Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

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  • RachaelPooh
    RachaelPooh Posts: 5,930 Member
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    March 22, 2017 7:29AM
    March 15, 2017 9:56AM
    March 8, 2017 7:52AM
    March 1, 2017 7:55AM
    February 22, 2017 2:55PM

    Name: Rachael (aka Rach or Mermaid)
    Age: 36 *DOB: St Patty's Day
    Height: 66"

    Start Weight: 293.0 (W Feb 22)
    Goal Weight: <285.0 (A Apr 22)

    Weigh-ins on Wednesdays
    February 22: 293.0
    March 1: 290.6
    March 8: 291.2
    March 15: 293.0*
    March 22: 290.6
    March 29: 291.7
    April 5:
    April 12:
    April 19:
    Last day April 22:

    *birthday week

    Weight -/+ this week: 1.1 :confused:
    Weight -/+ challenge total: -1.3 :smile:

    Niki, clearly I vote for challenge total rather than month total.
  • sand86802
    sand86802 Posts: 125 Member
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    @Nikion901 my vote goes for the change to challenge total as well.
  • RunningOnWontons
    RunningOnWontons Posts: 138 Member
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    Name: Claire
    Age: 34
    Height:5'1"

    Start Weight (week of Mar 1) 229.8 lbs
    Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 213.0 lbs

    Weigh-ins on week of
    February 22: ***missed this week
    March 1: 229.8
    March 8: 222.2
    March 15: 224.2
    March 22: 221.8
    March 29: 219.8
    April 5:
    April 12:
    April 19:
    Last day April 22:

    Weight -/+ this week: -2 lbs
    Weight -/+ this month -10 lbs

    Great going, everyone. It's great to feel that others are working towards the same goal--so thank you so much to Nikion901 for maintaining this thread. :smile:

    @campfirequeen1 : No real story there, haha. It's just a quirky and slightly dorky name. I figured it reflected my personality. :lol: PS--what you wrote a couple pages back about weight loss following a day or two of higher calorie/carb eating is SO TRUE. I have been wondering about that a lot myself, recently, and thought I was the only one who ever noticed that weirdness.

    PS I think it would make sense to change the final goal thing to "this challenge," too. (I hope that's what people are discussing in the last couple posts...if not, nevermind, haha. I am about to go back and read the other posts I've missed the last couple days).
  • campfirequeen1
    campfirequeen1 Posts: 317 Member
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    Name: Holly
    Age: 68
    Height:5'3"

    Start Weight (week of Feb 22) 267.0 lbs
    Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 251.0 lbs

    Weigh-ins on week of
    February 22: 267.0 lbs
    March 1: 266.2
    March 8: 267.6
    March 15: 265.0
    March 22: 263.6
    March 29: 262.2
    April 5:
    April 12:
    April 19:
    Last day April 22:

    Weight -/+ this week: -1.4
    Weight -/+ this challenge - 4.8

    I normally weigh in on Thursday or Friday, depending on what day I take the fluid pill, so it should be Friday this week, but I'm going to be traveling and I'm not hauling a scale with me just to weigh in that day, so I weighed this morning and although I might have squeezed in a few more ounces, I'm ok with the 262.2 because that puts me back to my pre-holiday and pre-remodeling fiasco that sent me the wrong direction on the scale and I've been struggling to get back to consistency again!

    And speaking of traveling, I will be spending a long weekend in Gatlinburg, TN with all my kids, grands and great grand, so I'm very excited!!! We are celebrating my DIL's big FIVE OH birthday, and of course there will be much cooking and eating, so next week I'll be lucky if I'm still down the 4.8 pounds. BUT I promise I am going to walk and at least try to be reasonable with the food.

    I have GREAT news! My dear friend, Kathleen ( @320sycamore ) who has been MIA for much too long messaged me this morning and plans to rejoin us on the thread. I'm soooo excited. I've been so concerned about her but all is well and I know everyone else will be happy to see her too.

    @pneschich - So happy that you are continuing to do well and I know that it really must be a good but strange feeling to be in your body and feeling and seeing the changes! I think you and your wife are both blessed with each other!
    @Nikion901 -yep I vote challenge too!
    @gullagr -So happy for you!!! That is just wonderful kiddo!

    Really everyone is doing so well on this challenge and I'm just pleased as punch for all of us!
  • RobinB0812
    RobinB0812 Posts: 236 Member
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    Name: Robin
    Age: 51
    Height: 5'3"

    Start Weight (week of Feb 22) 273.8
    Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 259.9

    Weigh-ins on week of
    February 22: 273.8
    March 1: 273
    March 8: 272.4**
    March 15: 270.2
    March 22: 268.4
    March 29: 266.4
    April 5:
    April 12:
    April 19:
    Last day April 22:

    ** My birthday was March 4th and even though I logged, I pretty much knew I'd threw my eating choices out the window for 3-4 days. I decided beforehand that I was going to enjoy my birthday weekend and I would be happy if I gained only 1 pound. Not only did I not gain anything, but I actually lost 0.6 of a pound! I was a very happy camper!

    Weight -/+ this week: -2.0
    Weight -/+ total: -7.4

    @Nikion901 - as you can see, I had already changed mine to show "total" also. ;)

    I was very excited to see a loss this week! I did some eating at the Ren Fest over the weekend but surprisingly chose pretty wisely except sharing a funnel cake with my daughter. We were also going to have fried Oreos but forgot! We ate both lunch and dinner there. A chicken kebob for lunch which was very good! For dinner a polish sausage sandwich that was disappointing! :/
    I managed to make it thru the day without pain until the very end when it was time to leave.

    I know this challenge isn't even over yet, but how about keeping it going with a new Memorial Day challenge, then a 4th of July challenge after that? Or skip the Memorial Day and do 4th of July which would be slightly more than a 2 month challenge.
    Just throwing it out there because these challenges keep me motivated!! :p

    Until next time; wishing everyone Peace B) , Love <3 and Weight Loss :# !!
  • bapcarrier
    bapcarrier Posts: 211 Member
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    I vote for total challenge not monthly! Also like the idea of continuing it! Well starting over I guess I should say.

    @dennylgray great job on the first 100 keep up the good work!

    @gullagr congrats for being in Onederland!! Great job.

    @christinenesbitt3 what a change in the two pictures, you look great! I need to take one of myself too, so I have a before and after, just hate taking my picture expecially body shots. :(

    Great job this week everyone. Keep up the great work!
  • GOINSTD12
    GOINSTD12 Posts: 331 Member
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    Hi y'all. I've been MIA since Sept, tried to catch up but 80-something pages of posts is too much. I got very discouraged because I haven't lost anything in a year and the pounds were creeping back on. My low was 189, down from 249. I also couldn't work out like I used to and my breathing (COPD) became worse. In November right after Thanksgiving my brother was hospitalized with Congestive Heart Failure. A week after he came home my sister had a Pulmonary Embolism. Then a week later I started feeling bad, and my doctor referred me to a heart specialist. He said my EKG was abnormal and wanted me to do an Echocardiogram and chemical stress test, which was scheduled for Jan 4th. When they did the Echo, they told me I needed to be admitted because I had congestive heart failure too, and my ejection fraction was only 20% (normal is between 60-80 I believe). So I spent 2 days in the hospital and got saddled with a portable defibrillator I have to wear 24/7. I'm doing cardiac rehab and on 3 new medicines, and just got out of the hospital again on 3/21 after a 2nd bout of CHF. The congestion was causing my weight to go up, and now I'm back down between 194-198. But my energy is very low, it's very difficult to walk outside or inside, tho strangely enough I don't have a problem with the treadmill much. I have to get back in shape and strengthen my heart. I'm now on low salt diet (yuk) and restricted liquids (double yuk, I'm always thirsty!!!).
    So, that's why I've been MIA.
    On Oct 4th last year @stevecorradino5291 posted that he gained 7 lbs while in the hospital for a surgery and couldn't figure out why. Surgery often causes water retention, so I would bet my a.... that he lost the weight fairly quickly once they got moving around. IV drips of saline solution are there to keep you hydrated, and can cause weight gain.
    Tracy
    TX
  • KATRENAJ
    KATRENAJ Posts: 318 Member
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    Was afraid to weigh in yesterday. Lost control and couldnt seem to get it back but magically it reappeared., Why do I keep sabotaging myself like this.?????

    Age: 71
    Height: 5' 1/2"

    Start Weight (week of Feb 22) 228
    Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 208.5

    Weigh-ins on week of
    February 22- 228
    March 1: 221
    March 8: 223.6 DOWN FROM 227.6 FEW DAYS BEFORE
    March 15: 220.6
    March 22: 218.4
    March 29: 220.8
    April 5:
    April 12:
    April 19:
    Last day April 22:

    Weight -/+ this week: +
    + 2.4
    WEIGHT TOTAL FROM 2/21
    LOSS 7.2

    Katrena
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    edited March 2017
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    RobinB0812 wrote: »
    Name: Robin
    .....
    I know this challenge isn't even over yet, but how about keeping it going with a new Memorial Day challenge, then a 4th of July challenge after that? Or skip the Memorial Day and do 4th of July which would be slightly more than a 2 month challenge.
    Just throwing it out there because these challenges keep me motivated!! :p
    Until next time; wishing everyone Peace B) , Love <3 and Weight Loss :# !!
    bapcarrier wrote: »
    .... ! Also like the idea of continuing it! Well starting over I guess I should say.
    Great job this week everyone. Keep up the great work!

    Anyone who wants to can offer up a challenge of their own design and those who sign on can participate. It's always been a loose thing on here with all of us chipping in as the mood hits us. :D I love both your ideas and look foreward to seeing what you come up with.

    PS ... As for the Earth Day weight reporting challenge ... "Total Challenge" weight loss it is, by counting the repsonses.
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
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    Thursday Truth ... Hi, I'm Niki and today I'm feeling very reflective of the different, well; let's call them 'techniques', that I've employed in my weight loss efforts.
    ....... Since I've been trying to get the the proper weight for my height and age, I've done almost anything and everything I've read about ... that included tips and tricks to help a person to eat less and move more. It's a great big mind game! ... Plus, the effort it takes to keep these tactics going is exhausting and difficult to keep up long term.
    ....... The results have been dissapointing as well. While always successful in the short term it was always just a matter of time before my exhausted and relaxed attention to 'the plan' would lead to a stoppage of weight loss; typically called a 'plateau' that often resulted in completely 'going off the wagon' and slipping back into added weight that nullified all the effort and loss whcih had been achieved.
    ...... Oh, I knew all the diet jargon, all the methods, all the '10 best of', what to eat/what to avoid, how much is just right/how much is too much, kind of stuff ... but it didn't help me, cause the application of the knowledge was spotty.
    ...... And no ... I was NOT looking for a quick cure. In fact, I was becoming convinced that I was somehow intrinscally flawed within so that no matter what I tried I would always end up short of achieving my goal.

    Then I had an 'a-ha' moment. Somewhere along the line I went from dieting/not dieting to eating to live/not living to eat. I finally realized that food wasn't a treat, a reward, a token of love/friendship/celebration; It was just food. Some of which were more preferrable and palatable per my preferences than others. I also discovered that food was, indeed, a medicine in that some had restorative powers beyond the fueling of this form called 'my body'. And that some were habit forming because of their highly palatable and soothing effects, but that more often than not these were the very foods that I needed to control the consumption of if I was to stop growing my body size.

    But the struggle to balance all this out still goes on, and I expect it will continue to go on indefinitely. Last week I 'did it right', this week I'm not doing it as well. But the week's not over, yet. Still ... today ... even though I made a Farina milk chocolate and peanut butter pudding for lunch instead of having a piece of fish with peppers and mushrooms ... I fed myself well and creatively and I can always have the fish for supper ... sans the mushrooms cause I'm out of those.
  • RastaLousGirl
    RastaLousGirl Posts: 2,119 Member
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    Hello Everybody! Just found this thread! :)
  • RachaelPooh
    RachaelPooh Posts: 5,930 Member
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    I found this one in the Changing for Good book...

    :innocent:"We would rather be ruined than changed;
    We would rather die in our dread
    Than climb the cross of the moment
    And let our illusions die."     —W. H. AUDEN
  • GOINSTD12
    GOINSTD12 Posts: 331 Member
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    @MermaidPrincessRach - that is soooo true.
  • sand86802
    sand86802 Posts: 125 Member
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    Does anybody else here have a Fitbit sync to MFP. I am trying to understand how it calculate the calories I burn but so far it doesnt seem to make much sense.

    For example, yesterday I took 10000 steps, mostly by walking in place at work when I have a break and it says I burnt over 1000 cal. Today I took 13500+ steps including a 45 min brisk walk and it says I have burnt only 800cal.
  • RachaelPooh
    RachaelPooh Posts: 5,930 Member
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    I dont have a Fitbit. I have a Garmin ... But I hate activity trackers! All this emphasis on steps and calories when really, activity-wise, it is more important to strength train than do more cardio. I'm all for doing more but at what point is it just not so important? All that said, I can't NOT wear my tracker! I'm addicted to it!
  • birgitkwood
    birgitkwood Posts: 486 Member
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    @sand86802 - I have a Fitbit with heart monitor. I don't always understand how the cal calculations happen either, and I don't worry about it. Depending on the INTENSITY of the exercise I'm doing, FB gives me more calories because my heart is working harder. But truly, I don't care. I rarely eat any of the exercise calories (never more than maybe 100 or so). I try to keep my calorie consumption at roughly what MFP calculates for me (set at sedentary, losing at 1/2 lb/week). The deficit created by exercise (13k-16k steps per day for 5 days/week) is simply "gravy." In this way I've lost on avg 2 lbs/week over the past year.
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    edited April 2017
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    Sunday Share ... So my mind, apparently, did the 'weight-loss recoil' this past week ... and thus today I have a lot of self-directed angst because I've set myself back a bit based on this mornings scale ... also the "hanger/hunger/shmanger gremlin" that hides out in some secret chambers of my body/mind has been set loose. Thusly, I am in a mood that makes others fortunate to not be in my company today. I'm playing the 'parent/child' dialogue through my thoughts even as I type this post: the 'parent' tells me all sorts of encouraging and positive reasonable thoughts and the 'child' is having a hissy fit on the living room floor.

    PS ... So I've decided to take a break from dieting for the week. I will practice, this week, intaking to maintenance level calories even though that may set me back enough to miss my target weight for the Earth Day Challenge. Still ... I think it needs to be done.
  • RachaelPooh
    RachaelPooh Posts: 5,930 Member
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    Maybe you should have a physical hissy fit! The extra movement would burn calories. I hate Wii boxing but it's how I punch my boss in the face!
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
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    MermaidPrincessRach wrote: »
    Maybe you should have a physical hissy fit! The extra movement would burn calories. I hate Wii boxing but it's how I punch my boss in the face!

    OK --- I feel mean enough today to punch someone's lights out. But that would be against my 'don't hit' nature.

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