Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Good morning everyone.

Happy New England Clam Chowder Day!
It’s New England Clam Chowder Day! Chowders originated in fishing villages on the coast of France in the 16th century. Back then any kind of fish chowder was considered a poor man’s dish. Most recipes called for salt pork and biscuits, which were both part of a standard sailor’s ration. Today, we’ve substituted the biscuits (also known as hardtack) for salty crackers!
There are many different varieties of clam chowder including New England, Manhattan, Rhode Island, Down East, and Outer Banks. New England clam chowder is made with milk or cream, and the use of tomatoes is frowned upon. In fact, in 1939 the state of Maine made it illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder!
Celebrate this great culinary tradition and enjoy a bowl of delicious chowder in honor of New England Clam Chowder Day!

” There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.” ~Robert Brault



Tom

Thursday Truth - I cannot succeed without support and logging my food. It just will not work for me. And only I can log and obtain the support I need. I must be responsible for my outcomes. Today I am going to focus on get plenty of hydration

Tom: You're new pic shows your success,. Keep up the good work and thanks for all the research you do to help and inspire all of us

zcb94 - I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. I've been struggling this week. It's my son's birthday week and I lost him in 2007. It gets easier but certain times of the year are difficult

nikion901 Thanks for sharing that website. It is very interesting. I need to be more persistent with hydration

Skinnyjeanz - Thanks for the welcome and advice. I love raw oysters.

Robin: Ear lobes?? go figure. Thanks for bringing a chuckle to me face. I once had a guy tell me I had eyes like cracked marbles. Wasnt sure if he was complimenting me or not.

celtikgirl - Sharon, welcome back. Marathon sounds like fun

@nikion901 Nina, I hope you have gotten good reports from your son's and sister-in-law's surgeries. Two in one day is a lot to worry about. I hope the snow storm is missing you; you don't need that too.

Though I was having a bad day, I kept myself occupied and stayed on track. I am going over on fat, but it seems reasonable to me since the plan I am following is essentially hi protein, low carb.
I also use good fats like olive oil and avocado. After I logged I got a message that if I ate like that I would lose 5 lbs by a certain date. It just seems the fats are too high. Also could not make myself ride the bike, got on but just couldn't make it happen. Will try next time later in day since I feel so crappy in the mornings. Tomorrow I go to water aerobics

does anyone know how I can add this to my groups so I don't have to save the link to get back here everyday

NIKE, HOPE YOUR LOVED ONES ARE DOING WELL. THEY ARE IN MY PRAYERS.

Katrena

Good Morning & TGIF!

@Tracy ~I’m sorry you’re suffering from allergies, Mountain Cedar is terrible right now. I thought some of the rain we had yesterday would wash it away, but no such luck.

@Katrena ~As long as you’re eating healthy fat, I wouldn’t worry too much about going over. It sounds like you’re making healthy choices and that’s what’s important. Oh, to bookmark—at the top of the thread on the right you should see a star—if you click on it, it will turn yellow. This bookmarks the thread for you. Then next time you bring up community, you can get back to the thread by clicking on the star or bell at the top right of the community page.

@Niki ~I hope you heard good news regarding the surgery for your son and sister-in-law.

@Eleanor ~I’m sorry to hear about your DHs job situation, which is hard on anyone—can’t imagine the effect on your large family. Keeping my fingers crossed that everything works out.

@Karen ~I’m sorry you aren’t feeling well, hope it’s just a cold and it vanishes quickly! So glad you are enjoying your new speech students so far this semester.

@stephc002 (Stephanie)~Welcome, of course you can join us! Try not to be too hard on yourself--we all have bad days, bad months and bad years—unfortunately its part of life. The important thing is that you recognized that you were falling back into old habits and are ready to start this again—so that’s telling yourself you haven’t given up completely. You found a great thread, I’ve made lots of greats friends here— to receive the most benefit from this thread, it’s important to check in often on both good days and bad. You can do this, just make small changes at a time and take it one day (or one meal) at a time.

AFM~Saw my surgeon yesterday for follow-up, I went in there convinced he would say I was ready to come out of boot—nope. Apparently, that will be when I can walk without a limp. It’s so hard to believe I have been in this boot or a cast since last March—almost a year! He said I’m permitted to take it off at home but as soon as my ankle/leg starts to feel tired need to get back in it and it needs to be on when going up/down the stairs. He said this is the frustrating part of recovery—where I want to cry, kick, scream and throw things. Getting that muscle back and to start re-using my Achilles is hard work. He tested my calf muscle yesterday and it just won’t even fire, Achilles is tight which is expected—my Achilles tendon is basically new, so now it’s time to train it and rebuild that calf muscle. So PT for the next few months is going to be hard, he hopes by the end of February PT can include some treadmill work. The athlete in me just wants to do some weight training, but it could damage all his handy work—can’t even get proper pedicure yet. I knew going into this surgery that recovery would be months, so need to continue to find patience. I’m glad I canceled my February cruise before surgery—the Caribbean sure would have sucked wearing this boot. Okay, done feeling sorry for myself.

Hope all of those on the East Coast stay warm and safe through the blizzard conditions.

Good Morning. I upgraded to Premium last evening and that was a mistake. See no major advantages and now I can't find common foods like bacon in the database. I sent an email to get if fixed but had no way to know that there would be a problem. Fighting a sinus infection but going to water aerobics anyway. It's rainy and cold here but we will miss the major storm that is heading up the East Coast. To my MFP in stormy areas, stay safe and warm


Stephanie - We have all been there. dont beat yourself up about yesterdaym, yhou can't change that, but today is in your hands. And tomorrow can and will be better if you so choose. Go into today with a sense of gratitude for all the blessings you have and everything will become so much easier for you. You are so blessed to be able to work from home and your daughter is a blessing. Even the fact that you are going to counseling is a blessing.
I bet you can think of at least 10 other blessings if you take a moment to think about it.

Kah - Thanks so much for the tip. That will make life easier Sorry to hear about your injury. I tore my Achilles years ago and was out of commission for months. PT is your best bet.

Skinny - I am sending you well wishes for a sucessful day. You have motivated and inspired so many of us and I know you will get back on track. Sorry to hear you are sick and hoping you have a speedy recovery.

Friday ... TGIF ... fitness ... No exercise in my plans for today, just normal moving around the house doing KP ... which will be hard enough today. Yesterday I stood at my kitchen counter for a couple or more hours in my project of working with my sourdough starter. At the 3rd feeding of it I had separated some out to make those sourdough pancakes and when I checked last evening, both the starter for bread and the poolish for the pancakes were ready to go ... so I made bread dough and then proceeded to finish the pancake mixture and baked them up. Then, there was the cleaning up as well. By the time I was done and put everything away I was having cramps all along my legs and torso sides ... and was so extremely happy to crawl into bed.

Today I put the cooled pancakes between pieces of parchment and away into the freezer (and out of temptation's way) and shaped 2 small loaves of bread for their final rise. I'll be able to bake them sometime later on today ... but with the cool kitchen it might be tonight! Looking forward to this momentous 4th bake and hoping for successful bread this time.

I've read that sourdough bread is lower on the glycemic scale and is more easily digestible ... and I like the taste and texture of it, here's hoping it's something I master and can enjoy making going forward. Both my dad and my ex-hubby were bakers so I never really had to learn how to in the far past.

@Thank-you everyone for the positive thoughts and weill wishes for my relatives.
My DIL messaged me after speeking with the surgeon that all went well and when my son was able to, he called so I could hear his voice. He sounded in a lot of pain so I don't expect to hear from him for a few days while he grapples with the immediate post surgery. My SIL and I talked late last night and she was feeling no pain because they had given her a block ... I am certain she is in pain today. She lives about 25 miles away and knows that I am ready at a moments notice to drive over if she needs me for anything. Her three sons are grown and two live at home so she's not alone, thank God.

Sorry this is a long post ... but I did want to talk about myself ... and still want to comment to some of the recent posters ...

@Morgori - your quote today speaks to the heart of my nutritional and physical goals! And what you said, about keeping 'in mind the possibility that what we have today, is probably how good things would ever get' is just such a piece of core truth!

@KJEFFRIES2 - I too am a Premium member, having bought a year's subscription when I changed my profile name back in September. I don't have any problems finding food in the database, but don't recall what problems I had when I first switched. Hope it settles in for you.

@zcb94 - yay to dancing! Make tha wheelchair spin!!!

@kah68 - ditto everything you said to everyone and really great advice to Stephanie in your welcome. That's good advice for all of us! We all deserve a moment of self-pithiness some times ... then we pick ourselves up and make lemonade. Hope you can get to use that treadmill in February, that will be a strong move toward recovery.

@Stephc002 - welcome to the thread. Just one word of caution from an old-old yo-yo dieter ... you may be feeling anxious to get the weight off as fast as possible and be done with it ... but the slow tortoise pace will win the race over any jack-rabbit sprint when it comes to long-term weight loss success. Find out how much you normally eat by logging your food and then cut back modestly ... like 10-15% of the calories by just trimming back some. Try that for a month or 6 weeks and do an evaluation at that time. IF you go off the deep-end you will have a bigger chance of giving up because it will be too hard to do consistently over the long haul. Good luck.

@skinnyjeanzbound - You once told me that one 'bad' meal in several meals will not break the bank ... not in those words ... buy you know what I mean. Please allow yourself to have some of the things you love that aren't necessarily the healthies foods ... if you try to abstain from all the stuff you love to eat and drink, they will send out cosmic waves that will haunt you! Better to cave a little than crash a lot!

@mountmary84 - Thank you Barb. No big snow storm in my neighborhood, we had less than an inch fall yesterday. This has been a mild winter, snow wise, thus far ... I only had to snow throw two times so far and was able to snow shovel the sidewalks twice. Got to get out to do that again today though, as the village has a law about it.

@eleanorcoonce - Sorry about the job instability, I'm wishing along with you.

OK ... that's everyone since my last post. Will catch up with more of you next time. The weekend is sometimes slow on here because working people have a lot on their plates over those two days off from work ... so here's a tip from a favorite doctor of mine ... (sr moment here, or brain fog cause I cannot recall his name) ...
... when you are about to eat ... first think about how hungry you are on a scale of 1 to 10 and keep that number in mind. Then, when you are filling up, stop when you reach a hungry of about 8 ... and you will not have over eaten.

Follow through on Consistent Focus
Niki

@kah68 @KJEFFRIES2 @Nikion901 thanks so much for the welcome and advice. Everything you guys have said is very much appreciated, and have definitely been ttying to concentrate on nit beating myself up, and concentrating on all the grear things in my life, rather than the bad. I look forward to being on here and getting to know everyone on this discussion!

After a pretty exhausting week, I am having a very lazy day today. First day in a long time i have absolutely nothing pressing to do, so taking just one day to just veg out. I am not going to even get all my steps in, but still watching what I eat and tracking. First full weekend home in a while so we are getting ready for family movie night! My hubby has promised our daughter to get out his footy pj's for the occasion. hope everyone has a great night!

Stay safe all of you in the path of this big storm. I hope it isn't as bad as the predictions have been.

@laurie-- stay safe!

@kelley-- sorry you're not healing as quickly as you would like. It's never fast enough, is it? I hope PT goes well for you and you're back on that treadmill soon.

@steph-- sometimes you just need a day to relax and do nothing. Enjoy!

@niki-- thanks for the reminder! I really don't ever deprive myself of the foods I really want. However, I'm struggling to have them in moderation or to balance the higher calorie choices with more exercise. When I first started on MFP, I would view my calorie allowance like a bank account and only eat what I had in "savings" (my daily allowance) or what I'd "earned" (through a workout). Lately, I've been living on credit which needs to stop.

@katrena-- thanks for the kind words and compliment! I hope you get that premium stuff figured out. I hate it when technology misbehaves. Oh, and I agree with what kelley said about the fats.

@zoe-- I love PB & J! Now when I have it, I use Brownberry sandwich thins (only 100 calories) and sugar-free preserves. I also make sure to use my food scale and weigh out the portions; otherwise, I could easily eat 1000 calories worth of PB in one sitting. LOL

Friday Fitness:
Thanks for all the well-wishes for my health. I think they worked b/c today I am feeling much better than yesterday. I'm still a snotty mess, but the fever, chills, and body aches are gone. Needless to say, I didn't want to go to the gym with my nose running down my face, but I sucked it up and took gunner for a very short walk, so that's something.

As I mentioned to niki above, I'm still struggling to make good food choices although I've been staying under my calorie goal even with the treats. i suppose that means I've probably got my allowance set too high, so I will be lowing it by about 100 calories starting tomorrow. I believe 1700 net is really a maintenance point for me, so if I want to shed this 10 lbs and then some, I need to lower it a bit.

I got a lot more planning done today and only have a quick set of vocab to grade over the weekend.

Grading Goals:
1. x/22 speech definitions

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; Week 2 = 2/3 runs, x/1 5k; Week 3 = 1/3 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 = 6/7
Week 2 = 5/7
Week 3 = 6/7

You vs Year Challenge:
20k done/ 980k to go

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

Good morning all. Well finally got a new computer. Itis a wonderful thing. I dont know why but I get so much more done during the day if I can start my day with my normal routine which is ice water news and checking everything online. Otherwise life is ticking along like normal. I did determine that Home health care might not be for me after all. I care to much and am apparently bad luck since in my short stint I lost two clients. I am going to go to work and help out my dad as his putty girl. He is a finish contractor and my mom has always done the putty and hardware but with her breathing issues the jobsites are really not a good place for her anymore. My eating continues to be hit or miss. I will do really well until around 2 and then it seems like all bets are off. i adjusted my ticker to the higher weight yesterday and am hoping to move forward from here. Well if you are in the path of the storm stay safe and warm. Otherwise I hope ya'll have a great day. TTYL

Cute fox @RobinsEgg

@skinnyjeanzbound - I just noticed yesterday that you joined the You Vs Year Challenge - I took one look at that one and just laughed. I'm in a couple of challenges so far but the only one that has to do with exercise Is the UA Healthbox Here's to Your Health challenge, which is to log 16 20-min workouts. I should be halfway there but Map My Fitness has been having trouble tracking my indoor workouts via GPS, so it will track the time but not the distance. Then I don't get credit for it because it's not "verifiable by GPS". It runs through Feb 5th so I suppose I could still get 10 more in, but it's irritating when I know I've done the work and not gotten credit. I'm not up to running yet, and I only can only get a 20 min workout before or after work or at lunch. And treadmill workouts don't count. Grr. Still, I do know my activity level is way up from Nov & Dec, and the scale is being kind to me again, so I'm happy.
@jtconst - glad you are back with a new computer. I don't get to use mine much at home, mostly I post from work or my phone (which I find annoying), but I do have a good laptop, thank goodness.
@Nikion901 - how'd that latest batch of sourdough bread come out?
Hope all are well, will check back in on Monday probably.
Stay strong and keep moving on!
Tracy/TX

I am now into hour 30 of the blizzard of 2016. There is 18 " plus on the ground and still snowing until midnight in about 4 more hours. I did shovel today for about 40 minutes working to clear the 12 " that accumulated over night. Luckily, my neighbor loaned my SIL her snowblower so she came over and made a path through the section that I had shoveled yet. Getting the cars out and off the street will be a major problem since it is so deep. I also live on a dead end street so it is not likely to get plowed anytime soon. I will post pictures soon. Two jeeps have tried to get off the street and both have failed so it will make life very difficult. With all this snow, I expect schools will be closed all week. The back country roads will not get plowed and the buses will not be able to make it through. The silver lining is that the power has not gone out and the total numbers have been very low. The snow has been light and fluffy but is not getting a little heavier.

Karen- I hope your cold symptoms go away.
Kelley- Wishing you a speedy recovery
Robin- Good luck with the braces, they are not comfortable but they serve a purpose.
JT- Good luck with the new job. HHC is very difficult and is not for everyone. Putty girls sounds much more fun.


Have a great day.