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-- How much weight do you want to lose? 100

-- What is the timeframe for reaching your target weight? 18 months

-- How do you want to accomplish your goal (what methods do you want to use)? Eating clean, sleeping, exercising

-- Who or what can support you in reaching your goal? Ha. I guess apps. No people support right now.

-- How realistic is your goal? Very

-- When will you start? Started last week by ditching root beer and ice cream and adding in walking for 30 minutes at least three times a week.


This is a beginning.....I'll post more when it's not 1am.
 
Hi CrowFeather and welcome to the forum! I´m assuming that 100 is in pounds?
 
Hey, crowfeather :) Welcome to the diary section of the forum. Your diary is a place we can come & visit you & provide you with support. You don't have to answer any or all of the questions. It's just a guideline. My diary is more chatty, because that's how I am. Yours can be whatever you want it to be. Glad you came over here. Here's to clean eating, ditching the junk food & becoming healthy :beerchug: (with herbal tea)
 
Thanks Cate. I'm looking forward to recording this adventure.

Yesterday was a rest day. I got about 3,000 steps in (my daily minimum) and didn't eat a whole lot of calories. May sound weird but getting enough food in me is the biggest challenge. Well, let's say the 'right' kind of food. Today I'm still way under my net calories but I recorded more steps than I have in the past ten days since I started paying attention. And my fancy magic supplements arrived. Budget is tight and I haven't had any since February. All it is is a methylated b complex but it makes my life so much better. I took one around 3 and by 7 I had the energy to try a new trail. The trail is rated easy but damn it was kicking my butt. Poorly marked so I got off course a little while and ended up seeing a huge hawk take flight about 8 feet in front of me. So very cool.

Weight loss/gain has become a very conscious thing. I've very good reasons to stay morbidly obese - at least something in me thinks they're good reasons. But money is tight and I need a vacation and I want to go whitewater rafting. So healthy wage is gonna pay for my vacation in 2020 lol. I'll do just about anything to travel and I adore rafting.

Later this week I hope to get my bike in for a tune up. I have challenges riding that I'll explain later but hoping I can manage it good enough by the end of summer to ride somewhere other than my parking lot.

So glad I found this forum!
 
Hi crowfeather ,
I like the sound of your journey. I'm doing same as you trying to eat clean and move more . This forum is an awesome support
 
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I got off course a little while and ended up seeing a huge hawk take flight about 8 feet in front of me. So very cool.
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How exciting! That is such a bonus. Exercise outside & a hawk? Gotta love that!
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I've very good reasons to stay morbidly obese - at least something in me thinks they're good reasons.
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I had issues with hiding behind my excess weight, which I have never gone into here. We deserve to be healthy. It took me ages to start believing that & learning to love myself. I still need reminders.
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So glad I found this forum!
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I'm glad too!
 
Yeah, it's been a very slow, arduous process to understand, and accept compassionately, the reasons the fat is safer than not being fat. I came into that well over a year ago. I figured when the slowest part of me was ready to get healthy then that would be the right time. Seems May 28, 2018 was the right time lol!

When I exercise in afternoon or evening, I have a hard time sleeping. That happened last night but I made it to work on time and then forgot my phone (pedometer) in the car so I missed over 1,000 steps being recorded. But that's okay.

I also adjusted myfitnesspal settings so now my target net calories a day is just under 1,700. That's so much more doable than the 2,200 that I could not meet.

Going into week 2 out of 78 and I'm down another half pound. I'm shooting to get 5,000 steps today....so a minor rest day. But who knows, I may go back and hit another trail tonight after I go home and feed the animals. Just keep feeling how good it is to be on the rapids. I got this.
 
Woot! I made over 7,000 not counting the 1,000 to go to my car and back to my office to get my phone this morning. I bought a pint of chocolate milk but didn't open it after plugging it into my meal diary. I love seeing the macro nutrients and pie chart percentages of carbs, fats and proteins in myfitnesspal. It's helping me understand the food I'm eating better.

Go see a new doctor tomorrow. Know I'll get the weight loss lecture. I'll try not to roll my eyes. Otherwise, one more day in the office then I'm at home Thursday and Friday so I can go walk before starting work. I'm falling behind on cleaning so that'll be part of my exercise Thursday in between working. Hoping the weather holds and I'll do a longer trail Saturday. Or just go get lost in the woods!
 
Well done Crowfeather on making positive changes. I often put what I'm about to eat into MFP & then change my mind when I see the calories. Tell your new doctor that you are losing weight & getting healthy before he/she gets a chance :)
 
Well done on the steps! Also on checking the chocolate milk before drinking it and deciding it wasn´t worth it for you at that moment. Hope your new doctor is a decent, compassionate person and great at their job.
 
Never saw a doctor just a PA. Totally unimpressed with the practice on so many levels. For her writing my script I'll go back for labs and then a bp check but I'm totally keeping the appointment with the other doc at the end of July. At least I got a refill.

I forgot to turn on the pedometer app when I woke up so over 2,000 steps didn't get recorded. I made probably 5,500 steps today. I'm letting go of the last 500. My body is tuckered out. Going to walk after I feed the animals in the morning. It's unseasonably cool here....feels like March, not June.

Headed to bed after I do a few chores. Handmaid's Tale dropped today. Gotta watch.

Oh. I've always heard losing weight has to be for yourself or it won't be successful. Realized this is the first time I'm on the path for myself....don't give a damn what anyone thinks. It's kind of empowering.
 
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Oh. I've always heard losing weight has to be for yourself or it won't be successful. Realized this is the first time I'm on the path for myself....don't give a damn what anyone thinks. It's kind of empowering.
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:D Once you realise that then you are well on the way. :D
What animals do you have? It sounds like you live on a reasonable amount of land. It's great that you are near nature trails.
 
Oh how I wish!!! I live in a 900 sqft condo in the city. We just have fantastic bits of forests all around. Hoping in about six years to buy about ten acres up in the mountains and have a rooster rescue. Right now I have three 11 year old cats, a 3 year old kitten/cat, and I feed squirrels, raccoon, possum, and dozens of birds on my balcony. I have about 30 feet of trees between me and the townhouses next door. That's why I bought here - for the semblance of being in the woods. I love being in nature!
 
Well- you had me fooled :) I just imagined you living near the mountains. It sounds like a good compromise, with 30 feet of trees between you & the townhouses next door & it's great that you have wildlife on your balcony.
 
Enjoying your diary crowfeather . I like the sound of where you live.
Don’t worry about not recording steps . If you carry your phone on you it might record for you .

I listened to an article on the radio yesterday and the doctor said it’s more important to keep your body moving . So micro moves he called it . If you have a desk job get up every hour at least and move about . Keep busy , don’t sit for hours watching tv etc. Also he said whilst it’s great to aim for your steps quota a day be it 7000 or 10000 it’s more important to do your 30 mins exercise 5 days a week and also some strength training was mentioned ( my downfall )

Of course I could hear another doctor to day saying different
 
Thanks for the fantastic input. On most mornings I do some strength training. Right now it's about 8 minutes but will eventually be 20 minutes or so. And a great thing about being so overweight, that 30 minute trail walk is totally aerobic.

My youngest cat is not feeling well. These are the times I stress eat. But I'm holding in. Have her isolated until I know her digestive system is working. Don't think I'll be doing any cooking today. Working and spending time on the floor in the bedroom. My body needed a no movement day.

My morning weigh-in is down to 271.1. I know the decrease will plateau in about six more pounds so I'm enjoying the .5 loss every day right now.
 
Don't you just love that initial weight loss? If you stick with this Crowfeather it will continue to come off steadily. Hope your young cat will be ok soon.
 
I need a day to simply rest I think....with all the cats healthy. When I did optifast a decade ago, low stress was one of the biggest things the doctors talked about. And sure enough, the people who had left work during the program or just didn't deal with a significant amount of day to day stress were the most successful in reaching their goals.

I got up this morning and spent some time cleaning the carpet. My cats never go out of the litter box but I think jasmine had such the upset stomach. When I feed everyone, Jasmine ate but Peri refused food. I tried everything. Ended up going to publix for baby food. Got her to eat about a teaspoon. All this to say I'm stressed but I'm not catastrophicizing everything....which is new. Usually I'd rush to the vet (but no money for that) or be thinking they're going to die. Instead I'm like, okay. This girl is not eating so what can I do to support her while she fights whatever is going on? This change is part of whatever clicked about my view on weightloss. I did get chicken minis for breakfast but I can work my calories around that indulgence.

So I'm going to get my 3-6k steps in today but I'm not going to force aerobic activity. If I get to this evening and want to go for a hike, fantastic. But nothing is on the books.

Goals for the weekend is to add greens into my eating plan and get 10k steps at least one day.

Weight is up this morning to 274. I'm not upset. Usually I hit very low and then go back up and slowly go down again. It's a pattern I've noticed over the past year. Almost like my body sets its own target weight and then it works to get back there. Whatever. It's all chemistry & physics.

Off to have as much of a stress free day as possible.
 
Ha! Three of the four cats now have this virus thing. It'll teach me to pet the cat at the pet food shop. Damn. Luckily it seems really fast and I remembered a homeopathic tincture for them. It'll help boost their immune systems. I've taken everything in stride and haven't stuffed my face. So win there. Think I may go to bed at 6 tonight.
 
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