ups and DOWNS!

jlolson6740TK2

I have never really be happy with my body! I have always wished I was smaller! Exercise was never fun or me, I never got that "rush" everyone talks about. I like to eat foods that don't bode well for weight loss!

About this time last year it finally clicked for me. I had my eating under control and I was working out everyday (and actually enjoyed it)! Pretty soon I was down 50 pounds!!!! I felt awesome!!!! '

Then Christmas came.........
I gave myself the freedom to "enjoy" the holiday's! Cookies, large meals, Bailey's..... pretty soon I am up 20 pounds and I CANNOT GET MY MOJO BACK!!!!

I am so sad and disappointed in myself! Everyday I wake up and make plans to get the workout in and every night I find a hundred other things that need to get done instead! Everyday I pack my lunch with healthy food that fit into my calorie allowance and every night I am kicking myself for all the stupid choices I made.

I need that spark back quickly before I end up right where I started!!!!

srrose15

You can do it I promise - I just sent you a message - let me know if I can help you in any way - I can even be your accountability partner

Renee428

I have been going through the same thing my whole life. I lost over 100 lbs within a year a couple of years ago and I left myself go to the point that I gained 50+ of it back. It is taking everything in me to attempt to lose it again. I struggle everyday with knowing I need to eat right. I make one bad choice then its down hill. I am attempting to take it one meal at a time and at least get in 30 minutes of some movement a day. Feel free to add me if you would like. Maybe together we can get this done. Good Luck

brandiuntz

What you're going through is very common for a lot of people, I think. I've had my phases of falling back into old habits.

Try a variety of things to get your "spark" back:

1. Make a list of why you want to lose the weight.
2. Look at pictures of yourself when you were heavier and when you were lighter.
3. Keep packing that healthy lunch for work and eat it ONLY. Remove temptation from your house if you need to to avoid night snacking.
4. No excuses for not getting exercise in. Tell yourself those other things can wait.
5. Change up when you workout. Workout in the morning before you get bogged down by the day's demands.
6. Congratulate yourself on any small positive step you take. It takes awhile to get back into positive habits.
7. Remind yourself how good you feel when you have a "heathly" day. Strive to feel like that again.
8. Don't stop trying. As long as you never give up, you'll eventually hit your goal.

salcha76

this has been going on w/me for 5 years or so.....and believe it or not self help books on awareness have helped tremendously....i need to love me and want to be healthy for ME....not for anywone else...I read Awareness by deMello and the 4 Agreements....boom....life awakening....I also subscribed to the secret scrolls emails & read stuart wilde.....we are what we think....i know i am best when my head is in the game....good luck to you!

Coyoteldy

do something TODAY.. don't worry about yesterday.last week last holiday.. TODAY you get to make choices...stop stop stop beating yourself up for things in the past, we all have rattling bones in out proverbial closets, close the door on them and move to the next thing you need to do .. for YOU..because YOU are sooooo worth every bit of care you can give yourself:)

007FatSlayer

Work out when you get up in the morning, don't wait until the afternoon when you have a plethora of excuses. Sleep in your sports bra, tee, and shorts. Have your shoes by your bed and know that you have no option, but to just DO IT! Don't think about it, just DO IT. Why? Because you CAN. A lot of people are disabled, wheel chair bound, missing limbs, unable to walk and etc. You are cabable of what some of these people only wish they could do(some people with missing limbs don't even let that stop them). Be grateful!
Let your inner light shine out, instead of looking for some light to shine in.

fightingthefood

I have had the same problem with falling off the wagon and was good at finding reasons to not climb back on for one more day which always turned into weeks and sometimes months. Then late one night I was trying to find something that I could use to kick start my MOJO and my butt, (which had gotten to a considerable size) back to reality. But even then I think all I wanted was to have a pity party.
I had opened up a album of family pictures and was looking at pictures of my wife and kids when a voice in my head said to me. You have four beautiful kids and it's to bad that on the path your on they will probably by calling another man daddy by the time the oldest is 12.
By this time in my life I was 303lbs,diabetic (T2), high blood pressure, mini stroke, and had lost my vision.Thank God after some serious surgery and a amazing doctor I got my vision back and had no permanent damage from the stroke.
Then as if the revelation that my kids would be calling someone else daddy was not enough the voice proceeded to say to me that the same man would be crawling in bed with my wife every night. Let me tell you that nothing has ever hit me between the eyes as those two things. So now I keep a copy of the pictures on the fridge and on the mirror I shave at every morning. The voice that likes to tell me to go ahead and eat what I want NEVER again will be louder than the thought of another man taking MY place in MY life.