Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

silver12176 wrote: »

Alright I am confused. I was in changing my macros and hit the to lose 2 lbs per week which is the same as it was, but when I got out my daily cal intake decreased. Does anyone know why?

I had the same thing happen when I updated my weight. Just go back into Goals and set the calories back to what you want. Must be a bug in the system!

@Lives2Travel‌ I did have a weight loss yesterday and I expected it to go down, but it is weird how it didn't lower it earlier when I put the loss in. Just weird timing I guess.

Good morning everyone. I am doing fairly well. I am enjoying having hubby home as usual. Still a little concerned about son. Its a combination of worry and irritation at this moment. I have come to realize that I might have tried to much to make things easier for my kids. They dont always handle adversity as well as I would like. My hubby tried to warn my son that the job he was going up to do was a nasty fairly horrible job but the boy insisted he didn't mind and he was willing to put in the time to get to what he wanted. So my hubby talks him up and helps him get the job. At first he was god awful sea sick and we weren't sure it would work out and that would have been a case of whatever but now after a couple of days he is starting to feel better but hey surprise the job sucks just like his dad said and he isn't sure he wants to keep doing it. When you go up you sign a 30 day contract with the understanding that you will extend for another 30 days after that and then come home for one or two months depending on your rotation. Well he is saying he doesn't think he is going to do the 30 day extension which will make him and his dad both look bad. So yep while the mommy in me wants him to just be happy the adult in me is getting fairly frustrated with him. On the whole all of my kids are responsible and have a good work ethic but occasionally I am not just sure (sigh). Not much I can do though since they are all adults now other then just letting them know how I feel about their choices. On the upside I spent the whole day yesterday running around with the hubby and ate out lunch and dinner and still stayed in calories. I was pretty happy with that today is housework and grocery shopping. Oh joy, lol.

@kah: Sorry to hear about the falling out with your trainer. It doesn't sound like it made much sense. More like you caught the bad mood caused by something else which is never fair or fun.

@skinnyjeans: I am so sorry to hear about your friend. It is always so hard to hear about someone struggling with their health but always seems even worse when they are so young. I hope they are able to find a treatment that will help her and she can come through this.

@mnwalkingqueen: I did the same thing when my kids were teens as far as using real life examples of what bad choices could bring to their future. Unfortunatley I didn't have to go far for examples as they have a couple of uncles they have watched revolve in and out of the system because of drugs and or alcohol. I always tease my hubby that I got the pick of the litter because out of five kids only he and his sister have stayed out of trouble with the law and made anything of their lives.

Well as usual I had more responses but they have flown away from my poor little mind. So have a great day everyone and TGIF

Good morning everyone.

Happy Self Love Day
February 13th is Self Love Day Put it on your calendar. Whether you can celebrate it this year, or you'll be waiting until next year, this is one day you want to remember. It's all about YOU! We have so much inspiring and powerful things going on at the time. And now that we are connected, there is more to come to support you to have the best relationship of your life.
If you go to the free stuff tab there is some meditations to downoload, a blog, some videos, and the self love kit.

Self Love Day

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.” ~Thomas Jefferson

Tom

Fab Friday to all!
@Morgori - I need me some of that self love today, thanks for sharing.
@MrsMorgori - You are doing so great!
@hansea47‌ - Yea on the car!
@kah68 - Yikes about the trainer, is there any chance he was just having an awful day and took it out on you? Is this something you can forgive him for?
@kapansm‌ - You are my hero of the Walmart victory!

Trying very hard to stay up beat. Not working very well.
Hubby's rotator cuff surgery is on hold for 3 weeks of rest and see.
Son's 3rd DUI will cost $6500.00 up front for the lawyer alone. Do not know what the fines will be. He also has a the $350.00 emergency room, $157.00 to retrieve his car. And he will have to have a breathalyzer installed in his car for about $100/month. Oh the consequences of our actions.
I am still sick with this cold. Slight fever and loads of sludge going down my throat. I am at work today but not happily. Sometimes it just sucks being self employed.
No gym for the 3rd day. Not good food choices. Not logging everything either. Not sure I care.
Cold and flurries today. No sun, just a crappy day.

Now - I do care about all of you my mfp friends. I am happy to be able to log on here and get out of my world for a few minutes and know I am not the only person who has struggles.
I will go to the gym tomorrow no matter what I feel like. I can get on the elliptical at the least.
I will drink all my water today.
I will not take this out on those around me.
I am so very grateful that I can safely vent here. None of you will hold any of this rant against me, and willingly offer me sage advice, gentle persuasion and suggestions.
So thank you all.
Lori

skinnyjeanzbound wrote: »

NK1112 wrote: »

I think I'm a bit behind the 8-ball because a couple of people have already posted their February goals .... here it is, as promised.



MONTHLY “ALL IN” CHALLENGE for February 2015:

Are you new to ‘Need to Lose 100 LBS - Robin’s Thread’ ??? … know that just by posting you have joined in and can participate as you will. We welcome you.

‘Rule’ - None of the standards or challenges are mandatory. The ‘challenges’ are with yourself only. You are the only one who keeps track of how you are doing. So please, Do Give an account of your challenge and how you are doing.

Suggestions: copy this post so you have it on your computer or desk top as a reference.


Our FEBRUARY ALL-IN Challenge is EXERCISE.
We already focus on the calorie aspect of weight management. The other component to weight loss is … exercise!

All kinds of exercise is good exercise … anything that keeps you active that you WILL DO is what to pick. Here are the kinds of exercise that got enthusiastic responses from the ‘members’. … Pick your choice as your personal challenge.

1 … weight/strength training with weight machines, free-weights, heavy-lifting.
2 … body resistance with no weights, with food cans/juice jugs, tension cords/exercise bands
3 … non weight-added exercise, but a focus on some type of formal active body movement with goals (Walking, Yoga, Pilates, Calisthenics, Biking, Swimming, Physical Therapy, etc.)

Select the exercise you will focus on (suggested above or one of your own ideas), how often you will participate in it, and what your goal with that might be.

We also will continue our standard of “watching our calories” and reporting our goal and our achievement of coming within 100 calories of our MFP caloric goal.

(*) A standard from the beginning ... Suggestions for when you post, useful if you don’t know what to ‘say’.

................Goals and Ideas for daily posts (not mandatory)
Monday - check in (how are you doing? Any successes or struggles this week-end.)
Tuesday - Goals (do you have a personal goal you want to share with us?)
Wednesday - Wishes (what do you wish? … weight related or not, realistic or not)
Thursday - Truth (got anything you need to ‘fess up’ or ‘get off your chest’?)
Friday - Fitness (what are you doing to get fit? How are you preparing for weekend eating?)
Saturday - Success (what have you accomplished, focus on the positive of the week, NSV (non scale victories).
Sunday - Sharing (tell us a little about yourself … update your personal life.)

@erin--Welcome! Here's some info about our February challenge. Ultimately, everything is optional--participate as much as you'd like. Also, I love your RH profile pic!

Oh, @Cblue ... I know you are in an awful situation with your son's problems ... too bad you have to suffer the consequences of his actions.
Niki

krmcdonald428 wrote: »

Hi everyone, I'm Kathy and I'm brand new to MFP. Hoping this works for me: my February challenge is to take back my lunch hour by walking for at least 45min of that time everyday.

Welcome Kathy ... welcome and I hope this works for you also. Please be sure to eat during your lunch hour also ... and really, if you only walk for 30 minutes ... that's good also. Heck, even if you walk for 15 to start is OK. Just eat AFTER you do the walk, not before.

You will need to refuel a bit after the activity.

I see you quoted the February challenge ... that's great ... however, it won't save anywhere for you on here, so if you get a chance, print it out or it'll get lost in the additional posts.
Follow-through
Niki

jtconst wrote: »

Still a little concerned about son. Its a combination of worry and irritation at this moment.

He's only into the job a few days ... as time goes on he might decide to go for that second 30 days as his contract states. After all, he might get more used to it by then ... and might find out there are monetary repurcussions to quitting early.

@Skinnyjeanz - thank you for quoting the post about February's challenge. we did need to see it again about now.

@Every-one
Hope everyone is doing well with their challenge. The month is nearly halfway to March. Pretty soon we will have to decide if we want to continue the challenge as it stands for the ALL-IN.

@RobinsEgg -- Hope you are back soon and feeling better. We miss you on here, but don't want to hurry you either.

AFM - Friday the 13th is kind of a special date in my life. It was a January Friday the 13th that I left my husband, many, many years ago. It was on another January Friday the 13th that he married the woman over whom I left him. It was on a February Friday the 13th that I found the best puppy in the world that came to live with me 6 weeks later and be my best friend for the next 12 years. It was on a February Friday the 13th that my parents got to welcome their first great-grandson. The only one they got to meet, although more sons have been born into the family. It was on a November 13th that my son married the love of his life and looked like the happiest man on earth that day.
So, suffice to say, I like Friday the 13th ... actually, any date that is the 13th.

February challenge; Calories are keeping at at or under goal every day, PT exercise is being done every day. Still no gym ... much to much snow out there for me to venture out very much. However, I have been getting exercise outdoors about every other day ... keeping up with shoveling snow ... at least the path to the drive way from the front porch, and down the drive way out to the street and through all that junk the snow plows throw into my drive so the mailman can get through.

My plans for the weekend are to cook up some split pea soup, make some oven-baked pork chop dinners, and finish some very much needed house work.

Follow-through
Niki

Melwillbehealthy wrote: »

I am trying to get back on track but finding it difficult.

Hi Melwillbehealthy .... the best way is to start logging what you eat. You logged today, but it looks like you logged what you planned to eat instead of what you did eat? Trust me, it takes time to get into the habit of logging. When I first started, my logging on MFP was skimpy also, then I started carrying around a small pad that fit into a pocket and wrote down everything I ate, even if the measurements were 'eye-ball' by using that hand measurement trick I read about.

Then I switched to putting the info into MFP because it was so much easier to see reports and trends in eating that way. However, I did not start to lose on a consistent basis until I started to log ALL the food I ate, even if it put me at a very big over-eat. Now I have a much easier time of it.

Of course, I don't have little children to get in my way of logging. However, even you keep a paper log and then put it into MFP at a quiet moment in the day after the kiddies are in bed, you will be back on track. Start small. One thing at a time. Knowing what you ate and when helps the most to start.

Good luck,
Niki

Hi Everyone, its been a few days for me to check in on here. I've been busy this week but also feeling kinda down. I don't like valentine's day and think its stupid but at the same time wish I for once had someone to do something special for me. This next week is also a rough one for me since it'll be a year since my ex and I broke up, and I'm still not fully over that relationship and our anniversary would be next week too. But that's my rant about that.

How has everyone's Friday the 13th been? Mine started interesting at school there was an electrical fire in the nurses office so the school was evacuated at like 7:20am and it was -15 out with the wind chill so that was fun. They ended up getting it contained and let all the kids into the gym since it was so cold out. But traffic was awful, I was like 10min late. By the time we got in the building at 7:45 is when first period is supposed to start, but they extended the bell to 8am to let everyone get in since traffic was so bad. Do all the other teachers out there hace Monday off? This is our first year not having President's Day off, a lot of people aren't happy about it. Who knows though we may end up getting it off anyways since we are in a blizzard warning yet again from noon Saturday to 8am Monday.

I haven't been writing my February goals because I have only been like half way s ticking too them. I am going to try to finish the month strong and go hard into March. I've been doing well with working out but I really need to focus on my nutrition.

Friday Fitness - I am doing kickboxing at least 3 times a week. I went this evening. I am also getting back to the gym to do the C25K program, starting brand new from the beginning again. I want to get back into doing some strength training too but I need manage my time better for it. I'm trying to get work outs in 5 times a week. Biggest thing though I really need to focus on my nutrition and stay with it.

Happy weekend everyone!
Erin

Wow, the thread has been slow today. I guess we have a bunch of romantics who are all celebrating Valentine's Day. LOL

@erin--I'm also an unromantic soul who thinks Valentine's Day is silly. When my husband makes a gesture and gets me flowers or candy, I have to really bite my tongue to not make fun of it. However, he's learned over the past few years that candy isn't allowed, and he knows my general view of cut flowers is that they are a waste of money and just die in a few days.

@tammy--way to go on all those steps! As niki said, perhaps your son will come to understand the importance of the commitment he made as he works through the 1st 30 days.

@melwill--great to see you pop in. Could you do one of those Leslie Sansone videos where you walk in place? At least until the temps improve?

@niki--I love homemade split pea soup!

@txmom--that's sad about your grandmother's house. I had a similar feeling when my uncle sold our grandparents' place, but he was getting older and we were glad to see him move into a townhouse so he didn't have to deal with the upkeep. My sister's and I each got to choose a couple of pieces of my grandmother's jewelry, and one model car from my grandfather's collection. He worked for Ford his whole life, so I took the Ford Mustang. Really, the memories are in your head and heart, not the objects or places. I know that's probably small comfort right now, but it's all I've got for you.

@kathy--welcome to the thread! Great plan to walk at lunch.

@lori--I hope that awful cold goes away and you have a better day today. I hope this bitter cold weather takes a hike for both our sakes. I keep thinking I'm logging everything, and then I'll remember something when I'm driving or in class and can't stop to log it. I guess the scale will tell the story.

Sorry if I missed some of you--I will catch you on the next round.

Friday Fitness: (I don't think I posted yesterday)
I hate not being able to get to the gym more, but between bargaining meetings and PT, there aren't enough hours in the day. Today, I did go and run on the treadmill, but nothing else. Tonight I will do my balance work.

Saturday Success:
I honestly have nothing to report. I've not been great with food choices (and as I mentioned to lori, am forgetting to log everything). In addition, I couldn't get to the gym at all during the work week. I guess one small success is that my weight hasn't fluctuated beyond my normal 5-pound range, but that won't last if this keeps up.

We only have 2 more bargaining meetings scheduled, but I'm not sure we will come to an agreement in that amount of time. We were so far apart on the money that it's hard to be optimistic.

Very happy for this 3-day weekend. I had a very lazy Saturday morning. Now I'm at starbucks--need to get a bit of grading done, so I don't regret wasting the whole day.

February Challenge:
Under weekly calorie goal: 1/4 weeks
All-in strength challenge=balance exercises 3 x/week; PT 1-2 x/week; run 2 x/week:
Week 1: 2/3 balance; PT DONE; 2/2 runs
Week 2: 2/3 balance; PT DONE; 2/2 runs
Week 3: x/3 balance; PT; x/2 runs
Week 4: x/3 balance; PT; x/2 runs
8k at end of month (not sure what day) in 55 minutes (Thanksgiving 8k = 56:49, NYE 8k = 57:47,1/25 = 55:41)

Grading Goals:
1. 14/64 BNW journals
2. x/12 poem analyses
3. x/60 Gatsby journals

Exercise Goals: (week 2)
Sun--rest day (or dance party )
Mon--gym DONE
Tues--PT DONE
Wed--meeting maybe gym NOT DONE
Thurs-- PT DONE
Fri--rest day
Sat--walk gunner NOT DONE + gym DONE

2015 mantra "Just 15 minutes"

@ThrivingforMe … welcome to the thread. It feels overwhelming when you look at the whole enchilada … however, when you cut that down into smaller steps, it becomes manageable. Try for a short term goal of just 5% loss and see how much more doable it is. Good going on getting in your day’s 30 minutes cardio today. That’s a good start.

@Tammy … how far did you walk to get all those steps in? You inspire me to go for it.

@Erin … Sorry you feel kinda down. Ditto on your feelings about Valentines day, we had shared feelings today. How does that C25K program go?

@Tom … very interesting post about Valentines Day. I had never heard of it until I was in grade school and the teacher had us exchange cards. It was a thrill to get some.

@Karen … the thread has been slow the past couple of days. Except for me … LOL, I’m the one who said I have to spend less time online but I seem to be addicted.

AFM(As for me)
I have a small NSV (non scale victory) for today’s Saturday Success to share. Two of them.

I got the driveway entrance clear of the snow and ice the plows threw into it. That pile was 2 1/2 feet high and sprayed 8 feet into the driveway where it dwindled down to about 6 inches. Took my 45 minutes of heavy lifting and throwing with my shovel to clear it in a 12-foot length so my car could get in and out. Hope they don’t have to come through again for days … but we are expecting another bout of snow on Sunday.

The dinner I made tonight brought back the most wonderful smells and memory jogs. I baked a couple of bone-in loin pork chops over a bed of sauerkraut with carrots and potatoes. Half for tonights dinner and half for Sunday. Heaven!

February challenge : calories at goal 13/13.
ALL-IN: still doing PT exercises as planned. Still no gym this month.

2015 motto “Follow-through”

@kaye--that's a wonderful pace fr a 10k! Congrats on that accomplishment.

@niki--wow, that's a lost of snow! Good for you for getting it all shoveled.

@thriving--welcome!

AFM (as for me)--Only got a few journals graded, but better than nothing. I plan for tomorrow to be a full-on marathon grading day. I only brought 10-12 journals home (they're too heavy to bring all of them), so once I finish those, I will tackle the thesis statements and Gatsby journals.

Well, this week was sort of a bust. I'm only a little over according to my food diary, but I know there were other bites here and there that I missed logging. Tomorrow is a new day and a new week, so I will focus on doing better.

I have no PT appts this week--couldn't fit them in b/c of the meetings. I'm supposed to do the exercises on my own, so I plan to do that at least 4 days this week.

February Challenge:
Under weekly calorie goal: 1/4 weeks
All-in strength challenge=balance exercises 3 x/week; PT 1-2 x/week; run 2 x/week:
Week 1: 2/3 balance; PT DONE; 2/2 runs
Week 2: 2/3 balance; PT DONE; 2/2 runs
Week 3: x/3 balance; PT; x/2 runs
Week 4: x/3 balance; PT; x/2 runs
8k at end of month (not sure what day) in 55 minutes (Thanksgiving 8k = 56:49, NYE 8k = 57:47,1/25 = 55:41)

Grading Goals:
1. 18/64 BNW journals
2. x/12 poem analyses
3. x/60 Gatsby journals
4. x/50 JRP thesis statements

Exercise Goals: (week 3)
Sun--rest day
Mon--gym
Tues--meeting
Wed--walk gunner + gym
Thurs-- meeting
Fri--rest day
Sat--walk gunner + gym

2015 mantra "Just 15 minutes"