Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

@campfirequeen1 - I've been lurking, reading everyone's posts every day but often not having the time to respond. Your goal for 2017 sounds like a good one. I especially like the "or as close I can" part - sounds healthy and non obsessive.

I don't make resolutions. Just try to live each day as best I can and let the chips fall where they may. Never would I have guessed a year ago that today I'd be 91lbs down! According to insurance BMI tables, I should work at losing another 30 lbs to be considered no longer overweight. I don't know if I'll get there, and frankly - I don't care! I like the way I'm living and what I'm eating. I don't want to eat less, and have no interest in exercising more. So, if I lose more weight - great. If not, also great. But gaining is absolutely NOT an option! (Guess there's the NY Resolution, right? Lol)

@KATRENAJ - hop back on the wagon and do the best you can. The pounds will come back off - you know how to do that! Enjoy your trip to Costa Rica.

@FeraFilia - you're so very close! And written weight loss being what it is, written our bodies adding and subtracting a few pounds here and there every day regardless is what we do, it's say you did it! Remember, the number on the scale is only a number, and the first of the year is really just an arbitrary date. Great to use as a guide posts, but not worthy of emotional attachments. The overall trend is what matters, and you're doing great! Keep in going and you will reach your goal.

Happy New Year to All!

obesity Warrior - My husband once told me he quit smoking 115 times before he finally quit. We can do this. Our health demands it
Katrena

I usually run into trouble when I start graphing out goal weights for the future. I have SO MUCH weight to lose!
I have to remember to just take it one day at a time, one meal at a time. I can be very proud of myself for the progress I have made so far. I have to remember how I got that progress and keep repeating what has been working. Follow the meal plans from the book. Tell myself that my sacrifces will be worth it, always worth it. I have a long ways to go, but I am closer today than before. Progress.
It's like a marathon. Each meal is like a single step on the marathon course. I have to take a bunch of steps to make it to the finish line but I can do it ... If i just focus on one step at a time. When I stumble (everyone stumbles now and then), I just catch my balance or pick myself up off the ground and keep going.
Enjoy the journey! It's life-changing!

@birgitkwood --I feel the same as you about seeing what I'm capable of doing. Mostly I notice the change when I'm with my 4 year old niece. She's a bundle of energy and I've become the aunt who does all of the physical stuff with her--flips her around, climbs the playground equipment, etc. I really love that and i know if I were at my heaviest, I wouldn't be ab;e to do any of it.

@rach-- I know what you mean about setting those specific weight loss goals. I did some of that when I first started MFP and I really just had to have the mindset that as long as I was moving in the right direction, the speed with which I met each goal didn't matter. It was hard because I'm not the most patient person, but it kept me from becoming discouraged with the whole process. Now I need to get back in gear and lose the weight I regained last year and continue to work to lose beyond that point. But you're right, it's a marathon not a sprint.

@Misnomer971 --I'm also excited that the daily social activities revolving around food have come to an end. Congrats on your progress so far, and it sounds like you have a great attitude toward meeting you goals in a healthy way.

@ObesityWarrior --I hate it when injuries or illness throw a wrench into my progress. A couple of years ago I injured my shoulder pretty badly. It was months and months of pain and PT to get it back to being somewhat "normal." Then, just as I was finally getting past that pain, I developed an upper respiratory infection that lasted almost 3 months despite 2 rounds of antibiotics. The combination just put me way off my game--I couldn't lift weights due to the shoulder, and I couldn't do any cardio due to the URI. I lost all motivation and just kind of gave up even eating healthy while I was sick. It was about this time last year that I finally recovered from the URI, but by then the damage had been done and I had gained back a solid 10 pounds. It literally took months for me to regain any sort of normalcy to my eating and exercise and in the interim, I gained another 5 lbs or so. Since then, I've struggled with losing and gaining the same few pounds. I need to really do a complete reboot and get back on track, but as katrena said, we can do this. I with you on the getting back to basics and cutting the junk. Let's check in here regularly and hold each other accountable.

Sorry for those of you I missed--Happy new year to all of you!!

Monday Check-in:
I'm looking forward to getting back to a normal eating schedule when school starts up again on Thursday. My husband, who does most of the cooking, has been going through kind of a junk food phase lately. He wants pizza or burgers every night and I just can't live on that stuff. The other day I thawed a bunch of pork chops and cooked them up so I would have some decent protein to eat on a daily basis. I'm going to do the same with some boneless skinless chicken breasts so I always have something healthy to reach for in the fridge.


Grading Goals:
4. 13/39 Scarlet Letter papers
5. revise 1st semester AP final exam DONE
6. write Japan essay

Exercise Goals:
Mon-- walk gunner DONE + ab video DONE
Tues-- walk gunner + gym
Wed-- walk gunner + ab video
Thurs-- walk gunner + gym
Fri-- walk gunner + ab video
Sat-- walk gunner + gym + ab video
Sun-- walk gunner + ab video

Hi everyone ... Just popping in to let you know that while I've been able to limit my time on the computer by not posting, I'm still regularly catching up on reading this thread. There was a nice influx of new posters this past week or so and I hope they come back often to liven up the pot of supporters on here.

Hope everyone had an enjoyable new year celebration and is ready to tackle 2017 with your weight loss efforts.

AFM ...
Tuesday - Goals (do you have any Goals you want to update us?)

One of the challenges I'm in had us post a monthly weight loss goal ... which really made me have to think realistically about how much I can accomplish; what with hefty weight fluctuations from any one day to the next. And, as we know, or suspect, losing weight is not a linear thing even if we stay at the same calorie intake and output from one day to the next, one week to the next, etc. I've read some interesting research into this and realize, like some of you have, that as long as the trend is downward the consistency will pay off.

A new way of thinking about my weight loss progress has popped into my head ... I usually weight myself first thing in the morning, and am usually undressed. However, this time I was fully dressed and even had my shoes on when I stepped on the scale. As I did, a memory of me scurring to find the lightest clothes and easiest to slip of shoes for doctor appointments floated into my thoughts. I realized ... I want to lose enough weight that I won't be concerned about that 4-6 pounds clothing and shoes adds to our weight ...

I want to get weighed with my shoes on! An be OK with it.
Good luck as the month goes for you. As long as the end weight is lower than the start weight, you did great!

MermaidPrincessRach wrote: »

I usually run into trouble when I start graphing out goal weights for the future. I have SO MUCH weight to lose!
I have to remember to just take it one day at a time, one meal at a time.

Yes! When I started that program in September I also started seeing a therapist, just to try to make sure that this time the changes I make "stick." He expressed a little dismay when I told him how much weight I'm hoping to lose both mid-term and long-term, because he didn't want me to feel daunted or be discouraged in the face of such big numbers. He suggested breaking the big numbers down into smaller chunks, and not assigning timelines or dates to anything. That has been very helpful to me. The last time I saw him he used the phrase "bad days," and I told him that I prefer/tend not to think in terms of entire days being bad; just individual meals. He was happy to hear that.

@birgitkwood -- Thanks for the congrats/encouragement! I've lost 27 pounds so far, and I definitely notice the difference. I try to appreciate the little NSVs, like the fact that I can actually walk a mile on the treadmill at 3mph (which seemed impossible three months ago). I love your story about sitting down and getting up just because you could! I live near DC, and every December my best friends and I go downtown to see the White House and Capitol trees. We always have to park several blocks away from the White House tree, and this year I noticed that walking through the city was easier and I wasn't as winded as in years past. That was a nice little unexpected NSV.

@skinnyjeanzbound -- Thank you!

@Nikion901 -- I actually laughed out loud when I read "I want to get weighed with my shoes on! An be OK with it." Mostly because I can't imagine that...ha!

I am fighting so much with my scale right now. I know the right way to do it is to weigh myself once a week at the same time of day and wearing (roughly) the same clothes, but sometimes I just can't avoid stepping on it once or twice a day and the numbers are all over the place. Yesterday, four hours made a 1.5 pound difference! So I feel like it's hard for me to really know whether I'm losing weight, and if so how much. I write down what the scale says every time, and I note the time of day and whether I'm clothed, and I figure the important thing will be to keep an eye on trends. And I really should just do the once-a-week thing. I think part of me feels like my weight is never "official" if I'm taking it myself -- I won't really know where I stand until the next time I go to the doctor, later this month.

Hello, I'm back on it all, not so much exercise due to the boot, but I'm giving it a try. Logging and weighing and self responsibility. 8 pounds gained over the holiday should fall right off. It hasn't had time to unpack and get comfortable yet

ObesityWarrior wrote: »

I baked two different kinds of cup cakes and several nut loaves today. Still not eating healthy but am feeling a bit better. I have come to conclusion that I will remain morbidly obese for as long as it takes me to get over myself and accept I do not and never will look like Scarlett Johannson. I am so supperficial ,it serves me right to be huge. My eating is part self medicating the bipolar. I honestly believe I would have killed myself decades ago without the food to turn to. Much as I loath binge eating dissorder and being morbodly obese and unhealthy, I must also thank the food binges for being there to get me through where all medications and other support systems failed. So 50% is down to food binges being most effective self medication to date, the other 50% is almost a self harm punishing myself for not being good enough. Maybe if I could just get over myself and accept I am not societies beauty ideal, have a kinder vision and value myself for my inner beauty as I try to do others, maybe then I would be in less emotional pain during bipolar crashes and need less food to medicate myself with. So I am just not going to focus on the fat, I need to focus on seeing my inner beauty.

You sound like an interesting person, you have intellectualised everything like I have for many years too and I loved reading your post.

I finally decided that above all else, I just really like food, and if there's something really yummy in the house I usually eat it. That's normal! So I just don't buy overly tempting stuff anymore. And I try to not cook for enough to be left over. I find it's helped immensely.

You sound lovely, and I wish you an exciting and happy 2017 :-)

Visceral fat (fat in the gut surrounding organs) is living. It releases hormones. Visceral fat can (negatively) effect your emotions. I believe (at least some of) my depression is due to the high amount of visceral fat I've had most of my life.

@Dalceridae -- We have height-adjustable desks at work, but I find it very hard to concentrate while standing (and it's impossible to type while standing). I'm 99% sure that's just habit and conditioning, but we've had these desks for a year now and I haven't been able to stand and work yet. It's awesome that you were able to stand for a few hours!