Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

March 22, 2017 7:29AM
March 15, 2017 9:56AM
March 8, 2017 7:52AM
March 1, 2017 7:55AM
February 22, 2017 2:55PM

Name: Rachael (aka Rach or Mermaid)
Age: 36 *DOB: St Patty's Day
Height: 66"

Start Weight: 293.0 (W Feb 22)
Goal Weight: <285.0 (A Apr 22)

Weigh-ins on Wednesdays
February 22: 293.0
March 1: 290.6
March 8: 291.2
March 15: 293.0*
March 22: 290.6
March 29: 291.7
April 5:
April 12:
April 19:
Last day April 22:

*birthday week

Weight -/+ this week: 1.1
Weight -/+ challenge total: -1.3

Niki, clearly I vote for challenge total rather than month total.

Name: Claire
Age: 34
Height:5'1"

Start Weight (week of Mar 1) 229.8 lbs
Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 213.0 lbs

Weigh-ins on week of
February 22: ***missed this week
March 1: 229.8
March 8: 222.2
March 15: 224.2
March 22: 221.8
March 29: 219.8
April 5:
April 12:
April 19:
Last day April 22:

Weight -/+ this week: -2 lbs
Weight -/+ this month -10 lbs

Great going, everyone. It's great to feel that others are working towards the same goal--so thank you so much to Nikion901 for maintaining this thread.

@campfirequeen1 : No real story there, haha. It's just a quirky and slightly dorky name. I figured it reflected my personality. PS--what you wrote a couple pages back about weight loss following a day or two of higher calorie/carb eating is SO TRUE. I have been wondering about that a lot myself, recently, and thought I was the only one who ever noticed that weirdness.

PS I think it would make sense to change the final goal thing to "this challenge," too. (I hope that's what people are discussing in the last couple posts...if not, nevermind, haha. I am about to go back and read the other posts I've missed the last couple days).

Name: Robin
Age: 51
Height: 5'3"

Start Weight (week of Feb 22) 273.8
Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 259.9

Weigh-ins on week of
February 22: 273.8
March 1: 273
March 8: 272.4**
March 15: 270.2
March 22: 268.4
March 29: 266.4
April 5:
April 12:
April 19:
Last day April 22:

** My birthday was March 4th and even though I logged, I pretty much knew I'd threw my eating choices out the window for 3-4 days. I decided beforehand that I was going to enjoy my birthday weekend and I would be happy if I gained only 1 pound. Not only did I not gain anything, but I actually lost 0.6 of a pound! I was a very happy camper!

Weight -/+ this week: -2.0
Weight -/+ total: -7.4

@Nikion901 - as you can see, I had already changed mine to show "total" also.

I was very excited to see a loss this week! I did some eating at the Ren Fest over the weekend but surprisingly chose pretty wisely except sharing a funnel cake with my daughter. We were also going to have fried Oreos but forgot! We ate both lunch and dinner there. A chicken kebob for lunch which was very good! For dinner a polish sausage sandwich that was disappointing!
I managed to make it thru the day without pain until the very end when it was time to leave.

I know this challenge isn't even over yet, but how about keeping it going with a new Memorial Day challenge, then a 4th of July challenge after that? Or skip the Memorial Day and do 4th of July which would be slightly more than a 2 month challenge.
Just throwing it out there because these challenges keep me motivated!!

Until next time; wishing everyone Peace , Love and Weight Loss !!

I vote for total challenge not monthly! Also like the idea of continuing it! Well starting over I guess I should say.

@dennylgray great job on the first 100 keep up the good work!

@gullagr congrats for being in Onederland!! Great job.

@christinenesbitt3 what a change in the two pictures, you look great! I need to take one of myself too, so I have a before and after, just hate taking my picture expecially body shots.

Great job this week everyone. Keep up the great work!

Was afraid to weigh in yesterday. Lost control and couldnt seem to get it back but magically it reappeared., Why do I keep sabotaging myself like this.?????

Age: 71
Height: 5' 1/2"

Start Weight (week of Feb 22) 228
Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 208.5

Weigh-ins on week of
February 22- 228
March 1: 221
March 8: 223.6 DOWN FROM 227.6 FEW DAYS BEFORE
March 15: 220.6
March 22: 218.4
March 29: 220.8
April 5:
April 12:
April 19:
Last day April 22:

Weight -/+ this week: +
+ 2.4
WEIGHT TOTAL FROM 2/21
LOSS 7.2

Katrena

Thursday Truth ... Hi, I'm Niki and today I'm feeling very reflective of the different, well; let's call them 'techniques', that I've employed in my weight loss efforts.
....... Since I've been trying to get the the proper weight for my height and age, I've done almost anything and everything I've read about ... that included tips and tricks to help a person to eat less and move more. It's a great big mind game! ... Plus, the effort it takes to keep these tactics going is exhausting and difficult to keep up long term.
....... The results have been dissapointing as well. While always successful in the short term it was always just a matter of time before my exhausted and relaxed attention to 'the plan' would lead to a stoppage of weight loss; typically called a 'plateau' that often resulted in completely 'going off the wagon' and slipping back into added weight that nullified all the effort and loss whcih had been achieved.
...... Oh, I knew all the diet jargon, all the methods, all the '10 best of', what to eat/what to avoid, how much is just right/how much is too much, kind of stuff ... but it didn't help me, cause the application of the knowledge was spotty.
...... And no ... I was NOT looking for a quick cure. In fact, I was becoming convinced that I was somehow intrinscally flawed within so that no matter what I tried I would always end up short of achieving my goal.

Then I had an 'a-ha' moment. Somewhere along the line I went from dieting/not dieting to eating to live/not living to eat. I finally realized that food wasn't a treat, a reward, a token of love/friendship/celebration; It was just food. Some of which were more preferrable and palatable per my preferences than others. I also discovered that food was, indeed, a medicine in that some had restorative powers beyond the fueling of this form called 'my body'. And that some were habit forming because of their highly palatable and soothing effects, but that more often than not these were the very foods that I needed to control the consumption of if I was to stop growing my body size.

But the struggle to balance all this out still goes on, and I expect it will continue to go on indefinitely. Last week I 'did it right', this week I'm not doing it as well. But the week's not over, yet. Still ... today ... even though I made a Farina milk chocolate and peanut butter pudding for lunch instead of having a piece of fish with peppers and mushrooms ... I fed myself well and creatively and I can always have the fish for supper ... sans the mushrooms cause I'm out of those.

I found this one in the Changing for Good book...

"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die." —W. H. AUDEN

Does anybody else here have a Fitbit sync to MFP. I am trying to understand how it calculate the calories I burn but so far it doesnt seem to make much sense.

For example, yesterday I took 10000 steps, mostly by walking in place at work when I have a break and it says I burnt over 1000 cal. Today I took 13500+ steps including a 45 min brisk walk and it says I have burnt only 800cal.

@sand86802 - I have a Fitbit with heart monitor. I don't always understand how the cal calculations happen either, and I don't worry about it. Depending on the INTENSITY of the exercise I'm doing, FB gives me more calories because my heart is working harder. But truly, I don't care. I rarely eat any of the exercise calories (never more than maybe 100 or so). I try to keep my calorie consumption at roughly what MFP calculates for me (set at sedentary, losing at 1/2 lb/week). The deficit created by exercise (13k-16k steps per day for 5 days/week) is simply "gravy." In this way I've lost on avg 2 lbs/week over the past year.

Maybe you should have a physical hissy fit! The extra movement would burn calories. I hate Wii boxing but it's how I punch my boss in the face!

Monday Check-in ... my weight was, indeed, up this morning from my low on 3/29 ... However I have been successful in bringing myself back to an even keel so I feel like the person I am when I like me. That's a good thing. What finally worked to set my mind back level? I looked back over my records and realized that I have an uptick in weight about once a month. I also did an analysis of what I track so I was able to quantify what needed tweaking back in line ... and, as always, it isn't just one thing that that needed tightening up, it was 2 or 3 little things that combined stomped the brake on shedding pounds.

The EarthDay Weight Challenge expires on 4/22 ... that's a Saturday ... and my weigh-ins occur on Wednesdays ... so I think I'll take that extra few days in the last week and weigh in 4/5, 4/12, 4/19 AND 4/22 ... I can still reach my goal even with this weeks set back.

I would like to join the challenge late, just so that I feel some accountability to a group. You don't need to count me in your group totals, since I have been missing in action from this group since late November. What day of the week do you post your updates? I thought it was Wednesday last week; is that correct?

@pneschich glad to hear your surgery went so smoothly!

@MermaidPrincessRach love that you hit your new year's goal!

320sycamore wrote: »

I would like to join the challenge late, just so that I feel some accountability to a group. You don't need to count me in your group totals, since I have been missing in action from this group since late November. What day of the week do you post your updates? I thought it was Wednesday last week; is that correct?

Hi 320syc ... you are welcome to join the challenge ... just start posting like we normally do. The challenge started on a Wednesday, and some people, (myself included) use Wednesday as our weigh-in day ... but it's open to posting from Monday to Sunday.

Welcome back.

Name: LaDana
Age: 41
Height: 5'2"

Start Weight (week of Feb 22). 295
Goal Weight (Week of April 22) 285

Weigh-ins on week of
February 22: 295
March 1: 292
March 8: 293
March 15: 290
March 22: 286
March 29: 288
April 5: 289
April 12:
April 19:
Last day April 22:

Weight -/+ this week: +1
Weight -/+ this month: -6

Name: Kathleen
Age:56
Height:5'9"

Started on 8/29/17 - weight 292
Goal Weight - 169

Start Weight (week of 3/29/17) 262
Goal Weight (week of 4/1917) 257

Weigh-ins
March 27: 262.0
April 3: 260.8
April 10:
April 17: