Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

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  • anneurban1910
    anneurban1910 Posts: 1 Member
    Hello, my name is Jennifer and I have to lose over 200lbs, I currently weigh 357. I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself as I am new on myfitnesspal. I haven't really been on other diets before but I know now that I need to lose the weight as my knees and joints are really hurting.

    I am looking for support as well as to be supportive to someone else who is also going through the challenges of trying to lose weight. I am currently beginning to exercise again, (treadmill) and I am watching what I eat by keeping the food diary, in addition I am enrolled in a nutrition class at Kaiser Permanente.

    Thanks for listening, I look forward to hearing from you.
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    Thursday Truth ... In a stall once again ... my constitution and I are in a battle of who wins out ... It's been going on for 2 years and I am as sick and tired of it as I am of the taste of meat. ... Had what used to be one of my favorite meals ... pork chops lightly breaded in panko crums and baked. Thought I'd enjoy that as my 'red' meat of the week ...but didn't care for it at all. Of course, that didn't stop me from eating the chop, it just stopped me from enjoying the meal.

    In the culture I was brought up in, Great Lent is gearing up for the Paschal season. This Sunday is known as 'Meatfare" ... the last day to eat any animal meat until Easter Sunday has come. Next week it will be "Cheesefare", meaning that will be the last day to consume dairy based products including eggs and butter. Fish is allowed on selected days during the Lenten Season ... frequently on a Sunday, but not on every one as some days are strict 'fasting' days, which means no food from vespers until the next sundown and sometimes oil is not allowed either on those days. ... I dunno, maybe with my current distaste for the three animal proteins I do consume ... chicken, pork, beef, turkey (in that order), this might be a good year to see how well I can do what my parents did their entire adult life during this season. ... which is to abstain from the recommended foods during the Great Lent willingly, cheerfully, quietly ... and also taking on some of the other tenants of that time ... lots of self reflection and prayer for guidance, lots of good deeds done without any fanfare or calling of attention to oneself.

    .... I don't think I am 'up' to the task, cause I'm not the person my parents were.
  • pneschich
    pneschich Posts: 325 Member
    Thursday truth. I was ready. Worried planned fretted but when I gowned up at the hospital I was excited. I woke up happy. The nurses were amazed at my recovery. I came up from recovery to my room and walked to my bed. Yes there is pain and yes Monday night was so very hard taking a teaspoon of warm broth and feeling as though I was being stabbed in the chest but I knew it would pass. Yes I have an annoying drain tube sticking out of me. I haven't been hungry since I woke up. I haven't eaten since Saturday! I will start on liquid meals Monday. I had a protein water today, it hurt but I'm not so lightheaded. Walked 3 miles today 3/4 mile to the pond, rested and watched the turtles then walked home home. Once early, once after lunch. Looking forward to a third with my beautiful bride this evening. I really was ready. I needed this.
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    edited February 2017
    birgitkwood wrote: »
    @Nikion901 - wow, that sounds like a very complicated and restricted Lent! Wishing your all the best with your season of self-reflection. Which is something we all should probably do more of, year round.

    I should keep my mouth shut .. because I gave the wrong impression. There is nothing restrictive about the Great Lent. You can either do it or not, depending on your own inclination. You can "hold Fast" for the entire duration or for a portion of the time ... it all comes down to choice, committment, ability ...

    PS ... gee, that choice, committment and ability reminds me of why many of us are here on MFP ... when applied to our over abundance of stuffing our mouths at one point or another in our lives that has brought us to the point of being of a larger body than we want, need, or are healthy in.

    :) congratulations on breaking the 100! That IS a big deal :)
  • Snap___Dragon
    Snap___Dragon Posts: 17 Member
    birgitkwood wrote: »
    @pneschich - I'm so glad to hear that your doing so well. Yes, you absolutely were ready - and you're ready for the next step(s) as well.

    @Nikion901 - wow, that sounds like a very complicated and restricted Lent! Wishing your all the best with your season of self-reflection. Which is something we all should probably do more of, year round.

    @campfirequeen1 - I'm so sorry you're feeling so poorly. Please feel better soon!

    To all the wonderful new folks - welcome! You've come to the right thread for a great group of terrific supportive people. Happy to "walk the walk" with you!

    As for me, I broke 100 lbs down yesterday (total loss =101). Funny, tho... before yesterday my scale had been "stuck" for about three weeks. So when I stepped on yesterday, and saw that it FINALLY moved down 2 1/2 lbs, THAT's what had me excited! I didn't even notice the 100 lb milestone, lol. It wasn't till some of my MFP friends commented on it that I realized, "hey yeah - that's kinda a big deal!" So, yay me!!

    Great job reaching 100 lbs lost! It is such a great milestone to reach. I was bouncing of the walla with joy when I reached that goal. My next goal is to reach onederland. I have gotten to 198 but for ages have been hovering just over 200. I've been doing well though in the last couple weeks and am feeling optimistic that I will indeed get there again and keep going.
  • JeanieWww
    JeanieWww Posts: 4,037 Member
    checking in!! I started off a little late for the week, as I was waiting on test results from the doc, to get the ok to start dieting and exercising. But I started on Wednesday, increased water intake, went to the YMCA and joined a water aerobics class, and got a strength training program. I'm going to do this!
  • campfirequeen1
    campfirequeen1 Posts: 317 Member
    @Nikion901 and @birgitkwood - I have to agree with both of you! In my memory of Lenten preparations, what you listed Niki was very restrictive and a bit complicated in comparison, and perhaps you had a choice, but we as dependents did not have a choice. You ate what you were given at our house, and you were told what you could and couldn't have when eating outside the home. It was more or less your "duty" to follow the rules.
    Of course, as I became my own authority on such things, I had the choice of whether I would follow tradition or make it according to my own devotional choices. Typically, I would say that I chose the more modern way of a much less restrictive (dietary in particular) and more completive in preparation of my heart for such a magnanimous gift of love to someone so very undeserving as I.
    I do wholeheartedly agree with your idea that it is our choice, commitment, and ability issues that got many of us here! I am so much more aware, at my advanced age, of just how important mystical things are and how they can translate to our everyday lives. I enjoyed giving a good ponder on that subject, and you don't have to feel badly for posting it Niki, I enjoyed reading and thinking on it!
    @Snap___Dragon- That is such a wonderful accomplishment and I'm so happy for you. I'm sure we will all be pulling for you to drop into Onederland as your permanent home very soon!
    @JeanieWww - Welcome and it looks like you are off to a nice start with your choices!
    As for me, I'm feeling some better and the sky is sunny and the weather like spring, so I'm a happy girl today! Hope everyone else has a sunny heart if not sky!

  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    Thanks @campfirequeen1 .... I sometimes say (or post) a thing that is better left undone. ... I'm sorry your homelife was 'duty' bound. I was more fortunate. I also grew up in a home with many strict guidelines, but never about food.
    Children were never included in the liturgical requirements of fasting ... and there were many of them in our following throughout the year. When i look back on it, I wonder at the strength of forebearance my folks had to allow us kids to have eggs and milk products when they abstained. Of course, my mom didn't prepare dishes with meat in them during the timeframe, but her food was so tasty and varied in preparation that we never missed it! As a matter of fact, some of my fondest childhood food memories were of those seasonal dishes we had to wait for a fasting period before we got to enjoy them!
  • bee2017x
    bee2017x Posts: 11 Member
    Hi may name is Brenda, I'm 22 yo and in the process of losing my 100lbs+. I started off at 242.5lbs (110kg) and am now down to 187.4lbs (85kg). My goal weight is 143.3lbs (65kg). I hope I can shed my last 20kg with the support of this forum!

    Saturday - Success (what have you accomplished; focus on the positive of the week, NSV=non scale victories)

    Haven't had a whole lots of success this week unfortunately. It says to focus on the NSV but all the positives I have is that I've lost 2kgs (4.4lbs), but I have no idea how I got there as I feel I have been eating terribly and not exercising at all. Not sure what else to post
  • Fritzi1037
    Fritzi1037 Posts: 2 Member
    Hello
  • pneschich
    pneschich Posts: 325 Member
    edited February 2017
    Hello @Fritzi1037 welcome. What's up? Good group here jump in - or lurk. Nicest group of folks in here.
  • sand86802
    sand86802 Posts: 125 Member
    @pneschich Congrats on the surgery and I am happy you are recoverig well.

    Welcome to everyone new!

    As for Saturday success, I just tried on a couple jeans that I couldnt fit into anymore. One of them fits perfectly now and the other probably in another 15lbs or so. Its almost sweeter than seeing the numbers on the scale go down!
  • campfirequeen1
    campfirequeen1 Posts: 317 Member
    edited February 2017
    @pneschich - You make my face smile with your super good reports!
    @Fritzi1037 -Welcome!
    @sand86802 - So happy for you! That's the most fun for me to find that something now fits that hasn't before!
    @MermaidPrincessRach - I was looking for a healthy recipe to use up some baked chicken today and found one at the Eatingwell site, and while I was looking around on the site I came across a 7 day menu for the Dash Diet. I loved the look of some of those recipes and I will be trying them. I didn't know if they were recipes you already have or not, so just thought I would mention it!
  • KATRENAJ
    KATRENAJ Posts: 318 Member
    Still lurking around. Struggling to get back on routine. Lot gong on in my life. On the positive side, I purchased an Infrared Sauna and use it everyday to try to detox. As a result, I am taking my meds regularly and have been able to come off some and to take more vitamins and minerals. Still trying to get food and exercise under control.

    I miss the challenges we use to do as a group. They were extremely helpful to me
    Katrena
  • campfirequeen1
    campfirequeen1 Posts: 317 Member
    @KATRENAJ glad you are still lurking! Why don't you restart the challenges, we could probably all benefit from them!
  • RachaelPooh
    RachaelPooh Posts: 6,188 Member
    Hi everyone! I'm still here ... lurking.
    @pneschich That is FANTASIC! So happy for your success!
    @campfirequeen1 I started with the sample menus in the book DASH Weight Loss Solution by Marla Heller. Very simple! Now I try to make up my own mostly, but stick fairly close to the day one sample menu ... but I allow fruit and dairy, and occ whole grains, bc I'm not really on phase one anymore :wink: Thank you for the recipe heads up. I will check it out.
    I have my next WIP in 2 days! I am hoping to be under 290 by then ::fingers-crossed::
  • skinnyjeanzbound
    skinnyjeanzbound Posts: 3,932 Member
    @rach-- I'm rooting for you to see and 280-something!! :smile:

    @katrena-- great to see you again! Glad to hear the detox is working for you.

    @sand86802 --those NSVs are the best! Much more satisfying than the scale--congrats!!

    @pneschich --it's so great to hear your awesome progress reports!!

    @jennifer, snapdragon, brenda, and fritz-- welcome!!

    @jeanie-- sounds like you are off to a great start!!

    @birgitkwood --Woohoo!! That's so awesome!! Congrats on reaching 100 lbs lost!!

    Sorry if I missed some others and welcome to any newlings I missed.

    AFM--I'm still struggling, mostly with social events that I allow to throw me off track. Went out Wed, Thurs, and Fri with various friends, and though I tended to stay under or close to my allowance, I still wasn't making the best choices. I've tried to make up for it with more exercise, but that's difficult time-wise.

    Also, I'm a little disappointed b/c since I got my fitbit charge 2, which I have set for a 500 calorie deficit, I have met my goal most days but haven't lost any weight. Even the days I'm over, I'm still at or below maintenance, so the scale should be moving, but it's not. If I were seeing other signs of success, like a slightly looser waistband, I wouldn't care about the number on the scale, but nothing has changed except that I'm slightly hungry some days, and my frustration level is on the rise.

    On the positive side, I'm enjoying the spring-like weather we are getting here in Chicago.

  • bapcarrier
    bapcarrier Posts: 211 Member
    So glad to see all the good things happening.

    @pneschich :) super to hear you are doing so well!
    @Fritzi1037 Welcome, tells us about yourself! :)
    @KATRENAJ I miss the challenges too, even though I didn't always do so well with them, they gave me a different way to work toward my goal.

    Saturday success, well Friday and Saturday both, with my friends along I walked between two and three hours each day. I only counted 90 minutes because we slowed down or stopped several times to look at things or rest. We didn't walk fast but I did more walking in two days than I probably have in the last month! Plus, happy to say I didn't eat the extra exercise calories, kept to my original 1200 calories, both days. :smile:
  • JeanieWww
    JeanieWww Posts: 4,037 Member
    got good workouts in wed, thurs, and friday. Saturday I was too sore to do much and had to run my stepdad around for his errands. Sunday is my day of rest, so I kinda feel like i'm letting myself down by not exercising. I don't want to over-do it, but I don't want to not-do something either. It's at the one week mark that I often stop, and I really don't want to give in/ give up. I've been encouraging others like crazy, trying to keep myself motivated, but it's not exactly being returned. I'm slightly disappointed. I'm needing a little encouragement and reassurance.
  • sand86802
    sand86802 Posts: 125 Member
    @JeanieWww Sounds to me like you are doing good. Don't feel disappointed by not working out on saturday. Even though it might not have been a "workout" per se it sounds to me like you have been pretty active anyway. And if you were really sore then your body is telling you it needs a breath. If you overdo it you risk getting injured. Keep up the good work!
  • pneschich
    pneschich Posts: 325 Member
    Monday ugh! I have lost 15 pounds by starving myself. I was never physically hungry, however by Friday night my brain was working overtime telling me to chew something. I am enjoying a delicious Premier protein shake. I hope it stays down.
    I haven't been this light in a decade. Except for a mild continual headache and trouble sleeping I don't have any of the horrible side effects I've read about. If this drink stays down I'm definitely going to slow down on weight loss
  • JeanieWww
    JeanieWww Posts: 4,037 Member
    weekly weigh in, I lost 7 pounds. Don't worry, I'm under doctor's care. I know this is a lot, but I'm on new thyroid meds (hypothyroidism) so I changed my diet and exercised a LOT last week. Between all three I did drop more than normal, but it will probably slow down now. Always has before (then again wasn't on thyroid meds). Ok, off to the Y to work out some more!
  • trinati2001
    trinati2001 Posts: 262 Member
    @pneschich great job this week. Even if drinking the protein drink slows down your weight loss you will feel better. You mentioned that you have a continual headache and tire easily, I'm sure that most of that is from lack of nutrients. I bet a little bit of substance will make you feel a million times better.

    @JeanieWww keep up the great work. Take Sunday as your rest day and workout TODAY! You can do this. We are all here to provide motivational support.

    ASF-- I've been in an ignore it kind of mode. I've stopped tracking and trend to overeat on purpose. Then I'll be really good the next day. I haven't really tracked all month. I really want to be down to 190 by my birthday so to get to my goal I've decided what always works for me is mini goals. So my goal is to track starting now through next Sunday to earn a non-fat grande latte from Starbucks. I really do want a latte and I always feel that since we buy the kurig kcups (which is way more expensive than normal coffee) that I can't waste money on Starbucks. So now that has become my reward! I treat for my drive into work!

    Here is a little recap to help motivate me for the next couple of weeks.

    SW: 238.4 May 2016
    CW: 194.8
    Lost: 40lbs!!!!!!

    I hit onederland during the holidays and kept my goal of being less than 200 at the end of the year!

    I'm about to start a long home addition project where we are relocating our kitchen into the addition. Life is going to be crazy and food will be rough so I need to track and make sure portions are in control.

    So here is to getting back on track. I'm going to start with my bottle of water before breakfast and track it!!
  • campfirequeen1
    campfirequeen1 Posts: 317 Member
    @JeanieWww Congrats on your first week of a new lifestyle! I think the comment from @sand86802 was spot on! Pain and soreness are indicators that the body needs rest, so you really needed to take a day off and two won't hurt either. I used to be sooo hard on myself and the tendency is still there to think that if it's not at least a daily activity that I'm not doing my best, but that gets really old in the long haul and would eventually cause me to give up because I couldn't live up to my own rigorous expectations. This time is different. I don't have any staggering weight loss to report, but I've lost about forty pounds since last May and I'm still here working on it. I guess it's sort of like the race between the tortoise and the hare. I used to be like the hare and lost every time, but now I'm much happier with my results because I know that if I keep it up, slowly but surely, one step at the time, I will win this race, and I believe that you will too.
    It's ok to need lots of encouragement and reassurance and that is what this thread is about, so come as often as you can and join in! Also my best tip today is to read the success stories and the NSV thread. They are so encouraging and help you to see that you aren't the only one that struggles along the way. This is normal for us and we can overcome it with a little love from ourselves and our friends!!!!

    @pneschich WOW 15 pounds! Keeping you in my prayers!
    @bapcarrier You get a WOW too! I love walking and I can't wait to get back to it. I haven't met my goal much recently due to illness but it's great exercise especially when you have some friends to join you!
  • happygirlxxx
    happygirlxxx Posts: 301 Member
    Hi all! Also on this 100+lbs journey ... I have tried MFP before, but didn't make it pass the 1st week, so quite happy now that I have been able to log for 35 days and lose weight, so far 22lbs (took me like 8 weeks). Looking forward sharing my progress with all of you. Just a bit about myself ... I am 41, married with no kids, currently working from home (which doesn't help since I have the fridge so close!). Until recently I didn't exercise at all ... but started going to the gym a couple months back and now that I am lighter I am starting to enjoy it. I wish you all the best with your weight loss and keep writing ... its great to read the posts, learn from everyone and feel that there is someone who understands what we are going through. Take care!
  • Snap___Dragon
    Snap___Dragon Posts: 17 Member
    @campfirequeen1 Thank you!

    I have not been doing as good as I'd like in the last few days but still better than my "normal". Today had been good though so I'm feeling good. I'm gonna rock tomorrow too. I weigh myself Wednesday mornings and am determined to continue my losing streak. My hubby had a short lived cold at the end of last week and we were all super careful but the rest of us (myself, 8 year old, and 1 year old) all woke up today with the sniffles and they've gotten worse. To make matters worse my hubby works long hours all week.
  • gullagr
    gullagr Posts: 82 Member
    Checking in - I have definitely strayed where my eating was concerned again this past long weekend. Need to get back at it this week to really push myself - a couple of upcoming DietBet weigh ins are good motivation!

    On a positive note, I ran 20 minutes straight today (C25K week 5 day 3) and it felt amazing! My hand is also healing up and I was able to get in a couple of strength training workouts without too much difficulty :)
  • JeanieWww
    JeanieWww Posts: 4,037 Member
    checking in: went to the Y this morning and did my strength training, then got on the recumbent cross trainer for a half hour. Went back this evening and did a half hour on the tread mill. Cholesterol is a little high today, but every thing else is below levels :)

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