Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !
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Thursday truth: My party (book club) is over and I am exhausted! All went well and I don't think I over did the food, though I did have a small piece of the cake and a few nuts.
Now, I can get back to "me", until next week and the "big event" with the turkey.
@ Susan Good luck with the move. I hope all goes smoothly.
@Lori WOW! You are soooo inspiring. I am glad to be able to say I know you!
@hansea The "Y" challenge sounds good. You go for it.
To everyone with hurts and colds, get better. None of us has time for such.
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Dear Hansea, try and relax, it is just one little conference and you will be fine. Really, laugh at the dream.....0
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Thursday truth; being mindful to listen to this mantra when I am anxious and want to eat or in a social siutation and want to eat or am home alone and want to eat. Stop, Evaluate, Wait 15 minutes, Evaluate again, then eat one healthy snack. This way you are deciding to eat, not emotionally being driven to eat to ease anxiety, etc. Dieting is complex!0
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Thanks for all the suggestions for my cruise. I love to cruise but have never watched my diet on one before.
@soosun - That idea sounds great, three bites...wonder if I can stop at three! LOL
-@kah68-lots of good advice, problem is my elderly friend has a very restricted diet and thinks she'll do better at the buffet. (She has to be able to mash or cut food very tiny.) Anyway I hope to walk a lot and watch my intake. Forgot about the scales in fitness center. We are cruising from Tampa to Key West and then on to Cozumel with a couple days at sea, total 6 days. I live in FL and have been to Key West and Cozumel both before but my friend won this trip for two so it's a free cruise - couldn't turn it down!!
@cblue315 - Way To Go!!!
@ everyone else, I'm not Irish but I love this saying: "May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door."
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@barb (bap)—I haven’t been to the Keys, but it’s on my bucket list. Even if you need to eat most meals at the buffet, I bet you can make good choices.
@soosun—great advice about stopping to think before eating. I’m not an emotional eater, but definitely have had issues in the past eating out of habit or boredom. Over the past few years I’ve been able to break a lot of bad habits by following a similar strategy.
@barbara—glad the book club went well!
@lori—awesome NSVs!! Go you!! I love the move from 18W to 18. Funny story—I’ve never been thin, but managed to stay in the regular big sizes for most of my like. Eventually as the weight crept up, I found myself at some outlet (maybe Nordstrom Rack) looking at pants that all had Ws after the sizes. I was actually baffled and turned to the woman next to me and asked, “Is the W for wide?” She chuckled at me and answered, “Well in theory it stands for ‘woman,’ but yes, in reality, it means ‘wide.’” With a 10 inch loss in 4 weeks, you are certainly no longer “wide.”
@holly—great job getting back to the walking!
@kelley—Eek! Rats?!?! I hope the exterminator caught them all and you don’t have to deal with any in your unit. I’ve also been bad with my macros, but just staying under 1680 overall seems to be working for me, so I’m not going to worry about it right now.
@amanda—your dream made me chuckle. Most of my nightmares take place in a HS. However, I’m almost never the teacher—I’m always a student and I’ve done something wrong (like cut class or neglected to do homework) that I now have to face. I guess that’s what I get for being such a terrible student when I was a teen.
Thursday Truth:
I feel guilty for not going to the gym again, but I'm just so exhausted. I feel like my body is telling me to rest, so I've been focusing on grading instead. Still haven't finished the vocab b/c the kids are not doing a great job. It takes so much longer to grade when I have to write all of the comments about why they are losing points, but they need the feedback in order to improve. At least next week is only a 2-day work week--really looking forward to the extra time.
Grading Goals:
1. 32/60 Scarlet Letter vocab 1
3. x/60 M1948 in-class essays
Exercise Goals:
Sun--walk gunner DONE + gym NOT DONE
Mon--meeting
Tues--meeting
Wed--walk gunner NOT DONE + gym NOT DONE
Thurs--walk gunner NOT DONE + gym NOT DONE
Fri--walk gunner
Sat--walk gunner + gym
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Wow, does this thread move fast! Missed the past few days due to hubby up nights coughing, subbing at the PT office, and other little schedule torpedoes. Then, in a daze of exhaustion, opportunity and hunger I had a major carb fail. I can no longer cope with my recipe group or have the leftovers in the house. The temptation is too great. I'm going to drop out as soon as I can figure out a diplomatic way to do it.
November All-In Challenge Up-Date:
15/30 days under or at goal, 18/30 days cardio, 7/30 days weight training, 16/20 days 10,000 steps. (3 days major, awful, stupid fail, 2 days just slightly over.)
Kaye: Ooooo, I can imagine your pain and am wincing right now. Hoping you recover quickly and get up to speed again with all your family and holiday responsibilities.
Laurie: Way back several pages, you asked what I thought about the Galazy vs the iPhone. I had a Galaxy 3 for 2 years, and though it had some nice features, I had problems with it keeping a charge. I sent it back after a year, and Samsung sent me a reconditioned one (not a new one!!!) which quickly developed the same problem. Several battery replacements later my son pressured me to switch to the iPhone. A handy idea because he's my IT person and patiently tutors me in all things computer, et cetera. So I got my iPhone 6+ a week ago (+ because I'm getting old and need the slightly larger screen to navigate) and I think I love it! Somehow it's more user friendly. Can't explain it. I don't like Safari which comes with it, but love the calendar and the way it synchs with Outlook's calendar and contact list and the iCloud. Makes me sad, because now I don't have a use for my new, pretty 2015 wall and pocket calendars.
On the other hand, we have a "family calendar" that I share with my kids' households, making it easier to coordinate schedules.
To everyone who is sick or recovering from illness or injury, please take good care of yourself. Rest and pampering is in order if you can manage it. Sending good thoughts and prayers your way.
A little good news: Hubby's PIC line is out! Hoping to finish up the skin grafts soon and his visits to the wound clinic. We will miss his medical team however. They are so upbeat and helpful--our heroes!
Till next time,
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Grammy-Thanks for the info about the phone. Good News about your hubby.
Karen- I hope you start to feel better. Good luck with grading the vocab papers.
Truth- I have been lax in my food choices the past week but I am now getting back on track and making the effort to healthy. I also need to be faithful about posting my workout plans on her while I follow it. Needless to say, if I don't post my goals- my week lacks an exercise focus which translates to no gym or workout. This week I have taken 3 days off- 1 was for a meeting and planned, 2 met a friend for dinner instead of gym, tonight dinner with co-worker then the funeral home but no gym. So plan plan is to work my butt off this weekend.
Friday- Climb
Saturday-Swim
Sunday bike
Monday-off
Tuesday- gym
Wednesday- 5K or swim
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Grammy, glad your husband is improving. I can't handle cooking for my family. I can't imagine having a recipe group!
Tonight I tried my pedaler and it wasn't too bad on the knee. There are still a lot of positions that are painful, and I think the bike thing worked because there was no weight on it. My Thursday truth is that my eating and calories are all out of whack since I got hurt. I hope I don't do too much damage before I can get back to normal activity.
I made a couple of knit hats for my missionary granddaughter. She will need them in Utah. Then I pulled out my odds and ends of yarn and am working on making mittens and caps for a local Christmas charity project. A few years ago my sister found the pattern for the mittens Mother crocheted for us when we were little. They are fun to make and go really fast. The caps will just be basic ribbed caps with some stripes to use up smaller pieces. I also made a knit hat for one of my gds for Christmas. I'm glad I have these projects to keep my hands busy.
Onward and downward. Kaye0 -
Good morning everybody.
Happy Alascattalo Day
Once upon a time, a mild-mannered moose named Morris met a wickedly witty walrus named Wanabelle.
Morris thought right off that Wannabelle had a wonderful way with words and that her whiskers, while wacky and wiry, were wistfully welcoming as well. Wannabelle was moved by Morris' manners and his marvelous, magnetic charm, not to mention the massive mantlepiece he masqueraded upon his head.
It was love at first sight, and soon the mild-mannered moose and the witty walrus named Wannabelle were wed in the church down the way. Within sixty weeks, Morris and Wannabelle welcomed into the world a wee little weeble who made their love complete, and hence ~ the first Alascattalo was born.
~Alascattalo Day is celebrated on November 21st every year. It is a day to honor humor in general and Alaskan humor in particular. The day is named after it's mascot, the Alascattalo, a genetic cross between a walrus and a moose.
Steven C. Levi, a commercial writer who works in Anchorage Alaska is the originator of the Alascattalo Day Parade. He describes it as "the longest running shortest parade in American history." The parade runs one block in an alley behind Club Paris. It has been held every year for the past 25 years with an award being given for the smallest and ugliest float (must be both to win). Mr. Levi even went as far as to have an asteroid named after the Alascattalo.
So, on any other given day of the year, you may not be too thrilled about running into a moose/walrus creature in the middle of a dark alley, but on Alascattalo Day it would be wrong and weirdly worrisome it you didn't. Have a wonderful Alascattalo Day.
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~Margaret Thatcher
Tom
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Hi guys! I'm new to this thread0
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Hi everyone. I'm new also. Been using myfitnesspal for 145 days now and I've lost 56 lbs. Looking for tips on how to continue losing to get to goal. I'm kind of stalled and it looks like I need to reduce my calories, bleh. I'm a hungry girl
Does anyone have any hints on a 1200 calorie diet for someone who travels 80% of the time for work? Ideas that won't leave me so hungry I want to eat my arm off? 0 -
Dear Bap, you will be great and you can taste anything at all. Just three bites; you can either put the three bites on a clean plate, because they give you everything your heart desires on a crusie, right? hahaha or you can pour table salt on the remaining portion and stir it in. You can and will stop at three bites, normal bites of course. Have a great time. Oh and we found on our cruise that there was so much liquer in and on the desserts that they were not a temptation. Have fun! And pack your cute work out clothes just so you will be stylin'.0
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Dear Grammy,
I send any and all leftovers home with the guests or I just dump it down the garbage disposal. Better there than on MY waist. Satan, get behind me! haha0 -
Thanks for info about i phone. My phone slip off my night stand last week and chipped the top flip screen, my phone is 12 years old I think, and since then it has been slowly deteriorating. Today the screen came completely off when I went to answer a call. Fortunately Hubs and I need new phones, and we went and looked at the I Phone 6. We too love the larger style. Best Buy showed us a Sprint Lease Plan ( we are sprint users) and we loved all the features. Great to hear some positive feed back about the larger style. They also told us about a glass screen feature that sits on the screen and gives it some support and protection. So we are doing that and also a carrier to protect it. After two years the phone can be exchanged for a new phone every two years. It is a lease plan and you do not have to buy the phone. We love that idea too. no charge for new phone every two years. Great marketing. But thanks for your input. Very reassuring. This posts has nothing to do with dieting but everything to do with making yourself happy. hahaha0
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Hi guys!
@soosun--I got my first cell phone in 1991 and am only on my 5th--so I also keep my pones a long time. I finally switched to my 1st smartphone this summer and so far no regrets. However, I have the Galaxy mini which I absolutely love. No experience with an iPhone, so I can't compare.
@christi--welcome and great job losing 56 lbs over the past 6 months or so! As far as sticking to a 1200 calorie allowance--I can't help you there. Although I had my goal set at 1200 at the outset, I ate back all of my exercise calories s most days that was well over 1200 overall. As I've gotten closer to my goal weight, I've slowly upped my calorie allowance so when I finally lose the rest of the weight I can transition smoothly to maintenance. Right now, I eat at about 1680 calories per day which is my TDEE -15%. Generally, hi protein foods will help keep you fuller longer.
@lego--welcome!
@tom--I enjoyed reading the fairy tale lovd story.
@kaye--glad you can get some use out of your pedaler without too much pain. Those projects sound like a great way to keep busy while your semi-laid up.
@laurie--I also need to get back at it in the gym.
@marsha--glad to hear the hubs is healing.
Friday Fitness:
Not much this week. Between the weather and my sniffly nose, I just had no motivation. That will change this coming week!
Tomorrow morning I'm judging a speech competition for our HS speech team. I used to coach the team years ago, so this is an easy way to make a bit of extra money. It makes for an early morning, but the bonus is that I will get some grading done between rounds leaving my afternoon free for the gym. Sunday I'm meeting garetie to go shoe shopping and perhaps a cocktail.
Vocab is done! yay!
Grading Goals:
1. 60/60 Scarlet Letter vocab 1 DONE
3. x/60 M1948 in-class essays
Exercise Goals:
Sun--walk gunner DONE + gym NOT DONE
Mon--meeting
Tues--meeting
Wed--walk gunner NOT DONE + gym NOT DONE
Thurs--walk gunner NOT DONE + gym NOT DONE
Fri--walk gunner NOT DONE
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@soosun What a great idea to pour salt on food you don't want to be tempted to eat. I have trouble stopping if it is on my plate....something about hearing all about the starving children in poor countries during my childhood. LOL. I am definitely going to remember that. Also, I knew a thin cook who took cooking lessons all over the world and that was her technique. One bite to taste, one to evaluate, and one to enjoy was how she put it!
Welcome to the newbies. This is a great, very supportive thread.
@Kaye Good for you keeping your hands profitably busy while you recover from your fall. I hope you are feeling lots better soon.
@Karen As an English minor, I love all the assignments you talk about. Hadn't thought of the Scarlet Letter in a long time. I need a book to read, maybe I should dig it out and give it a new spin.
Hopefully, I will do better with my exercise this next week. All the party preps kept me pretty busy this week, but it isn't quite the same. Pulled a hamstring (just like a football player I guess) this week somehow, but had it worked on today; it feels much better.
Thanks everyone for being there. This thread is what keeps me going. It is slow, maybe a pound a week and I am still not back on my ticker, but I will get there.
Barbara
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@barbara--I've taught The Scarlet Letter for 11 of the 13 years I've been a classroom teacher. It's one of my absolute favorites. The kids really like it too--despite the difficulty level. We try to have fun with it and examine all of the soap opera-ish elements along with the literary devices.0
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The Scarlet Letter is one of my all-time faves!
@Soosun~Congrats on the new phone, especially after having your old one for so long. I hold onto phones for a while, too. When it came to smartphones I've only ever had an iPhone but I usually hold onto them for a while. I just upgraded from a 4 to the new 6 and 
it. As an accountant I can't bring myself to do those installment plans, over the two years you end up paying more for the phone in the long run--I know several people that buy their phones that way, I prefer to buy my phones under contract.
@Marsha~So glad DH is healing!
Welcome Lego and Chris!
Today was a really busy day and I had to leave work early to meet a repairman for my ice maker--$250 later I have a new motor. :grimacing:
I'm headed to bed shortly, have my resting metabolic assessment at the gym bright and early tomorrow then a session with my trainer at 10. It will be interesting to see how much my BMR has changed. See you on the flip side!
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@Karen I dug it out and am started. I remember loving it, but I forgot about the long convoluted sentences. I am speculating on vocabulary words. So far haven't found one I don't know, but I am sure I will. I would love to sit in on a class like that...it has been ages. Reading keeps my hands out of the snacks....can't get the books dirty.
Barbara
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Skinny and Barbara-I loved reading the Scarlet Letter in high school and have read it a few times since then.
Christi- I don't have many suggestions for 1200 calories a day, except protein. Are you eating back your exercise calories?
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Welcome Newbies - glad you've joined us!
- Welcome oldies.
Scarlet Letter - hated reading it but loved the movie altho kinda trashy and not true to the book.
How's everyone doing on the November Challenge?
Should we keep the Challenge the Same for December of change it to something a trifle different for the Holiday Season? Hmmmm?0 -
Hi. I need to lose 80 lbs., but can I join? I saw a post from the OP on another thread saying to jump on.
I am currently 203-ish. I had weighted in at 202.4, then the next day, up to 203 and I feel like this is where I keep getting stuck...at this weight...and I never believe I'll go under. And somehow, seeing that higher number on the scale, even given the fact of daily fluctuations, is what does me in and then I binge. I just did...on McDonald's, of all things.
WTF is wrong with me???
I wasn't always fat. In fact, I never weighed more than 125 until I was 36 years old and had just had my second child. I did this through dieting, though. My natural inclination has always been to overeat.
I HAVE TO start weighing weekly instead of daily again, because these fluctuations are ALWAYS what set me off.
Sorry to jump right in with my life story...feeling terrible about myself right now...I am going to leave my husband, but I must have a job first (and yes, he knows this is the plan...not jumping ship and surprising him or anything)...and I equally know that I won't be hired as a fat person...especially in Los Angeles. Or...at least that I'll have a harder time of it.
Just a hard night all around, saw that up-weight, told my husband this is final, am scared, don't know how I'm going to support the kids and...it's just hard...just in tears today all 'round.0 -
Oh...just saw at the beginning of the thread that Friday is supposed to be about fitness...today I did Pilates. I am trying to keep my muscle while losing fat (if I ever do!!).0
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Welcome newbies, hello past n' present ... haven't been on this week but thought this morning was good to go with some Saturday Success - NSV.
I read something in regard to which weight to record in the MFP diary ...
"Valid weigh-in days only. Morning after rest day eating normal sodium levels, not sore from last workout."
And with that advice in my mind I have managed to stay off my scale since my last Check-in day (Monday). I've learned something in the process ... how to "feel" my body. Without my scale to let me know how much water weight I might be adding or losing I'm tuning in to how my feet and fingers feel, how puffy or not my face looks, and most importantly, how empty or bloated my stomach feels. I'm really liking the new body awareness, yet have to admit that I feel anticipation building for Monday morning.
November challenge wise ... not doing so very well. My calorie intake has been in the maintenance range and I'm planning to stay there for the rest of the month. I don't actually plan out my meals to reach the maintenance TDEE, I stop eating when I feel satisfied and then record what I ate. Another reason I'm in anticipation of Monday morning.
Will talk at you again on Monday.
Niki
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Good Saturday morning everyone.
Welcome to the new people.
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Tom
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Good Morning. I'm back from my resting metabolic assessment (RMA) at my gym and currently indulging in a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks--don't mind the fat from the milk but wish they had a sugar free version as this will put my sugar over the top for the day. I allow myself one a year and this it so I will enjoy.
The RMA was interesting as my metabolism has taken a nose-dive, disappointed but not surprised. I've been having symptoms last couple of weeks suggesting my thyroid meds may need adjusting and I'm under calories/BMR far too often which we all know can impact metabolism negatively. So, I've dropped my calories to 1,800 for now--dietitian wants to review the results and compare them to my last RMA to make sure it isn't too drastic.
Meanwhile, I'm off for a session with my trainer. Lots of running around to do today too.
@Robin~I'm not sure how anyone else feels, but I'd like to keep our current challenge through December.
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@Robin and everyone I agree with Kah68 (is your name Kelly?) that the current challenge is a good one. I have a way to go to perfect my execution of it, so to keep at it would be good for me and from what I have read maybe for others as well.
Happy Healthy weekend.
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Was out and about all day. Ate at the California Pizza Kitchen. I ordered from the diet menu and loved the chili relleno with portabello mushrooms, 380 calories. Ordered hot water with lemon to drink.. Walked for two hours around themall then stopped at Sprouts for a Kind bar 190 calories. Came home and ate homemade chicken enchilada square with 2 cups of spinach and one up of cantaloupe. 1 ounce of sweet and salty pretzels. Total for the day 1200. I am impressed, but went over by 5 for fat grams. But nice to try and make good decisions, concentrted on best bang for the buck. Weigh in on Monday morning and excited to see if I lost my Texas weight. I was 170 when I came home last week looking forward to seeing a drop. Dieting is always one step ahead plannning......makes my head hurt sometimes. hahaha0
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LA-Welcome. Sorry your life is in chaos right now but it will get better. I can tell you from experience I spent between 6 months to a year hovering between 200-210 and it would change daily. So I understand your frustration. My best advice is to keep up with your eating plan, maybe reduce your calories or increase your exercise intensity level. The weight will drop again just keep plugging away. Take your measurements since you could be making progress in inches lost instead of on the scale. You will eventually learn that the daily weight changes are a part of our natural cycle so don't let them derail you. I can't begin to count the number of times that I have experience a weight of 3-5 pounds one day only to lose it again in a day or two. It will come off to stay.
Soosun- Your recipe for chicken enchilada sounds good. Good job making healthy choices today.
Success I had two good workouts in a row after a lackluster week. Last night climbing workout was a great arm workout since I challenged myself with 3-4 upper level climbs. For the new people, I enjoy indoor rock climbing once a week, so when I talk about upper level climbs I am talking about 5.10.a's. Easy climbs are 5.0- 5.5, Intermediate climbs 5.6 to 5.9, advance climbs 5.10.a's and higher. The levels go up to 5.12.d and maybe higher. I am not ready for anything higher than a 5.10.a or b right now but maybe in time. I still have a lot to learn about climbing.
Today, I swam even through my arms were killing me which made freestyle even harder than usual. At least I went to swim practice this morning. This afternoon, I spent another 40 minutes raking leaves. I will be happy when all the leaves are off the tree so I can stop raking this fall. Alas, I still have one or two more days of raking ahead of me.
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NK- Thanks for the advice on weigh in days, it is a good perspective to keep in mind.
Robin I am good for keeping the challenge going. I would also encourage everyone to up their exercise level or intensity in December. That way we can burn off some extra calories.0
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