December Weight loss and/or healthy living

I've missed these threads!

I'm still slowly losing weight- I'm down to my lowest weight since probably my freshman year of high school.

I think I posted elsewhere that when I went back to work after Hurricane Helene 3 different coworkers said I'd lost weight, and none of them believed I weighed 180 pounds. I still feel like i have a ways to go, but I am closer to normal weight than I am to being obese, so yay! 🎉

I definitely think I'll need to deal with excess skin, but that is a problem for another day.

I've been sick for over a week and a half, and it's been super cold, so I haven't been doing much movement lately. As always, I need to work on that.

I have a virtual job fair on Thursday, so I need to buy a new suit jacket, as all of mine are way too big. I am excited that I won't have to worry about antifat bias negatively impacting me during the fair.

The last 1.5 months have not been good on my end as far as eating well. I have decided to plan out lunches (the meal I struggle with) and get back at meal prepping my produce.

Since the weather is no longer Satan's armpit, I have been walking a lot more. We have a park with walking trails across the street and it is nice to walk. Quiet and pretty foliage.

I have been walking and cutting calories over the past 13 months and have lost 46 pounds. I was so happy to see the scale at 199.9 this week!!!

Congrats to everyone for prioritizing your health! Moving your body is so important. Get those steps in where you can. One big thing I started to do is put on a weighted vest when I'm on the treadmill. It's a nice way to add in strength training, which is so important once you reach perimenopause and menopause. I'm also enjoying kettlebell exercising. After spending a month of only losing .5lbs, the scale has finally started to drop again. I'm down 20lbs now. I still have another 15 to go.

congratulations! well done!

4.5 miles (10k+ steps) today between a longer walk this afternoon and a shorter walk with DH this evening according to my phone.

I'm looking at a dedicated step counter because I'm NOT someone who carries the phone around with me all the time so it's not the best option for keeping track of steps/miles for me.

Looking at this one - anyone have one and can give feedback? I've used the Fitbit Flex and Flex 2 in the past

www.amazon.com/Amazfit-Fitness-Tracker-Monitoring-Resistant/dp/B09Z6CRHJ6/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0_title?pd_rd_w=Sj1qL&content-id=amzn1.sym.bb21fc54-1dd8-448e-92bb-2ddce187f4ac%3Aamzn1.symc.40e6a10e-cbc4-4fa5-81e3-4435ff64d03b&pf_rd_p=bb21fc54-1dd8-448e-92bb-2ddce187f4ac&pf_rd_r=QM6VKNA69DG15E92ND8R&pd_rd_wg=dSuuc&pd_rd_r=9be388b3-0175-45d1-919f-765e15c012de&pd_rd_i=B09Z6CRHJ6&th=1

I am on wegovy since mid-June and I am down about 30 lbs, but still not in onederland yet... however, I have a HUGE NSV- my knees do not hurt anymore! There are studies that joint point lessens when you are on a GLP-1, but they dont know if its the medicine, the weight loss, or in my case, I also started taking fish oil, which my husband claims has always helped him. Ladies, this almost means more to me than the weight loss. I fell a year ago in November, and have had tremendous knee pain, going to PT, getting a cordizone shot, and STILL barely able to walk up the street. Then I had a calf tear/pull and was in a boot. My mental health was absolute trash. I was so upset that i am 48 and barely able to walk. I was terrified to kneel on my knees (I am still reluctant to do that). But I honestly have no pain anymore, it is totally wild.

Now my blood pressure is up. THe dr told me to go on the DASH diet, and I feel like I do this diet anyways, but now I need to really start tracking and get serious. THis could also be bc I am still on oral birth control, but my husband just got a vascetomy, so if I need to go off it, I guess I can... and then start to deal with (more) menopause symptoms too! LOL. I have a cuff here at home and take my BP 2x a day - i always seem to be in stage 2 sometimes stage 1. I thought GLP-1s helped with heart issues, so I am a little dismayed this just does not seem to be going down (I've been tracking for a month). It always seems like when I have a victory in one area, I get another setback...

pinklady -thank you. I figured that anything is going to over or under count but assume (and I could be wrong) that the inaccuracy will be fairly consistent so will still work to show whether I'm walking more or less - ie if it's 10% off and telling me I walked 1000 steps then it'll still be 10% off when it tells me I'm walking 10000 steps...but I'll still be able to track that I'm walking approx. 10x more. And really that's mostly what I'm looking for - something that can tell me if I'm making progress and where I can set a goal to meet. If I actually only walk 900 steps vs 1000tracked? not such a big deal if that a fairly consistent error.



That part sounds perfect - I have no need or desire to receive communication via my tracker beyond the tracker info.