STRUGGLING

Weight Loss is 100% mental. You have to be ready for it. YOu are your own worst enemy. First Stop callling yourself a failure. Your body listens to everything your head says. Second remember why you started. If your eating things your know your should consider getting moving doing anything thats away from that food. If 20 minutes later you still want it, allow yourself some a small piece and water.

I promise it will get easier you will win and be proud of yourself.

Good luck with your success. You can do it if you really put your mind to it. I have the same issues. I go back and forth between this and weight watchers. I actually focused and lost weight on a previous diet but I gained it back as well.. I really need to be motivated. That is why this time, I requested friends on here because i think if i see other people succeeding it will give me the motivation and make me want to succeed. we need to take one day at a time. I have to lose around 70 lbs, and I think the number iswhat overwhelms me. I really want to do this, so hopefully it works this time. I realized i need to do this when I didnt even have the energy to play with my 2 year old the other day. he wanted me to be a frog and I couldnt even get on the ground lol..

I have the same problem, I've lost 50 pounds almost two times before and gained all of it back and then some. I really hope you feel motivated enough to ride it out this time and lose all that weight. I've just started again too and the only thing that really keeps me motivated is that I really don't want to give up AGAIN and have to eventually start over once more. Good luck to you!!!

I can totally relate. I lost more than 100 lbs – I was motivated, inspired, had support. I planned meals meticulously and hit the gym hard 5 days a week. Then everything changed for me. It is easy to blame a change in my circumstances (I lost my job, which also cost me my support system and my discounted gym membership). But, if I am honest with myself, those are just excuses. I was burnt out and I got lazy. I gained some of the weight back - close to 30 lbs - and have struggled weekly to get back on track and stay there. I am trying to, instead of focus on the negative, set myself some short term goals and focus on those. It seems to make it easier to think "this is what I have to go between now and March 30" than "this is what I have to do forever." I don't know if that's helpful for others.

Guys i believe that most of us have been their, losing weight is soo hard and truly is a mind set. I lost 60 pounds two years ago and managed to keep it off, now i have gained 10 pounds back and am having such trouble trying to keep it off or even maintain, i am so worried that i am gonna gain it all back. I feel tired and lazy and have very little motivation. and I am above all sooo Lazy, i always have good intentions but i seem to wake up tired. and end up sitting on the computer instead of going for a walk. i don't know the answer wish i did, people who know the secret please share

i know excatly how you feel, i have been on and off for about a year now, i have to lose like 80lbs and its so hard! but please feel free to add me to help and support. Together we can do this x

Don't feel bad ifferbeki, we've all been there. I only recently became motivated again in January and found that small goals are helping me stay focused. My goal is to lose 5 pounds a month for a total of 45 by September to be ready to take my 4 year old to Disney World for the first time (and be able to keep up with her). Anything over that is bonus!! Just keep tracking, even if you go over your calorie goal (and maybe adjust it to a higher number at first so you won't feel so defeated). I am also looking for more support friends so please feel free to friend me too!!

5 minutes at a time-- I have over 100 to lose and am starting again after 10 days off for a business trip.........just work on today's numbers....... I am headed back to the indoor pool today................turning 50 on Friday.................so off I go................come on.....turn on "happy music" get moving, even if it is only marching in place and swinging your arms........no sitting during tv commercials helps too!.

I am not a very organized or motivated person. I just commit each day and try to be kind to myself....... not beat myself up the days I skip my exercises

I only have to do my food today and if i get in my exercise, good.

I think this winter is really getting me down.... am so sick of snow and the cold. I need to learn to embrace winter. Maybe this year will be the year I say yes to fun outdoors in the cold, but for now its so not happening. I do have a goal of running a 5k with a friend in June so off i go downstairs to exercise with the TV........ boring but I do feel good after I have done it.

Just commit to 1 day at a time. If I look at omg, I have only lost 25 in 6 mo. and have at least 60 to go its negative and defeating. I focus on today I am being healthy for me, so I can garden effortlessly and do this race which I have never done before! Haven't run more than 3 miles in decades, but if not now, when?

So its a day at a time for me and its working. Only 1 day since starting in Sept I didn't log my food. And spring is coming. really..... someday!

I am going to approach you a different way. I am guessing that you have posted something similar to this in the past and these are the same answers you got before.....so maybe something new....

You have to want this. You have to want it more than anything else you have ever wanted in your life. If not, then you will fail....-again-. When you wake up, the first thing you have to want is a healthier you. The last thing you think about when you go to sleep at night has to be a healthier you. If those aren't the first and last thoughts in your mind, then you will fail. If all you do is make excuses for yourself instead of getting out and going for a 30 minute walk a day, then you will fail.

But, if you are willing to sacrifice that cupcake, or that mid-day soap opera, so that the healthier, skinnier you can shine...then you will succeed. If you are willing to wake-up an hour earlier so you can get in that 30 minute bike ride at the gym, then you will succeed.

This can be a very frustrating journey, that's for sure. But great people like the ones on here can give great support and keep you motivated! Feel free to add me if you'd like

Hello, I have been on again off again for years. I sign up for weight watchers the quit, track my food then stop. I know what I should be doing but lack the motivation to do so. My goal is to lose 50 pounds. I am taking it one day at a time. I am starting Yoga and walking on a treadmill. My goal for March is to track my food everyday and stay within my daily calorie limit and see how much I lose this month from doing that. I would be happy to be friends with anyone - and we could support and motivate one another! Good Luck !:happy:

Kenya

Everyone goes through their ups and downs throughout life. It happens, its what you do after those bumps that determines your end result. You just have to pick yourself up, and keep moving. Find something that is dear to your heart/or hurts your heart and use it as motivation, so you can see the finish line of your own race. Control your mind, control your outcome. You MUST have an end goal in mind, including mini goals to keep that fire going. You MUST see it, AND believe it. For those who have faith and believe in God and for those who do not...this message still is the same. Prov 29:18 "Where there is no vision, the people perish..." Without the vision of your goal..maybe its a pair of jeans you want to wear, or an outfit you want to buy. Maybe its going to an amusement park and riding the rides, or going to the beach for the first time. See yourself there, see yourself doing these things. It is not always in the scale or the mirror that you need to see your goals..Visualize it and see it come to pass. Set your mind and your heart to it and and go through the rain and storms and the sunshines. When you need some shoulders to lean on, your MFP friends are there to lend you that helping hand. Beleive me I know. You can succeed and will succeed, just dont give in or give up. You can do this! :flowerforyou:

I completely understand where you are coming from. I agree with short term goals. Mine is to work out for thirty minutes three times this week. When I hit that goal I will create another. Is it gonna be difficult? Oh yes...will it be worth it? Oh yes...