Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

GOINSTD12 wrote: »

Food is so-so, exercise has increased since I've been working out at PT, but still no movement in the scale. I guess I should be glad it's staying steady instead of going up, but I really wish it would start going down again.
Tracy
TX

Does your scale measure body fat %? It might be that you are losing fat but gaining muscle, due to the increased exercise.

My Wednesday wish is that Anya will be well today. She had an upset stomach all day yesterday, followed by a fever and seizure last night. She seems fine today. I hope it stays that way.
Everyone have a great day.
Onward and downward. Kaye

@tracy-- Hopefully, now that you are on part time hours, you will get more rest and feel better. Even if that doesn't translate to more time at the gym, it will still likely translate into better health overall. I know what you mean about those social gatherings with food. Most of the time I can limit myself, but occasionally I just end up binging away. I hate the lack of control I feel when that happens.

@pinkstarberry -- Yes, the difference in your photos is definitely noticeable. Your face looks much slimmer.

@kaye-- hope Anya is feeling better.

AFM-- I'm still doing okay with my new calorie allowance. Yesterday, I forgot to put my tracker on when I got out of the shower. I had already decided if that were to happen, I would have to just eat my BMR the next day so I stuck to that rule today. Hopefully I will learn a lesson and remember it from now on. Even with no additional calories from activity, I feel pretty full tonight and am still almost 70 calories under goal.

Today I burned over 1100 calories between work, mowing the lawn, and walking the dog. That means I will have about 2200 calories to eat tomorrow which is a lot. I'm not going to force myself to eat them all if I'm not hungry, and I also want to make sure I don't just eat a bunch of junk to use them all up. I'm taking some dirty rice my DH made for lunch which is a little higher in calories than my usual choices, but all my other snacks and breakfast items will be my typical healthy(ish) fare. I figure if I end up under goal it will compensate for any errors in my guestimate for the pizza yesterday.

Wednesday Wish:
I don't really have a wish for me, so I will wish for positive progress for all of us.

Grading Goals:
1. 40/40 AP quizzes DONE
2. 5/40 AP writing screeners

Fitness Goals for the month of August:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 1x/week: Week 1 = 10:32; Week 2 = 10:14, Week 3 = 11:35 (yikes!)
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 1x/week: Week 1 = 25:33 & 24:46; Week 2 = 22:37; Week 3 = 25:54 & 26:14
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes by month's end Week 3 = 38:14

You vs Year Challenge:
256 k done/ 744 k to go PAST the 25% mark!!

Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE + Mow lawn DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner + gym or run outside
Fri-- rest day
Sat-- walk gunner + gym or run outside

@MermaidPrincessRach Don't give up! MFP can be a great tool for analyzing your intake, but it's only part of the picture. Would you be able to talk to your therapist about this soon? In the meantime, I can only suggest what helped me and hope it could be useful to you too.

I've always dealt with my emotions with food - are you also an emotional eater? Try to think about how you were feeling before eating a large meal, then also how you felt afterward. It might also help to begin keeping a personal diary of your feelings, especially on binge days; you could do it separately from MFP or use the notes section on your food diary here. If it turns out that you are eating because of stress or other emotions, we can find healthier ways to deal with those emotions

Also if you haven't seen your primary care doctor about this yet, I would urge you to make an appointment soon. Having guidance from a doctor, and maybe even a nutritionist, can help a lot! Your doctor/nutritionist might be able to give you a structured meal plan, which would take a lot of guesswork out of planning meals. I was intimidated about going to my doctor while I was at my heaviest weight, and it might be difficult or emotional to hear what they have to say, but ultimately they're here to help and want their patients to be as healthy as possible!

We're all here for you! You can do this!

@niki-- congrats on losing the 7 lbs from last week. When I'm feeling the carb cravings, sometimes it helps if I eat some nuts or a bit of peanut butter. They have a sort of comforting feel, but not the heavy simple carbs of bread or pasta.

@rach-- pinkstarberry gave you some great advice. Also, I know it can be hard when we have a bad day--it's easy to feel like it's a futile effort. Once thing I try to do when I have a bad day is think about how my "normal" has changed. Before I started MFP, my normal was to eat way too many calories as a normal part of my life. Of course, I would occasionally go on a "diet" which would last a few days or maybe weeks (if I was lucky); then, I would go right back to my "normal" higher calorie lifestyle. Now, my "normal" is to eat at or below a deficit (or at least maintenance) on a daily basis. Sure, I might stray from that and have a really high calorie day, or even couple of days, but then I go right back to my "normal" healthier food intake. I can't see your food diary, but I'm guessing your "normal" has already changed, or you are in the process of changing it. Don't let a bad day or two negate all your progress so far.

Thursday Truth:
I'm already prioritizing grading over working out. I'm hoping to get ahead with the schoolwork during the upcoming 3-day weekend and get back on track with the exercise plan. My Amazing Race challenge is over, but my team has decided to do our own for the month of September. One challenge is to stay within my personal calorie allowance 6/7 days per week with one day at maintenance. The other is going to be a combination of push ups and planking. I can't do the true 30-day push up or plank challenge b/c of reduced strength in my shoulder, but I can try every other day and see how my shoulder holds up.

Grading Goals:
1. 40/40 AP quizzes DONE
2. 6/40 AP writing screeners

Fitness Goals for the month of August:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 1x/week: Week 1 = 10:32; Week 2 = 10:14, Week 3 = 11:35 (yikes!)
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 1x/week: Week 1 = 25:33 & 24:46; Week 2 = 22:37; Week 3 = 25:54 & 26:14
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes by month's end Week 3 = 38:14

You vs Year Challenge:
256 k done/ 744 k to go PAST the 25% mark!!

Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE + Mow lawn DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Fri-- rest day
Sat-- walk gunner + gym or run outside

skinnyjeanzbound wrote: »

@niki-- congrats on losing the 7 lbs from last week. When I'm feeling the carb cravings, sometimes it helps if I eat some nuts or a bit of peanut butter. They have a sort of comforting feel, but not the heavy simple carbs of bread or pasta.

Thanks @skinny-- I have a vegan meal at least one day a week and do have pasta on that day. Which was yesterday. The pork chop and egg noodles was planned ... so I've had a noodle 2 days this week, but I didn't have any other 'flour' product in those 2 days. My BGC was back down this morning, even with the spaghetti noodles yesterday. Probably what helped there is that I am out of fruit so didn't have my usual 2 servings even though my total carbs were 39% of calories yesterday. I think the magic number of carbs for me is to stay under 150 grams a day.

I missed my Thursday truth so I'll report now that I have lost 4.8# since I started tracking again about 10 days ago. That tells me that my body was really ready to shed that weight. I had just been grazing all the time. It feels good to be back to paying attention to what I eat.
Friday fitness: Cathy and I are getting our walks in daily. It's about 3.6 miles so that is good. It is starting to cool off, too, so that makes it easier. I love this time of year when it is cooling off but not too dark to walk in the early evening. We'll have to find ways to adjust our schedules as the daylight and weather change. I'm signed up to walk a 10k at the end of the month in Boise's FitOne celebration to benefit the local children's hospital. There is a local 5k next Saturday to benefit a local support group for cancer survivors. I will probably do that one, too, but haven't committed yet.
Have a busy Friday. It burns calories.
Onward and downward. Kaye

Sending positive vibes to you @NewCaddy for a full and speedy recovery from your surgery. Please keep us informed how the protocol progresses if you don't mind ... some of us (me?) may still end up thinking about it. As a matter of fact, I now recall that at one time I made a phone call to the hospital that does that procedure here ... it was the only one back then, and they told me I'd have to first prove I couldn't lose weight any other way ..., that was before they lowered the overweight guidelines for the surgery, and it was a full bypass instead of a sleeve. I heard the sleeve is reversible. Is it?
Any way ... that's one of the things that got me trying to seriously lose weight in the first place, and then it became sheer stubbornness that I will do it on my own that has kept me going, still morbidly obese many years later, but slimmer than when I started.

Friday fitness. Last Friday I left work early drove down to Galveston and walked on the beach for an hour and gave myself blisters the size of quarters on the balls of my feet so Saturday was a slow motion busy day but not much exercise. Sunday was electronic free and I can't remember anything and no records exist Must have been a good day. Monday not home til 9. Long day. Tuesday 1 hour 3 miler. Wednesday UTMB obesity support group first try then mowed the lawn for 40 minutes. Thursday a 20 min walk 1 mile. Today 3.6 miles in an hour even. May have hurt the dog. He hasn't moved in an hour except to wag his tail. Almost 8 miles and a lawn trim. Not bad not great.

Week, my husband and I headed to Target. It was slow walking for 30-40 minutes but by the end I was exhausted. Well go again tomorrow for another one.

@liz-- I hope you can get some time to reflect for yourself and your daughter.

@tracy-- glad to hear the surgery went well. Don't try to do too much too soon.

@kaye-- glad you are seeing progress after getting back on the wagon.

@cj-- Yes, and teachers make the worst students. I hope you feel better soon.

@pneschich -- welcome to the thread. Good point about logging making us more aware of what and when we are eating. Congrats on your progress so far and not giving up due to your plateau.

@laurie-- good to see you back. Hope the meetings let up soon and you get some time for yourself. Sometimes we just have to say no to more and more commitments.

AFM--Calories have been okay though today I'm nearly at goal (due to joining friends for drinks) and still hungry. Tomorrow will be my maintenance day. I'm going to try to get to the gym or at least run outside in the morning. I'm going to see Prophets of Rage tomorrow night. I wanted to go when I first heard they were touring, but my one friend who wanted to join me is out of town for a wedding. Then today after work a colleague said he is going and has 3 extra tickets, so 2 other work friends and I are going--spur of the moment. It's a little over an hour from my house, so we got a hotel near the venue. Should be a lot of fun.

Friday Fitness:
It was a very slow week for me fitness-wise. Other than walking Gunner, the only real calories I burned was mowing the lawn. I will be re-doing my running goals. Though I made progress, I didn't make my goals and sort or fizzled out the last week. I'm doing a strength challenge and logging challenge on my other group thread.

Grading Goals:
1. x/82 Short stories
2. 17/40 AP writing screeners

Fitness Goals for the month of September:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 1x/week:
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 1x/week:
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes by month's end:

You vs Year Challenge:
256 k done/ 744 k to go PAST the 25% mark!!

Exercise Goals:
Sun-- walk gunner DONE + run outside DONE
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE + Mow lawn DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner DONE + gym or run outside NOT DONE
Fri-- rest day WALKED GUNNER
Sat-- walk gunner + gym or run outside

I'm here & I've started this long silent journey but I am determined to get to my destination and hopefully be the wiser and a few friends wealthier when I get there.

@cjbrummet ...I'm not offended because its such a personal choice, but I do want to make a correction. The gastric sleeve removes the stretchiest part of the stomach. So while you can stretch it a bit by eating too much, you can never go back to having a stomach as large as before. From talking with my doctor and the research I've done, maybe you can stretch it to hold 2 cups instead of the intended 1 cup at a time.

Plus with any WLS, you can keep all the weight off or you can go back to your old habits and eat "around" the tool. I have to make good choices. If I choose to fill my 1 cup (eventually -- right now just small sips at a time) with protein and healthy choices, I'll do fine. if I choose to fill it with Doritos or ice cream, i'll be right back where I started. That's why I'm glad my insurance and my doctor believe in the nutritionist as part of the plan. The insurance required 6 months before approving it but my doctor includes a lifetime of nutritionist visits with the cost of the surgery. So if I want to meet with her monthly, I can. Or if i hit a tough spot down the road, I can meet with her then too.

@Nikion901 congrats on the 7 pounds! That's awesome. Have you tried the egg noodles with whole wheat? I haven't but it might be worth it for you. Like I said before, one of the things about the sleeve is that the weight comes off a bit more slowly than the by-pass. I'm hoping that will allow my skin to adjust to lower weights better than such a drastic change. Time will tell.

@Karen...you have such a heavy grading schedule. all that writing. Amazing you can keep up at all. I am trying to take it easy. It's funny because the range of how people bounce back from this surgery ranges so drastically. I met a lady at the store one day that was 6 days out of surgery (heavier than me) and she had energy to spare, a pep in her walk and was in love with life. Others I hear take up to 4 weeks to get back to work. I'm in between. Right now any twists cause me a lot of pain but I can get up and down by myself with a small grimace. I just have to keep pushing myself enough to get up and walk a bit -- slowly but surely.

@Laurie...nice to see you here again. Busy schedules can be killers to our goals. How to find a right balance -- good luck with that and when you do, sell it for millions.

@pneschich Good luck on the less than 300 --- that would be a fun level to pass. You can do this. And the support definitely comes from this thread.

@Liz...sorry to hear about your problems with the hubby. Been there done that and I hope things become clear on exactly what you need to do and the means in which to do them.

@lufnell...welcome! This is a great thread. Very helpful people.

Saturday Success: I'm below 250 for the first time in many, many months.

AFM...I felt hunger for the first time this morning. Nothing I can really do about that yet as I still have 3 days on clear liquids before I get something a bit more filling. I'm drinking my water but I have to actually focus on that. in the past, I was a "oh yeah, drink some water" and guzzle for a while. Now it has to be small sips all day long and i'm still getting used to that. My doctor said to focus on water over protein right now because I run a bigger risk of getting dehydrated. Next week will be a bit easier to add in protein and meet that goal. My goal is 48 oz this week and so far I've hit 40 (which according to some support groups is actually pretty good but my goal is to hit that 48 yet this week).

Well, hope you all have a great Labor Day weekend!!!

Tracy

Saturday success, not the one I wanted. Maybe tomorrow, but it's ok. I feel great. I kayaked for an hour and a half walked over 3 miles in under an hour and only had 1300 calories of healthy food. 18624 steps too! Made a new grilled chicken recipe with a balsamic and Ketsup BBQ sauce at under 300 calories for the whole breast, i had half, and steamed broccoli a 150 calorie roll too.