05/14/2015- A little different day
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carimiller7391
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Good morning ladies and gents!!!
Seems like we are all doing extremely well with recognizing the NSV and celebrations each day. Today I want to switch things up. Today I want to reinforce why we are all on this journey. What makes us get up and push forward each day with new resolve.
For me, I'm exhausted all the time. Back pain, knee pain. I'm tired of being tired and in pain. I'm tired of being the "fat" friend. I'm tired of hearing.."you have such a pretty face"... I'm tired of being a bystander in my own life. It feels like the last 10 years of my life just passed me by. I don't remember anything special from my 30's and want to make sure that I live each and every day as if it is my last. I don't want to have regrets. I want to live life for me. I want health and happiness. Regardless if I ever get to a normal BMI or skinny, I want to be healthy for me, Reggie and my family.
So what makes you get up each morning and put your feet on the floor and push forward???
Seems like we are all doing extremely well with recognizing the NSV and celebrations each day. Today I want to switch things up. Today I want to reinforce why we are all on this journey. What makes us get up and push forward each day with new resolve.
For me, I'm exhausted all the time. Back pain, knee pain. I'm tired of being tired and in pain. I'm tired of being the "fat" friend. I'm tired of hearing.."you have such a pretty face"... I'm tired of being a bystander in my own life. It feels like the last 10 years of my life just passed me by. I don't remember anything special from my 30's and want to make sure that I live each and every day as if it is my last. I don't want to have regrets. I want to live life for me. I want health and happiness. Regardless if I ever get to a normal BMI or skinny, I want to be healthy for me, Reggie and my family.
So what makes you get up each morning and put your feet on the floor and push forward???
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carimiller7391 wrote: »Good morning ladies and gents!!!
Seems like we are all doing extremely well with recognizing the NSV and celebrations each day. Today I want to switch things up. Today I want to reinforce why we are all on this journey. What makes us get up and push forward each day with new resolve.
For me, I'm exhausted all the time. Back pain, knee pain. I'm tired of being tired and in pain. I'm tired of being the "fat" friend. I'm tired of hearing.."you have such a pretty face"... I'm tired of being a bystander in my own life. It feels like the last 10 years of my life just passed me by. I don't remember anything special from my 30's and want to make sure that I live each and every day as if it is my last. I don't want to have regrets. I want to live life for me. I want health and happiness. Regardless if I ever get to a normal BMI or skinny, I want to be healthy for me, Reggie and my family.
So what makes you get up each morning and put your feet on the floor and push forward???
Pretty much what you wrote - what gets me out of bed each day?
ME. I finally learned how to love me, care about me, and on rare occasion, even prioritize me... Shocking as he!!, no?
I don't have an overwhelming motivation, really. I know that sounds weird. Since changing my eating, I just FEEL better. I don't love my job, financial he!! still has my guy and I fighting all the time, stress is just another dirty word I face multiple times a day, but I *know* that it will get better, because it has to. Even the previous stages of misery might be preferable.
I have good friends whom I enjoy greatly (all online, unfortunately)... I am regaining quality of life. I love my fiance. I love myself. And even on days like today where I totally don't give a F about anything, I'm not binging, I'm managing...I'm good. So the steam I've built up keeps moving me down the line, I guess...
Kind of a let down, I guess...sorry. LOL0 -
Hmm, I am not sure how to answer this since there is a whole lot of reasons. I started because I was sick and tired of being sick and tired all the time. After breaking my ankle and not being able to walk for 6 weeks in large part due to my size I never want to be in that position again.
As time has passed since I started losing my goals and motivation have changed. I felt much healthier after losing 50 lbs so I think I could have been happy at that weight so then I found other motivation. I really don't have a clear motivator. It has kind of become routine which I don't know if that is a good thing or not. I have always been a numbers don't lie kind of girl and for a long time that number on the scale going down was a big thing. Now I have started to push for other reasons. I want to be around for a long time and see my kids have babies. I want to be confident in my body and know that I am strong and healthy and can accomplish what ever I set my mind to.0 -
No ifs no buts, my kids are my why.
Why I lose the weight, why i get fit, why i drag myself out of bed every day when I want to pack a bag and run away or disappear or crawl under the covers and not do anything for week. Why I work so hard to be fit and healthy and happy. Because of them.
Because I couldnt chase them around the park. Because I want to wake up full of energy to interact with them. Because I dont want to snap and snarl at them because I feel rubbish. Because I dont want them to struggle with feeling like food is an addiction they cannot break (I'm not saying it is or it isnt simple how it feels to me), because I dont want them to learn to eat in secret or binge on every negative emotion. Because I want them to grow up happy and whole humans beings. Mostly because I want to see them grow up and eventually want to see their babies.
They will always be my why. Yes I need to work on me for me I do know. But when I would put my entire heart and soul on the line for their happiness I figure they make a pretty good motivator and why not use that to my benefit which in turn will lead to theirs0
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