Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Off to cycling class. Why do I want to avoid everything and just go to my bed..and order an XL pizza?

Well, I have been there, done that and it does not work to make anything better.

Focusing on one day at a time on the journey. Better go to spin class now.

Oh dear. I hope you didn't hurt anything Kaye. Icing is certainly a good thing, but maybe too a visit to the doc. Be careful out there. It seems the weather has turned on us.

Lois- Very insightful about your weight and what is good for your body.

Cblue- Congrats on 29 years of being sober. You can consider this group your support system. Just check in with us when you need comfort or a friendly nudge.

Kaye- I hope you did not injure your knee. Take it easy and try to avoid the ice when you are walking. I know you love your walks but ice is just dangerous so take it easy. Can you get some hiking poles for when you walk outside on the ice or there are ice walkers that you can put on over your shoes. They make walking on ice easier since they grip the ice instead of letting you slip. Eastern Mountain Sports or REI would have them.

softblonde- Hope you made it to spin class. You are right, food does not solve anything.

Karen- Good luck with the grading. I gave up grading homework a while ago. This year, I grade it on a 3 point scale- 100% done=3 points, 50-99% done=2 points, less than 50% completed 1 point, not turn in 0 points. This saves me a huge amount of time with grading.

JT- Good luck with your busy week.

Queen- Glad you found us again. I know you will get back on track soon as you have already taken the first step and found us again.

Morgori- I will need to celebrate national Hiking day this weekend, when I can get outside in the fresh air. I also hope that the temperatures will be warmer this weekend than tomorrow's high's.

I hope everyone has a great week. My plan for the week are to get school work caught up, papers filed, lessons planned for December. Today, was a good day since I had a nice long walk tonight at the gym after my workout. Workout itself was lackluster but it was better than nothing.

@mountmary - I think you hit the nail on the head. It's hard to maintain focus and pay attention over the long term and very easy to slip back into old patterns. Especially when work and life get busy and stressful. That's been a big part of my issue. Being in transition to a couple new projects at work has been very stressful and now add in the HOLIDAYS and my self admitted OCD need to make everything perfect and it's a recipe for weight gain.

@kah - Thanks for the encouragement. And you're killing this months challenge!

@niki - You only messed up 3 days and are now reining yourself back in. I messed up 2 months, but am still happy that I didn't let my stupid go on longer and cause more damage. Denial is a powerful drug and one we just can't afford to enjoy.

@kaye - So sorry you slipped and hurt your knee. Hope you recovery quickly. And although I appreciate you saying I'm smart, I'm just dumb enough to be in the position of losing 12 lbs. I already lost! I guess I have to be glad I came to my senses before I ate myself back to 295.

@jconst - The thought of Christmas, decorating the tree, buying and wrapping gifts and all those cookies makes me tired. You seem to take it all in stride. I always have good intentions (at 8 am) of all the things I will do after work and then they just fade away. At least I have next week off to get ready for Thanksgiving.

@skinnyjeanz - 180 by New Years would be lovely. I'd like to start 2015 at my lowest weight of 2014 and be 20 lbs. from my final goal. I can do it and so can you. And like you, I need a daily weigh in to keep me on track and keep me honest. When I start avoiding the scale, there's going to be trouble. Sorry your sniffles turned into a full blown cold.

AFM - Like the entire country, it's a very cold 24 degrees here this morning. I'm going to walk the dog at lunch when the temp rises to a balmy 35. Brrrrr.

I went back and tried to account for my days for the All In Challenge and here's what I found:

Under Calories: 5/17

Hard to figure since I know I was not logging everything. So I gave myself 3 out of the first 15 days and 2 for the last 2 days. Terrible, horrible, no good and very bad. And I'm paying the price.

Exercise: 15/17 (46.74 miles/3.12 miles per day)

Have a great day and stay warm!

Good morning everyone.

Happy William Tell Day
We have an oxymoron today. It is William Tell Day–today in 1307, William Tell shot an apple off the head of his son. The actual legend is quite interesting. LINK

However, November is also Child Safety and Protection Month.
Please don’t shoot an apple off your child’s head this month. If you need to do it, please wait until Child Safety and Protection Month is over.

“None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.” ~Colin Powell

Tom

@lois--I missed your last post. So sorry to hear about your loss.

@kelley--I've tried the zicam in the past. Not sure if it really works--how is there really any way to tell?--but I usually give it a go, since it can't hurt. However, when I noticed the onset of this cold Sunday night, I was out of zicam and unwilling to head out to the store for some. That's funny about your friend and the Vick's--I've never heard of that.

@tom--haha! Now what will I do with my students today? I was totally planning to shoot arrows off their heads.

AFM--I'm thinking I may blow off my meeting after school today. We'll see how I feel by the end of the day.

Tuesday Goals:

November All-In:
Under calorie goal: 14/17 days (goal is 27/30 days)
Workout: 4/17 (goal is as much as possible)
8k on Thanksgiving Day in 57 minutes

Grading Goals:
1. 31/60 M1948 Vocab
2. x/60 Scarlet Letter vocab 1
3. x/60 M1948 in-class essays

Exercise Goals:
Sun--walk gunner DONE + gym NOT DONE
Mon--meeting
Tues--meeting
Wed--walk gunner + gym
Thurs--walk gunner + gym
Fri--walk gunner
Sat--walk gunner + gym

mnwalkingqueen wrote: »

@GrannyKaye- I hope your knee is okay.
AFM- I am trying to get all my algebra done for homework tonight....so that is my goal. I realized I am to hard on myself constantly and tend to not see the positive. Example I am 41 and never done algebra before(only took science classes in high school once I could choose math or science). I am maintaining a B in the classes but all I can see is how horribly hard the class is verse what my teacher told me which was I am doing great for never seeing any of this before in my life. Yes, I work harder than the avg person at it but he is right I am doing good along with maintaining a job too. Yah me!

Way to spin it around into a positive! If you have a B and have never been exposed to algebra before, you're doing great! You didn't need algebra to graduate high school? We did, along with geometry and trig. When I got to college, in order to receive a BS in accounting I had to take two types of algebra along with two semesters of calculus--I had to math. LOL

Boy, old habits die hard! Just went to the kitchen to make some lace cookies to serve to my book club on Thursday. I need a little corn syrup for in them. Alas, there was no corn syrup in the pantry, I accidentally knocked a bunch of things on the floor while looking and to settle myself down, grabbed a handful of cashews! NOT SMART! The bag did not fall open, I unzipped it. I came here with a diet coke to change the setting. Now I will log said cashews, have less room for supper, BUT...I did stop at one handful so maybe that is progress. It is all these little things that get me into trouble with my calories.
I have been under calorie goal 13 of the 17 days, so there is some progress here....but not quite what I could call "All In". Exercise less so.
Now that is off my chest I will go and dutifully vacuum the upholstery in the living room. As you all know everything has to be "perfect" for my book group!

Hey everyone! I have the next two days off work and I have spent most of today getting Christmas decoration set up. I LOVE getting my decorations up and getting covered in glitter!! It is soooo cold here in Gerogia. The high today was something like 40.

Goal wise I’m doing well! I was so busy today that I hardly ate so my calorie count was great, even with having frozen pizza for dinner. My weight is holding and I’m really hoping for at least a pound loss this week so I can claim 20 lbs down.

@Robin, sorry about your hip. I hope you start feeling better soon! Good for your for going with the fresh ingredients. I like my convenience foods so much and have to force myself to go natural when I can.

@mnwalkingqueen, getting a B in algebra when you have never done it before is AWESEMOME!! I went back to school when I was 40 and I remember the day I can home all excited that I finally understood percentages.

@skinnyjeanz, sorry your feeling sick. All that grading and being under the weather must be so difficult. I hope you start feeling better soon!

@Kaye, I hope your knee gets better very soon! Slipping on ice is so scary.

@Lives2Travel, thank you for your post and your honesty!! You are so right that people who have never walked in our shoes don’t understand the daily battle it is. My gosh if there were York Peppermint Patties in my house I don’t know what I would do!! I know that if I don’t weigh every day and record ALL my food on MFP I will not lose this weight. And that is why I do struggle so much. Being realistic with goals is also key to success. I think you rock!!

@teresa--good to hear you so enjoy putting up those decorations. I used to spend the 1st few days of Winter Break cleaning my house top to bottom. Then I would put up all the decoration and have everyone over for Christmas dinner. Then I would spend the few days afterward taking them all down and putting them away. However, my SIL took over that holiday a few years ago so I quit decorating--it looked pretty, but was such a chore to put up and take down.

@barbara--great job stopping at one handful of cashews. There are definitely worse snacks you could've reached for, and as long as you log and account for those calories, you are doing great!

@robin--sorry to hear about your hip pain--ouch! You are correct that I always seem to get sick this time of year. My only consolation is it's a week earlier than usual b/c I almost always miss a "day before Thanksgiving" get-together with friends due to illness. Maybe this year I will actually make it to that and be able to enjoy a cold-free Thanksgiving. Crossing my fingers.

@kelley--I'm a coupel of years older than you and holly, but when I was in HS we only needed 3 years of math and science COMBINED to graduate. Since I took algebra in 8th grade, my last HS math course was geometry my freshman year. Needless to say when i had to take a couple of core math classes in college, it was really hard!

@holly--continuing from my note to kelley above, I did terribly in my college algebra/trig class. In fact, I should have failed b/c I needed a 90% on the final to even get a D- and I barely finished half of the questions. I was sure I would see an F on my grade report--I was bad at math, but even I could add up the points I had earned to figure my average. To my surprise, the instructor gave me a C+. Of course, he was just covering his *kitten* b/c he hadn't done any true teaching, but since I didn't really need to know trig, I was happy to get the credit.

AFM--Thanks for all of the well-wishes--fortunately, my cold hasn't evolved to anything worse. Hoping that holds true and it is short-lived. Although I wasn't feeling terrible at the end of the school day, I decided to skip my meeting. It was one of few that it wasn't either required or essential that i be there, so I thought I would take advantage and skip out.

I ended up grading a bit after school and then I made a big pot of white bean and ham soup. Very simple and yummy!

1/2 lb dry navy beans
1/2 lb dry great northern beans
1 onion chopped
2 tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp of thyme
pinch or 2 of salt
15 oz spiral ham cut into cubes
1 ham bone (if available)

Soak the beans (I used quick soak method on bag) then drain and rinse
Combine beans, 8 cups of water, spices, garlic, onion, and ham bone and simmer for 1 and 1/2 hours
Remove ham bone
Either remove a portion of beans and mix in blender, or mash in the pot (I used a potato masher) and add back to pot
Add ham and simmer about 15 more minutes

November All-In:
Under calorie goal: 15/18 days (goal is 27/30 days)
Workout: 4/18 (goal is as much as possible)
8k on Thanksgiving Day in 57 minutes

Grading Goals:
1. 60/60 M1948 Vocab DONE
2. 10/60 Scarlet Letter vocab 1
3. x/60 M1948 in-class essays

Exercise Goals:
Sun--walk gunner DONE + gym NOT DONE
Mon--meeting
Tues--meeting
Wed--walk gunner + gym
Thurs--walk gunner + gym
Fri--walk gunner
Sat--walk gunner + gym