Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

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: vacation
3. July 26: 273
4. August 2: 275
5. August 9: 273
6. August 16: 277
7. August 23: 273
8. August 30: 271
9. September 6:
10. September 13:
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

Weight -/+ this week: -2
Weight -/+ challenge total: -2
Weight loss so far: 32

@jam5660 LOL you can always weigh in tomorrow morning instead mistakes happen! Sometimes i just totally forget to weigh myself before leaving the house. Its life!

Summer Heat!! Challenge (90 days)...

Name: Barney
Age: 57
Height: 5' 3"

Start Weight (July 5): 252.0
Goal Weight (September 15): 225.0

Weigh in week of: (Weeks are listed by Wednesdays)
1. July 12: 248.4
2. July 19: 245.2 (on vacation July 13-20, so weighed in July 21st).
3. July 26: 242.4
4. August 2: 241.4
5. August 9: 239.4
6. August 16: 237.0
7. August 23: 233.8
8. August 30: 232.0
9. September 6:
10. September 13:
Final weight: Saturday, September 16:

Weight -/+ this week: - 1.8
Weight -/+ challenge total: -20.0
Weight loss so far (since 1/1/2017): 85.0

Additional Weight loss / Fitness goals I would like to achieve this summer:
1. add walking indoors 3x/week--once--just too hot outside or raining (that's my excuses).
2. resistance exercise: none this week--just too busy at work to get to the gym.
3. monitor weight loss & daily calories and adjust--still at 2200 cals/day.

@GOINSTD12 Tracy glad you are feeling better and to have you back posting! thanks for sharing your weekly data

Friday Fitness ... Well, it is Sept 1 and my Premium membership has ended ... I didn't see that when I logged my breakfast, but did when I went to log my lunch. I'm going to try without it for the rest of this year as I didn't find it too awful when I logged in as my alternate NK1112 this past couple of weeks. Yes, my computer issues are slowly being resolved and I can now connect on that smartphone as well as the desktop.

Ok for Fitness ... I'm setting fitness goals for all of September today. It will take me that long to get everything done that I want to do. My fitness is in the realm of getting my home and myself ready for the cold season that is fast approaching. Just to do that will require me to do daily work around this place that will first require me to do extra stretches and strength moves so that I can do the work involved. That's one funny blessing of getting 'old' ... you need to keep up with mobility and cognitive improving/conserving maneuvers or you just cannot do anything at all

@bapcarrier ... Whoot! Whoot! Whoot! Thanks for stepping forward ... have you thought about the parameters of the challenge once you take over ... like ... name, duration, anything about reporting cutoffs, etc.. that you want to incorporate? I'll be looking forward to reading those when we get closer to the end of this challenge that @happygirlxxx (thanks Ana) has been keeping so well for us.
Niki

Thank you all! Has been fun keeping track. I know with summer it's hard to be as focused on weight loss but I am really happy of our results ... well done!!!

@bapcarrier if you would like me to forward you my xls when done with this challenge let me know. It's very simple but It did the work

Have a nice weekend everyone! Here is raining today, but had to take my dogs for a walk anyway ... and I got a new NSV, my rain boots are big now when I got them taking them out was an ordeal.. now they just slide out, guess my calves are slimmer

@pdrye5 - welcome. What you are doing is a great start. Try moving from your bed/bath to your porch or back yard. Sunlight is an important ingredient to improved mental and physical health and will encourage you to move more as well. Also, you should check out You Tube for chair exercise videos. There are tons of them and they're fun as well. They will help build your strength in preparation for more strenuous exercise.
Tracy
TX

@Vaned Hi Vanessa, the large number always daunted me too and I gave up.... a lot! Put that number away and just start! If you need a goal then make it 10 pounds! It is much easier to focus on that and I promise you every 10 pounds will amke a difference in how you feel! Start today! And just focus in one healthy day at time ! Good luck

@pdrye5 - Hello Pam! Yes, we here all know the struggle you are facing. You can do this, one day at a time. I agree with @GOINSTD12 - try to get outdoors a little bit every day, sunlight and fresh air helps! Then try to think of your body as a highly tuned engine that will work at its best ONLY on good quality fuel. With good, nutritious food in you, you may soon feel more energetic. Drink lots and lots of water (think of the exercise you'll get walking to the bathroom, lol). Add chair exercises, taking the longer route to/from the bathroom, walking around the house in circles. Put on music you like and DANCE! One day follows the next and you'll soon see improvement. We're all here with you to cheer you on - you can do this!

I don't know what's gotten into me ... I can't stop eating!!! I do well at breakfast but as the they progresses I start eating junk and it's like my stomach had unlimited space ... just ate 8 toasts!!!! They are maybe like 4 of regular size bread but still!!

Any advice of how to get my focus back?

@happygirlxxx - yeah, had a day like that yesterday. Happens to me every so often. I find that when I make EXERCISE my focus, and do it first thing in the morning, it gets the day off on the right foot and my eating usually stays on track for the rest of that day. So on good days (most of them) I clap my eyes open, drink a cup of coffee, hitch up the dog to her leash and head out the door for a 4 mile walk. Gets the endorphins percolating and screws the head on straight. Most of the time... Sending hugs and best wishes, B.