New Attitude

xarla16
xarla16 Posts: 84 Member
edited November 12 in Introduce Yourself
In the past when I have tried to lose weight, I have always been extremely into it. I always worked out hard and cut my calories and was definitely unrealistic about my expectations for weight loss. I always wanted to come off a whole lot faster than it went on and when that didn't happen, my motivation was always squashed. I came to a realization the other day when I was telling one of my students to stay on task. I told my student that there are lots of things that we don't necessarily want to do, or like to do, but that sometimes we need to do those things to get ahead. I realized that weight loss is like that. I think my expectations are more realistic this time. I realize that I'm not necessarily going to love every minute of the effort it takes, but it will be well worth it.

I have accepted that I am going to have to keep logging even after I lose the weight because clearly I need to keep an awareness of the calories I am eating because it is far too easy to overlook calories here and there. Before my motivation always faded over time, but I think if I stick to the understanding that we don't have to love everything we do then I can stop myself from talking myself into eating those extra few calories that add up so fast.

I'm not sure if this seems pessimistic. I'm quite determined to lose the weight, but I realized that I don't necessarily need to be always pumped on motivation to do it. In some odd way it seems easier.
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