Where's my mojo?

Craig772

So here’s the thing. There I was running around 15 miles a week and cycling about 120 and fitting in some weight training as well. I was doing half marathons, mountain bike events and the such like. I kept this up for around 3 years. Then bam as I started to transition into a new job my mojo, focus, determination for training just evaporated and I put on 28lb. 30 months later after a few false starts I feel this time it’s for the long haul. This seems to be a similar story to a lot of people posting on here, false starts, loss of enthusiasm. I’ve been thinking about this and I have a theory. It seems to work for me and I wondered what you guys thought.

It goes like this… I think it’s like the object that you try to look at when it’s dark. You have to look just away from it. Or like the dream you’re trying to remember. The more you think about it the further away the memory gets. I think that focussing on logging my meals, balancing my calories and planning my exercise is the foundation for my mojo. If I put these building blocks in place then my spirit and enthusiasm returns. I am not going to say it’s back, neither am I going to confirm or deny it. Let’s just say I am plugging away at getting my body into a good physical place and I am happy. I want to run more, cycle more, have a good weights session. I am sure that if I lapse then as my body goes to ruin then so will my spirit. Maybe the message is don’t sit around waiting for it to knock on your door just get on with it then one day you’ll look over you shoulder and catch a glimpse of an old friend.

SarahNicole317

So true! I think too often people believe they will just all of a sudden have the urge to eat right and exercise. It's a learning process and it always will be. You have to set goals and like you said, have a foundation for success.

dayday86

I completely agree. My story is kinda long but basically I was always a slightly overweight kid. When I started my first year of high school that is when the pressure hit me to be thin and beautiful. In one summer I lost 80lbs.. I became anorexic, was losing a lot of hair, my period stopped, and I was very weak. My parents made me go to a doctor who told me I needed to start eating more if I wanted to have kids someday and not destroy my liver. I did not know how to eat normally. I started eating more and more till I became addicted to food because I went without it for so long. Well here I am back to where I was plus some. I kept "starting" a diet for the last 5 years but I would give up easily. As soon as I got serious with this site and started posting my meals and my workouts I felt better.. like I can actually do it this time around. This time I will do it right and hopefully from my past experience I will know when to stop or when I'm not eating enough. My problems is that I'm a perfectionist. If I have a little slip up I will just completely give up and say "I still start tomorrow" but I have learned.. tomorrow never comes.