Need advice and support. Biggest I've ever been!

Krisunderconstruction
Krisunderconstruction Posts: 21 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
So here I am, yet again, trying to lose the weight and I am at my biggest I've ever been in my entire life! I can not find my motivation or willpower. I feel terrible most days and I can not seem to step away from food, or step on the workout equipment. In the past I've lost 25 pounds twice. Once was all natural workout and diet. The other time I took shots at a Dr's office along with meds. I am in my late 30's and weigh more now that I ever have, like EVER! Recent Christmas pics only depress me because I can't stand the way I look. I need to lose about 60 pounds or so and I can not find the willpower to say no to food and yes to working out. Can anyone please give me some advice on how to find my mojo?

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  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    You won't want to hear this---but maybe you're just not ready yet. When you are, this is what you do--plug your stats into MFP, it'll give you a daily calorie total before exercise. Try to stay within those calories everyday. Buy a digital scale and weigh and measure everything you eat and drink. Log it all. Try to move more. If you do this you'll begin to lose. If you don't--well.... The choice is yours. Wishing you the best whatever you decide.
  • JHALLISGETTINGsmall
    JHALLISGETTINGsmall Posts: 54 Member
    I wouldn't go for workout equip yet. You can loose a lot of weight just by adjusting your diet. I was 322 when I started. 305 now - have hardly worked out at all. if you eat less you will lose. I am going to add the exercise slowly as I feel ready
  • ManiacalLaugh
    ManiacalLaugh Posts: 1,048 Member
    JHALLISGETTINGsmall wrote: »
    I wouldn't go for workout equip yet. You can loose a lot of weight just by adjusting your diet. I was 322 when I started. 305 now - have hardly worked out at all. if you eat less you will lose. I am going to add the exercise slowly as I feel ready

    This is very good advice. A lot of people feel like they aren't doing anything if they don't jump in with both feet and go too extreme, too fast.

    For now, did what snowflake suggested. Find out what calories you need to be eating to lose weight. Start there. Get your portions under control. Later, decide if you want to add more nutritious food and figure out if you would like to exercise and what you want to do.

    I lost a good bit of my starting weight by just eating less. The workouts came later.
  • ma2va
    ma2va Posts: 1 Member
    Krisunderconstruction. I understand I'm right where you are. I read "A year of yes" by Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal). She didn't give any excersise advice or promote a product, she lost about 100 lbs. She said it wasn't easy and she had to work on it every day and it was hard, hard, hard. Keep up the work and you will get there.
  • michelledani1
    michelledani1 Posts: 1 Member
    I could have written this post myself a couple of weeks ago. I, too, am the heaviest I have ever been...heavier than when I was 9 months pregnant! I got divorced and lost weight, then found happiness and gained weight...a LOT of weight. I know what I have to do to lose weight. Eat right and exercise. But I couldn't stop eating. So I went to the Dr. and she prescribed Belviq. Its an appetite suppressant mixed with an extra bonus of an anti-depressant. All I can say is....it works. I'm not hungry. I'm not craving pizza, which I am/was addicted to. I've been having to work hard at getting in the 1760 calories I should be having and every day I fall short. I'm eating 1200-1300 calories a day of good for you food and am full after every meal. I also have been getting up 3 days a week at 5am to work out at the gym for an hour, only because life gets busy after work and I have 1000 excuses why I don't have time to work out then. In the last 15 days, I have lost 5 pounds. That might not seem like much, but its a start and all I needed to keep me going and motivate me to be better for myself.
  • Kullerva
    Kullerva Posts: 1,114 Member
    Logging/weighing is a big jump for most folks if they're not used to it. That's ok! Just by being here, you've taken your first step to being healthier.

    I recommend using MFP as a food journal for the first week or two to help you discover your eating habits and get you used to logging. Don't calorie restrict right off the bat unless you want to. I find food journals helpful because it helps me track where my calories are going (and at what times of day).

    Good luck! As others have said, jumping in feet-first with exercise isn't necessary; weight loss is easily 80% diet, 20% exercise. And I'm 40 lbs down from my top weight without doing much more than running 3x a week.
  • Krisunderconstruction
    Krisunderconstruction Posts: 21 Member
    Thank you everyone for all the advice. This week my goal is to log my food and to try to cut my back on my sugar intake. One day at a time until something clicks I guess.
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