I've hit the wall

purplemama28
purplemama28 Posts: 52 Member
edited November 14 in Motivation and Support
I'm looking just for some motivation. I've been going through a rough patch in life and food has always been outlet to run to. I've been trying to walk off the frustrations in life but just isn't happening looking for someone to be there to motivate me to get back on track. Please no Rude comments I get that enough in my personal life thanks

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  • fraseria
    fraseria Posts: 16
    Well I'm not the most or best motivational buddy out there, but here's the best advice I got...

    Stick to your guns and eat clean. Try to eliminate simple sugars as far as possible. Eat at least 3 meals a day and try to limit carbs in the evening when you're sedentary. Kickstart your metabolism by having breakfast or some protein as soon as possible from when you wake up to get your body out of fasting and catabolic mode. Log your calories and take a weekly average. One day over doesn't break the bank. Just make up for it on the other days. Log properly. No better truth bomb than what you put down in black and white. Don't obsess about what the scale says - body weight fluctuates. Don't starve yourself since its just going to cause you to binge and then all your hard work was for naught. Take and log your measurements every 2 weeks to gauge your progress. Don't aim at ridiculously high weight loss figures per week. Rather take it steady and work on a calorie deficit of 200 - 400 below maintenance aiming at about 1 lb a week. Don't cut like 500 calories from the get go, since that just shocks the body and induces catabolism so that you're actually losing muscle and not fat. Cutting by 100 every 2 weeks until you reach your required deficit eases the body into the new lifestyle. Try to do at least 15 - 25 minutes of cardio a day and if possible pair with strength training to gain some lean muscle mass.

    My personal release for stress or frustration... there's no better place than the gym. If I need some release I push it to the limit in my cardio and strength training. Nothing boosts your morale like breaking a PR. If you can't go to a gym, there's loads of body weight exercises that will build strength as well and what is nice about those is they promote lean muscle mass and they're mostly compound movements, so they burn a lot of calories and work up an excellent sweat.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    Not enough about your diet situation an what the problem is or what you want advice on. Presumably you are attempting to lose weight. Split it into:

    1. Personal life and the issues that are getting you down. Life can be rubbish and many emotiinal eaters use food as a crutch to get them through things. You need to either endure or solve the personal problems so you arent under stress. the other way of attcking it is to recognise the triggers and fins alternative ways of dealing with it when the situation arrives. Food is just a shirt hit whereas solving the problem will mean longer term benefits. Talking to a friend, going for a walk, having a bath might get you past the urge and is non calorie related.

    2. Another tactic you should use requires you to focus and comparmentalise your mind so that your diet is a place of refuge and control impervious to the outside storm. That means you do not let outside events and emotions influence what happens in your diet.

    3. Motivation really has to come from you, but you cna get support from your friends. Focus on the idea of why you wnat to lose the weight and the difference it will make to your life, increased confidence, happier, things you can do, clothes you cna wear then link that to the actions you take now such as creating a deficit and doing exercise, hen break it down into small steps i.e 1 day and 1 lb at a time. If you do that then things dont overwhelm you.

    4. If your diet is failing then relook at the math and brush up on getting the basics right to ensure you are at deficit. People who lose consistently are those who pit effort into ensuring they are at a deficit, weight and log food etc. People who are not losing tend to be poor at just the basics.

    5. Get someone to look at the math of how you create your deficit, but its unlikely the walking it off stragey is going to be effective as people underestimate the amount of exercise needed to lose weight. Its much more efective to look at logging your food and not eating in the firts place to create the deficit rather than trying to exercise it off. Get someone to look at your diary to get the basics right.

    6. Life sucks some times, but eating is going to make things worse and not get you to a better place. You need to stick up for yourself and realise if you diet consistently and are at a deficit, then you will lose and thats good news.

    You can lose weight if you want to but it requires you to deal with things, focus and then commit to taking the actions needed. Do you care enough about your own future to do soemthing about it? Once yopu start losing it encourages you to lose more.

    Good luck.
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