Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

jlolsen516 I hear you. I'm in a similar circumstance but for different health reasons. I can't go off my medication and it makes losing weight extremely difficult!! I too have over 100 pounds to lose. Ugh!! I get frustrated too. I think that's normal. But it sounds like we're both educating ourselves on healthy eating to make better choices and we're both here!! So, we're doing what we need to do...all we can do. We need to be proud of ourselves for our efforts and not give up if the scales don't move as fast as we'd like!!

Thursday-Truth...I feel guilty when I'm having a "good" day and I don't do more around the house because I need to "pace myself" as the doctor says to have more consistent energy every day due to my CF/FM.

Hi all ! I hope it's ok I stopped by. I saw your thread on my newsfeed. I'm recently returning to MFP. It's been a few years. Last go-round I lost almost 70 lbs and was doing great. Got sick and had to stop zumbaing. 4 years later I gained back 70+. I need to lose 100-125 lbs but I'd be thrilled with 50-75. Also, I was just diagnosed as prediabetic so that was the needle that got me back here.
Not sure I can read all 813 pages but do plan to go back at least a month or two. Hope everyone is having a great day !

Pout.

Okay, I fell off the wagon last night. But it is so hard to live in a house stuffed with goodies, ice cream, crossaints, cinnamon rolls...I told my SO, who also needs to lose weight, and he told me it is not his fault that I don't have any willpower.

Thanks. Whatever. I told him he has a bad attitude and is unsupportive.

Moving forward with the plan...I will arrange to go to the gym every night after work, and stay there, less temptation for cheating.

Welcome to all the newlings!!

@mickey-- I'm sorry your SO isn't more supportive. My husband is the primary cook in our household, and really loves to cook comfort foods full of butter and cream and starchy carbs. When I first started MFP, I had my calories set at 1200/day, and I just couldn't eat that stuff and stay within the limit. After I skipped his meals and made my own healthier dinner a few times, he came around and started trying to substitute healthier ingredients. It really helped a lot. As far as junk food goes, I'm lucky that my weakness is sweets and his is salt. However, when the sweet tooth hits him, he buys candy and puts it in a cabinet I never go in. I know it's there, but it's out of sight which helps. I also buy healthier versions to keep me away from my major weakness which is ice cream. My favorites are Fruitare Mango Bars and WW Raspberry Dark Chocolate ice cream bars. Could you find a special place your SO could stash the non-refrigerated junk food, so it's not as tempting? If you really want to get extreme, you could buy a lock-box to which only he has the key. Who knows, maybe having to unlock the sweets will deter him from eating as much junk as well...

@MeLanceUppercut -- Great job tossing the soda!! We all have days when we're not as committed, but you're right about learning from it. Also, I used to only eat healthy in a purposeful way when I was "on a diet" which never lasted for more than a couple of days. Then my eating habits would slip back to "normal." Now my normal IS the healthier eating with an occasional day or two of less healthy eating. That's our success-- we've changed our norm.

@toots-- congrats on meeting your deadline!!

@niki-- great article! Cheers to no longer being a "beginner" at this weight loss thing!

@sara-- great to see you back!! I love your goal for the Star Wars convention. It's always motivating to have an event on the calendar. My goal right now is to lose this 10 lb gain before school started in August, Then I would like to lose 20 more before my 30th HS Reunion next July. Boy, typing that made me feel really old!

Thursday Truth:
I'm feeling especially lazy today. However, my scale nudged a little bit further down to 195 this morning and I want to keep it going in that direction. So-- time to get off this computer and get moving!

It's June 30th, so start thinking about July goals!!

General Goals:
1. Change water filter on fridge
2. Make doctor/dentist appointments
3. Take winter coat to cleaners
4. Find someone to repair shed

Fitness Goals for the month of June:
Visit gym of run outside minimum of 10 times 9/10
Run at least 23/25 miles

You vs Year Challenge:
198 k done/ 802 k to go

Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE + yard work DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE TWICE + gym DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner + gym or run outside
Fri-- walk gunner + mow lawn
Sat-- walk gunner + gym

@Nikion901 - That article was fantastic, thank you so much for sharing. I'm definitely bookmarking it for later when I'll inevitably be frustrated over hitting a plateau

@MeLanceUppercut - Haha, that is awesome! It takes a lot of willpower to throw out something you're enjoying! That's very inspiring and I'll have to keep it in mind the next time I'm tempted.

My Thursday confession is that I've been eating waaaay too much sodium lately, which I think is why my weight loss has stalled. I have a big weakness for salsa and soy sauce especially, and while they don't have many calories, they're loaded with sodium. I need to be more mindful of that instead of piling it on like I usually do (especially with soy sauce, I swear I could just chug it which is really gross I know haha)

Ugh! Why did I do it?!!!! Huge Frito Pie stuffed down my throat, now I feel like I have a 10 lb pumpkin sitting in my stomach!!! (oh, but it was good....) NO NO NO IT WAS NOT!!!! (yes it was, but not worth it!)!!!

I am new to this group and just returning to mfp after a long absence. 7 years ago I started running with coworkers and started this to keep track of what I was eating to help me stay on course with my plan to lose weight and get healthy. I lost 65 lbs, wore size 12 and ran about 4 miles at a time at least 3 days a week. I felt great. I went on a cruise and knew I wouldn't stick to diet so I gave myself a bye for that week. Shortly after that I injured my back and wasn't up to running for 2 months after the cruise. Then it was winter and it was too cold to run outside, then one excuse after another I never got back to running. I tried to maintain the weight with diet only but fast food is just too convenient and I was eating it again and of course the weight gradually came back over the next 5 years. I still felt OK with myself because I was still 15 pounds less than my start weight. Then back to back I had to have 3 surgeries and here it is 7 years later and I am 15 pounds heavier than I have been my entire life. I was depressed and disappointed in myself.

In January I lost my brother and I decided to get back to my diet and start exercising. I even bought me a fancy fitness watch that can log all the exercise I was going to do. All I managed to do was give up sodas and eat less fast food, but hey it was a start. Needless to say I didn't really start until this May with my low carb (not as low as Atkins would like) and high protein diet and exercise (mostly walking for now but hope to run soon) has only been for the last 2 weeks and not consistently. But I am starting to see some real improvement on the scale, losing 21lbs since January.

I guess I wrote this because today is Thursday Truth (I know it's technically Friday, but I work nights and is not the next day until I go to sleep). I have to tell myself the truth that the excuses for not working out are not acceptable and I have to stick to my diet plan, even though my coworkers ordered in Italian I so wanted to give in and order Lasagna or Chicken Parmesan.

I read somewhere that it takes 4 to 6 weeks to develop a habit so lets hope that the next month goes by quickly so it isn't so difficult to stick to my plan. Wish me luck!

New here, sort of. I've used MFP before, but lost focus and assumed I didn't need to track. I've done good for a week and have three friends who logged more than 3 months. Here's to new habits @cjbrummet!!!!

@cjbrummet I know how it feels to lose and then gain it all back plus. Life just...happens! For me personally, I used exercise as a means to maintain my weight so when I broke my back and couldn't exercise, I got depressed and slowly gained the weight back. It took 2 years for my back to completely heal. I also felt disappointed in myself. Lost all my self confidence. Even convinced myself if I go through all that to lose the weight again, I would gain it back if I couldn't exercise for some reason. There's more to my story but that's not necessary. The thing is...we are BOTH here now. We are BOTH going to learn how to eat healthy and balance our eating and our exercise (at least I am) and we are BOTH gonna do GREAT!!! Feel free to add me as a friend if you'd like. Sounds like we're in the same boat! You can take one oar, I'll take the other...we'll do this together!!

I decided to try my hand at blogging and just did my first post. If anyone is just that bored feel free to read. A lot of it might be a little redundant to what I have posted in bits and pieces on this forum. Here ya go http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/wadwrich The more I talk/type and read about this stuff, the more it helps me to stay focused and motivated.