Women 200lb+, Let's Have A Notable November!!!

Good morning everyone!

Thank you as always @RavenStCloud, for hosting this shindig month after month. We so appreciate you.

🍁What do you hope to accomplish this month or before the year is out?

I'm going to lose eight more pounds and see 172 on the scale before this year is out.

🍁 What's something that you can do exclusively for yourself this month?

I can keep up my journaling habit. It helps me de-stress, and I'm going to need that this month, haha.

Saturday weigh in days
Christina
36 years old
5'4"

SW: 220ish
Re-SW (Feb 2022): 200.4
UGW: 150
2024 goal weight: 172
SW 2024: 182.7

🍁 November Goals!🍁
🍂 November GW Average: 176

🤎November SW 11/1: 180.0 (average)
🤎11/2: 180.0 average


This morning I weighed in the closest to my average I have since I started, but that's fine. I did eat a little candy yesterday, logged it all, of course. I'm still just so tired, so I'm glad it's the weekend.

Not that that helps, lol. Busy day today: J swim lessons, N gymnastics, going to Costco for the first time in my life (!!), and pirates with the boys tonight. Tonight for dinner, it's going to be that good Costco rotisserie chicken, and I'm excited about that. I'm going to make a panera mac and cheese esque recipe from @ livcarbonero as a side and see how it is:


That should take care of my protein for the day, so hopefully I can have a couple pieces of candy or a hard cider while I play video games tonight. I'm going to pre-log my day this morning, we'll see how it shakes out.

I also need to take a hot girl walk this morning before everything kicks off. Make sure I get those steps in.

yesterday:
❌3rd / 4 workouts per week (I had a long walk, but I'm not counting walks)
✅> 8k steps
❌<= 1600 cal
✅32 minute self care
✅> 64oz water
✅>= 128g protein

I'm going to retake my measurements today, see how we're doing in that department a month in. Maybe try on some of my smaller jeans 👀

Yesterday was not great for calories, last week was not great for workouts. I'm going to improve on both, so that I can continue this momentum this month all the way to the end of the year. 59 days left until new year's eve.

Have a great MONTH, everyone!

Jumping in to say hi and that I'm so glad this "group" pops up every month. Thank you, @RavenStCloud !
This is an awesome group of people who aren't afraid to be vulnerable. thank you, everyone!! I start/stop joining in here but when I check in during the month, I'm always inspired and encouraged to see how consistent action produces consistent results. You guys are awesome!

So my primary goal this month is to be consistent in showing up here and in working toward my goals.

Rita
Age 73
November 2022: 238.2
Current weight: I'm guessing 232 but not completely sure. I'll weigh tomorrow.
November goal: 228.2

I have a calendar that has 6 daily goals for November. I keep track of progress on that.
1. Early morning shoulder/back exercises for better posture.
I've been doing these before leaving the bedroom in the morning since Sept 1. I'll continue with that.
2. Fitbit should record 7 hours of sleep. Last month my average was 7 hours, 2 minutes. It's always been less than 7 for the past couple of years I've been keeping track. Yay! Progress:)
I'm in the habit of going to bed shortly after midnight and I need to go earlier. Only bad things happen after 11:00 (late night snacking habit)! And mindless scrolling or game playing
3. Get 15 minutes of early morning sunlight to improve my circadian rhythm and improve sleep scores on fitbit.
I actually sleep very well but on Sept. 1 I started sweeping my deck every single morning and I don't have so many vivid weird memorable dreams. I feel more peaceful when I wake up. And I love the cool fresh air, sometimes in the 40-50 degree zone. It's a wraparound deck and I end up with 1000-2000 steps depending on how forcefully I swing my broom!
4. Photo organization. I have well over 25,000 photos on various SD cards and Flash Drives and can't find anything. I figured out a plan to get that done and have sorted over 4000 in the past few weeks. It's time to make some books!
5. Create! I'm practicing free motion quilting spiderwebs to quilt my Spooky Shelfie quilt that I'm putting together. SEW much fun
6. French. I have a 915 daily streak on duolingo so I can't quit now. I started this to prove to myself that I can stick to something I start and look at what happened! I can't believe it.

I also have action and food goals but they're not so well planned as the others... no routine yet. I'll get that figured out this month.
I fill a water jug every night and put it in the fridge which is a new improvement. I usually get through the whole pitcher by the time I go to bed.

I can see mini changes I've made and they happen by just doing the same thing over and over.

@lisakatz2 I've done the 2 pounds in 2 weeks thing as well. I made Halloween treats for the kiddos and ended up eating half the ingredients before it was all over. The sugar wreaked havoc on my system and inflammation went through the roof. I've been so sore everywhere the past couple of days, so I'm breaking up with sugar. I tell myself I'm allergic to it!

@CupcakeCrusoe That mac and cheese looks amazing! and the protein count proves that it is!!
Thanks for sharing the recipe.

I decided to make checking in here part of my daily computer routine...read the news, check emails, do a French lesson and now ... myfitness pal. It all takes about an hour especially on those really hard French days. Today I got a 64%! Getting 100% seems to be a part of the past!
So far today I've checked off 4 boxes. Still have to work on photos and sew but those usually happen later in the day.

I've decided to make a daily walk part of my increased movement plan. There's a deer blind located at the edge of our property and going there would make for a nice walk. I could take my camera and hope for some animal action when I get there. This week I'll see how it will fit with another routine so it sticks.

As for food, still working on a plan to eat healthier. At least the candy is all gone so I don't have to look at that. My husband has a stash of candy bars all over the house but they don't bother me because they're not mine. It's only when I buy them that I have an issue. So what's the solution to that, LOL!?!

@CupcakeCrusoe I'm intrigued hearing about Magic the Gathering. I hadn't heard of that one before so I had to look it up. Looks interesting but kinda complicated. It's good to have something to keep you occupied on your down time. It doesn't sound like you have much of that though!

Have a good week, everyone!

Nov 1 marked one year of weight loss for me. I the past year I've lost 80 lbs and gone from morbidly obese bmi to overweight bmi. In the next year I want to lose 40 more lbs, reach a healthy bmi, and get consistent with exercise by walking and doing resistance training a few times per week.

🍁 What do you hope to accomplish this month or before the year is out? I would like to lose around 5-8 lbs before the year is over. I'm also hoping to schedule Lasik eye surgery sometime in Dec!

🍁 What's something that you can do exclusively for yourself this month? Be kind and patient with myself. The past few mos have been hectic and I wasn't able to reach my weight loss and exercise goals but that's ok, I'm still doing great. In the past I would've been discouraged but I'm trying to focus on the days ahead. I'm working hard in therapy and also in my physical health efforts!

@RavenStCloud Thank you

@CupcakeCrusoe I think I may post on this thread this month more like you to track my exercise.

@nebslp I love your solution of sweeping the deck daily to get outside. I need more NEAT so something like this would be good for me. Maybe beating my husband from racking the leaves from our big red maple tree in the front. I am going to have to recover from Halloween treats too. I make hot apple cider and roast pumpkin seeds but it is the candy I have a hard time resisting. My youngest who lives at home took the leftover candy to donate it to a program she was in this summer. So glad it is gone. I have been very good all summer reducing my sweets and I think it helps because once the candy was gone I didn’t crave it like I usually do. We went to France last fall and I was using Duolingo to try to help me remember my high school French. I missed it once we got back from France.
I retired at the beginning of this summer and don't have my daily routine down but I do have the hour on the computer including reading news but also logging my food and exercise. I also have a spreadsheet. I post here when there is something to report but to get more exercise I plan to do this every weekday so I am not just reporting weight loss but progress with being more active.

@mmatch_latte I too had a bad October but I know that I have had a good summer so plan to get back to that.

@CupcakeCrusoe WOOHOO! Reaching the 170's is awesome! I know how hard you've been working to get there. Great persistence and determination!!
Thank you for your service at the polling place tomorrow. It will be a long day and I hope for only pleasant people and smiling faces to show up. We usually vote in person but were afraid we wouldn't be in our state this year, so we did the drop off ballots a couple of weeks ago.

@mmatcha_latte Congratulations on your one year weight loss accomplishment! That's awesome!!!
I love the phrase "Be patient and kind with myself". That would be a great mantra to say throughout the day.

@KeriA I hear you on wanting to increase walking stamina. I can usually keep up with people (but my legs are shorter than most so I use that excuse a lot LOL) but don't ask me to carry on a conversation because all you will get from me is a lot of panting sounds. Making those long walks from parking lots to the field at softball games all summer helped me realize that I'm doing OK, but could do better with practice. At home I often use walking sticks, always if I'm walking in fields or uneven ground. They have kept me upright more than once and I think I go faster because I feel more stable. They take some pressure off of the joints, too.
I'm a charts girl...don't know how to do spreadsheets. I love stats!!!

Thank you, @RavenStCloud !
Keri
71 years old
Challenge Starting Weight: 260, Pre-retirement weight 262 before May.
UGW: 167 (healthy weight for a senior woman my height)
5'6"

I do check-ins when I lose:
8/1: 254.8
10/1: 249.2 I lost .4 lbs since yesterday.
10/29: 248
11/4/2024 252 Halloween weight gain
11/5 249.8 Halloween weight lost
Weight loss since retiring almost 13 lbs.

I was planning to post this morning to let you know that I had a lovely longish walk with N (my youngest living at home - they just turned 30 this year) It was at this nearby park on the shoreline and we walked through a wetland with a stream that beavers dammed up but our park department put fish passages through their dams and armored them to keep the beavers from filling them up again. There were huge salmon swimming up the stream. It was a beautiful day. I have been using walking sticks now.

I got back to my usual eating. My husband makes wonderful salmon and he couldn't get to it Sunday so we had it last night. We had 3 vegetables and salad with it as well. I had my usual Monday breakfast with whole grain oatmeal, nuts, seeds, cinnamon and fruit. N made bao with King Oyster mushrooms instead of cha sui (Chinese steamed bun, cha siu is bbq pork). So that was my lunch.

So the other news is that I have lost all the Halloween weight. I still need to make up for not losing any weight in October but I am back in the 240s.

@nebslp @kristinwoods919 That is how I started - one step at a time. I took out one sweet when I started on here a long time ago. Now I am down to 1 a day (dark chocolate) and we have whole grain pancakes on the weekend. My salty downfall is corn nuts but I haven't had any since last spring. I just can't keep things in the house. I have soda pop about once a month. I do not drink my calories anymore with the exception of Cafe Lattes. Now that I am retired we make coffee at home and I drink it black. I have a Latte on Fridays or I have to walk a mile to get it. However it is only milk. It has taken me years of one steps at a time to get down to what is working for me now. When I worked I had a Latte and pastry on the days I commuted into the office. Good thing I was working hybrid at the end.

Today was my weigh in day and hooray! I lost the two-pound holiday/vacation weight that I gained. I'm now 184. I'm determined to get below 180 before the year is done. I have plenty of time. I've been really consistent with my eating and exercise habits since I came back from vacation.

A nice NSV, I'm fitting into XL in knit tops now, no more 1X. Wish the bottom half would shrink as fast as the chest but oh well, it will happen in time. Still an 18 in pants.

11/6
1. posture exercises
2. sweep the deck
3. 4 hours 35 min. of sleep
4. Photo organization
5. Create
6. French

I'm beat! After a short night I met my sister for lunch today and had things to do so when I got home so no outside walk or creating done today. Monday I met a former colleague for lunch and tomorrow I'm taking my friend to an appointment, and she wants to eat lunch afterwards. Sheesh!!! 3 times in one week is more than I usually do in 3 months! But we went to a place where you can have 2-3 hour lunches and they're fine with it so it's really fun to catch up with people there!! The time just flies. My food choices were fine, but today was free pie day so that was a bit of a calorie disaster. I left part of it though:)

There's a baby owl (hatched last spring) that screeches for it's mama to feed it outside my window at night. It always makes me smile. Yesterday it was about 30 feet from my blind and it blended in so well I didn't even see it until it flew out of the grass. They don't hoot at that age. Just screechy noises so it's kinda cute.
Hope you're all doing well.

do check-ins when I lose:
A little check-in since I lost a bit:
8/1: 254.8
10/1: 249.2 I lost .4 lbs since yesterday.
10/29: 248
11/4/2024 252 Halloween weight gain
11/5 249.8 Halloween weight lost
11/7 249.2

I did get my long walk yesterday and my husband took a break from work and walked with me. He needs the exercise too. Afterwards I could tell that my body needed a break from the long walks so I did go to the Y this morning and did Aquafit for 80 minutes. There are nice people there so if I get to talking I just finish my routine later since the pool is open all morning. I stretch better in the pool too. I hope to walk for a longer time than any of my walks this week tomorrow. I want to work up to 2 miles and then to be able to walk around Greenlake again which is just under 5k. I used to do interval walk/runs around it. I am fine with having a break in the middle for now.

So the plan is to 1st focus on stamina by taking longer and longer walks and add another day of aquafit so I have some breaks from the longer walks. When I get my stamina back to the Greenlake level I will start adding in some weight training. Aquafit is a combo of cardio and resistance not to mention the stretching but I need some land based exercise too.

Good morning everyone!

Weighed in at 175.4 today, just flying downward right now, this whoosh is nice. Average 178.6.

yesterday:
✅2nd / 4 workouts per week (I had a long walk, but I'm not counting walks)
✅> 8k steps
✅<= 1600 cal
✅32 minute self care
✅> 64oz water
✅>= 128g protein

Yesterday's advanced splits class was nice! I am not flat in my split, unlike most girls there, but I can definitely see it helping with that.

Today! Busy, busy! I've got to drop the kids off at the youth center, drop my car off at the shop to get an oil change, drop whatsisface off at work, go to a doctor's appointment, come home because hopefully my wine advent calendar is coming today, and I need to sign for it, hopefully the dealership is calling about the car I want to buy, I need to go to walgreens and get a passport picture taken so I can update mine, go to costco (pick up a pizza while there), pick up whatsisface, pick up the girls, go home, put things away, make myself a kirkland brand cauliflower pizza to see how it is, and THEN I get to relax. Oh, and do a workout. I'm thinking another zumba video.

So! Lol. Keeping this busy is helping with my hard time, it really is. So I'm not really complaining, because I'm choosing to do most of this.

Also, finally and for once, my stress is manifesting as not having the urge to eat rather than as eating everything in sight, lol. Don't worry, I'm having no problem hitting my calories and protein still

Tag party!
@kristinwoods919 weighted hoop sounds so fun!

@lisakatz2 oooh, I haven't thought of step based workouts in a while, I bet there are some really good ones out there.

@KeriA I love how you call it "land based exercise" like a mermaid would

@nebslp yay for early bedtime! It's always so nice to go to sleep earlier than usual and get a full night's sleep, even though it never feels like that when you're going to bed (at least for me).

Have a great FRIDAY everyone!

Christina, there are many great step videos on YouTube! Very inspiring. I lost quite a few inches last year doing step, it's great exercise.

And congratulations on your progress! I hope to be in the 170's by the end of the year. Consistency! Consistency!

Kristen, 3 pounds in one week, that's awesome!

11/8 11/9
1. posture exercises :?
2. sweep the deck
3 8 hrs of sleep and 8 hr. 16 min
4. Photo organization Maybe later if I have/make time ?
5. Create ?
6. French

I got my walk in yesterday and have been tracking my food. My scale was doing loops between 170-180 so I figured it was time for a new battery. It registered up a pound which doesn't surprise me since I had gone out to lunch 3 times this week. Definitely not in the 170's!!!

Yesterday I got to stay home and had time to think I realized that I was very saddened by the events around the world. What usually brings me great joy (sweeping the deck) left me in tears. It was a rough day. I also finished a great book but the last chapter was a major tearjerker so that fit right into the day. I reached out to one of my sisters and chatted for an hour and then went for my walk. There were 2 deer that ran out of our grove and I was sad that I had scared them out because I know hunting season is coming and I want them to be safe. It was just a really sad day. That mood is very unusual for me, and today is a new day and I get to go see my granddaughter perform in her school's one act play. I'm so excited for her! It means a total of 4 hours on the road, so I will get some reading time in since I'll be in the passenger seat.

@kristinwoods919 Woohoo to 3 pounds down!! Using a weighted hoop sounds like play (I do know how hard it is though) and a good workout at the same time.

@KeriA I love that you have such a cool goal to look forward to. A walk around a lake sounds amazing!

@CupcakeCrusoe What a WHOOSH!!! Awesome! Your days sound just like my daughter's. I'm always impressed at how many kid/husband/work/household/and community activities she can pack in a day. And still keep smiling:)

Thank you all for sharing your ups and downs. I am so inspired by your determination to be the best you can be and seeing you do the work that I'm finding more resolve inside myself every time I read about your successes. So bring it! and thanks! Wishing you a peaceful weekend:)

11/10
1. posture exercises
2. sweep the deck
3. 5 hours 48 min. of sleep
4. Photo organization
5. Create
6. French

It was a good day... feeling more like myself again. That dark place is awful!!!
I got a walk in but it was on level ground this time, I didn't go through the pasture to the bottom of the hill because I hadn't taken my walking sticks. And I still got to see a bunny, squirrel, and the resident owl. He's outside my window squawking right now. I didn't want to go outside but I talked myself into taking some donation items to the garage. Once I got outside, I didn't want to go back in so I walked around the place and trimmed up some geraniums to take inside to overwinter them. This amazing weather can't stick around forever so I better enjoy it while it's here.

I have been writing down my food all week and today I entered it into MFP to get the real scoop on how I'm doing. Well, if it weren't for the 4 ( ) times I ate out (we ate out after my granddaughter's play last night) and a couple of other really bad choices I made I would have been fine. 3/6 days were in the OK range. I try to stay below 2000 calories - my goal is more like 1800 or less - but that didn't happen very often last week. My macros are way out of whack so getting those back in line will be my focus this coming week. Fat is going down! Protein is on it's way back up!!

Everything else is coming along. Finished a quilt block I started 5 years ago (eye roll) and will quilt and bind it someday (LOL)

@CupcakeCrusoe Ugh! Ouch! I hope your muscle heals quickly!! Your food choices sound yummy. The fat content in that imaginary snack reminds me of my week

Staying positive and being grateful for what's in front of us can cure the blues. All we can do is try and be awesome every day and some days it's works! Have a good night.