Frustrated and Ready to Give up...but not this time!!

GinaNewman
GinaNewman Posts: 9 Member
in Motivation and Support
I don't want to offend anyone with this but it is just how I feel so I apologize ahead of time.
I only wish that I could just drink shakes and lose weight or just take some pill that magically changes my life but that isn't going to happen. I would probably lose weight but my body would just gain it back. I have tried shakes, pills, not eating and I lost weight. When I started to eat even healthy I gained it all back! This time I have to find a change to my lifestyle!! It is really hard though when those around you don't support you in the struggle and find the quick and easier way out. I hope that those that use this can keep the weight off and I wish you the best. It is just hard to know the daily struggle with whether what I am eating has too many calories or carbs or fat and that the only way this is going to work is if I eat healthy and work out. Not just one of those but both! This is the moment I have given up so many times. How do you celebrate for someone when you struggle to lose a pound in a week? I am not giving up though...this is my life and I am here to change it!

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  • Lizzy622
    Lizzy622 Posts: 3,705 Member
    Keep at it. Many of us here are in the same boat and have found out the hard way there are NO quick fixes.
  • amyllu
    amyllu Posts: 432 Member
    Hi Gina...Good for you! It is a struggle and even when the weight is where we want it to be it's still going to be a daily awareness of what to eat and what not to eat but at least it will definitely get easier as you get accustomed to it.
    Keep going..it will be soo worth it in the end.
  • Blessed4x
    Blessed4x Posts: 20
    You seem to have the right attitude this time. I've just started this journey, but I've never been more motivated. What did it for me this time is that I just reached a point where I was tired of having things happen TO me in my life and decided that things were going to start happening FOR me. I attended a men's conference at church called "Stepping Up" and I came out of that conference with the realization that my life was just happening around me and it was like I was watching television instead of being an active participant. Whether it was my relationship with my wife and kids, my over eating, my lack of exercise, all of it.

    I decided then and there that I was going to be the husband and father I SHOULD be, I was going to take control of my body and my life. The mantra they pushed was "Don't Be Passive" in your life. Don't sit on the sidelines and watch, get involved. I fully intend to walk my precious baby girl down the aisle in 20 years or so. I WON'T miss that because I'm dead from a heart attack. I figure that losing weight for some people (like me) is similar to a religious revalation. You have to be driven to your knees, to reach that point where you simply say this is it, I can't live like this anymore. I WON'T live like this. It's time for a change.

    I would love to be your friend and offer whatever support I can. This is a journey made doubly hard by doing it alone. Please feel free to send me a friend request. You can do this.

    Peace, love and joy. And remember...."DON'T BE PASSIVE"!!
  • Maewhet0126
    Maewhet0126 Posts: 21 Member
    I knows how you feel. People around me are taking diet pills and body wraps, and if they aren't doing that they are eating all kinds of things I have such an addiction to food I have to completely stay away from my mothers kitchen when I visit her which is very often because the ice cream and cookies I'll find. It's such a horrible feeling to not have any support. They believe support is like saying sure go ahead and diet but it's more like don't offer me soda or candy or blue bell and my fiance with a naturally fit body us always getting fast food and stuff and he doesn't understand how hard the process is it is physically and emotionally draining but I try my best feel free to add Me so we can support each other
  • GinaNewman
    GinaNewman Posts: 9 Member
    That is exactly the problem the people I need to be the most supportive with this life struggle are the ones losing weight by other means.

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