Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

@Kaye - so glad you're home! Hope the recovery continues to go well and you are back to long walks and big losses in no time! :flowerforyou:
@KarenLeona - hope you were able to travel to see your new grandbaby and that your recovery is progressing well too, so you can bike to your heart's content.
@Kelley - glad your trainer is stretching what ails you, hope it helps!
@Tom - yes, even with our very different-than-planned hiking trip, fitbit recorded 33,931 steps and 121 floors for the two-day trip. Whew! No wonder my muscles were stiff. :laugh: Imagine if we had stayed out for the full four days? I hope you will have (or are having - can't remember when you leave) a gloriously wonderful trip to the national parks. Arches is absolutely one of my favorites! I know your fitbit steps will rise on such a trip, so I better start taking the dogs out for long daily walks again, if I want to stay ahead (turns out I'm much more competitive than I thought I was :noway: ).
@Laurie - you are most definitely an athlete! Have you ever considered starting a Rock Climbing Meet Up Group? I bet people would come to that and it might be a good way to make some friends with similar interests. In our area, there is also a Triathlon Training Meet Up group, which could be good for you too.... they meet for a swim and run or a bike and run or a mini-tri and other such stuff...
@Susan - I thought the same thing about Disney Cruises and all the kids (especially since I don't even have kids) but I've been on two now with my brother's family and it's not like that at all. The boat is big, the kids have plenty of activities to keep them busy and many chances to make friends, and there are several adults-only venues to retreat to (after you drop Cyrus at his club). I think you would be surprised how much you might enjoy it. Either way, glad the business travel is coming to a close (for now) and you will get to spend some time away with your boy.
@Robin - love the new profile picture and so glad you ran with the last-minute invitation and had a fun night with friends! Everyone needs/deserves that once in a while!!!! :drinker:
@Suzee - I love my fitbit! IMHO, definitely worth the money as it's a constant motivator!
@Tammy - so great that you're getting so much done and enjoying the time with your hubby. I think it's a terrific plan to try to maintain for the month that he's home and focus on losing again when he's back at work.
@Karen - yup, our trip went nothing like we planned, but the wilderness has a mind of its own. I've always liked this quote from one of my favorite authors, which seems appropriate to the situation: “Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ~ John Steinbeck. I hope it doesn't apply quite as well to your trip as it did to ours! But either way, please enjoy your great adventure, wherever it takes you!!! :happy:

Ok, I stopped feeling sorry for myself and did some research. I've reset my goals to account for the changes in protein level. I've got a game plan and have prelogged my meals through next Monday. I'll have to use up what I bought Wednesday on my main shopping trip 'cause I just can't afford to replace everything.... but I'll swing by the grocery store tonight and pick up the few things that I"ll be missing. I'll do more research this weekend and clean out my freezer/fridge to get rid of the stuff that isn't condusive to the new macros so on Tuesday when I go shopping again I'll be prepared. I'll also sit down this weekend and prelog the entire week so I know what and when I'm eating.

Kaye - SO glad to hear your home and doing well. I'm sure that little weight that's left is just water retention after the surgery. I have NO doubt you'll get rid of it in NO time.
MacBeth - I've been stalking your dad's journey so I heard about your 'mishaps'. Your adventures always so sound much fun to me (even the less than perfect ones).
Laurie - I agree with Beth, imo you ARE an athlete... trainers, rock climbing, etc. Sounds like an athlete to me!
Susan (and others) - I've been on *TONS* of cruises. My ex husband and I used to love cruising (as does the rest of my family). We always went Royal Carribean. It's jsut where we started and we became loyal customers.

Welcome to all the newlings. I've been haunting the boards so I saw you all, but didnt' stop to say hi or welcome.

Hopefully, he'll be up in your neck of the woods in a month or so!

If he needs a couch to crash on, or a hot shower, or a low sodium, low carb, low fat, low protein meal let me know!

Hopefully, he'll be up in your neck of the woods in a month or so!

If he needs a couch to crash on, or a hot shower, or a low sodium, low carb, low fat, low protein meal let me know!

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@Kris - Best Offer Ever!!! :bigsmile: Thanks!

@Suzee -- Don't let my one mis-adventure dissuade you from hiking! I've had many good trips too... but, yes, it's always a bit of a crapshoot when you head out into the woods. Many thru-hikers keep a journal of their travels and one of the most popular sites for that is trailjournals.com -- you can follow people on almost any trail. In past years, I've looked at a few until I find one I really like, and then followed that person. This year is all about my dad. I follow his -- http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=14408 -- plus a few other hikers who are near him on the trail. Dad's got tons of people from my hometown of Toledo following him and always wants to keep the journal updated, but unfortunately he's out of internet range much of the time and when he's not, he's usually too tired or focused on other things to post. I have to bug him to put in an entry every once in a while. For the day-to-day stuff, he's given the responsibility to me... I put where he started and stopped and what he passed along the way, but since I'm not there it's devoid of the details and emotions. You might do better to follow someone else. :laugh: Dad carries a GPS/SOS device (Delorme) that he can use to call out a Search and Rescue if something goes horribly wrong, which he also uses to send electronic "breadcrumbs" so we can follow him on the trail, even when he's out of range. It's pretty cool.

@Kelley -- I almost forgot to say HOLY CRAP AND EE GHADS!!!! There are fish in that-there water?! That changes everything!! :laugh: Yup, and snakes and snapping turtles, too, from what I've been told. Yikes. Hope I never encounter one of those-there critters. You were absolutely BRILLIANT to lose weight BEFORE your Alaska trip. Why didn't I think of that?! Zoinks. I'm sure you will look great on your Panama Canal cruise next year and when you're snorkeling in Cayman at least you'll have flippers so they can't nibble your toes! :bigsmile:

Ok, I'm headed out for a hike and a swim, so I'll stop blowing up the board for a while. Seems I'm hot or cold on here. :laugh:

Beth- I will need to look into a triathlon meet up group, I am finding a few people in the meet up group that I belong to are interested in doing a sprint triathlon. Several of us will be meeting up on Sunday to go bike riding around BWI airport about 11 miles. The rock climbing group would be interesting but I am not an outdoor climber yet, that is a new skill for me to learn. It requires learning how to lead climb basically increasing your chances of falling a larger distance because you need to hook the rope into the next carabineer before you move higher. I watch those people doing at the gym and I am thinking no way. Right now I am happy to stick with Top Roping- where you are tied into a harness and you will not fall as far. Where is your Dad now on the trail?

Kris- I hope you can figure out the diet restrictions. Whole grains and veggies have been helping me to feel fuller since my trainer told me to reduce the amount of protein I was eating.

Kaye- Welcome home. It is always good to be home.

Robin- Great picture.

Thursday truth- I spent yesterday at a party and had a wonderful time. I ate way to much junk food and did not get in any exercise. So today, I started to make up for it by going to the gym this morning for a light workout just walking and some biking then tonight I went climbing.

Fitness- Working on running and drills for running with some weight training mixed in.

Exercise Goals for the week
Sunday- Swim DONE
Monday- 5K training workout with trainer DONE
Tuesday- Swim DONE
Wednesday- core NOT DONE Rest
Thursday- Rest Happy 4th DONE
Friday- Climbing and walking workout DONE
Saturday- bike: change to gym due to the heat but at least we had a break from the rain.

I need to get back on track with exercise or eating since I have been indulging in to many treats lately.

Hi all, back and trying to get on track. Made a lovely almond milk, fruit and protein shake for breakfast this morning. I'm trying to plan more meals as this helps. My little 2 yr. old grandson is coming for dinner tonight and making baked salmon (he likes it too) and rice and veggies. I really want to keep up my motivation. Love reading everyone posts, very motivating.

I totally forgot to share a wonderful positive during my business trip last week. When I graduated from college YEARS ago, I spent 6 years as a nanny. My very first job was a live-in with first time parents and a 6-month old little boy, Alex. We lived in Connecticut outside of Stamford. It was lovely. Well, I've stayed in touch with the family who now lives in Exton, PA, which is outside of Philly. I was able to have dinner with them and spent the night at their house.

Well, Alex graduated last year from Virginia. He spent the past 9 months living in a small village outside of Spain teaching English to children. On July 9th, he's leaving from San Francisco and biking across the U.S. landing in Baltimore. I'm so proud of him and to see the man he has become. His mom's a nervous wreck as he's biking by himself, but when he sets a goal he's so determined. I need to learn from him now.

Saturday success: Today I walked 7 blocks for my exercise, just a little further everyday should do the trick. Also went to JoAnn Fabrics for some yarn, and did a little grocery shopping.
Robin, I love your new picture. The close up makes you seem more "real". I like to know what my friends look like.
It sounds like everyone is having a busy weekend. Just keep logging and posting. Kaye

I do almost anything that uses yarn, thread or fabric. The yarn this time is for some crocheted potholders and knit dishcloths for wedding presents. I really love to cross-stitch, too. If you look at my pictures, you will find 2 of my latest projects.

Hi all, like some other folks I'm wandering back in after an absence. I don't recall any longer, but I think it was May when I was here last. And I was talking about getting yelled at by my trainer for not committing to healthy eating (he's right), with a trip coming up.

Welllll.... the trip went great. The eating didn't, but the trip did. Even with the broken arm.

Yes, I broke my left arm. Doing jump-spins on roller skates. (At the roller rink during a class, even!) Landed it several times, then my foot came out from under me and I caught myself on my left hand. So I got a nice compression fracture and a cast, which I took to California with me. Six weeks later the cast came off, and I'm now doing hand/wrist OT exercises to get my range of motion back. In the meantime, the trainer has had me doing lower body/ab stuff, which came in handy when I went for a 2-hour horseback ride last weekend. Trotting on a VERY large horse would have been much tougher without all the squats.

I've also changed my approach. I attended a seminar at the conference in California by a specialist in cognitive-behavior therapy. She and her daughter (also a therapist) run a weight-loss program based in CBT principles. Got me researching on Amazon, and I found their book (The Beck Diet Solution by Judith Beck), plus another book by a different person with the same last name, who doesn't appear to be related. I'm reading the latter one -- it's called The Four-Day Win, by Martha Beck -- and not only is it incredibly funny, it's focused on the problem I'm really having. The one where the rational brain wants to eat less to lose weight and be healthier and the emotional brain says, "Uh, NO. I'd like an iced venti white chocolate mocha, please. Now." And because the emotional brain always wins in the long run, here I am having put back 30 lbs of the 60 I'd lost last year.

So I decided to put the weight loss efforts on pause, because I am really just not mentally on my game at the moment, and go through the exercises. My first 4-Day Win was logging onto MFP daily again, since I'd lost that habit on vacation. It got me logging my food again, which is good. The most recent 4-Day Win was to make note of when I find myself in Famine Brain and I want to eat ALL THE FOODS RIGHT NOW, but mostly chocolate. Usually, it happens before breakfast or if I've delayed eating for some reason. Like, for example, right now. I'm hungry. Should probably get a healthy snack before I go bust through the cabinet of crap that one of my colleagues helpfully stocked in the on-call room.

Anyway, I know that the mental process not being in sync with the desire to lose is a hardship for many of us, so thought I'd pop on and share. Links to the books, if you're interested:

Beck Diet Solution: http://www.amazon.com/The-Beck-Diet-Solution-Person/dp/B002PJ4I2U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373153960&sr=8-1&keywords=diet+beck

The Four-Day Win: http://www.amazon.com/Four-Day-Win-Achieve-Thinner-Peace/dp/1594868123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373154725&sr=1-1&keywords=4-day+win+beck

Note that this is not a testimonial. I'm not that far along. But I know when I'm not mentally in the game, and I'm hoping that one or both of these books can help me get there.

Hi guys!

Robin inspired me to update my pictures. Both are from the mud run I did last weekend--I'm the one in the pink.

I knew you were competing, but couldn't remember when it was. I love the new picture and what a HUGE accomplishment. So proud of you. Hope it was a blast!!!

Hey everyone !! I'm new to the thread and my name is Meaghan! I am current 227 lbs -_- & I need to lose 100+ lbs I am staying away from the scale every during the month because it discourages me :sad: