Feeling lost

I think everyone is afraid of change on some level. But what I've learned about losing weight is you have to WANT the change or your going to yo-yo all over the place and end up right back where you started, out of shape and unhappy.

Add me and lets do this together. Time to stop making excuses and start making CHANGES

I was there two years ago. I was always fit and athletic. Then after college I got a desk job and weight slowly crept on, but not a whole lot. Then I got married and had a baby. Gained 50 pounds with the pregnancy and lost it all...then slowly gained it back under the excuses of a full time working mom commuting 2 hours a day. That said, I hit my rock bottom when I saw myself in a picture with someone I considered to be "big." I was bigger than her. It was eye opening. When I saw myself in the mirror I didn't see that at all.

Anyhow, once you find the real reasons you want to do this, you can move forward and get it done. As ridiculous as this sounds, it is actually kind of easy once you get into the rhythm of changing our habits. You can do this!

Every year I would tell myself the same thing, but following through was always the hard part. It took going to my daughter's school for an event that actually got me to take steps to do something because I could hardly walk to the door from the parking lot. I had to stop a few times, and then sit down on the floor once I got inside to catch my breath. I was totally embarrassed, humiliated, etc. etc.

It wasn't like I didn't know that I needed to do something, but it was at that point that I knew I HAD to do something. It's like the adage of the hound dog bellowing because he's laying on a nail and it doesn't hurt enough for him to move.

I had plenty of worthwhile reasons to do something prior to that - but that was the defining moment. Change is hard, but it's one step at a time. Maybe you can find one thing to change a week, like drinking 8 glasses of water every day or not driving through fast food restaurants for breakfast during the workweek, or even replace one snack a day with a healthy snack. Change can be as simple as that, and then just adding to it a little at a time - it doesn't have to be all at once. And don't think you can't have your favorite foods - find ways to work them in, but do it in a way that you won't have it in the house. I love queso dip, so about once a month (maybe twice), I'll go to a mexican restaurant and order the smallest size and count out my 8 tortilla chips....I won't take any home either. That way I've gotten my fix and controlled the environment, and the portion.

Just a few thoughts....for what it's worth.