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RMitchell1186

Opps I didn't really tailor my struggles to just this week. They are my usual struggles but next time I just do it for the week. This week it's mostly the will power with the food because I have people coming in my out of town and I know they are going to go out to eat and I'm going to want to eat what they are eating!! Also lack of sleep this week and I'm sure for the months to come will be a struggle for me as well. I have a month old baby so I know I have a long way to go before I get normal sleep again lol!

aliciazak

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VTGolden

My struggles are:
-Having confidence in myself. I've ALWAYS had an issue with this for as long as I can remember. I truely don't think I've ever said anything good about myself! I just am way to hard on myself. Most days I feel like I'm stupid and I look like crap. I've never felt like I've been good at anything or had any talents. I know I shouldn't feel this way and sometimes I feel guilty about feelng this way because I know there are a ton of people out there who have it worse than I do but I just never loved myself lol.
-Not having will power as far as food goes. I've been doing ok since I started my diet which was Halloween lol. But I can't help but give into temptation sometimes especially when I am around other people who are eating what they want. Also when the food I eat on my diet is so boring and I just crave good (and by good I mean BAD!) food lol. I know there are plenty of delicious healthy foods out there but truthfully I don't have time or $ to spend on cooking them. And especially with the holidays coming up it's gonna be really really hard for me!! I also love egg nog and hot chocolate so I know those will be my two temptations throughout the winter! lol
-Actually losing weight. Every diet I've ever done and exercise program I've ever done, I never lose weight! I always seem to put on the pounds but I feel I gain muscle. The only time I ever lost weight in my adult life was when my ex-boyfriend and I broke up and I didn't eat much for about a month and half lol. I know that is obviously not going to happen this time so I don't really know what to do. I know I've only been on this diet for about a week but I haven't lost anything and I can feel myself already starting to get frustrated! I really don't want to stay this size and just turn into muslce. Yes I eventually want to tone up whatever flab I have left, but I want to lose weight first! I wish I had the $ to talk to a nutritionist and a personal trainer about it but I don't.
-Finding time to exercise. Right now I can find the time because I am still on maternity leave and haven't started school yet. But I know when I go back to work and start nursing school I am going to struggle to work out. I know I just have to carve out the time somewhere just like I have to carve it out for studying but I know it will be difficult and I'll probably drop exercise down to the bottom of my priority list like usual. But I know there are moms out there who are way way busier than I am and if they can do it then so can I!!

So those are mostly my biggest struggles. I know it's a long post sorry!

We could be twins! Our struggles are very, very similar. Glad there is someone out there that can relate!

VTGolden

Struggles this week seem to be eating the sunlight I am not getting! When it gets dark out so early, I turn to comfort food. But its still dark out when I finish eating, so I look for more comfort food.

Although I celebrate my sons 17th birthday today, I can't help yearn for the past when he was a baby. It seems like just yesterday that we were celebrating his first birthday. It seems that my children's birthdays get more bittersweet as they get older. Birthday cake and lasagna don't help the matter at all!

mzjessicab

My weight today was 156.4 - no loss since last weigh in

My goal is to not eat my emotions this week!

I have to agree- I struggle with getting upset and letting my emotions send me downward spiral of cake, pizaa fries and anything else that's bad for me but tastes so good.... so I am learning how to still eat right when I feel like crap.. This is a struggle I just learned about myself... I never ever thought that i would 1) ever have to lose weight and 2) be an emotional eater..I always died to have curves and was always the skinniest chic in my group of friends.. So now that I have the curves I DON'T want to lose them.. I want to lose the fat off of my c-section belly and tone tone tone so that I fit comfortably in a size 10!! Right now I bounce between 12 and 14 in some stores...

HisChild2011

Thank you for sharing your struggles and thats whats awesome about this site and this thread is that we are here to encourage you, support you, challenge you, empathize, and persevere thru this journey together. I can definitely relate to some of your struggles, and what I can say is I think the change comes when you really decide. While I still have a while to go to get to my goal, I know this time is different. I have truly decided in my head and my heart that I am ready to change. I know it won't be easy, I know it won't be quick but it will happen. I have decided that no matter how I feel, I am going to try my best. If I only work out when I feel like it I will stay this way. I have learned the value of telling myself no in 2 short months. Thats not to say I don't get frustrated because I do. Some days I think can I really do this? Will I do this? Some days I take off, but those struggles won't define me. I pick right back up and press forward. Sometimes I eat the wrong thing and feel crappy. The next day, I'm right back on it.

I hope this site and thread will be as motivating and encouraging to you as it has been to me. I read some success stories everyday to motivate myself as well. I close with a quote from my pastor: "We will only change when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change."

You can do it sexy mama!

My struggles are:
-Having confidence in myself. I've ALWAYS had an issue with this for as long as I can remember. I truely don't think I've ever said anything good about myself! I just am way to hard on myself. Most days I feel like I'm stupid and I look like crap. I've never felt like I've been good at anything or had any talents. I know I shouldn't feel this way and sometimes I feel guilty about feelng this way because I know there are a ton of people out there who have it worse than I do but I just never loved myself lol.
-Not having will power as far as food goes. I've been doing ok since I started my diet which was Halloween lol. But I can't help but give into temptation sometimes especially when I am around other people who are eating what they want. Also when the food I eat on my diet is so boring and I just crave good (and by good I mean BAD!) food lol. I know there are plenty of delicious healthy foods out there but truthfully I don't have time or $ to spend on cooking them. And especially with the holidays coming up it's gonna be really really hard for me!! I also love egg nog and hot chocolate so I know those will be my two temptations throughout the winter! lol
-Actually losing weight. Every diet I've ever done and exercise program I've ever done, I never lose weight! I always seem to put on the pounds but I feel I gain muscle. The only time I ever lost weight in my adult life was when my ex-boyfriend and I broke up and I didn't eat much for about a month and half lol. I know that is obviously not going to happen this time so I don't really know what to do. I know I've only been on this diet for about a week but I haven't lost anything and I can feel myself already starting to get frustrated! I really don't want to stay this size and just turn into muslce. Yes I eventually want to tone up whatever flab I have left, but I want to lose weight first! I wish I had the $ to talk to a nutritionist and a personal trainer about it but I don't.
-Finding time to exercise. Right now I can find the time because I am still on maternity leave and haven't started school yet. But I know when I go back to work and start nursing school I am going to struggle to work out. I know I just have to carve out the time somewhere just like I have to carve it out for studying but I know it will be difficult and I'll probably drop exercise down to the bottom of my priority list like usual. But I know there are moms out there who are way way busier than I am and if they can do it then so can I!!

So those are mostly my biggest struggles. I know it's a long post sorry!

maceycarey

Tuesdays-Struggles:

My weight loss journey has been difficult due to my belly. I got some stretch marks when I was pregnant with my daughter, she was 8.5 lbs and I gained almost 100lbs. I didn't loose all of the weight after I had her but almost all of it. Then when I got pregnant with my son, I was instantly a balloon!!! I had to take the three hour glucose test, but it still came back that I didnt have gestational diabetes. Well, I kept getting bigger and was having issues, so they did the test again one month before my due date and sure enough, I did have it the whole time, probably with my daughter too! Anywho, Jacob arrived at a wapping 10lbs 2oz!!! Needless to say, I have strech marks galore and when I do drop weight, its everywhere but my belly. I feel like I will always have the extra skin! I will never be able to get a tummy tuck to get rid of it. But this is my biggest struggle!!!!! It is VERY VERY discourageing when I cant but cute bathing suits or jeans because the extra skin or stretch marks show (thus the tank top in my start picture).

to KOlmert: i understand did you see my pic a couple of pages back im never going to be a super model but i will always be a super mom there are things you can do once you lose the weight to get rid of some of that (check out skin tyte) my first son was 9.6 and my second was 10lbs TWO WEEKS EARLY! ... but remember you have to love yourself before you can love others... your beautiful and keep telling yourself that

tuesdays struggles: IM SOOO HUNGRY i want all the old food i used to eat every day like i would love to load the kids up and take this to a big mexican resturant eat a ton of chips with cheese dip rice beans fajita the whole nine yards!... i tried brocolli raw last night and i felt like i was eating a leaf... im a really picky eater so it is really hard for me to like all this healthy stuff but im trying really hard to do so... i think im going to have stir fry tonight...the thing that is really troubleing me is that with my husbands work he gets laid off alot because thats just how pipeline works but its comeing to the holiday season and we always get laid off and that makes it really hard because he dosent get much for unemployment and it will be the first lay off with two babys ahhh i wonder when we will get to have a good and relaxed christmas...but i have to have faith it turns out ok every year and i always get stressed for nothing...here i come bowl of cereal

Tiffany517

Tuesday Struggles:

This week TOM is visting and yesterday i didn't feel good AT ALL so instead of cooking i ordered PIZZA!!! And today though i ate grapes i also hit the vending machine up (not a good thing.) One day i see and feel a difference in weight and how far i have came then the next it's like WOW i still need to lose sooo much more! Also mornings have been tough with my six about to be seven yr old daughter, crying for an hour becasue she doesn't what to wear her clothes or i didn't answer her the first time she said mom? It makes the day longer on all of us and then i feel 'bad' once i get to work that i wish i had someone to help so that she can have more attention that she needs, and then i start to fall back into old patterns and look for my "comfort foods"!
Looks like an work extra hard at the gym day today....

WilliamsPeggy

Hello Sexy Mamas!
Tuesday check-in.

My struggle this week is going to be not eating junk after class Wed. night. I'm in grad school and have class from 4pm to 8:30pm on Wednesdays. I'm usually so hungry by the time I get out that I eat fast food because I don't care by that time. I'm going to pack something healthy and filling to eat during my 10 min. break.

maceycarey

hey we are supposed to be posting on a TOPIC called tuesdays struggles !!!

SlimBananas

Tuesday struggles:

Umm I guess to get right into it. My preteen years I was overweight I'm only 5'3 so
I felt like a little meatball then the summer before high school I slimmed down all te way to 117 my smaller weight
Then I gained like 8lbs after I got married then I gained 40 while pregnant with my daughter lost about 10 then got pregnant again 7
Months later with my son & gained 30 so far I've lost 13 of that lol
So being overweight reminds me of my preteen years & it puts me in a depressed like mood
I have battle scars from my pregnancies & I've learned to be content with those but my stomach is my struggle (plus sweets & fast food) but my stomach has that awful "pouch" of which I'm trying so hard to get rid of. Sorry for my rambling ladies lol didn't notice i talk so much lol but my struggle is my tummy

maceycarey

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go to this page and join the group if your in the group and then write your "struggles" there

jennyph2006

My struggles in this week and during my weight loss are. emotion eating . After my first son was born I gained almost 70 pounds. I lost half of that weight, but after my second baby I gained almost 100 pounds. and lost more than half now but I have about 30 pounds more to lose. I also had 2 cesarian and also my babies were big. my 3 years old was 8.2 pounds and my 14 moths old was10.2 pounds. so due to my pregnancies i have some strech marks and my tommy that is giving me a hard time :sad:

aliciazak

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luvmybeebees

Struggles - this week my struggle is with 'Mommy guilt"! Actually it is an ongoing struggle...but highlighted this week since Hubby is out of town.

I always struggle with doing stuff for me, if it takes away from my kiddies. I know in the long run a healthier me is better for my kids, but when they 'need' me to sit with them, to just be with them, it's hard to put myself first and go work out.

beautymama2011

I wanna be a sexy mama!!!!