Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Happy, happy birthday to garetie and ohpampered!!! :flowerforyou: :drinker: :flowerforyou: :drinker:

@jtconst - I completely understand th body image thing because I feel exactly as you do.

@Karen - another 5K? Congratulations!!


I need to keep another window open if I want to respond to more people than that.

Okay, so here's what's been up and why I missed you all. My husband had his surgery as I said, and on Wednesday of this week he was told they got it all and he is cancer free. The melanoma had spread some but with a large enough excision they got everything in 2 surgeries. Happily (for him) his tattoo was largely untouched. (He has a custom full back tattoo, all Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville parrot stuff. and tikis, lots of tikis and parrots) and we got away with only a 4 inch scar and, well, a dent. BUt while all of that was happening was when we lost his brother to cancer and since he hadn't told his family about his melanoma, because of his brother being so ill, it was a lot of mental stress.

On my medical front, I am still seeing the fertility specialist. WHo sent me to the endocrinologist, and another bariatric surgeon. Happily I am healthy for my weight, no diabetes, although my sugar is a little high, and a minor thyroid issue. For someone healthy who never took even a vitamin I am now on 4 different medicines and daily vites!! All of this on the journey to start a family. Gonna be SO worth it, though. The new bariatric program is at my favorite hospital, yes I have a favorite, and seems way different from the last place I saw and freaked out at. I have a consult in 2 weeks, I was told to allow at least 3 hours for it, as you meet with the surgeon, nutritionist, physical trainer, and psychologist, all of whom you see regularly for a year, prior to and after surgery. While I still don't know if this is how I am going to go, I feel like this program definitely has my best interests in mind and is not a lap band mill.

I haven't killed the new boss yet, but only because she's micromanaging from a distance. SO as long as my stuff is getting done I don't feel it's necessary to tell her how it's happening, just letting her know it's done. She's pushing on an issue right now - all my teacher friends, please feel free to weigh in on this. We have 2 9th graders who are super bright, and actually belong in high level advanced classes. But since they do not want to change their schedules, as they are in classes with their friends, myself and another teacher were told to write separate curriculum for those kids and to assess them separately. This is about to become a big problem, I know, because the other teacher was told, "Thats what you have a professional period for, use it". But in our district we choose what we do in professional periods that count as our evaluations. (Job Targets, in place of 1 formal observation) so this is about to get ugly. Like, Union ugly. ALso - one of these kid's parent's just wrote the school a HUGE check to get Science Quiz Bowl as an activity. We can't call it a team or club since it is being rivately funded. This is raisiing a whole bunch of issues, not the least of them being that we as advisors feel that the kid should not get a guaranteed spot but should have to earn it like everyone else, and Ms. Micromanaging Tyrant does not agree. Fun times.



Sorry so LONG. Needed to vent. Will try to be here regularly again. missed you all

I got in lots of walking today, kind of by default. We went to the open house for the Boise Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today. It was very lovely. They have completely remodeled it, and it is open to the public for a month. Since it was a walking tour, I did lots of walking. Some days I have done pretty well and wondered if I was rushing the knee surgery. Today was enough to remind me that it really is time to get this done.
We had lunch at my daughter's favorite restaurant, Chapala's in Boise. I shared a fajita plate with my husband. I was so worried about going over that I only ate 1 fajita. I was satisfied, but it was under 200 calories. I have almost 700 left the day. I have a feeling that I will be way under today.
Happy birthday to the birthday girls!
Congratulations to all of you on all of your successes.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! it was a good one, my mom took me out for breakfast and yeah I didn't plan ahead, I went way over today but I'm mostly ok with that.
@skinny great job on the 5k

@Aug~ if your still having your surgery Monday, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

@Kaye ~ when is your knee surgery? is it next week too? If so thoughts and prayer are with you too.

@toots--yes, we wore the slippers over our shoes. They had about 900 people an hour going through today. Imagine what that would do to the new carpet!

My surgery is Monday. Surprisingly, I feel quite ready. Thanks for the prayers. I can't get too many of those.

good luck! fingers crossed for you all over the internet.

oh somehow i missed that aug was having a surgery too! good luck to you as well.

Saturday- as glad as I am for the rain we are receiving here it has thwarted my chance for a run. The alarm went off at 5 and I was jsut too tired, figuring the weather man was tellign the truth and that the rain would blow over. It did kind of, except it started up again about every 60-90 min so it didn't happen. But the forcast is that is will end about 2am, so by 5 its only a 10% chance of rain. I don't usually run on Sundays but mother Natrue hasn;t left me any other choice.

Friday Fitness- I did 2 jazzercise workouts and the endorphin high was just what I needed. I had to spend the day doing payroll and bills for my husbands office, then clean the house and tackle laundry. The endorphins were just what I needed, then it was girls night with the DVDs with the Kids. Hubby is studying for the ACLS- advanced CPR and was in isolation.

Tomorrow after church we are going to be decorating the house for Halloween, I love this holiday season and all the extra fun stuff we get to 'dress the house up in" It seems like from Halloween to New Years is just 1 long holiday season,just changing the color scheme. I am hoping to get the kids to sleep a little earlier so I can read more of the comments.

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend!!

Hello Everyone,

Today was really fun day. Our church had its Woodcutter's ball which is like a harvest party out pass sand hallow in the Middleton Idaho area . I was part of the set up crew and help run the money table. My chili was runner up so did not win but neither did that other person. (I know that is petty of me) but hopefully now we can move on from this. But it also in a weird way made it fun.

@OhPampered and @Gertic "Happy Birthday :drinker: !!!

@Imackbeth--I just did the samething went from 2lb goal to 1lb goal. I think it will more practical wit6h winter and holidays coming up. Yet when I look my increase calories sort of hope this works don't want a weight gain. So guess I better increase my walking.

@CathEsh-- Celebrate every loss. It still is a victory.

@Christine --Sorry about the med situation. Congrats on the loss!!

@skinnyjean--Wow congrays on the 5K!

@Lin-- That was really rude of your friend.

@Kaye--Sounds like a good day

Wishing everyone a good day!

Liz

My surgery is Monday. Surprisingly, I feel quite ready. Thanks for the prayers. I can't get too many of those.

Best wishes on a successful surgery and a quick recovery.

Lin

good luck, tom!

Good morning everyone! My exercise plan says I will go to the gym today. However, I may run outside instead so that I have more time for grading. Watching the weather closely right now--it's very damp. We'll see what it's like when I'm actually ready to walk out the door.

@tom--good luck with the quitting!! I'm currently stuck at 7-8 cigarettes/day. Can't seem to get below that number. Maybe I need to follow your lead and just stop altogether.

@all of the folks who shifted to 1 lb/wk loss. I did the same thing a few weeks back with good results. My weight spiked up for a week or so, but then this week I finally dropped a pound below my lowest.

@Morgori - That is one of the most awesome pumpkins I've ever seen. My husband can do all that crazy vegetable carving as a part of his job but it's all the same stuff over and over. I've never seen an Elmo! I love him!!

@Karen - I agree with you that we do need our union behind us right now. They block out time and money in the summer for curriculum writing and if they say we’d be compensated for the extra time, I think that we would do it with no problem. For me it’s not even a big deal - they are both research kids and they work as a team, so really the work is all on them, I just have to hold them to a higher standard than I do freshmen usually. I will actually be considering them as giving me INTEL level work. The other teacher will have the real issue, she already has 3 preps and for her this is a very big problem. I firmly believe that we have to both be strong and stand up for ourselves. In our district it is very, very obvious that parents run things. Our Superintendent is a resident and parent to 3 students in the district, he is also neighbors and best friends with the BOE president. He holds "Coffee talks” at the diner - unofficially - so that parents can speak to him directly, outside of school or the board, and make their concerns known. I don’t know of another district that a parent could privately fund an “activity.” It’s unfair as all hell but that’s the way it is here.


@ Alison - My district is very, very big on curriculum alignment. They want all teachers of one subject to follow a common scope and sequence, and at least one major exam a marking period has to be a common exam. To give a kid a more challenging experience they push them into IB, and as these kids are both in 9th, that would mean changing their entire schedule to schedule them with juniors and seniors, and I personally think that would be doing them a disservice. They have to get the basic level classes in regardless (and it is honors, by no way do I mean that the classes are not already advanced) to meet NYS lab and Regents requirements. It’s really a crazy situation and I can so see how it can be exploited. It was suggested that the kids show up for labs, to get the necessary minutes, and spend lecture time in the library working on whatever they want to, and essentially teach themselves biology. As I said this affects me to a much lesser degree with research. But frankly I think this way would be a copout and not help the students at all. it’s a really fine line to draw, and proving to be a tough one.


Enough school nonsense!

A side effect of the myriad of medicine I’m taking is that I am not as hungry. Which is nice, but if I only ate when I was hungry I wouldn't be overweight!! Since I can realize that I’m not hungry, what I've been doing is drinking a lot of tea. Lemon Zinger It’s so cold suddenly at night, we went from 70 to 50 in one nights time. SO that cup of tea is keeping me busy and not eating and doubling as a source of heat. Oil prices are ridiculous and I want to keep the heat off as much as possible. Last winter was so mild I never turned it on. My last delivery was teeny, $303 back in May. But I’m going to be due soon and I’d like another bill less than $500. That usually never happens in the winter!!

With the downturn in the weather I am having a very hard time getting more than 4 glasses of water in. I just can’t stomach cold water right now. The worst is the AM medicine, which has to be taken on an empty stomach with a full glass of water. I feel like I’m going to hurl.

Any suggestions on the water intake?

@Tom~Good for you quitting smoking. After a myriad of health problems, I quit cold turkey about 15 years ago and haven't had one since. Love the pumpkin!

@Andrea~I sometimes get tired of tasteless water, so I add a packet of True Lemon - its just crystallized lemon, calorie/sweetener free. Its also available in lime and orange flavors - all are good.

Good luck to Aug and Kaye on their surgeries tomorrow - hope all goes well and you both have quick recoveries.

I was so excited when I went grocery shopping today and found Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime tea for my Keurig - its the small things! :laugh:

Off to the gym for training...

Happy Sunday. I'm a bit behind so, here goes...

First!! Grandma Kaye and Aug - Best of luck with our surgeries. Can't wait to hear from you both when you come back!!
Second!! Happy birthday Garetie and OhPampered!!

Any couponers out there....... coupons.com and betty crocker coupons both have Muir Glen Tomato coupons (rarely see those so I got excited and it's double coupon week at Albertsons soooo FREE MUIR GLEN TOMATO SAUCE!)

Saturday success - Not a whole lot of it this week. Got no exercise and did not stay under calories as much as I should have. Really need to kick my butt and get myself going or I'll never make my 200 pound goal by Christmas.

Sunday share - I'm not dealing with my **** storm of a life (pardon my french) as well as I would like too. I've never had to go at it without burying myself in food before and the transition is proving harder than I anticipated. When I get depressed and/or overwhelmed I tend to bury myself in my apartment and eat..... which I think is why I didn't get any exercise this past week. I didn't eat BAD stuff, just too much good stuff and didn't exercise.

I did force myself to walk yesterday and despite my very unhealthy breakfast today I'm back on track.

Thanks to the suggestions on here I started watching Season 1 of Revenge. Im LOVING it. Terrible and cruel but AMAZING!