at what point do you consider yourself "successful"?

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Every day I make it out to the woods for a hike or to the gym to work out I feel successful.
  • lutterback38
    lutterback38 Posts: 20 Member
    I'm trying to lose weight (about 25lbs to go, down about 60lbs) so I've lowered my calorie intake, I'm working out while at the same time trying to meet nutrition goals. HARD HARD HARD...I consider success one day at a time by meeting my goals and staying under my calorie goal. I failed today but tomorrow is another chance. 30g of fiber is so hard to get!
  • joseserpas1788
    joseserpas1788 Posts: 11 Member
    Congratulations and keep it up, every time I put on clothes that used to fit to tight and now fit perfect I consider it a success and shows I'm doing something right
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    megzchica23 wrote: »
    Everything I do to me is a success. Every day I wake up, every day I log food, every time I make a healthy food choice, every time I exercise, every time I think positively. I like to be happy and feel successful with everything I do.

    I like this, and I try to think like this. Behavior goals, not just weight goals. When you do the right things most of the time, your weight will be right for you too.
  • haviegirl
    haviegirl Posts: 230 Member
    Every single day that I track carefully, exercise, and stay patient I am a success. I'm losing weight steadily, while getting stronger in the gym and developing more stamina during my daily walks/runs. I'm wearing smaller clothes and feeling amazing! At some point, probably in June, I'll hit my goal weight, but I'm a living, walking, breathing success story right freaking now.
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    When I am dead at a normal BMI, having been able to maintain my weight loss for the next 50ish possible years of my life.
  • caurinus
    caurinus Posts: 78 Member
    When I eat an appropriate amount of healthy food, exercise, and treat my body with respect, and it just feels normal.

    When I first started, it was a lot of changes -- having to detour from my usual path home to stop at the gym, no more weekly pizza binges, no more butter-slathered popcorn and beer every single night, and so on. Back then I spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself about how difficult all these changes were. And they were hard, at first. Today, it would feel really weird to eat a whole box of Girl Scout Cookies. Though I admit, I've thought about it...
  • Panda_brat
    Panda_brat Posts: 291 Member
    As long as I keep going in the right direction in the long term, I am successful. This past month I might have had more bad days then normal, but I made up for them, and I have been maintaining successfully for over a month day, even with less exercises and moving around less because I have been sitting in class
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    Every day that I meet my calorie and exercise goals is a successful day. My plan is solid; as long as I keep doing the work I'll get where I want to go.
  • dustedwithsugar
    dustedwithsugar Posts: 179 Member
    I lost 20 lbs and have another 20 to go. I don't feel much different to be honest. And still I don't quite believe that I can do this. Don't get me wrong, losing weight was never easier. First time in my life I know exactly what I'm doing. I can eat whatever I want and I see loss on scale every week. But I cannot believe that I'll reach my goal. After all those years? I'm trying to lose weight since I was 12. And now suddenly I can be at my GW in couple of months?
    Feels weird.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    For me it took a while keeping the weight off to feel truly successful.... 3 years on I still feel proud of my accomplishments even though now noone actually remembers that this slim person was once fat...
  • Snacky_Onassis
    Snacky_Onassis Posts: 9 Member
    I consider success in two ways: physical and emotional. Physical is numbers on the scale going down, clothes fitting better, people commenting on my weight loss. Emotional is stopping a binge in its tracks, or recognizing that I only want to comfort eat, and subsequently stopping that behavior.

    I've lost about 25 pounds and still have a long way to go physically. But I can tell I've made a lot of progress on the emotional end. Every hurt feeling doesn't send me running for the Nutella. Every stress at work doesn't propel me to the vending machine. And truthfully, I think the emotional end is the tougher part of the journey.
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