What's your biggest regret? Fitness or otherwise...

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  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    salleymo wrote: »
    Also, I wish I would have invested in some stock, saved some money and realized my mom was right about everything!

    I'd love for you to chat with my daughter!!
  • ECTexan
    ECTexan Posts: 195 Member
    I wish I would have gone to college after high school instead of getting married at 19. It didn't last and now I'm a 33yo working college student.
  • Buff_Man
    Buff_Man Posts: 623 Member
    Hmm maybe I will! First I need to finish Project Buff B)
  • aqila17
    aqila17 Posts: 10 Member
    I wish I knew walking is the best exercise that I can stick with
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  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
    I feel better at 46 than I did for most of my 30s and some of my 20s. I get angry with myself sometimes for all the years wasted sitting on a couch.
  • Buff_Man
    Buff_Man Posts: 623 Member
    40 is the new 30 so you're OK!
  • Jpinpoint
    Jpinpoint Posts: 219 Member
    If I could go back to my 16yo self I would tell myself, say no to the ex. I'd push college to my 18yo self so I could have been a teen longer. I'd tell her to cut her mom off because waiting until I was 30 leaves me with minor baggage. I'd give her a hug and tell her when she's feeling lonely it's okay, she's alone but never lonely.
  • LittleHearseDriver
    LittleHearseDriver Posts: 2,677 Member
    zdyb23456 wrote: »
    I wish I would have appreciated my figure back in my teens and twenties. I spent most of those years thinking I was fat. So much angst! lol


    ^^^ I know how you feel. I was curvy and the rest of the girls in high school were sticks so I felt very overweight and self conscious. Now that I'm overweight, I'm actually more comfortable in my own skin (I think it comes with age). I now realize how awesome I looked back in high school. This picture was right after I graduated. jjceziztqfzp.jpg


    This is what I look like now.
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    My biggest regret is not being by my grandfather's side when he passed away. I had the option to be there when he went and I chose not be there because I thought it would be too difficult for me. Everyone in my family was by his bedside when he passed except for me. I feel guilty because he was probably wondering where I was and why I wasn't there. He knew how much I loved him, but I feel like I let him down.


  • ThickJoker
    ThickJoker Posts: 14 Member
    Honestly the 7 years I had to be on a cocktail of 12 pills for my mental disorders.

    I went from 135 lbs to 298 in about a year and a half.. and just stayed toeing the 300 lbs line...

    The meds helped me tremendously, and no doubt without them I'd have not survived... but I regret what it's done to my body majorly.
  • nfpswife
    nfpswife Posts: 63 Member
    Buff_Man wrote: »
    Yup finances for me too, wish I'd planned ahead. Also wish I'd developed a skill e.g. martial art, art or something cool

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  • Thopsi15
    Thopsi15 Posts: 13 Member
    My biggest regret is that I started smoking when I was a young teen....kept poisoning myself until 11 years ago...TWENTY THREE years to regret. Word to nonsmokers and young people, DONT START!!!
    that i didn't stick it out with my first partner longer - but hey, can't live with regrets right?

  • angiep153
    angiep153 Posts: 267 Member
    Letting my friend meet the guy that I had a huge crush on..,... They are dating now
  • Thopsi15
    Thopsi15 Posts: 13 Member
    I regret being ignorant for so long. But thankfully that's not the case now.
  • TardisBlueCurls
    TardisBlueCurls Posts: 24 Member
    Being so stupid when I was younger! I knew better, I just didn't want to listen to anyone
  • jenovatrix
    jenovatrix Posts: 219 Member
    Wasting my 20s in bad relationship after bad relationship. 5 months after I hit 30 I met the perfect guy so it worked out in the end, just wish I didn't have to deal with all that BS first!
  • Thopsi15
    Thopsi15 Posts: 13 Member
    Oh no angie 153. That's rough
  • _Tink_
    _Tink_ Posts: 3,845 Member
    Buying a house in FL at the peak of the housing market, right before the crash. And getting involved with my ex-husband.
  • dcresider
    dcresider Posts: 1,272 Member
    edited March 2016
    I wish I would have changed jobs 10 years ago. Now I've become too complacent and am too old to find something new in my salary range. <sigh>
  • pichiPurinsesu
    pichiPurinsesu Posts: 776 Member
    another thing i wish i had done sooner was got my mental health in check years before i finally admitted i needed help. before admitting i needed the help i just thought i was weak
  • hamlet1222
    hamlet1222 Posts: 459 Member
    Always following the path of least resistance, my problem is I suffer from chronic satisfaction and so never push myself - on the bright side I'm usually happy and not stressed.
  • rldeclercq4
    rldeclercq4 Posts: 269 Member
    I wish I took a year off between high school to work and travel. Also wish I studied abroad for a semester in college.
  • Dekayla13
    Dekayla13 Posts: 64 Member
    I regret lacking confidence in myself when I was younger. It made me extremely shy and I constantly gave up because I felt like a failure before I even attempted something. Come to find out I'm pretty crafty and talented :) It's just too bad that it took me three decades to see it...
  • TheNightWalker
    TheNightWalker Posts: 59 Member
    That I'm still awake, 02:45 AM.....
  • captainlindarg
    captainlindarg Posts: 229 Member
    Caring too much what people think and not allowing myself to be myself. Not following through with school when I still lived with my parents, now I'm struggling to complete school while working full time.
  • lpizza25
    lpizza25 Posts: 1 Member
    Not realizing how strong I really am and that fitness is something attainable, I wasted a lot of time focusing on a number and not how strong I was. I appreciate who I am much more now than when I was in my 20s and I am far more fit
  • sedentarygeek
    sedentarygeek Posts: 55 Member
    Gaining weight back that I said I wouldn't gain! I wish I could go back to when I was at my healthiest and just continue
  • tryingtolive1
    tryingtolive1 Posts: 245 Member
    Allow myself to love someone so much that I lost who I was. Now they are gone and I have no idea who I am or what I want.
  • leahfit77
    leahfit77 Posts: 18 Member
    This post actually made me think...and I have to say I don't have any (so far).
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I really regret how I lost a lot of my weight.

    My time as a NEAT.
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