Hospital stay lit a fire under by butt.

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Mommabear0319
Mommabear0319 Posts: 1 Member
edited July 25 in Introduce Yourself

I’ve tried this app before but never stuck with it. Well… A recent event really scared me… so needless to say I’m back with a new outlook and really wanna stick this out for my family but also for myself! So hey yall! Any advise or anything is welcomed!!!!

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  • mattWilson2534
    mattWilson2534 Posts: 59 Member

    Hey! I'm in a similar boat, I have had a hard time sticking with the program, but recently I had some medical issues that warranted a possible surgery and I am too big currently for the surgery, so I need to lose weight ASAP. So, now I'm here. Hopefully we both find a way to stick with it this time.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,122 Member

    Hello and welcome!

    Speaking from the perspective of having lost from obese to a healthy weight, and having stayed at a healthy weight for 9+ years since (so far!), the rewards - health improvement, quality of life improvement - are more than worth the effort it takes.

    My first tip to anyone new is always to try to make an easy-to-follow plan, rather than shooting for a fast weight loss plan.

    I know all of us want to drop weight like it's hot. That can be a trap. So many people seem to arrive here with an intention to lose weight aggressively fast, cut calories to the bone, cut further if the scale stalls even briefly, adopt some very restrictive and unpleasant-to-them eating plan, then maybe stack a punitively intense, miserable daily exercise session on top of that.

    That doesn't usually end well, but it does end quickly.

    The people here who've successfully lost weight and kept it off tend to do something more boring: Log their food, figure out calorie cuts that let them eat food they enjoy and find filling but at lower total calories, maybe try to add a manageable bit more movement to daily life or a bit of enjoyable exercise . . . at least tolerable and practical exercise. Then they settle in and cement in those things as long-term new habits.

    Yes, it's slower. But sometimes a sustainable plan and a slower weight loss rate get a person to goal weight in less calendar time than some extreme plan that causes deprivation-triggered bouts of over-eating, breaks in the action, or even giving up altogether because It's. Just. Too. Hard.

    Bonus: They learn and practice habits that will help them stay at a healthy weight long term. Since many people find maintenance even more difficult than losing in the first place, that's a useful thing.

    Finding and practicing new permanent habits is a very different mindset from "lose weight fast". Maybe that's not relevant for you, since different things work for different people . . . but that'd be my tip.

    Best wishes for success!

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