Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Thank you for all the kind words.

Friday fitness: Walk walk walk. Might take my sweet deppykins to the dog park this weekend and I always get a lot of walking in there because the place is pretty big and I like to walk around and little deppy follows me around. It's been great having him with me. He is learning to be independent which is hard for a pup raised in an apartment.

Mowmow I looked at the link but it said the author deleted it.

Have a great day.
Helena

@Kris~Oh, what a welcome surprise the extra cash was. Yay!!! I tried to look at the bike you found on Craig’s List, but looks like the listing was taken down.

The woman took it down. I had already emailed her and she responded that while her daughter didn't use the bike any longer she flipped out when Mom posted it on Craigslist so she removed it. BOOOO. It worked out for the best, I wanted to read up on bicycle maintenance and care before I got one. I'd also need to pick up the ULock, cable, basket for the back, and a few other things. I'll get those and set them aside and study up (bought Bicycle Repair & Maintence for dummies last night)... so when the right one comes along I can snap it up and get riding (or falling) right away.

What a FANTASTIC idea! Can you share the link to your dad's journal again? I'd like to follow his adventures.

http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=14408

Hi everyone.

Hope you all are having a healthy day!

Quote of the day: - Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown

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Kaye- Walking a baby certainly counts as exercise. Glad your knee held up.

macbeth- your wilderness adventure sounds great and I would do something like that as well, especially when I was heavier. Even now, I am still obese and would feel more comfortable knowing the equipment could accommodate a larger frame.

Robin- love the picture of the dog.

Karen- I can total understand not accomplishing what we want during open periods. Today, I was going to finish my grading after school but instead ended up planning for next week with a co-worker, then making copies and before I knew it 5pm had arrived. I was also planning during my 6th period. My kids are going crazy and ready for summer to be here. In reality, so am I but we still have 29 days of school left this year.

Meloncoly- Tlh is right about the chiropractor and helping with Vertigo. It has to do something that floats in the fluid in the semi-circular canals found near the inner ear. When these things get out of wack or out of balance we start to feel dizzy- hence Vertigo. A chiropractor does a specific movement with your head that shakes up the floaty things which helps to get you back in balance. When the vertigo comes back take note of which way the room is spinning and let your doctor know. Vertigo is no fun and I hope you get over it soon.

Update- My trainer was suppose to go rock climbing with me but he chicken out tonight. :explode: He did not even have the courtesy to come right out and say that did not want to climb.:grumble: He brushed it off as he was waiting to hear from his 6:30 appointment if they could move to 5:30pm and that was at 1:30 today. :mad: :mad: :mad: He knew about this climb for over a week since he choose the date and he waited until the last minute to clear his schedule. I am truly disappointed in him. Part of me wants to send him an email but I am guessing that won't make an impact, I could just blow off my next session with him but that won't make me feel better. Now, I need to decide how I am going to handle it. Not even an email to say he was sorry for not showing up or canceling. I do realize that he can not be counted on to be true to his word and he has lost a great deal of creditability with me and now I have no desire to work my butt off for him or meet a new challenge. I will be interested to see if he offers to reschedule but I have no hope in that either. Even if he does, my trust in him is lost for now.

I did use my anger with him to climb harder walls tonight and it felt good. The walls were challenging but I made it to the top of a couple of 5.8 and 5.9's. That has to do with the level of difficulty with 5.0 being easy, 5.10+ being very difficult. I am climbing at the intermediate range.

Grading goals
Regrades done
comic strips 60/90 one class to go.
7th grade filter projects 0/29

Hi all,

I am looking to join a motivation group, and this seemed like the right one. My name is Michelle.

I have had my thyroid removed, and medication doesn't always fix everything. Most people without a thyroid have trouble with weight creeping up even if we are doing everything right.

I am also in a job where I am increasingly in the public eye, and I'm a bit uncomfortable with that without extra weight, so the weight certainly isn't helping. And yet, I spend a lot of time at my computer, so I sit way too much.

On the exercise side, I'm a tribal bellydancer, and I love it. I do tribal fusion and American Tribal Style. Part of this is a commitment to practice a bit more, as I'm at an intermediate level and the challenges and performances are starting to get higher. I'm not interested in making that a professional gig, just having fun, but my troupe still has several performances this summer, and having my tummy sticking out makes me very nervous (tribal costumes are actually pretty modest, but they do show belly).

Good morning. Me and a coworker are sadly in the office this beautiful Saturday morning. It's cool but in a refreshing way.

Saturday success: While I did not walk last night I did weedwack and edge both my front yard and back yard. I will definitely be walking today if not biking with my sister.

Again thank you all for your kind words.

Des: I know I shouldn't worry until we get the results but I overheard my mom on the phone with a nurse talking about how it looks like it could possibly be terminal. That really freaked me out. I am trying to stay calm. She has had this mass longer than shes told the dr. but I am just really glad she finally decided to take action. I think she had some sort of epiphany because previously she would say how if she had cancer she wouldn't do treatment and now she wants to fight it (which is soooo great to hear).

Have a great weekend!
Helena

This is a great thread, I want to join in!

*waves* I'm Laura... 30, married 7 years this July, mom of one (he's almost 17months), and as of my last weigh-in, 214 pounds. I've been on MFP since mid-February, and I'm down 26 pounds from my starting weight of 240. I started w/ MFP numbers and switched to IPOARM (TDEE-20%) about two weeks in when MFP dropped me below 1600 cals and I started gaining! Thankfully going to a different strategy worked wonders. I've dropped from a size 22 jean (and the stretchy kind at that) to a non-stretchy 16. They're both from CJ Banks (a company I highly recommend for the plus-sized, their stuff is cute and actually fits well), so my short term goal is to be in a standard Walmart size 16 (Old Navy or Faded Glory or some such) by the end of the summer. I stalled out recently for about 3 weeks, maintaining the 214, but considering how busy I was and the fact that there were tasty sugary baked goods all over my kitchen, I'm not complaining. I've been getting back on the logging habit the last several days, and I'm already seeing downward movement on the scale again, though my official weigh-in day isn't until Sunday.

Ultimate goal is 140 pounds, or 100 pounds exactly from where I started. And I don't want "skinny-fat" either, I want muscles at that 140, thanks! Last month I added plain body-weight squats to my exercises, because I was starting to have a jeans-sliding-off-the-backside issue that I do not appreciate one little bit! Mama got back, and I intend to keep it! I haven't weighed 140 pounds since I was about 17, and I thought I was a cow then (thank you, 5'9" 135lb mother built like a 70s swimsuit model). It's gonna be nice to wear 12s again (I've always been a curvacious girlie, size 8 is NOT gonna happen) and appreciate the beauty of that 140 pound body.

214. Only 15 pounds away from One-derland, which I haven't seen since I was married in 2006 (got down to 180ish for the wedding). BUT, I realized the other day that I'm 8 pounds BELOW my pre-pregnancy weight! WOOT! I am currently wearing the smallest tightest pair of jeans that I own (CJ Banks 16) and they're comfy. As in, sit cross-legged while I nurse my toddler to sleep comfy. I have no shorts that actually fit (all 18s & above) so I need to do some clothes shopping for the summer. Gonna be Goodwill though... saving the REAL shopping bash for that goal-weight celebration when I really will need an entirely new wardrobe because NOTHING I currently own will fit.

My major carrot-bait-motivation right now is my promised reward for getting to 180 pounds... A Flirty Girl Fitness package, the whole bells & whistles version with all the DVDs, the boa, and the dancer's pole... because 180 is the safety weight limit on said pole! There's also a Flirty Girl Fitness gym in my area, and I'm thinking I'll join up at that point because they have some awesome looking classes.

*peeks back at the intro post* Okay, is Saturday. NSVs, weekly positives, check. I got back on the logging horse this week, scrounged up the $$ for a bin of salad (I buy the pre-mixed in the 1pound tubs) even though payday isn't until next week, and walked (WALKED) the half mile to the play park while pushing my 25 pound son in his 30 pound stroller. It's one of those giganto travel-system things and it really does weigh about 30 pounds, esp with my laptop in the bottom carry-all so I have mah tunes! I made some great contacts for my bakery (launched just before Easter) and tomorrow I'm delivering an order of my iced sugar cookies. I've (mostly) finished building the bakery's website, and I'm just about ready to add it to the business cards I'm having printed after payday.

Saturday success was climbing the harder walls. I will most likely climb Monday night and see if I can handle the wall at my gym.

This will be a tough and busy week for exercise:
Saturday- rest day
Sunday- 14 mile bike ride with a friend
Monday- Trainer workout- Unless I get totally angry with him for bailing on me Friday night.
Tuesday-Gym if my meeting doesn't go to late
Wednesday- gym if I skip a meeting that way I can workout and pack
Thursday-Friday- I will be touring New York City- that will be plenty of walking to see the different sites including Battery Park. Not counting calories but will log in.
Saturday- Recovery day