Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Whee, happy Sunday all! Welcome to the new folks! I'll catch up some when I get a free hour or so!

My foot pain is almost gone, but not willing to jinx myself, so still restricting myself to weights for another week or so. Life in general has been a pile of hectic and an even bigger pile of coping with unforeseen happenings. Things are starting to taper off, thankfully.
Had a bumper crop from the apricot tree in my back yard this season! I'm in the middle of preparing some for pie filling. What few don't get eaten raw by the family will be dehydrated for the winter.
to you all!

Hi everyone!

@mzfrizz--I love apricots!!

@L2T--I've never traveled in the Fall b/c it's the start of the school year and things are so hectic at work. This NY trip in September will be my first attempt, and I'm a bit nervous about trying to stay caught up with grading so I can enjoy myself. I will see how it goes before committing to another Fall trip next year. Obviously for me, summer is the best time to travel, but I'm sure June and July aren't the best temps for running races in Charlotte. :laugh:

@laurie--Good luck starting back tomorrow. He have only one inservice day this friday and then students start the following monday. I already went back a couple of weeks ago to get my room set up--my district doesn't give us any paid time for that. :ohwell: I'm also sad I won't have as much time to be active and do outdoorsy stuff, but I'm going to really work to balance work and "me" time.

@blturner--nice to see you pop in! :flowerforyou:

@tom--are you sure yesterday wasn't National Rum Day? Because I'm pretty sure I celebrated National Rum Day yesterday. :laugh:

@nettie--If you come scrub my kitchen, I will come mow your lawn.

@tvmama--that's how I try to approach my nutrition goals--focusing on adding the good. I think it works better and eliminates that deprived feeling. :flowerforyou:

@brenda--congrats on winning the training session! Can you share where you will be traveling?

@erienne--glad you like the new runners and they are helping with your knee pain. Can you ask your DH to only buy the pop he likes? That way you aren't depriving him, but you won't be tempted. As far as ice cream goes--it is my biggest weakness, so I rarely buy it. When I do, I buy WW or Skinny Cow. If I want to splurge on the real thing, I either buy novelty items that are already portioned (like Dove or Magnum bars), or I buy the tiny singe serve portions of Haagen Daas or Ben & Jerry's. They aren't the best bargain, but it's only once in a big while and it keeps me from overdoing it. Maybe ask your DH to switch to those options if he must bring ice cream into the house.

@lori--aren't you so glad you logged that binge so you could see that it wasn't as bad as you thought? Great job being honest with your food diary. :drinker:

@laurie--That's good that our flights home are all close so the 3 of us can share a cab to the airport.

@robin--hope you enjoyed your bailey's. :drinker: Oh, and I'm drawing a blank on the voodoo dolls reference you made. :huh:

@susan--yes, Flea can rock, but I'm more partial to Anthony Kiedis.

Welcome to the newlings, and sorry I didn't get to everyone in the personals. I'll catch you on the next round. :flowerforyou:

Wow, it has been a crazy weekend. Remember how marsha (grammywhammy) told that frightening story about her in-laws' dog and how it died from an infection from a hidden neck wound? Well, gunner is alive and kicking, but he also had a hole in his neck that we didn't see at first. Friday I even brushed him head to toe--with lots of attention to his neck area b/c he LOVES it--and never saw any signs of an injury.

After reading marsha's post Friday night, I remembered that after I brushed gunner, his fur was a little wet on his neck. There was no blood on my hand, so I thought it was just from moisture on the grass that he had been rolling in. But the memory nagged at me all night, so saturday morning I brushed gunner again--again no signs of blood or an injury. When I was done brushing him, there was that wetness again on his neck, so I did a closer inspection. Sure enough, buried under his fur was a small hole in his neck--I could see clear through to the muscle underneath. :noway: Needless to say, I freaked out and was sure he was going to drop dead, right then and there, of an infection. I called the vet and got him in and all is well. The vet gave him an antibiotic shot and prescribed a course of oral antibiotics to start today. He decided not to suture it b/c he doesn't want an abcess to form, and suggested a warm compress a few times a day to draw out any fluid so it can heal from the inside out. He said gunner had a mild fever, so chances are there was an infection looming which could have killed him if not caught in time. THANK YOU MARSHA FOR YOUR STORY!!! :flowerforyou:

So this is the first time I have posted to this thread. It looks like a great way to get motivated and get some help. First of all anyone that wants to be friends please go ahead and request.

This weekend the biggest thing for me was getting back on take. My real dad died June 20th and I have been struggling every since I found out he had cancer 3 weeks before he past. So this weekend was all about getting back on track. I also realized that I can't do this on my own. I need help. I also realized that I still have some root hurts to deal with in this journey in order to finish it. So a lot of soul searching.

I have stayed under my calorie count and I am excited to be able to say that. Today has been the hardest. I wanted ice cream and candy so bad and soda, But I did not allow myself any.

Anyways I hope to friend some more friends to walk this journey will.

Have a bless day.

Begin week 4 tomorrow! So far, 17/17 under goal, though sometimes just barely.

Saw The Giver yesterday. Lived up to my expectations despite liberties taken with plot/setting/age of main character et cetera. On the way home I stopped in at the pharmacy and saw a woman take a horrific fall in the parking lot, hitting her head! Didn't lose consciousness, but immediately got a big goose egg on her temple and was too shaky to walk, so I called 911. She had a service dog in her car and I waited with her pooch until someone arrived after the EMTs took her to the hospital. So glad I saw that movie because I was in the right place/time to help.

nettie: BOY-O-BOY-O-BOY!

Laurie: Thanks for the tip about the transport wheelchair. Hubby's wc is a custom one built for a BIG GUY, and all that metal makes it really heavy. I'll look into transport wc's to see if they come in super-size. What he really needs is a mobility chair, but Mr. Denial won't discuss it.

Karen/skinny: Whew! That was a close one. So glad you were vigilant and that Gunner's going to be okay. I almost didn't post that story because I tend to be a bit of a worrywart (so my kids say). Give the puppy a pat from his internet friend.

Rain today and maybe tomorrow! It's going to be a great week.

Smile everyone, it's almost Monday!

GW>Marsha

We are home and I am ready to really buckle down on the August goals even if the month is half gone. I did get a good walk every day, but my eating was pretty bad.
It is so exciting to have so many new people with us. We all have challenges, but we have to take responsibility for our own health and our own choices. I love that we are all here to support each other and give each other motivation to make good choices.
Onward and downward. Kaye

cblue the above post is a reply to your post for Sunday, 8/17. I just didn't realize it would post at the very end instead of right below your post. Am learning the ropes here.

Soosun~ That sounds like a fabulous day. I love going to look at homes especially the expensive ones that I would never be able to afford! It’s good to hear that you are healing. I know the troubles with knees as I am still healing from knee surgery as well. Good luck to you and nice job on the walking.

Monday Check In: Good Morning All. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. My goal this weekend was to spend a lot of time doing schoolwork on Saturday so that I could only spend half of Sunday doing school. Well, that turned out to be wrong. I ended up spending 10 hours in front of my computer yesterday, partially because I am a perfectionist and partly because I was not as concentrated as I apparently needed to be on Saturday. On a positive note, hubby made a nice breakfast so I was full for most of the day, which prevented my snacking. When I finally needed a snack, I had grapes and water. Overall, it was a semi-productive weekend even though many things got pushed by the wayside. Time to move on with the new week. Today is a kickboxing day, which I am excited about. I really need a good workout to make the clouds in my head go away.

Have a great day everyone

@mnwalkingquee
Are you saying that you're getting less than 1000 kcal per day after exercise? If so, that may cause your body to hang on to fat a bit longer. If I remember correctly, (feel free to correct me if I am mistaken) an average adult will need a minimum of 1200 kcal per day, after exercise.
fyi, 1 kcal = 1 calorie.

@mnwalkingquee

Just me opinion but I think MFP tends to over estimate on the exercise calories. But that said if you net under a 1000cal/day and your body may rebel. Do what you think best for a few weeks and adjust as necessary. But if your body goes into starvation mode it may take a couple of months to get past that. My trainer says it is better to start too high then back off if you gain or are not loosing. Good luck :flowerforyou:
Lori

good morning! hoping for a better week! off to clean and do errands

Breanda, did you have knee surgery? How was it. I have found that after the first four months stair climbing has made the biggest difference in my knee healingl I am staying wiht my daughgter and my bedroom is on the second level and the stairs are steep. When I first started climbing I had to hang on for dear life up and down and could not bend my surgery knee w/o pain,, But now after four months no problem, no holding onto rail no pain 99.9 % of the time. it does take time but it does get better.

bclue be careful with the running at first. I read that you should assess your phuysical fitness level and what you are capable of doing and then step back one level to begin your exercise and you should only increase 1%, one per cent, per week. Take it easy. I was strength training six years ago, feeling wonderful six months in and decided to add running mixed in with my walking which is fine, walk 3blocks, block run one, but then I had a great day of exercise the day before, so decided to just run with minimal walking, over used the leg musles to fatigue and then tore the minescus. Five pain filled years later I had my knee replaced. Running is great but your have a whole year to walk first and then run. I am jsut saying proceed slowly and patiently.
Lastly, I weighed in today after a week of back in the saddle good food choices and it has paid off. I lost six pounds! Hooray! I increased my patience and belief that I could actually go for one week. Also did not weigh as I realized that daily weighing gives me permission to eat whether I have lost weight or gained; agressive permissive personality. LOL
It has been a good week and I have incorporated exercise as of Saturday with walking.

Good morning. It sounds like a good weekend was had.by all. Congratulations on the losses.
My vacation is over. Nicole went back to work today. I will have both of the kids all week as school doesn't start for the kids until next week. Keith will start first grade. Anya is already 18 months old. She seems so much older than when school let out in the spring.
I checked the scale this morning and am still within the same 3-5# range that I have been struggling with for 6 months. Back to logging and really getting serious about this. I backed off of my walking for over 2 months and it didn't help my knees at all, so I'm going back to longer walks, too.
Onward and downward. Kaye

@nettie--girl

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