Motivation after being sick?

PippaJo_

I swear, every time I manage to gather my motivation and get into a routine of good eating and exercise habits - life throws an enormous monkey wrench into the works, and I find myself having to start again from scratch. It's hard enough the first time, but it seems to get harder each time.

And it's harder still when, with the effort I do manage to put in, I don't see results.

I began last November, took some time to get the hang of things, lost 7 pounds over about 12 weeks, then injured my leg/groin, and couldn't exercise for about a month. Gained it all back. Gave up for a few more weeks because the minimal result hadn't seemed worth the effort.

After a while, got an elliptical and dove into that, and back to tracking. Felt better about things, but even with sticking to my goal and using the elliptical 5-7 times a week, I wasn't seeing scale movement. So I began doing P90, and decided that I was going to stick to it no matter what, even though I was getting discouraged that after 3-4 weeks of elliptical use, proper food tracking, and three weeks of P90, no cheats, the scale again wasn't moving at all. (I was really surprised that three weeks of P90 hadn't seemed to do anything yet - I kept seeing people who'd lost a lot of weight, and pretty steadily - even smaller people had lost about 5 pounds by this point, but nada for me.) But I was *going* to stick with it this time - I mean, how could I truly judge if it 'wasn't working' unless I gave it the whole 90 days, and judged it then, right?

And then I got bronchitis.

I haven't been able to exercise for three weeks now, coughing up a lung, being exhausted, and feeling like my lungs are just tired....now I'm afraid to overexert myself. And I'm afraid I've probably lost whatever progress I'd made (even though I couldn't see any). In fact, since I couldn't face tracking properly while I was sick, I just ate what I felt I needed, and I've gained about three pounds (though it's also now that TOM, blech).

So...I'm really finding it difficult to gather my motivation again this time. I feel like I'll be starting over, and given my past struggles, I feel like I won't see progress anyway, so why bust my *kitten* over this?

Oh yeah, and during this illness, I started a new job, leaving two other jobs - so I have to train two people in different places, while being trained myself. (Oh, and I had to go buy new clothes to be 'dressed appropriately' for it. Which look crappy, given that I *haven't lost any freaking weight yet*.)

It's just overwhelming, and feels hopeless.

Anyone have any advice for me? Should I try to force myself back into it, or should I just assume that I have too much stress going on right now, and not worry about it until I do feel motivated again, whenever that might be?

Also, how long *should* it take to start to see results with P90? I'm not phoning it in (or, I wasn't, I should say), but no measurable results at all (beyond moving past soreness, and being able to add more weight, etc) makes me think that something's just not right.

ethansmug

Believe me I know what you mean, I was doing quite well and then found out I had a bone spur in my Rt shoulder and had to let it rest (after minor surgery) for a little over a month. After that it was hard as *kitten* to get back into a groove. I am only just now getting back into it after a few years (tried several times in the past) and I am hoping this time I will stick with it.


All I can really say is that I wish you luck mang =]