Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

@nicole--interesting that they have home parties for those items--who knew?

@desdemina--woot for getting that exercise done!! :drinker: Are you using a heart rate monitor to track calories burned? I only ask b/c 213 calories sounds REALLY low if you were sweating your butt off for almost an hour. I'm unfamiliar with the Your Shape, but if it's aerobic in any way, I bet you burned way more.

@kelley--glad zoe is doing better and that the surgery was not due to a health problem or emergency, but was a planned procedure. Great NSV losing 3 inches on your hips!! It's the running you know--at least that's what helped me lose so much around my hips, butt, and thighs. I hear you on the tough run--it's how I felt last weekend when I did my long run--just couldn't get into a good groove and had to keep walking for breaks. Today was the exact opposite--I felt like I could run forever (well, maybe not forever, but I felt really good :laugh: ). Maybe you should try my special runner's breakfast--but don't tell Lin.

@lin--thanks for not chastising me for my breakfast choice. :blushing: Honestly, my dh made the bundt cake on tuesday and I made him take most of it to work on thursday. Then last night I really wanted some. However, I didn't have enough calories and needed to meet my protein goal. I kept promising myself that if I used my willpower to resist it last night, I could have it for breakfast today (knowing I would have a big calorie burn). One of my biggest demons with food is not being able to delay eating something really yummy. I remember as a kid, if I ate something and them mom came home with something yummy from the store, I would want to tear into it right away. I can hear her voice saying "It will still be there later." Honestly, I rarely listened--it was like if I didn't have that tempting food immediately, it wouldn't taste as good. I'm not sure where that came from, but I still fight it to this day. So even though I had cake and ice cream for breakfast, it was actually a bit of a victory for me b/c I ate it when "I" decided, not when "it" decided.

Saturday Success (cont.):
I finished a bit more grading. :happy: So far I've had just over half my protein, so I need to go home and eat me some chicken!

Exercise Goals:
Mon--walk gunner DONE
Tues--run outside (60+ degrees!!) RAINING so I went to the gym (bicycle + treadmill) DONE
Wed--walk gunner DONE + core CLEANED INSTEAD
Thurs--walk gunner NOT DONE (way too cold)
Fri--rest day DID CORE WORK
Sat--walk gunner DONE + gym (long run) DONE + shoveled snow DONE
Sun--walk gunner + gym

Grading Goals:
1. 46/56 America poems/journals
2. 3/3 annotate student sample papers DONE
3. x/56 JRP plans
4. x/16 Preposition quizzes

February Challenge: 1/28 days of minimum 80 grams of protein

@Karen~you had a fantabulous run today!!! I bet it WAS your breakfast, sounds divine! :bigsmile:

@laurie--Thanks! Glad you are starting to recover from the sinus infection--those are so nasty! Congrats on fitting into the size 16 jeans--such a win!! Just keep looking and you will find the right pair. I've found that Levi fit me better than Lee's, and Not Your Daughter's Jeans and Vera Wang seem to be more "forgiving" while Mossimo (Target) and DKNY tend to run smaller.

@kelley--thanks! it will probably be weeks before I can do it again, but at least I know it's possible now.

@charlotte--weather in chicago is just as crazy--last weeks the high temp dropped over 40 degrees from one day to the next!

Just checking in that I met my protein goal--97 grams today and over 400 calories to spare, so I've made up for my Thurday overage. Now if I can just keep it reigned in at tomorrow's Superbowl party!

Who's everyone rooting for? I'm leaning toward San Fran, but still undecided.

February Challenge: 2/28 days of minimum 80 grams of protein

Hello,

Today has been a good day overall . today mark my DH new work schedule. He normally works Saturday and is off
Sunday, Monday. He has always love that Combo Sunday his way of thinking is reserve for family stuff and Monday is his day to do whatever he wants. Which for him means no errands or honey do list stuff. This has worked out. I have 3 days off Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

I most always use Saturday s to clean laundry food shopping etc things needed to pull our lives back together after a long work week. Sunday is family day and Monday is normally stuff I did not get done on Saturday. I try to fit some me time in it use to never happen much but my me time is going to the Y and staying as long as I want too. So the point of all this is that for some reason DH instead of using today as his free day to recharge no errands etc choose to join me. Not sure why but he was cranky wanting to pick, pick about everything.::grumble: : My normal reaction is to retreat and stuff my face with food. Instead I went to the Y as plan enjoy the water a lot and the bike. Stay with my food plan did not get off track.

@Nicole that must be scarey. Sorry for the rough path you are going through.:flowerforyou:
@Alision - that is a great NSV.

@ Charlotte good for you on having the foresight to save and plan tor retirement. My husband and I are steadily working towards that goal too. We became parents at an older age. That had made it sometimes hard to focus on that and with our DD having special needs we are worried about her too making sure she is provided for.

@Karen I like how you made a plan for that piece of cake. You did it, stuck to the plan and had your cake too.

@Susan that is wonderful your successes both size wise and your job.

@Laurie that is a good nsv :happy: sorry you aren't feeling a 100% :yet :flowerforyou:

Well I had wanted to posts more but I cant seem to recall what I was going to say.:embarassed:

Well wishing you all a wonderful Evening.

Liz

@Skinny & Grandma - I definitely understand, unprovoked bites are dangerous and definitely with little ones around. For some reason I was thinking they might be older- around 5 or so. I am all for the use of other training tools, sprays and the like. Glad that it worked with Gunner. He seems like a smart cookie! Would love to see a pic of him sometime.

@naceto I KNOW that moment!! I've been there! Please stay safe, but glad you had a moment to regroup yourself. Glad to hear you are refreshed. Will keep you in my thoughts for a happy, stress free, binge free week. If you have an online party, post the link, it'd be interesting to see what they sell.

@karen that's wonderful! congrats!

@skinny awesome run, wish my body ran on fuel like that!

@lin I laughed trying to picture you licking the blender container trying to get every drop out. Some days I feel like that too. Just shove my head in the tupperware container to get every bit of salad dressing...I logged it didn't i???!!!

@laurie that is awesome!! a good pair of jeans is worth the shop. and check your armpits! that's where i first noticed i lost a bit of weight...i was like whaaaa???Have a happy shopping day! Can't wait to hear all the details! (shopaholic here)


Nothing planned for the Big Day (Superbowl) just me and the dogs/cats. Going to chow down on some soup/salad since hubby is still at grandmas with the kids. I really miss them, but guess I'll get the house in order. Lots of laundry to do as always.
At least it's not *this bad* (last year)

@skinny - Your Shape is an exercise "game" for the xBox. There are different things you can do, some are toning, some are aerobic, there's also yoga and stretching. I don't have a heart rate monitor, but I do wear a Fitbit. Both the Fitbit and the game estimate your calories and they were close in their estimate. But I would like to think I actually did more!

@laurie They're a little more expensive, but I like Lane Bryant jeans. They really are meant for us more curvy women, and they are so slenderizing! And jeans last forever.I do hate to spend much on clothes when I'm losing weight, because I hope I won't be in that size for long, but having clothes that look good and make you feel good is important, too.

Not much else to update on. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

@desdemina--oh, a combo of toning/aerobic would certainly burn less calories, and if both the fitbit and game were close, then the calorie burn was probably pretty accurate. I need to do more toning...:ohwell:

@robin--I would kill for 40 degrees right now. Enjoy the balmyness! :laugh:

@jumpy--just to clarify, I do NOT use the spray on gunner as a training tool. I carry it when I walk him b/c last spring a neighbor's loose dog ran up and attacked him while my DH was walking him. Gunner is a boxer/shepherd mix--we rescued him when he was about a year and a half. We thought that meant full-grown (he was a very skinny 65 lbs), but learned from the vet that large-breed male dogs can keep growing until about 3 yrs. I swear gunner kept growing until he was about 5! :laugh: He's now 7 and weighs 95 lbs. and is a good 4-5 inches longer and taller than when we got him. He is pretty smart, but also very dominant. I mostly trained him using the Caesar Milan method (although I still give him way more attention and cuddling than Caesar would approve :blushing: ). In general, we use dog-pack mentality to punish him, meaning if he's misbehaving, he gets "shunned." I also did a lot at the start to establish myself as the "alpha"--eating before feeding him, taking back toys to show him they belong to me, etc. It worked pretty well. Only problem is he constantly battles with DH over who gets to be "beta." :ohwell: There he is in my profile pic at his training "graduation." Oh, and I loved the laundry picture! :laugh:

@melancholy--glad life is getting back to normal for you. :flowerforyou:

@liz--great job choosing the Y over food! :drinker:

Sunday Share:
I grew up in Chicago with 2 sisters--one older and one younger. My younger sis is the one with the baby. Some of you may remember my older sis lost her estranged husband just over a year ago. She is living with my parents (still) and is doing okay emotionally after that whirlwind. Several years ago she had surgery to remove a fibrous cyst on her uterus. Well, she just found out there's another and there's a cluster on one of her ovaries. Thursday she had to have blood drawn for an ovarian cancer screen. Doctor thinks it's unlikely--since she's prone to the fibroids--but it's still worrisome until she gets the results tuesday. Regardless of those results, she'll need to have another surgery to remove all of the cysts. This sucks in so many ways, not the least of which she has no medical insurance. She was just getting to the point where she was looking for a place of her own. Now she will have massive medical bills (the blood test alone costs $750 :noway: ) plus several weeks of no income while she recovers. I wish there was something I could do to help out financially, but we pretty much live paycheck to paycheck. I guess the one good thing is that she didn't move out of my parents' already--she found a place in November, but backed out at the last minute b/c she saw the apt. needed way too much work.

Kind of a bummer share--sorry about that.

HELEN – if you ever have a minute to elaborate on the synthroid issue I’d appreciate it. I take synthroid and no one told me to watch the fiber. I’ve been eating well over 40 g a day for months with no apparent problem. On another board someone posted that they are not permitted to eat raw veg like kale because they take synthroid. But no matter what I'm doing right or wrong, I’m stable on this dose---it’s been years and years and more years since blood work indicated any change. (And I have no thyroid at all, it was entirely surgically removed.)

It's in the insert we get with our synthroid. Soy, fiber, calcium, and iron can interfere with absorption of the medication. I still have calcium in my diet, I just take it after about four hours. The same will have to be true of the iron. The thing is, I have been having trouble (though my doctor says it's the low iron, and that my thyroid meds are doing it's job fine...) so I hate to mess things up even more. I will be working on taking in more fiber in the evening, though. Until I get an appointment with the endocrinologist, I intend to cooperate with the iron and assume my doctor is correct on this point. I still fully intend to avoid soy, though! (It can't always be helped, but I try!)

I'm also going to make an appointment with the gyno. I have a hard time understanding how a woman my size could POSSIBLY be low on iron, and google has suggested that sometimes internal bleeding isn't noticeable accept in low iron. I had TERRIBLE bleeding (outward) in the past (sorry for tmi fellows) and am thinking that following up with the gyno is a good idea. Worst thing that can come of it is my yearly pap smear, right? I think my new year's resolution was to look after my own best interests this year. (Something like that... this is February... I'm expected to remember what I said in January :laugh: ) and taking care of this issue falls into that!

Saturday Success- I ate a protein filled breakfast before going to teach Religious Ed and I did NOT eat any of the donuts or coffee cake offered! I did eat a plate of fruit for a snack when class was over and I was hanging out with other teachers. (I had too many chips with lunch later, but hey, it added fiber! :happy: JK)

Sunday Share- It been a tough week. Friday would have been my dad's eightieth birthday. Tuesday will be the third anniversary of my mother's death. I know it'll sound odd (and very selfish), but I'm glad that she went around the same time as his birthday. I'll get the sadness out of my system at one time, and can move on the next week. Knowing mom, I think she is glad she went the same week too...

My Sunday share is that I live with bunch of football nuts! DH has been a 49ers fan since long before I met him. His loyalty never waivers, regardless of what kind of a season they are having. Needless to say, he is excited today. The Super Bowl has been going the same number of years as we have been married. I have learned to enjoy it, too, out of self-preservation I think. The kids have planned a big Super Bowl Party. Dad's loyalty to the 49ers has rubbed off on the family. There'll be 17 here this evening for the party. I love my big family, 7 children with spouses, and almost 14 grandchildren, but it always makes for a big party! I haven't quite decided how I will handle the food. I'm going to be pretty lenient with myself, but try not to go crazy.
Today the scale showed me down 4#. That is the rest of the weight I gained on the UT trip, plus 2 more. At church today, a lot of people commented on how good I am looking. That was really neat because up until now, hardly anyone has said anything. One friend even asked me how to find My Fitness Pal. Of course, I figure if they were kind enough not to comment when I gained a bunch of weight, I can forgive them for not commenting about the loss.
I love the picture of the kids on the laundry. I can really relate to that. Not any more, but needless to say, laundry was always a major issue when all the kids were little. Gunner is a good-looking dog. I asked DH to take a picture of me after church so I would have a new picture for here, but they all turned out looking like driver's license photos. My daughter takes good pictures. I'll see if she can help me this afternoon.
Enjoy your day. Kaye

@kaye & helen--thanks for the kind words about my sister's situation. :flowerforyou:

@helen--I hope you get all of your medical issues sorted out. It stinks when something is wrong and there's no clear reason why. I was wondering--have you thought about printing out your food diaries to share with your doctor? You can print the actual diary from the food diary page, or you can use the reports tab to print it for calories, net calories, iron, etc. Great job on avoiding the cakes at church! Sorry about the tough week--I don't think it's odd or selfish that you feel that way; I think most people would feel the same way, and you're right, your mom would probably be glad as well. :flowerforyou:

@kaye--sounds like a fun party at your house tonight! My DH and I both enjoy football, but with no clear team to root for tonight. I'm a Bears first, Packers second kind of girl--as opposed to most Bears fans who hate the Packers. I'm just wierd that way. Dh has to work until about 6, so I'm going to a friend's party--may leave at halftime to come home and watch the end with him (and to avoid the snow in our forcast). It's nice when people start commenting on how good you are looking--I think sometimes they hesitate until they are sure the weight loss is intentional (as opposed to a person losing due to illness or something).

@karenleona--wow, such great self-control and choices joining your family for dessert! Congrats! :drinker:

@jumpy--yeah, gunner was clicker trained as well, but (as with all of his training) it only worked without other dogs as distractors. Same thing with food. He will do anything for a treat if there aren't other dogs around, but I could be holding up a hunk of prime beef at the dog park and nothing. In fact, I once tried to take a baggie of hot dog bits to the dog park to try to train him to listen in the presence of other dogs. The result was that every other dog in the park flocked to me, and gunner completely ignored me--just kept playing with the other dogs. :ohwell:

@jumpy & kaye--thanks for the compliments about gunner--he really is a beautiful dog! I feel like I can say that b/c it's not like I had anything to do with his looks. :laugh: Seriously though, sometimes, when I'm walking him, people will stop in their cars, roll down the window, and say "what a good looking dog" or "he's beautiful--what kind is he?" like he's some kind of show dog instead of a rescue mutt. Oh, and gunner KNOWS he's handsome--he's kind of a diva the way he struts around. :laugh:

I've been procrastinating here at starbucks, but it's time to get busy grading. :frown:

Well, I finished the America poems and journals, but I really wanted to make a dent in the junior research paper plans. Since I have to leave in about 10 minutes to go to my Superbowl party, it dousn't look like that will be happening. :frown:

Exercise Goals:
Mon--walk gunner DONE
Tues--run outside (60+ degrees!!) RAINING so I went to the gym (bicycle + treadmill) DONE
Wed--walk gunner DONE + core CLEANED INSTEAD
Thurs--walk gunner NOT DONE (way too cold)
Fri--rest day DID CORE WORK
Sat--walk gunner DONE + gym (long run) DONE + shoveled snow DONE
Sun--walk gunner DONE + gym NOT HAPPENING :blushing:

Grading Goals:
1. 56/56 America poems/journals DONE
2. 3/3 annotate student sample papers DONE
3. x/56 JRP plans
4. x/16 Preposition quizzes

February Challenge: 1/28 days of minimum 80 grams of protein

I went Jean shopping again today and still did not buy any but have decided that my Feb. goal will be to fit comfortably into the 16 curvy/ relaxed fit. There was not much difference between the 16 and 18's. It was fun but trying experience. I did try on a pair of 14 Alfred Dunner pants and they fit, i decided I did not need them right now.

Positive note- I went to the gym and had a nice walk then went out to lunch with a friend. Had a nice salad at Potbelly's. Tonight I will most likely over indulge in a few treats since tomorrow I start my weight loss challenge with my trainer. I just hope I feel up to it completely. Sinus infection really needs to disappear for good.

The weather in MD has been just as crazy with changing from minute to minute. Today we had snow showers along with sun. It might get a little warmer this week but that means the 40's. If our groundhog is right Pauxtaney Phil- then we are also expecting an early spring.

Super Bowl- team Go Ravens- They are my other hometown team.