Your excuses

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  • JLG1986
    JLG1986 Posts: 212 Member
    My excuse: I have a slow metabolism
    My reality check: I eat too much. So now I'm taking control and counting calories!

    My excuse: I'm too tired
    My reality check: Part of why I'm too tired to work out or cook healthy meals is because I'm overweight and eating food with bad nutrition. So now I'm working to make better choices!

    My excuse: I already ate too much/skipped my workout today, I might as well give up and start again tomorrow
    My reality check: It's not one cookie that makes me fat. I want to live a life where I feel comfortable eating the one cookie. It's the giving up I have to conquer - and this is still by far the hardest one for me, and the reason why I have lost the same 5-10 pounds over and over and over again. But I'm taking one day at a time and trying to give myself grace for being imperfect but still expecting myself to keep going.
  • larali1980
    larali1980 Posts: 162 Member
    My current excuses/ how I will crush them:

    1. My daughter loves baking and has been making cupcakes. I have to eat them or I will hurt her feelings. / I can eat a half a cupcake and do an extra 20 minutes on the stat bike.

    2. It's cold as heck outside and I don't wanna/ Screw that, get bundled up and go outside.

    3. I'm a bit hung over today/ Drink lots of water today and try to exercise, then just say no to beer from now on

    4. All we have in the house is spaghetti/ Go grocery shopping tonight and get some other stuff
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
    callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
    lulalacroix wrote: »
    I had one death in my family a couple of days ago and my marriage is falling apart. I have not eaten over my goal this week. I really want this. There is no excuse or good enough reason for me to derail my want and need for a healthy weight and body.

    atta girl !!!! ((((hugs)))) life sucks sometimes. been there done it all this past year!

    Thanks much!
  • egloffkatie
    egloffkatie Posts: 3 Member
    Today it is -10 with -25F with the windchill. So I am sitting here at working thinking it's too cold, I'm tired. But since I am taking a class I have other who are holding me accountable. I keep saying in my head, I will NEVER regret a work out. So I am going to go to my workout and warm up and look forward to a nice warm bath. PLUS I sleep so much better after a good workout. See!! I talked myself into my work out!!
  • brittyn3
    brittyn3 Posts: 481 Member
    One day, there were no excuses. I lost 39 lbs. Then another day, I had excuses I'm burned out, I'm hungry, I'm in good enough shape I can miss a day, I can eat this burger, I'm skinny enough for now. Gained 15lbs back. Started going to the gym again, lost my mom, gained another 10 back. Then holidays, gained 4. Finally, there are no excuses. Back at the gym 4 times a week, working out 5 days, 6.4 lbs down. Sucks having to do it again, but I finally ran out of excuses and I only have myself to blame. That being said, I'm down 6.4 lbs! That's almost 10! It's a journey - up hill and down, I'm in for the ride.
  • xveer22
    xveer22 Posts: 93 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    I have one excuse... PMS. I get really, really hungry. Wish I could find a way to crush that one. Still working on it...

    Same here! And the cravings are reaaaal
  • HelenRobertsNZ
    HelenRobertsNZ Posts: 16 Member
    I don't make excuses any longer - as a poster said above I either exercise or I don't, I keep within my calorie limit and make food choices that allow me to have 3 satisfying meals a day, plus chocolate when I feel like it.

    In the past, I've made every excuse under the sun - I'm so fat already that this large chocolate bar won't make a difference, I'm so unfit I'll never be able to exercise, I've got kids, I've got no money blah blah blah. You name it, I've thought it! I was scared to start for fear of failing.

    Getting cancer was one of the best things to happen to me - I realised my worth, my value in the eyes of my family and if I can manage surgery and 6 months of chemo then I can manage half an hour on the treadmill!

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