Need to Lose 100 LBS -Robins Thread !

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  • anastasiah3456
    anastasiah3456 Posts: 5 Member
    Hi this is a random question but @KATRENAJ I noticed that you mentioned antihistamines. I was wondering if you had experienced any weight gain whilst on them? Hope you don't mind me asking!!!!!!!
  • cellosmiles
    cellosmiles Posts: 680 Member
    The Winter Games

    Name: Cellosmiles
    Age: 37
    Height: 5' 3"
    Highest weight: 257

    Start Weight (Jan 1, 2018) 227
    Goal Weight (Friday, Feb 23, 2018) 217

    Weigh-ins on week of
    Jan 5: 223.4
    Jan 12: 224.2
    Jan 19: 226.6
    Jan 26: 226.6
    Feb 2nd: 225.2
    Feb 9: 225.2
    Feb 16: 228.2
    Feb 23: 231.2

    Weight -/+ this week: +3
    Weight -/+ this challenge: +4.2
    Total weight lost: -25.8

    Not a good week at all! Was so stressed over work issues and my boss coming to visit me :s

  • NewCaddy
    NewCaddy Posts: 845 Member
    Name: Tracy
    Age: 44
    Height: 5’5”
    Highest Weight: 274
    Current Weight: 210
    Goal weight: 190

    Weigh-ins on week of
    Jan 5: 202.8
    Jan 12: 200.8
    Jan 19: 201.2
    Jan 26:201.0
    Feb 2nd:199.0
    Feb 9:198.6
    Feb 16: 196.0
    Feb 23:196.6

    Weight -/+ this week: +.6
    Weight -/+ this challenge: -13.4
    Total weight lost: 77.4 lbs.
  • flgirl41
    flgirl41 Posts: 7 Member
    edited February 2018
    Hi all! I am new here and let me introduce myself.

    My name is Eva. 44 years young :)
    Height: 5`9"
    Highest weight: 264.4 lb (2017.Apr.)
    Current weight: 258.8 lb
    Goal weight: 175 lb I`ll hope can reach this number someday.

    Started MFP this week thuesday ( 4 days ago )
    I am looking for friends who can help me and motivate me and do the same for them. It is a long road for me and will make it easier if I can share this with friends.

    Wish everybody good luck and be strong!!!!

    Feel free add me as a friend.
  • BarneyRubbleMD
    BarneyRubbleMD Posts: 1,092 Member
    kbeyer23 wrote: »
    @BarneyRubbleMD Great job being accountable to yourself. You got off track, but looks like you stopped before completely derailing and are getting back at it. That is no easy feat in my experience and I'm proud of you!

    @kbeyer23 ,

    Thanks! I feel like I'm back on track as of today (2/23/2018). Lowering my carbs down to about 125 grams seems to help as I seem to binge on carbs more often whenever my daily carbs total over 180. I've had this multi-day binge thing happen before & gained 12 lbs before too (likely a lot of water weight from digesting so many carbs) and a lot of that increased weight came off the following week when I didn't binge but it took a total of 1 month to get back to where I was weight-wise before that binge. I think the only reason my multi-day binges eventually end is because I just get tired of binging--I just wish I could find a way to stop them in their tracks after one binge meal or even after one binge day as that wouldn't wipe out a month's worth of weight loss effort. What keeps me from just "throwing in the towel" when these binges happen is looking back at the "big picture" in that I'm still way ahead from where I started (i.e. 94 lbs weight lost since 1/3/2017 vs 107 lbs before this recent binge happened).
  • bapcarrier
    bapcarrier Posts: 211 Member
    The Winter Games

    Name: Barb
    Age: 70
    Height: 5'3”
    Highest weight: 258
    Start Weight (Jan 1, 2018): 204.8
    Goal Weight (Friday, Feb 23, 2018): 195

    Weigh-ins on week of
    Jan 5: 206.2
    Jan 12: 202.8
    Jan 19: 202.8
    Jan 26: 204.2
    Feb 2nd: 202.8
    Feb 9: 203
    Feb 16: 203
    Feb 23: 204.6

    Weight -/+ this week: +1.6
    Weight -/+ this challenge: -.2
    Total Weight loss overall: -53.4

    :(:(:(

    I'm going to wait until tomorrow to do the report, hopefully some of the stragglers will get their reports in so their final numbers are included. :)
  • cjbrummet
    cjbrummet Posts: 66 Member
    Name: Catherine
    Age: 51
    Height: 5'3"
    Highest weight: 256 lbs.

    Start Weight (Jan 1, 2018): 220.6 lbs.
    Goal Weight (Friday, Feb 23, 2018): (199 lbs.)
    Weigh-ins on week of
    Jan 5: 219
    Jan 12: 215.6
    Jan 19: 214.4
    Jan 26: 211
    Feb 2: 210.4
    Feb 9: 210
    Feb 16: 208
    Feb 23: 206.2

    Weight -/+ this week: -1.8 lbs
    Weight -/+ this challenge: -13.8 lbs
    Total weight lost since 1/15/16: -49.8 lbs
  • cjbrummet
    cjbrummet Posts: 66 Member
    Thank you @bapcarrier for running the challenge. I know that it was extra effort on you and I wanted you to know that I appreciated you.

    That was the first time that I have taken part in a challenge. I usually don't like to do these because I have to actually put down my actual weight for the world to see and I don't want the world to see it. But everyone here has made me feel safe and confident to share.

    Work has kept me busy but I still love it. It has been pouring down rain forever it seems here in Dallas area. I usually don't mind the rain but I hate it when it is cold and wet. I could never live up north where it snows. We get an inch of snow and get excited here that is enough for me.

    Well nothing else noteworthy to say just have a great weekend everyone.
  • mnwalkingqueen
    mnwalkingqueen Posts: 1,299 Member
    Success this week was making better choices when eating out.
    @kbeyer23 I used resistance bands this week some things worked good others not so well.
  • b_lisieux
    b_lisieux Posts: 187 Member
    Welcome @flgirl141 and @amberkins. We're glad you are here. You will find a lot of motivation and support as we are all on the same journey.

    Have been reading everyone's posts, just haven't had time to respond. Thank you very much @bapcarrier for keeping the stats for the challenge. It was much appreciated by everyone!

    Hope everyone is having a good Sunday!
  • mnwalkingqueen
    mnwalkingqueen Posts: 1,299 Member
    Good Sunday:
    My name is Holly, I am 44 single living in Minneapolis MN. This is my second time doing this last time I was here I started at 265 dropped to 238 than my son died. I ate my life away for 2 yrs tipping scale at 285 I decided to try again. I’m down to 264 and still struggling along.
    I will say not liking the snow and cold and shoveled way to much this week making me want to move to warmer climate.
    My short term goal is to reach 245 so I can try zip lining and sky diving.
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    @bapcarrier ...

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  • moodybear2003
    moodybear2003 Posts: 225 Member
    Hello (again), This will be my third or fourth time trying to lose weight. I get so de-motivated and give up at the smallest thing. Now I had a doctor tell me to cut the soda and sweets and he wants to schedule a blood glucose test, and I'm scared. hopefully scared enough to actually stick to my goals. I met with a trainer who wrote me a simple program for the machines at the gym, I need to cut the excuses and do it.

    I'm hoping to stick around longer this time, It's nice to check back in all this time and see some familiar names. :)
  • bapcarrier
    bapcarrier Posts: 211 Member
    @Nikion901 :) Thanks
  • b_lisieux
    b_lisieux Posts: 187 Member
    @bapcarrier Thanks for all you did for us. Now go and have a wonderful month. We'll be here waiting to hear all about it when you return in April. (and ditto the gifs that @Nikion901 posted!) :smile:

    @moodybear2003 Welcome. It's a hard road but a journey we all share. Every journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. You can do this!

    We had a family birthday dinner for my son-in-law last night. I pre-planned for the day. I know...not a good idea but I skipped anything to eat until dinner time, but it was an early dinner. Even after entering my dinner, I had over 700 calories left. My daughter brought cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. I looked it up on MFP and one slice was 500 calories so I had it and savored every bite. Not the best nutrition decision but I didn't go over on my calories. Hopefully that won't hurt me on WI day.

    Happy Monday everyone!

  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    edited February 2018
    Monday Check-in
    Well, my weight is doing the usual up/down/up again think it does every day. And no, I didn't go over my calories, even with the dinner at Cracker Barrel yesterday. I actually has a deficit yesterday that 'should' track out to a 1/2 pound loss in 7 days if I keep that same deficit ... You know something?

    Those math formulas never work for me!
    I have spent the last 3 years working with the numbers from my tedious and time consuming spreadsheets; besides logging every morsel that passes through my lips into the food diary, and weighing myself daily to have the data I seek for the calculations ... I've come to the conclusion that 'it don't mean squat' as far as being able to foretell, guestimate, or quantify accurately to what will really occur. It's one puzzle I am tired of playing. And yet, I do love mathematical puzzles, as well as jig-saw puzzles, SODUKO, Gin Rummy, Mahjong and other Solitaire-type games.

    This week, week 9 of 2018 in my diary ... my goals are to continue striving to balance my daily intake so it is better in-tune with my needs vs my desires. Also to continue striving to get in my bodies required level of soluble and insoluble fiber so that I am a 'smooth-runner' :# And of course I will strive to eat less and play more.

    PS ... I am also tired of this computer/system/whatever word filler ... I will leave the wrong words in place and if you spot them as you read em ... make a list and have a good laugh along with me. :)
  • Jessec80
    Jessec80 Posts: 5 Member
    Doing good. Down 15lbs since Jan 1. Had a binge night Friday after I smoked weed for the first time in 3 weeks. Ate like 2000 calories in a few hours. Weight went up and hasn’t dropped back to my lowest point yet in 3 days back on diet. I’ve also been working out a lot this past week. Could be gaining muscles too. Usually I have a hard time forgiving myself when I binge like that on a diet. But this time it didn’t bother me at all. No problem getting right back into my groove. I bet tomorrow I weigh back down to my lowest point again since Friday. Probably will keep dropping weight. It was prolly water weight anyway. Body was like whoa we need more water on hand it you’re going to eat that much. Then I was like JK.
  • b_lisieux
    b_lisieux Posts: 187 Member
    @skinnyjeanzbound So sorry for your loss. It's never easy. As for your car, hopefully the other person's insurance is paying. Just keep remembering cars can be fixed. It could have been way worse. Hang in there. Take a deep breath. All will be ok.

    @Nikion901 You are quite analytical, math oriented and detailed oriented. I'm just different and could never weigh each day. I would drive myself absolutely crazy because I know it fluctuates and if I saw a gain one day, I'd stress out over it. Once a week is enough stress for me. LOL You just have to figure out what works best for you. Keeping track on MFP is enough work for me. I can't turn it into a job where it's too much work or else I'd give it up. To be honest, I'm amazed at myself for sticking with it this long and have no desire to stop. I'm not sure what is different this time around. You have done great so far so whatever you are doing is working. Pat yourself on the back.

  • NewCaddy
    NewCaddy Posts: 845 Member
    @amberkins… I think that way of goal setting is really good. Celebrate the victories!
    @BarneyRubbleMD… Good job at looking at the big picture. I think we all get hard on ourselves and should look at how far we’ve come and not just how far we’ve got to go.
    @Holly… my hubby and I’ve talked extensively that after my mom is gone and our children have graduated that we will be in a warmer climate. My deal is that it can’t be so far south that I don’t get seasons, but I’m good with warmer winters for sure.
    @bapcarrier… enjoy the time “away”
    @Karen…those are a couple of crappy weeks. I remember when you got that car so I hope it’s as good as new when you get it back. And sorry about your aunt. I’ve lost a couple of uncles and the holes left are big ones. {hug}
    @Jessec80… Goodjob! 15 pounds is a great 2-month loss!

    AFM...I’m chugging along. Almost 14 pounds since the first of the year (I had 14 and then decided to celebrate with frozen cokes --- the bane of my existence!!) They are gone again, but still struggling with carbs. One day at a time, right?! My sister was my workout partner and we held each other accountable. Then she had a high-risk pregnancy and had to stop going. Then she and her husband are saving money to buy a house this spring so she gave up her gym membership. I know I should do it myself, but I’m terrible! She and I are meeting at her house 3 days a week to do some type of workout video or treadmill after the kids are in bed. It starts tonight! I have learned to not even take my wallet to work with me. I leave it in my car. No credit card? No snacks! So it’s what I bring in my lunchbox for the day. Doesn’t necessarily help me at home, but at least 9 hours a day I’m on track. 

    Was there talk about another challenge? I’ve been so sporadic on here but I feel it really held me accountable for the most part.
  • tdunnegan
    tdunnegan Posts: 100 Member
    @moodybear2003 I can so relate to your repeated attempts to lose weight. No soda is a big help. In December, I drank a soda a day for about 18 days (left overs from holidays) and man did I pack on the weight! I quit soda about two years ago. I think it must be all the salt. Of course there were other sweets and snacks that contributed to the 20 pounds I gained. I've been logging erratically. Yesterday, I logged and my calorie intake was 4500. OMG!! And that's why logging food is soooo important. Hope cutting out soda has the same positive effects for you. It did take a good month for my system to register the lack of soda.

    @BarneyRubbleMD I think of you as well as I'm typing the above note. I recall your post recently about a recent binge. While I didn't register as a binger on that test you posted, I am soooooo vulnerable to picking high fat high calorie foods. The 3 slices of DiGiornos pan pie I had for dinner last night were 470 calories each. That went down without a hitch. I know to check such things before I eat them, but I didn't. Lesson learned!

    @NewCaddy @Jessec80 I am inspired by your steady weight loss this year. Your "chugging along" pace. I too leave my wallet behind to avoid sweets sometimes. Especially at the gym.. the food place there is beautifully positioned just as you're walking out and have worked up a good appetite from working out ;) And kudos on the positive attitude - the fact that you are not beating yourself up for the binge and got right back on the wagon is fantastic!

    @skinnyjeanzbound That's a lot of stress. Hopefully your luck with turn with spring on the rise! Be well.

    @Nikion901 I am a counter too. But I count my money. With MFP I take the prediction of weight loss as a motivator. You'll be down -- you'll be up. It helps me stay on course. So many factors go into weight, that it does not surprise me that its difficult to put an exact number on it. Maybe you've collected enough data to develop your own algorithm!! :) I'm hoping you find the predictions are good enough to reasonably predict weight loss or gain? Anyway, keep on counting. Cause I know that when you're into numbers, the counting is a way of learning and understanding where and what to change. Don't lose track of the big picture. As you know, weight is lost if calories consumed are less than calories expended. Hang in there!


  • mnwalkingqueen
    mnwalkingqueen Posts: 1,299 Member
    moodybear2003 wrote: »
    Hello (again), This will be my third or fourth time trying to lose weight. I get so de-motivated and give up at the smallest thing. Now I had a doctor tell me to cut the soda and sweets and he wants to schedule a blood glucose test, and I'm scared. hopefully scared enough to actually stick to my goals. I met with a trainer who wrote me a simple program for the machines at the gym, I need to cut the excuses and do it.

    I'm hoping to stick around longer this time, It's nice to check back in all this time and see some familiar names. :)

    Welcome this is a great group of people and I know you can do this....slow and steady wins every time.
  • mnwalkingqueen
    mnwalkingqueen Posts: 1,299 Member
    @Karen so sorry about your aunt passing. Your family is in my prayers.
    @NewCaddy congrats on your weight loss and creative way to not snack.
  • BarneyRubbleMD
    BarneyRubbleMD Posts: 1,092 Member
    @tdunnegan ,

    Yep! I had a similar thing happen at Red Lobster when I ordered the Shrimp Alfredo but didn't log it until later that night and found out it was 900 calories while my same-sized dish of scallops was only 100 calories! I've never made Alfredo anything before do I didn't know what's in that but it's loaded with fat which drove up that calories! The whole time I was eating it I was more concerned about the carbs from the noodles & getting too many carbs for the day but ended up being under on my carbs and way over on fat that day--the baked potato with lots of butter didn't help either!
  • BarneyRubbleMD
    BarneyRubbleMD Posts: 1,092 Member
    The Winter Games

    Name: BarneyRubbleMD
    Age: 58
    Height: 5'3"
    Highest weight: 317 lbs (1/3/2017)

    Start Weight (Jan 3, 2018): 211.6 lbs
    Goal Weight (Wednesday, Feb 28, 2018): 203.6 lbs (-8 lbs this challenge or ~ -1 lb/week).

    Weigh-ins (lbs) on Wednesdays (typically), week of:
    Jan 3: 211.6 lbs.(weight loss stalled this week, probably due to adding in 50% of my exercise calories vs 0%).
    Jan 10: 209.8 lbs (stuck with adding in 50% of exercise calories this week too--seems it worked out well).
    Jan 17: (on vacation: 12th-20th so I might not find a scales to weigh-in this week).
    Jan 24: 211.2 lbs (back from vacation).
    Jan 31: NA (out of town this week, traveling for work, returning late 1/7/2018).
    Feb 8: 211.6 lbs (on vacation Feb 8-13).
    Feb 15: 211.0 lbs (back from vacation).
    Feb 22: 223.0 lbs (binged 4 days at 8000 calories/day last week).
    Feb 28: 212.4 lbs (back on track & no binges since last weigh-in!).

    weight change last week: - 10.6 lbs
    weight change this challenge: + 0.8 lbs
    weight loss total (since 1/3/2017): 104.6 lbs
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    Wednesday Wishes ... Today I get 3 wishes ...
    A 'good' report from the gastroenterologist/surgeon this afternoon.
    A plan of action that I 'like'.
    That it doesn't snow storm like the weatherman predicts for Thursday -Friday

    @canyonGeek .. thanks for posting the Spring Challenge startup ... I will be joining in for this round.

    @skinnyjeanzbound .. my sincere condolences on the passing of your aunt, your mom's twin. Glad you weren't injured in that car wreck.

    @tdunnegan ... the calculation challenge was to help us
    1: determine a weight that is not as prone to the fluctuations of water stored in our cells or dumped which makes out weight fluctuate so wildly from day to day; good book to read on this subject is "The Hacker's Diet: by John Walker. (You can find it free online at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/ ) with many good tips for weight management.
    2: Use the results of that to help us determine our actual daily deficits ... which we used later to help us determine if we are right on target with what are actual TDEE has been so we can set a better calorie intake target to achieve the weight loss we want.

    Of course ... sticking to that calorie intake, no matter what else, is the most important thing to do. But do we do it? No, we have high carb days, high sugar days, high fat days, very low everything days, etc. We also have heavy workout days and days of no activity. We have days we drink what seems like gallons of liquid and days were we're lucky to drink 2 glasses of water that day ... and the bathroom scale runs up and down. Some of us have given up using the bathroom scale at all ... and for those that have, MFP, in my opinion, isn't very effective because it is all based on calories consumed compared to energy expended.

    It's a mathematical exercise that I intend to repeat periodically, especially as my weight and daily routine continues to morph, because I like the activity.

    Hi to everyone else who is posting ... sorry not to speak to you all directly. I need to get off this computer and get ready for my doctor's appointment.
    Later, Niki :wink:
  • moodybear2003
    moodybear2003 Posts: 225 Member
    Hello Everyone! I plan on joining the spring challenge, I haven't done one before. I'm excited!

    I have been sick the past week with bronchitis and an ear infection. I feel like I've finally turned a corner and am doing better, the medicine is finally working it's magic. I missed my appointment with the gym to learn how to use the machines, so I set up another one. I'm excited to get started once I can take a deep breath again.

    I've been under calories the past several days, and have done some food prep. I made a snack basket full of prepacked things (some I portioned myself into sandwich bags) that range from 70 calories to 220 (trail mix), but most are 100 cal, and are things like almonds, granola bars, and rice cakes.

    Tomorrow I meet with my regular doctor for a check up and bloodwork, hoping for good news.

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