Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Great job, Marca. Those are great milestones. Kaye

Saturday success- I did a lot of gardening today and ate fairly well. I didn't have time to track it but I'll input the data later. I feel like I had a great day today.

Tomorrow I plan on sitting down and working out a calendar for myself. My calendar will include what days I plan on working out and what exactly I'll be doing and my menus. My menus will include snacks. I feel like planning like this will be beneficial to me so I can properly stay on track. It will also help me plan my macros out better than an on the fly kind of thing. I think I am really starting to get serious about this which is good. I think before I didn't really have my whole heart in this which was my downfall.

Have a good day/night.
Helena

P.s. please forgive my spelling mistakes if I made any. I'm doing this on my new phone with a Swype keyboard and I'm fairly tired so I don't feel like checking for mistakes right now. Goodnight!

@ Helena,
I like your plan to plan! It makes such a difference than winging it!
I've done both, and planning just makes my life easier, really.
I get my lunch & snacks ready the night before. Sometimes I do all of them on Sunday PM, then just have to pull them out that AM.
Remember, you start where you are, Helena . . . give yourself a lot of credit for beginning anew!
Best of luck!
Lynne

Good afternoon I'm making a big bowl of Mexican quinoa salad type thing, that will last me a couple of days. Had a huge breakfast so just laying low for the rest of the day. Definitely not been hungry yet.

Sunday Share: A little about me - I've been married 20 years and have an 18 year old girl and nearly 17 year old boy. We live in SW Missouri near Springfield. We have a pommie named Tyson. He's the meanest kid of all Very protective of his family.

I've been really BORED today...I think I'm going to go sit out in the sun before it goes down, hope you all are having a terrific Sunday!
Carla

ETA: @ Allie, great job getting back to it and recommiting! You got this!

Toots - I'm with you. I'm starting to have runner's envy. I'd love to compete (or at least participate in) a 2 or 5 K some day. I'm making it a future goal. Good luck to you too!

ohh we can compare notes.

Toots- C25K is a great program.... IF you make it fit YOU!!! I and several folks I know start out trying to do the whole first day and fail and think, "I could NEVER do this!" This time around, I did what I called "Floor to Couch". Meaning I started out doing LESS that week 1 day 1 and worked up. It took me 5 weeks to finish week 1 but I did it and am now doing 3 and 5 min. run intervals and out pacing friends who are smaller and more fit than I!!! Remember YOUR pace is what is important( faster OR slower than the program).... when you can do a workout and think, well that wasn't bad, move on to the next week. Get to it girl!!! Your cheerleaders are here and we are READY!!!

Toots - Start out slow. It is an effort for me to walk 20 minutes. But having a goal is great and I'm sure you can do anything if you really want to

Toots- I think you can run a marathon just remembers to take it slow and easy when starting out. Couch to 5K is a great way to start or look for some local walks/fun runs in your area they are typically 1 mile.

Yeah, i basically plan to do that. several weeks, three to four, of just walking before starting the actual C25K

Check in 3 weeks
Hi my name is Ann 349.5 next weigh in Monday morning. Goals keep going, make four weeks, and drink my water.
In California ( fitness state) Have a great dog her name is Hailey live in the country. I’m a Grandmother love my grand kids. Mother of two daughter and son . Paint, play piano, guitar and love to fish.
I do feel alone, normally I complain that no one understands what its like to be so large. These complaints are mostly in my head, every one I know is thin. To lumber about in pain, family feels I did it to myself its my problem not there’s its true I guess. Husband wants me lose weight as long as it does not interfere with his life after all he does not have a problem.
Then searching calories on the net I found my fitness pal and its like so many people understand and I don’t feel so alone in my struggles to control my weight. I’m so happy that others cheer you on and understand. I don’t want to be a whinny cat any more. When I read other peoples struggles and success I feel maybe I can do it too. This is the first time I can talk about weight and not feel so condemned.
Thank you for being there!!

Happy Sunday!

It’s been a super busy couple of days. I left early yesterday morning to spend the day with my grandmother (who is at her home on hospice) – we had a fantastic visit, as always. You look at her and listen to her you would swear she wasn’t as sick as she is, it’s hard to believe sometimes – I’m grateful we had the day together. She put me to work, but always does and I love to help her when she’ll let me. It was extra special since my cousin stopped by with his dad (my grandmother’s older brother, amazingly all of her siblings are still living), who is battling Alzheimer’s. I haven’t seen either in a very long time, to it was nice to visit with them for a while. Then my mom stopped by later in the evening, I haven’t seen her in about a month. So all-in-all a great day – I really hated leaving though. Today was getting caught up around the house, running errands, and had a session with my trainer this afternoon.

@Carla~Welcome, this is an extremely supportive group – couldn’t do this without them! Yep, we complain from time to time, get frustrated from time to time, and even need a kick in the pants – but we do it in a nice way. :laugh:

@Vicki~Mugged by Haagen Dazs? Uh, Oh! Been there!

@Toots~What an awesome goal!!!

@Robin~Happy MFP Anniversary! You have come a long way – your losses are consistent & you have really embraced the exercise. So happy and proud for you!

@Marca~Congrats on reaching the 20# milestone! WTG!!!

@Laurie~Awesome run and great time! So glad your knee didn’t aggravate you during your run. Isn’t a great feeling to have your first run behind you?

@Ann~Welcome, you’ll definitely find the support you need here. Check back often and good luck on your journey!

@Susan~I'm so glad the trainer is working out and they aren't working you too hard.

AFM~I’m Kelley, mid-40s, and an accountant in the healthcare industry living in north Texas. I’m not married and never had children; I have a 10-month old Maine Coon who today demonstrated the ability to jump from the floor to my shoulder (I'm pretty tall). Kind of surprised me! I love to exercise so am a self-proclaimed gym rat – I work out on my own 3-4 days a week and with my trainer twice a week. He’s great for keeping me motivated and for keeping my body guessing.

Did have a great workout with trainer today and did some things that have bothered my back in the past, we'll see how today went in due time I'm sure.

I hope that everyone has had a great weekend – laundry and the kitchen awaits, so I better get back to it. Have a great evening!

Hubby woke me with flowers and a nice card for our anniversary. We went out to breakfast and I planned in advance. Another nice with no GERD but could not get to sleep. Tried counting sheep but got up to 500 and no results. Finally took a sleeping pill but it took a while to kick in.

My grandson came over with his family and we visited his father's grave and got in some walking. Then we went out to eat but the place I had planned to eat at had closed and we chose a diner. I could have chosen better but was only a little over plan. If I get in my walk tonight, I should get some extra calories to cover the overage. I stopped by my niece's on the way home and saw an old friend, who kept hugging me and saying how happy he was to see me. I didn't know he cared that much, but he said that I had always encouraged him. I don't really recall that, but I guess I must have. We never know how others take our actions. I've had employees and others tell me the same thing and I didn't even realize I had an impact.

The maternity pics turned out nice. We took some in the gardens and some on the bed with baby shoes on her tummy, with the ultrasound pictures. We took one where there hands formed a heart on her tummy (She is 7 months) and some in my photography studio under the hot lamps. We took one with a ribbon wrapped over her tummy with a signed that ready "Do not open till October 3, 2013. I'll post a few on my profile for a while if you would like to see these. Things have changed so much. I remember someone scolding me in the 60's for being on the streets when I was 7 months pregnant. I also remember being required to make someone take maternity leave when they started to show. The change is for the better.

Helena, Deputy is precious. I used to live in Houston and really enjoyed it. I would have retired there but the property taxes are out of sight. I still have many friends there and visit a couple of times a year. Our weather in Atlanta was rainy and dreary

Calpeach, I was most sucessful at weight loss when I planned my meals in advance. I used to cook for all week on Sunday night and just come home and heat supper. Need to get back into that mode

Alliern - Welcome back. Sounds like you have a plan. Not to worry, you set your own goals, and eliminating trigger foods is a good start. Best of luck

Robin, you will meet your goal. You are doing it the right way, learning and making steady progress. I was think about being 68 years old next month and wondering why I was still trying to get my weight under control and my hubby reminded me that he quit smoking over 100 times before he finally succeeded. Let's hope this old dog can learn new tricks

Doing this for me - Congrats on the weight loss. Having been in Management for many years I can tell you that I ate plenty of humble pie. The most important aspect of most higher positions and the successful managers I have known have had the quality of humility, along with patience, ability to get along with others and the ability to turn the other cheek. I worked with many wonderful people and with a lot of folks who were not nice at all. Some of the not nice eventually became my friends, because I always treated them with respect, even if they were not acting nice. People do change and sometimes the example we set helps them do so. At others times, nothing helps, but they have to be accountable for themselves. It's easy to be nice when someone is nice to you, but the real challenge is to be nice, when someone isnt being nice to you.

1802go - Ann, Good weight loss. Congrats to you. I like your goals. They are realistic

kAH Kelley I admire your stamina with exercise. I am gradually increasing mine without harming myself, which I have done in the past (ie, aggressive Kick boxing, aggressive Karate, running). Sounds like you had a wonderful day and your Grandmother sounds awesome

Laurie, what an inspiration. It's tough with so much food around but your plan sounds doable. I'm sure you will be sucessful

I am new to mfp.....my life has been turned upside down. My father has suffered great illness this year and we moved him in with us....that would be myself, hubby and teen daughter. Hubby is a truck driver and hardly home...daughter is in college while living at home and works too. I am his caregiver..my father that is. I work as well and while I am trying to do my best.....I cant seem to keep motivated with anything and I never seem to get everything done...I am always behind. So...I joined this site in hopes of once and for all being able to accomplish some weight lose which is difficult for me......I am always in pain muscular and back,, doc says fibromyalgia....who knows really, just trying to do what I can each day.....depression has been trying to take hold , major crying spells..sometimes off and on all day......I am on anti depressants already...lol.
Have no friends and noone really to talk to.........so when I look at myself I tell myself it could be worse and trust me I know it can......now if ur feeling blue....just know I am too.

So what works for u for weight loss?

Eat less, move more.

Hi--back from a long weekend. I've kept up with your posts but so many people already responded with great advice, so I don't have too many personals.

@robin--happy 3 year anniversary!! :drinker: I also want to thank you for starting this thread!

@laurie--congrats on finishing your race yesterday--that's awesome that you ran the 2 miles straight! I still have days when I can't do that.

@toots-a marathon is such a great goal!! I echo the advice you already got from others and will add to make sure you have really, really good shoes that are right for your particular needs. Go to a specialty running store to get fitted so you know exactly what's right for your feet.

@helena--deputy is adorable! Gunner gets a new bandanna each time he visits the salon, and he actually gets a bit upset when I take it off of him. :laugh: I save all of them, and someday when he's gone, I will have a quilt made out of them.

@kris--your "bowling ball with legs" comment made me laugh. :laugh: I bet you don't really look like that though.

Welcome to all of the newlings!!! :flowerforyou: I promise you will all get personals from me at some point as I get to know you.

Sunday Share:
I managed to do "okay" with food yesterday at Irishfest--not great but all of the walking and dancing canceled out the eating and drinking.

Today, I drove back from Milwaukee straight to my parents' in Chicago b/c my cousin was in town and had to leave for the airport around 2 pm. I managed to get there by noon and got to visit with her for awhile. I then came home and ran outside with gunner which was nice though it was a bit warm.

Hubby made pizza for dinner, but I stayed under calories. Not the best weekend in terms of macros, but I still managed high protein both days. Too many carbs yesterday and too much sodium both days, but tomorrow will be back to healthier choices.

I start back to work on Friday and the kids return on Monday.

Exercise Goals:
Sat--walk at festival DONE + dance at festival DONE
Sun--run outside w/gunner DONE
Mon--walk gunner + gym
Tues--walk gunner (going to Ravinia to see Journey)
Wed--walk gunner + gym
Thurs--walk gunner + gym if time (hair and pedi appt)
Fri--walk gunner (festival so more dancing)

Sorry I didn't post all weekend, but I did log my food. I weighed in this morning and lost 7 lbs. I'm scared to get too excited about that because the last time that happened, the next week I gained 4 lbs. : / I've managed to get some exercise in everyday this past week which I'm excited about. I haven't caught up on everyone yet, but so far looks like everyone had a pretty good weekend. When I dropped the boys off at school this morning, one of the afterschool teachers told me how good I was looking That was nice because she had no idea I had been trying to lose weight. That's the best compliments to receive.

Hope everyone has a great week!

@john--I've seen others on the forum boards make that same point and use different verbs: a few I can recall are "shed" and "abandoned" but I'm sure there are others. Regardless of how you phrase it, congrats on your success.

@bj--7 lbs gone is great! And even if a few creep back on, you'll still be ahead of where you were, right? I often had the same thing happen when I used to have bigger losses, but I only adjust my ticker when I've dropped below my previous lowest weight, so I don't really care about a small fluctuation back up.

Monday Check-in: Omg! After I weighed in for my dietbets last week my brain went crazy. This whole week has been horrible with eating. Glad I was doing some major work around the house and yard so I maintained at least. But ugh...

I think I'm starting to get overwhelmed with everything going on right now. I have a really hard time prioritizing things. For example, when someone looks at their house, they are able to say "today I'm going to get the dishes done, wipe down the counters, and pick up the living room...and tomorrow I'll tackle the computer desk"......when I look at it "ok...I need to do the dishes, wipe down the counters, wipe down the cabinets, clean the table, mop the floor, dust the top of the cabinets, clean off the computer desk, wipe down the walls, wash the dogs, mow the lawn, rebuild the shed...and more ...and more ... ALL TODAY ...*brain meltdown*"

Which of course none of that helps with my calories because I'm stressing so I suddenly "don't have time" to eat right. I need to stop giving myself excuses .... :explode:


RobinsEgg- I'm so glad you started the thread. It has helped people so much!

sirtxt - Good job staying under this weekend!!

BJCamp1978 - 7lbs that's great! Don't lose focus, you can keep this trend going.

skinnyjeanzbo - I think the sodium and booze might be to blame. lol Keep it up for another week and see how it goes then. I had to google the TransAmerican. That looks pretty neat! Sorry to hear about Gunner, glad he seems to be doing better.

Kaye: Dang that is a lot of kids and grandkids! Your family get togethers must be fantastic. :drinker:

Lauriek70 - What is it with schools and always having food everywhere? lol Stay strong!

pienthesky32 - My mom does couponing but is starting to stop since it became to popular. She said its just not worth it anymore because you can't find a newspapwer anywhere because of all the extreme coupon wannabes. lol

1802 - You've come to the right place. Just stick with it and make some friends on here. The guilt from other people actually makes losing weight harder IMO. When you feel like your constantly being judged it can be emotionally draining. I do hope your friends and family get on board with you trying to lose weight and show you some support. Until then I hope you get what you need from MFP

DoingThiisFor - The job situation sounds tuff and not a very good environment at all.

Helenavee42 - Deputy is cute!

Going to try and check in everyday this week and log my foods each day. Have a wonderful Monday! :flowerforyou: