Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

@grandmakaye44 your granddaughter sounds very sweet. She's doing a good job helping!

Friday Fitness: I will go for a run and complete 3.1 miles today!

I'm going to have to do some rethinking of my usual fitness routine since walking is my go-to exercise and we are having rain all weekend and into next week. We had a summer with literally no rain so it is badly needed, but it fouls up my routine. Cathy is my walking partner and she broke 2 toes yesterday morning, so I will be without a partner for awhile, too.
Looking forward to the weekend. Onward and downward. Kaye

Friday Fitness ... had a busy morning today with blood lab work scheduled for first thing. Then I got a haircut and then went grocery shopping. Since it's a beautiful day outside today, I will do some yard work this afternoon. We had our first hard frost during the night, and I protected a pot of geraniums by putting a big trash can over it, I want to dig them up and try to hold over a couple of them in my house over the winter. The weekend will bring a return of rain (we need it) and that will continue on more days than not for the next couple of weeks so any outside work I need to do has to become a priority now.

Scary stuff ... When my mom (72yo) eats chocolate or sugar, she coughs up blood! She has a doctor appointment on Monday.
Rach

Success Saturday, I gained 1.5 lbs. but I'm not going to lose my mind. I ate good today walked, a bit slow, but walked and did my mother in laws brakes. Today I did what I could and that is all I can control. Tomorrow I get another chance to get it right.

Elizabeth2360 wrote: »

Hello,

@Rach that is scary I hope the Doctors will help your Mom feel better.

Saturday Success! My daughter really wanted to hang out with me! She wanted to go out to eat her favorite is Golden Corral . I did it and stayed on the planned left there not feeling sick from over eating ! Plus had a lovely visit with my daughter!

I've found that I can go out to eat and not over eat as long as I look at their menu first and pick out what I want to eat and pretrack. Or if it is a Resturant that had the calories in the menu then I make sure I know how many calories I want to stay below for that meal.

@Rach- your mom is in my prayers!
@pneschich- Hey Buddy, we all have times like that and it is what it is and you have the right attitude! As Kay says onward and downward!
@grandmakaye- When the weather is bad and I feel bored with walking at the Y because the track is small and has a small winding metal staircase up to it, I go to a big box home store or a super store and walk the inside of the store on the outside most aisles. They tend not to be so crowded so you can cover some ground pretty quickly and it's dry and cool or warm whatever the season calls for, works good for me.
@MrsHull840- You can't change what you don't recognize, so you are at least half way there! Good job!
@Elizabeth2360- good job girl, it's hard for me when there is so much food available! I'm happy for you that you were mindful and succeeded!
@trinati2001- good advice it works for me. The menus here don't usually have the info available but I try to be prepared ahead of time and if not I'll stick with the safest choice I can find and hope for the best!

My Saturday Success was that I finally got to feeling better! I'm not back on my walking schedule completely but I'm making progress and I'm under goal on calories!

This is my 1st time to this message board. My VA dietician showed it to me. With her help, advise and encouragement, I have lost 45 of the 100+ pounds I'm striving to lose. Even though I've only got 3 more pounds to lose to complete my second "10% of body weight--weight loss goal", I'm having difficulty staying motivated. I'm tired of dieting, and that buttered popcorn I ate at the movies today was wonderful.

Tomorrow is a new day, and my goal for this coming week is lose 1-2 pounds and walk at least 10T steps each day.

Things are really crazy around here and it's about to get worse. We spent time with some family this afternoon to celebrate 2nd son's birthday. That was just one more event!
Got word today that DH's sister-in-law passed away this morning. That means a 5 hour drive each way and being gone for 3 days this week. I'm sorry for the family. I realized that that sounded callous and I don't mean it that way at all. She was the same age as DH.
The last weekend in October I get to spend 4 days visiting my sisters. It's not often that all 5 of us can be together so I am really looking forward to that.
Then Halloween and those of you who've been here awhile know that means about 12 dozen donuts for the trick or treaters.
It makes me tired just thinking about it. I'm just going to hang on tight and hope not to gain for the next couple of weeks.
I love the idea of walking around a big store, but the closest one to me is 30 min. away. It's not really an option.
Onward and downward. Kaye

I spent Saturday cleaning/sorting a bunch of old dusty things for a garage sale. I think I stressed myself out or I am fighting a bug b/c I went to bed at 7 yesterday and slept all the way thru for 12 hours! Going to focus on drinking more water today.
@dabidwell welcome! And congrats! On all your success so far. What movie did you see? I believe in little splurges every once in a while. We've got to enjoy this journey called life or else why go thru with the troubles. I hope you find a few friends here to share the weight loss journey with!
Rach
From Florida
312/303/150

@Nikion901 From a couple days back, I absolutely hear you on the troubles with dried fruit. I think I shared here about how I ate an entire 2lb bag of dried mango in one sitting? #toomuchfruit is a real thing.

Now two weeks without a binge, although I've been eating somewhat less than is altogether healthful. I just know that if I eat /anything/ after about 9pm, I'm setting myself up to struggle with my personal snack demon all night. Maybe it's a blood sugar thing?

I spent quite a bit of time on Saturday going through my closet and trying on literally every article of clothing I own except for socks, and purging everything that was ridiculously oversized. I kept a few things that are merely too big; otherwise, I'd not have a single button down work shirt. I wound up divesting myself of six garbage bags of clothes and shoes. I even got rid of a bunch of bras that are now too loose around the band to provide proper support.

So with my newly empty closet as a good excuse, I did some shopping on Sunday, and I realized two things. 1.) Lingerie shopping is so. much. fun. when you feel good about yourself and 2.) I'd reached size 12 in pants.

Size 12 was my secret goal. My goal of "if you don't lose one more ounce, you'll have succeeded". One I never spoke out loud or committed to writing because I was terrified that I wouldn't get there. Now, I'll admit that they are pretty snug, and I've got some notable camel toe going on if I'm not careful. But damn if I didn't tear up in the fitting room because everything moving on is, well, icing on the cake.

It sounds like bragging, but it just feels so good to share happy news after bitching and moaning so much the past month.

@badnoodle I am doing a happy dance for you and your size 12 pants! I remember how shocking it was for me the first time I lost enough to fit a size 16 the first time in my adult life. Go ahead and brag! You earned it!
On a similar note, I wore one size smaller pants to work today. They are old ones from my closet. But the problem is, I forgot the zipper is malfunctioned. It likes to unzip itself! so I will be going by the big&tall store to get myself new size 24 work pants.
Rach

@Nikion901 - are you of German ancestry? Thise flat personal sized meatloaves are "Frickadellen," and I grew up with them as well. Hmmm... haven't made them in a very long while. Maybe it's time. Plus, I like saying "Frickadellen." Lol

@dabidwell - welcome, and congrats on your huge accomplishment. Don't lose sight of your goal and don't get complacent. That's how we end up sabotaging ourselves and get derailed. Stay strong and use this MFP community for support. We're all in this journey together and you are NOT alone. Hand in there!

@badnoodle - great going, congrats!

Monday check-in: seems that I have shingles. Grrrrr... extremely painful! I don't have the tell take rash (yet) but based on the way I've described the pain, that's what my doctor diagnosed. So I'm now I anti-virals and pain meds. Sooo hoping this works!

On a happier note, as of today I'm down a total of 78lbs. 6lbs to go before I'm no longer "obese." So looking forward to that :-D

Have a great week, Everyone!

@birgitkwood ... we called them either Frikadel'ki or kotletti ... translates to meatballs. My mom didn't shape them as flat rounds though, she liked to gently pat them into a diamond shape and when they cooked up, they came out as little flat ovals. .. and no, not ethnically German though I'm from Europe and was born in Germany in the 1940's. My mom learned a lot of German food while we lived there. Since it was the food of my childhood, I especially like it. Plus, I think a lot of European countries have dishes that are similar because people brought their tastes with them as they moved through those lands over the centuries.

Congratulations on your large weight loss ... that's where I want to be

Hi everyone!
I have a red mark on my wrist where Wilma (my activity tracker) sits. I can't weigh myself this morning bc the batteries in my scale died. I am still fighting this bug; went to bed early again last night. Just feeling down today. I need to work on rebalancing my energies. (Something I learned about in therapy.) On a positive note, I enjoyed reading the Nov issue of RW this morning that came in yesterday's mail. They published the results of several polls they did.
Rach