HELP

LatentColors

I started this whole thing at 230 pounds. I made it down to 215 just by exercising, but I eventually went on vacation and when I got back it was just all slowed down. I'm over at almost 250. I'm so scared, and the my depression IS NOT helping me at all.

I'm a very picky eater, so I don't eat healthy.

I was wondering if anyone could just give me a bunch of tips on how to get myself to eat healthier foods, and how to motivate myself to go to the gym.

Thanks, and bye.

khall86790

1. Stop being a picky eater and start trying everything you haven't tried before. You'd be amazed at all the healthy, nutritious food you actually like.
2. Start exercising again. The gym is a big step for some people, why not start doing home workouts? You can create your own, use a home workout DVD (Jillian Michaels has some great ones, just do a search on here), also blogilates.com and nerdfitness.com have some great workouts for beginners and advanced.
3. Start today. Not tomorrow. Start right now.
4. Read this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974888-in-place-of-a-road-map-2k13?hl=road+map+success#posts-14885708

Good luck, you can do it

ChanceTakr2131

It was helpful for me to make one change to my diet per week and one change to my exercise per week, then just keep adding on. I eventually stopped eating fast/processed junk and now I work out A LOT!! But, it can't be done all at once; mine was a 10 year up and down journey.

kajungrill

I've heard it takes something like 15 tastes before a baby likes a new food introduced. So try healthy things a few more times and try new recipes.

pittbullgirl

Start by logging your food for a week. On sunday review that week and decide what ONE (or two if your ambitious! ) healthy thing you can incorporte into eating or exercising. THe goal is to make small, healthy changes.
If your diary is open, I can help you if you like?

meeper123

Stop worrying about taking things out of your diet and start working some healthy things in instead of a loaded baked potato for example swap it for some mixed veggies and eat your meal as normal the more positive you are about changes the better your results are going to be. if you sit around going I cant have this, this, and, this you will be miserable. No reason why a healthier way of living has to be a bummer.

Gwen_B

1. Stop being a picky eater and start trying everything you haven't tried before. You'd be amazed at all the healthy, nutritious food you actually like.
2. Start exercising again. The gym is a big step for some people, why not start doing home workouts? You can create your own, use a home workout DVD (Jillian Michaels has some great ones, just do a search on here), also blogilates.com and nerdfitness.com have some great workouts for beginners and advanced.
3. Start today. Not tomorrow. Start right now.
4. Read this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974888-in-place-of-a-road-map-2k13?hl=road+map+success#posts-14885708

Good luck, you can do it

Exactly what she said!

nxd10

Start with doable things that will work for YOU. Success builds on success. This worked for my sister who is bigger than you, depressed, anxious, and hates to exercise. She's also a picky eater. She's not perfect yet, but she is doing so much better and looks so much healthier. She feels better.

DO start today.

1. Just log your food and regular exericse for a week or two. Don't even think about how much you're eating or exercise - just log and figure out what you're doing now.

2. Look over your logs every day and look for changes in your diet that will make the biggest difference in terms of calorie intake. For me, bread and rice and potatoes were the things that had more calories than I thought and I didn't care about that much. I basically cut those way down and substituted low carb tortillas (50 calories) for bread in my sandwich (200).

Milk had way my calories than I thought. Now I drink water.

3. Things you like to eat but are very calorie dense - eat less of them. I like ice cream. I used to eat it by the cup. Now I eat 1/4 cup.

Anyway - look at what you're doing now, drop the easiest, most damaging things you won't miss and go with that for a little while.

4. Calculate what your calorie goals should be with MFP for something reasonable - a pound a week should be doable for you at your weight. See if you can get there with your new knowledge of what you like to eat. Add in some exercise like walking that you like to do. If the gym is hard, go for a walk around the block. Do stairs at work.

5. See if you can minimize or drop one really unhealthy food and try a healthier one you like every week. If you don't like one healthy food, try another one. Tastes change with time. Figure out what you don't like about what you don't like - mouth feel? Not strong enough flavor? Too strong flavor? There's a world of delicious tastes out there.

You don't have to be perfect. You just have to go in the right direction.

But get started now.

LatentColors

Thanks everyone! I actually was going somewhere, so I made the post in a rush. I ended up leaving some things out.

I DID go to the gym previously. I used the treadmill or other cardio machines for 30 minutes and then lifted weights for another 30. I think I'm going to be increasing each by another thirty minutes today.

And thanks again! I'm going to try to start dropping out foods, starting out with my favorite. Pizza.