Back after a long break (and a big gain)

KaelaLee88

Hi everyone,

So, the title really says it all!

I "took a break" from logging and absolutely lost it. I started going back to my old 'habits', started suffering ill health so stopped exercise of any kind.

I really let things go in a way that I hadn't noticed before. So I am recommitting myself to the experience of weight-loss. I am choosing change!

We all fall off the wagon and that is ok, it's just the getting back on bit that sucks!

Any advice out there that has helped you in the first few days back on it?

Kaela x

TheSatinPumpkin

Welcome back.

carimiller7391

Welcome back!! In my opinion, just hop back on the train and track. Track your food that is. It's what I find the most difficult, so it's what I suggest to do first.

Carrie from DE

KnitOrMiss

Kaela,

The biggest things that have helped me each time I've had to recommit is to really sit and make lists of the whys and wherefores... Do I to be this fat forever? Do I want to be the girl who binges every time I'm stressed? Do I want to be the person who gives up every single time life throws me a curve ball?

Obviously, the answer to all these questions and more is a resounding, "Not just no, but HELL NO!!!"

So, someone posted here that when you make those choices, you kind of have to go with faith and belief. You have to believe that if you don't want to be that anymore that you simply AREN'T that anymore. It isn't foolproof, but it has helped me launch past the inevitable motivation fizzle until I'm into well-launched determination.

Also, focus on establishing habits more than progress. One man was determined to make going to the gym a daily habit. So every day for six months, no matter rain, shine, sickness, health, whatever, every single day he went to the gym for five minutes. At minute 6, even on days he felt like he could workout for hours, he left and went home. Focusing more on establishing a habit, then building it up once your habit is well and truly entrenched can do wonders.

My hardest problem is that whenever I recommit, I come out, both guns blazing, wanting to take on the universe in one breath. Well, I'm morbidly obese, so that really isn't realistic. I have to reign it back, even when I want to take back the universe. I was doing a plank challenge, doing okay, so I added a squats challenge, and they both imploded on me.

So I'm starting back at the watered down version of my beginning planks challenge, and waiting on the squats challenge until my planks become a habit. I was getting there, but it was too much. Anyone can give less than a minute. My watered down version of the planks challenge that started to get me to the "real" one started with a 5 second plank, which I couldn't even do at first....

So here's to tonight, and day one again... Hope this helps at all.

Hugs, Carly in OK

P.S. Baby steps in tracking, too. If you're like me, I can usually track through lunch and snacks on a given day, but dinner goes to pot. If I start with at least breakfast every single day, I can get back to tracking being a habit, too...