Doubts?

We have all gotten discourage at times, especially when we plateau for a while. But we have to keep doing the right things like watching what we eat and excersing everyday. You can do this and this site can be very helpful Everyone on here is supportive and encouraging. Logging your food and exercise helps show you where you need work. Please feel free to add me. My name is Kimberlee, 48.

Yep, I'm right there with you. Yo Yo dieter most of my life, doing ok right now, but it's only been like 70 odd days here and still have so much to go....have a great bunch of friends helping keep me on track though and I didn't have that with WW. Just take it one day at a time, one pound at a time.

I can relate to not being motivated to lose the baby weight. My oldest is turning 14 on Oct 1 and I am just now in the last 3 months actually put some real effort into it and am within striking distance (12.3 lbs) of my original pre-baby weight...not my final goal but a major milestone nonetheless. My goal is to make it by his birthday. As regards to your fear of failing, my thought is, 14 lbs. in two weeks is ALOT!! Are you sure you have set yourself a pace and a diet that you can sustain and stick to over the long term? Cause Truth -- if it isn't, it will only end up fueling the cycle of failure as you fear. It took the catalyst of other medical issues and an impasse in the doctor's willingness to think of anything but my weight as the problem (I'm convinced there's more to it but that's another story) to get me riled up enough to kick in my determination and really get going on this, if only to prove him wrong and get back to solving the rest of the problem! I don't know how much you have to lose --from my highest point, I ended up with about 114 pounds to come off to get back to my normal size. I'm almost halfway there and over half of that has been just since May because I got serious about it, paced myself and set reasonable expectations and on-the-way milestone goals. It's like in a long distance race--if you put all your energy into charging out of the gate as fast as you possibly can, you will run out of steam and not be able to finish. I do not LIKE exercise and sweat. Never have, never will no matter who claims I'll learn to like it. So I know my limits as to what I will tolerate for my higher goal this time around and I push myself just hard enough that I will come back and do it again the next day. Same with diet....I do what is reasonable to me and sustainable over the long-term and works for my body. I've never done anything like this for this long ever in my life and I have no intention of stopping short of my goal. I just don't give myself the option to think about it too much or consider quitting. It is just not a choice -- this is something I have to do and I want to get through it ASAP so the fastest way through is to keep going now at a slow, but steady rate. So I would suggest that you take a long hard look at your diet and exercise plan, find those midway goals and put yourself in the mindset of this being a long term project not a quick fix that is going to be over with tomorrow if only you work hard enough. If you think you are going to quit, find a close friend who will do it with you and keep you accountable. That helps me alot -- several of my lady friends at church are involved in similar efforts and we all encourage and support one another. Just make sure that you don't deprive yourself and work yourself so hard that you end up sacrificing your health for your weight loss. But yes, you CAN stick to it and complete it this time -- just make sure your self expectations are reasonable and then make it a non-negotiable with yourself that this is your new normal, no matter whether you feel like it on any given day or not. This is what you do because your goal is more important than your temporal convenience and comfort of the moment. It sounds kind of harsh but when I started talking to myself that way, my progress spiked dramatically in a fraction of the time but at a healthy rate of loss that doesn't endanger my well-being. My prayers are with you to find victory in this area of struggle and overcome the nagging self-doubt to see it through to the end this time! )