Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

I'm super late again. I've been super busy and the times I'm not busy with work I'm busy with other projects. On top of that everyone in my house, except me, is sick. Yuck.

FALL CHALLENGE

Name: Lydia
Age: 45
Height: 5’8”

Start Weight (as of Sept. 16th):240.4
Goal Weight (for Nov. 18th): 228

Weigh in Weeks (listed by Wednesdays)

1. Sept. 20: 236.2
2. Sept. 27: 233.8
3. Oct. 4: 234.6
4. Oct. 11: 234.2
5. Oct. 18: 237
7. Oct. 25:
8. Nov. 1:
9. Nov. 8:
10. Nov. 15:
Final Weigh in: Nov. 18:

Weight -/+ this week: +2.8
Total weight -/+ this challenge: -3.4
Total overall weight lost so far: 23


I'm not doing well these days. I've lost a good bit of my motivation. I feel like I have too much going on with work and that whole life thing. I've done it to myself, getting involved with projects, keep adding more and more on top of an already full plate. So ... by the end of the day I'm so stressed I end up not taking care of myself.

Most of my life I've been the dependable one, never late, stepping up and taking care of things no one else wants to do. Always there when needed. The past few weeks I am anything but that person. Have I mentioned I need a vacation?

I'll get back to my normal ... Next week is already looking better.

@happygirlxxx ... I hope your dog is ok, actually that both of them are. I totally missed what your wrote cause I skipped right past your post when I saw you were talking to Barb.

@b_lisieux ... that was a good move on your part last night ... planning what you would eat out so you stayed within your food budget. I keep telling myself that one day soon I am going to allow myself to have a cold-cut submarine (bomber) sandwich ... well, half of one anyway. Just don't want to either spend the money or the calories on one just yet!

@lydiapassthedonuts ...You write you've lost a good bit of self motivation, and I can so much relate to that. Yesterday I was very 'down' about it all myself and shared my misery on a group chat I belong to. Several people quoted me to suggest things I could try to overcome it. And you know what ... I was grateful for their care and concern, their suggestions were the very same ones I would offer to someone also; and yet it didn't cheer me up. Right now I feel better, but am starting to dwell on the prospect of retiring from my daily multiple visits to MFP. It's not something I want to do right now though as I would really like to see how all of us make out with this last challenge for 2017 that we are in.

@bapcarrier ... thanks for doing all the work for our group challenge. When I did the recording, I always 'felt the pain' for those who had a gain and was cheering on those who lost, and felt sad over those who gave up.

@verybusybee ... actually, you could have joined the challenge even though you started on here after it began. But you don't have to ... we still like that you come here to share, support. Baby steps ... that's what I needed to do, and still need to do, to make lasting changes in my behavior with food and activity. Unfortunately, for me, it doesn't seem to get easier cause while it's become routine to measure my food before I eat it and to record everything I eat and drink as well as every walk or other physical activity I do beyond normal living I'm still the same yo-yo dieter I always have been. The major difference is that now when I yo-yo I don't go up as much and when I lose again it is to a new low. But slow ... slo slow!

@regularposters ... there was a post yesterday from someone who was inviting posters on here to come into a YouTube video and subscribe ... you know, I hope, that this type of post is illegal here on MFP. Also that following unknown links to posts could be a disguise for a hack.

@tdunnegan ... thanks; I don't blame myself for being a Type 2 diabetic ... but I used to feel that way at one time because the disease runs in my family from my mom's line and I was determined not to get it myself. Of all my siblings, I was the last one who finally succumbed to it and probably would not have had that PCOS issue been recognized and treated.

AFM --- It's time to get off this website and get my Saturday business started. Have a good
weekend everyone.

PS ... I just had a real surprise when I looked out the window into my backyard ... just had to come back here and share it ...

@Nikion901 Niki, go back and read your post from this morning. See the words to Barb on down. Do NOT quit coming here every day. You need this group, and we need you. Never give up. You will find motivation to keep going here.

Happy Saturday Everyone!

In better spirits for sure today! The little doggie is doing better; he got cut in between his eyes .. thank god it missed them, but because of the impact his nose started bleeding so it was a mess ... he could not breath so he was doing this thing and all the blood was flying like spray ... so I have blood stains all over the hardwood floors and some walls (right on time for halloween for sure!! ). The big dog is doing fine, my husband calmed down and decided to keep him, but we do need to get him some training because he needs to calm down.

In addition to the debacle with the dogs, I also lost my wedding band this week ... even though I have not loss more weight, I guess my fingers are thinner so while I was walking the dogs at the park and it just slipped right off .. so the probability of find it .. close to zero

Then TOM decided to visit as well ....

Anyway, a new week will start and I hope to be able to do better than this one. Is my last week before my trip and would like to get to lose a couple lbs to get to my lowest weight before I am off to the States.

Have a great rest of the weekend and everyone keep posting!! Its so great to have you all sharing!

Here a picture I took this Spring in NJ:

Hi

happygirlxxx wrote: »

Can't recall who suggested to add to our calendars the weight projections from MFP; just did so we will see how accurate they are!

Thank you!!

Definitely sounds like a good idea. I will do the same after I complete my diary tonight. I'm visiting my parents in Malta in 5 weeks, so would
definitely be interesting to see how accurate it is.

Sunday Share ...
Speaking about putting our projected weight into a calendar and checking it against our weight when that day comes about ... I do that occasionally and one of those checkpoints is coming up in 5 days. My Diary says "Are you 230 pounds today? You could be if you had net calories of 1550 a day" .... Well, my net calories were about that and I am off target. What gives? And, what are Net Calories anyway?
... read on ..
Here's a quote from a MFP Help question about it ...
MFP sets your nutritional target as Net Calories which they define as:
Calories Consumed (Food) - Calories Burned (Exercise) = Net Calories
This means that if you exercise, you will be able to eat more for that day. For example, if your Net Calorie goal is 2000 calories, one way to meet that goal is to eat 2,500 calories of food, but then burn 500 calories through exercise.

My issue with understanding this explanation is that I don't ever see anything on my desktop computer that actually says "Net Calories"
See the photo for one of my days on the desktop ...

... however, now that I use a smartphone for MFP I have found it, but don't know how to take a screen shot of it so I can either show it to you or have a photo reference for myself.
Suffice it to say, the less you eat and the more you exercise (and enter both into MFP), it will do the math and figure that if you had the same Net Calories for each day of the next 5 weeks, you would reach the projected weight.

Now.did I do that? Of course not! My net average calories for the past 5 weeks have been
9/17-9/23 = 1576
9/24-9/30 = 1758
10/1-10/7 = 1334
10/8-10/14 = 1767
10/15-10/21 - 1370
Average daily calorie intake for the past 35 days is 1561.

HECK I should be closer to my projected weight than I am ... what's up?
Well ... several things ...
It takes 3500 net deficit calories to lose 1 pound ... and to date, from 9/17 to 10/21, my weight has changed by -2.9 lbs. (237.3- 234.4) ... which represents a 10,150 calorie deficit or burn, which is an average of a daily deficit of 290 calories. This in turn suggests that my average TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure from living and exercising) was 1851 calories a day. And, another consideration in the equation ... that I haven't mentioned up until now is ... Does MFP have your daily weight in it's system to give you that projection? Or, is the weight you have in there days or months old?

So back to me and my math lesson to all of you who are still reading this ... If my average daily burn is about 1850 calories, and I want to lose 2 pounds a week, I need to cut 1000 calories and I end up with a NET calorie of 850. I can do that through exercise and food reduction or just from one of them. Which one do you think would be more achievable? Or maybe I should lower my expectations and aim for 1 lb a week, so that I can have a Net Calorie of 1350 a day ....
--- Only problem is, from looking at my average nets, there were only 2 weeks where I had about that amount of Net Calorie ... the rest of them were no where near it, and my average suggests I'm more of a .50 pound a week loser ... which is really slow and easy to upset!

Have a Good Day!
Niki

b_lisieux wrote: »

@Nikion901 My head is spinning from all the math. LOL Good luck with whatever you decide on how to handle it all.

I will be back late Thursday and my WI is on Fridays, so I will assess the damage and start a new week.

Yep @b_lisieux ... weight loss calculating is a lot of very simple math ,,, plus keeping your mouth shut and your feet moving!

Enjoy Amish country!

And I loved the pic of the deer!

Are we also going to see pics of Amish country, sounds wonderful!

OK....what's the trick. Just for fun I was trying to insert a photo and it's not working. Tried copy/paste, attach image, attach file....nothing works. Any thoughts?

b_lisieux wrote: »

OK....what's the trick. Just for fun I was trying to insert a photo and it's not working. Tried copy/paste, attach image, attach file....nothing works. Any thoughts?

@b_lisieux ... what do you enter on, a pc, smartphone, etc.? I only know how to do it with a desktop computer ... maybe someone else can help you, or try the HELP topics in MFP?

PS ... have you tried 'drag and drop'?

Monday update: I have been MIA, I know I'm trying but there just aren't enough hours in the day! Starting this new business has become a very time consuming thing(its only supposed to be part time) but all the setup to make things easier in the long run take so much time. I'm hoping things will calm real soon and I can focus and remember what I have read here so I can comment, be a participant! But the good news is I'm still on the wagon, still doing good(no time to eat really helps)! Im forgetting to log some, and need to keep up with my water intake better! But I'm still trucking along!

b_lisieux wrote: »

Yes. I tried drag & drop. I was trying on my desktop. When I did add an image, it put a file name in between brackets, no picture not even in preview.

That's how it looks before you hit post .... try this ... hit "Preview" and you should see you post the way it will look after you post it.

.... PS ... I just read that it didn't work in preview either .... Question, what is the file name extension? If it's .jpg that might be the issue.

Alright I am going to be very honest here. I am hoping by taking control and being honest it will help. I had a horrible weekend. I knew I was not going to do well because it was a weekend spent doing Halloween things with my boys but there were so many places I could have made better choices. For example Friday night I ate an entire 12oz steak at Longhorns so I know I was out of control. The damage that is done is done all I can do now it get back up and continue my journey eating healthier and working out. I did workout of Friday and Saturday and had a 16 day streak of working out. However yesterday I only go in the steps on my fitbit. I rested. Starting off okay today will see how the week goes.