Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Thursday truth

Got the garden pots planted.
Got most of the laundry put away.
Did some grocery shopping on Tuesday at costco..where i caved and got some takeout food in their cafe. i forgot about that too when i did my weigh in post.No wonder i was puffed up in water.

Staying home sick from work today as i am utterly exhausted. This is my first day off since February as i work 7 days a week.

I am currently relaxing with the dogs in the sunshine. It feels so good to sit and soak it in. Soon i will head in to wash the dishes. Yup today is the day!

And i will get a bit of meal prep done while i have the extra time.

I am determined to enjoy this much needed day to relax and re-energize.

Hi there, my name is Chantal and I am new to MFP, been here for 5 days now.

Truth: I've been doing great tracking my calories and staying under my required limit. My challenge is finding time to exercise. When I get home all I want to do is relax and stay on the couch. I know I need to change this habit and get moving, like they say eat less and move more. I dread going for my walks and have a hard time finding any kind of exercise I like . Perhaps I need to suck it up and just do it no matter how I feel, maybe the rest will fall into place. Lord help me.

@tabletop_joe

It doesnt have to be wednesdays. The week closes sunday i believe. Weighin any day by then and your weighin will be counted.

Thanks, @cellosmiles ! I missed that first section, so here's a re-post of that bit. Sorry for the newbie mistake. This is my first challenge!

Name: tabletop_joe
Age: 32
Height: 5'6"

Start Weight (week of April 19): 231
Goal Weight (week of June 28): 212 (admittedly ambitious, but if I fail, I still win).

tabletop_joe wrote: »

1. April 26 - 234
2. May 3 - 227
3. May 10 - 225
4. May 17 - 224.8
5. May 24 - 222.8
6. May 31 -
7. June 7 -
8. June 14 -
9. June 21 -
10. June 28 -
Final weight: Saturday, July 1 -

Weight -/+ this week: -2
Weight -/+ total -11.2
(-37.2 recorded since I began!)

@tabletop_joe

I wasnt posting the template for you LOL. There were a few other newbies that posted today about thursday truths that i thought might like to join the challenge too

By the way....great losses so far. Keep it up!

Thursday truth. It seems like every time I hit another 10 pounds off I start to stray off course. I was so excited to hit 40 pounds loss and then yesterday I ate all day and even in the evening. Then I couldn't sleep (happens about once every couple of months), I went to bed about 11:30, woke up at 2:30, laid there until 3:00 and then got up until 6 when I tried to sleep again for 2 hours. I managed to doze but not a good, restful sleep. Anyway, what I started to say was after over eating during the day yesterday, I also ate cereal and candy bar at 4 AM and then had my breakfast when I got up the second time at 8 am. Ugh! Today makes the second day, no exercise (too stormy to ride my bike) and overate again. Time to get back on track or that 40 pound loss will turn into a 30 pound loss! Love reading everyone's posts, they really help. It's nice to not be in this battle alone and my thin friends just don't get how challenging it is to have to live this 24/7 to be able to lose the weight.

This is a really strong, powerful group, I'm glad to be part of! Have a great weekend, oops it's only Thursday, I only work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday so my weekend starts now!

@GOINSTD12 .... I would not be abe to stop at just 1~

chantalgal wrote: »

Hi there, my name is Chantal and I am new to MFP, been here for 5 days now.

Truth: I've been doing great tracking my calories and staying under my required limit. My challenge is finding time to exercise. When I get home all I want to do is relax and stay on the couch. I know I need to change this habit and get moving, like they say eat less and move more. I dread going for my walks and have a hard time finding any kind of exercise I like . Perhaps I need to suck it up and just do it no matter how I feel, maybe the rest will fall into place. Lord help me.

I have a fitbit, I just walk/jog in front of my tv. No treadmill, I just jog backwards and forwards or pace back and forth. I watched 2 hours of TV and got something like 7500 steps just for my TV watching time.
I hate the heat, there is no chance in heck I'm going for a walk in 96 degree weather and muggy humidity.

Friday - Fitness (what are you doing to get fit? How are you preparing for weekend eating?

Well ... I had my annual physical yesterday and was a very elated and happy women when I walked out of the clinic. I was so depressed because my weight was up so much when I reported it on Wednesday ... actually, it had been holding at about that weight for the previous 3-4 days and finally started to drop again on Thursday. My doctor was pretty pleased with my weigh-in because my weight was actually lower this time than the last visit by a couple of pounds. He was also pleased that my A1c was down to 5.7. I explained to him that I don't crave food until after I had eaten a meal, and then the cravings for more food would hit every 90 to 120 minutes, especially if I'd had an apple with my meal. He'd like me to consider and try a low carbohydrate meal plan where I consume my carbohydrates mainly from vegetable sources. I'm not going to do something like the very low carb diets that are popular with many dieters. He thought if I could keep my carbohydrates at under 40% and limit the grains and fruits that I might see a decline in the cravings.

So ... on my way home from I stopped at the grocery and brought home a whole chicken and enough vegetables to fill me up over the next several days. We'll see how I do. Today has to be to turn most of those vegetables into dishes that are prepped and ready ro eat or cook, and to make a roasted vegetable platter out of that eggplant, summer squashes, mushrooms and peppers.

Nikion901 - I can attest to higher protein lower carb helping with blood sugar levels and helping with lower cravings. When I was in college I was hyperglycemic until I discovered protein. You don't have to do anything crazy to see good results. I know the less refined carbs I eat the less cravings I have. I eat plenty of veggies and some fruit. Hope it helps you.

Fitness - I am trying to get 10,000 steps a day in. Most days I'm hitting that by walking a mile or so at home. I've been fortunate on days that I'm not feeling it, my husband has said come on let's go for a walk. As soon as school ends, I hope to add it some HIIT. Right now I'm just working on getting my calf muscle stronger and my lungs more in shape.

@Nikion901

That is what i did. The 1st two weeks i jut had lots of veggies and proteins. Bought cottage cheese, cheese sticks and yogurts for snacks.

I stayed at my 1200 calorie goal easy and had no food cravings.

Now when ive been reintroducing things. Like some rice (or yesterday it was hot i had ice cream). Oh my the cravings just dont stop. I want to gobble the kitchen down. So i took the dogs and walked 6km instead to burn off that treat LOL.

Just make sure the veggies and meat are very flavorful and satisfy you food wise. I dont leave off the sauces LOL.

BBQ pulled pork. Grilled onions. Coleslaw.

Chicken breast with mushrooms onions in mushroom soup gravy. Could add celery too. Veggie sticks on side if you need more.

Crustless quiche was my dinner yesterday. (I get free eggs and eat them all the time). I have leftovers for lunch today. And i have chopped salad to go with.

Thai coconut curry chicken. With bamboo shoots, fresh basil and onions. Hmm. I ate without rice.

Sauerkraut and sausage. With fried onions. Fresh tomato slices.

LOL those are some of my meals logged.

I still plan to do a moussaka, souvlaki and greek salad, cabbage rolls. Stirfries are really good too, but they give me cravings still. Perhaps its the sodium?

Good luck!

@jenniferinfl I am jealous you are going to Avatar! I live near Tampa but cant afford Disney right now. I am a Disney nut! I guess you are too. Have FUN!

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

Yesterday I roasted a lot of those vegetables I brought home. My combination included celery, mushrooms, eggplant, yellow summer squash, zucchini, Hungarian mild pepper, Banana hot pepper, Green bell pepper, white onion. The final cooked down weight was 22 ounces (veggies cook down to barely anything cause the raw starting weight of all that produce was over 70 ounces!) .. I ate 4 of those finished ounces yesterday, at 24 calories and 4 grams carb per ounce ... Now, for me, the accomplishment is that I did prepare the tray of veggies instead of leaving them in the fridge to use them up individually!

Today I need to decide how I'll prepare the chicken. My original idea had been to dissect it into pieces and use the back bone ridge and wing tips to make chicken stock, poach one of the breasts and broil the second breast, and use the legs and wings in a roasted chicken recipe. However by this morning I am undecided and might just roast the whole bird. Decisions, decisions!

Now for some 'talk' ....
@birgitkwood ... You asked about poached "spiegel carp" ... my mom cooked carp often but not in that particular recipe. It's not a fish you can find at the stores any longer so it can only be had if you fish for it yourself. My favorite version of eating carp is to poach it in a sauce of shredded carrots, onions, and tomatoes. It's also good when lightly dusted with flour and fried in a little oil, or when it is used to make a fish based clear soup. We called the soup Ukha (pronouned oo-ha), which sounds like the it could be a similar dish to your spiegel carp. We frequently ate the cucumber salad and plum cake you mentioned. Plums ... especially the German type fresh prune , were our favorite fruit both out of hand, preserved, or used in baked goods.

My mom grew up in a small village in the the north eastern part of Ukraine, near the Russia border. There are a lot of common dishes throughout all of Eastern Europe, but my mom learned a lot of local recipes when she lived in Munich, Germany ... where I was born; and prepared many of them throughout the rest of her life, along with the cusine of her homeland.

@320sycamore ... You know what ... you 'made my day' back on the 23rd when you asked if I ever published anything. No, I have not. That day, the 23rd, happened to be the 53rd anniversary of the day I got married and I really appreciated the serendipity of your post to me. No one in my circle ever comments on the anniversary date, as if it never happened. Why? Just because that marriage ended in divorce some 16 years later doesn't mean that I won't recall one of the happiest days of my life when the date rolls around. Perhaps had I remarried I wouldn't feel this way about that date ... but I doubt it. That's like saying I wouldn't celebrate the anniversary date of my first child's birth after my second child was born ... at least to my way of thinking.

@kizanne1 ... Sounds like you have followed higher protein/lower carb eating ... I'm not a big protein eater cause, in my own body, too much protein leads to the same effect as too much carb: higher sugars. However, I do really well when the carbs I consume are very light on grains and nearly void of any baked dry goods and dried fruit (dried fruit bein my preferred sweet).

@cellosmiles ... thanks, and thanks for your menu suggestions. Your post reminds me that I want to make cabbage rolls. I used up all the mushrooms I had making my roast veggie platter, but that chicken breast with mushrooms onions in mushroom soup gravy sounds so very delish. How do you make your crustless quiche?

@Birdygirl15 ... oh, the dilemma ... I find it very difficult to stay with my Wednesday weigh-in, because of this week as an example ... I weighed 4.6 pounds more on Wednesday than I do this morning. Who knows what I will weigh by Sunday ... could be up, could be down. So much of it depends not on only what I have eaten, but also on how my metabolism and digestion is responding. Thusly, I just go ahead and weigh in on the same day if possible cause I figure: "what will I do the next week?"

Have a great rest of the weekend everyone. If you are celebrating the American Memorial Day ... please do remember all the fallen military in a moment of silent respect before diving into those hot dogs and hamburgers, mac and potato salads and cupcakes!