Historical endpoint and breaking through for once

Hirgy03

Just realized something last night. Over the past 10-15 years or so, my weight has yo-yoed. At my heaviest, I was knocking on 300. Since then, after losing down to around 230 lbs, I gained back a lot of it. About 3 bouts of getting back up around 275, then I'd hit the gym and watch how much I was eating (it was never a healthy weight loss, never tracked things like I'm doing this time). Well, each time I'd get down to around 230-235 and would just kinda stagnate there. After having lost 30-40 lbs, I'd really like the way I looked, and every single time I'd promise myself I was going to drop another 15-20 lbs and build on my chest and arms.

well, Every. Single. Time. so far, I've found some type of excuse to kinda get away from the gym. Soon enough, the weight would come back on and I'd find myself hating me for letting it happen again.

Well, for the last month or so, I've hit that point again, where I'm at around 235 (it'lll go up a lb or two, then down a lb or two, and back up, etc. and so forth). So, for all intents and purposes, I'm at my "historical endpoint" of weightloss.

This time I want to stick with it, and break through this plateau that always seems to discourage me so much. I have til the end of January to lose another 5 lbs or so (I had kinda set a goal back in October to be down below 230 the first week of February when we go on a cruise.

Guess I'm just hoping that typing this "out loud" will help with my motivation to stick with it (not to mention the fact that my lower back S.I. joint is out of whack again, which seems to have been one of the excuses a few of the times that I quit lifting). So there, now I feel that I'm "accountable" to you guys for it.

FitBeto

Lift heavy things, eat clean things = path to success!

erinsueburns

Just realized something last night. Over the past 10-15 years or so, my weight has yo-yoed. At my heaviest, I was knocking on 300. Since then, after losing down to around 230 lbs, I gained back a lot of it. About 3 bouts of getting back up around 275, then I'd hit the gym and watch how much I was eating (it was never a healthy weight loss, never tracked things like I'm doing this time). Well, each time I'd get down to around 230-235 and would just kinda stagnate there. After having lost 30-40 lbs, I'd really like the way I looked, and every single time I'd promise myself I was going to drop another 15-20 lbs and build on my chest and arms.

well, Every. Single. Time. so far, I've found some type of excuse to kinda get away from the gym. Soon enough, the weight would come back on and I'd find myself hating me for letting it happen again.

Well, for the last month or so, I've hit that point again, where I'm at around 235 (it'lll go up a lb or two, then down a lb or two, and back up, etc. and so forth). So, for all intents and purposes, I'm at my "historical endpoint" of weightloss.

This time I want to stick with it, and break through this plateau that always seems to discourage me so much. I have til the end of January to lose another 5 lbs or so (I had kinda set a goal back in October to be down below 230 the first week of February when we go on a cruise.

Guess I'm just hoping that typing this "out loud" will help with my motivation to stick with it (not to mention the fact that my lower back S.I. joint is out of whack again, which seems to have been one of the excuses a few of the times that I quit lifting). So there, now I feel that I'm "accountable" to you guys for it.

Well here is some support for you!

And a suggestion, if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you always got....

So, instead of focusing on losing those extra pounds, and THEN building up your chest, why don't you reverse it and work intensively on your muscles.


Good luck, and enjoy your cruise.

Bobby__Clerici

Forget trying to diet for the cruise....just lose 1 pound per week...
Do cardio and resistance exercises.
And when you go on the cruise, forget losing weight.
They feed you like a hog in slop, and this is why I LOVE CRUISES! And it would be a miserable experience trying to diet on such a fabulous vacation.
Our last 7 day cruise saw my weight creep up 5 pounds.
I did lite cardio for an hour after every meal.
All went well.
As for your life pre and post cruise, again, 1 pound of weight loss per week.
And when you reach your goal, maintain.
Life is to be lived!

Hirgy03

FitBeto and Erin...... thank you, and that is what I'm doing right now, this past week I've really upped my game as far as pushing myself harder in the weightlifting area. That, and the fact that my future bride is really starting to shed the weight and is getting into the whole workout thing right now......

Hirgy03

You crept in while I was typing the other response Bobby..... thanks!

Bobby__Clerici

You crept in while I was typing the other response Bobby..... thanks!

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