Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Tuesday goal: I've been a little off the past two days. I need to get the motivation back! I can't seem to stay out of the banana bread I made, so I need to get it out of the house. Had three slices Sunday. Two slices yesterday and today. No more! I have not been doing terrible, just so-so. I can do better than this! So my goal is to STAY OUT OF THE BANANA BREAD!

Day 2 of inpatient....only a 13 hour day...plus a 40ish minute drive each way! Needless to say, not working out today.

"Remembered" the water bottle today. Didn't get a full liter in. Did so some gatorade and a diet tea at lunch. It was so sweet - even though it was zero calories it was just gross b/c it was so sweet.

Must remember to get a better lunch/snacks. So far I have noticed getting really hungry around 5pm which leads to no patience and cranky. Only 3.5 more weeks!

I really need to work out this month. I hope once I get used to the schedule, I can fit in 30 mins 3x/week.

Oh and on top of it all, I have a horrible sore throat today! YUCK!

Hope you are doing well and keeping on track of your goals! We can do this!

Well my trainer fooled me again. I was expecting an all out workout where I would be pushed so I could prove him wrong. Instead we went back the basics on the different movements. This is a long slow workout since the focus is on form. It was fine but in a way disappointing. At least we separated tonight on speaking terms. I hope to kick butt when I meet with him again.

Christine- I love the goal of trying something new for September. I am going to try Tap Dancing as it will work with my weekly schedule.


Jana- Hope you weather the hurricane okay. Hopefully you will not lose power or experience any flooding.
Goals:
To get into an exercise routine that involves different types of activities.
-Swim two days a week (once on the weekend and then one night if I leave work early enough) :bigsmile:
-Rock climb at least once a week (Fridays) I love the full body workout I get with it.
-Trainer dropping to one day a week unless we can make it work. :ohwell:
-Tap Dancing 1 day a week with some practice time. :bigsmile: This will involve eating out once a week but it could be worth it for the exercise and using a different muscle group.
- Make it to the gym at least twice a week.

Okay I am not sure how I will fit it all in but I will do my best to make it happen without wearing myself out. Since I still need to plan for classes. The Rock climbing and Tap Dancing will give me some additional time after school to get the planning done and grading caught up so that will help.


I think that is plenty of goals for now.

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Hi everyone! The social butterfly in me wants to do personals despite my vow to spend less time responding, so I'm giving in to just a few:

@christine--I love the idea of trying something new, but (like toots) I'm gonna have to think about this one!

@nichols--your schedule sounds crazy, but I know you'll make it work! Hope that sore throat goes away quickly--the last thing you need is to get sick!

@kris--glad your doc gave you the go ahead--have fun dancing!

@drivendiva--glad you found us again!!

@alison--the stairmaster machine at my gym doesn't have the ability to do down the stairs. Not sure I would use it if it did--I have a phobia about going down stairs b/c I used to fall down the stairs all the time as a little kid. :embarassed: At school, it makes me nervous to walk down the stairs carrying my laptop and stuff b/c I can't hold the railing.

@karenleona--Marsha (grammywhammy) did a quick check in here a couple of days ago. She's still around--I think she said she's in a funk and just laying low for now. Hope your family's move goes well.

@holly--hope all went well with the inspection today! :flowerforyou:

Welcome to all of the newlings!!! :happy:

Tuesday Goals:
To continue to make it to the gym/work out regularly. I went today :bigsmile: but now I'm starting to stress about all of the grading I need to finish--it's already piling up.

Tomorrow I have plans to go to a fundraiser for the dog shelter where I got Gunner. I'm going with a friend from work, but since it's not until 5 pm, I'm going to try to get a lot of grading done after school. Right now, I need to sign off and go do grading goal #4.

Grading:
1. x/58 Junior universal screeners for writing (I did some more of these, but I'm not sure how many)
2. x/24 Parts of speech pre-tests
3. x/49 "Columber" essays
4. Read/annotate Nabokov essay

Thanks for all the positives, everyone - working very hard at climbing out of this hole I'm in, and your words mean a lot. I have looked at some older photos (the very few that exist) and maybe there's a little difference - but I still just don't see it. The scale numbers & sizes tell me I should be seeing something, I guess it's my head that's on cockeyed.

Tuesday goals: well, I wanted to be in the 1's by my vacation at the end of next month - but I don't think it's possible. I'm so close to the halfway mark though - I'm readjusting my goal for vacation to be past my halfway mark (about 10 more lbs at this point). I think it's something I can actually achieve with a little work.

Prayers & blessings to those in the path of the storm --

Hi All, I'm so sorry I haven't been around lately. My son and his family are still visiting from out west and its been a really busy week. I've had to put everything I do for myself off to the side while they are here. Unfortunately, my holidays ended while they are still visiting so they are up at my daughters place with her and her family while I am at working wishing I was with them. Boy, would I love to be able to be with them.
I really havent' even stepped on a scale for about 3 weeks and have not logged my food or anything for about that same amount of time. They fly home on Thursday and I'm working nights all weekend. So my plan is to start officially back as of September 1st and my goals are as follows:
1) Log all my food and fluid intake in daily (no cheating).
2) Weigh in once a week. Might not be on Monday as will be working nights on Sunday night.
3) Start back on my Wii Fit program and work up to doing 30 minutes per day by the end of the month. (I was doing 45-60 minutes 5 times a week prior to my surgery in May and haven't been able to get back to it since then).
4) Be more active on the MFP site. I really feel like I've let everyone down by not being here more often and I really enjoy reading all the posts and the support I have recieved has been so helpful.
5) Continue to drink 8-10 glasses of water a day. (This is the one area that I have not let up on).
6) Lose 5 pounds for the month of September.

Those goals should keep me busy and hopefully motivate. Thoughts and prayers going out to all of my MFP friends who are in the path of the latest storm. Hope the winds don't get too high and that everyone makes it safely through. Charlotte

Hi all. I am moving real slow today. woke up with a headache and a sore throat. Of course I would catch a summer cold now. My husband called and he is going to be home in ten to fourteen days. I cant wait but it also means getting everything perfect before he comes home which is ridiculous since after 20 years he definitley knows my housekeeping is far from perfect, lol. It is going to be insane next month. He is home for one month and in that time we have to follw my son from seattle to laramie wyoming and get him settled into school and then hey since we are halfway there we are going to go on to Illinois to visit all of my extended family.

So my goal for this week is to do my workout I devised at least three times and to try to get to bed a little earlier since I have been having trouble with wanting to get up the last few days, though that could be the cold I seem to be catching.

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Hi folks,

Sounds like some of you are doing really well recently so congrats on that. I'm especially impressed with the dedication many of you show to getting regular exercise. That's something I aspire to.

Personally I had a pretty crappy food day. I recently adjusted my macros to lower my carbs, the idea being that I would lower my wheat carb intake as I don't think wheat (gluten?) does my body any favours. I don't know if it was withdrawal or what, but I had some major carb cravings this evening and really overdid it. And even being over my calories I was STILL way under in protein. I need to get some routine going for higher protein breakfasts and lunches, especially before I go back to school next week.

Want to get back to C25K too, that's my goal for tomorrow...

- 'night all!

I also have struggled with getting my protein. I have my macros set at 30% protein which is 120 grams if I don't earn any exercise calories, but I almost never get that amount. I've pretty much given up trying. Instead, I'm focusing on raising my amount 10 grams at a time.

I noticed I was averaging between 70-80 grams, so I focused on getting over 80 for a few weeks. Once I had that mastered, now I'm working on getting over 90 grams. I'm doing pretty good, and now that I'm back in school, I can start making my fish I love to bring for lunch every day (for some reason I just never cooked it over the summer). I'm hoping between that and my quinoa, I will be able to get over 100 grams/day.

Day 2 of inpatient....only a 13 hour day...plus a 40ish minute drive each way! Needless to say, not working out today.

"Remembered" the water bottle today. Didn't get a full liter in. Did so some gatorade and a diet tea at lunch. It was so sweet - even though it was zero calories it was just gross b/c it was so sweet.

Must remember to get a better lunch/snacks. So far I have noticed getting really hungry around 5pm which leads to no patience and cranky. Only 3.5 more weeks!

I really need to work out this month. I hope once I get used to the schedule, I can fit in 30 mins 3x/week.

Oh and on top of it all, I have a horrible sore throat today! YUCK!

Hope you are doing well and keeping on track of your goals! We can do this!

Do you like nuts? I always keep almonds or walnuts at my desk. Around 4:30, I had my 20 almonds and it was just enough to get me through until dinner a few hours later. I know you can fit in 30 minutes and you'll feel so much better. Sorry the throats sore. Hopefully, it's just temporary. We CAN do this!!!!

I am on vacation this week. So I started writing everything down here. Good place to start went to water aerobics did about 35 minutes even though it was a hour long. Little hard on knee.
Juicing in morning with protein.
regular lunch and dinner. Feeling good about my start
Happy tobe here and too read so many positive people

@WalkingQueen -- OMG you have a house! Isn't that wonderful?

@Christine -- so glad to hear that you're finding it easier to walk up the hills. Roll on that Down Syndrome walk!

@Lana/Heather -- this weekend I noticed for the first time that I was generally cool about my family eating loads of treats and my either not having them or having something smaller. My husband's dead supportive, but he'd like to lose weight himself and is waiting for magic -- because I'll cook something healthy or sensibly sized, and then he'll sneak in and have a whole extra meal after an hour or too. And Heather, go you for 10lb lost indeed!

@Kris -- I love Wii games, they're 80% of my exercise in the week.

@nicholsvj -- is there any 'waiting' around time in your day that you could squeeze a mini-walk into? It's hard with such long days.

@LaurieK -- rock climbing! That's sort of on my 'maybe in 80lbs time' list. Even when I was young and much thinner, I was still the worst rock /tree climber in the world. Arm strength's a big goal for me this time.

@Lizmil -- I don't think feeling faint and dizzy is normal weight loss experience, no. You might have a bit of a bug and need to take it easy, but if it goes on for more than a couple of days I'd go see the doctor. Make sure you're eating back your exercise cals.

@Lamyple -- Way to go for C25k -- that's brilliant!

@skinnyjeanz -- my problem is that I don't use a StairMaster for stair climbing; I use my stairs. From bottom to top is 30 in this house. Up and down three times quickly and I have to lie down for a little rest...

@vbohrer -- Welcome! Do you have a pedometer? Because I think it's great just to start by spending a week keeping a note of how many steps you do on average, and then just trying to increase that by about 100 per day (or even less, just a tiny bit more every day). When we suddenly try to start exercising it's terribly easy to do too much and end up in pain.

@Vicki -- I'm sure everyone has said this, but 55 pounds is amazing and wonderful! I think you should go to the market and look at what 55 pounds of potatoes looks like. Potatoes here come in five pound bags. I don't think I could carry 55 pounds of potatoes! Did you take measurements?

On banana bread and other sweet treats -- most cakes like banana bread will freeze in slices. So you can slice it, freeze it, and defrost a piece when you want a treat. I put all sorts of stuff in the freezer if I think it's risky food. Can't eat it straight out of the freezer without breaking your teeth!

I had a super idle day yesterday with *no cardio* and precious little strength. I don't mind the odd one of those after a busy week but I'm definitely back on track today.

Wednesday wishes -- I'd like a visit from the house tidying fairies, thank you! It's a total mess and we can't find anything. Have a brilliant day, chaps. We can totally do this thing.

-- Alison

Wednesday wish: I wish that after taking a week off of running you could start right back up where you left off and not feel like you've regressed. I ran\walked a little over 3 miles and ran out of breath part way through it. I checked my pace and the first mile pace was 15 minutes and the 2nd was 17 minutes. I walked half of the 3rd so it was 20 minutes. These are drastic improvements from my previous times but MAN was I ready to stop when I got back to my sons football practice.
SV: I've been doing the eat more to weigh less program and have been gaining since I started. My top weight was 285.5. I weighed in this morning at 281.5. Never thought that I would see this kind of result from eating 1000 calories more than I used to.
Wish everyone a great day!
Doug

Hi all. I am moving real slow today. woke up with a headache and a sore throat. Of course I would catch a summer cold now. My husband called and he is going to be home in ten to fourteen days. I cant wait but it also means getting everything perfect before he comes home which is ridiculous since after 20 years he definitley knows my housekeeping is far from perfect, lol. It is going to be insane next month. He is home for one month and in that time we have to follw my son from seattle to laramie wyoming and get him settled into school and then hey since we are halfway there we are going to go on to Illinois to visit all of my extended family.

How exciting that your husband is coming home. That does sound like a crazy travel month though. Where in IL is your extended family?

My family lives in a little farming town called Prophetsown. It is fairly close to the Iowa border