Frustrating...

chameleon77

I have been eating healthy and exercising for 1 week now, not a long time, I know....BUT I all ready had a bad weekend ! I ate way too much junkfood and I'm trying to tell myself, it's one bad day, move on. But it's making me depressed and I am finding myself not wanting to do anything now. Which I know is horrible! I just need some motivation again, I think...Please. Thank You !

chameleon77

I have been eating healthy and exercising for 1 week now, not a long time, I know....BUT I all ready had a bad weekend ! I ate way too much junkfood and I'm trying to tell myself, it's one bad day, move on. But it's making me depressed and I am finding myself not wanting to do anything now. Which I know is horrible! I just need some motivation again, I think...Please. Thank You !

♥Faerie♥

We all have those days, weekends, weeks even..... Trust me, exercise makes it so much better, no matter what you did the day before. Just take it step by step, and don't let what you did yesterday or the week before affect your outlook for the current day.
Even if you screwed up at breakfast, you can still eat healthy the rest of the day, and work out, it is a great mood lifter! Good luck, and don't be too hard on yourself:flowerforyou:

kerrilucko

there's no sense in being depressed about it. What's done is done and you can't go back in time. All you have is today, so do your very best to do well today. Everyone falls down sometimes... But it only counts as failure if you never get back up.

mszSHOGAN

I agree to get in a good workout, it'll help to pull you out of your slump! Also, why is just that one day bringing you down? I'm sure you had WAY more worse days before you came to MFP. Nobody's perfect so don't beat yourself up. It happens to the best of us. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and JUMP BACK ON THAT WAGON GIRL!

chameleon77

I knew that's what I needed ! Thanx guys ! I'm gonna go exercise with a smile on my face now :happy:

rheston

Trying to change your habits is all a mental game and the toughest opponent you have in this game is your mind. It's easy to say that "it happens" (even though it does) but the more important two things you need to learn from this is that 1) What "made" it happen? -- that is everything you did to resist/not resist the temptation, and 2) How can you recognize those symptoms again to be better prepared to fight them.

I don't think any of us have the answer because each of us is so different from everyone else. My willpower and yours are going to be different but I can tell you that it's a struggle at times that I fail to win and am forced to push myself out of that funk and back onto the scale.

We're here for you but you should really pay attention to all of the mental alerts that happen to take you down that path.

Good luck but know we're here for you!

MOMOFTWO29

Don't beat yourself up over what happened over the weekend, just get right back on it today and fight to do your very best. Know that you can do this. :flowerforyou:

Iceprincessk25

I had pizza and a cheeseburger this weekend....oooops! :bigsmile: BUT you just keep plodding on. If you stopped now you will ever change! You have been building these habits for years and it's not going to change in just one week! On Monday I was back under my calories and did an hour of exercise.

Don't use falling off the wagon for a day or two as an excuse to quit.

chameleon77

Hello again....I really enjoy listening to what everyone has to say and I appreciate your words of wisdom oh so much. This is an excellent site to be a part of and I am glad someone told me about it. I really like the "mental game" theory rheston. That will be my biggest challenge. I have lived an unhealthy lifestyle for so long now, that it is indeed hard to resist every day. But you guys are right, take it day by day, step by step. Thank you all for your encouragement !