Well I'm in a bit of a rut. A little over a year ago, I had a doctor visit and was told I needed to lose 50-60 pounds. I had high blood pressure and a high risk for heart disease. Okay well that scared me so I went to it. Also I wanted a dog so my mom said if I lost the weight, she'd buy me one.
So it's a year later, I lost my 60 pounds already, got my dog, and have normal blood pressure, and my risk for heart disease will never be perfect buy I'm taking meds to help it stay up there. But I have no motivation left.
I'm under pressure at work and school, lots of stress, and I'm a stress eater, so I can't seem to get to stay at the weight I want because when I come home from work or school, I have to study, so I don't get as much excersice as I'd like and the vicious cycle continues as I feel like crap because I haven't kept my weight down. My weight is up 10 pounds so I'm only down 50 and that's where I want to be 5 pounds down, but with my eating habit and lack of excersice, I've gained about 5 over that. Now we're not talking a lot of weight, just a matter of 5 to maybe at most 10 pounds...but with the stress eating thing I just can't seem to get to, more over I can't find a good reason to care that can motivate me. Like I said, I'm in a rut.
With that amazing achievement, I don't understand how you could say you lack motivation! C'mon, you lost 60 pounds! Do you have any idea how big of a deal that is? You say that you did it with such offhandedness that I don't think you really understand how fantastic that sounds to have been able to do that. I'm sure it was hard, but it definitely took motivation to achieve.
Anyway, about the stress eating: you've gotten the first step bang on, and that's addressing the issue. From here, you gotta find something else that does the same thing for you. A stress "glass of water" works for me. You've got a dog. What about "stress walks" or "stress snuggles"?
You need a reason? How about this: you owe it to all the hard work you did before! You shouldn't let all your hard work and effort go to waste. You can do it! *rubs your shoulders like a boxing trainer* Don't give up.
Yeah, it wasn't easy...thank you for reminding me, I needed to hear that. I really just don't even say I did that, it was hard, but I did it.
And thanks for the different stress ideas, a stress walk sounds nice!
Finally, a REAL fatass success story that doesn't involve an ex-fatass eating Subway all day (*coughJaredOglecough*).
Deal with stress by not eating. Kthnxbai.
You think it's going to be all sunshine and supermodeling after you lose weight, but I know from experience that it's not the case. I lost 65 pounds from my peak weight, and I can tell you that there's no such thing as one-shot diets. It's just a constant war that doesn't end until you die. Either you maintain the diet, or you gain all the weight back and take all the consequences that will come with it. I get by on reminding myself that I feel better after I eat healthy, and that I'm better in the long run for it, and that the ephemeral joy of food is minute compared to the resolve of my will.
Good, job on losing 60 pounds. I can't imagine how hard that would be. Still, so it's just hard to stay on that regular routine?
A stress walk with the dog.
Well Good Job!!! Now I need to loose about 60 pounds haha, I will get to it tomorrow, or bad things will happen haha. Oh well, thats another story but good job on the weight loss and I would try "Stress Snuggles" it sounds most appealing to me. :D
Quote:I can tell you that there's no such thing as one-shot diets.
I agree with you completely and knew that from the start, I mean its a life changing thing to do. But when you do it you feel good.
But for me it's hard to keep on it. It's not that its hard because it's hard, it's hard because finding the time to do everything around school and work is so exhausting.
Actually one nice part is that once you lose enough weight you can sometimes (like with me) stick within 5 or so pounds, so long as you don't eat excessively. Like if I cut out my normal lunches and switched them with a salad, I'd drop 2 or 3 lbs in a week, but like I said, when I'm stressed I like to eat, and I like to eat fatty stuff. Which is not so good
Sometimes, making a lot of small changes makes a big difference. I used to be able to fit into my suit pants just fine. Then, after a summer of horrid eating (damn you, tour opera!) I didn't anymore. After a few months of no more snacking, always taking the stairs, and judicious consumption of things I know are bad for me, I now fit into my suit just fine. It's all about the little things.
We all have our little comfort habits. Some people's are more hindering than others. If you find you're having a hard time breaking it, if you live with someone, ask them to distract you from doing it or otherwise remind you that you shouldn't be doing it. Some habits are so subconscious that you don't even realize you're doing them until you're just about done!
If you did well enough to do as well as you did, you certainly have the will to keep on that same road. Take a page from Wise's book and remind yourself that it feels good to eat healthily.
In the end, it comes down into believe that you can do it. You've got a leg up here: you already know you can.
Maybe you should try taking tranquilizers. By being less excited you won't feel the need to eat so much.
Quote:there's no such thing as one-shot diets. It's just a constant war that doesn't end until you die.
That's not true. And your case it's different from his; you have a base problem. The true 'lifelong war' is the person that was always fat, ever since his birth; and his is a time in his life where he feels unconfortable and makes a click and gains lots of weight. Once his problems go away, his overweight will go too.
(And I will like to chat some more, but I'm running out of credit).