Women 200lb+, Let's Swing It, Shake It, Move It, Make It This May!!!

RavenStCloud
RavenStCloud Posts: 378 Member
edited May 1 in Motivation and Support

🌼 Hello, ladies! We've made it to May! The weather's changing and so are we!!!

🌼Will you be trying anything new this month? Or is it back to the tried and true methods that have been working for you so far this year?

🌼What are you looking forward to this May?

🌼And what is one thing you'd like to remind yourself (and others) not to worry about or stress over this month?

🟡If you've never been here before, please know you are welcome to join at any point in the month. All you have to do is post something, and then BAM!, you're one of us.

🟡In this group, we post our weekly and monthly goals and provide support and motivation to each other as we share our triumphs and our struggles. This group is all about accountability.

🟡All are welcome and, if you think you belong here, you do! No matter how much you currently weigh or how you measure (or don't measure) your weight, we'd love to hear from you.

🟡Victories, both scale and non-scale, are great to hear about, but, conversely, we know that weight loss isn't all sunshine and roses. If you're going through a rough patch, please feel free to be honest and vent your heart out. The struggle is real and we're all here to support each other!

🌼Let's swing it, shake it, move it, make it, and show how good we are in May 2025!!!🌼

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  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,480 Member

    Good morning and happy May day everyone!

    Thanks @RavenStCloud as usual, and I especially appreciate the daft punk reference 😁

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

    SW: 220ish
    Re-SW (Feb 2022): 200.4
    UGW: 150
    2025 goal weight: 160
    SW 2025: 179.7

    🌼 May Goals: 🌼
    🌼 Goal weight (average): 179.4

    🌼 5/1: 183.4 (average)
    🌼 5/3:
    🌼 5/10:
    🌼 5/17:
    🌼 5/24:
    🌼 5/31:

    There's still plenty of time in the year to get to my goal weight if I turn it around now. I calculated I'd have to lose 0.67 lb/week as of right now, so hopefully I can frontload now so I can go easier later. Time to turn it around!

    Alright! I've rebooted The Spreadsheet, to make it more attractive to me (because I'm a huge Buffy fan), if anyone wants to make a copy for themselves, go to file→ make a copy 😁

    Time for a before picture, I haven't done one of these in a while. Felt good in this fit, and it'll feel even better when I'm smaller:

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    This was on the first day of my vacation, just before embarkation. I didn't make my goal weight for embarkation, but I had a great time, felt fine in my skin, no regrets.

    Tonight! I'm back at the gym for the first time in…almost a month. Gotta get back in there! Tonight is line dancing class (one of my favorites) followed by splits class (sorely needed). Going again tomorrow for a combo cardio/flexibility class, which is going to be great.

    MacroFactor is not yet on point with my calorie expenditure numbers, because if it was, it would be scary, haha, but I am reducing my calores from what I normally shoot for to somewhere around 1400 for now until we even out. Going back to the gym should help immensely.

    My meals for today are on deck, I'm about 5 cups of water down already, time to get to work.

    Have a great MAY everyone!

  • rorymason
    rorymason Posts: 194 Member
    edited May 1

    I posted in the wrong thread 🤷‍♀️..so reposting…

    • 2025 starting weight: 224 ( I am taking my queue from cupcakecrusoe- glad you enjoyed your trip!)
    • Todays Weight: 221
    • Will you be trying anything new this month? Yes! Trying to get my head where it needs to be. Listening to some motivational and being healthy podcasts.
    • 🌼What are you looking forward to this May? Same response: Getting in the right frame of mind to do this.
    • 🌼And what is one thing you'd like to remind yourself (and others) not to worry about or stress over this month? Not to stress at all. Its counterproductive. Trying to learn to self care.Made myself go back to low impact aerobics @ the gym and received a nice welcome from everyone so that was nice. Taking my dog for beach walk early eveni ngs to get some additional exercise. The dog is very happy about that. Its relaxing and helps with stress.Hope you all have a great week!
  • RavenStCloud
    RavenStCloud Posts: 378 Member

    💜Hey, ladies! I haven't done any personal posts for a while, but I'm back, baby.

    •My goals for May are to stick to my (don't call it a diet) nutrition changes by:

    🌼Eating more fiber, trying to get over 30g

    🌼Eating more protein, trying to get over 100g

    🌼Having a minimum of 2 fruit/2 veg a day

    🌼Eating and drinking things that won't exacerbate my acid reflux (fried foods/citrus/carbonated bevs)

    •Exercise-wise, it's a little rough at the moment. I was swimming 3+ times a week for the first three months of the year, but I've moved to a new place and I'm having trouble finding a new pool in my budget. But my biggest issue is that I've been having a ton of knee problems. I go to the sports injury/knee specialist next week and hopefully I can get some help. Even just walking normaly and driving are really hurting at the moment, so fingers crossed for the doc's. I have bought a hula hoop, so I'm thinking maybe I could watch some fun tutorial videos and see if that is something I could do without too much pain.

    •Overall, this is going to be a big next 12 months with people having weddings and babies and it makes me a little sad that I'm currently at my highest weight ever. But I'm trying to take things slow and make the right changes for me without any crazy deadlines. The thing I'm not worried about or focused on is rushing and trying to do everything at all once at full speed.

    (Side note: thanks for keeping this thread going, everyone! You're all amazing!!!) 💜

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