Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Skinny - a double bachelorette party has the promise of a wild time! Hope it was fun and that today you get your exercise in!
Wow, your senior class really got attached to you this year - what an outpouring of love they gave you - and I'm sure your deserved every hug and gift and card you got! Gosh, sorry your year had to end on such an emotional note. Bittersweet is a good word to describe it.

Susan - restarting an exercise program is a great reminder for me too - I can't wait to do that. I do understand about chlorine and hair and the swimming pool. When I was doing my PT in the pool, I was always so careful not to get my hair wet. I have a cap but you just can't trust them! Hey thats great about Cyrus and a pitching coach. Isn't there a saying that a person has to repeat something 10,000 times to get good at something? I do believe that if you are an awkward person at sports you can overcome it with practice, so I think he will do great!

LivesTT - come on now, you have personal flaws? At 56? No, I don't believe it :laugh: Seriously, you do need to rest that ankle! I am so impressed with your walking, but like you said, you need to schedule some rest days! Give yourself a break - you are way too hard on yourself - that's the only flaw I see!

Naceto - you come up with the best images - you made me laugh! (vending machine chasing you down!) :bigsmile: Good one! So you can only dart in and out when you can - approved!

Hansea - WOOT! :flowerforyou: CONGRATS on being 3 lbs.down! WONDERFUL!!!!

mzrubyredz - Welcome - happy to have you join us!

Kah - UGH -:noway: sorry your thumb is in bad shape and swollen - hard to get swelling out of small joints like that, and hard to heal when its ligaments or tendons. Being in a splint for two weeks must be SO frustrating. You find out everything about what you use both hands for at the same time, don't you. I do hope it heals fast and you get to bypass the MRI. Are you elevating it when you sleep by chance? Are you right or left handed and which hand is this on? :flowerforyou:

Robin B - it just blows my mind that you jumped into a 5K without any pre-planning and just went for it! I am so impressed with that kind of free spirit! Wow and you made great time and then more walking at the zoo with Chelsea - that is so great! :drinker: Glad your Facebook friend won a medal.

Tanya - how great it is you are a cook and like veggies so much - altho I see your dilemma with protein. But it sounds like your doing well enough because your fitness level is going through the roof - congrats! :drinker:

Laurie - it sounds like you had a nice evening with your dad and your friend. Its great your mom had a night off. How has your dad been doing? Hey, sounds like you had a great swim and are progressing well. Keep it up - :flowerforyou: Thanks for leading the May and June Challenges!

mackbeth - :flowerforyou: so glad you stopped by! I really miss you when you're not around! So happy to hear your stress filled job is ending soon! Will you start looking for property again with your friend? Hope to hear about it if you do!

jeanette - gorgeous floors - really showroom quality! I'd be picky like you and dust every day too! Just consider it part of your exercise routine and get some funky movements in! I do appreciate woodchucks too - I think they are so prehistoric actually, they just seemed to appear and disappear around my old neighborhood when there were big yards. I think they like to make homes in the side of hills, at least thats what I have observed.

Thank you for your comments in the prior thread support my job search and defending my speech difficulties. I do know my friend didn't mean to hurt anyone with her choice of words, just trying to convey to me where I stood on a scale of hearing comprehension. Anyway, the more I thought about office work, I realized that I could NOT TALK for even 4 hours without wearing out my voice. I can barely talk for even 2 hours now without ending up really fatigued vocally. So, I still have a long way to go. I hope to see a speech therapist in the future.

Tom - I loved the quote under the yummy pizza pictures about starting now and not waiting to start when the conditions are right. So true.

Damensha - wonderful post. Thank you for the salute to our soldiers and families. They deserve to be honored now and throughout the year!

Skinny - OK - great to read your report on your bachelorette party - glad you survived it - with a lot of common sense - walking and dancing too!
Yeah, families can be really odd. Not attending a family funeral strikes me as totally a lack of respect, but its done all the time. I'm the type of person that still dresses up in black to attend a funeral, and I seem like the odd person out now the way most people dress so casuallly. I guess I'm an old fogie! :noway:

mackbeth - I just read your second post -wow the stress sounds awful and I'm glad your not considering going back next fall. Gaining stress weight sounds inevitable. Good plan waiting to weigh yourself until after your life evens out. That makes good sense. I wish you the best of luck in finding the perfect part time job this summer and next fall, so that things are much better for you. You're a great person with a big heart and deserve a better life.
As far as the June challenge goes, you could try and time your open swims, and count each 20 min as one mile or do a more accurate timed swim with a friend monitoring you over several miles and average it out.

JNettie - Harvest Moon is adorable!

Tom, Tom, Tom - I'm still laughing over the cat picture! But also thanks for the Patriotic Banner - much appreciated!