What do you enjoy the most about your weight loss and fitness journey? I'm back and grateful

surananc

Hi Everyone,

I'm back after a long time away and I'm grateful. My fitness pal helps me being impeccably honest in tracking and it always works. My honesty starts to ebb and flow when I don't track. I can rationalize this treat won't matter, again and again.

At 68, I'm being forced to be honest and move daily. Fortunately, both help me feel good. That's a huge motivator. What about you?

AnnPT77

Welcome back!

I'm about your age (just turned 69), but have been in weight maintenance for a few years now, which means I don't really think of it as a journey, except in the sense that the totality of life is sort of a journey, I guess? Life is made up of time, and that's all we have, so it matters how we spend it.

In contrast with around 30 years of being overweight to obese, I feel pretty great. It was getting my eating routine in better bounds that led to weight loss.

Fitness-wise, after cancer treatment, and after decades of mostly inactivity, I was lucky to stumble into a sport that I love so much that I'd do it even if it weren't good for me, but it is. It even gets me doing some things that are slightly less fun, in order to tune my myself up to do that thing. That started well before I lost weight, thought: I was the semi-mythical pretty-fit fat person in my 50s. As a result, there are activities that were challenging or impossible for me to do in my 40s that are pretty easy at 69, and that's a big blessing. I'm aging, of course, but there seem to be surprisingly many factors in the mix that I can influence, counter to the popular notions that age is inherently synonymous with inevitable and increasing disability.

I want to feel as good as I can, and to the extent possible, I want to set things up so my future self can be pretty happy, too. That's about all the motivation I've got, I think. Motivation isn't exactly my strong suit.

Best wishes for success: The results are worth the effort!