Friends to help me with my goals

awesome_paws

Hi all
So I have been a member of MFP since January 1st of this year. I have logged my food every day since then (except 1 week when I was on vacation). However I wasn’t trying too hard to stick to under my calories, and until mid April, most weeks I went over my calories for the week.

I always find it hard to stick to the whole healthy eating thing. I am very strict for a few weeks – this usually coincides with the weeks where I have few social events (I have a lot of work functions that involves lunches/dinners/drinks – as well as my regular social life), then these events come up and I lose motivation, decide it is too stressful to so carefully monitor my food/drinks when I go out and throw caution to the wind. So say 4 days a week I am under calories, then 3 days I am over (with 1 of those usually way over). So while I haven’t gained weight, I have not lost either. I went back through my diary and found that the days I went way over were always drinking days – lots of booze calories plus eating out/bad food choices due to the alcohol.

5 weeks ago, I began regularly exercising, 4 days a week (2 days spin, 2 days strength training), and 5 days walking to/from work ~6km/day as well as doing weekend workouts/activities (yoga/biking/hiking/stair climbing). This has helped a lot, because I like to eat and now I get to eat a lot more. I try to net ~1200 calories per day, which gives me a total of usually 1800-2000 calories per day. I have not really been drinking either (1 or 2 max if I do). I still can eat out here and there and stay within my caloires. So I have ate under my week’s calories for 3 weeks and lost about 5 pounds. So super motivated.

The next 5 weekends I will be out of town (so eating out, potential drinking and potential to not be as active). And it stresses me out to go to these things, I know I can eat healthy while away and fit workouts in, but it is so stressful and makes me so anxious I kind of want to say screw it again, work hard and eat well 4 days a week and let it go those other 3 day - not crazy eat whatever I want, but not kill myself over staying under calories. In this case, I will probably not gain weight, but not lose either. I often plan and plan when I know I’ll be in these situations, but when everyone else is eating/drinking, sometimes I just break my resolve. Plus with summer around the corner, I will have many obstacles, and I would love for this to be the year I finally stick with it and acheive my goals.

So I am 5'7, I currently I weigh 195 lbs. My goal weight (right now) is around 170. I would love some friends who can help me stay on track over the summer

wannaslim

Hey you. We sound quite similar, I'm 5'7 and as of today 191lbs.
I'm always up for additional support and would love to help you too. Feel free to add me as a friend if your up for it