Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

OK, I have just had a shock. My husband was buying running shoes at the weekend, and the shop had a competition on, which they persuaded me to enter. We have won some shop vouchers (fantastic) and two entries to the Reading half marathon in March.

Is this remotely plausible? I've been exercising every day, though not actually running, and the most I've ever done before is a 5k and I walked lots of that.

You should give it a good try, I bet you will surprise yourself!

Joe, keep on logging and keep on keeping on.

Wed Wish: drink all my water! take a walk.

MFP friends are uplifting, snotty, realistic, pushers, complainers, reassuresing, braggers, comforting, annoying, loving, irritating, and I need take some with a grain of salt (crap my sodium again). I think this (MFP and MFP friends) are great tools to open you up to change, if one of the tools is not working for you put it down and use one that does the job.

Mid-way through in-law invasion. Just 5 more days. If I never see another mall again, it will be too soon. I had all these stupendous ideas--the Chihuly and autumn exhibit at the arboretum, the book depository (Kennedy exhibit), the museum, balloon festival, movies, opening day of state fair (this Fri.)--they wanted to go to Neiman-Marcus, Costco (?!), Saks, DSW, Sam Moons, Galleria and malls. When not doing that, they play with their new electronic toys.

Hubby's 70th birthday Monday. Restaurant owner brought out a selection of complimentary and "deathly" fabulous desserts. Oh, I am so weak. The devil(sfood) made me do it! Even though we shared them, each dessert alone was enough to feed all at the table.

Discovered today I am LOSING MY HAIR! Suspecting it's several of the Rx's I'm taking, including warfariin.:sad:

Toots: Good news about NOT moving. Want to know how your is doing. No results yet?

Halloween Challenge: 9,074 steps today/110,974 steps to date/400,000 goal. Hope all challengers are doing well.

wow, at least you've got to burning some calories, doing all that shopping. i laughed pretty hard about the devil's food thing. clever. the only results i have is the EKG, so we know that it isn't my heart causing the flutter. but the agreement is that it's a bit excessive to be natural so we're on to other things trying to figure out what the deal is. they took four vials of blood, so hopefully that will give us some answers.

Happy HuMp DaY!!! Well...today I am 40:sad: and not anywhere near where I'd hoped to be by now:grumble:
Wednesday Wish: To be Happy, Be Healthy, and I wish the same for you:flowerforyou:
Be Happy, Be Healthy, Be Blessed
patty

nobody ever is, are they? i remember when i was a senor in high school i went to new york over spring break and my sister, who is ten years younger than me, desperately wanted to go. and i have such a vivid memory of telling her that when i was 25 and she was 15 i would take her to new york because i would be established and everything would be under control in my life and i'd totally be able to afford to take her to new york. Yeah. not so much. i think the problem is that we look ahead with no idea what's up there :laugh: the view when we get to the peak usually isn't what we thought it would be. i'm coming up on 40 too, i mean, in that i'm 37, and i haven't accomplished much either. but i figure maybe i should either have faith that where i am is exactly the right place, even if it isn't where i was trying to go, or i could change things. so far, i'm still where i was lol so i guess i'm picking the previous option. maybe just because it's less work

MFP friends are uplifting, snotty, realistic, pushers, complainers, reassuresing, braggers, comforting, annoying, loving, irritating, and I need take some with a grain of salt (crap my sodium again). I think this (MFP and MFP friends) are great tools to open you up to change, if one of the tools is not working for you put it down and use one that does the job.

this is true. and i find that outside of this thread i'm just not a good friend. i never comment on my feed, i never look at anyone's diary. i never do anything but log my food and come to this thread.

Happy HuMp DaY!!! Well...today I am 40:sad: and not anywhere near where I'd hoped to be by now:grumble:
Wednesday Wish: To be Happy, Be Healthy, and I wish the same for you:flowerforyou:
Be Happy, Be Healthy, Be Blessed
patty

nobody ever is, are they? i remember when i was a senor in high school i went to new york over spring break and my sister, who is ten years younger than me, desperately wanted to go. and i have such a vivid memory of telling her that when i was 25 and she was 15 i would take her to new york because i would be established and everything would be under control in my life and i'd totally be able to afford to take her to new york. Yeah. not so much. i think the problem is that we look ahead with no idea what's up there :laugh: the view when we get to the peak usually isn't what we thought it would be. i'm coming up on 40 too, i mean, in that i'm 37, and i haven't accomplished much either. but i figure maybe i should either have faith that where i am is exactly the right place, even if it isn't where i was trying to go, or i could change things. so far, i'm still where i was lol so i guess i'm picking the previous option. maybe just because it's less work

I think I will go with that option also....:laugh:
Thanks ma'am!!! You always Brighten My DAY:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

OK I'm getting nervous. Today is the 26th and my 5k run is on Saturday. The top of my foot started hurting during one of my running workouts on Saturday. Haven't run much since then. It's feeling a little better but I still have tringes every once in a while. I hope its ok for race day.

@Alison:: Well I'm not sure what you average as far as weight loss goes. But I think 18lbs by december is very doable! I had 25 to go and now it's 23 That's a little under 2lbs a week. Which when I was losing I was averaging 1.5lbs a week. So not too far off.
And I'm going to do my best and work my hardest to do it and if I don't quite make it I'm not going to be upset will just be happy with what I did lose! We got this

@sunshine_frec:: Well I already failed and weighed myself this morning....boo! But it was a good weigh so thats a plus lol. Either way I'm really going to work on it now

@Doug::: You SO have this! You have been working so hard and you know you can do it! And if your foot is hurting then maybe you can't run the whole thing and you walk some. NOTHING wrong with that! Will just give you a goal to beat at your next 5k!

@MyM0wM0w::: I completely understand what you're saying. The past few weeks were horrible and as a day got worse the next day did too "already messed up yesterday what does it matter now" is the way I was thinking. We can't do this! But I think it's going to take awhile to get our body and mind thinking right. I mean our mind didn't care for how long? It will take awhile. But we can do this...we are doing this!

@Joe::: Congrats on making good decisions when you can! I just want to say I know exactly what you're saying. I too used to go to a gas station and grab a pack of chips or cookies or danish or something like that and eat it in the car or what not. And I went a year doing really good with my food and lost the 50lbs and the past few weeks had been HORRIBLE for me. I mean really bad food wise. I think I will always struggle with food, at least it feels that way. But my mind is changed from the past two weeks. I'm back to where I was when I was losing. Just have to ask yourself what's more important? That tasty treat or losing weight? And sometimes you can have both! If my calories allow it I will definitely treat myself sometimes. Either way just wanted to say I know what your saying and it's tough. Also congrats on the loss!!!

Sorry I know I haven't caught up to everyone but break is getting over!



Wednesday Wish::: My wish is that I just keep up with what I'm doing as far as focusing on logging and staying under my calories. And again I will eventually figure out a really good schedule for me to work out and add that in as well. Maybe instead of having to get up at 4:30am the days my husband works...maybe I just change my workout days....maybe I do Saturday-Tuesday and every other Wednesday? That could work! Weekends are hard as far as calories go anyway so seems like a win win to me!

Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone!
Tina

Wednesday Wishes - That I didn't STILL have (and hope I don't have forever) the internal dialogues with myself about if I should eat something or not. I had a half slice of apple/zucchini/walnut bread yesterday and although I was under my calories I blew my carbs out of the water with it.

I went shopping yesterday and bought the stuff for the 321 cake in a cup and I *REALLY* wanted to try it but my carbs were already way over from the earlier apple/zucchini/walnut bread.. I spent a good 45 minutes arguing with myself inside my head about it. On one hand I'd already blown my carbs out of the water so what's a few more. On the other hand that's the destructive mentality that got me IN this mess of a body...... Enough was enough and I'd already had a sweet treat that day.



And no, I didn't eat the cake. I had a piece of cheese instead.

Way to go, one victory at a time and you are such an inspiration to us!

OK I'm getting nervous. Today is the 26th and my 5k run is on Saturday. The top of my foot started hurting during one of my running workouts on Saturday. Haven't run much since then. It's feeling a little better but I still have tringes every once in a while. I hope its ok for race day.

You are going to do this!!!! Sorry you've had some foot pain BUT you are going to do this. You've trained---you've got it. Stay positive.

Okay, I screwed that up. Need more sleep.

Ya know what I meant right?

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Good morning to my beautiful friends here! Got my walk with Belle in this morning, but it sure was hard. Overcast skies, occasional sprinkles make for difficulties with breathing and my arthritis. I kept praying for strength to finish and counting my blessings that I could walk. I appreciate all the advise about the friend. I am keeping her as a friend and have started praying for her daily. There is a possibility that I will be moving to Chicago late next Spring or early Summer as my son who helps me take care of my business is up for a promotion and wants me to come live with them. If they go I will go with them as I want to stay with my granddaughter with whom I am very close. I also enjoy my grandson who shares my love of action space cartoons. My regret will be leaving my church where I have lots of friends and am involved in many activities. Whatever happens, I will leave it up to the Lord's will.

Joe, glad things are going well for you and congrats on your good choices.
Ushkii, right on about MFP.
Robin, praying your arms are better fast.
Lin, glad you took care of the guns, I wouldn't have known how to unload them! You were brave.
Skinnyjeanz, I had something I wanted to say, but got distracted by a phone call, sorry, you are an inspiration to me.
To all others, sorry I have such a short memory and my arthritis is too painful today to take notes but read your posts and love each and every one of you!

Wednesday Wish: Wishing for the Cleaning fairy to show up at my apartment, has anyone seen her?

@Imackbethl -Wow I AM impressed by your hike, congrats! Have you tried Mole Skin on your heels? Available at any drug store my foot products (in case you don't know what it is - or am I the only one who had never heard of it until last year?)

I've been a bit of a lurker lately - mostly because I feel bad if I don't replay to all of the posts I read.

I weighed this morning and found that I had gained three pounds. May be TOM but not sure....also know that I haven't done much of anything but work eat sleep repeat.

My wish for today is that we fill the CSR position soon. That I MAKE the time to take care of me.

Wishing you all well....offering prayers and hugs to those who need them....and high fives to those celebrating success....can't wait til I can be back on a regular basis - love this place!

For anyone who heard me whine about my foot problems last week, though the heel pain is hanging on (spur), the top of the foot agony is easing. Sherlock Grammy finally figured out that the new shoes were too tight and pressing on a nerve/artery causing swelling and excruciating pain. The solution--loosen my new stretchy ties and move them out of the top-most holes. :blushing: Swelling is almost gone. How dense can I get?

Robin: Thanks for the tip re my thinning hair problem. I have visions of being a female Telly Savalas (youngsters, he was a smooth-headed lollipop sucking actor popular in the '80s). Glad your shoulders have a manageable problem, muscle strain, rather than something more sinister.

Toots: Keeping fingers crossed that the vampires find nothing more than a heart that likes to rumba!

ha, of course it would be something that obvious. i would have missed it too. i have to say, totally off topic, that myheritage.com has this program, or at least they used to, where you could put in your picture and the program would tell you who your celebrity match was. mine was always telly savalas. yikes. um, thanks program.

Wednesday wish - a little relief from this carpal tunnel would be very nice. Surgery can't happen soon enough.

@Robin - a little belated but - way to go on the medical test!

Been busier than a one toofed man in a corn on the cob eating contest, way behind on my post reading. Try to catch up later tonight if I can get some time to myself.

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I think I got my wish- is this the original thread? I was way out of the loop over the summer and then got lost trying to refind everything

Tuesday goal- to stay on track and find the motivation and time to get back to the gym. I have been so busy lately that the gym is taking a back seat. I know I need to exercise but most nights I am just to tired to hit the gym or I get home to late to go alone.

Wish- goes with my goal from yesterday- that I find the time to go back to the gym and start enjoying it again.

I have a long way to go on the 200 miles challenge. I think I have completed about 15 miles total. Hopefully, I can get it in gear again and pick up the pace.

Patty- Happy Birthday. For me I started this journey when I turned 40 and it has allowed me to open new doors and try new experiences. Have a great year.

Have a great day tomorrow everyone.