Restarting

mackoulc

Hi,
I am trying and failing again and again. Lots of obstacles/real life challenges that I've allowed to derail
me.
I hope that if I keep trying I will eventually succeed

ksickee

I love fitness blender's workouts. I have had great success with them. I love their 5 day challenge to build lean muscle and lose weight. https://www.fitnessblender.com/
I have included the link for you. I take it slow and have built up - take a look at their hundreds of videos and inspirational messages. I did these workouts to gain strength to climb Half Dome in Yosemite at age 59.

Meghanebk

Hey, that you're still trying is the important thing! Congratulations on picking yourself up and trying again.

I am doing the same thing. I just joined MFP and set my goals really low so I will feel happier when I make any progress and not burn out by trying too much at once.

kommodevaran

mackoulc wrote: »

I am trying and failing again and again. Lots of obstacles/real life challenges that I've allowed to derail me.
I hope that if I keep trying I will eventually succeed

To succeed, you need to stop trying, and start doing. Weight loss is simple, but not necessarily easy. We all have real lives, filled with obstacles. We all need to plan to overcome them.

Use MFP. Eat food you like, log it in your diary, and hit your calorie goal every day. That's all you need to do. But you have to plan a bit to make it possible.

I just rediscovered the concept of Salutogenesis - which really is what MFP's all about.

Sense of coherence
The "sense of coherence" is a theoretical formulation that provides a central explanation for the role of stress in human functioning. "Beyond the specific stress factors that one might encounter in life, and beyond your perception and response to those events, what determines whether stress will cause you harm is whether or not the stress violates your sense of coherence." Antonovsky defined Sense of Coherence as:

"a global orientation that expresses the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that (1) the stimuli deriving from one's internal and external environments in the course of living are structured, predictable and explicable; (2) the resources are available to one to meet the demands posed by these stimuli; and (3) these demands are challenges, worthy of investment and engagement."

In his formulation, the sense of coherence has three components:

• Comprehensibility: a belief that things happen in an orderly and predictable fashion and a sense that you can understand events in your life and reasonably predict what will happen in the future.
• Manageability: a belief that you have the skills or ability, the support, the help, or the resources necessary to take care of things, and that things are manageable and within your control.
• Meaningfulness: a belief that things in life are interesting and a source of satisfaction, that things are really worthwhile and that there is good reason or purpose to care about what happens.

helenkreissl351

Me too. Was down to 30lbs lost. 10 back on over last few months.

Back on track
Take each day
Reward each change, scales, clothes, macros
Dont add guilt to list of things that stop you x

spiveaa