Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !
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Karen, happy belated Birthday greetings. Glad you are feeling better1
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Wednesday Wishes - I wish that I weren't so socially awkward.1
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I am a (soon to be) 43 year old female that lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. I just started back on my weight loss journey after gaining even more weight over the last 8 months. My goal is to lose 100 pounds and to be able to do all the fun activities that I no longer have the energy, stamina or lung capacity for! I just started a new job where I get to work from home. I'm super excited that I just lost my long commute and gained time that I hope to use for walking or exercising in some way every single day.
I'm open to any and all mfp friends. Let's support each other!!3 -
@TXChelleD This is a great place for support. Some of us have been here for a long time cheering each other on. Good luck with your new job and using that extra time for exercise and getting healthy.
For those of you who are having knee issues, I had to have both of mine replaced. So glad I did. It has made a huge difference in my mobility.
The scales are down 2# this morning. Wonderland is creeping up there. Can hardly wait to see that again.
This morning is our Fit and Fall Proof class. For those of you who fit into the "seniors" category, I would highly recommend that you look into this class. Ours is sponsored by the Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare. It is a really good exercise program. Call your local Health and Welfare or your local senior center and find out if its offered in your area. It is very adaptable to your fitness level and would help you get stronger. They use resistance bands and hand weights. Each person can pick the ones that are best suited for them. They have adaptations and you can turn them into chair exercises, too. If you can move at all, you could probably benefit.
Okay, enough of my soap box. Have a great day.
Onward and downward. Kaye2 -
Thursday Truth- I like eating healthy. At Bible study last night, someone brought a bunch of brownies shaped in the breast cancer bow shape with pink icing on them. We don't always have desserts but I always bring my legal snack with me just in case and sometimes, like yesterday, I had plenty of calories left over to have a dessert if I wanted to indulge. My little bag of mini pretzels and a cheese stick looked good to me and I wanted it more than the brownies. That was a nice realization to me, that healthy food is really tasty and filling and I didn't have to worry about getting the blood sugar out of whack and maybe ending up eating a bunch of junk.
And to be honest, I'm still procrastinating about the two things I want to accomplish but just talking about it, makes it more likely that I will do more today than yesterday to get them on the completed list!
@Karen ditto what NIki said!!! Missed you! So happy to see you back!
@Kaye I need to look that class up here. My balance isn't as good as it used to be and it was really not that good when it was better! haha
@kayfhoward1 That's the great part about online communities, no one knows we are unless we tell them! You don't look socially awkward and I hope I don't either!
@TXChelleD welcome! the more the merrier!3 -
@campfirequeen1 that is a GREAT NSV to prefer healthy over junk! WTG!1
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SJB- Happy belated birthday!4
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Thursday Truth ... I'm curious about the definition of Healthy Food and Junk Food ... Those seem to be the words of the day because I've run across them three times today in reading the community pages, including on this thread.
I have a strong suspicion that the same food might appear on both lists, depending on the personal preferences of the one doing the eating. I also believe that eating 'healthy' is not a sure-fire ticket to weight loss. So what I am working on is moderation. That means learning to stop at 2 tablespoons of raisins instead of eating a cup of them at one time!
@Morgori ...Ah,ha ... it was a treat today to see your smiling face in your BD greetings to SJB .... I miss your daily quotes. Hope you are doing great.
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@TXChelleD - welcome! I'm new to this these as well and am finding these participants a wonderful source of support and inspiration. You've come to the right place.
@campfirequeen1 - good job, making the better choice. For me half the battle is knowing, IN ADVANCE, which food choice will make my body feel good and what will make me feel... well, just yucky. Because really, I have no trouble at all scarfing down a pan of brownies and a half gallon of ice cream. But then I feel sick afterwards, and these days I'm doing my best to be mindful of that BEFORE I eat crap.
@kayfhoward1 - you sure don't come across as socially awkward to me. But as @campfirequeen1 said, that's the beauty of on-line friendships. We all can let it all hang out. It's a nice way to get to know people without extraneous (often unimportant) social "niceties" getting in the way. I like you!
@Nikion901 - personally I define junk food as anything that I don't really feel good about eating. A pan of brownies will make me sick to my stomach (I know this cuz I've done it ;-)), but ONE brownie following a dinner of baked chicken breast and broccoli is just fine. So for me "pan of brownies" = junk, while A brownie occasionally is healthy.
Thursday Truth: I really am loving my new healthier lifestyle. I love feeling free inside my body. I love this time of year in upstate NY. Love seeing the leaves turn and having the energy to be out walking in it. I'm meeting a friend for the weekend whom I haven't seen in about a year. Last year I could not comfortably join her in walks and hikes - I was far too out of shape. This year she will have a hard time keeping up with ME :-D3 -
Thursday Truth: I am fat bc i eat too much fatty food. I know this now thanks to tracking on mfp.6
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@MermaidPrincessRach- Rach, if we look we will see, and if we see, we know what to do about it. Good for you girl, that is amazing that tracking your food has helped you to see! And you are always soooo very encouraging with celebrating what each of us are doing right and good! That was a great NSV for sure!
@birgitkwood we are definitely on the same page about the brownies or whatever it is that has the power to derail us.
@Nikion901 I saved calories to indulge if I wanted to, but for me the healthier option was the 1/2 oz serving of mini pretzels (that's only 1/2 of the normal serving and back in pre-weight loss days I would have eaten 1/2 of the 16 oz bag at least!!!) and 1 cheese stick, they fit within my macros and my calories for the day with a deficit to boot! I agree with you that moderation is a key ingredient in a good program! And it is the one place that I have had to be very vigilant because I don't want boundaries, I want what I want! haha Healthy is definitely a subjective term. What works for one person may not work for another. You can eat too much "healthy" food, but I would rather eat too much healthy food than too much unhealthy food, if I had to pick. Fortunately I don't.0 -
Thursday truth. I've been busy, very busy. Haven't walked since Sunday at the beach. Went 4.5 miles tonight and it felt good. I'm still sorting out what I'm doing and why I'm not budging. Weighed the same since Monday mornings weigh in. Still feeling kind of melancholic. I've lost 40, still have 110 to go. I have to keep reminding myself I've lost 40 pounds, I eat better I can walk better, farther and faster and I will lose the rest
When I was putting the tent away on Sunday my wife came out and we discussed just throwing it away, it's old and has cracked and splintering poles and I've hated it since we bought it but it holds so many memories. She said we wouldn't really be needing it much longer, my oldest graduates in the spring and my youngest in two years. I knew it was rushing up on me but the reality of hearing it so bluntly shocked me a bit. And in the moment it was spoken it was the farthest thing on my mind. It's been weighing on me too.
@MermaidPrincessRach. Rach, thank you.0 -
@campfire--great NSV craving the healthy snack. I also balk at boundaries, so nothing is "off-limits" for me.
@rach-- I also love being able to see the breakdown of macros on my food choices. In addition to helping me see trends in overages and deficits, it also helps me make choices when I'm hungry but not sure what I want to eat, or if I'm even truly hungry or just eating out of boredom. When I get in that mode, I look at my food diary and try to choose a snack that will help meet my macros. So if I'm already high on carbs and low on protein (the usual scenario for me), I can only eat something that's high protein and low-carb, and if I decide that won't do, then I'm probably not really hungry.
@birgit-- enjoy your visit with your friend and try not to leave her in your dust!
@tom-- thanks for the b-day wishes!! Say hi to amy, too!
@kaye-- glad the scale is cooperating with you.
@TXChelleD --Welcome!!
@niki-- thanks for the b-day wishes!!
@kayfhoward1 -- I often wonder how closely our perceptions of our own social awkwardness match the views of others. I often think I'm socially awkward and even joke about how nerdy I am to my students. However, I've had others call me an "extrovert" in a complimentary way that implies they believe I'm at ease in many social situations that actually make me nervous.
AFM--As I mentioned yesterday, I'm fairly caught up on the piles of grading, but I know that won't last b/c I'm collecting papers from all 5 of my classes next thursday. That means I need to use the upcoming 3-day weekend to get all the little odds and ends out of the way. I also need to get some personal errands and housework completed.
I've completely fallen off the logging wagon, so I'm going to begin doing that again tomorrow. I haven't been eating badly, and my weight has remained constant, but zero exercise other than walking the dog and mowing the lawn. I've updated my fitness goals for October. I know it will be a challenge to get all 8 runs completed b/c I have a lot of meetings after school over the next couple of weeks. However, goals should be challenging, right?
Grading Goals:
1. 2/6 letters of recommendation
2. x/10 AP analysis activities
3. x/40 Siddhartha reflections
4. x/40 Frost journals
Fitness Goals for the month of October:
Run 1 mile at my fastest pace 3x/month:
Run 2 miles in 23 minutes 4x/week:
Run a 5 k in <36 minutes 1x/month:
You vs Year Challenge:
280 k done/ 720 k to go
Exercise Goals:
Sun-- rest day
Mon-- walk gunner DONE
Tues-- walk gunner DONE + mow lawn DONE
Wed-- walk gunner DONE
Thurs-- walk gunner DONE
Fri-- walk gunner
Sat-- walk gunner2 -
Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. ~Henry David Thoreau3
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“To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, to learn you must first fail.” ~Wesley Woo3
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Friday - Fitness (what are you doing to get fit? How are you preparing for weekend eating?
Planning to cut grass today ... should have already done it but was on a long phone call with a dear friend instead.
Got a lot of housework to do that is part of my Fall Clean-UP that I'm already behind in so the weekend will not be a free one after all.
I'm so tired of chicken! Gonna cook up some beef stew for the weekend, and looking forward to a fish dinner tonight.
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I am tired of chicken too. How about some turkey or pork? What are other affordable low fat meats?0
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I made a butterball turkey breast cutlet dinner Tuesday and pork tenderloin medallions Thursday. Tonight, grilled chicken, foil pack Brussels sprouts and grill roasted sweet potatoes. Yup cooking with fire!1
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Yesterday I got a good sale price on boneless pork ribs, I put them in the crockpot with fresh sweet potatoes, cored and sliced unpeeled Gala apples, and a sliced sweet onion. Turned out really yummy, and I reserved half the meat to shred and mix with BBQ to eat on tortillas (low carb kind). I cooked a big pot of spaghetti sauce with ground turkey and turkey Italian sweet sausages the other day and tonight I'm eating some of it on top of some fresh sautéed green beans instead of pasta. Tomorrow I will cook chicken and veggies on the grill outside to have for BBQ chicken and fajita too.2
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:Sigh: My weekly weight loss is less than I was hoping for. -0.2 lbs ... 0.07% What can I do?0
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Nice to see a group with the same struggles and goals as me! Hope y'all are having a wonderful day. I will check back in later.3
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MermaidPrincessRach wrote: »:Sigh: My weekly weight loss is less than I was hoping for. -0.2 lbs ... 0.07% What can I do?
A loss is a loss so well done, take it and keep going. Maybe weigh less often if it gets you down when scales numbers are not too your liking. As long as you are tracking accurately and within calories eating healthily then the weight will come off. Trust your body I know from experience that weight loss slows and speeds up and plateaus along the way even when doing everything correctly. The body knows what is is doing, sometimes it is releasing excess baggage , other times it is adjusting composition and healing.3 -
Saturday - Success (what have you accomplished; focus on the positive of the week, NSV=non scale victories)
Since the idea is to focus on the positives of the week I can reveal that I did a bang-up job of wiping out the stash of raisins and apricots that were in the pantry to make granola bars. And that I have a new taste sensation ... roasted cauliflower 'steaks'. Oh, and I watched at least 6 sappy "Feeln" movies on my desktop computer
Speaking of roasted cauliflower steaks ... I'd always shied away from buying that creamy, nobby head of Cruciferous vegetable because I'm not fond of it when it's been steamed and to keep it raw it turns black before I can eat the whole head by myself. I've tried cutting it up into florets and roasting it, but didn't so much care for the texture of it then either. And Then! ... I saw a recipe on Facebook. And I love it!
Roasted Cauliflower 'steaks'
Servings: 4
Ingredients
1 head cauliflower, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
kosher salt to taste
ground pepper to taste
paprika if you wish
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 C) . Arrange cauliflower slices on a rimmed baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.
Roast until golden brown on top, about 15 minutes. Flip and continue cooking until tender, about 10 minutes more. Serve immediately.
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Saturday Success- I'm doing the happy dance this morning! I have a new low weight on the scale! But focusing on the NSV, as Niki suggested, is seeing in real life that life happens and everyday is not perfect, some days I don't stay in the guidelines for calorie goal or step goal, or even both in the same day, but if I stay the course, despite the ups and downs, the plateaus, etc. there is success at the end of it. Every success helps fortify and encourage me to keep going!
@MermaidPrincessRach - Rach just like @ObesityWarrior said, celebrate that little success and try not to fret. I've been waiting for a long while now to see a 1.2 pound drop (sizeable for me), but I knew that I was doing my best and I'm always looking for new tips, just like you! You are going to do it, please don't be discouraged! You are a real role model for me. I'm sending you extra cyber hugs today!
@badnoodle - I love the big club stores for their meat too. The ground turkey I get there is so delicious and at a great savings. That's where I got the sale on the boneless pork ribs too! I also love the fresh veggie/salad items as well. They are a big part of my food plan!
@Nikion901 - I love cauliflower, I eat it often but I haven't tried it as you suggested, so guess who is going to have a cauliflower steak today? haha Thanks!
@tishbiv this is a great place and I look forward to hearing more from you!
It's a beautiful day here in Music City, I think I'm going to go outside and soak up some of the sunshine and enjoy the milder temps! You guys and gals have a great weekend!!!0 -
MermaidPrincessRach wrote: »:Sigh: My weekly weight loss is less than I was hoping for. -0.2 lbs ... 0.07% What can I do?
Today, while reading my local newspaper (online of course), I ran across an article that prompted me to come back on to MFP just so I could share these tips with you. You asked, this article is the answer ...
Some Tips to end nutrition confusion ...
1. Breakfast ... This is when you literally 'break the fast' from not eating while you sleep. It is a time to re-energize. Breakfast eaters tend to be leaner than breakfast skippers.
2. Fruits and veggies ... Go ahead and pile your plate high with food. Just change the composition to 50% fruits and vegetables, 1/4 starch and 1/4 protein.
3. Calories, carbs and fat are not bad ... Avoid giving food a moral value. A HEALTHY DIET COMES DOWN TO PORTION SIZE, MODERATION, AND VARIETY.
4. Focus on positive nutrition ... Instead of dwelling on foods to avoid, focus on foods to include in your eating plan. IT'S NOT ABOUT DIETING, BUT RATHER ABOUT LIFESTYLE CHANGE.
5. Return to the kitchen ... We have more cookbooks, gadgets and cooking shows than ever before. Take advantage of all that great information and technology. Set aside some time every weekend to plan your meals for the coming week. Cook ahead when you can.
6. Incorporate physical activity ... We live in a remote-controlled society where overeating is encouraged and movement is discouraged. Increasing your level of physical activity help with your weight, mood, heart, bones and more.
7. Small Change Make A Big Difference --- If you are not consciously aware of your level of physical activity and eating, you are probably gaining weight.
"Choose a few small goals", Patricia Salzer, a Univera Healthcare workplace wellness consultant and registered dietician, says. "Incorporate them into your lifestyle, and then choose a few more." ... article in the Buffalo New.
This is the healthy-living prescription I have been following every since my brother passed away. During that time I have struggled and had successes. I am on less medications today and I am more physically capable, plus trimmer than I was the day I rushed to his hospital bedside to say goodby.
Please, please, please, keep on the path to wellness, your life depends on it. Your life matters. It's worth the investment to make the health wise changes you are undertaking!5 -
Havent been here is a while due to health concerns. Gained one pound but starting over. Having surgery later this year to correct the problem. Have a plan\
Tonight I am going to a drum circle. It is suppose to enhance immunity. A lot of cancer thrivers (I don't have cancer) attend and it is also supposed to have other spiritual, mental and physical benefits. It's outside and the weather is around 54 degrees.
I am sick about Charleston. I just returned from a trip to that beautiful city. I pray for the city and its residents.
Hope any of our group who might be in the storms path are doing ok
Mermaid. Thanks for the inspiration. Next week is another week. Dont worry about this week. Just keep keeping on. The weight will come of
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My Saturday success is the fact that I've had a rough week and the last couple of days has been devastating for my entire family but I haven't quit. And while the devastation kept me from my trails yesterday, today I got right back on the horse so to speak. We're still here. We're still whole! We're still moving forward!!!
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Kay someone the hardest thing to do is the easiest thing, to just keep on keeping on. Praying that your family has a better week going forward and that you remain strong
The drum circle was fantastic and fun. Actually got a lot of upper body exercise as they beat the drums with a full hand using the elbow or shoulder. They say it actually improves circulation and I believe that to be correct. We will be having this bi monthly and I really enjoy it enough to attend in the future.
Got off plan later when I went out to eat at Outback. But maintained moderation at the cocktail party so that was good
Best wishes to everyone on this journey
Katrena1
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