How do you stick to it?

lizblizz2012
lizblizz2012 Posts: 196 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Last year around this time I decided it was finally time to get back into shape. I only had about 25 pounds to lose. I joined MFP and did really really well with eating right and exercising. I lost 15 pounds the first month. Then, I started slacking off and eventually gave up. I gained all the weight back plus more.

In November I got engaged. I decided I HAD to get fit for my wedding. No one wants to be fat in their wedding pictures. I purchased a sale dress that was 3 sizes too large and made arrangments to have it taken in before the wedding. I started back up with MFP, and failed again.

April, 3 months before my wedding, I had gained even more weight and I realized it was my LAST CHANCE. I found a very inspirational quote: "If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up."

And then I gave up.

A week before the wedding, I went in for my final dress fitting. The zipper WOULDN'T BUDGE. My worst nightmare. I took water pills and starved myself enough to fit into the dress just barely. It was still tight.

After getting the wedding pictures back from the photographer, I couldn't stop the tears as I looked at myself squeezed into a dress that I was drowning in just months ago. I felt ginormous. I was larger than my husband, an ex football player who used to be twice my size. I decided that I don't have to be miserable for the rest of my life. I want to feel beautiful. I want my husband to be attracted to me. I know that underneath these 50 extra pounds is a girl who is worth something more than what she sees in the mirror.

I feel dedicated, but I still fear quitting like all the other times. What is your secret to sticking with it? I must know! xoxo, Liz

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  • jillmarie125
    jillmarie125 Posts: 418 Member
    I feel your pain. What finally worked for me (sticking to it) was to keep telling myself "in a year from now you will have wished you started today." You don't want to feel this way forever, so you need to start making small changes today. Don't wait until tomorrow, or Monday or the new year. Start now. You will thank yourself next month. And don't beat yourself up, and say you failed if you make one bad food choice. Log it, and move on. Good Luck!!!
    - Jill

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