Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

I lost 2 more pounds this week ! 32 to go by the end of September for my short term goal to loose 40 by the time i turn 40 !
Starting back on the 3 day diet again today it worked pretty good for me last week !
Happy Monday to everyone !

Hi everyone. Sorry I didnt check n yesterday. I was POOPED. I went and started my strength training and then did 25 min of cardio after that. From there I went to the store and pushed a huge bag of potting soil around the store for 30 min while I did the rest of the shopping. Then it was home and back out into the back yard to get some more work done. Then One of my team members from the gym called and reminded me it was the night for the kickboxing takeover. I went and lasted 30 of the 60 min and that was it my body said nope I am done. I was pretty sore by the time I got home but I cuddled up with my heating pad and by this morning I was still feeling lots of new muscles but more an ache than actual pain.

you're awesome because i would have been like, are you nuts? i'm not going to that :laugh: good work!

Well I finally replaced the battery in my scale and I am down 6 pounds!

that's an amazing loss!

Found out i am going to have my second knee replacement done on June 10....Yikes!!

wow, good luck and fingers crossed for you for a quick recovery.

Toots - unpacking is a real calorie burner - and I imagine with that big house you are losing a lot of things after you put them away!

yeah, especially in the kitchen. but if i ever run out of things to put away the garage is still full of crap too so no worries :laugh:

I really have to say,after reading 100's of posts,and quite fitting that relm....hello...My name is Debora....friends call me Deb. I love your open realistic approach to our quandary of weight loss. Thank you soooooooooooooooooo much for spelling it out. Its steps every day..every minute that emulate our behavior to reach that ever loving successful end! Your new are my new person to follow...please friend me for inspiration and encouragement.

welcome deb!

Sunday share -- for the new peeps. I'm Alison, and I live in London, England, in a ramshackle late-Victorian terrace in which everything is falling down. Ha! We were in IKEA today and they said 'let us come round and look at your house for our research and see how you use IKEA products and we'll give you a £50 IKEA gift card.' So I signed up and am awaiting their call. The poor girl whose job it was to get people to sign up said 'I've been told to get 100 people and I only got 7 all day yesterday and you're the first today.' So I think the £50 bounty is not quite enough. Though £50 for an hour of my time tax-free is good enough for me really. Anyway, we will obviously have to TIDY THE ENTIRE HOUSE before they come. Which would in fact be good. Ahem. Anyway. My partners in shabby squalor are my husband and my two kids, daughter aged 16 (permanently attached to phone) and son aged 12 (permanently attached to Minecraft).

well, that sounds like it could be cool. you'll have to keep us updated as to what they do. my 12 year old is attached to minecraft too. i don't get it. looks stupid to me.

I lost 2 more pounds this week ! 32 to go by the end of September for my short term goal to loose 40 by the time i turn 40 !
Starting back on the 3 day diet again today it worked pretty good for me last week !
Happy Monday to everyone !

i love this idea and you can totally do this. and i'm inspired to change my long term goal too based on what you've just said. i have a couple of years before i turn 40. approximately 2.5 years. so my goal is to weigh my goal weight, which happens to BE 140, by the time i'm 40. i really like it. thanks for the idea.

Thank you everyone

@suzee71 - thank you, the hard part for me is appreciating myself and trying to share me intimately when I feel icky looking in the mirror. :embarassed: I'm working on overcoming my self image. It's funny and sad everyone around me seems to think I'm this amazingly confident and happy person. Most of the time I can't figure out what reality they must be living in becuase I don't feel that way and don't know why they think I do. Then I realize that I must be an amazing actress, covering up my discomfort.

@skinnyjeanzbo - "Why, Thank you!" :happy: That is a really good thought, and your right. I can't accept compliments because I don't think I deserve them and then the hard part is believing the person trying to tell me that I'm ______ ! So in my head I have that battle of how can I trust them if I think their crazy/lying/being kind?

@BohemianCoast - I know in my head it's true, it's just hard to feel it sometimes. Winter is the worst for the duldrums. and "can you try to spot all the things that make you a *wonderful* person *right now*, just the way you are?" yeah I fall into this trap of something else will make me happy all the time, now my focus is less about thin and more about pain free! I started this journey 2-3 years ago and was 314 pounds at my heaviest. Last summer I was so happy with myself becuase I got down to 240, and then over the winter slumped and got back up to 274, sighs. so I count every week this spring where I am rededicting myself to being healthy and active as a win.

Monday checkin: whooo hoooo lost another pound this weekend and kept under my calorie count.

JTConst - You're doing so great! Really kicking some butt!
Allison - For what it's worth, I think you're doing amazing on this journey! You've come SO far and to be at 180 is AWESOME!
Mo11y - I can relate to how hard it is and the frustration with yourself for KNOWING what you have to do and wondering why you just don't *%&#Q(*&%(#*$()@$*)#$*@)$) do it! :laugh:
Mr. M. - What an awesome way to spend a work day! Those are some great little cars!
Susancanbethin - I can relate to that inner sloth. Mine seems to be taking over my life these days. I've been excited as heck and waiting for the sun and it finally appeared this weekend. It was GORGEOUS... and I spent the entire weekend playing video games. Yup, rainy and icky today but I'm resolved to walk to and from work for the rest of this week. THat will force at least 2.5 miles per day out of me!
Macbeth - I've bookmarked that page, I sure hope they post along the way because I'm fascinated and jealous! It's a great idea!
Tina - I can relate. I've calcuated that it will take me about 4 months to take off what I've put on in 1 month. That ticks me off, BIG TIME!
Marca - I'm so sorry you're having to go through that. Good thoughts headed your way and hoping you can find time for YOU!
TH0407 - I've looked into Bountiful baskets and MAN I wish that had tha where I am. The closes is a 45 minute drive north. :grumble:
Deb - Welcome! This is an amazing group of people. This process would be impossible if it weren't for these people!
Susan - I think that's quite realistic. Maintenance until you feel able to commit to weight loss. You're making healthier choices and getting in exercise, I think that's great with all that you've got going on!
Stapia - Welcome! I used to love the fried stuff too, but I've found my tastes have changed. Now things seem TOO sweet or TOO salty or TOO heavy. I prefer the cleaner foods.... now if I can just remember to STOP eating them when I've hit my calorie goals, I'll be happy.

Monday - Bad. It was a BAD weekend. Sunny and gorgeous and I spent it inside playing video games and eating too much. I guess I had SO much fun the previous weekend I wanted a redo? I don't know. At least I managed to get my apartment cleaned and some decent cooking done for this week (including a very fail chicken and rice casserole that fed my garbage disposal).

Have good food packed for work today and ZERO money to cheat with so, I know the rest of this week will be decent eating. TOnight I'm resolved to do my old yoga CD that I always loved so much but felt that I had grown out of (I've pretty much 'grown' back into it now). It will be a good way to get my body moving and all of my VERY tight muscles stretched out a bit.

Ahh Monday! Here's to a new week! I have been holding pretty steady on the weight for April (2 pounds) and I've only been over my calories 5 days total in April (and only 2 of them were beyond 100 calories), so something has to change. When I've calculated my calories in the past, it told me I should be eating more, but that seemed so counter productive :noway: However, after a full month of doing pretty darn good on my diet and not really losing, I'm going to give it a shot. And I'm doing a zig zag -- we'll see -- Luckily my highest calorie day falls on Tuesday which coincides with my sister's birthday dinner. :bigsmile:

Today is Day 1 of my next 7 days and I am focussed on it again. My plan for today -- eat below my calories (so far so good) and I'm going to Water In Motion Aerobics class and then going to do some weights after that. My kids and husband know the plan and he's going to feed them supper!! YAY!!!:flowerforyou:

@ Stapia -- my aunt had issues with her knee replacements from several years back. My mom had hers redone in 2006/2007 and they were a big success. My aunt had her's redone this past winter - much better the second time.
@MyMOwMOw -- wish I had given up some of my weekend for cleaning. My house is a distaster, and apparently it's going to stay that way until at least Friday as this is a VERY busy week for us. My goal until Friday is to keep ahead of my dishes and the floors cleared. :grumble: But I know a good dusting and floor washing is on the horizon!!
Also, the no money is a good deterrant -- when I worked in the office, I tried to only have $10 bills or higher. Our machines wouldnt' take them them :devil:
@LaurieK -- finally got the 150 leg raises in -- boy they were hard!!

Hope your Monday is going well.

Monday check in: I am back from my visit to family. It was a good visit. My father is getting quieter and weaker, but still doing pretty well. He said that he enjoyed hearing us reminisce because his memory has "disappearing ink" now. It was sweet.
My left knee is still very bad. I tried going for walk with my cane, and taking it slow, but it was very painful and seemed to have long term consequences. I guess I will just have keep my calories low and do without exercise for a while.
I am sure that I will show a gain on the scales, but I'm going to give myself a few days to get back on track before I claim any gain.
I haven't had a chance to read any posts yet. I hope that you are all doing well.
Kaye

Hello Everyone,

Today was weigh in - no loss and no gain just the same. I had hope to see a negative my clothes are fitting looser but guess I should be happy for not going up.

Recover from the Autism Walk/Run. I was in the 2nd wave so that was the 2.5 mile walk seem back to normal Today went to the Y for water jogging and clean house that was my day. Tomorrow back to work.


The walk was harder for me than I thought it was going to be. Now I despise how prideful that was. Since I haven't done more than a mile on the treadmill. I did it and I wasnt last. I did ok at 1st but the 2nd half it was puffing all the way. Didn't allow myself to stop till finished. At the end a group picture was taken I of course stand in back you see my white neck and lobster red face lil. Pretty ugly.

I have till August to get ready for a 5k The Color Dash I am convicted to increase my workouts.


Liz from Idaho

Just checking in.

@Liz. Omg! You did fantastic! You finished and you didn't stop. I don't care how red I was I would be smiling ear to ear,

@ Laurie. Don't get down you never know what the future might be. It may be even better than you can imagine. I know those emotions can take over but don't let it bring you down.

@Kaye. Glad you got to spend some time with your dad. Sorry your knee is acting up. Hope you can get it taken are of soon.

@Helen. Glad to see you are from Texas even though you are at the other end of the state. I'm in Amarillo
@tlh. Keep up the good work. Sounds like you have a good plan,

Hope everyone else is doing well.

Hi Everyone,

I have 141 pounds to lose (25 Stone, 1 Pound to 15 Stone) and today was my first weigh in, I lost 17 pounds.I'm really happy with my first week, eating the calories recommended by MFP and attending an OA Meeting yesterday and the Monday before has really helped to kick start my weight loss. I decided to give up my extremely unhealthy lifestyle last Monday night after an OA meeting, I have always knew that I was killing myself but going to a meeting really made it hit home and so my journey begins.

Now that I have the first week behind me and a support group in both MFP and OA I really feel that losing this weight will be possible. I attended the gym this morning for a health check to get all my measurements, blood pressure etc.. I was told i'd need to see the doctor before coming back, got an appointment today as my blood pressure and hip to waist ratio was causing the nutrition guy some concern.

Now i'm hoping for a 2 pound loss this week, I really don't want to lose it quickly as I don't want to put in the hard work and then be left needing surgery because of excess skin. However I understand that it might an inevitability considering the weigh I need to lose.

Well Done on everyone's progress, I look forward to being a part of this group, where we can all provide motivation and support for those who are in it for the long haul.

Thanks, Matthew

I should actually introduce myself a little bit, because I don't think I've said much on the forums. I'm 22 and have over 100 pounds to lose. I don't have a GW yet, so no specific number really. I've only tried to lose weight once before, and I did very well. I started at 305 and lost 92 pounds. I got down to 213, raced in a 5k, and lots of other cool stuff.

I then gained most of the weight back, even though I promised myself I never would. Ever since I came to terms with what I had let happen, I've been feeling crappy about it. I still tell people I've lost 22 pounds (because I didn't go back to 305, thankfully). I'm trying to do this in a way that is maintainable and works for me. I don't want to be the person who constantly loses large amounts of weight and gains it all back.

I've been here at MFP since 2009 but I rarely post on the forums. Until now, actually. If anyone needs support, they can add me, I'll friend anyone.