Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Hey I'm Grace. Not wanting to crash the party but would be nice to have someone to talk to through the journey you know. I don't have 100 pounds to lose but I'm 5'4" and weigh 235 my goal weight is 170 for now. I guess that's all...

Thanks zcb94...

Thanks everyone for your kind words and welcomes I forgot to check in on this thread yesterday, but one of my goals is to walk more, but it's been pretty cold out there as of late. So yesterday I walked around the office for 10 minutes. It wasn't much, but it was 10 minutes. I know I drove the people in the office crazy haha!

As far as what I wish, I honestly don't know. I suppose for now my wish is to win the lottery haha! I only work very part time so that I can take care of my mom and get to spend my days with my daughter. I started an 8-5 job this week (to help my mom at her job) and that requires the little one going to a babysitter all day, which has been hard. If I won the lottery, I'd never have to take her to a babysitter again. I could spend every second with her until she's old enouch to tell me I'm smothering her haha!

I've never really been much of a wisher I guess I hope everyone has a great Wednesday!

I wish being overweight, obesity, and stuff like that didn't exist...

I'm BACKKKKKK! lol Been awhile since I've posted in here. Good to see so many new people. I fell off plan with a resounding PLOP for the last 4 months or so. Restarted on the 1st and have been doing great since. I think I'm going to do it this time though. I have a better mindset and the determination is back! yay! My ultimate goal is to be in a bikini for the 2017 summer season! I'm stoked!

How is everyone doing this cold but beautiful day?

@Robin~ What a fantastic surprise at your doctor’s office!

@Susan~ So glad to see you back! Good goals for 2016. We’re at the age it’s all about having fun so have fun on the dating scene. I feel like I’m perpetually single—marriage and kids was never high on my priority list—I was more interested in my career (probably still am in some respects). I’m happy single, but it does get lonely from time to time and it would be nice to have a guy around interested in the same things I am and to help me fix things around the house! BTW, a Powerball ticket is $2 and the odds of actually winning are 290M:1.

@Barb~ So sorry to hear about DHs trip to the ER, very glad to hear it was nothing serious. Hope that his stress test goes well today.

@Karen~ Its amazing how runs can vary from day-to-day isn’t it? Glad you had a good one yesterday, great time!

So glad to see so many posters, new, returning, and regulars ... For my Wednesday Wish ... that we each and everyone get what we need out of this site on our journey to lower weight and better health. There are so many postings since my last entry on Monday that I will not attempt any personals ... thus just know that I have read everyone's post and enjoyed reading what you wrote about your self and that I know we can do this if we don't give up and just keep at it.

Today is Epiphany for many Christians. In my church it is Theophany ... a Great Feast which reveals the Most Holy Trinity to the world through the Baptism of the Lord (Mt.3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22). I went for the liturgy and water blessing and brought home a small bottle of blessed water to have on hand throughout the year. This service is very nostalgic and a bit melancholy for me: in my youth and young adulthood the church followed the 'Eastern Rite' calendar and today would be Christmas Eve ... a celebration on par with Easter in it's importance ... Still. this is the West, not the East ... so it is nice to be in step with everyone else and celebrate the feast on 12/24 instead of 1/6. Yes, Christmas day is a day of celebration and merriment, but the holiday begins on the Eve of the day before ... thus today, in my heart I remember how in my parent's home my family prepared for Christ's birth even as today we celebrate His, and our own, baptism. Funny how it seems the older I get the more the lessons and traditions I learned in my youth come to the forefront of my thoughts.

Follow Through on Consistent Focus
Niki

Just tried to post a long thing and it went to La-la land.
DH is home and very tired; we are both quite tired. He is going to be fine.
No exercise for me except walking all over the hosp; food has been totally odd.
I am glad to see everyone is off to a good start for the year. I will be joining you with actual tracking food and doing measurable exercise now that things hopefully are settled down.
Keep up the good work everyone.
Barb

GraceWyatt91 wrote: »

Omgosh I am so upset. I took my 6 month old son to the Dr today (everything is fine with him) but I asked the woman if I could step on the scales to see if I had lost any weight but it said 239 I almost started crying then when I got home I got on my scales and they still said 235 I don't get it am I going back up or coming down?????...

Remember that you were weighing on a different scale at your sons doctor's office, so don't read too much into it. If you want to see more accurate trends, weigh on the same scale at the same time--also, weight fluctuates from day to day (i.e. Sodium, water retention, muscle soreness, etc.) Keep doing what your doing, I promise the scale will reflect your hard work--patience grasshopper.

Hi everyone! Once again the thread is moving faster than I can read. LOL I will try to get in a few personals:

@grace-- try not to get upset about a difference on 2 different scales. That's very common. Also, though research supports that people do better at controlling their weight if they weigh in every morning, you have to be able to handle the little day to day fluctuations due to water retention from exercise, high-sodium foods, etc. as well as monthly hormone changes. When I started on here almost 5 years ago, I would weigh myself each morning, but only check-in my weight when it dropped below the previous low. If it fluttered up a pound or 3 one morning, I would take note, but since I was tracking calories carefully and staying below maintenance calorie allowance, it would always go back down even further within a few days. Don't let movement on the scale discourage you--if you are consistent with your goals, you will see an overall downward trend.

@barb-- glad to hear the DH is okay.

@tanya & terri-- Welcome back!!!

@kelley-- yes, I love the feeling when I have a great run, but have to remember not to feel let down when the next one isn't as wonderful.

@susan-- yes, I used to say if I only had to teach lessons and not do the grading, the job would be heaven. Now I would be overjoyed to just have the teaching AND grading without all of the other crap (dealing with union issues, contacting parents and counselors when students are struggling, responding to 10 million emails every day). I know it's the same in any profession; there's always the tedious housekeeping stuff people have to deal with.

@alison-- glad to hear you are still doing the Morris dancing even if you aren't enjoying it as much. Just get back to what you know works, and the weight will start to drop before you know it. You've got this!

Wed Wish:
I'm right there with all of you dreaming of winning the lottery tonight. My colleagues and I pool our money to buy tickets-- keeping my fingers crossed.

The temps here warmed up just enough to allow the sunshine to melt the top layer of snow and then refreeze it, making for treacherously slippery surfaces. I didn't even attempt to walk gunner b/c so many of our sidewalks have that slippery snow covering them-- ours included. We just didn't have time to shovel before the last snowfall froze solid. Fortunately, we have a few warmer days coming when it should soften enough to clear before the next deep freeze.

I'm including a link to an interview on Runner's World website with the author of Always Hungry. I've never read the book, but a lot of what he says in the post conforms to personal changes I've made (or tried to make) in my effort to get healthier. One of the questions was if he could recommend just 3 foods to eliminate from your diet which would they be? His answer: white potatoes, highly processed grains, and added sugar. I'm not an advocate of a one-size-fits-all approach to weight loss, but I know when I cut down on processed carbs and sugar, I eat less and lose weight. I rarely eat white potatoes (opting for sweet potatoes instead). and I try to avoid white rice and pasta replacing it with brown rice or quinoa. My one real struggle is bread and cakes. They are delicious.

http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-researcher-avoid-these-three-foods?cid=soc_Runner's World - RunnersWorld_FBPAGE_Runner’s World__News

Fitness Goals for the month of January:
I will run 3x/week and at least one 5k/week. Week 1 = 2/3 runs; 1/1 5k
I will run a 5k start to finish with no walking breaks. DONE
I will run an 8k twice.

Nutrition Goal for January:
Stay under calorie goal 6/7 days each week.
Week 1 = 5/7

You vs Year Challenge:
8k done/ 992k to go

Grading Goals:
1. 17/40 AP essays
2. 29/41 AP journals
3. 5/15 SOS Speeches

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

@Morgori -- Tom, I know what you mean about it being a bit sad taking down all the Christmas decorations; here it's unlucky not to do it by 6 January. I like to read through the cards again, and then I have a little tradition of cutting them up with my diecutter to make gift tags.

@susan2396 -- Susan, I am not ever going to do the lottery! I do have some Premium Bonds though, which could theoretically win me a million.

@Tanya949 -- good luck what's working out what's going on with your feet, and I hope the custom orthotics do well for you.

@GraceWyatt91 -- Different sets of scales vary quite a lot; as long as you use the same set day to day, it should be consistent.

@Lauriek70 -- so sorry to hear about your friend. It's such a reminder that we need to nurture our friendships!

I am not setting everyone a good example right now. I told the kids that we needed to have quick food rather than a restaurant meal to go with the theatre trip, and we ended up at Five Guys. My first time there -- how was I to know that I should have ordered a 'little' burger? I have just checked the nutritional information online. Ahem. Right. It was really very nice though. That's it, though; from today I'm tracking properly, no more ludicrous 'treats'.

Matilda was jolly good fun, particularly the kids who are all amazing -- do they grow them in vats? The show's well worth seeing if you can and its best bits are really top-notch. (Though the best bit of all in my opinion is "When I Grow Up", which you can go watch the Royal Variety Performance of on YouTube).

Thursday -- we're on a roll to the weekend now, chaps!

-- Alison

Well if tiday is telling the truth, it's good it happened last night. I'm definitely a binge eater, I'll just suddenly feel thi urge to eat anything I can get my hands on. This week, up until last night, I have done well at resisting, but sometimes it feels like compulsion and it feel like there's nothing I can do to stop it. Last night when it hit I tried so hard to stay out of the kitchen, but eventually i made my way to the kitchen and ended up eating almost all of the spaghetti meat sauce I made that night for dinner. I didn't track it because I was too ashamed. I still had 500 calories before hand, and I don't even know how much I had eaten. So now the guilt is setting in today which is always when I end up sabatoging myself. But I'm not going to today. Anyway, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Thanks

@GraceWyatt91 I don't know why, but every time I go to the doctor, the scale says something more than what I had weighed at home. It seriously sucks when that happens. It's honestly why I don't go to the doctor as much as I probably sould haha! What my mom does is weigh before she goes and gives the doctor that weight. But she's handicap, so maybe that's why? I've never tried it personally haha! But yeah, I would only stick to one scale for an accurate measure of your weight loss.

Thank you bohemiancoast...

Good morning everyone.

Happy Old Rock Day!

WHY IS THIS A HOLIDAY?

I'm really not sure who started this holiday or why they picked this day but we've been in awe of the beauty of old rocks for years. Some people even go as far as making jewelry or art out of these rocks. Can you remember the first time you saw a fossil in an old rock? It's always interesting to find the imprint of past lives in random rocks, especially when you find them on the tops of mountains! Geology, the study of solid Earth, has been around since at least ancient Greece in the 4th century B.C. when Theophrastus wrote Peri Lithon, AKA On Stones. It was a book about the gem stones they knew about in that time period. Some rocks are seen as valuable because of their beauty and because they're so hard to find.
In 1074, Shen Kua came up with a hypothesis on how land was formed after observing fossils of shells in rocks up in the mountains of China, hundreds of miles from the ocean. I remember finding fossils of shells as I was digging in my backyard and we live on the side of a mountain. I was pretty amazed to find that when we live miles from the ocean, in Pennsylvania. And in the 1800s, William Smith started coming up with a way to organize the different layers of rocks in the Earth by the fossils contained in them. We still don't have the Earth completely figured out, but these old rocks still have our attention which is as good of a reason to celebrate as any!

HOW TO CELEBRATE

So how are you going to celebrate today? Well, you could show someone your collection if you're already collected some fossils or unique rocks. I know I have a nice collection of stones and minerals that I've gathered over the years. Or you could go to random shops near you, buy some rocks and make some jewelry or art out of them. Or take the easy route and order some unique rock jewelry .

Or you can go outside and go on an old rock hunt yourself! There are fossils all over the place and some places even let you dig for diamonds. This is a good way to get you outside and have a little adventure for the day. It'll be a lot more rewarding when you find your special, old rocks. You could even head to some local museums and check out some fossil-filled rocks they have on display. This is one of the best ways to ensure that you see some truly old rocks and some amazing fossils too. Be prepared for a lot of "ooo's and ahh's". Whatever you decide to do, I hope your day is filled with old rocks!


” If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.” ~Oscar Wilde



Tom

Hi y'all! Hope this finds everyone well! I've GOT to work on getting my water in. I bring 4 (24oz) bottles to work with the plan of drinking them before I leave. Hmmm Those 4 bottles are daunting to look at! lol Pushing through though.

Have a great day!