Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

@toots- Best wishes for your husbands illness recovery!

Toots, I hope your husband is getting all of the help that he needs and will recover quickly.

Sorry to hear about this. I hope your husband is getting all the help and treatments he needs to get 100% better.

thanks everyone. he is feeling better with his super antibiotics.

@toots How scary! I tell ya, I don't know what it is with guys and health. They're either the biggest babies, or so stoic you don't know they're sick until is really serious. Glad he's finally getting help!

yeah, they're kind of funny like that and i find it's proportionate. like if he's really unwell he acts like he's fine and if he has a cold that wouldn't even stop me from doing anything he acts like he's dying. go figure :laugh:

Hello and good morning all. It is a dreary tuesday morning in yucky mucky washington. I am 3/4 on my feb challenge. I just kinda melted in front of the tv yesterday afternoon and accomplished nothing more for the day. I WILL do better today. I weighed in a day late for the week since I reused to accept yesterdays weight:noway: and am happy to say I am down 2 pounds. I am willing to accept gains when I can think of a reason for it but I just wasnt beleiving I had gained 5 pounds when I had been fairly good and consistent all week. I got up at a decent time today after a fairly good nights sleep and have my little list of things I want to get done today. Nothing to arduaous so should manage to finish it all. My goals this week are to make sure I get in some form of workout every day and to keep working on my job search activities.
Robin: I totally understand how awkward it can be to try and workout at someones house but I know you can do this
Kah68: I enjoyed reading the articles that you posted thank you
Susan: I hope the job meeting yesterday went well
GrandmaKaye: I love your new profile pic it looks just great
Tootsanderson: I am happy to hear hubby is doing better and finally got some awnsers to what was wrong

Well everyone have a great day and to the nest three people on water tag your it:drinker: :drinker:

Hi Everyone! I'm new! Need to lose 100 lbs and just be healthy.... Advice please!!!!

@Rachel -- well done for getting back to the gym! It feels so much better afterwards.
@Desdemina -- In a couple of pounds, I'll have lost 20% of my starting weight. I do have a lot of milestones coming up! Milestones are definitely worth celebrating. I think you're dead right about men and health -- when they get a little sniffle you'd think it was the end of the world, but if something's seriously wrong they sort of go into denial and won't go to the doctor. Or perhaps it's just my man...
@Jamie0719 -- welcome! This is a wonderful thread. Number one stress reliever is exercise. Just a little bit if you're not doing any at the moment -- say a brisk 20 minute walk. What worked for me is that I said 'right, I'm just going to do 30 minutes of cardio every day, and it can be *anything*, even stepping up and down on the Wii Fit board in front of the telly if I haven't done anything else that day'. And at first I did all sorts of things to get that 30 minutes. Of course, later it sort of got out of hand. And logging every day -- it's been *so* useful for me.
@Kathy -- just keep going, one week's nothing in the longer term. It might be worth keeping track of the poor choices, and thinking 'ok, so why did I do that?'
@Mom2jagntag -- welcome! My guess is that if you're eating 700 calories a day, you're also having some days when you 'cheat', or go out and have restaurant meals, right? Because if you weren't the weight would fall off, especially with the working out, and you would be ravenous all the time! So just start logging those days fully as well. It can be a slog at first as you try to work out how many calories everything has, but you'll quickly get a picture of how it all fits together. Also, look out for healthy fats. Fat isn't bad for you in the way that people used to think, and eating full-fat versions of things, and snacks like nuts or avocados can really help get your calories up if you're trying to 'eat clean'. Personally I don't have much of a problem (except today -- see below!) because my favourite foods on earth are *cheese* and *beer* and I can get through 2500 calories of those in no time. I'm probably a bad role model because I still manage to squeeze in plenty of junk food.
I like Wii Zumba too! It's a great workout!
@Robin -- I spotted your big SV before reading y our post about it! Hurrah!
@Cheryl -- a big WELL DONE! for staying in target at Applebees. I'm doing really well at not having desserts now when we eat out (or just getting a small ice cream, or having a bite of my husband's dessert), but I find it really hard if people order starters, especially if I'm hungry. Sometimes there's melon & parma ham, which is really delicious and almost no calories. Or soup.
@shaqwann -- welcome!
@Doug -- so great when the kids come and help you workout, isn't it?
@Toots -- very glad to hear that your husband is getting good care. I'm sure he'll be back on his feet really soon.
@Gorilla -- great that you popped in! We need more men around here!

Welcome all the newbies!

Tuesday goals -- well actually, I realised it's only 9 days till Valentines Day so losing four more pounds is probably not practical. Oops. So. 50lb gone by March 1. My new running tights are really tight, and my running top is pretty tight too. I caught sight of myself in a shop window while running today, and I sort of looked like a purple sausage. Oh well. On the other hand, I ran for 8 miles, and then walked for nearly three more, and I feel fine now, hardly tired at all, so I don't much care what I looked like. And it was a much thinner purple sausage than it would have been last summer.

So, I've spent the last six months astonished at people who go 'I can't eat all my calories'. Except that it's after dinner now, and MFP is saying I'm still at -350 net and should have another 1700 calories today! I sort of got up late, ate a light breakfast before running. By the time I got back from my run it was too late for lunch and I wasn't hungry anyway... so I had my dinner as planned. I think I'm going to have a large snack a bit later, and then roll over some of those calories to tomorrow. I don't think long runs really fit into the model.

Hope you're all having a fantastic week!

-- Alison

Hi there everyone, I stumbeld onto this thread and have been reading through the conversations .. WOW !! What a group of supportive folks here ...

Do you happen to have room for one more ?? :happy:

Hi there everyone, I stumbeld onto this thread and have been reading through the conversations .. WOW !! What a group of supportive folks here ...

Do you happen to have room for one more ?? :happy:

no we don't have room for one more. we have room for lots more! Welcome!

@Little Gift - Welcome! ALways room for more amazing people!
@Doug - I think the son helping is a great idea. He can help push you (read nag you) when you don't want to work out and it'll be great to teach him healthy habits now.
@Toots - I'm glad your husband has the antibiotics he needs to deal with this. I sure hope he feels better FAST.
@KvanDeest - Hang in there. What you gained doesn't NOT negate the amount you've lost so far. You're still ahead of the game.
@Mac Beth - I hear you. I had a week like that just recently. The numbers that I obsessively track showed there SHOULD have been a loss and ...nothing. You just have to put your head down, do the steps, and trust the process. The deficit will catch up eventually. Not to mention that .6lbs can easily be water weight.
@Tom - Awesome keeping up with that strength training! You da man!
@Jamie - Welcome and that's a great place to start. Tracking really shows where the problem areas are.
@Robin - WOOOHOOOOO on the weight loss!! You'll be looking sexy in your vacation!
@Fit4Real - Welcome!
@Ongelle - Welcome! I agree, logging is a great place to start. Also, measure and weighing your food. I know when I started I had a *REALLY* skewed view of what a serving size was... in everything.

Tuesday goals - To behave myself for an entire week. No binging, no going grossly over on my sodium, and no pigging out on carbs. I can DO this DAMMIT! A bit more stress added to me, I was told today that I might be getting laid off. They closed down a project and the actual employees will be displaced. If they don't find places for them all, they will start laying off contract employees to give them our jobs. I should know by Friday if I'm in any danger. My contract is up in September, but I was really hoping to have it renewed and stay here. I love my job and the guys I work with, they are all like big brothers to me.

Hello all - just reporting in 5/5 GHD challenge.

LAURIE - OMG - I couldn't begin to participate in that training but wishing you well and more power to you!!

Gotta zip along. Out of town tomorrow. Everyone take care.

And TAG---you're it, next 4 people drink a glass of water. :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:


Lin