Screaming inside my skin...

Fittykitty11
Fittykitty11 Posts: 124
in Motivation and Support
Over a year ago I was really getting into running... I was eating really healthy and feeling good, losing weight... my peak was 8 miles, and I was doing 3-5 multiple times a week. Then I hurt my knee and it's been a sustained injury since... so running is VERY difficult.

A little less than a year ago I was REALLY motivated to build muscle around my injury. Hitting the weights often, making decent muscle gains and really liking the muscular changes in my body despite gaining weight. However, I was and still have been eating horribly. On and off would I eat clean, but it all came back to wanting to eat like poop.

The last month I have been eating out for almost every meal (kitchen remodel) and it's a horrible excuse but it happened. I'm still 'strong' but I have excess weight again that I never dreamed I would have back...

I know with time, patience, and good eating I will be okay... but I'm impatient... I fear what I'm doing will be wrong and won't work. I am so uncomfortable in this skin.

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  • lighteningjeanne855
    lighteningjeanne855 Posts: 566 Member
    Jewelofstars, I suggest that you read the "Success Stories" threads on MyFitnessPal.
    Folks have overcome serious illnesses and extreme circumstances in order to lose their weight.
    You can do this, too.
  • MTBrob
    MTBrob Posts: 513 Member
    You just need to get back to your roots. You are so clouded on how good things were going for you , you are forgetting about the details...

    Seems like to me you just have a problem with motivation and you are rationalizing away your drive with excuses..

    I think you need to spend a little time in the mirror and get real.. I don't think you are uncomfortable in your skin... I think you are TO comfortable in your laziness...

    You want to be "comfortable" in your skin then you need to go stand in front of a mirror naked and tell you self you don't want this. Lets face fact for a minute..

    One way or the other you are where you are and you know what you have to do to change it.. So you need to ask yourself.

    How bad do you want it ?

    Because if you want it bad enough you will take the steps .. ( Not LEAPS ) but steps in the direction to your goal.. You want to be comfortable in your skin then you need to own it.. You need to own where you are at and realize how you got there, and then make the change. The moment you stop making excuses and get real with your self is is the moment when you are back on the right path.

    The only thing you are actually fearing is getting uncomfortable, you will find that drive but you have to get off that comfy couch seat and get back in the drivers seat.

    Good Luck!

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