Women 200lb+, Let’s Mix It Up This March!!!

Mejken
Thursday Weigh-In
42 years old
5'9"
Re-Starting Weight (10/23) 208lbs
March SW:181.3
March GW: 175
UGW 160 and I'll reassess.

March Goals (aka non-negotiables)

* Log my calories EVERYDAY (good, great and most importantly, UGLY)
* Check, on a 4 day roll

* Climb to the 25th floor at work 3 times daily
* Check, on a 4 day roll

* 10K steps/day
* Check, on a 4 day roll

3/1: 181.3ish--Spent a long weekend in Montana, no internet, no scales, no CARES
3/7: 180.1
3/14: 178.2
3/21: OOO
3/25: 181.6
3/28: 180.1
4/1:

Working to move momentum in the other direction.

@sharon81 I just want to shout out encouragement. You have made amazing progress. Lets both push forward and see the 170s next month!!

34 years old
5’6”
Starting weight: 222 (Feb, 21)
Lowest weight: 154 (Sep, 21)
Re-starting weight: 195 (Feb, 23)
Goal weight: 165-168

March 1: 183
March 4: 182.4
March 11: 181.2
March 18: 179
March 25: 177.7
March 31: 176.9

March total loss: 6.1lbs

I’m happy with this overall loss for the month! This week has been TOM of me and it’s just wrapping up today, so I imagine next week I will have a nice loss that’s not currently reflected. And, to be fair to my body, I also had 2 days this week where I ate about 200 over my allotted calories because I was hungry and crabby 😅 So, any loss is still a victory!

The weather is getting warmer here and I’ve gone for a couple of extra walks on my lunch break this week, which has been fun. Moving more helps keep me motivated to stick to my eating plan.

But, I also did a bad job of planning one day this week - I had a friends’ kids over to bake a cake after work one day and I had had zero time to prep any food that I could eat. So, I ate cake scraps and frosting with the kids for dinner 🤦🏻‍♀️ Did I weigh or log any of those things? I definitely did not. But, I’m proud of myself because the next day I picked it right back up and that’s all that matters. Anyone can have an off day, it’s an off lifestyle that makes me sliiiiide right back to where I was in 2021.

My husband and I are TTC but I have PCOS and we’ve had some life changes this year that have made my cycles get super out of whack. I had a 48-52 day cycle in 2020, then got serious about my health and lost a bunch of weight in 2021, which made my cycles go to about 34-36 days. They stayed there for 2 years (even with my weight regain) and then we moved to a new country and they went whacko again. 44-48 days for the last 8 months! Buuuut I have cut out all sugar (including fruit, sigh) and am aiming for under 50g of carbs a day (which is what my doc said will help with my PCOS) and this month my cycle was 38 days!! Hoping if I stick to this my health can get better again.

Thanks for a great month! See you all in April!!