I'm not fat, I just have big bones

Nick3495

Hi everyone. I'm Nick. Believe it or not I'm actually very good at losing weight. Up to this point I've lost 13 pounds over the past 6 weeks or so. When I cut out alcohol I literally lost 12 pounds in two weeks. So that leaves me with losing only 1 pound over 4 weeks since then, which is okay I guess seeing as how I basically back slid on all of my new years resolutions (typical).

I want to wake up at 7:30AM every day so I can fit in a workout on my TONAL before work but I love sleep so much that I end up hitting snooze a million times.

My problem is with motivation. Anyways, thank you for reading this. I look forward to meeting you guys!

sollyn23l2

Nick3495 wrote: »

Hi everyone. I'm Nick. Believe it or not I'm actually very good at losing weight. Up to this point I've lost 13 pounds over the past 6 weeks or so. When I cut out alcohol I literally lost 12 pounds in two weeks. So that leaves me with losing only 1 pound over 4 weeks since then, which is okay I guess seeing as how I basically back slid on all of my new years resolutions (typical).

I want to wake up at 7:30AM every day so I can fit in a workout on my TONAL before work but I love sleep so much that I end up hitting snooze a million times.

My problem is with motivation. Anyways, thank you for reading this. I look forward to meeting you guys!

Do it when you get home. Before anything else. That's often the only way I cam manage to do it. If I do it as soon as I'm home from work, it'll get done. If I let myself sit down, it's all over.

Nick3495

sollyn23l2 wrote: »

Nick3495 wrote: »

Hi everyone. I'm Nick. Believe it or not I'm actually very good at losing weight. Up to this point I've lost 13 pounds over the past 6 weeks or so. When I cut out alcohol I literally lost 12 pounds in two weeks. So that leaves me with losing only 1 pound over 4 weeks since then, which is okay I guess seeing as how I basically back slid on all of my new years resolutions (typical).

I want to wake up at 7:30AM every day so I can fit in a workout on my TONAL before work but I love sleep so much that I end up hitting snooze a million times.

My problem is with motivation. Anyways, thank you for reading this. I look forward to meeting you guys!

Do it when you get home. Before anything else. That's often the only way I cam manage to do it. If I do it as soon as I'm home from work, it'll get done. If I let myself sit down, it's all over.

Makes sense. The reason I want to do it in the morning is because I work from home and I want the endorphins and the confidence to last throughout the workday. Otherwise I may fall asleep. That couch is always calling my name.

cmriverside

Go to bed at a reasonable hour. If you need to be up at 7:30, be in bed by 11PM.

If you're sleeping more than 8-9 hours a night, I would take that issue to a doctor. You could be suffering from sleep apnea or some other deficiency.

AnnPT77

Hi, Nick, and welcome!

A fairly common pattern, though not universal, is to see a quick weight drop at first, then have a bit of what seems like a stall on the scale after that. IF calorie intake is where it needs to be, that's usually some kind of water retention rebalancing that masks ongoing fat loss on the scale for a while.

Four weeks is long-ish for such a water rebalancing stall, but possible . . . and reading between the lines it sounds like you may've changed your eating/activity routine after those first two weeks ("backslid on resolutions"), which does somewhat reset the clock.

For now, you could look at it as losing 13 pounds in 6 weeks, which is pretty fast lost unless well over 200 pounds.

I'm with Sollyn: If AM workouts aren't for you, work out in the evening. I'm one of those snooze-button-hitters, too, so that's what I did when I still had one of those annoying job thingies taking up a bunch of time in my day.

Honestly, motivation is fickle. Speaking myself as a hedonistic aging hippie flake, motivation (or discipline, or willpower) is not a thing I have lots of. For me, a good strategy was figuring out incremental, relatively easy ways I could change my habits in a positive direction. When I had a burst of "motivation", I could pursue finding and practicing a new habit until it was pretty much on autopilot, then let the autopilot run until the next random burst of enthusiasm struck. Revolutionizing my life all in one jump has never worked for me, especially if the "revolution" included things that were supposed to be good for me, but that I found actively unpleasant.

It can be surprising on how much can be accomplished via gradual positive changes that build on each other over time. I'd point to habit formation as a particularly useful tactic, especially if there are pleasant (at least tolerable/practical) habits among the candidates. It's the majority of our days that lead to the majority of our results: That makes daily routine habits a power tool for quality of life improvements, IME.

Best wishes: The effort is worth it!

Nick3495

Maybe I'll stop with the excuses like I'm tired, I don't have the energy, and all those things and just take your advice. Both of you. Workout in the evening and make it a habit

springlering62

It’s a double edged sword, in a good way. My energy increased when I got off the couch. The more I got off it, the more energy I found I had.

You’ve just got to create the cycle going in that direction instead of drawing you towards the magnetic couch.

Nick3495

springlering62 wrote: »

It’s a double edged sword, in a good way. My energy increased when I got off the couch. The more I got off it, the more energy I found I had.

You’ve just got to create the cycle going in that direction instead of drawing you towards the magnetic couch.

That's some really inspiring advice!