and go into the grocery store and see what speaks to me while the girls are at the gym this afternoon.

I've got to do laundry and pack this weekend, but luckily my house is pretty clean still from the professional clean on Wednesday, so we just have to keep it clean before we leave next Saturday to start our spring break.

Have a great day and happy April Fool's day, everyone!

Hello Everyone, Happy April ☔️💐

Aswennu; 35yrs old & 5'8
Starting Weight: 248
Ultimate Goal Weight: 145
SW for April: 213.2
GW for April: 208

I've had a lot of false starts and I am hoping to stay on track this time.

Near the end of April, I will be traveling to Amsterdam for a few days of fun with my family. I'm a little terrified about it because every time I let myself get off track, I go WAY off track and it takes me a good couple of weeks to sort myself out again. So, my plan is to accept that there is no perfection and try to find balance. I'm going to aim for maintenance calories for the travel days, do my best to guess track, pack healthy snacks, and pace myself. I often stop tracking when I'm heading off the rails, so hopefully just making myself keep track will help me stay mindful. I'm open to any suggestions if anyone has some for traveling to a foreign country.

I'll post weight updates here weekly. I weigh every day, but fluctuate a ton so I'll spare you guys the day to day

My name is Mary, 65 from Pennsylvania.
Been MIA for a few months but still logging in everyday since I started MFP 5/14/21.

Unfortunately lost my mojo and gained a lot back but not all Thank God! Need to get back on track and focused. I bought a NEW to me, gently used, Commercial PreCor EFX 835 Elliptical. It was delivered the beginning of November, as others here know I wore my previous 10+ year old one out from my extensive workouts. Back up to 150 minutes on my 3 days off per week.

Good to see some familiar names here and glad to see some new ones too!

Heaviest weight 255 lbs, twice. :-(
9/14/20-255 lbs
5/14/21-232.2 lbs
4/6/22- 147.6 lbs (107.4 lbs lost) I did NOT have a surgery. Did Keto.
8/1/22- 167.2 lbs
12/1/22-198 lbs
1/1/23- 213.4 lbs
2/1/23- 207.4 lbs
3/1/23-201 lbs Yippee!

4/1/23- 207.6 lbs Been struggling as you can see. :-(

My name is Mary, 65 from Pennsylvania.
Been MIA for a few months but still logging in everyday since I started MFP 5/14/21.

Unfortunately lost my mojo and gained a lot back but not all Thank God! Need to get back on track and focused. I bought a NEW to me, gently used, Commercial PreCor EFX 835 Elliptical. It was delivered the beginning of November, as others here know I wore my previous 10+ year old one out from my extensive workouts. Back up to 150 minutes on my 3 days off per week.

Good to see some familiar names here and glad to see some new ones too!

Heaviest weight 255 lbs, twice. :-(
9/14/20-255 lbs
5/14/21-232.2 lbs
4/6/22- 147.6 lbs (107.4 lbs lost) I did NOT have a surgery. Did Keto.
8/1/22- 167.2 lbs
12/1/22-198 lbs
1/1/23- 213.4 lbs
2/1/23- 207.4 lbs
3/1/23-201 lbs Yippee!

4/1/23- 207.6 lbs Been struggling as you can see. :-(

4/2/23- 209 lbs. I need to get my head right and be more accountable to myself in this. I need to get back in control and off the carbs again. Back to my lower level of daily carbs(15g net +/- 3) and FOCUSED on what is best for me! Not short term enjoyment. Elliptical HIIT setting 150 minutes for 10.11 miles today (I do my elliptical like this 3x per week, on my off work days, pretty religiously. Thursday, Friday & Sunday this week).

Current weight 96.6 kilos.

Happy Monday!

It’s been a busy weekend. Church kids Easter party, neighborhood Easter egg hunt, volleyball, friend’s birthday, church, and the circus with a group of 13 taking up an entire section. I’m so tired. I did get my face painted to match my daughter this time. She LOVED that we matched. I know she’s 9 and the day will soon come she’ll be embarrassed when I do that kind of thing. I’m loving every minute I can still get of that joy.



Tonight my kid asked for tacos. I’ll have to make a grocery run because my husband killed off the lettuce and cheese over the weekend. What is everyone else having tonight?

@Aswennu I love that you have a plan and recognize that going off is hard for you. I know I had to learn the hard way after numerous fails that I’m the same way. If I go off plan for more than 24 hours I have a very hard time coming back.

@nebslp Sounds like a busy but fun month!

@RavenStCloud I’m with you on the nice weather. I’m so glad that here in the south it’s been fairly nice for the past month. Of course, come July and August I’ll wish it would cool back down. Right now we’re averaging 70 to 80 degree days and I’m all about that.

@sandramarshall200 I love that you can tell you have more definition. Sometimes those types of changes are so much better than the scale ones. It’s more noticeable to ourselves and others. Something you can see in the mirror.

@CupcakeCrusoe Your overnight oats always sound so good. If oatmeal in the morning didn’t spike my blood sugar I would be copying that for sure. I can only eat oatmeal, grits, Cream of Wheat, or any other grain based cereal like them later in the day. If it’s part of the first thing I eat, unless I pair it with extra protein like a sausage patty, my blood sugar goes way up. If I have it in the afternoon when I’ve already been up and moving it doesn’t happen as bad… but I don’t want it in the afternoon. LOL. I want it in the morning. I appreciate your mojo sent my way! I’m going to need all the help I can get.

@pamperedlinny We are having tacos tonight too...we have tacos every Monday night since I work on Mondays. My youngest son cooks the Taco meat for us and everyone can make them how they want. Some want soft tacos with tortillas, others have hard tacos with the shells or a combination of both. I usually make a "Taco bowl" with some brown rice, Taco meat (we add in black beans in our meat for added fiber and protein), cheese, lettuce and some tortilla chips crunched up for a little crunch.

Here's a picture of the protein pancake breakfast sandwich I was talking about in my previous post...

My name is Mary, 65 from Pennsylvania.
Been MIA for a few months but still logging in everyday since I started MFP 5/14/21.

Unfortunately lost my mojo and gained a lot back but not all Thank God! Need to get back on track and focused. I bought a NEW to me, gently used, Commercial PreCor EFX 835 Elliptical. It was delivered the beginning of November, as others here know I wore my previous 10+ year old one out from my extensive workouts. Back up to 150 minutes on my 3 days off per week.

Good to see some familiar names here and glad to see some new ones too!

Heaviest weight 255 lbs, twice. :-(
9/14/20-255 lbs
5/14/21-232.2 lbs
4/6/22- 147.6 lbs (107.4 lbs lost) I did NOT have a surgery. Did Keto.
8/1/22- 167.2 lbs
12/1/22-198 lbs
1/1/23- 213.4 lbs
2/1/23- 207.4 lbs
3/1/23-201 lbs Yippee!

4/1/23- 207.6 lbs Been struggling as you can see. :-(
4/2/23- 209 lbs. I need to get my head right and be more accountable to myself in this. I need to get back in control and off the carbs again. Back to my lower level of daily carbs(12 g net +/- 3) and FOCUSED on what is best for me! Not short term enjoyment. Elliptical HIIT setting 150 minutes for 10.11 miles today (I do my elliptical like this 3x per week, on my off work days, pretty religiously. Thursday, Friday & Sunday this week).

4/4/23- 204.8 lbs Not my usual check in day but hopefully getting myself back on track, FINALLY!!! Was on track Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with my low carbs and it shows!

Good morning everyone!

173.2 this morning, which is great.

Last night went much better, Little was more chill, dinner was easier to deal with- I put my thai coconut chicken on cauliflower rice so that I could have ice cream- and I got to relax. And the Hurricanes won!

We haven't heard a peep about my car, they haven't called back, which is aggravating.

In another thread I'm in, there's some talk about getting 30 different fruits, veg, and herbs in a week, with herbs counting for .25 of a point and veg and fruit each counting for 1 point, and I clocked last week at 17.5 (I'm not counting multiples of things, like eating figs every day only counts as 1). Gotta work on that, would be a good gamified way for me to get more in. I'm making a database in fact, with snack and meal ideas, because of course I am.

Tonight is little gym for the kids, and if we don't have my car back by tomorrow morning, I'm going to have to cancel on the gym again tomorrow night. We'll see.

I'm almost all packed both for me and the kids for the trip, just have to try to keep this house clean before we have to leave. Whatsisface usually just throws some things in a bag just before we head out, that's how he rolls, lol.

Tag party time!
@pamperedlinny I think everyone has those days, where you reach out to maybe not the best coping mechanism for stress you're feeling. I've got no advice, just hugs, because I've obviously been there and done exactly that. But as long as it doesn't become a habit (and I know you, so I know it won't), it's not going to break your progress.

@badnoodle I love new cookbook energy. I often find at least one thing I want to put in the rotation of my normal meals whenever I crack one open. Welcome!

@swimmom_1 good for you! congratulations!

@BarbMessimer that's great, measurable progress! congratulations!

Have a great day, everyone!

pamperedlinny wrote: »

@CupcakeCrusoe You’ll have to tell us what new thing you add in for that many different fruits and veg.

So apparently I was fired up about this, because I finished a plan for the week after my vacation already, hahah




The sum is there at the bottom left, it's over 30 because I was keeping track of "doubles," like recipes that used carrots when I'd already had carrots in there, etc. I left weekends blank mostly, because I tend to treat myself more on the weekends, better to load my week with the fruit/veg.

I like pairing my fruit/veg with a sweet or fatty (or both, lol) thing, because satiety wise, that works better for me.

I think the key is going to be 1) my coffee treat in the morning OR my dessert at night can be not-healthy, "non-scoring foods," not both, lol, and 2) switching up toppings for overnight oats and snacks. That way my lunches can remain the same for the least amount of different meal prep on the weekends, and I can still eat what everyone else is eating at night.

We'll see how expensive this gets, but in general, fruits and veg aren't that expensive, so maybe it won't add that much to my grocery budget. I do need to get a lot more (little!) meal prep containers, lol.

I need to fill in calorie and protein numbers, but I got frustrated logging in MFP, and MacroFactor is only on my phone (for now!) which I don't have access to. But given my coffee treat and dessert numbers have been at least a couple hundred each lately, I think it'll be fine.

I'm jazzed! I'm excited! The way to get me to eat better is to make it a game, apparently, lol.


Mojo for your dentist appointment! Even with a good dentist, I hate going to the dentist.

@CupcakeCrusoe Congrats on your new low. My goal is 170 so I would be absolutely thrilled to be where you are today, and I know what you mean about the fat near the bottom of your abdomen. It's like an apron. Mine is getting smaller too. Thank the Lord.

I stayed the course yesterday. Started counting calories for the first time and was under 1300 with no late night snacking. Worked in the yard for 4 hours. (Not sure how many calories I burned but it was more than if I had been laying around the house all day.) Weight was up this morning (How could that be? But, oh well.... ain't no big deal because I know I did what was right yesterday and it will eventually show up on the scale.

Good morning everyone!

173 this morning, so that's the last weigh in until not this coming Sunday, but the one after that.

Everything is packed, pretty much, and I think everything's ready. Last night was tough- I started well. I ate some leftovers for dinner, as we're trying to clear out the fridge before our week away. Then I had a bunch of calories left, so I loaded up some greek yogurt with good stuff- m&m's, speculoos cookies, and maraschino cherries.



This, too, was fine, within calories, and had I stopped here, we would have been good.

But instead.... I had some pecan sandies out on the counter for Little. And then I ate the rest, about 5 of them. Oops. I was over my maintenance calories by about 100-150, which is not a dealbreaker, but it didn't feel great to do. Lesson learned (again, lol). Why did I do it?

Really, I should have thrown those cookies away. They weren't even that good. And the kids weren't eating them. But I guess some part of me was like, you bought them, why would you throw them away? In the spirit of clearing out things that were going to go bad before we left, I ate those cookies instead of throwing them away and "wasting" them.

Gotta have good control over what comes into the house, with the idea that if I'm not buying something that I know the girls like, I'm really just buying it for myself, under the guise of buying it for them.

And some things I do have good control over. Like unwrapping candy- for some reason, the act of unwrapping gives me pause. But a bag full of cookies? Too easy to just keep grabbing cookies. Especially ones I know no one else wants, so I'm not saving them for anyone.

Gotta remember that saying from, I think it was @sargemarcori , or maybe it was @RavenStCloud - I'm not a trash can, I shouldn't treat myself like one.

I've gotten to the part of Sean Anderson's blog where he regained. A lot of good reflection there. I guess it's got me feeling reflective, too.

Anyway! Extended talk about cookies over, time to get into maintenance and vacation mode, starting at the end of the day today. Time to flex those maintenance muscles.

Tag party time
@BarbMessimer I love a big ol' salad.

@pamperedlinny CHEERING SECTION ACTIVATED GO GO GO GO GOGOGOGOGOGO lol. You can do it!

@RavenStCloud this is truly an inspiration, and I'm hoping I can do similar to you, in a place where I'll be in that position for a whole week, haha.

Have a great day, everyone! I'll try to check in, but I don't know how often.