Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !
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Oh, several of you have asked about the Miracle Morning routine I follow. I just posted an update on my (somewhat neglected) blog with some results and challenges: http://melifornia.com/2015/03/10/65-miracle-mornings/0
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@L2T~Yikes, I’m sorry for DHs job situation and retirement. Oh, the CEOs and CFOs are always protected in situations like that, it isn’t fair—they end up with some unbelievable severance that isn’t affected by the bankruptcy. It’s astounding since it’s their mismanagement that caused the financial situation to begin with. If he does lose his job I hope you are both able to recover quickly.
@Hansea~Contiued thoughts and prayers for your sister and your family as you work through it. Sounds like a fun afternoon at your daughter’s school—enjoy, no matter what her story is about.
AFM~Not much to report. Basically sitting on pins and needles regarding interview yesterday, it would be a great opportunity.
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@Melifornia ... Mel, I just read two of your blogs ... the 65 day and the 30 day. I just love your blog. Actually, I hope you'll agree that it's ok for me to bookmark the blog so I can read some more when time permits. ... perhaps I'll start my own Miracle Morning and use your blogs as one of my morning readings!
@mnwalkingqueen ... so sorry that your 14-year old job did end. Thank goodness you are still young enough (it does get harder once you are in your late 50's) and have those college credits you've been working on ... they will both be helpful in finding a new place to work. Good luck.
@Skinnyjeanzbound ... I love that poem you posted. It fits right in with my photo ... and my philosophy of letting my anger go ... that's not always easy to do and sometimes takes years to accomplish. The deeper the pain, the harder it is, but I do it for myself so it is well worth it. Those that I forgive don't even know that I have done so, because forgiving does not mean condoning or reuniting ... it just means that I have let it go and it no longer has power to go on hurting me. Sometimes, we need to cut people out of our lives, never easy to do, especially if that person is a relative.
AFM ...
My Wednesday Wish is that I finally make it out of this house to get that tire replaced.
Niki
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Hi guys, I'm new to this community but from what I can see in the most recent posts, it looks like the sort of place I'd like to be,
so my first Wednesday wish is to find the mental strength to complete my PhD without losing sight of my weight loss journey too. It's so hard to focus on both but I can't avoid potential future health risks because I have the excuse of being stressed in work so I will continue to find the time to cook healthy meals and get some exercise where I can
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@NK1112 - Why thank you! I've really neglected it over the past year. A consequence of writing so much for other people (who pay me). Starting to get my groove back there, though. And if you have any questions about TMM, just ask!
@sineanbroc - Welcome! A PhD? Impressive. What's your field of study? Have you begun your dissertation? When I lost the weight last time, and kept it off, I was in grad school earning my M.A. while also working full time. Structured meal plans and exercise schedules were tremendously helpful not just to meet my health goals but for life in general. I even wrote my thesis in less than 3 months! Then a few years later I got hit with mega stress and injuries and it all went in the crapper, but up until then, it was great.
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@mnwalkingqueen - I am sorry to hear about your job.
@hansea47 - Enjoy the afternoon at your daughters reading! I will be a nice break for you from all of the stress you have been going through.
@sineanbroc - Welcome!
@cblue315 – you have had a lot going on. That’s great that you have been able to get back on track with your eating.
@robinsegg – the time change has messed me up too. I am struggling to get out of bed on time for work. Hoping it gets easier in the next couple days.
I have been struggling with recording my food. I know I am at or near my calories because I eat just about the same thing every day. However, I fear that not recording is going to turn into a slippery slope.
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Hello All,
Doing well with food today. I am meeting a friend for dinner at a Mexican restaurant. I will do my best but you know those chips are deadly. I do not drink alcohol so no risk there.
I am still in a struggle about my marriage, I know things do not change overnight and I know if I stop long enough to catch my breath I will be able to hear what my heart is telling me.
@jennbo83 I want to encourage you to track everything anyway. No tracking is indeed a slippery slope.
@sineanbroc - Welcome, come by, post often so we get to know you.
My Wednesday Wish - That I take the time to listen to my heart and the courage to follow through on what I know will be the right path for me.
Love to all,
Lori
March Challenge - Tracking
Food 8/10
Fitness 8/10
Water 8/10
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Hey quick check in. I thank you so much for all the supportive words on my job. I wanted to answer everyone's questions at once in a comment. I received a private invite to a meeting the director and Senior group manager of my department at 7:45am the meeting was actually at 8:45am. I instantly knew what it meant and started looking at peers and friends calendar's for the same invite my department had a total of 30+ let go. I was told in the 8:45 meeting I had until 11:15am to pack up my desk and return to hear a debriefing of the benefits I have received at that point all badges and company credit cards had to be turned in. Upon returning to my desk to pack up I was greeted by what seemed to be million people in tears sad to have lost my talent and drive which included the director who had to let me go. From there it was networking sharing personal information to keep in touch it was the longest 2 hours of my life or so it seemed. After the debriefing my team which was 8 in which they lost 5 yesterday all meet for a good bye lunch and beer as did so many other teams. Today my ex group manager and some ex coworkers have checked in on me already to see how I am. I will say no matter what people's impression is of Target good or bad with this situation of thousands out of job or anything else. Please know that Target hired great people who inspired and helped each person other achieve goals and dreams I have nothing but positivity from the experience I had there in 14 yrs. On that note I need to get out of my house off to walk my pooch in 50+ plus weather before I burst into tears.
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@SKinny - what would be your ideal class?
@KMHtime - welcome! Yes, it IS hard to get the eating habits under control. I'm also getting back into the habit - I find it very rough, and in the grocery store today I cast longing glances at my old favorites in the Bakery Dept. Had to walk fast past it!
@LivesToTravel - gosh -thats terrible news about DH's pension..if its any consolation, I'm stumbling along with with a ransacked retirement too. I've gotten used to it and its funny, it rains money sometimes - like when my '99 Buick needed tires, they were provided to me!0 -
@sineanbroc -Sarah - welcome. We share a lot here! Glad you've decided to make this big change in your life.
@WalkingQueen - You're quite a lady! Nothing but good to say about your former company. Good not to burn bridges, took me a long time to learn that. Glad you went walking after your post - your pooch is your best bud, isn't he? Hope you enjoy this good clime and time between a good job and your next great job!
@GrandmaKaye - hubby's hand taking 9 days to heal sounds like he got a paper punch type biopsy! We don't mind the grisly stuff - go ahead and post a photo!
@Kah -well we're on pins and needles too - how soon will you hear? Sometimes its takes mgmt forever to make up their minds!
@Hansea - picturing a 7 year old writing a story and reading it in front of an audience really gets my imagination going. I can't wait to hear Part II.
AFM: I did much better setting an alarm and awaking this am, as I dithered around til 4:30am before going to bed. At least I made it into the bed. I did get a lot of filing done and my self-pride is rising.
So many have mentioned how stress de-rails you....
It almost killed me, and I once had a breakdown due to too much stress which built up because I gave 110% to one part of my life (work). I learned then and have to re-learn, from time to time, that I have to divide each DAY into work (of some sort), exercise, nutrition (and this includes food for your soul), and relaxation. A person can let one thing slide now and then, but not too often, or you'll wind up in bad shape.
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I'm basically a "Fainting goat" type of human, I'm not the strongest emotionally, as those who know me the longest have learned! 0 -
No fast food today. I'm craving burgers... but I immediately had thoughts of my black bean burgers. They are so good! I deliver mail for a living so I also deliver flyers (adverts, junk mail, whatever you all call it LOL) and yesterday I delivered 1000 McDonalds coupon flyers, and today it was Wendy's. Sheesh, burgers everywhere! Oh, and my business section got pizza flyers on Monday. I am bombarded with fast food (no sneaking a left over flyer for the extra coupons to use myself any more though!)
The band on my fitbit force broke today, the glue became 'unglued' on each side of the display, so that's the end of it. Since there's a recall on it I can send it back and get a full refund. Nice little bonus, although it only lasted me 13 months. I don't think that's a very good life for the price of it. It should get at least a few more years before breaking down. Anyway, I now have to decide on a new device... I was drooling over the Apple watch, but it's quite pricey ($450) so I'm thinking of the new fitbit charge HR or Garmin vivosmart. I have some research to do, my wrist feels so naked already and I keep looking down at .. well, nothing.
Lastly, I'm itching to get back to running, but I can only run outside. No treadmill, and can't use the one at physio for more than 10 minutes. I'm wondering from those who do not run outside in the winter... when do you start to run outside again after winter is over? My concern is that the air will be too cold to breathe.0 -
After 2+ weeks, I feel like I'm firmly back on the wagon. Already lost some of the weight I gained and most importantly, I feel better. Check in for today:
1. At or under calories 6/7 days every week and at or under as a weekly average.
Week 2 - 3/7 days
Week 1 - 6/7 days
2. Walk at least 6 times per week, at least 3 miles each walk.
Week 2 - 4/7 days
Week 1 - 5/7 days
3. Note daily calories and miles in calendar and weight on Thursday morning.
Week 2 - 4/7 days
Week 1 - 7/7 days
4. Check in here every day if only to read the posts and keep current on the thread.
Week 2 - 4/7 days
Week 1 - 7/7 days
2015 Mantras:
Live like someone left the gate open (Live Joyously)
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@RobinsEgg~The hiring director anticipated a couple of weeks, I think he wants to do some 2nd interviews--fingers crossed I get a call back!
@Tanya949~My first Fitbit Flex quit charging after 9 months, they sent me free replacement. I've been wanting to upgrade so ordered the Charge HR a couple of weeks ago--it won't be here until April though.
@mnwalkingqueen~what a hard day for all of you. The networking will be good, I hope your job search is quick & painless. Meanwhile, I think Riley will enjoy having mama around. My company is same way, when they terminate you they stand there while you clean out your desk then escort you out of building.
AFM~well gave up & took laptop to professionals to handle, hope they find what ails it. They suspect motherboard...
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Just a quick drop in today since it is already late tonight.
Holly- Sorry to hear about your job. Good luck with your job search.
Karen- Good luck with your grading and I hope the papers get better quickly. Great poem.
Kah- Good luck with the lap top and I hope you get your job.
Tanya- Dress to run in the weather. There is a website from Runner's World that tells you what to wear when running outside based on the weather.
Welcome to the new people.
I know I will get back on track with food and exercise, I just need to recommit to losing this weight. It is almost like I am avoiding losing the rest of this weight since I am comfortable with where I am size wise. I did swim today but then went to Chick a fil a for dinner. Ended up getting a small fry with my salad, ate the fries before my meeting and did not eat the salad. The salad will become lunch tomorrow. Dinner was late tonight and consisted of a PBJ on rye. Oh Well, I will learn and get it right eventually. My meeting lasted longer than I wanted, which is why I did not eat my salad tonight.
Wish- is for Hansea family.
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Wow, everyone has so much going on!
@Lives2Travel - I can't blame my retirement woes on anyone but myself - I didn't start saving for retirement until 2007 - and then promptly got hit with the same slump everyone else did. If I'm lucky, I might get to retire at 80! For those of you out there - don't do like I did - if you haven't started saving for retirement now, DO IT! "Head-in-the-sand" Syndrome is deadly - you don't want to be 65 and staring down into an empty well!
- @mnwalkingqueen - so sorry to hear of your job loss, but with luck and perserverance, I'm sure you'll recover. Don't let this be an excuse for sliding down the slippery slope!
- @newpeople - welcome - jump on in and start sharing. It's hard to keep up, so much goes on here, but we will always support you and provide any help we can.
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- March goals:
Food/calories: Goal 25/31 at or below. So far: 7/10 (NOT counting today - it's not over yet!)
Journaling: 31/31 (every day, no matter what) So far: 11/11
Weight: Weigh in 1 x week on Fridays, goal 10 lbs. for the month (so far, about -2, yeah!)
Exercise:
walking at work: 20 minutes/4x week - only 2x so far this month
work out at gym: 30 minutes/3x week - not yet
resistance band exercises: 15 min/2x day, 5x week - nope, not so good here either!
walking at home: 1 - 2 miles, 2x week (once each on Sat/Sun) - not at all
Stairwells: 3 flights up/down 2x week - 2x so far for the month, including today.
I did get my membership at the gym renewed - now to go use it!!!!!
Wednesday wish - that I get better at time management, that my DH was healthier, and that I wasn't so hungry all the time!!!! Grrrr!0 -
@tracy (goings)--Great advice! When I first started teaching, I was hesitant to join into the 403b plan available through work. I figured I was already contributing to my teacher retirement, and I wasn't making much of a salary as a new teacher. However, my dad talked me into starting with just a $25 contribution out of every paycheck which I raised in small increments over the years, and now I have a pretty decent amount in that fund. good thing, too considering that our teacher pensions are at great risk right now in IL.
@laurie--I feel like I'm in a similar frame of mind. I feel comfortable at my current weight even though I know I could stand to lose another 20 lbs easily. I'm trying to motivate myself to lose it by thinking about how much faster I will be able to run if I'm even a little bit lighter on the scale. So far, that hasn't really worked, but like you said, we'll get it right eventually.
@tanya--I don't like to run when it's too cold outside, but once it's above about 40 F degrees it doesn't really hinder my breathing. I can't stand it when my nose runs faster than my feet! It's been in the 40s and 50s here lately and the only thing keeping me from running outside is the wet sidewalks from the snow melting.
@kelley--sorry about your laptop. Keeping my fingers crossed that you get that call back and move 2015 to a better trajectory!
@robin--I'm also finally recovering from DST. My ideal scenario would be to teach the Advanced Grammar class, but it's not even running next year which makes me sad. It was a really fun class to teach and not much grading at all. Another section of juniors would be easiest in terms of preps b/c I already teach it, but it would stink come research paper time. The senior honors level would also be okay as far as prep b/c I taught that for years and there's quite a bit of crossover with the lit from my AP class. However, it would also entail a lot of grading. The senior electives would be less grading, but prepping would take work. The only one I've ever taught is Contemporary Lit, and the curriculum has changed quite a bit since I last taught it.
@holly--it's nice that your former co-workers checked on you today. It's really sad to leave a job you enjoy, but I know you will find something even better for you.
@niki--I hope you got that tire fixed.
@tracy (tlh)--my family is the same way--we don't hide our feelings at all. Sometimes that is detrimental when I forget to turn on my "filter" with others who aren't used to straightforwardness. LOL
@amanda--I can't wait to hear about your daughter's story! Perhaps a future writer?
@L2T--hoping you DH still has a job, but that's a terrible blow with the pension regardless. We are in the midst of court battles here in IL over our teacher pensions. It's so frustrating when you you pay in and then have it taken away. In our case it's legislators who have mismanaged our money, and of course their pensions are safe and sound.
@KMH--oh, you sound like me! I'm constantly trying to outrun my fork--I never win that race.
I know I missed a few of you, but it's getting late so I'll have to catch you on the next round.
Wednesday Wish:
That I can turn this week around foodwise. I had 2 almost perfect days and 2 days way over calories leaving my 800+ in the red for this week. If I can get to the gym tomorrow, I may still be able to reel it all in. However, I have a PT appointment after school tomorrow and I'm still grading those outlines. Need to have them all finished by Friday, so we'll see.
March Challenge:
At or under calories 5/7 days every week and at or under as a weekly average.
Week 1: At/under calories 4/7 (but one day I was only over by 7 calories) UNDER FOR WK
All-in strength challenge=core work 3 x/week; PT 1-2 x/week; run 3 x/week:
Week 1: 1/3 core; PT DONE; 1/3 runs (sick most of week though)
Week 2: x/3 core; PT; x/3 runs
Week 3: x/3 core; PT; x/3 runs
Week 4: x/3 core; PT; x/3 runs
8k at end of month (not sure what day) in 55 minutes (Thanksgiving 8k = 56:49, NYE 8k = 57:47, 1/25 = 55:41; 2/28=55:15)
Grading Goals:
1. 40/64 BNW journal reflections
2. 3/64 AP essays
3. 7/16 AP analysis activities
4. 36/60 JRP outlines
Exercise Goals: (week 2)
Sun--rest day
Mon--walk gunner DONE
Tues--walk gunner DONE + gym NOT DONE
Wed--meeting
Thurs--PT + gym ???
Fri--rest day
Sat--walk gunner + gym
2015 mantra "Just 15 minutes"0 -
question. What is a good plan for a student who barely has enough time to do her homework let alone excercise a healthy amount?0
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@Fattychique You don't have to devote large chunks of time to exercise. Break it down into 10 or 15 minutes segments. Do a set of squats while your brushing your teeth, park as far as you can safely from wherever your going. The hardest part is just getting started.0
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This looks like a great place to be. I've never been a part of something like this! Seems like ther is lots of support. I was reading over the different discussions I could be a part of and when I saw this one, I was so excited. Every six months or so I say I am going to start a "healthy lifestyle". It never lasts long. What happens is I have a bad day, binge, then feel guilty, and going into my emotional eating spiral. So tough and so frustrating that this is the one area I can't get a handle on! This time, I want it to be different. Praying for success.0
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Thanks to all for your kind words about DH's job and pension. Don't know any more today than we did yesterday. The company wide conference call was postponed until today. DH suspects that they will declare Chapter 11 (reorganizing bankruptcy) and perhaps a sale to a competitor or equity firm. Right now he's less concerned about having a job as the impact this will have on it. As a commissioned salesman, he relies on his reputation and relationships with his customers and suppliers. He's particularly worried about one supplier who is owed in excess of 2 million by his company. If they don't pay that bill, he can forget ever being able to sell equipment from that supplier again to any customer and that will have a huge effect on his income. It sucks when the actions or ineptitude of others effect you despite your hard work. As @skinnyjeanz said the pensions and pay of the culprits always seem to be intact while the rest of us take the hit.
On a better note, after a small loss of .6 last week, I was rewarded with a 2.6 loss this week. So glad to be moving in the right direction again. My first goal is to get back to my lowest 2014 weight. Hope to do that by mid June when we go to Napa.
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