Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Hello Everyone,

Today went ok no major issues at work couple of times thought things were going to go crazy but just kept working around situations so ok. Bit exhausted but good. Iam also a bit sore I think from my Richard simmons tape.

@MyMOwMOw great job of not going to food for comfort.
@welcome all newbies.
@Robin I hope the pain goes away

Wishing everyone a good night.

Liz

Truths thursday.....honestly...the past two weeks I havent been busting it at the gym as i have been normally......I am out of town this weekend but need to get my *kitten* back to the gym 5 days a week starting on MONDAY. Would love for people to get on my *kitten* about it I dont want to lose momentum. Lost 2 lbs this week though down to 295. hoping making my goal of 285 by christmas or newyears is realistic. Even with this batchelorette weekend out of town im going to try to make good choices.

Toots- I was tested for pcs about 2 years ago when i was given a general Obseity work up because my dr wanted to see how bad things were health wise with me....Luckily the one thing i have been blessed with is not developing many of the problems that come with obesity....no pcos....no thyroid problem or cholesterol problems or blood pressure or hypertension....which is why im more motivated to lose the weight before ne of those become an issue. So as far as i know...no pcos...unless it can develop since then? not sure but if no baby by april going back for a full fertility workup.

Janek.......My husband also has a job that he HATES. Theres days he comes home in such a bad mood I dont want to be anywhere near him but I learned that if you try to make him not focus on it he would get better and now his attitude isnt as bad.....See if you can encourage him to do things...maybe walks with you. A little nightly endorphins never hurt anyone....hope this helps.

Mymowmow......I understand your frustration with unsupportive people in your life. My Best friend who is also my roomate currently has been NOTHING but negative about me working out and exerscising. I try not to let it bother me but it gets very discouraging at times. I hit a point where I had to stop caring what anyone else thought because I was doing this for me. Your doing an amazing job dont let anyones snarky comments stand in your way.

Bump

Not much time for posting this morning. Super busy. This site was very motivating to me today. Read all posts and wish I had time to respond.

My truth for today is that I dont even seem to be pretending to try., Know I need to get back on my depression meds but even that seems too difficult.

Going shopping w/friends. Perhaps that will pull me out of this funk

Good morning everyone!

Really feeling good today after having a good day yesterday. I got home from work, bundled myselfup and took the dog for a walk. My goal right now is to get on a regular walking schedule with the dog and only skip a walk when it's below 25 degrees, raining, or there is a snow storm. All things that my dog does not enjoy walking in. She actually has a weight problem too, go figure.

@KJeffries - I was feeling really down in the dumps for a few weeks and didn't want to make any effort to try at all. All you really need though is one good day to lift your spirits and get you back on the right track. Try making a commitment for a day and see what that does to your mood and outlook. I bet it will have a positive one.

Truth - I'm going back to the basics. I think the reason I fell off the wagon in the first place is that I tried to do to much to quickly. I'm going to start slow and work on building in more and more healthy eating habits and exercise into my life rather than trying to reinvent the wheel all at once.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Thursday Truth: I haven't been good at all the past few months. This started oddly enough after I tried to run my first 5k. I guess it comes from getting injured during this race and not being able to run because of a foot injury then having problems with heal callouses. Since this started my weight has been at a stand still fluctuating between 285 and 295. For some reason I have an overwhelming indifference about the whole thing. Don't know whats changed but I need to get my head straight before i find myself back to 340 and miserable.The only upside is finding out that my wife has lost 15 pounds during her journey. Hopefully this gives me a little fuel for my fire. Sorry for being MIA just haven't been the chipper fired up go get'em person the way I was before. I am glad to see some familiar faces and some new ones though and I'm going to try to get on here again every day the way I was.
Talk to you all later
Doug

Awesome about your wife's weight loss, sorry to hear that you are struggling though. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately - maybe everyone has the holiday season blues? Injuries can have such a way of setting us back, making it hard to get back into the race - we just need to learn to push through and make new goals for ourselves. Glad you checked in, hang in there - you CAN (and will) do this!!!

Kelley

Happy Day Everyone!

Thursday truth..... I am tired of my bf being lazy and playing the victim all the time. Yes, he has heart issues but he refuses to take his meds cuz they make him sleepy so we are headed back to hospital before he has a heart attack. He also has changed no eating habits like the doctor suggested. Weight loss wise I maintained through turkey holiday which is awesome.

Not really knowing the kind of relationship you have i can only offer expierience. This was similar to a situation i encountered with my husband at the time we were dating.....he was in bad health and ignored drs warnings of bettering his health. I sat him down told him I loved him but if he wanted any chance of progressing withthe relationship he had to get his health under control. Not because i was trying to control him but because I wanted to ensure that he was going to be around for me to grow old with....kinda turned on a bulb in his brain because he got with the program

can someone help me whoop my butt in gear!!!????!!! I have absoloutly zero motivation anymore ... im getting really depressed again for no reason, and my therapist thinks im developing an eating disorder :indifferent: :embarassed: :frown: ... i really want to eat healthy and stay on top of things here but im having a really hard time... i think i need to try to rely on you guys a bit... anyone willing to help?

Feel better robin

@Robin -- good luck with walking! My running shoes and cross trainers are both New Balance and they're so comfortable! The Wii is great when the weather's not so good; once you get it set up it's so easy. And hey, you'll get some exercise sorting out that spare room cupboard, won't you? Hope you're feeling better soon.
@erinnstreeter -- I was surprised by how much Zumba was like a more exercisey sort of bellydancing. So you might try that. It's supposed to burn a bazillion calories if you do it properly. Of course I can't do it properly!
@spookytune -- I got some really serious sulks from my family when I first instituted portion control. But it's better for all of us. It's not like we aren't still eating plenty.
@Katie -- welcome! You've done very well already. My children are such blessings; I wish you all good luck in having your own.
@Aug -- best wishes for your family, and feel free to vent here. I have to have loads of blood taken these days, and it does get tedious.
@Christine -- thinking of your friend; hope she's recovering well.
@Lin -- so cute having a smilie on every personal! I've started scribbling down some of my dreams in my diary. Because if I describe the mental image then I can remember it forever; otherwise they're gone in a flash. Isn't that strange?
@June, Miriah -- welcome!
@Tammy -- Hope you're not so tired soon...
@Jana -- sorry that your boyfriend isn't enjoying his job. Nights can be really hard. How long has he been there? He might still be adjusting, or it might be time for him to say 'enough' and find something else.
@Kris -- I get this 'surely you're not dieting tonight?' thing. I point out that I'm not dieting *at all*, I'm just logging what I eat and not overeating. Why would I want to overeat? It's not a particularly pleasant feeling (except *right when you are doing it*...) Not, mind you, that I don't want to look slammin' in a new pair of jeans.
@lgreen -- Welcome! Starving at the end of the day wears off, though if you have your settings at 2lb+ a week it might not. My settings are at 1lb a week and I'm finding it pretty ok so far. Do try to do some exercise almost every day; I started just with 30 minutes of Wii Fit or walking, and now I'm running, doing badminton, Zumba, all sorts.
@LaurieK -- I guess your trainer is right that muscle soreness is good for you. The good news is that if you keep doing your squats it will stop hurting so much. I remember my yoga teacher saying ok, it should not hurt now (Monday). It should hurt a bit tomorrow, and a lot on Wednesday, and then get better. If it's still hurting on Saturday, you overdid it a bit. That was *all over* not just sore legs! Otherwise, long hot baths and ibuprofen.
@Karen -- ooh I love tapas!
@Katrena -- I'm sorry that you're not well. Can you get one of your friends to check in with you each day, make sure you're taking your meds, and generally look after you?
@Doug -- good to see you back. Posting's the first thing. I think it's very easy to overdo exercise and then miss it terribly when you're injured. "Weight at a standstill" means that you're maintaining, more or less. And that's really good. Like with so many of the people here, you should be so proud of what you've done!
@nzenczak -- walking's such fantastic exercise, and your dog will enjoy it too.
@steffylynnxox -- OK, so what's the problem? Are you trying to lose too fast? I think MFP can set to lose as little as half a pound a week, and that might be easier. You can do lots of exercises about thinking why and what you eat, and visualisations of what it's like to be fitter and have more energy. When I started logging the food I was eating, I genuinely wasn't dieting; I planned to spend two weeks just keeping a note of the stuff I ate to spot where the problems lay. What I found was that the food I was eating was basically ok, I was just eating far too much of it; I stopped pretty quickly. So you could do that, and then see if you can spot some trends. Exercise may help alleviate mild depression, too. Are you making sure to get a bit of walking in? You have done fantastically already! And you can do this thing.

Well, did any of you win the Powerball?

Thursday Truth: well, we had a long chat today with my son's support team in school (he has Asperger). He does so well at some things! And is completely hopeless at others. He struggles with any work that's open ended, but if they give him a worksheet he just zips right through them. His maths today was a list of problems; so I wrote it out as a worksheet and he just did it all straight off in about two minutes. So next time I'm going to start to teach him how to write out a worksheet for himself! I wonder if we can do that for some of the other subjects too.

And my weekend is so full. I want to squeeze a long run in but I don't think it can possibly happen. The only time that really works is right when I'll be getting up on Sunday after a really late night Saturday. Hrrm. So. Monday. Can I run 4 miles on Monday? I could run to IKEA and get a free coffee...

Have a wonderful Friday everyone!

-- Alison

Thursday truth - there are so many things that I could say but ya know, I don't think any of them would be that helpful to reveal to the universe. Say it and you make it your truth. Right? :flowerforyou:

I'm just going to extend another wish to those who feel they are not living their best life, not succeeding, feeling ill, down or defeated that for you things change, circumstances change, you find the support here to change.

And if that doesn't work, consider yourself KICKED IN THE BUTT. :glasses: We can do this thing. :glasses: We can take care of ourselves. :glasses:

DRINK THAT WATER. :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

We haven't had water tag here for a long time.

Lin