Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Monday check in- Just your normal, blah kind of day. Hard to get going after not really sleeping alot this weekend. I kind of shared all the things that have been going on with me on the previous thread.

MFP has now dropped me to 1420 calories, which is ok I guess. I'll try it and see. It's onl 20 less than what I'm eating now, so hopefully its not a big deal for me.

I have to go and act like I'm working LOL


xoxo
Rachael

20 cal will not make much difference. You are looking awesome so keep up the great work! and act like you are working now!

Hi everyone! I'm new here so this is my first post! I'm glad to see others who have as much to lose as I do. Is anyone here also vegetarian? (Don't worry, I'm not preachy nor judgmental - I know how good bacon tastes!!)

I am excited by this process and it seems to be working for me. I've kept up on my logging, but I need to start exercising.

I just spent a four-day weekend in Tucson Arizona for a women's choral festival. It was great fun and hard work (for those of you who don't think it's cardio - you are so wrong! :-) ) I am proud that I stayed on track for the most part, very close to my calorie goal. I only went significantly over my calories for one cheat day! So I still managed to lose weight, whew!

@tammy - so good to see you enjoying your new fitness routines!
@tom - I went to two mudhens games while I was visiting my parents, and thought of you! they lost both - off to a bad start this year - but it was still so much fun!
@robin - how's the golfing going?
@kris - I like robin's advice for mowmow... he probably just needs to settle into the idea that you will take him out on your schedule... it would be so sad to lose your hiking buddy.
@kaye - so sorry about your left knee. hoping you can get some relief while you wait for the doc. :flowerforyou: maybe try glucosamine and lots of water in addition to the ice and cane?
@kelley - you've been kicking my rear on the fitbit steps, but i'm going to try to catch you now that i'm home and back into my routine,

Ok, so I officially love spring! Please don't despair, midwestern friends, it will come your way soon, with its glorious colors and endless possibilities! My scale moved up a half pound this week, but I am ignoring it for now! I went on two major hikes this weekend - ayers mountain and soapstone mountain, both only about two-mile loop trails, but the fitbit registered 30 floors and 47 floors, respectively! I needed a few breaks on the way up, but not nearly as many as I needed on my Pacific Crest Trail section-hike last September. I've also been out kayaking and biking and am sooooo looking forward to getting back to my greatest love, swimming, in only a couple months! Now I'm off for another (much flatter) hike with the doggies on the trail by my house! Keep on keepin' on!

Monday Check In:: Had a productive weekend. I did end up going to a chinese buffet yesterday. I logged as best I could.
Today was a better day food wise.

I logged 2hrs of walking for while I was at clinicals because usually I am sitting at a desk. Then after I got home my daughter and I took a 35min walk. So nice day

Going to weigh tomorrow morning and see if I had a loss.

Hope everyone had a great day!

Tina

Monday- I am feeling great today and had a wonderful workout with my trainer. The last week my weight has been dropping steadily and I hope it continues. I am concerned since TOM will be making an appearance in the next week or two and then my weight goes back up. This has been a pattern for the past year so hopefully, this month it won't happen or at least my weight will stay down. My knees felt good today which enabled me to accomplish more with my trainer during our workout.

NSV- I believe that I mentioned a couple of months ago that my trainer and I had a bet going on- the bet was that if I could run past people on the track then he would go rock climbing with me. Well- drum roll please:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: - tonight I did just that-ran past 6 people at a 200m sprint:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: . This was after doing a full workout including shoulder presses and lat pull downs plus a 1000 meter row in 4 min. 30 seconds. After I finished the run, I proceeded to do 31 sit ups in 1 minute. This was great workout tonight and I fully enjoyed it. It was a great challenge:smokin: :smokin: :smokin: . Mike will be climbing with me in 2 weeks, then he will discover what type of workout I do on Friday nights while climbing. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Have a great week everyone.
Now, my goal is to exercise this week while going to after work meetings and to avoid the fast food places that mean dinner on those nights.

Back home from Cancun and a visit with my sister (year 5 with Altzheimer's) and b-i-l. As their time share expires this year, this was my last trip there. Certainly not an exciting week for me, and a bit trying, but I was with my sis, and that's what counts. With the news from the states so grim, we spent a fair amount of time watching CNN when we weren't watching the sea..

Managed to get exercise even if food choices were less than ideal--plenty of seafood.

I had a good day today and managed a trip to the gym before heading out to work. Craving chocolate, but after weighing in, I decided willpower and not candy was called for. :grumble:

I've noticed a few new photos on this forum--your losses are showing! Congrats!

Kaye: I can identify with the knee ordeal. Sorry you've had to cut back or modify your walks. Using an elliptical and recumbent bike are probably still within your capability though. That's what I do most. Do you have access to a gym or a pool?

Lauriek: Loved your NS victory! Someday I want to do what you did, but I'm only up to a slow trot.

Good week, all!

Welcome to all of the newlings! :flowerforyou: As others said--come back often and you will get a lot of support and motivation from this wonderful group!

@kris--that's awesome that you are making progress toward your goal! :drinker:

@marsha--nice that you got to spend time with your sister, though I'm sure it must be tough with the Alzheimer's. Are any medications working to control her symptoms? I hope you've gotten to spend a lot of quality time with her before the disease progression.

@laurie--Congrats on your NSV!! That's so awesome! I'll be curious to see if your trainer makes any adjustments to his sessions with you once he experiences the climbing workout. Lunch shouldn't be too bad. A colleague and I have already agreed on a restaurant where I know I can get a grilled chicken sandwich, but I will also splurge and get some onion rings.

@tina--I know what you mean about logging "as best you could" for the buffet. I actually skipped logging this weekend b/c there was just too much restaurant food to try to figure out the calories. Do you have your activity level set at sedentary? If so, I would definitely continue to log some exercise for the clinicals. The other option would be to change your activity level to account for the increased movement in your life.

AFM--I'm at 318 miles on my Virtual TransAmerica trail. Can't believe I've gone that far and I'm STILL in Virginia! :grumble:

On the Hobbit trail I'm on Day 33--nearing The Last Bridge and capture by the Trolls. On the LOTR trail I'm on Day 18--it's the 4th day from Weathertop and nothing exciting happening at the moment.

I'm still using the e-cig--made it through a whole weekend with my friend who still smokes. Not even tempted to have a "real" cigarette, but I probably used the e-cig a bit more while with her.

Monday check-in -- I've stayed the same this week (I'm down very slightly but not enough to register!). I'm pretty pleased with that given we had visitors, trips out and so on. Nothing stopping this week being a wonderful one.

Tuesday goal -- I am going to lose a pound this week. There, that's a nice, simple, straightforward goal. And I'm going to tidy up and progress all this paperwork. And the weather should be nice all week so I want to get down to the Lido for a long swim. That's not so many.

So, how's the fitness been going?

Saturday: parkrun - DONE
Sunday: badminton - er no..
Monday: morris - DONE
Tuesday: running or Zumba -- running DONE
Wednesday: badminton -- nope glued to physics but did step while watching lectures
Thursday: running -- lots of walking
Friday: badminton --DONE

This week has lots of morris practice as we get ready for our busiest time of the year, around St George's Day and May Day. I grabbed a black skirt from my pals' discard pile, but it needs new elastic really. I'm using my old shirt at the moment but I think I need to replace that too.

Saturday: parkrun DONE
Sunday: morris dancing DONE
Monday: morris dancing DONE
Tuesday: morris dancing (it's St George's Day)
Wednesday: badminton
Thursday: running
Friday: badminton

My house guests have gone home, everyone's at school and work and I have the house to myself for the first time in a month. Feels fantastic.

@Karen: I realise I haven't checked out Rivendell for *ages*. I'll catch up this week by looking at my old posts and work out where I should be. I agree with you about people at the gym who don't raise a sweat, and also those people in the pool who swim very slowly up and down while chatting. I always wonder what they think they're accomplishing.
@Tammy: Isn't it great when things you got with a plan to 'slim into' them suddenly look brilliant? And don't worry about being the most graceful person at Zumba -- everyone's just thinking about how they look like a dancing hippo while the person next to them is so much more elegant. Just rock out to the music! I think iPhones have a magnetic attraction for bodies of water. My daughter managed to drop one down the loo while *outside the bathroom* -- she tripped and it just flew in a really unfortunate trajectory.
@Kris: I saw the Dove video, and I agree that we're our own worst critics, but I also agree with the criticisms that there's a lot of both anti-fat sentiment expressed in the video, and a fair amount of cultural judgment about what 'good-looking' consists of too. None of it's intentional, it just slips out under the radar.
@Lin: Let us know how the strength training goes!
@Susan: Do please focus on what you've already achieved, and try not to beat yourself up. Starting a new job is always a really hard time for weight loss.
@tlh0407: I've been talking about a 'plateau' recently, but honestly, it's not a plateau. I've been eating a bit more and exercising a bit less, and behold! The scale does not move.
@Kelley: I can limit myself to one glass of wine as long as it's a very, very big glass.
@Robin: The first car we had looked so battered when we eventually traded it in that the dealer asked us if we'd been rallying... There's something about living in London that means you don't get every scrape fixed; your insurance would go through the roof. But the *next* car, we had from nearly-new and then sold when it was 11 years old. But we got a top of the end valeting before we sold it privately; and it looked *amazing* when we sold it; a lot of those little scrapes and bumps were very amenable to whatever magic it is they do on them.
@eBailey: are you doing a 5k in July, or something longer? If it's a 5k then you don't need to start training till mid-May, which will give you longer to get used to Insanity. If you get into the practice of taking a 30 minute brisk walk on your Insanity days off, that will set you up well for starting C25k. If it's a longer race then I'd get started now, and just don't do Insanity on your running days.
@Rachael: Really good to see an update from you! And *how brilliant* is that profile photo? You're doing so well. One of the things we have here that I love is parkrun and the Sweatshop run club -- both do weekly (or even more often) 5k runs that are *free* to enter. parkrun is global but I don't think there's much in the US yet, and Sweatshop is a British shop. But there may be similar things near you.
@Kaye: Hope your knee is on the mend.
@Laurie: I always think I've done well with the exercise, but I get tired just hearing about your workouts!

Welcome to all of the newlings! This is a wonderful thread full of wonderful people and we're all on this great, long, journey together.

-- Alison

Good Morning, My knee feels pretty good this morning, but I haven't done anything yet. Yesterday I didn't try to go for a walk. I iced it a lot, too. Today I think that I will try a short walk and see what happens. I don't have access to a pool or a gym. The city pool is an outdoor pool and only open from Memorial Day until school starts in mid-August. I am hydrophobic anyway, so I don't swim. They do offer an early morning water aerobics class during the summer. I may have to get a suit and try doing that. To be honest though, if the dr. thinks I need another new knee, I will get it as soon as he can do it. That will put me down for most of the summer, but I would be ready to take the baby by the time school starts up in the fall.
The sleep specialist was very impressed with the weight I have lost. Last night I slept with an oximeter to see if I can get rid of the oxygen at night.
There are so many things that I would like to comment on, but I haven't mastered the art of remembering who did what. Know that I am reading daily and am so inspired by the successes and the perseverance through the rough patches. Karen, good job on the quitting smoking. I have never smoked, but I know that it is very addictive, and it takes real dedication to quit.
Tuesday goal: To figure how to get some exercise without irritating my knee too much.
Have a good day. Kaye