Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

pneschich wrote: »

Wednesday wish. I wish you all well

Got my blood work back. It's great. I'm just tired. I took today off, went to mass this morning and have done nothing. Nothing is hard! Read some, tried to take a nap but the dog decided to "check" on me. One big cold nose followed by 80 pounds of tongue and tail, wagged and licked and squeaky toy burrowed their way under the covers to demand attention, actually I think I was in his daytime spot and he wanted me to move because that's where he is now.

I'm having an Eyore kind of day. Oh bother, it doesn't matter... I want to eat but it's the boredom. I'm not hungry. Old habits and dying hard comes to mind. I want peanut butter and chocolate, going to have a Powerade zero, the blue one. Haven't lost a pound in a week. I know I'm normalizing and I lost 18 pounds in the two and a half weeks prior but it doesn't matter. I want to see success. Irrational but human.

One of my aunts called to check in and see how I was doing, she told me how brave it was to make the decision to get the surgery. It was great.

So happy for you @pneschich ... that everything is going well and that you are happy with your decision and it's progressing outcome.

Yes, it was brave to make a decision ... any decision. Take it from this old lady who agonizes to make any decision when there are too many options to choose from! ... it is also very brave to continue the battle of the bulge via unmodulated calorie restriction ... just keep eating the foods that are the best and healthiest for you, no matter which way you are doing it. The real culprit, in most cases, is our inability to control the craving beast and that just takes a lot of practice and behavior modification .... like Pavlo's dog ... we are trained by what we do over and over.

I should have weighed today but it was diuretic day and I was just in such a hurry to get some food in before I could get rid of all the fluid, and I couldn't wait to finish getting rid of it before I did my weigh in, so I still have some fluid on and breakfast too. I will weigh in tomorrow morning first thing and hope that there is a loss. I can't tell by this mornings weight before the diuretic started flushing the weight away!

Name: Jeanie
Age:45
Height:5'2"

Start Weight (week of Feb 22) 262.4
Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 250

Weigh-ins on week of
February 22: 262.4
March 1: 258.6
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Last day April 22:

Thanks @gullagr ! It said i lost a car tire lol

It seems that I lost both a 2mos old horse and an ostrich egg. I really must be more careful with those critters - lol.

I lost 16 basketballs!

I lost 20 dozen eggs. Geez that's one big omelette!

Name: Holly
Age: 68
Height:5'3"

Start Weight (week of Feb 22) 267.0 lbs
Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 251.0 lbs

Weigh-ins on week of
February 22: 267.0 lbs
March 1: 266.2
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Weight -/+ this week: -0.8
Weight -/+ this month

and it was probably a full pound but I was up a bit and drinking before I remembered to weigh and half my big water bottle is already gone, so I'm a happy camper this morning! I'm also looking for bigger numbers when I get over my recent illness and get back in the exercising mode and not just calorie counting!

@Nikion901 -Yeah I know you do understand, I take mine three times a week and I lose 2-8 pounds depending on how closely I have followed my lower sodium diet and how much exercise I have gotten. I try to keep it under 1000mg per day, but it's hard and it helps when I get out and walk but lately I haven't been walking everyday due to my bronchitis, which is getting better everyday and today was my best day since I got sick at the beginning of Feb.
@gullagr - thanks for posting that, we had a lot of fun with it. I lost a small Collie! That's pretty amazing when you think about it!
@descene - Good for you, pushing past those things that have always derailed us before is a super accomplishment and I'm so happy for you. I've been experiencing some of those too and it really does help you fire you up for another segment of the journey!
@pneschich - I get a big old smile on my face every time you give us one of your reports. I'm so stinking happy for you! You are doing so well and before you know it, you will be full speed at anything you want to do!
@Misnomer971 - I've been doing really good with logging every day. Sometimes it really helps to just make up your mind and then make an announcement about it, so that there is some accountability there! Now I'm thinking I may have to think of some form of exercise that way and see what I can accomplish! And thanks for chiming in because there is something comforting about knowing you aren't the only one in the whole wide world that has a problem with something, that probably seems pretty silly to someone who doesn't struggle with it!
I'm getting back down closer to my lowest weight and just as the weather is springing out, so I'm looking forward to being out walking more and going to the Y for water aerobics so hopefully I will soon see pounds starting to fall away again. I have some really pretty dresses that I haven't been able to wear for a long time, that I really want to get back into sooner than later!

Cant seem to post complete posts. Congrats to everybody for that first challenge week. You are all such a big motivation to me!

I'm really struggling with my eating behaviors lately. I find myself going into a blank space and doing some mindless eating. Searching out solutions on eating mindfully.

Greetings all! Not sure if anyone remembers me, I've been gone a longtime. I'm coming up on the 5 year anniversary of the stroke that sent me here to get healthier. I lost a total of 120 lbs but over the past few years I've gained back 85.....so here I am again!

How are you all?!

I dipped my toe in the 280s on Friday morning but relaxed during the weekend back in the 290s. But I'd really like to migrate fully into the 280s over this next week.

I didn't come this far to just come this far.

So I guess I got excited about hitting 206 too soon, even though I made sure the scale showed it at least three consecutive times: immediately after my post last week my weight went up, and I've been at 207.8 pretty consistently. And it won't go down in time for this week's weigh-in, because I ate horribly over the weekend (I hadn't had any pizza in 6 months and then I had it two days in a row!). Ah well. I knew I didn't need to adjust my challenge goal quite yet.

I used 35 pounds (a weight of 208) for @gullagr's link and got "140 Quarter Pounders." Between my result and @Nikion901's, that site seems to have a McDonald's fixation.

@happygirlxxx -- I have found that the stuff I used to gobble up before doesn't taste any better on the last bite than it did on the second one ... but that first bite is heaven. So ... if I can have one bite and be done, I'm in, if not, I'm out.