Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

Summer Heat Challenge

Name: Birgit
Age: 62
Height: 6'0"

Start Weight (July 5): 185.8
Goal Weight (September 15): Stay within 182-185lbs, MAINTENANCE

Weigh in week of: (Weeks are listed by Wednesdays)
1. July 12: Can't weigh - camping/hiking in the woods
2. July 19:
3. July 26:
4. August 2:
5. August 9:
6. August 16:
7. August 23:
8. August 30:
9. September 6:
10. September 13:
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

Weight -/+ this week:
Weight -/+ challenge total:
Weight loss so far:

SUMMER HEAT CHALLENGE

Name: Barb
Age: 69
Height: 5” 3”

Start Weight (July 1): 215.6
Goal Weight (September 15): 199.6

Weigh in week of: (Weeks are listed by Wednesdays)
1. July 12:
2. July 19:
3. July 26:
4. August 2:
5. August 9:
6. August 16:
7. August 23:
8. August 30:
9. September 6:
10. September 13:
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

Weight -/+ this week:
Weight -/+ challenge total:
Weight loss so far:

Additional Weight loss / Fitness goals would like to achieve this summer:
1. Exercise 5/7 days
2. Drink a minimum of 64 oz/day

SUMMER HEAT CHALLENGE

Name: Robin
Age: 51
Height: 5'3”

Start Weight (July 5): 250.8
Goal Weight (September 15): 239.9

Weigh in week of: (Weeks are listed by Wednesdays)
1. July 12: steps x/7; active x/7
2. July 19: steps x/7; active x/7
3. July 26:** steps x/7; active x/7
4. August 2:** steps x/7; active x/7
5. August 9: steps x/7; active x/7
6. August 16: steps x/7; active x/7
7. August 23: steps x/7; active x/7
8. August 30: steps x/7; active x/7
9. September 6: steps x/7; active x/7
10. September 13: steps x/7; active x/7
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

Weight -/+ this week:
Weight -/+ challenge total:
Weight loss so far:

** vacation weeks

Additional Weight loss / Fitness goals would like to achieve this summer:
1. Meet step goal 6/7 days
2. Meet activity goal 6/7 days

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

Thursday - Truth (got anything you need to fess up to or get off your chest?)
I'm kind of ticked-off today, you know, irritated feeling and therefore I am not in my best mood ever! Been tinkering all day with a printer that won't setup and run the way it's supposed to. It's my fault because I procrastinated setting it up when I first bought it, so it sat unattended and unused gathering dust for a few years. Now I've decided to scrap that piece of of expensive uselessness and go printerless for some time more.

That said ... I do feel a bit better. Thanks.

Procrastination ... that's been my nemesis for longer than I care to admit. It's why I'm still on MFP with this weight-loss journey that appears to have become a way of living. Looking at some of the 'join MFP' dates I see I'm not the only one that's been hanging around 'working' and 'reworking' my weight for far too long.

And it makes me think ... what is it with us? Why do we eat too much, or eat the stuff that doesn't fill us up but adds a lot of calories to our intake. Why do we think our bodies are like engines or motors, running on fuel that once extinquished can no longer function? We are not a piece of equipment that will come to a dead stop when our stomachs are empty. We carry our fuel supply along with us and would require to have no new fuel for weeks (months even) before our motors stopped working for lack of fuel.

I swear, my MFP Premium membership runs out in September ... and if I don't see some real progress during our current challenge I'm dropping this life style habit and finding a new one. One that I should be working on to establish right now!

@campfire-- it's good to see you back. Sending good thoughts your way for positive result from your eye surgery.

@niki-- It's really interesting the way we view food, isn't it? I know some of it is cultural, but I remember back when I started on MFP, I happened to read an article--I was at the salon, so I don't remember which fitness rag it was--about the differences between how healthy-weighted and overweight people view food and exercise. Some of it was very predictable, but one point that really struck me was when it said healthy-weighted people aren't "afraid" of getting hungry. I was truly jarred b/c I realized that I grew up with that message of fear of hunger. Even though, as you pointed out, I surely have enough fuel to carry me through quite a long time, I was the type of person who would eat--even if I wasn't hungry--in anticipation of possible future hunger. I've since noticed that this comes from my mother. She often says, "don't you want to eat something before you go" wherever? Even now when I'm almost 50, she'll ask me this if I'm at her house and going someplace from there. Or I hear her ask my sisters or my niece that same question. Like we might actually starve to death, or as if food isn't readily available should we become hungry. I might add, that though my mother has had her weight struggles, she's mostly been at a healthy weight. I think for her this fear of hunger is a result of raising kids on a tight budget when portable snacks weren't readily available. When we were kids, if we went to the zoo or shopping there weren't a lot of cheap options if we got hungry; she would feed us before we left, so she wouldn't have to spend any extra money while we were out.

@helene-- Giving notice at a job is never fun--even when we don't enjoy the position. Could you try to substitute some other behavior for the eating when you start feeling anxious? Smoking used to be my go-to stress reliever. When I was using an e-cigarette to quit, I used to force myself to do something else whenever the urge to smoke struck. Sometimes it was exercise--I would go for a walk or do a workout video. Other times it was a chore--I would sweep all the floors, clean the bathroom, etc. If, after completing the required task, I still wanted the nicotine, I would allow myself a drag from the e-cig. It really helped b/c either I would decide the nicotine wasn't worth the task, or at least it delayed the use for a period of time. Maybe you could do the same with your anxiety eating.

Thursday Truth:
Well, I managed to get a good night's sleep, but no run for me today. It was sweltering here--so much so, that Gunner refused a walk. I've never seen him do that before. No matter how hot it is, he's usually willing to at least go around the block. In truth, I could've gone to the gym and run on the treadmill, but after running some errands, I decided to finish the yard work instead. So even though I got in some good active minutes, I only added about 3 miles to my week's total.

Tomorrow, I'm helping a friend with an estate sale at her parents' house all day, then going to my parents' for dinner to celebrate my younger sister's birthday. Saturday, I'm doing a bar-hop in Wrigleyville with some friends who are visiting from Seattle, so at least we should get some walking in that day.

Summer Heat:
Name: Karen
Age: 47
Height: 5' 7"

My optional challenges are going to be to hit 100+ grams of protein/day and to walk/run 40 miles/week.

Start weight (week of July 5): 198.4 x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
Goal weight (Saturday September 16): 185

Weigh in week of:
July 12: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
July 19: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
July 26: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
August 2: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
August 9: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
August 16: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
August 23: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
August 30: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
September 6: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
September 13: x/7 days 100+ g protein x miles
Final weight September 16:

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

I'm Joanne. Today I begin my journey. 100lbs. Is my goal. As I enter my breakfast in MFP, I realize how tough this is going to be! I need all the help I can get. Happy successful journeys to all!

Name: LaDana
Age: 42
Height: 5'2"

Start Weight (July 1): 273
Goal Weight (September 15): 260

Weigh in week of: (Weeks are listed by Wednesdays)
1. July 12:
2. July 19:
3. July 26:
4. August 2:
5. August 9:
6. August 16:
7. August 23:
8. August 30:
9. September 6:
10. September 13:
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

Weight -/+ this week:
Weight -/+ challenge total:
Weight loss so far:

I didn't make my goal last time, but will try again. I'm not going to make a bunch of extra goals. During this challenge we will be on vacation. Also, I will be getting four of us ready to go back to school. These things will keep me busy enough without tracking extra things.

Summer Heat Challenge!

Name: Laura
Age: 36
Height: 5'9"

Start challenge Weight (July 5): 312
Goal Weight (September 15): 295

Weigh in week of: (Weeks are listed by Wednesdays)
1. July 12:
2. July 19:
3. July 26:
4. August 2:
5. August 9:
6. August 16:
7. August 23:
8. August 30:
9. September 6:
10. September 13:
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

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

Highest ever weight: 336lb
Weight loss so far from Highest ever weight: 24lb loss

I'm back from my week of vacation. Will get my starting weight posted once i get settled in. Right now though i got 2 dogs that missed me dearly, laying on my lap and wanting to be snuggled while i get caught up on all the posts.

Monday Check-in ... since I always weighed myself on Monday morning, I did so today even though I take a new weight on Wednesday for our weight challenge. Sad to report it doesn't look good for Wednesday's weigh-in on this first week of 'losing' weight. I won't talk about how I derailed myself because it would be giving substance to behavior that I am trying to bust out of. But I will talk about an article I found in an old magazine I unearthed in my office cleanup.

The article is in a Health letter magazine I've received for a number of years ... Nutrition Action. This one is from April 2015 ... and I'd never read it when it first arrived in the mail. Just set it down and it got lost in the clutter on one of the bookshelves.

The article is titled "8 weight mistakes" and some of the information in it has circulalated the media in the past, as I've read bits of it here and there.The one that struck me today is #1 "I can lose it later".

The sum of the #1 mistake message is that when people gain weight from overeating for a period of time ... say a vacation or over a holiday period ... the thought in our heads is that we can lose it relatively quickly just by going back to our regular eating pattern. "Not so fast" caught my eye ... I quote from an explaination by Kevin Hall in the article. At the time the article was printed, he was the senior investigator in the Laboratory of Biological Modeling at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ...

"The funny thing was that they wouldn't have lost all the new weight by the time the next holiday period came around."

"If you never quite lose the weight that you gained the previous year, you're just ratcheting your weight up year after year after year", explains Hall.

And the reason for that, according to the article, is that "The old rule of thumb - that you can expect to lose a pound for every 3,500 calories you cut - is wrong for several reasons." ...

I won't go into the rest of this article today, but promise to share more from it in another post. For now, I just want to digest the implications of what this article has revealed to me ...

I would like to join if I may. This sounds like something that will keep me motivated.

Name: Lydia
Age: 45
Height: 5'8"

Start Weight (July 1): 254
Goal Weight (September 15): 244

Weigh in week of: (Weeks are listed by Wednesdays)
1. July 12:
2. July 19:
3. July 26:
4. August 2:
5. August 9:
6. August 16:
7. August 23:
8. August 30:
9. September 6:
10. September 13:
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

Weight -/+ this week:
Weight -/+ challenge total:
Weight loss so far:

@alkight84 @lydiapassthedonuts welcome to the challenge!!

By every Wednesday at the latest everyone who participates provides their weekly weight and on Thursday we will share with the group our progress.