Call me a yo-yo

Pastor_Quill
Pastor_Quill Posts: 6 Member
in Motivation and Support
I have always struggled with being overweight. Chubby kid then lost weight as a teen. Heavy young adult then lose weight. Morbidly obese adult, lose weight. Obese again... tired of the up and down like a yo-yo.

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  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
    Pastor Quill, I'm sure I'm only preaching to the choir but you don't ever have to start over again. Life has no pause button. There is no timeout. Life keeps going and going. The sky is not the limit because there's infinity.

    There's no such thing as the right time to begin. Life happens to all of us so we have to build the ability to get fit under real life conditions. None of this is about willpower or motivation. It's about skills. Without any real direction or a strategy we get short term success followed by long term frustration.

    There's only choices and consequences. You can choose to turn this boat around. You can get out of this boat. It only takes one decision. Constant stops and starts only build the skill of pausing and yoyo-ing and riding that merry-go-round. Start now and keep going. The All or Nothing approach to food and exercise gets us mostly nothing.

    You can choose logic and reason over immediate gratification and emotional eating. Fat is not a feeling. I feel fat, I feel fat. When we stop letting feelings drive our behavior with food and stop identifying and defining ourselves so closely with obesity we can make lasting changes. Long term weight stability. Permanent weight stability.

    You choose. You don't ever have to start over again.

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