Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

I hope everyone had a nice Easter weekend, I spent Saturday with my parents and then yesterday after church was spent getting everything done that I typically do on Saturday – plus a session with my trainer. In the afternoon I watched the movie The Bible from beginning to end, again, so I was glued to the TV in between loads of laundry.

@Hansea~What an awesome run you had on Saturday, isn’t that a great feeling?! God works in mysterious ways and it sounds like he gave you the perfect day for your run. Those cupcakes sounds dangerous!

@Laura~I’m sorry your doctor’s appointment was canceled last week. Even though your leg is feeling better, I think it’s a great idea to keep your appointment today - I hope you get some answers. In the meantime, please continue to take it easy. Great loss this week!

@Robin~I’m sorry your feeling so poorly sans Advil, hang in there – just one week until surgery, I hope it brings you much relief. Sounds like you had a really active Easter even though you didn’t get your pool workout in. Easter has always had great meaning for me, it’s a time of reflection.

@Tracy~Beautiful, you are becoming quite the cake decorator!

@Laurie~Sounds like I would be really disappointed in the movie Noah. Great activity over the weekend!

@Tom~Those deviled eggs are SO cute!

@Tanya~Are you doing a calorie or carb cycling program?

@Karen~I couldn’t have said it better, great advice! It was a great reminder for those of that have been around awhile too.

AFM~It was a good weekend. Spent Saturday with my parents – my mom helped me make my final decision on paint for my bedroom and both bathrooms, I’m still on the hunt for the perfect color for a spare bedroom. Now to get some samples and see how they look on the walls. I hope to start painting in May or June. We went out to dinner while they were here, at Texas Roadhouse, it’s always easy for me to make good choices there – I think my parents had a good laugh when the waitress asked me if I wanted my usual cosmo, my mom just looked at me and said “come here often?” :laugh: It was a fun day. Yesterday was “Super Set Sunday” with my trainer – heavy weights combined with no rest in between sets made for an exhausting workout, muscles were definitely overloaded. Surprisingly I’m not sore today (not yet anyway).

Exercise Goals:

Sunday~Trainer DONE!
Monday~Cardio/agility training outside
Tuesday~Cardio (hopefully, may have to work late due to software training)
Wednesday~Cardio or Trainer
Thursday~Cardio or Trainer
Friday~Rest Day
Saturday~Cardio

Good Morning!

I hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Easter yesterday.

Tanya - I ended up having a lazy vacation as well. My exercise consisted of cleaning rather than all the things I had planned. I also didn't find a lot of time to get on here like I normally do to post. I have to go back to work today and quite honestly I do not want to. It would be nice to have a few more days off.

Robin - I love the idea of tracking the miles for May.

RobinB - LOL to the Jetsons reference! Congrats on your "Just" moment.
This week I plan on getting in a lot of walking and even get in some runs. Hopefully my numbers will be back up there on Fitbit.

Hansea - I agree that my body needed the rest. I also was fighting off something. Every night I had terrible sinus headaches and went to bed early. I still feel it lingering but I feel much better now. I am thinking it may be the start of allergies. :ohwell:

Tracy - Beautiful job on the cake! You have a lovely talent.

Rain - Good luck with your Dr appointment today. I hope it goes well.

Tom - Amy's deviled Easter eggs are adorable!

My Sunday Share a day late:

I'm Aimee. I'm a librarian. I teach craft classes. I'm from Ohio. I have a dog named Josie and a boyfriend named Aaron. I've lost 95 pounds so far, and am working on losing about 160 total.

Still at a plateau. FML. Trying to get rid of the extra sodium and sugar in my diet and detox this week. Keyword *try*
Found a few jobs I want to apply for. One is for about $20k more than I currently make.

Aaron and I went for a 6 mile hike through Hinkley Reservation on Saturday. It was pretty awesome. Gonna try for 8-10 miles this coming weekend. We're really happy we found something like that to do with each other. Still haven't dropped the L bomb to him, but I feel like the time is coming soon.

Hope you all had a great Easter. We had 14 out of the 15 family members here, beautiful whether, lots of fun games, a great Easter Egg hunt and a beautiful church service. And the FOOD!! (my mom's amazing ice cream caramel rolls!!!) and then I got a visit from TOM. UGHH!! I've had a few pieces of candy, but tonight it gets separated between my hubby, son and daughter.

@Kris...what is that second food? It looks really good.
@Tom...the eggs were super cute

I have to tell you a funny story about my cake. My brother had just gotten done eating a piece of cake and he said "I was going to tell you you did a great job on the cake, but then I realized they were plastic flowers." I told him they weren't -- they were made of gum paste and dry super hard. His response "Dang! You did do a good job!" :smooched:

Well, I only got to 75 seconds on the planks today (it probably would have helped if I got it in on Saturday or Sunday).

I'm doing good on calories today and my water is half gone. My goal is to go to bed by 10:00 tonight. Still a bit behind on sleep.

Fitness for the week:
Monday - nothing (got class and I have to get my cake frosted before I go)
Tuesday - Gym with Trainer
Wednesday - Start up C25K again...hopefully outside (I heard it's better that way - I get so dang bored on the treadmill or gym track)
Thursday - Gym with Sister
Friday - C25K
Saturday - Gym with Sister
Sunday - Rest

Not too busy of a week other than my activities. Jacob has a couple of track meets this week, so I'm going to try to be really good about walking while at the events. He also has a Jazz concert. I'm excited to go. The high school invited his jazz band to perform at their concert. Apparently, this doesn't happen but our director says it's just an exceptional group of kids that they are amazing. It's hard for me to tell because I grew up in rural ND that we didn't even have a band and you only heard small bands at towns during half time of basketball games. I sure hope he keeps up with it -- he's enrolled at International Music Camp up at the International Peace Gardens this summer. A group from his Jazz band are all going so hopefully...

Have a great day (no more holidays/birthdays until the end of May!!!). Unfortunatley, I haven't learned yet how to not get sidetracked by them.

I really should be getting ready to go back to work tomorrow (aka laundry, lunch, snacks, getting to bed at a reasonable time) but here I am. Today is my last day of vacation. I'm a federal employee, so since Easter falls on a Sunday, we get today off in lieu. I am NOT looking forward to going back to work, although I am very eager to get back to physio. I had a good rest, but I really need to move more, and I'm concentrating on getting over my goal of 10,000 steps every day this week, even if that means a walk up and down the road at 9pm. It shouldn't be too hard because I get a lot of steps with my job, but I may push myself to a higher goal than 10k. Depends how much energy I have.

Day 2 of my calorie break and I'm just not hungry enough to eat 2800 cals so I've decided I will eat somewhere between my cut (2185) and averaged TDEE for the week (2800). I was excited about eating more, but its kind of lost its appeal now. Special occasions like Easter dinner was easy to eat that much, but when I'm home and cooking for myself and there are no desserts, it's actually a bit harder to get that many calories... except if I ate an entire bag of chips, which I have no desire to do any more anyway.

@kah... I am not calorie or carb cycling. I'm taking a week break from eating at a dificit, and trying to eat different carbs before my workouts. Since I have more calorie room for carbs like pasta and potatoes I will eat those this week for a change. Still going to stay within my macro for it, but it's just a switch from quinoa and beans which are my usual carbs. I'm sort of treating this as a treat week.

@heidi--sorry about your migraine--I know how debilitating those can be. :flowerforyou:

@tanya--some really calorie dense foods like nuts, avocado, peanut butter, bananas, and cheese might help you come closer to your calorie goal without resorting to the junk calories in chips and such. Also, I don't how much red meat you eat, but I always have to watch the rest of the day when I know we are having steak for dinner. I can see how it would be really hard to meet 2800 calories every day--like you said, it's easy once in awhile for a special occasion.

@kris--I'm half Macedonian, and we have those same "cookies" though I don't know what we call them. My Baba used to make them for Easter--seeing your picture brought back fond memories.

@tracy--I'm sure that even if the special occasions derail you a bit, you still probably do better than you used to. :flowerforyou: I also haven't learned how to avoid going over on holidays. After 3 years of this, I've come to the firm decision that I just need to enjoy the day and make up for it with exercise better eating the rest of the week.

I know I missed some of you, but I need to get lunch together for tomorrow, so I will catch you on the next round. :flowerforyou:

Monday Check-in:
I thought I had a meeting after work and when I went to the place we usually meet, no one was there. I checked my calendar and realized that I misread an email, and it's not until 2 weeks from today. It was a pleasant surprise since I was itching to get a few more essays graded. I couldn't get to them during my open periods or lunch b/c I had to get more journals graded, so I went to starbucks after walking gunner and got in a quick hour's worth.

Grading Goals:
1. 18/50 satirical cartoon analyses
2. 18/70 AP essays
3. 50/70 AP journals

Exercise goals:
Mon--walk gunner DONE
Tues--walk gunner + gym
Wed--walk gunner
Thurs--walk gunner + gym
Fri--walk gunner
Sat--run outside w/gunner
Sun--walk gunner + gym

Wall sit = 55 sec
Forearm plank = 60 sec

Good evening, It's been a busy day. I walked Keith to and from school, took Anya for an extra walk, worked on flower beds for an hour, and walked with Cathy and Nicole after dinner. I achieved my goal of walking 4+ miles for at least 4 days during the last week. I plan to continue that goal.
Today I had an appointment with my knee surgeon today. He said he can't use cortisone shots because I've had total knee replacement. Apparently that increases the chance of infection. He's giving me an oral anti-inflammatory and hoping that it won't cause stomach issues before it gets rid of the inflammation. We agree that if we can get rid of the inflammation it will probably not come back.
I'm glad everyone had a good weekend. Now we can just get right back into the program.
Onward and downward. Kaye

WOW!! Such impressive numbers this group is posting!!

I would love to join your group - but I have a very long way to go both with weight loss and exercise. Weight loss: I still have a very high number as to pounds to lose
Exercise: I am striving to add steps. I am at 5000 steps a day now, but that number will con't to rise!!

I am in awe of what all of you have done!

Thanks
Reba in Kansas

Good morning everyone. Today is going to be a long day:ohwell: Something in the yard set Zeus off at 4:30 this morning. After checking it all out I went back to bed and then couldn't sleep and just lay there until the alarm went off at 5:30. At least I dont have a whole planned for the day. Got the kids off to school and took advantage of a break in the rain to walk the dogs when I got home. My only real goals for the day are to clean my master bed and bath an clean out and defrost the freezers in the garage. Nothing to terribly strenous

Kah sounds like a good night with the trainer. Sometimes I think I should look into working with a trainer but I really dont like people telling me what to do so not sure how well that would work.
Kaye I hope the anti inflammatory helps with the knee. You are doing so great with your walking you dont need anything derailing that:happy:

Well I am going to go make a smoothie and play on the computer for awhile and then I might get started on those chores. Have a great day everyone:flowerforyou: :drinker: :drinker: