Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Thursday truth: My party (book club) is over and I am exhausted! All went well and I don't think I over did the food, though I did have a small piece of the cake and a few nuts.
Now, I can get back to "me", until next week and the "big event" with the turkey.
@ Susan Good luck with the move. I hope all goes smoothly.
@Lori WOW! You are soooo inspiring. I am glad to be able to say I know you!
@hansea The "Y" challenge sounds good. You go for it.
To everyone with hurts and colds, get better. None of us has time for such.
Barbara

Thursday truth; being mindful to listen to this mantra when I am anxious and want to eat or in a social siutation and want to eat or am home alone and want to eat. Stop, Evaluate, Wait 15 minutes, Evaluate again, then eat one healthy snack. This way you are deciding to eat, not emotionally being driven to eat to ease anxiety, etc. Dieting is complex!

@barb (bap)—I haven’t been to the Keys, but it’s on my bucket list. Even if you need to eat most meals at the buffet, I bet you can make good choices.

@soosun—great advice about stopping to think before eating. I’m not an emotional eater, but definitely have had issues in the past eating out of habit or boredom. Over the past few years I’ve been able to break a lot of bad habits by following a similar strategy.

@barbara—glad the book club went well!

@lori—awesome NSVs!! Go you!! I love the move from 18W to 18. Funny story—I’ve never been thin, but managed to stay in the regular big sizes for most of my like. Eventually as the weight crept up, I found myself at some outlet (maybe Nordstrom Rack) looking at pants that all had Ws after the sizes. I was actually baffled and turned to the woman next to me and asked, “Is the W for wide?” She chuckled at me and answered, “Well in theory it stands for ‘woman,’ but yes, in reality, it means ‘wide.’” With a 10 inch loss in 4 weeks, you are certainly no longer “wide.”

@holly—great job getting back to the walking!

@kelley—Eek! Rats?!?! I hope the exterminator caught them all and you don’t have to deal with any in your unit. I’ve also been bad with my macros, but just staying under 1680 overall seems to be working for me, so I’m not going to worry about it right now.

@amanda—your dream made me chuckle. Most of my nightmares take place in a HS. However, I’m almost never the teacher—I’m always a student and I’ve done something wrong (like cut class or neglected to do homework) that I now have to face. I guess that’s what I get for being such a terrible student when I was a teen.

Thursday Truth:
I feel guilty for not going to the gym again, but I'm just so exhausted. I feel like my body is telling me to rest, so I've been focusing on grading instead. Still haven't finished the vocab b/c the kids are not doing a great job. It takes so much longer to grade when I have to write all of the comments about why they are losing points, but they need the feedback in order to improve. At least next week is only a 2-day work week--really looking forward to the extra time.


Grading Goals:
1. 32/60 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 NOT DONE + gym NOT DONE
Thurs--walk gunner NOT DONE + gym NOT DONE
Fri--walk gunner
Sat--walk gunner + gym

Grammy-Thanks for the info about the phone. Good News about your hubby.

Karen- I hope you start to feel better. Good luck with grading the vocab papers.

Truth- I have been lax in my food choices the past week but I am now getting back on track and making the effort to healthy. I also need to be faithful about posting my workout plans on her while I follow it. Needless to say, if I don't post my goals- my week lacks an exercise focus which translates to no gym or workout. This week I have taken 3 days off- 1 was for a meeting and planned, 2 met a friend for dinner instead of gym, tonight dinner with co-worker then the funeral home but no gym. So plan plan is to work my butt off this weekend.
Friday- Climb
Saturday-Swim
Sunday bike
Monday-off
Tuesday- gym
Wednesday- 5K or swim

Have a great Friday.

Good morning everybody.

Happy Alascattalo Day

Once upon a time, a mild-mannered moose named Morris met a wickedly witty walrus named Wanabelle.
Morris thought right off that Wannabelle had a wonderful way with words and that her whiskers, while wacky and wiry, were wistfully welcoming as well. Wannabelle was moved by Morris' manners and his marvelous, magnetic charm, not to mention the massive mantlepiece he masqueraded upon his head.
It was love at first sight, and soon the mild-mannered moose and the witty walrus named Wannabelle were wed in the church down the way. Within sixty weeks, Morris and Wannabelle welcomed into the world a wee little weeble who made their love complete, and hence ~ the first Alascattalo was born.
~Alascattalo Day is celebrated on November 21st every year. It is a day to honor humor in general and Alaskan humor in particular. The day is named after it's mascot, the Alascattalo, a genetic cross between a walrus and a moose.
Steven C. Levi, a commercial writer who works in Anchorage Alaska is the originator of the Alascattalo Day Parade. He describes it as "the longest running shortest parade in American history." The parade runs one block in an alley behind Club Paris. It has been held every year for the past 25 years with an award being given for the smallest and ugliest float (must be both to win). Mr. Levi even went as far as to have an asteroid named after the Alascattalo.
So, on any other given day of the year, you may not be too thrilled about running into a moose/walrus creature in the middle of a dark alley, but on Alascattalo Day it would be wrong and weirdly worrisome it you didn't. Have a wonderful Alascattalo Day.

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~Margaret Thatcher

Tom

Hi everyone. I'm new also. Been using myfitnesspal for 145 days now and I've lost 56 lbs. Looking for tips on how to continue losing to get to goal. I'm kind of stalled and it looks like I need to reduce my calories, bleh. I'm a hungry girl Does anyone have any hints on a 1200 calorie diet for someone who travels 80% of the time for work? Ideas that won't leave me so hungry I want to eat my arm off?

Dear Grammy,
I send any and all leftovers home with the guests or I just dump it down the garbage disposal. Better there than on MY waist. Satan, get behind me! haha

Hi guys!

@soosun--I got my first cell phone in 1991 and am only on my 5th--so I also keep my pones a long time. I finally switched to my 1st smartphone this summer and so far no regrets. However, I have the Galaxy mini which I absolutely love. No experience with an iPhone, so I can't compare.

@christi--welcome and great job losing 56 lbs over the past 6 months or so! As far as sticking to a 1200 calorie allowance--I can't help you there. Although I had my goal set at 1200 at the outset, I ate back all of my exercise calories s most days that was well over 1200 overall. As I've gotten closer to my goal weight, I've slowly upped my calorie allowance so when I finally lose the rest of the weight I can transition smoothly to maintenance. Right now, I eat at about 1680 calories per day which is my TDEE -15%. Generally, hi protein foods will help keep you fuller longer.

@lego--welcome!

@tom--I enjoyed reading the fairy tale lovd story.

@kaye--glad you can get some use out of your pedaler without too much pain. Those projects sound like a great way to keep busy while your semi-laid up.

@laurie--I also need to get back at it in the gym.

@marsha--glad to hear the hubs is healing.

Friday Fitness:
Not much this week. Between the weather and my sniffly nose, I just had no motivation. That will change this coming week!

Tomorrow morning I'm judging a speech competition for our HS speech team. I used to coach the team years ago, so this is an easy way to make a bit of extra money. It makes for an early morning, but the bonus is that I will get some grading done between rounds leaving my afternoon free for the gym. Sunday I'm meeting garetie to go shoe shopping and perhaps a cocktail.

Vocab is done! yay!

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

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

@barbara--I've taught The Scarlet Letter for 11 of the 13 years I've been a classroom teacher. It's one of my absolute favorites. The kids really like it too--despite the difficulty level. We try to have fun with it and examine all of the soap opera-ish elements along with the literary devices.

@Karen I dug it out and am started. I remember loving it, but I forgot about the long convoluted sentences. I am speculating on vocabulary words. So far haven't found one I don't know, but I am sure I will. I would love to sit in on a class like that...it has been ages. Reading keeps my hands out of the snacks....can't get the books dirty.
Barbara

Oh...just saw at the beginning of the thread that Friday is supposed to be about fitness...today I did Pilates. I am trying to keep my muscle while losing fat (if I ever do!!).

Good Saturday morning everyone.

Welcome to the new people.

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“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” ~George Herman “Babe” Ruth

Tom

@Robin and everyone I agree with Kah68 (is your name Kelly?) that the current challenge is a good one. I have a way to go to perfect my execution of it, so to keep at it would be good for me and from what I have read maybe for others as well.
Happy Healthy weekend.
Barbara

LA-Welcome. Sorry your life is in chaos right now but it will get better. I can tell you from experience I spent between 6 months to a year hovering between 200-210 and it would change daily. So I understand your frustration. My best advice is to keep up with your eating plan, maybe reduce your calories or increase your exercise intensity level. The weight will drop again just keep plugging away. Take your measurements since you could be making progress in inches lost instead of on the scale. You will eventually learn that the daily weight changes are a part of our natural cycle so don't let them derail you. I can't begin to count the number of times that I have experience a weight of 3-5 pounds one day only to lose it again in a day or two. It will come off to stay.

Soosun- Your recipe for chicken enchilada sounds good. Good job making healthy choices today.

Success I had two good workouts in a row after a lackluster week. Last night climbing workout was a great arm workout since I challenged myself with 3-4 upper level climbs. For the new people, I enjoy indoor rock climbing once a week, so when I talk about upper level climbs I am talking about 5.10.a's. Easy climbs are 5.0- 5.5, Intermediate climbs 5.6 to 5.9, advance climbs 5.10.a's and higher. The levels go up to 5.12.d and maybe higher. I am not ready for anything higher than a 5.10.a or b right now but maybe in time. I still have a lot to learn about climbing.

Today, I swam even through my arms were killing me which made freestyle even harder than usual. At least I went to swim practice this morning. This afternoon, I spent another 40 minutes raking leaves. I will be happy when all the leaves are off the tree so I can stop raking this fall. Alas, I still have one or two more days of raking ahead of me.