Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Thursday truth - Stll not on track. Got nails done and shopped for NYC trip. No exercise and ate both meals out.

Shows I love are Big Bang Theory (Love Sheldon) Shameless. Raising Hope and Boardwalk Empire. Looking forward to re-run ofr Pillars of the Earth. Read the book twice and looking forward to seeing the show twice. Ken Follet is one of my favorite writers.

Not enough time to respond to each post, but know I am thinking of everyne and wishing you well

Robin, I enjoyed your post. My sister told me that she recently saw a picture of herself when she was a size 18. She said she would love to be a size 18 again, but the sad part is that when she was a size 18, she felt fat and bad about herself. She said she really wishes she had enjoyed being a size 18

Katrena

Just checking in - been crazy the past few weeks. My husband had his surgery (all went great) but we lost his brother a week later and we are only just getting a personal life back that doesn't include daily trips to a doctor or hospital or family visits. I'll have to catch up later, just needed to find you all

I'm so glad your husband surgery went well, but sorry to hear about his brother. What an emotional time for all of you. Glad you're OK, but hopefully things will get back to a little normalcy soon. Hang in there!!

@Kris & Karen~I'm afraid Shemar Moore is already spoken for!!! :laugh:

I have photos of my man Shemar on Pinterest! lol

ohh who are you on pintrest? you can PM me if you don't want to share on here. i'm a pintrest JUNKIE. I have like 40,000 pins. No joke.

Hi everyone,

Thank goodness it's Friday. That's my off day from exercise. Instead of coming home and walking the dog, I come home and take a nice long nap. Love it!

Yesterday I took a strength training class and boy and I sore today. It was a tough class, but definitely worth the pain.

Next week, I'm adding more cardio to my routine as well as strength training by incoporating my THE FIRM dvds into my week. The last time I felt like I was in halfway decent shape I was doing these videos so I've decided to go back to them and see what results I get.

Also, I could really use some well wishes this weekend. I'm meeting my friend and the rest of her bridal party to try on bridesmaid dresses. I currently am the fat girl in the party so this will not be fun, but I'm hoping it will provide me with some extra motivation to really commit to this journey. She is getting married in June and while I don't have time to reach my ultimate weight goal by then, I'd love to be in the promise land by her wedding (under 200 pounds). This would mean I'd need to lose 63 pounds by the wedding day, June 15th. I really feel this is doable, but I'll really need to focus to get it done.

OK, I've rambled enough. Have a nice weekend everyone!

Happy Friday! Hope all are well and motivated!
Me? Getting there.
I'm doing a bunch of stuff to take care of ME these days, from dr appts to buffing up the resume.
I am going to work on coming to work early, so that I can get to the gym midday a few times a week.
My hubby is unhappy if I'm not out of work by 5 pm, so I need to find ways to do that, instead of working overtime.

Friday fitness: I am moving my cube at work. Which requires boxing up 20 years’ worth of stuff. That will not be too bad. I also have to box up the Hardware Engineering Lab.:grumble: That will be a lot of work and I should count some of that as exercise. I hate to move because of the physical work involved and I am resistant to change (talk about old dog and new tricks).:blushing: I am working on being able to flow with the changes but sometimes I’m just not ready.

MsMorgori has two of her day care kids staying the weekend with us. We will go to the Farm and get pumpkins on Saturday after my blood lab work gets done. We will also go to a kid’s birthday party Sunday. I had to watch Monster trucks with Nino when I got home from work last night he is way into trucks with big tires.:bigsmile: He is ~1.5 years old.

I had 9 smokes yesterday.

Hope you all have a happy healthy Friday!

Tom

This week's Friday fitness... zip, zero, zilch, and NADA. I did nothing exercise for the ENTIRE week. I feel like a 3 toed sloth.....

I have my pool bag with me at work today and I would rather chew glass than go. I just want to go home and sleeeeeeeep but I'm going to try my absolute hardest not to give in.

Thanks to everyone who congratulated me on getting my family on the plan! We're saving money on groceries too. More than I'd have thought -- it turns out that the things we were snacking on were expensive.

Ticker picture -- mine is a photo that my husband took of me playing Rock Band (I'm singing). He *loved* it; he has it as his wallpaper -- and I think I look like a whale.

Big shows -- I'm not watching any regular TV at the moment, but I like Mad Men, Doctor Who (which we watch as a family) and, oops, Dallas. Oh, and Game of Thrones, but I won't watch that on Sky so I have to wait for the DVD. I typically watch 1-2 hours of TV a week so there's not room for a lot of obsessions.

Body image, I'm so in to self-help on body image. I thought I was fat as a teenager...

@mnwalkingqueen -- can you plan for late night snacking in your plan? I can see that blended families can be really stressful.
@Kaye -- 14 grandchildren! How blessed you are. Someone gave me a link to mybodygallery.com -- which is full of pictures of people at every height and weight. I had been worrying that my target was a bit high and that I actually needed to lose more than that (it's the top end of the BMI healthy range for my height) -- but I look at the photos and all the women of that size look fantastic to me. Good luck for Monday! I'll be thinking of you.
@Christine -- congratulations on your fantastic loss! Do you want the whole set of Sweatin to the Oldies? Because individual volumes are pretty cheap second hand on Amazon so you could just get one.
@Kris -- look out for The Hairy Dieters, which is when cook show chefs The Hairy Bikers decided to lose some lard. So it has all the good elements of a diet show and a cooking show. Win. Ooh, just try to do a little bit of non-slothful exercise this weekend, go on. Maybe some dancing? Or a lovely kicking-up-leaves autumn walk?
@tungsten93 -- so far I've been looking forward to running, in an odd sort of way.
@nzenczak -- 63 pounds by June is doable, but a stretch. I'm so excited about ONEderland too; I don't think I will do it by Christmas, but I should be quite close. Maybe by Valentine's day? It's another 17 pounds for me.
@Tom -- are you cutting down one smoke a day? Because if so that is *BRILLIANT*. You know it's more important for your health than losing weight, right?

Fitness Friday: Well, here was the plan:

Monday -- W3D1 of Ease into 5k -- DONE!
Tuesday -- dance mat -- DONE!
Wednesday -- W3D2 of Ease into 5k -- DONE!
Thursday -- badminton if hubby isn't working, a swim if he is. Depending on how my study is going. -- neither but I had to go across London for a wedding rehearsal and that involved 45 MINS OF BRISK WALKING.
Friday -- W3D3 of Ease into 5k -- DONE! And I did badminton as well.
Saturday -- Badminton with the kids early b/c we have a wedding later. -- booked.
Sunday -- probable rest day after my brother's wedding, though we will have my nephew staying so may take the lads to the park. Or a bike ride. Something of the sort. -- we have booked badminton though I may not do it.

OK: moving these plans to Friday, what's planned for next week

Saturday -- Badminton, and wedding ceilidh.
Sunday -- Badminton booked, strength training, but this is totally a rest day.
Monday -- W4D1 of Ease into 5k (with a 6 minute continuous run!), clog practice.
Tuesday -- maybe Zumba, there's a class starting next Tuesday just round the corner from us. Quite freaked about this possibility.
Wednesday -- W4D2 of Ease into 5k
Thursday -- dance mat
Friday -- W4D3 of Ease into 5k

Have a brilliant weekend everyone! Off to the pre-wedding family dinner, and I have 1339 calories saved which really ought to be plenty.

-- Alison

Happy Friday to my best buddies here! It was cold on my walk this morning, left the apt. without my sweat shirt. Nothing like being cold to make one walk faster, shaved 5 minutes off my walk and will have to increase my distance again. I have my predisone and antibiotic sitting here staring me in the face, but just haven't been wanting to take it.:frown: I just get so frustrated with making such good progress and then having to take medicine that is going to impede that progress. Oh well, I will get over it.

Grammy, thank you for the info on the tips on the stretching. Will googling stretching get me some web sites on good ones?
Susan, congrats on the contract on your Atlanta home, praying the process goes smoothly for you.
nzenzak, darn, I forgot to write down what I was going to say to you, but want you to know I'm thinking of you and all my friends here and am praying for a wonderful weekend for all.

Christine