Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

I went to the hockey game and it was a great game Wrangler's won in overtime! I got to touch the Stanley Cup!
I went to fuddrucker's and had an elk burger with 1/2 a bun, a side salad and an apple! that was much healthier than going to the Pub!:drinker:




The bad news is I have gained 10 lbs.!:sad: I am getting back into eating better and getting some exercise. I'm not going to change my ticker yet as I think I can get rid of these reacquired pounds quickly.

Amy is back from Disneyland so I should be back on track.
Hope everyone is getting healthier!!!

My name is Lauren Cunningham I am originally from Oklahoma. My husband is in the United States Army. We recently moved to Tennessee. I am soon to be 19 years old.I have a 4 month old beautiful baby boy. I currently attend college at the University of Phoenix. I love to laugh and spend time with my family. I want to get into shape so that I feel better about myself. I want to be able to wake up and look in the mirror and be happy with what I see. I want to have the energy to get up and spend time with my son and not want to lay around all day long. I am only 18.. I should not be closing in on 300lbs. I need this not only for me but for my family. Tomorrow. Monday. 12/3/12 I will start my weight loss operation. I bought Zumba fitness but has not come in yet. But I am going to do some basic workouts just so I am doing some excersising and beginning my new diet. I am new to this site and could really use some motivation and friends to help me along the way. My husband is so great about this but his skinnyself just doesnt get how hard it is to be 274 lbs and why I want to lose it. He thinks Im perfect. Insert Eye roll.

welcome. i'm a military wife too. just USAF instead. welcome to the board.

Thank you!!

Kelly - the Century Mark - 100 lbs - WOOT! Sounds like you and your trainer are really going for the gold with how hard you are working - you should have some amazing results!

Welcome Lauren - what a great start for you! Don't get discouraged if you stumble early on - we all do, so stick with it, that's the best advice I could give you. I have been doing this for more than 2 years and I have stumbled a lot, but I am still here! Thats the big part of the picture, getting back on the wagon and NOT GIVING UP when you have a bad day or week.

Vicki - I envy your trip to the auction house = sounds like you had a great time! Sorry you have reached a plateau - UGH! Time to try ADDING in some calories for a week, then dropping back down! But you are at 70 pounds lost, don't overlook that great accomplishment!

Spooky - so nice to learn about you! I think your idea to go into nursing is wonderful, or you could consider vocational -occupational rehabilitation where you could use your art! I don't know the job market for that field but the job is creative and does wonderful work with people. I am also getting excited for you to run and get your Donald Duck Medal!

Laurie - so glad the hayrack ride was fun and you caught up wiwth old friends - any little itchy's from the hay? It sounds as if all the exercise you got it really balanced off any extra calories you added in - I wouldn't feel too bad...

Skinny - congrats on winning the HRM! I have no idea where its strapped! Good luck figuring it out! What an exciting moment for you - and what a fortuitous win - you couldn't have been luckier. My heart goes out to your friends for their loss. So tragic.

Boho - congrats on your pound loss - and on managing your freezer space so well!

ktat - glad your weekend away did not do more damage. You just get back on the program and that weight will go the way of the other pounds you are losing. Keep on your plan and you can get down to that number by your birthday! YES you can!

Angelika - I love your "revolving" holiday pictures- thank you!

Linder - WOOT - 3 lbs. Yes lets celebrate :flowerforyou: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

As JT mentioned, its good exercise just decorating for the holidays and I have got that done and today I plan on vacuuming and dustng. Yesterday I did laundry. Add this with deep cough remaining from the flu.

Who mentioned the weather? We are in the midwest and having 60 degree days - beautiful. My heart goes out to those on the west coast who are being flooded.

Today has been a bad day and it's only my first workout. I tried the 30 Day Shred today. Only got through 15 minutes before I couldnt handle any more.. I felt like I was about to die after words and took me forever to cool down. I am now completely exhausted and starving. I've kind of ate more than I wanted but Im still under my calories with 500 left for dinner. I will not go over!

Today has been a bad day and it's only my first workout. I tried the 30 Day Shred today. Only got through 15 minutes before I couldnt handle any more.. I felt like I was about to die after words and took me forever to cool down. I am now completely exhausted and starving. I've kind of ate more than I wanted but Im still under my calories with 500 left for dinner. I will not go over!

I read recently that when you start exercise programs such as 30 Day Shred, Insanity, P90X, etc to start them off very slowly. From what I understand the guy in the P90X videos mentions that in the beginning - its important in order to avoid injury. If you are coming from being sedentary to starting 30DS, I would do it in 10 minute increments the first week, then increase to 15 next week, etc until you become acclimated to the program. You may even just start out walking daily to build up some stamina and then graduate to 30DS...

Monday Check In:::
I have been MIA for awhile. I have still been logging in and such but I haven't really been tracking my food lately and have been doing minimal exercise. I'm not sure why my mind wont kick it back in gear.
I have been having knee problems lately and am afraid to push it. But I can't use that as an excuse. I can most definitely get up and do some walking on the treadmill. I feel like i need to do more though. Like that's not enough. First I have to start with tracking my food again and paying attention to what I'm eating and taking in. This time of year is getting to me this year.

Also I'd like to ask for some thoughts and prayers. A local firefighter who was 45yrs old was killed during a fire last night. He had a wife and 2 young girls. So very sad and tragic. I didn't know the guy but most people did.


Tina

Monday Check-In

Today was one of those days. You know the kind, teachers. The kind where no matter how you teach or taught a concept the students seemed to have lost EVERYTHING you have been teaching all year and act like you are speaking Greek to them and then act like complete animals. Ugh...that was my day today. My homeroom was so bad, I went across to my pod partner and told her I couldn't take anymore and if we could please change early. She agreed and took them. They were just as bad for her so by the end of the day we were both pulling our hair out.

As bad of a day I had, I had NO intention of exercising. I fell on my own pitfall of "I'll do it tomorrow" but that little voice of a runner inside my head said "Put on your damn gym clothes and take your butt to the gym! Putting it off until tomorrow is what got you here!" I promptly decided the little voice was right and went to the gym. Boy was I glad that I did. My only issue now is that EVERYBODY decided that 6pm was the time to come to the gym. I stopped going at 4:30am because it got so crowded in our tiny gym that I could never get on the treadmill to run and it is too dark to run outside. So, I changed my time to 6pm. Now that seems to be the most popular time. I beat the rush thankfully so I had a few people waiting on me. I completed my full 30 minutes before leaving.

This weekend I didn't go overboard too bad. I did have a "free-for-all" on Sunday where I ate what I wanted. Sometimes it is hard to be good all the time and I did read somewhere that you are supposed to have a "cheat" day once a week. Not to go crazy, but to eat a few extra calories you don't typically get during the week. I did and actually LOST weight, so I'm pretty happy about that. Also, ice skating burned some of that off, so it wasn't TOO bad.

I like the idea of the December Challenge. I'm going to try to get in 25 walks if possible. If I do two a day between now and the end of the month, I should make it. I may try to walk in the AM and run in the PM.

Also, some of you were mentioning being military. I was an USAF brat too!

Hope you all had a great day!
~ Jana

kah and Robin, thank you for the advice. I do have milestones that I would like to reach and I am setting my goals for 25# at a time. It felt good to make the first one. I like the walking goal because that is my exercise of choice anyway. Enjoy the evening. Kaye

Wow... this week has started out like a monster!
Came home after work with a horrible headache - part stress, and part hardly slowing down even for coffee. Only made about 1/2 of my protein shake at lunch.

So... I didn't make it to the gym... :frown:

@Alison - IKEA meatballs are yummy, but my real temptation is the open face shrimp sandwich :bigsmile:

:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: WATER TAG!!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

Hello! I have been keeping up with everyone's posts, enjoying the motivation that comes from seeing successes as well as commiserating with those who are strugging. I had a bit of a slide this weekend, seems as though I wanted to eat everything in sight!! First time since I started that I didn't bother to log - I've just felt a bit off for the past few days. Somehow, I stll lost a pound (though I had been down a couple pounds earlier in the week). Regardless, I feel pretty good about that. Doing my tallying for November was somewhat mixed - I missed my step goal by about 11,000, but if I had remembered the fitbit on the five "zero" days, I would have probably hit it. Only lost about two pounds for the month, but I guess that's okay too. I know I struggle in the dark days of winter (and winter's not even officially here yet, is it?). I still have to check my measurements, but seem to have misplaced the tape measurer - probably in all the pre-parents' visit cleaning (then they didn't even come, lol). Hopefully, I will find it soon. I have a second interview tomorrow - well, actually, they invited me to "come in and hang out with the kids for a while," so I think that must be good. Surely they can't be bringing too many candidates in to hang out with kids with severe behavioral/emotional/attachment issues?! Depending on how long that goes, I may try to get out in the kayak for a bit - supposed to be almost 60 again, and I do love my time on the river! I keep thinking each paddle will be my last of the year, but then we get a few more warm days. The mix of sunshine, water, and exercise will be delightful, if I can make it happen. Otherwise, I have been using the wii fit, and enjoying it quite a lot. Planning to "see" you soon - I think the more frequent posting really does help keep me on track. I will also be shooting for 25 walks this month (Robin, my dogs are already thanking you for that one!)!!!

Monday Check-In: I can't believe how many posts since Thursday. I just read through 6 pages - whew! Nice to see the new folks join us (WELCOME!!). Saturday my son and I completed the Las Vegas Great Santa Run 5K. We walked versus run, but still completed the whole thing. We had a blast with 12,000+ Santa's!! My goal for this time next year will be running the whole event and no walking!! Of course, I've been sick for the past week battlinlg a cold so that probably wasn't the best thing for me. Plus, I've hit a bit of a plateau and the past 4 weeks I've either been up/down/maintained. Tracking is not the issue, but making good food choices and getting exercise daily. Back to basics for me immediately!!!

@Katie -- I don't personally think that 13 pounds by Christmas would be realistic; I think 2 pounds a week is plenty. Especially given all the parties and temptations at this time of year. Someone in another thread today said 'it's not a race', and they're right. 275 by April, though -- totally doable I'd think.
@Angelika -- Love the 'iddy bits at a time'; this is the hare and the tortoise, isn't it? We all like being hares, but if we just keep plodding on we'll get there in the end.
@Lin -- Congrats on the SV!
@Kelley -- so you're looking for that 12 minute mile as well then? I'm really excited by the thought.
@Kaye -- I've not generally had a goal except 'keep going' -- but 199 by December 31st feels so *tangible* somehow that I changed my habit. And I'm not going to beat myself up if it ends up being January 20 instead. I do think 'don't give up' is the best possible goal.
@Tom -- sorry about the gain but if you're eating right and exercising you'll be back on track in no time. I really like the photo! I was going to ask what trophy it was but I see that everyone else knew it was the Stanley Cup. I adjust my ticker in weeks when I gain; too depressing otherwise.
@Lauren -- well done for starting 30DS! I think a lot of people struggle to finish the program at first, particularly those of us with a lot to lose. Tomorrow will be better, just keep going. After a while, week 1 will seem easy. I started off with very easy things like walking and Wii Fit. If you have a Wii then there are loads of brilliant games. Dance Dance Revolution is my 'go to' game when it's cold and wet and I can't get out; I do the hardest settings I possibly can without failing, sweat buckets and it's a great workout. I also have Step to the Beat (Walk it Out) which is a walking game, Just Dance Abba for when I'm in a singing into the hairbrush mood, Wii Zumba Core (pretty intense), and My Cardio Coach (Gold's Gym) which is a cardio boxing game for days when my legs are *SO TIRED* after running that I want upper body cardio. I think most of these are available for other consoles too. When I'm starving I let myself go over a *bit* -- I reckon as long as I'm under 500 calories over I'm still in deficit overall. I don't ever go to bed hungry. Sometimes if I'm in deficit I just step while watching TV in the evening for a little extra burn.
@Robin -- I love, love, love, 25 Holiday Walks -- though I'm going to count my runs as walks. Some of my walks are very boring -- it's a London thing... like last night I walked back from the leisure centre to the tube station *yawn*. But I'll try to get some countryside in.
@Jana -- Well done for getting to the gym! I definitely have higher calorie days, but I do still try to log everything so I know how bad the damage was.
@Liz -- congrats on the SV!
@Karen -- I think it's hard to eat low carb at this time of year. I got my electrolyte gel from Amazon. My HRM is really irritating in that it's a Garmin GPS and the heart rate indicator, which is normally the only one I care about *when running*, is in tiny tiny print that I can't read with my glasses on!
@LMackbethi -- Kayaking! How lovely! I love all the different exercise everyone does. My family had a big Canadian style canoe when we lived in Texas, and Dad brought it home with him. Of course it never gets used now, and none of us kids has anything like room for a canoe -- so I helped him sell it on eBay. It sold well! But not without a little *sniff* of regret because there's nothing like mucking about in boats.
@Kris -- Hope you're feeling better soon!
@Susan -- congrats on that Santa Run!
@Raven -- good to see you back! I hope you're feeling better soon.

Tuesday goals -- *still* hoping for ONEderland by New Year! It's five pounds down so still a bit of a stretch given which month it is.

Also, for people who have lost 20-30 and are going 'but why doesn't anyone *notice*...' -- Now I'm at 35, people are really starting to say things. Now of course I'm embarrassed because I've got so much further to go.

Have a super day, everyone!

-- Alison

Way to go, Karen. Sleep is still an issue for me. Why does it have hurt more at night?! :grumble:

Happy Tuesday!!!

Goal today is to drink all my water I have been slacking the last few days and I don't feel the same. Most of my problem is at work I am so booked with meeting I don't have time to run and fill my water jug up. I then drink like a fish at home on the water.

Aug~Thanks for the tip! :laugh:

Tuesday Goals~Had to change my goals a bit this week, had errands to run and by the time I got done it was too late for the gym last night.

Monday~Active recovery day DONE!
Tuesday~Cross Trainer
Wednesday~Elliptical/Run
Thursday~Training Session
Friday~Not sure yet
Saturday~Long run
Sunday~Training Session

Hello. Just a quick check in. Had an allergy attack yesterday and still feeling the effects today. It's been awhile since I've had one and they just take a heavy toll on my me. Hope everyone is having a good day. Ill check back in later when I'm doing better.