Women 200lb+, Let's Do Big Things This December!!!

Hello

Serial starter here. I usually am hovering around 214 pounds but had some upsetting news about a health condition and ate my worries and today am 225

You would think ( well at least a normal thinking person would) that the health info would be the motivation to get myself in the best shape I can in order to get ready for the future so that I will be in good shape to fight the illness, but instead Im eating whatever I want, not sleeping well and not moving off the couch much. I am too much in my head.

My goal for December is to get back to my usual 214-216 weight and to be more health conscious and stop the unhealthy behaviors.

SW: 225
CW: 225
GW: 170

I know WHAT to do, I just have to DO it.
So here is to December.🥂 ( Minus the alcohol, of course).

Hi all! Thought I'd pop in, although my weigh-in day is not for 3 days. I am trying to achieve a 5-pound weight loss this month. That will bring me to 175, the lowest I've been since 2023. This time, however, I'm going to keep on going and not yo-yo, in spite of the holiday season. December is the toughest month temptation-wise, but I can get through it. Last night I had a big craving for a slice of my pumpkin pie but I had an apple instead...........

Since I joined MFP back in March, I've lost twenty pounds! I've gone from 1X shirts to XL and my size 18 pants are getting quite loose on me. Probably ready to switch down to 16s.

I don't make a huge deal about the holidays; I didn't celebrate Christmas growing up and most of my family is on the East Coast in any case. There are a couple of holiday potlucks coming up at work and I'm baking cookies. Needless to say, none will be lingering around the house, too much temptation. Christmas hubs and I make turkey again and I make a pie, usually apple. We go visit his brother who doesn't live too far away. Oh, and we always watch Christmas Vacation, my favorite Christmas movie!

Good morning everyone!

Weighed in at 177 exactly this morning, so while that is exactly my average, we are on the way back down.

Food is packed for work today, gonna get all my water in, nice walk at lunch, my high protein sushi bake for dinner, and then gym (poles and then a choreographed dance)! Somewhere in there I need to pick up my new glasses and the license plates for my car! Busy day!

I'm taking recommendations for APMA walking shoes, if anyone has any! I'm currently wearing Hoka Clifton 9s, and they're great, but Hoka's not really having a sale, so if you know of any good shoes on sale, let me know!

Have a great day, everyone!

Jennifer - 53 years
Re-started 4/24/24 - 236.2
CW: 201
GW: 165 (may adjust when I get there)
Loss since 4/24/24 - 35.6 Pounds
5'3" Tall
Monday weigh ins

12/2/24 - 201
12/9/24 -
12/16/24 -
12/23/24 -
12/30/24 -

My goal for December is to lose 6 lbs. Which will put me in Onderland for the first time in over 9 years. My strategy for the holidays is to think before I put something on my plate and to keep my portions small. I will still focus on my protein as well. I also need to get back on track with my activity and steps. To be honest, I watched too much TV this past weekend.

Let's finish 2024 stronger and lighter then when we started the year!

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" Tall
I do check-ins when I lose:
8/1: 254.8.
10/29: 248
12/2/2024 252 post trip weight
12/3: 251.2 coming back down

Didn't have a walk but unpacked, and made a yummy healthy dinner yesterday. Got a good night sleep last night.

@jenbroussard71 Onderland is so near. I need to focus on protein too.

@CupcakeCrusoe I actually lost weight when I went on our cruise. We walked around the boat in the morning and swam in the pool in the afternoon. I like that you set up next years spreadsheet.

@lisakatz2 My daughter's doctor said the same thing to her and she felt the same way you did. I think when we lose a significant weight it is good to take a rest from a deficit and let your body get used to your new weight. Then losing the next weight is easier and healthier. Congrats on your progress.

@nebslip I need to make a chart of things I need to do too. I have been focusing on my health but I need to start working on some projects soon. I like your exercise schedule. I want to 1st get my stamina up then set up something similar.

Good morning everyone!

Weighed in in the 175's, pulling the average down a little.
yesterday:
❌3rd / 4 workouts per week. but nothing was planned.
❌> 8k steps (my walk at lunch only gave me 7k at the end of the day)
❌<= 1600 cal (honestly just hungrier - ended at 1717.)
✅32 minute self care
✅> 64oz water
✅>= 128g protein

So you can see why my weight loss is slowing! I'm not doing everything to a T like I used to do. I've gotta tighten up if I want to make good progress this month and set myself up for success next year.

What is causing me to fail right now? If I look at how I've been doing, I get super hungry mid-morning after breakfast, but it might not really be hunger, it might be that I'm bored at work. Will look at that very closely today. Same in the afternoon, really. Work is the danger zone right now, because my job is solely at my desk, and it is kind of boring! I need to find a way to distract myself with work even when the work isn't too engrossing.

Tonight! I'm going to the gym (splits class!), and I'm taking my daughter to gymnastics before that, so it's another harris teeter dinner for me, which is just fine- shimp for dinner means I have more calories to do that mid-morning snack if I need to at work. Just have to make sure that snack is not all junk, that it has redeeming qualities to keep me full or to contribute to my nutrition.

Tag party time!
@lisakatz2 It is super frustrating when some doctors look at progress and say "but more tho." I had a doctor like that, and I tried very hard not to take it personally. My doctor now doesn't mention weight hardly at all, probably because she's a heavier lady herself, and I'm not sure which I prefer. At least I got a high five for weight loss from the "but more tho" doctor. It's a mixed bag! The ones that care about weight loss also want to see you at your healthiest weight, and threading that needle of encouragement and expecting more is hard!

@nebslp I am so glad you had a good time with family. I'm also glad I didn't host this year, so our leftovers were minimal, haha. I've started sweeping my front porch more often because of you! It is very satisfying, and I'm making it a habit.

@KeriA look at you go! I agree, sometimes you indulge a little, and then when you get back to weight loss you get a whoosh! Best of both!

Have a great day, everyone!

Weigh-in day today! Drum roll please..........178! One and a half pounds down. A little fast, but I'll keep my eye on the scale to make sure I consistently don't go beyond one pound a week.

If I lose a pound a week, I'll be 175 by Xmas day!

I got on reports and found out that after the pandemic and before going to work again full time my weight was 245. So I have only 1 pound to reach my 1st goal. After that I want to reach. 220 which is what I weighed after the economic downturn when I was out of work and concentrated on losing before going to work full-time. Then Onderland.

Good morning everyone!

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

❄️ December Goals!❄️
❄️ December GW Average: 172

💙 December SW 12/1: 177 (average)
12/7: 176.4 (average, -0.6)

yesterday:
❌ 4th / 4 workouts per week
✅> 8k steps
❌<= 1600 cal
✅32 minute self care
✅> 64oz water
✅>= 128g protein

Honestly I was starving all day yesterday, so I ended up eating more at home after dinner than I'd planned on. Shark week has come early, and I don't know if that's part of it or not. But, as usual, I've got to get it together. At least average is going down again.

Yesterday night in a bid to stop snacking, I did paint my nails a lovely shiny grapey maroon color, and I'd forgotten how effective painting my nails is on snacking- I always mess up my nails in the time immediately after, so I try not to do anything with my hands. Which includes snacks! All my topcoats are a gluey or too-dry disaster though, so I should get another topcoat while I'm out and about today. Goodness knows I've got enough nail polish.

Today! My baby is unfortunately throwing up quite a bit, everyone cross your fingers it ends soon and is not super contagious, please.

Going to see Wicked with my sister for her birthday, then I've got to grocery shop, which means I need to make the meal plan... like right now, lol. She wants to see the earliest morning matinee, which I think is brilliant.

After that, finally relaxing at home, which I feel like I didn't get to do hardly at all this week. Probably play magic the gathering with my husband, hopefully make room for my advent wine today. I'd been skipping it all week because I wanted food for calories, not wine. We'll see.

Tag party time:
@rorymason the water intake really does make a bigger difference than you'd think! Speaking of, I need to fill up my water bottle...

@lisakatz2 look at you go! you're doing amazing, well done.

@KeriA honestly a bowl of cherries and peanuts sounds amazing. Like a PBJ, but better because crunchier. As to your being 1 lb away from your goal- let's goOOOOOOO haha

@quolwy 17 lb in 12 weeks is not outside the realm of possibility! I'm excited to see your progress!

Have a great day, everyone!

Hi rorymason!

I woke up at 3 am too, left hip hurting. Need to do more stretching exercises and probably some banded workouts for hip strength. When will I learn?

Kudos for you for making healthier choices, keeping a food diary, and losing weight. The other habits will come. Start out small, like 8 ounces of water and a 10-minute walk. You can build on that.
Walking can help you with the stress too.

Good morning everyone!

Weighed in just under the average, not enough to pull it down.

Ugh, lol, it's true, getting a copper IUD really does make your periods worse. Still glad I did it! But I did go off the rails yesterday, so today it's time to set myself up for success this week, meal prepping and cleaning, and doing what active relaxation I can.

yesterday:
❌ 1st / 4 workouts per week
✅> 8k steps
❌<= 1600 cal
✅32 minute self care
❌> 64oz water
✅>= 128g protein

Look at that christmas color scheme, lol.

I'm going to check in here a lot today, and keep a running tally of stuff that Gets Done. N threw up again last night, Whatsisface gave her milk, and it was too early for that. Before I got out of bed this morning (too early) I ordered some pedialyte and apple juice and soup. We're all taking sick protocols today, lots of soup in our futures.

So! Today!

• lots of laundry, got to clean all these sheets
• put away the laundry for heaven's sake, before the mountain overwhelms the bedroom (I kid, but I won't be kidding by the end of today)
• dishes all accomplished
• kids' backpacks gone through
• various ephemera put away in:
• the front room
• the dining room
• the living room
• the kitchen
• the playroom
• the bedrooms
• Go through my knitting supplies relocated to the breakfast nook and make it neater back there
• put together christmas packages to friends and send them already
• make a list of christmas cards yet to send, had to order more yesterday
• make a chicken
• make chicken noodle soup, leave off the noodles for myself
• clean up toys after bathtime so they're not sitting in the bottom of my tub until Tuesday
• get at least 8k steps, even if that means walking in circles around my front room or doing one of these videos (I checked, they do give the number of steps he says)
• do my volunteer work for today

I'll probably add stuff I find I had to do as I go, but I did do one thing already before I finished the list:
✅ put away cookies I made and that were cooling last night

@rorymason I know the struggle of losing and gaining the same weight. I've been doing it for years. But if your lose-gain is in a small window, that just means you've been effectively maintaining around that weight for some time. Now it's just time to move the needle downward a little

@lisakatz2 this is a hard time of year to be losing weight, for sure. But you're back on the horse now!

See you later with an update, everyone!

ANOTHER update?!

CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »

CupcakeCrusoe wrote: »

• lots of laundry, got to clean all these sheets
• put away the laundry for heaven's sake, before the mountain overwhelms the bedroom (I kid, but I won't be kidding by the end of today)
• dishes all accomplished
• kids' backpacks gone through
• various ephemera put away in:
  ✅ the front room
  ✅ the dining room
• the living room
  ✅ the kitchen
• the playroom
  ✅ the bedrooms
• Go through my knitting supplies relocated to the breakfast nook and make it neater back there
• put together christmas packages to friends and send them already
  ✅ make a list of christmas cards yet to send, had to order more yesterday
  ✅ make a chicken
  ✅ make chicken noodle soup, leave off the noodles for myself
• clean up toys after bathtime so they're not sitting in the bottom of my tub until Tuesday
  ✅ get at least 8k steps, even if that means walking in circles around my front room or doing one of these videos (I checked, they do give the number of steps he says)
  ✅ do my volunteer work for today

I'll probably add stuff I find I had to do as I go, but I did do one thing already before I finished the list:
✅ put away cookies I made and that were cooling last night

Also accomplished:
✅ all the most used N things have been sanitized
✅ groceries have been delivered and put away
✅ more christmas cookies are in process of being made for the packages, forgot to add that one to the list
✅ sourced boxes* for said christmas packages
✅ have been eating 1 meatball every time I want to snack on christmas cookies. working remarkably well. Meatball count UPDATED: 5️⃣

*random boxes I found around the house that needed recycling, two birds, one stone, etc

Also accomplished:
✅ updated our family calendar with all our things for this week! That's not nothing!

Laundry takes so long! We are still in process, I am itching to cross it off, but it is not all complete yet! Will update later!

Good morning everyone!

N is still sick, so I'm at home with her again today. Poor thing, I'm going to call the doctor when they open. My weight is up, but whatever. I didn't log precisely yesterday, so it could be the christmas cookies I did eat were more than I thought. Or shark week. Going to log precisely today, got nothing better to do.

Cancelled on the gym tonight because I'm not about to leave Whatsisface with all this by himself. So I'll have to get my steps and do splits training on my own.

Things to do today (no updates today, lol, just things I need to think about).

• call the doc
• start the playroom toy purge
• match all possible socks
• finish the laundry
• consider a home for all my books that's not the front room
• do my volunteer work
• sweep the porch, a la @nebslp
• splits training
• walking
• give the cat his flea and tick meds
• get most toys out of the living room
• buy remaining christmas presents I haven't yet
• package cookies and prep to send

It's funny, our neighbor is also doing illuminated deer for his holiday decorations in his front yard, but I think our deer are better. Regardless, it's a holiday forest back here in our cul-de-sac of which our house is the middle, I love that.

Time to go fill up my tumbler and get today going. Cross your fingers that this is the last day N's dealing with this, I hate having to have sick kids, the worst feeling.

Have a great day, everyone!

ChawnkieBawnie wrote: »

Good Morning!
I’m not new to MFP but I am to the group. My highest weight was 230lbs in 2017. I started my journey at the end of 2018 and with a lot of hard work and patience I was able to reach 168lbs in 2020 with an UGW of 140!
Then Covid happened, and life, and losses and here I am back at 219

I’m hoping being part of a group will help keep me motivated with tracking my calories and weigh ins (which I don’t do much these days because it’s painful to see all that gain again).

I hope everyones December is going well and you’re all staying strong 💪🏼

SW: 219.7
December GW: 215
UGW: 140

Welcome to the group! We are a friendly bunch, and I think you will like it here.

I am very familiar with yo-yoing myself. I've done it my entire adult life, but this time around I'm determined to lose and maintain.

I think you will find posting here fun and motivating.