Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

GrammyWhammy - :blushing: thank you

Tuesday Goals: A cousin has asked me to join her in the 30-Day Power Purge, which is a whole house clean and de-clutter project. http://hannahkeeley.com/blog/30-day-power-purge-day-two
We are on day two. I am going to wear my HRM to see how much I burn doing this since it is "above and beyond" normal housekeeping. It will also be nice to go methodically through the whole house. Since I started a day late I have two days to do today, but it won't be a big deal, today is cleaning "the pantry" and we don't have one, we have four shelves over the washing machine. :laugh:

going to the gym...:happy: :happy:
mmmm.... a power purge.....must look that up......just thinking about it makes me tired.....not sure if i have enough energy or motivation to try that

Happy birthday to all who is celebrating!

@ Lin- which Leslie sansone are you using or do you have multiple ones? I have multiple but like the 5 day slim down. I like that it tells you how long the warm up, miles and cool down stretch are. When you log it for cardio, what do you list it as? I usually do walking at 4.0 mph or aerobics, general. I want to make sure I'm logging accurately.

My daughter is feeling better and it's back to school tomorrow for her!!

I've been craving chocolate and coffee. Thought about getting fast food today (don't remember who posted about this). I had a craving for taco bell, but stood strong!! I'm still learning how to fight these crazy cravings. I am concerned for when aunt flow comes. I usually could kill a big bar of hersheys chocolate. Maybe I can scale it back to 1 or 2 squares. Ugh.. *new body, new body*

~Rachael

@ Lin- which Leslie sansone are you using or do you have multiple ones? I have multiple but like the 5 day slim down. I like that it tells you how long the warm up, miles and cool down stretch are. When you log it for cardio, what do you list it as? I usually do walking at 4.0 mph or aerobics, general. I want to make sure I'm logging accurately.

~Rachael

RACHAEL - I am using "Walk Slim: 5 Really Big Miles" and from YouTube "5 Mile Fat Burning Walk." As far as logging, I no longer log any of my exercise. I wear a Fitbit and have it linked to MFP---I get calorie adjustments from my activities. I use to utilize a HRM and I thought the calories burned looked too high so I switched over to this method and I think it looks more reasonable. If I was using an activity from the database I'd use the walking 4 mph when doing her 12 minute miles.

Good luck with the cravings!!! RESIST (if possible). Meanwhile---you are doing great. :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Lin

Thanks Lin! I am looking on amazon to get the best price for one. I've asked how much they were prior and around $99 I believe is what I was told. I hate to spend that kind of $$ but I guess it's worth it. thanks again!!

Rachel--Leslie Sansone is free on YouTube. If spending the money is an issue, try that. I use the free ones because whenever the weather permits, I prefer to walk outside. I don't want to invest big money in something I won't use all the time. Kaye

Helen- Welcome back.
Welcome to all the new people.

I am excited that I decided to hit the gym before going out to dinner tonight. I had a choice to make after work today- go home and chill then risk now going out again or go to the gym for a quick workout. I choose the workout and did the predesigned workout my trainer designed. It felt good to accomplish that goal today.

Goals- To keep on track- eating healthy and exercising on a regular basis.

Have a great day tomorrow.

Admitting to a total fail today...:embarassed:
let myself get too tired ... too stressed... and too hungry...
... and husband made homemade pizza... carby comfort food got me....:embarassed:

Gotta pick up and get back on track tomorrow...

Instead of water tag how about a salad challenge? Everybody have at least one salad this week.




Just finished another 5 miles of Leslie Sansone---all fast miles with intervals and my feet are *#$! mad at me. Can you hear them howling?? Gotta see how they feel tomorrow, may have to ease off a bit.

Otherwise, I hope to keep at it!!!

All best wishes my friends.

Lin

I love the salad challenge!! I have to be so careful though not to get burned out. For me, I have to mix them up all the time especially adding fruits and nuts. I love strawberries, fat free feta, and walnuts or mandarin oranges, pecans, ginger-sesame dressing, etc. . . The more I can mix it up the better. Great idea though!!!

@naceto using your brain actually burns 30% more calories than if you did the same time frame exercising. I read that somewhere...probably online...so you know it's gotta be true lol. If you need math help, I might could help you. One of my volunteers (at my first job) sent me a funny email about her happening to pick 8 cats at the shelter to scan for microchips and all 8 were not microchipped. She asked, "What are the odds of that happening?" so I figured it out. Her selecting 8 cats of the 16 that weren't microchipped out of a total of 78 cats in the room.... I think I figured it out to around 55:1002 odds of that happening lol.

@Vicki congrats on Onderland!

@Bohemian I could see myself logging the rest of my life too! Hope Robin's thread is going to be around for a LOOOOONG time! Not that I'm planning on stretching out losing 100lbs but I'd like to keep in touch lol.

@tammy I LOVE TACOBELL

@rachael glad your party was a success and grats on the pedometer! let me know what it was and how you like it! Also, I weigh myself at work on the vet scale at night but i always take everything out of my pockets. We have uniform scrubs and I have a dedicated pair of shoes for that job and so I know I'm probably an lb or 2 over with all my clothes and shoes on, but that's just so when I get to the *almost* end of this journey, rather than have an lb or 2 to go, I can rip off my clothes and stand on the scale naked as a jaybird and scream I DID IT!! and go running naked through my house.

@JTCONST that's awesome that your family is really pulling for you, especially your hubby!

@Christine glad you are feeling better! Kiss the poms for me

@alison happy bday to your kiddo! 16 is quite a big deal!

@drojen don't let that number get you down. i look at it like a "number to beat" now. Also, I work at a vet's office and we did a biggest loser challenge about 2 years ago...it didn't hit me then, but this year, I remembered something I used to ask owners when their dogs were getting REEEEALLLLLY chubby- "What's your goal weight?" and they would be puzzled? "What's the number that he's going to reach on the scale that will make you stop overfeeding him?" and then it would hit them. Now, really, I was much nicer when I put it to them, but still the point sticks and it's something that when I stepped on the scale, my brain said - Hey Kristen...what's the goal weight? How much further into this are you going before you do something about it?" And then I was like OH SNAP! And so it became my biggest motivator. Anyway..just wanted to share.

@Lin holy 10 miles! awesome! And, I have my salad packed and in the fridge for tomorrow! No more junk food!

For those of you with finance issues, like myself as well, I recommend DaveRamsey.com or his book Financial Peace. It's a great read and easy too. I took the FPU (Financial Peace University) and DH and I have been on a mission for the last 3 years to put our finances back together. I think this year might be the year we get there. It's kinda like weight loss...try fail, try fail, try again, fail again, get back up, get it done!!

@susan great job getting back on board...8% is a good incline! OW! lol Thanks for the encouraging words too! I'm really liking the program..of course, that's just day 2 talking. Hit me up when I'm 15 days into it!

@skinnyjeans I read that article too...i definitely wasn't eating any of those foods! :noway: (just figured out the smileys!)
And i know what you mean about loving your dog...i have 3 of them and 3 cats too...and 2 toddlers...so if something hasn't poo'd , pee'd or vomited somewhere it's a good day. Sometimes I wish I could crate train my kid lol I've got one potty trained and the other one is taking her sweet time. I told her the dog did it in 2 months! She wasn't impressed. :laugh:

@kinnurse congrats on all the babies everywhere. I love those little ones! Too cute!!


So update since I missed Sunday Share and Monday and almost missed Tuesday:
I work 2 jobs M, Th, F 9am-12midnight and so I try to log on here to at least get the food on. You will find lots of fast food on my diary, but i stay within my calorie limit. I'm looking forward to the day when I will be financially free to eliminate a job...whichever one it may be as I LOVE both my jobs. One job is at an Animal Shelter and the other is at an Emergency Vet and I have a dog rescue. So, it's safe to say I love animals lol. My kids are my pride and joy and they are 3 and 4 years old. My youngest is holding out for the potty training award of the year...she just won't do it lol. We're working on it. Anyway, most weekends and free time are spent snuggling and cuddling them since 3 days of the week I only get to see them to wake them up, take them to school and pick them up between jobs. I've lost 6 lbs and I'm not looking back! As some of you know, I ordered Insanity and I'm on day 3 (including the fit test) and it has kicked my *kitten*. But in a REALLY good way. My 250ish flab is jigglin' its way on out. I'm hoping for a major loss at the end of this week. The jumping is really hard and the pushups are really hard, but I just keep moving and I'm sure I will be able to do more the next time around on the DVDs. There are a ton of DVD's to rotate through. So i'm looking forward to having them pop up again to see how far I've come. Other than that, welcome to the newbies, and please know that while I may not be able to pop on every day, I am keeping up with y'all and love y'all very much! Thank you for the support and encouragement you've been to me and everyone else here! Here's to 2013!!

Now get some water!!:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

@helen--glad to see you back in the thread! :drinker:

@vicki--I've had total food fails yesterday and today, so I can sympathize. We will do better tomorrow!!

@robin--You should be proud of keeping off that 31 lbs.--display that ticker with a smile!

@laurie--awesome job choosing the gym!!

@kris--Great goal!! I don't usually have trouble drinking water, but I lose track of how much I've had on the weekend b/c I'm not using my water bottle.

@lin--As I mentioned yesterday, I'm no math wizard :laugh: , but a 12 minute mile is 5 mph. I only know this from running (not from actually doing the math). Also, I think the salad challenge is a great idea! I used to eat baby spinach salad with goat cheese quite often and I haven't had one in ages.

@rachael--do you by any chance like dark chocolate? I love it and have found a little goes a long way to subdue my chocolate cravings. It's also much healthier than milk chocolate (and has less calories/sugar).

@kris--I'm sure there may be a slight difference in the calories burned simply b/c your heart rate won't be up as high for as long with the shorter walks, but I'm guessing it's not a big difference. And as others have said, there are other benefits to shorter workouts in terms of building strength and endurance that make it just as worthwhile.

@angelika--Oh, I know I should follow your link, but as I have zero time right now to follow through, I'm going to pretend I didn't see it. Maybe when school is out and I start talking about how much I need to clean my house, you can remind me about this website?

Again, welcome to the newlings--melancholy, kvandeest, drojen, and any others I missed! :flowerforyou:

Tuesday Goals:
I had a meeting after work and didn't get home until 6 pm--too dark to walk gunner. Ate terribly today, so I was hungry when I got home, but all my DH had made was a bunch of fried stuff. I ate a bit, but then logged it and realized I really needed to work out!

I didn't feel like going to the gym, so I changed and ran 3 miles on my treadmill. I really HATE my treadmill b/c it doesn't allow for 0% grade--the lowest is 2%, and I HATE running on an incline. However, I'm really glad I pushed myself to burn some calories. It allowed me to eat some healthier fare, and though my macros still aren't great, they're much better than they would have been if I hadn't earned those exercise calories.

So my goal is twofold--1. to keep up this motivation to work out--even after work when it's been a long day 2. to start doing a better job resisting the craptastic snacks my colleagues keep bringing to work (this morning it was dunkin donuts :grumble: ). I think Lin's idea for a salad challenge will help put me on the right path.

Exercise Goals:
Mon--core work DONE
Tues--rest day (meeting after work)--I ended up running 3 miles on my treadmill!! Yay me!
Wed--walk gunner + gym
Thurs--walk gunner + core work or dancing (may go see another band)
Fri--rest day (plans w/ friends right after work)
Sat--walk gunner + gym (long run)
Sun--walk gunner + core work

Grading goals:
1. x/48 AP essays
2. x/22 Advance Grammar Final Exam essays
3. enter participation for juniors
4. finish posting all grades

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I have over 100lbs to lose, and I'm looking for a support group like this. I've been reading some of your posts, and I'd like to join in.

@Helena -- well done for not giving up. Not stopping is so important!
@Drojen -- I had never run a mile without stopping, not in my whole life, until I did C25K in the autumn, and I was *so pleased with myself*. I've really been amazed by how fast I built up the running, just using these step by step apps. I use Wii games on days I can't go out, and do strength work.
@Kvandeest -- welcome! There are lots of people here with joint issues. It can be hard to exercise if you can't put weight on your legs, but swimming/aquacize and cardio boxing are both good I think.
@Kris -- I keep thinking I ought to pre-log food, but I'm not very good about it! Three short walks are just as good as one long one as long as you get up to speed and work your heart. Some people even think they might be better. Go for it!
@Lin -- Salad challenge is good, though I'm mostly cooking our greens at the moment.
@Ang -- That Power Purge looks great! I'll try and catch up and get my fridge done later today.
@Rachael -- when I started I had days when I was craving all sorts. Now, six months in, it's much easier. The only thing is that if I have a day when I can't do any exercise I do find it very hard to stick to target.
@Robin -- I don't think 9lb is much at all given that you're on prednisone! Such a hard drug to manage weight loss on. 31lb lost is a great way to start 2013!
@Kristen -- I really don't believe that stat about the brain. Honestly I've had a very brain-focused sort of life and all those years of doing brain workouts while sitting on my *kitten* is what's got me here! On the other hand, I love that idea of a 'goal weight' -- what's the weight that's finally going to cause you to do something about this?
@Renee -- welcome! My goal here (109lb) puts me at the very very top of the 'healthy' BMI range. So perhaps I need to lose a little more than that. I'm not worrying about it at the moment anyway.
@Barquilt -- welcome! It's really important to eat enough that you don't starve and lose gradually. (Though they do say that 'starvation mode' doesn't apply for really heavy folks so much).
@Pinky_Pie -- welcome!

It's really cold here: I want to go running but it might just not be practical. It's better later but my mum's coming over. If I finish tidying this morning I can do a run about noon as long as it's speedwork. I managed to do some dance mat late last night to try to drag my day back into balance (got within 100 calories which was a lot better).

Wednesday wishes -- ooh, can I have a magical tax return sorting fairy please? If I don't get it done by 31 Jan there is an automatic penalty that I could well do without.

-- Alison

@lmacbethl - I THINK I said gratz on 50lbs lost but in case I just thought it, GRATZ! :flowerforyou:
@Naceto - Happy birthday!
@Susan - Thanks for sharing the name of that bra. As I get closer to wanting to run, the more important that will be..... Glad to hear about your fit challenge, I know you'll knock it out of the park! You are seriously the strongest woman I know..
@Rachael - Glad to hear your daughter is doing better. How about a low sugar/cal hot chocolate mix? That might satisfy a bit of both cravings.
@Linder - Love the salad challenge. I'm in. Today's lunch is a chicken Caesar.
@Angelika - I checked out the Power Purge and I like it. This weekend I'll be doing day 1-3 (I'll never get it done after work).
Thanks to everyone who answered my question about walking. I didn't get my afternoon break yesterday but I let everyone know that I'd be taking 3 10-15 minute breaks each day. My guys thought it was great and on of them wants to come along with me to stretch his legs. Works for me, since he's 6'3 I will have to hustle to keep up with him.
@Kris - I have a brita filter bottle at work. I drew a line at the midway point in black marker and it sits next to my phone. I fill it up when I get there and by 9:30 I have to hit the black line. By 11:30 I have to finish the bottle (refill) Then repeat at 2:30 and 4:30. That forces at least 4 glasses down my throat before I get home. Two more is simple with dinner and the other 2... well, I haven't figured them in yet..... I try after dinner.
@Robin - Be proud of your 31lbs lost!
@Vickie - Sing it sister. I'm feeling like a bit fat failure after 4 days of binging in the last 7.

Furious with myself last night. I was *SO* proud that I didn't cave to work stress and hit the vending machine. On the way home I stopped for a cooked grocery store chicken and also came home with a bag of cheddar cheese popcorn and a container of almond roca....then proceeded to eat all of the popcorn AND the roca.... w.t.f! As I was walking down the snack aisle I was repeating with every step "Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this" and I did it anyway. I was just so hungry.. I packed two extra tangerines today. Id rather take the 90 calorie hit for two tangerines than the 2080 calorie hit for what I shoved in my pie hole last night.

No Wednesday wish - Just a determination to get one GREAT food and exercise day so I can feel a sense of accomplishment and get that ball rolling.