Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Hi guys!

@soosun—sounds like a yummy day!

@robin—I agree with Barbara and Kelley. I need to repeat this month’s challenge. Today is my 4th day over and I haven’t even gotten to Thanksgiving! For December, I want to try to meet the goal of only 3 days over. One will be Christmas Day, and I’ll have to look at the calendar to figure out the other 2 days. Probably our faculty holiday party and one more. I hope your hip is feeling better and you can get your other cortisone shot soon. Oh, and I’ve never seen the Demi Moore SL movie b/c I heard they butchered the ending.

@carol & LA—welcome!

@laurie—great job with the workouts the past two days!

@kelley—enjoy your PSL!! I’ve discovered their new chestnut praline latte. Had a very small sample of the full fat version and it was divine! Have only had the non-fat, no whip version since, and it’s still very good. Like you, I allow myself one full fat/sugar holiday beverage. Usually it’s the salted caramel latte, but I may go with the new CPL this year. Hope you figure out the thyroid meds and get that metabolism amped up again.

@tom—I love the Humane Society—glad we have a day to celebrate their work.

@niki—I hope your new approach of eating at maintenance gives you positive results.

@barbara—I’m so excited that you are re-reading SL!!

Saturday Success:
Despite my week of no exercise, my weight has stayed in the lower 180s—this morning at 183 (my ticker weight), so looking forward to dipping below that. Hoping it happens before Thanksgiving dinner.

As I mentioned above to robin, I was over calories today. I had to go judge a speech tournament in the morning, and packed some healthy snacks for breakfast. Then I met a friend who lives near the tournament and we went to a local diner for “second breakfast” as the Hobbits would say. I had a healthy spinach and feta omelet, but indulged in some pancakes and ate a bit of the hash browns as well.

What pushed me over however, was the roast beef along with some fresh bread and butter my DH made for dinner. I went to the gym and ran a couple of miles and did some weights and core work in the afternoon, and when I got home I was really, really hungry (despite my second breakfast). I have a feeling I was underestimating my intake during the week, or perhaps my body was burning extra calories fighting my cold, but that’s the only explanation I have for why I was so hungry today. Anyway it is what it is—I can’t undo it, so I will just go forward.

My other success is that I got back to the gym after my week off due to meetings and being sick. I also got a very restful night of sleep last night, and my cold seems to be gone—so all in all a good day.

Grading Goals:
1. 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 DONE + gym DONE

Laurie, thank you for your kind words and the welcome!

To everybody: What is the challenge?

Hello everyone, I hope that you are all enjoying the weekend. I joined mfp in May 2014 and have since lost over 50pounds. My goal weight is 150 pounds. I have over 100 pounds to lose. While I work out vigorously at least 4days a week, I find that keeping my carbs and sugars in check has been a bit of a challenge. I am in my 30s, log everyday, and I am motivated. I would love to join your group so that I can be inspired and motivated further. I will of course motivate as well.

Welcome all newbies ... this is a nice thread and is very welcoming to new comers ... I joined in October and find the support given to be non-judgemental and helps me focus on the positives in this long journey to better health through weight management.

AFM ...
I like the challenge we had in November, as detailed above by Barbara ... and would like to continue it into December ... Come January, we may want to challenge ourselves with ways to shed any weight we gained between Halloween and New Year .... just a thought.

calories under goal - 7/22
attendance sheet checkmarks - 48%

This month has been really hard ... it's my old pattern of lose and then gain working it's dark sorcery on me. I'm fighting it by feel like it's been a losing battle all month long. Am so looking forward to seeing what my weight scale says on Monday morning. Really, really, really want to jump on that thing right now but will not ... that will be one thing that I have stuck too for today, if nothing else!
Niki

Quick check in traveling day. Day 6 of my dieting on track and under calories. Today according to my past history will be sabotage day, but I am no longer in denial about this pattern. Have begun the day with good choices, will check in tomrrow and post all my good choices. Thanks for listening.

@ soosun I will be looking for those good choices tomorrow. I totally agree that Sunday tends to be "sabotage day". It is usually my worst day....thanks for calling that to my attention early enough today so I can be mindful of that.
Barbara
Gosh, I am really blabby today! I will be quiet for a while now.

So from the first page, Sunday is "sharing - tell us a little about yourself..."

I am 47 yeas old. I have long dark brown hair. I am very overweight but am losing!!! I have three children. My 28-year-old lives on the east coast (I am on the west coast). My little ones here in the home are ages 11 and 8. My 11-year-old is autistic and significantly intellectually delayed. My 8-year-old had speech delay, but now excels in every subject as compared to his neurotypical peers. We are gradually transitioning him from special ed to standard ed. These little guys are wonderful. They are polite and sweet, they are so loving, affectionate and demonstrative, and are creative and gorgeous. I love love love my little boys.

I have issues with gluten. I have not been diagnosed with Celiac Disease but know that I have to stay away from gluten. I get open sores that are both itchy and severely painful when I eat wheat. I also bloat, get exhausted, itchy everywhere and it's just bad overall. I didn't want to believe it was wheat, as I LOVE WHEAT. But it is what it is. Everybody has something, you know?

I am also hypothyroid and medicated.

I am a freelance writer and editor.

I am currently married but will probably be divorcing.

That's about all I can think of right now!

@robin--I'm sad that that first scale reading was a fluke--too bad that 30 lbs wasn't really gone. The good news is, you know you can make that number a reality--though maybe not overnight.

@laurie--sorry your bike ride didn't work out. Good luck grading those papers, I didn't get through as much as I would've liked this weekend.

@LA--that's so interesting thet you are a writer. What type of writing do you do? Journalistic? Fiction? Poetry? I'm an English teacher, and though I'm pretty good at literary analyses and academic writing, I've never tried my hand at creative writing. I have a good friend who is a poet though, and one of our regulars here on the thread writes fiction. Her MFP name is toots, and she's been away from the thread for a bit due to recently adopting 2 boys from China. I'm sure she'll be back at some point though, so you're bound to get to know her if you stick around.

@tom--that math made this English type's brain hurt.

@kelley--I love Poe! In fact, one of my first "complete works of" leather texts was Poe's. Oddly enough, I don't teach anything by Poe. For a couple of years I taught "The Pit and the Pendulum" but it got bumped the past 2 years due to time constraints. In our district, the students get a lot of Poe in middle school and during freshman and sophomore year, so it made sense to cut that over some of the other works.

Welcome to the newlings!

Sunday Share:
Like kelley (kah), I haven't done an intro in a while, so I will give a quick summary for the newlings. I'm karen, 45 y/o married HS English teacher from chicago. I live and work in the suburbs now, but heart still lies in chi-town--I'm a city girl through and through. I also have 90 lb "lap" dog named gunner.

I joined robin's thread in july 2011 just a few months after joining MFP. I've lost a total of 58 lbs. The first 40 lbs or so came off pretty quickly. Then I stalled out for a bit just as I was working my way into onederland. I've since passed that hurdle and am currently at 183 with a ticker goal of 150. However, my current goal is to get to 170 lbs and see how my body feels at that weight. Since I'm in a size 12 right now, I'm not sure that 150 is realistic for my frame and height--we'll see. Like so many others here, I've been gaining and losing the same 5 lbs for about 2 years, but I've decided I'm done playing around and will push past this plateau by year's end. Then I will start 2015 with the determination to keep going.

Grading Goals:
1. 6/60 M1948 in-class essays

Exercise Goals:
Sun--rest day
Mon--walk gunner + gym
Tues--rest day
Wed--walk gunner + gym
Thurs--Thanksgiving Day 8k
Fri--walk gunner + gym
Sat--walk gunner + gym

Arrived safe and sound after being in the car all day, or seemed like it. Breakfast was greek yogurt, almond cereal, raspberries, sugar free jam, stevia. Lunch was Cafe Rio Beef Tostada and Diet Coke, snack was Think Addictive, Newton Fig Snack Cookies, Hot Cocoa ( it was freezing all day long in Utah......brrrrr) I saved half of my tostada for dinner now, and am under at 1291 calories, 48 grams of sugar, and 45 grams of fat so good all around. I forgot my scale so am going to buy one tomorrow so I can weigh myself. Need one in both places!!!!!!!!!! So far So good food. Thank you for all the positive posts for this addiction of sabotaging myself to lose weight. Whether it is 10 or 100 it is so stressful. What a great group of women! G'night.

Good morning everybody.

Happy D.B. Cooper Day!
November 24th, 2009 by xformed
Yes, it’s hard to believe it’s been 39 years, since that epic skydive took place…but..it is.
Yes, D.B. Cooper is quite the man. The FBI remains on the hunt today…can you believe it?
His jump caused a major shift in airline travel comfort, and actually spawned the word: Skyjacking.
Brave soul to exit via the tail ramp at faster than terminal velocity. Worse yet, without being able to spot the pilot to give him a sporting chance of hitting the intended DZ.
To top it off, he did it with a “round.” I suspect it was a C-9 28′ flat circular canopy, which, unless you were pretty light, it would have made for a tough landing, so you needed to be well practiced for PLFs, and tree landings, too. Heck, toss in the fact you may have had to pull off a successful water landing at night, without a few buddies in a boat nearby, and in November in the North West.
Guts…and we still don’t know if he made it, or became worm food that night.
Never fear, the tradition continues: Many years back, the annual World Freefall Convention began bringing in a 727 with the DB Cooper Lock removed, so skydivers could jump the ramp.

“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” ~Unknown

Tom

Back again ... just had to share this recipe with you all ... if you like seafood ... to my tastes, this was one of the best meals I've made in a long while .... stove-top steamed cod with lemon-butter sauce over a small microwave-baked russet potato. ...

Heat up a small pan on medium heat, melt a scant knife-scrape of coconut oil (or use non-stick pan spray) and lay in a rinsed and dried cod fillet. Sprinkle with a bit of salt and pepper and lay 3 or 4 slices of lemon over the fish. Cover the pan and let cook for about 5- 7 minutes while you microwave the potato. Remove the lid to check the fish, if it is already translucent and starting to flake, you are just about done. Just flip that fish over so you can lightly salt and pepper the other side, then stir in a small pat of butter into the juices that have come from the fish. Squeeze some lemon juice from the lemon over the fish.

On a plate, cut up the potato into bite size pieces (I leave the skins on), and turn out your pan of fish and sauce over the potatoes.

Yumm to the last bit, including the steamed lemon slices.

This was my early dinner ... there will be some vegetables to have for supper later on in the evening.

Niki

PS ... Barbara, I use visualization all the time ... do you?
I'm having Thanksgiving at my sister's house this year with the rest of our family that lives in our part of the world. Hooray! just found out I'm making one of the cranberry relishes and the salad. Gonna go shopping early in the morning so I'm ahead of the regular crowd!
Niki

Hi guys!

@teresa—sorry to hear about your daughter. I think, in general, there’s not much you can do for someone with an addiction if she doesn’t want the help. All you can do is let her know you will support her when she makes the decision to help herself.

@niki—congrats on seeing that lowest number on the scale!!

@soosun—glad you made it safely and with good food choices to boot!

Monday Check-in:
Today was a pretty good day at school. My AP classes did Socratic seminars (aka fishbowl discussion) for their novel, Grendel, which they will complete tomorrow. It makes for an easy couple of days for me b/c they do all of the work, and I just listen and track their participation in the conversation.

Since I already had the room set up for the fishbowl, I decided to try it with my juniors for their Scarlet Letter discussion. I‘ve never done this with them before, so I wasn’t sure if they would be able to handle carrying the discussion for the entire class period. However, they did a really great job.

After work, I went to the gym and did a sub-33 minute 5k on the treadmill which is a really good time for me. Tomorrow my friends and I are going out after work, so I will need to watch my calories to allow for a couple of captain and diet cokes. Fortunately, they don’t cost too many calories.

November All-In:
Under calorie goal: 20/24 days (goal is 27/30 days)
Workout: 6/24 (goal is as much as possible)
8k on Thanksgiving Day in 57 minutes

Grading Goals:
1. 7/60 M1948 in-class essays
2. 2/66 AP Journals
3. A bunch of paper revisions—haven’t counted them yet

Exercise Goals:
Sun--rest day
Mon--walk gunner NOT DONE + gym DONE
Tues--rest day
Wed--walk gunner + gym
Thurs--Thanksgiving Day 8k
Fri--walk gunner + gym
Sat--walk gunner + gym

Hey All! I'm so new to MFP. This thread seems to be wonderfully supportive. You ladies and gents are so positive and kind. I would love to continue to post in this message board. Can anyone fill me in on the challenges and maybe translate the goal lingo? haha

I could use some friends to add as well! Thanks and be well!

Good morning.

Happy International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day
Why This International Day?
• Violence against women is a human rights violation
• Violence against women is a consequence of discrimination against women, in law and also in practice, and of persisting inequalities between men and women
• Violence against women impacts on, and impedes, progress in many areas, including poverty eradication, combating HIV/AIDS, and peace and security
• Violence against women and girls is not inevitable. Prevention is possible and essential
• Violence against women continues to be a global pandemic.
Facts and Figures
• 35% of women and girls globally experience some form of physical and or sexual violence in their lifetime with up to seven in ten women facing this abuse in some countries.
• It is estimated that up to 30 million girls under the age of 15 remain at risk from FGM/C, and more than 130 million girls and women have undergone the procedure worldwide.
• Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married as children, 250 million of whom were married before the age of 15. Girls who marry before the age of 18 are less likely to complete their education and more likely to experience domestic violence and complications in childbirth.
• The costs and consequence of violence against women last for generations.

From 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world.

“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.” ~Thomas L. Holdcroft

Tom