Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Today, I decided to see if I could still run a 10 minute mile--that's where I left off in my speed work. Well, it wasn't pretty, but I did it! Also, when I weighed in I was FINALLY down below my lowest recorded weight!!!! :bigsmile: Only by a pound, but considering it's been almost 2 months since I've been able to record a loss, I was really happy!!!

That is marvelous about the speed and the loss!!! Time to celebrate! :drinker: (green tea, of course )

That is great news!

We celebrate with water. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Tomorrow I am going to start helping make "pillowcase dresses" for little girls in Ethiopia. Can't wait, I am excited I finally have something to contribute to the mission field that I can actually do.

oh, that's so cool. i love pillowcase dresses too. they're so cute.

@toots--sorry you got DQed--that stinks that the rules weren't clear. :grumble: And I can totally see you as Velma!

it was my favorite costume ever. i wish i could wear it. oh, well. the day will come again lol. yeah, it did suck. hopefully next year they'll make it clearer.

Toots - sorry your not in the writing contest any more. Darn it! That's a shame -especially to be complimented on your work as they reject you too!

yeah, i had another judge contact me and tell me how mad she was and how well i'd been doing before they DQ'd me. that i'd been very high in the rankings. oh well. like i said, i guess i should work on my reading comprehension next :laugh:

And maybe they should have someone to contact with questions when the instructions are not crystal clear.

<sorry>
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Monday check in...

I'm looking through my food tracker and realize I need to start planning my day's food intake ahead of time. It's so easy to go over MFP's recommended calories while not feeling like I'm eating too much. Heck, my stomach is sometimes growling at bedtime. But the numbers don't lie and with my weight not budging, I need to be as diligent as possible. Time for a new strategy!

I often track what I plan to eat so I know how big a serving I can have and what I can eat. Its easy to track food, and change the amounts or just delete something if you don't actually eat it.

Hi everyone I hope you are all doing well. It has been a quiet monday in my house which totally works for me. I had my weekly weigh in this morning and to my utter amazement I was down 1.4 pounds. I honestly expected a gain as I had been skating at just over almost all week. I am going to finally get my measurements tomorrow. I know it is stupid but my husband isnt going to be home and I dont want anyone here to know what they are. Congrats Skinny on the loss. It is always special sweet after going for a while without one. I also had to say to Aug that I loved your comment about the bug and windhsield, that was great. I have to give props to the family that had my little puppy before we got him. While he is very excitable he is super well trained. He sits on the furniture and cuddles with us but at meal time he gts down and doesnt try to come back up until we put down our plates. He also definitley knows walk and bye bye. It is so funny to watch him completley spaz out when those words come into play.:drinker: Well heres a toast to a good week for all of us.:drinker: May we all be healthy and pain free and able to resist temptation.

This is my first time posting on MFP and I just joined this group. My weight loss journey began in January, but I joined MFP in September. I started off at 325.6 lb. and now am at 289.

Mon - recovering from not feeling well on Sunday, but still managed my calories and got in a walk, slower than usual but still done

Tues - I have a short term goal, in another 9 lb. I am trying on a smaller pant size that is sitting here waiting for me. My long term goal involves losing 108 lb. so that my husband and I can go skydiving together. Why that amount? We have committed to putting $5 a lb. lost into a jar to pay for the excursion.

Wed - that I didn't struggle so much with unhealthy snacking

Thurs - I have a candy bar in my purse since last Friday just waiting for a time when I really want to have it

Fri - During this season, I walk at 35 minutes per day, 5 to 6x per week

Sat - I enjoy my walks every day, I have my ipod (with either podcasts on Fitness or my walk with God or uplifting music) and my dog to keep me company. It feels weird not to go for a walk any more, like I am missing something. Great way to start off my day!

Sun - My journey is closer to losing 190 lbs. in total. My first goal was to lose 35 lb. before our daughter got married in June, I accomplished this and then gained 7.8 lbs. back over the summer. I joined MFP in September and have lost 6.8 lbs. as of my last weigh in (Thursdays for me). Summer was too loosy goosey for me, my exercise waivered. I like the routine of the rest of the year. I homeschool our youngest daughter and work part time at a library so getting up and exercising before school starts at a set time works well for me. Will need to figure something out for next summer so I don't fall into the same routine I did this summer. I am open to suggestions.

Well, what worked best for me since I have sturggled with weight my whole life loosing just to gain it back again, this time I set 10 lb. goals for myelf after I lost ten lbs. I would set the next ten lb. goal. That made it doable. and I set time limit goals too I would give myself one month to get the next ten lbs off. I learned that fruit smoothies are my best friend I found that by adding fresh spinish or fresh broccoli in with the fruit made it more nourishing and filling and I supstituted the smoothie for my last meal of the day. And I do 20minutes of stair step or arobics three times a week which is doable if not and If I can't get in twenty minutes I just do ten. So far I am down 65 lbs. five lbs from my goal weight and then maintain, this site has helped me a lot to keep on top of my goals and also reading other peoples experiences and tips also helps keep me motivated. I had lost most of my weight before I found this site but it helps to stay motivated. I hope this helps.

@christine -- so glad you were able to have a fun day out with the family!!
@robin -- glad you had a fun weekend with your best bud, hope your arms start working soon!
@skinnyjeanz -- wow! a 10-minute mile! (i can only imagine...) and yay that the stubborn scale started moving again!
@liz -- great job approaching a huge milestone!
@jana -- i'm not a runner but my dad is and he often uses shorter races as training runs for longer races. as long as you go at an easy pace, i think you should be fine... good luck with both!
@kjeffries -- sounds like you've come up with the perfect comeback! and hopefully your classmates will stick up for you too! what a miserable woman!

Monday check-in: Writing this from work, I am feeling a bit jealous of everyone who posted about their three-day weekends, sigh. I somehow lost another 3 pounds this week, which is amazing, because I was over on calories several times. I think it's residual from my hike (I had expected that to put me down 10, as it has in years past, but the immediate result was only five). I'm at 10-down now from before the hike. And I better start moving again and eating right if I want to continue seeing results - but this is a wonderful motivator!!!!

sounds like quite a weekend of extremes, we had the good, the bad, the ugly and the horrible of society to interact with. For those who got stuck with the fuzzy end of the lollipop, I'm sorry. Few things are more damaging than thoughtless cruel words- especially when spoken by idiots. For those who had a great weekend, hooray! We need to remember and save those moments for when we end up with a turn in yucky land.

I have decided I need to wrote all my plans in pencil and get lots of erasers. Now that the weather is changing it is getting harder to haul myself out of bed at 4:45 to go and run. So now its looking like I will still get up early- just not quite and work on some of the "house chores" and things so that on Tues & Thurs when Hannah is in preschool I can go and run in the morning but after it has warmed up a little. I would rather go to the grocery store at 6am so that I can run when its 50 and not 35 out. Of course I haven't actually implemented this plan yet- there is lies my biggest challenge. I am an excellent planner and scheduler but I pretty much suck at the whole follow through part of it. Halloween Hustle is the 27th, I found a cute pumpkin shirt to wear over my long sleeved black shirt, debating whether to buy some sort of silly skirt to wear over my running pants.

@ Jana- I think it was you, I would go ahead and do the 5K, it would be a good warm up for your 10K, and a nice way to start your taper.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Toots - sorry your not in the writing contest any more. Darn it! That's a shame -especially to be complimented on your work as they reject you too!

yeah, i had another judge contact me and tell me how mad she was and how well i'd been doing before they DQ'd me. that i'd been very high in the rankings. oh well. like i said, i guess i should work on my reading comprehension next :laugh:

And maybe they should have someone to contact with questions when the instructions are not crystal clear.

<sorry>
:sad: :sad:

probably. it's really all good though. the prize was just that they pay your entrance fee into ANOTHER contest :laugh: really i was most interested in knowing what the response to this particular book would be. and now i've had a few confirmations that it's positive so i'm going to start querying once i hear back from the agent that already has it. so that's a good enough reward for me.

Anyone out there still participating in the Halloween Challenge?

GrammyWhammy- I've fallen faaaar behind on the halloween challenge and it makes me sad. There's no way I can actually hit my goal as much dance time as I've missed- but I'm gonna get in as much as I can.

@Raven--Thank you for sharing your pot pie recipe. Sounds good I may try it.

Lizmil79- It was my pleasure I love cooking and sharing stuff like that. If you do try it, please let me know what you think.

Sunday Share: Well, last week was kind of an up and down type week. I won't go into detail there but I will say it's getting cooler here earlier than normal which makes me incredibly happy! I love the colder weather- just the crispness and the clean smelling air... and the smell of people burning fires in the fireplace! It makes me excited.

Monday Checkin: Not so much to report here except my measurements. Some have gone up a little (bummer) and some have gone down.

Measurements:

Waist 47.0
Hips 53.5
Chest 47.5
Arms 18.5
Tummy 54.0
Thigh 30.5
Calf 20.5

Good Morning everyone! As usual I'm behind so going to do a little backtracking.

Friday Fitness - Had a double session with my trainer because I haven't been able to get to the gym as often due to my erratic work schedule. He had me running at 5.1 mph for short bursts and I felt like I was going to die. When will running every get easier??? The rest of the workout kicked my butt as well and I'm still sore 4 days later.

Saturday Success - I'm down 10 pounds since my last weigh-in which was about about 2 months ago. This is surprising to me since I don't feel like I've been eating well and I was barely losing 0.8 pounds/week when I was doing a better job at keeping under my calorie goal.

Sunday Share - Next Thursday I'm going on vacation for 16 days! I'm so excited but I will have very little internet access so I don't think I'm going too be able to log my calories or check in here. I'm going to try to eat as well as I can and I may write my food down just to keep track of it but I'm not looking for any weight loss (unfortunately).

Monday Check In - Even though I don't feel any different and I look the same to myself a lot of my clothes are getting too loose. So I was wondering, what do you all do when your clothes get too loose? Do you just keep wearing them as long as you can, do you get them altered or do you just donate them to Good Will and buy new clothes? I actually hate clothes shopping because I'm tall and it's hard to find pants and long sleeve shirts that are long enough and I have so many items that I love but they are just getting too big. I'm going to go to the tailor and see about getting some pants altered today but they can only be taken in so much, right?

Tuesday Goals - To not eat any Halloween candy today. Seriously.

Wednesday Wish - That everyone's Wednesday Wish comes true and that those who aren't feeling well get some relief.

Good Morning.

Insomnia kicked in last night (even after melatonin & benadryl), so dragging today. Been awake since 2:30am and tonight is my late night - going to be a long day! :frown:

Tuesday Goals~I'm keeping up with my Halloween Challenge Goals and my other regular goals so my new goal is to get some sleep!

@nzenczak~I have a sluggish metabolism and now my hormones are a mess so I have to fight for every pound I lose. I have to watch carbs really closely and excercise, exercise, exercise - as long as my loses are consistent I try not to worry about it too much. Magori (Tom) uses Fitbit, I think there are some other users as well.

@tungsten93~Great job on the run/training and weight loss!

Have a great day!

Kelley

@tungsten--if you have clothes you really love, then I say alter them. I donated mine b/c most were pretty old anyways. I was fortunate that my sister also lost weight at the same time and she is a size smaller than me. She's has given me so many clothes--has literally saved me hundreds of dollars, as I would've had to replace my entire wardrobe at least once at this point. Because of all of the hand-me-downs from her, I haven't had to walk around in baggy clothes very often.

Tuesday Goal:
To make sure I don't replace the carbs I'm saving with shiritaki noodles with crappy, simple sugars.

Because of all of the hand-me-downs from her, I haven't had to walk around in baggy clothes very often.

I wish I had someone to give me some hand-me-downs, becuase I have had to walk around in baggy clothes. I buy a new pair of jeans and they are hardly worn out at all and they are to baggy. I guess if I have to complain, it is pretty good that I'm complaining about clothes that are too baggy.

same here. i can take all of my pants off without unbuttoning them. and some of them just fall off if i move too much. awwwkkkwwwarrrrddd

@toots sorry to hear about the competition.


Another belated Monday Check In, but I have lost another pound, so I am now 11 pounds lost

Tuesday goal (sort of) - I have recently decided whenever I lose a pound in weight, I have to put one pound cash in a money box. So when I have lost all my weight I will have over one hundred pounds to go shopping for clothes.