Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

@LaurieK Fantastic motivating post! I am going to copy it and paste it somewhere so I can refer to it. It is just the thing I needed just now.

And that leads to the word I am deciding on. I keep going back to "tenacity" and I think that is it. I want to do this weight loss journey and it will take some tenacity to stick it out for the long haul. I tried it out today on a short walk with DH...it was beautifully sunny here in Wisconsin as Lori (cblue) commented this morning. It was a challenge, but I made it. Also, I ordered a pedometer today so will be soon tracking steps...the old one just simply died.

Sunday Share: I am Barbara (mountmary), I am 71and I joined this thread around Halloween this year. These terrific people got me through the holidays with a loss, not a great loss, but a loss and I am so pleased not to be up through that time period. I lost 8 pounds and made it back to my ticker! Just now there are a few holiday leftovers that need to go so I don't get into them...I will give DH a few more days with them before they hit the trash.

To all the returning and new people here. Welcome. You have found a wonderful group. Join in the conversation and keep coming back.

December Challenge:
Calorie goal: 23/28
Exercise goal: One short walk today
A salad a day goal: I lost track.

Thanks everyone for being there. Special thanks to Laurie today!
Barbara (mountmary)

Hi guys!

@laurie--great post!! Can you believe it's been 4 years!?!? My 4-year MFP anniversary is approaching in March--some days it seems like yesterday, and others like a lifetime ago.

@barbara (mountmary)--I love that word! I am glad to say most of the sweets are now gone from my house. There is still the plate of cookies that my neighbor made, but they really aren't tempting me. My most tempting item is a bottle of Gressy that I just finished tonight. It's a cream liquor similar to Bailey's that I got while in Punta Cana this summer. It came free with our room, so I brought it home and saved it for the holidays. Luckily it was a small bottle.

@mknits--welcome!

@softblonde--I hate it when doctors tell you to "lose weight" to fix a medical condition. As much as weight loss will help your knees, a good doctor will not dismiss you with that advice alone. Perhaps you can get a referral to a physical therapist to help you learn what exercises to do to not aggravate your knees. Depending upon your medical insurance, you may have that benefit. My HMO includes something like 40 hours of PT/ calendar year. That way you can work with a trainer on form and doing exercises that will build up muscles to take pressure off your knees while you are in the process of losing the weight.

@robin--what an epiphany! I firmly believe so many of our weight issues come from childhood. I love my mother, but she "mothers" by feeding. Even now, when I go visit, she's always asking if I'm hungry. If I open the fridge, she starts rattling off everything it contains. In addition, she grew up with Depression-era parents, so she hates wasting food. I found one of my early struggles when I started MFP was throwing food away. I found I would eat up leftovers--even if I wasn't hungry--just so they wouldn't spoil. Good for you for figuring out one of your challenges--maybe instead of thinking of this process as "losing weight," you can view it as "gaining health"?

AFM--Well I only got through 2 papers, but it's always hardest to get started. Tomorrow I'm meeting some friends for lunch at Cooper's Hawk around 2. A couple from the group are going to meet me beforehand to grade for a couple of hours, so hope to make a bigger dent then. I counted how many students actually submitted online and it is 50, so I'm going to change the goal to reflect that number.

On a completely different note, DH and I are thinking of taking a trip out west this summer. I think I mentioned that my friend is getting married in Rock Springs, WY and I looked into flights. It's really expensive to fly into their dinky airport (plus, I'm terrified of those small planes it would likely require), so we would have to fly to Salt Lake City then drive the 3 hours north. If we do this I would want to take some time to sight-see around SLC--no point in spending the $600 plus on airfare to just go to the wedding.

Our other option is to take a road trip the whole way. If we do that, we could stop along the way at the Black Hills and see Mt. Rushmore. I would like to find something else along the way in southern MN or northern IA, but I'm not really familiar with sights along that route.

If anyone has any suggestions about either option, please let me know.

Cleaning Goals:
1. file paperwork/bills
2. drop off bag of clothes to GW
3. clean fish tank

December All-In:
Under calorie goal: 25/28 days (goal is 28/31 days)
Workout: 9/28 (goal is as much as possible)
8k over Winter Break (not sure what day) in 56 minutes (Thanksgiving 8k was 56:49)

Grading Goals:
1. 2/50 AP essays
2. x/13 Scarlet Letter essays

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

@skinnyjeanzbound - Thank you for the welcome!

I like the goal lists ya'll are doing so here is mine for this month and week

Cleaning goals for tomorrow
- Rewash all of my clothing in the detergent I am (hopefully) not allergic to
- Fold and put away laundry
- Vacuum

Fitness goals
- track every bite
- do a slim in 6 or yoga workout (goal is to workout 6/7 days this week)
- meal plan so I can prep meals for next week

Grading Goals (like this one I need it)
-Grade lab reports for 1 out of 4 classes and enter grades into online program. Goal is to finish one class a day until done.

Niki - kitkat is very blessed that you belong to him. Offering prayers for strength and peace to you both in this painful time.

@melifornia‌ - once you get your kitchen reorganized instead of cooking for one try cooking full recipes then freezing individual servings. That way you don't have to cook as often.

I'm Kai and I have a lot of weight to lose. Motivation is my main issue.

Weekly goals:

Work: Short work week due to holiday and AWS schedule (I work an extra half hour everyday for 21 days then get the next Monday off). So...
I'd like to reach November 12th.
Stand up to the Coworker that pitches fits when I restock my binder clips (don't ask, it's a nightmare).

Eating:

To be under calories 6/7 days
To be over 1200 calories 7/7 days

Exercise:

30 - 35 minutes 7/7 days

Social:

Take my son to his OVR appt and still function the rest of the day.
Stay up until midnight on the 31st.

Cleaning:

Kitchen sink
My dresser
Vacuum

Is nice meeting everyone.

Hello ever one. Its Monday morning and feeling disgusted with my self thought I was doing good after Christmas and last night feel off my weight loss calories broke down and ate stuffing and a piece of cherry pie. Really upset with myself. Missed reporting in yesterday but back today.

@kaihunter45‌ I like your goals for this week. Motivation is very important.

Cant get to everyone now but will try get on later getting ready for a visit to counselor. Until later bye

Hello all! I hope you don't mind if I 'join up' since I no longer have 100lbs to lose, I just did though. I joined MFP in March of this year with 170lbs to lose. I am currently down 108 as of this morning. I still have 62 more to go.
If you had told me last year this time that I would be able to walk to my mailbox and back (1/4 mile each way), I would have laughed you out of my house...and then started crying. Losing weight was a pipe dream and not for me. I had a defeatest attitude since I was already in my 40s, post hysterectomy with a couple more surgeries under my belt and I needed a rollator when we went shopping. I was basically a hermit because I HATED leaving the house. I was completely sedentary and worked in the home...I was becoming agoraphobic as well. It's hard to think of that time in my life now.
I was having difficulty standing without grabbing on to something and thought, "this is ridiculous, I need to work on my knee strength" so I got out the Wii fit and figured I'd try the walking...except the wii fit board doesn't work if you're over 340lbs. I had a good cry, and my husband said we will just throw all the food out and get better food the next day at the store. He said no more McDonalds (we pretty much had it every day) and no more 2 litres of coke by the bedside.
I logged onto MFP just to log my food for a week and see how much I should be eating. Well, that one week has lasted 9 months, lol.

So my goals have changed from losing, to toning. I have still set myself to lose 1.5 lbs a week, but now it's time to start really exercising instead of just some cardio. I need to build muscle. With the weight loss comes lovely lunch lady arms . I wish I had been lifting weights this whole time, but realistically, I couldn't even start to exercise until I lost at least 50lbs. So, my victory this week is I have lost 2 more pounds since Christmas and my plan this week is continued cardio with flexband and weight lifting circuits to be added!

An important lesson I learned over the holiday:

One bad meal is not going to make me fat, just like one good meal isn't going to make me skinny.

I didn't gain this weight over-night and I'm certainly not going to lose it overnight. I am going to have my good days and my bad days. I won't always be sprinting to the finish line, but I am moving in the right direction, and that is perfectly fine with me.

One of my favorite motivational quotes:

Rome wasn't built in a day, but they worked on it every day.

I did not get fat in a day, I will not be thin in a day. But if I work on this every day I will get where I want to be.

Thanks for chiming in, @kaihunter45‌ and @kah68. Freezing portions for later is the plan; however, because I have a tiny kitchen, I also have a small 'fridge and freezer, which limits what I can store. I do have a small (quarter-size?) deep freezer on my back porch for supplementary food storage, but I need to clean it out!

Looks like I'm taking a niece and nephew roller skating this afternoon. That ought to be a good leg workout!

Health Goals:
* Take meds daily - DONE Sunday
* Refill pill sorter thing - DONE

Diet Goals:
* At or under calorie goal 5/7 days
* Healthy breakfast 5/7 days - DONE Monday
* No fast food 3/7 days (trying to set a realistic but still challenging goal here)
* Create and prep healthier food options for New Year's Eve/Day LOTR marathon with nieces

Exercise Goals:
* Elliptical and/or treadmill at the gym minimum of 30 mins/3x
* Find 15-20 min yoga routine to do at home and do at least 2x
* Collaborate with oldest niece to create "exercising game" for New Year's Eve/Day LOTR marathon (like a drinking game, but instead of drinking, we do some sort of exercise; for example, every time someone refers to a Hobbit as "a Halfling", we do 25 jumping jacks)

Cleaning Goals:
* Declutter kitchen
* List items to sell on local buy/sell/trade FB group
* Take other items to GW or trash
* Clean sink 7/7 nights
* REMEMBER: trash collection is Wednesday this week! (usually it's Thursday; holidays are throwing schedule off)
* Put away Christmas decor (Fri/Sat after New Year's)

Work Goals:
* File new biz profile piece with newspaper (SUNDAY) - DONE
* File police reports from weekend with newspaper (SUNDAY) - DONE
* File event precede with newspaper
* Write mag piece #1 and send out for review
* Write mag piece #2 and schedule to send out for review 1/5
* Write press release and send to 5 publications for consideration
* Figure out issue with client's website shopping cart

Suited the kids up in their snow gear and sent them outside so I could do my slim in 6 today. I think I'll do that more often, when I try to do it with them around I either get helpers that i don't want our the 5 year old coaching me "mom she's lifting her arm higher then you abs your sweating a lot more then her"

Meal planning and prepping what I can now to pack up lots of ready to go meals for the week back to school. Preparing ahead and having pre-portioned grab and go lunches makes eating healthy easier for me.

@NK1112‌ I think when it comes to pets real love is knowing that you can give them a peaceful passing with as little pain as possible. I think knowing when that times comes is the single hardest but most important part of loving any pet. Enjoy every minute you have. Thank you for your words about this being up to me. I get so stuck in my head with the negativity when i start to lose that I let me defeat me. I need to stop that!

So workout done for the day, every bite eaten so far tracked, supper planned and tracked, kitchen cleaned and laundry put away with more loads working... can't avoid those lab reports anymore I guess

May I join? I had Gastric Sleeve last year. Did well and lost some and then stalled and started to gain. I have about 93 pounds still to lose. I have had a good day today. I have eaten well and have walked 15 on the TM. A good place to start!

@Lauriek70‌ I teach 7th grade science, and when they get to me is the first time they've been asked to do in depth technical writing. So their lab reports make me want to use the pen to blind myself "Next I will tell you the materials and procedures you need to do to do this lab we did" and my favorite "I hope you enjoyed reading my lab report about xyz I had fun doing it and I hope we get to do another one" (no worries kiddos when you finish with that there will be PLENTY more lab reports in your future). I totally found other things to do and never got beyond looking at the first one. Oh well - maybe tonight I'll knock out one class but I doubt it.

I struggle at after 4 with my eating - today I was great on on track not hungry and then bam 4 o'clock hits and I just want to eat all.the.things. I made some no bakes to keep my hands busy and that helped (plus they are a treat but they aren't hugely bad calorie wise if you make them smaller like I do) but I still get this out of control binge feeling. I'm still under my calorie goal for the day so it isn't the end of the world and I made good choices - but I want to work on fixing it. I'm not sure if it just habit or that I don't eat enough earlier in the day or what.

Good afternoon everyone.

Happy Pepper Pot Day
Today is Pepper Pot Day! Pepper pot is a thick spicy soup first created on December 29, 1777. During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army experienced an exceptionally harsh winter in Valley Forge. The soldiers were low on food because the farmers in the area sold all their supplies to the British Army for cash rather than the weak currency that the Continental soldiers could offer.
Christopher Ludwick, the baker general of the Continental Army, gathered whatever food he could find to feed the frail soldiers. The chef was able to find scraps of tripe, meat, and some peppercorn. He mixed the ingredients together with some other seasonings and created the hot spicy soup we now know as pepper pot. It became known as "the soup that won the war."
To celebrate this historic dish, try making your own pepper pot soup today! It’s the perfect way to warm up on a chilly December day.

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” ~Jim Rohn

Tom

You guys, I think my legs are going to fall off. It was worth the pain, though. My niece and nephew had a blast skating and will probably sleep hard tonight. (You're welcome, LilBro. )

Also, a NSV to report: I took them out for ice cream afterward, but opted for iced tea (unsweetened) for myself. I probably would be under my calories for the day even with ice cream, but I wasn't craving it, so I passed.

@loosaedna‌ , great progress in losing the weight! Prayers of the bump on your leg being nothing major. Keep those smiles coming!