Living The Lifestyle Thursday 10/10/24 Delayed

imastar2

This is a thread for everyone. If you're new to GoaD, or to weight loss, your questions and comments are always welcome. If you're maintaining, or a long-term loser, your thoughts on the topic may be just what someone else needs to hear. If you're reading this, join in the discussion!

Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.

Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Wildcard
Wednesday-misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard

Today's Topic: Starting and Stopping Tracking, or stopping snd starting your plan no matter whether it's WW or My Fitness Pal or maybe you have another type of tracking.
The discussion is what helps you to return to your plan of tracking or restarting your plan. Is it a physical or mental thing or is it just starting at the scale and saying enough is enough.

Al_Howard

Never leave it!!

imastar2

My life at my current age has become busier and busier. I'm not retired even at 77. I have a busy Real Estate Brokeragec business my wife still works we have other family issues that keep us busy.

Since covid I've gotten busier and busier. I dropped WW way back there and then began tracking in MFP then began seeing a weight specialist through our hospital system here in Gainesville Ga and she said I should not take the time to track and to just eat 3 balanced meals a day. I did lose weight at first but then getting tge 3 square meals a day became problematic. That didn't work so then I went to a local clinic and got into a milkshake diet that they had and that was an extra $100 a week. I lost 30 lbs first 3 months but leveled off so I dropped that.

I realize that there is a breaking point for calorie intake. So the phrase comes to mind that comes out here on this board that says:TAKE IN LESS THAN YOU BURN or something like that.

I definitely have found that metabolism seems to change the older I get and the more health issues that pop up. So I'm not having a pity party but just need to get my priorities straight and losing weight and staying in this forum definitely helps.

On to another day.

cakeman21k

For me success has always been closely tied to tracking weighing and measuring. The more consistent I am about it the more success I have! That being said I have been very inconsistent for the last 4 years and it has showed at the scale. I get religion for a few days or weeks and then loose my motivation again for any one of a variety of reasons. Right now we are in day 2 of a 30 day TV trip to the Grand Canyon and a bunch of other places. I did track yesterday but these trip usually involve more eating out than when we are home so there is that challenge. I will let you all know how I do over the next month.

crewahl

Ah, the age-old question - “where does motivation/discipline go when it goes away?”

I’ve said before that it’s an issue of priority - other things become more important in the short term. The only solution to me is to be clear about my priorities. Am I making choices that support the person I either think I am or think I want to be?

whathapnd

I've had trouble the past few years sticking to a plan for more than a few weeks. I'm aware, now that it's (mostly) gone that the constant arthritis pain I was having negatively impacted my life much more than I realized. I've said previously that when I reach a level of "mental pain" about my weight/the way I look, that's when I take action to lose it. Unfortunately, my threshold for where I need to get to relieve that "mental pain" has increased over the past few years. I think I've forgotten how good it feels to be at a "normal" weight.

So, in short, when the mental pain of being overweight outweighs the perceived pain that will come from dieting/tracking, I usually take action.

Flintwinch

As I've mentioned before, motivation is a mirage; habit is the key. And if habit falls by the wayside, pick it up. Nobody does weight management perfectly, and those who say they do are probably lying to themselves.