Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

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Great progress pics!

Anna-Thank you for fixing the link. I did remove the %20 but I guess there should be no space between the words. I will try again today. My ultimate goal is to post my success story to date with pictures.

Nettie- I have already been out shoveling this morning and will go back out shortly.

We did have snow last night and I have a snow day today. The amount of snow was 6 inches on the deck and about 3-5 on the sidewalks and cars. I have started shoveling today and one car is almost dug out.

I don't think we will be able to get my dad home safely today. The sidewalks and streets are icy and even in a wheel chair it would not be a good combination. My mom is still trying to figure out if it will happen. The wind chill alone could cause problems moving him from one location to another.

Now to go play with adding pictures again.

Happy New Year To All, I am not new here but missing for a long time. Hoping to meet each of you all although I am a long ways behind thread.

I may be in the minority here but we are forecast to have another snowstorm all day Sunday with 6-12 inches of snow and I LOVE it! I think I'll have some more chances to shovel! (And maybe my Christmas break won't end :drinker: ) The winds are supposed to whip up and they are talking possible blizzard! Then they are calling for another snow storm on Wednesday!:noway:

Friday Fitness: It's felt good getting back to the gym. After my vacation and the holidays, I definitely took a little breather. I started back Wednesday with a really strong HIT work out. Last night the trainer kicked my butt. Stair step ups, TRX/glutes, crunches on the bosu, squats, planks, and kettle to finish it out. I was dripping up a storm. I hit the gym this AM for the elliptical and treadmill. Great start to 2014!!

I can't believe how much snow so many of you are getting. I was so spoiled growing up. Even though I was only 20 minutes from Erie and had the lake effects, my dad worked for the city. He would bring home the big snow grater so our driveway, street, etc. . . were always plowed. I barely shoveled and loved it!!! It's kind of comical that I'm now living to the extreme in the desert.

Hope you're making good food choices and get in some kind of movement today.

Logging my food and making my food choices fit my calorie goals. I don't do well if I have to prepare a different meal for myself than I do for the family so I use portion control a lot. Walking is my exercise of choice. Coming to this group and posting regularly helps me a lot with accountability and encouragement. Good luck to you. Kaye

Sunday-Swim or gym- cardio Done gym
Monday-Trainer DONE
Tuesday- Trainer DONE
Wednesday- REST Happy NEW YEAR, 2014!!! DONE
Thursday- gym- cardio DONE
Friday- climbing :grumble: Not DONE- Shoveling Snow instead:bigsmile:
Saturday-water aerobics and swim

I can't believe that I am not climbing tonight but it has been a very long day. After spending over 2 hours of shoveling snow and cleaning off cars plus yesterday's workout I was just to tired and sore to climb tonight. We also brought my dad home today. We tried call the nursing home this morning but could not get threw to let them know that we would not be able to get him home safely but their phones were not working. They called this afternoon and were annoyed that we had not picked him up yet. We did not rush but honestly, they could have saved us the trouble and told my Dad that he was not going home today because of the weather. Of course, my Dad was not happy that he was waiting for us to pick him up. The parking was not clean and extremely messy. We had help getting him into the car at the nursing home but then we had to do it ourselves at home. The problem was not only getting him out of the car and into a wheel chair, then up a set of steps that were slightly icy. After a few trails and errors, we finally got him safely in the house. At one point, I was very afraid that he was going to fall backwards on the steps. That would have made a great headline-" Parent cracks head and squashes daughter in fall off the porch'. While it was not funny at the time, I need to laugh at it because if not I will let him have it. I wish my dad would have told the Nursing home that he was staying one more day due to the unsafe conditions outside. He would have felt horrible if he had fallen and ended up back in there. Sorry, I just needed to vent about the last few hours of my day. Needless to say that was final reason that I did not climb tonight, I was exhausted from dealing with him. It was nice when he was in the rehab center but I know he is happy to be home.

Tomorrow, I am suppose to go swimming in the morning but it will be about 10 degrees in the morning. I hope I can motivate myself to get outside and go to the pool for a much needed aerobics class and swim. I just hope the water is warmer than I expect it will be. I may just suck it up and go for a swim and then come home to a very warm shower.

Hopefully, the night will be calm and stress free. I can dream.

Attended the funeral today for the two young men who died last week. It was very nice. The boys had been best friends since before they went to school. Both families participated. One of their former coaches was the speaker. He spoke about the mantra he used with them. WIN: What's important now. I have been thinking about that this afternoon. I can see how we could apply that to this journey which we are on.
Fitness: I have gotten in 3 good walks this week. Its been in the mid twenties so its cold, but definitely bearable. There are slick places but I can avoid them. I will continue to do something every day, hopefully walk.
Onward and downward. Kaye

cleaning, cleaning, cleaning......i have sweat as much as i do at the gym!! Just trying to put my house back together and stay busy.
Cleaing the fridge is next
Bright and sunny out so windows open and music blaring

My fitbit user is http://www.fitbit.com/user/2BHNJ8

@Susan...sound like you've hit the exercise new year running! Awesome job!
@Kelley...glad it's nothing terrible, but sorry that you are in pain. Hope it gets better quickly for you.
@Laurie...now that your dad is safe and sound, I'm glad you were able to get him home. Hopefully having his own place will allow him to focus more on his full recovery.
@Lauren...I'm with you, small realistic goals that you can succeed at are better for me than the overwhelming total that I need to lose. I actually "reward" myself (non-food) every 10 pounds. Wish I could help you with the pictures, but maybe Tom will be able to help (he helped me in the past).
@Anna...I don't hate a blizzard either, but this freezing rain crap has gotta go! We started our winter with a thick sheet of ice under alot of snow. Then just before Christmas we had temps in the 40s just to melt everything and then it dropped quicklky and gave us another sheet of ice underneath. Today, we were in the 40s again and it's been raining/freezing rain this evening. Tomorrow our high is -3. I didn't hear specifically where, but on the radio this afternoon it stated that parts of North Dakota would see 100 degree drop in temperature in the next 24-48 hours. DANG!!
@Kaye...at first I got upset when I saw WIN, but then I kept reading and I really love that mantra...I'm going to share it.

AFM...Didn't get my lift in today - life got in the way. Last night, my son came home from basketball practice and told me I forgot to get him a physical and he can't play until that is done (whoops!). Then I realized that our cruise is only 6 weeks away and I still don't have passports for the kiddos (whoops!). Since Michael and I both had to be present, I pulled the kids out of school 1/2 hour early to get their passport pictures taken and then had to run to the PO to get the paperwork done and submitted for them. It closes at 4:00 -- we got there at 3:40 and finally finished at 4:50. Then we hit the walk in clinic for the sports physical. My lifting partner had to hit the road early to get ahead of the freezing so instead of lifting at 6:00, I had supper with the kids and picked up movies. The plan is to hunker down for the weekend (with the exception of the gym tomorrow). I'll be glad the kids don't have to go out in it at all. I'm hoping to get a lift in early and then try day two of the c25k...not sure how it'll work to do both, but I want to stay on track.

Monday - Lift - DONE
Tuesday - C25K - NOT DONE
Wednesday - Lift - DONE
Thursday - C25K - DONE
Friday - Lift
Saturday - C25K
Sunday - rest

Goals for January
* Drink 8 glasses of water (boy did I fall off the wagon on that one)
* One soda a week
* Lift three times a week
* Minimum two cardio workouts a week (shoot for three but...)
* Get my calories back under control and within my "goal"

Some people have asked about before and after photo's, well now I can post them. This will be a preview to my success story. Thank you for letting me try things out here.
Before



During- my brothers wedding in 2012-67 pounds lost



most current-Nov. 2013 birth of my niece Julia

Happy Friday!

Got my fitbit steps and a yoga session in today

Friday - I am planning on going to a kickboxing class in the am with my hubs. Usually I'll do some sort of cardio as well, I'll see how I feel . Sunday will likely be a yoga and rest day. Been rocking my calorie goal, so my weekend plan is to keep it up!

Have a wonderful Friday night!

Lauren

Happy New Year All! This is my 3rd time in the past 2+ years that I am making a fresh start on my weight loss journey. I was very successful the 1st time and then got derailed due to surgery and complications from it. I tried again in September 2013 but my head just wasn't in the right place and I gave up only a month or so into the process. They say 3rd times the charm, so I'm hoping 2014 will be the year I finally get this right.
This site and the people here were instrumental in helping me reach my goals the first time I was here and I was welcomed back last year when I tried again. I have no doubt that I will again be welcomed back because this is the best site on MFP. I have around 140 lbs. to lose and I know this is going to take a long time but I'm going to set my goals in acheivable increments so that I dont' get frustrated and lose my motivation. Today is my first day back and I've read quite a bit of the posts from the past few weeks but just can't get through everything I've missed so I hope that I'll be able to keep up with any changes to the group. My goals for 2014 are going to be pretty simple:
1) Drink 8 -10 glasses of water daily. I usually am pretty good at this one but haven't been doing it the past few months.
2) Check in daily and stay honest with my food logs.
3) Portion control my meals. I've been really bad at meal planning and binge eating lately so that has to stop.
4) Start a simple exercise program that is fun and that I can build on. I had a great deal of success using Wii Fit the first time around and so I'm going to start using it again. This is where I failed last time. I just couldn't get motivated.
5) Be vigilant with myself. I am, like a lot of people, an emotional eater. I have to make sure that I stay aware of my moods and check myself before things get out of control.

I think this will be a good start for myself. I have a short term goal. I have booked a flight to visit my son and family the first week in February. I have a new grandbaby due next week so this will be my first visit with the new baby. I want to hit 300 lbs which will be about 15 lbs by the time I go. I usually lose 5-7 lbs in the first week or so of a diet due to water weight so its a duable. I flew out there for Christmas and was embarassed by how tight the seat was. I have to use a seat belt extender and my ultimate goal would be to get to a point where I don't need the extender on a flight.
I also have a trip to Florida planned for the end of May with my daughter and her two youngest kids and would like to lose at least 40 lbs in the 5 months which should be an achievable goal. I won't know until I get started, right?

Anyway, its good to see some familiar faces still checking in and I hope to meet some of the newer people in the near future. I'm going to start being a regular again and will post on the w/e to give more info on myself. Until then, have a glass of water on me.:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: Charlotte

Friday Fitness: I'm going to the gym today and going to go for an hour on the treadmill. Didn't do cardio yesterday, so today will be the ultimate in cardio days.

This has not been a good week. Met a guy, dated guy, had a FANTASTIC time and had so much in common it was amazing. He wanted me to meet his parents this weekend. BUT his friend confessed her love for him, and how can someone new to his life compete with someone who's been around for 3 years? I'm trying hard to avoid eating through this disappointment, but it really sucks. I took it out at the gym yesterday, and will go back today. At least it's a healthy outlet. The me from 6 months ago is looking at the me now and saying WTF, who are you? lol!

Saturday Success: Just a quick drive by since I've got a lot going on today. While I thoroughly enjoyed the holiday season and the time spent with my parents, it's really good to be back on a schedule and a normal routine. Exercise this week has been good. I started again at the gym on 1/1 and have gone each day since. I increased my intervals on the elliptical pushing over 200 plus 4.0 on the treadmill versus 3.5. I really need to up my exercise and increase my HR. Food choices have been good (for the most part). I really want to see some steady losses this year versus my loss/gain 5 lbs that I've been doing for the past 6 months.

I already hit the gym this AM. Now I'm heading to get a cut/color using a Groupon at the Paul Mitchell School (keeping my fingers crossed). Always a little nervous with students, but you can't beat the price!!! I then need to get some wall flowers from Bath & Body Works, then I have to get groceries. We have nothing in our house so I've been scraping by. I also want to hit Whole Foods for some almond butter (yum)!! Super excited about tonight as I'm going to see Garth Brooks at the Wynn Las Vegas. Yee Haw!!!!!!

I'll check in later today, but enjoy your day!!! Make it GREAT!!!!!