NEED TO LOSE 100 LBS OR MORE !

Good Morning.

@Robin~I have to admit, when I first found the new forum yesterday I was overwhelmed with reading 4+ pages. I was shocked it was that many so fast!

@Charlotte~Happy Belated Birthday, sounds like you had a great day! :flowerforyou:

@monachris~Good to know, thanks for the advice. We do plan on avoiding the buffets and I'm not much of a sweets eater anymore so along with getting plenty of exercise I think I'll do fine. Our first 4 days are on land and we'll be relying on restaurants, but we're hopeful for finding Subway type places for lunch.

I've been awake since 4am, no idea why - anticipation of vacation I guess. Fell back asleep briefly as my cat demanded her breakfast at 5am. So, time to vacuum and then get the packing started that I should have started last night. I'm such a procrastinator. :blushing:

I was pleasantly surprised when I scale hopped this morning and I was down - my actual weigh in day is Friday's. My Wednesday wish is for an uneventful travel day tomorrow.

Kelley

So its WISHES WEDNESDAY...

I am a fussy eater, I mean extreme fussy....I have about 151LB to loose....I am trying new foods all the time and still cant manage a healthy week!!!

My Wish is to be a normal regualr eater who can eat anything and not throw up, gag or be sick and leave junk at the door....

Wednesday Wish: that I can shave a little time off of my 5k pace.
I ran a trial 5k last night(didn't realize how far 3.1 miles was until last night). Surprisingly, I wasn't as tired as I thought I was going to be. I did find that I was a little light headed after sitting down for a while but I think that was dehydration kicking in since it was so hot. I'll have to remember to drink plenty of water the day before and the day of the real race. Today I am feeling it a bit but I can manage. It seems to just be muscle pain at this point but I do plan on doing this route at least once a week for the rest of the summer. On a side note, I'm not looking forward to the winter months. I really like running outside now and I'm dreading the transition from outdoor running to inside treadmill running. Oh well ya gotta do what you gotta do! Cheers everybody!

Wednesday Wish: To catch up on this thread! I was gone all of one day and the old thread is gone and here I am 6 pages behind already! :sad:

Perhaps when the kids go back to school I'll be able to carve out some time to catch up. Can anyone tell me how to find the old thread? :bigsmile:

Have a great day everyone!!!

Hey all! I am new to MFP and today is my second day.

Let me introduce myself: My name is Diana and I have ballooned from a chubby child, to overweight teen, to obese/grossly obese woman. My main focus is not necessarily the weight even though I know that it is the cause of most of my health issues, but just to be healthy and feel good. I realize that the weight coming off will accomplish this, so here I am.

I guess that my first goal is just to track my food and make good choices. Oh, and try to make it through the day without telling my boss to shut up. The man can turn a one sentence request into a 15 minute session.

With that said, I am looking forward to posting daily and learning how to live happily and healthy!

@Robinsegg:: We had ran a couple of days ago after not having any since May! It was wonderful! Still not enough! All of the crops around here basically are ruined. Very saddening. Hopefully the rain picks up!

@Doug::: SO proud of you and happy for you! I will get back to running. I'm going to sign up for a race in September! If that won't get me motivated I don't know what will!


Wednesday Wish::: Ok so my wish today is that I will get back into running, whether it's indoors or outdoors. Hoping to do outdoors. I just don't want to get up in the morning before work and do it. And it's been SO hot around an average of 105degrees everyday. But the heat has finally decided to take a brake it's been mid 90's--ish. lol Way better than 100+! So I'm hoping to start running again!


Also I just recently purchased the wii fit game, I had the board but not the game. I tried it very briefly and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Maybe there's a way to make it more challenging? I'm not sure. I wasn't getting my heart rate up enough. All the games I did were on beginner and I couldn't figure out how to change it. Is there an actual work out routine on it? lol just confused with it.

So, I've stayed under calories but I ate whatever I wanted today. Tonight I went to the movies and saw 3D Step Up Revolution. Wow, awesome movie if you really like Dance movies. I love, love, love, dance movies. Any kind of dance, doesn't matter. I must have been a dance in my other life cause I can't keep my feet still when I hear the music.

happy birthday!! i love dance movies too, doesn't really matter what sort of movie it is. i was a dancer in this life though. a hundred pounds ago :laugh:

@toots Ha!! That totally could have been us! (If we'd had other kids at the time, we would have let them name him for sure!) Funny!

seems like most people are so decisive. we're just decisive in that we don't like each other's names haha

@Toots - My sister named me because my parents couldn't decide on a name either. Although she was 13 when I was born, hehe.

well, their original offer was Elizabeth Cupcake haha that one wasn't hard to turn down. But then they caught me while i was low because it was during the height of a serious swine flu epidemic in new mexico and no children were allowed in the hospital except in the lobby downstairs but they weren't allowed to go anywhere else. it was a woman's hospital so there were no children patients. anyway, i hadn't seen them in days and they were jumping around requesting Gillian Paige and i felt like i would be the worst mother on earth if i told them no :laugh:

Wishes Wednesday....
I wish I was at goal weight but I will get there eventually.
What I really really really wish is that our finances would get in order so that I could afford to buy more healthy food. Fruits and veggies are really high so it leads us to eating more "bad for you food" because of the price.



Any way water and walking is free so that is what I will concentrate on today.

this is the problem i have too and people with money always act like it isn't that much more expensive to eat well, but they only think that because they've never been poor :laugh:

Good morning everybody. I am off to a rocky start the alrm didnt go off this morning. I am babysitting for my brother for the next month. I was woke up by the dog barking as they came into the house. Woops. The day will get better just hate feeling like I am running behind. Lets see my wish for wednesday; that the house would clean itself, lol. No seriously I think I wish for the strength to stay out of the kids junkfood. I have a twenty and eighteen year old and they tend to bring stuff in that i would prefer not to be tempted by. Just have to be strong a couple more months and they will be gone to school :happy:

Hello everyone. Im new to the group and to this thread. Im Danielle and I need to lose over 100 pounds. I want to feel good about myself and for several health reasons.

My Wednesday wish today for myself and everyone here is that we all stay motivated and on task so we all reach what we are working for.


"Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right."

LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! the quote!

Tuesday - Good day overall. Even though I went to bed late, I still hit the gym at 6. Woo Hoo!! Last night was a business dinner at Todd English P.U.B. Normally, fish & chips would be my go to choice, but not last night. We started with jumbo prawns, lobster (very limited butter), and I selected some pastrami with a grilled pita and pickled veggies. I only ate half and took the rest home. I did drink 3 strawberry mojitos, but that's OK. I tracked them and there accounted for. Plus, they were soooo yummy!!!!

Wednesday - Gym is done and mojitos worked off. Thank goodness!! I need to get my water in throughout the day. Overall, I'm looking forward to a great day. New job. New city. New healthier me to come. Life is good.

@kah - Have a wonderful vacation. I loved Alaska!

@bellawares - So sorry to hear about your mom. Prayers to you and your family.

@kinnurse/Charlotte - I love dance, too. Definitely want to see Step Up Revolution! Will see if it's in 3D here. And Happy Belated Birthday!

@Diana/kickingthescale - Welcome! I'm new here, too.

@Danielle/Coming4U- Welcome!

@Robin - I hope your appliances stop breaking, too!


Wednesday Wish - That I didn't have to work until midnight tonight. Oh well, my wish didn't come true this time. :ohwell:

Hi Y'all...Posting from NOT so sunny Florida..I believe it might be time to start building a ARK..we have had so much rain....
Goals...Goals..... I just can't seem to meet my daily caloric intake goal...after I excercise I am negative for the day and then have to make them up plus get me to 1770...I was told to back off excercising and concentrate on meeting the NET for day..but I am obsessed but then I am always at end of the day like 600 more needed to eat to meet NET..I am putting myself in starvation mode I know cause I have been at a stand still on weight loss for a month....I was only eating 1200 calories a day then exercising 500 off so way under 1200 daily. I "listened" and added more calories cause I was told 1200 is not enough for my height and weight right now....I did take 5 days off from exercising and ATE more and Holy COW I lost a few pounds again..BUT everyday is a struggle to eat enough.....I started excersing again yesterday and I came in 688 under what I needed to meet NET for day.....I just can't balance this out.... I need to eat atleast 500 calories each meal and don't even get that between lunch and breakfast....I am a HOT MESS...but not giving up

I can totally identify with you! ah and so confusing at times, and also aggrivating! I have managged to make it to the lake twice this week and did some swimming exercizes. Mostly tredding water for 30 min and so on! The Food intake is very hard for me! I just dont want to eat till after 2pm, but I've been working real hard at changing that! Ive been eating 3 meals a day now for 7 weeks. I was 235 when I statrted my new way of life and 220 when I joined mfp. I have struggled for the last 3 weeks on gaining and losing the same 3 lbs! GRR!!! Since it is so hot here it makes good exercise hard on a no budget plan!! So off to the lake I went! Conquerd the 3 lbs once more. I tell ya its not easy when you have been doing the same routine for years, but I'm trying any way. The calorie intake seems to be the hardest thing. I've been trying to eat fruit and veggies to compensate. Even if I have to make ugly faces the whole time I'm eating!!!LOL I seem to have alot of bad days so mabe a group would do me some good! I only have 2 friends since I joined so not alot of motivation. WED is wishday right? Ok, I wish I had more mental strength to do the things I need to do, first for myself, then for others!

Wednesday wish: That getting my son's schedule will go smoothly, and so will the start of school next Thursday. Summer sucks because I don't have the structure in my day that sending the kids off to school, and being ready for them to get home brings me. But, I've had the opportunity to spend quite a bit of time with them this summer, and it's been nice. I also wish for the cooler temps to stick around, and more rain!!!

Wednesday Wish: That a new low fat food stall appears at Fairport Cropredy Covention this weekend