My success and failure

MeanNurseGM95

Today is my 1 year anniversary on my weight loss journey. I started this journey because my daughter wanted me to ride horses with her. She is a true cowgirl that loves to ride. After 6 months of this journey I got on a horse for the first time in 6 years. Now I ride when it is nice outside and my daughter could not be happier. I started out strong and then life seems to get in the way. I have lost 57 pounds but with that is admitting that I did not achieve my goal of losing 100 pounds in a year. I try not to be to hard on myself because some things were out of my control like having to have surgery and missing a month of working out to recover. Other things like not always logging my calories though is not acceptable. The biggest thing that happened was my husband got very sick and almost died. He spent 11 days in the hospital and I did not leave him. That meant eating whatever fast food or crappy cafeteria food I could get. This experience showed me that I have not beaten the demon of stress eating. Lots of bad food during this time.I learned that I will always struggle with overeating and have to log my food. I am looking at other ways to handle extreme stress because this will not be the only stressful situation. My husbands hospital stay and recovery kept me out of the gym for another two months. I started back to the gym a few days ago but I officially am counting tomorrow as my day back on my weight loss journey. Going to look at the positive stuff from this past year. Learning to love myself, learning I love the gym (who would have guessed), learning that even fat chicks can do yoga, learning to love my body, learning I don't have to "diet" or starve myself, and most of all I have learned that it is about being healthy. Thanks to all my friends on here too because the support really does help.

mrsKOrtiz

You have had so much going on, you should not beat yourself up for it. Jeesh, I know I could not do it all so well with all that going on. I hope that you find peace this year and reach all of your goals. Great job on the loss thus far.

ErinK09

Congratulations on all of your successes.

snowflake930

Well done! You have accomplished a lot and should be very proud!
For many of us, this will be a life long commitment of taking one day at a time.
Congratulations on your achievements during that past year in spite of the adversity you have faced! Continued success to you!

MargueriteMuguet

Well congrats on what you have lost! It is a big achievement.
And I can see that you understand yourself a bit better and so you are more prepared and more knowledgeable this year! So that s huge too! And staying in the hosp with yr husband was more rewarding/important than eating right, thats ok too.

Oh my I want to let you know how you are not failig at this, you are truly learning and writing this, sharing it with us is also going to help people remember that there are ups and downs but sticking with it is what will matter in the long run!

kendalslimmer

You've done really well this past year - you may have further to go, but just look at what you've already achieved! You can ride again. You know when you're eating unhealthily. You like logging your food and going to the gym! These are all amazing things, you are amazing! Xx

NoelFigart1

57 lbs down, and your family is okay. That's a win in my book. I don't really see any failures here. Slower success than you wanted, okay, yeah, I get that.

But not a failure at all.

cheslightsey

You should be very proud of yourself. 57 pounds is A LOT of weight. And weight aside, just think of how much healthier you are at the beginning of 2015 than you were in 2014. Keep up the good work!

jgnatca

Yes, you've achieved a great deal! What's the point if you are going to beat yourself up for "only" losing 57 pounds? I say the big achievement was when you got BACK on that horse and rode, even after major setbacks.

I see shades of "all or nothing thinking" that was covered in my eating therapy class. But you are overcoming that too by counting your successes at the end of this year.

Bravo, and bravo all around.

As for managing stress without eating, how about filling your hands with something else like knitting or crochet? Just an idea.

opalsqueak007

You have done fantastically well:) Wishing you a good year with less stress this year.