starting again

perkymommy
perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
edited November 16 in Getting Started
Don't know why I keep doing this to myself but I'm back again. Just started back a few weeks ago and got off track again. I am focused this time. The nice weather has made me want to do more. I am tired of getting out of breath just walking to my basement and carrying laundry back and forth. My knees and body hurt and I know it's because I'm carrying an extra 50 lbs. This time last year I had made it to my first weight goal of weighing 125 lbs. and since gained it all back (I'm 150 lbs currently). I have to do it this time. There's no excuse for me being overweight except that I got lazy and can't seem to keep my mind focused. Before anyone bashes that I don't have much to lose or that I'm not that overweight please keep the comments to yourself. I'm only 4'11 and being overweight takes it's toll on my small frame and being 48 years old doesn't help either.

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  • WickAndArtoo
    WickAndArtoo Posts: 773 Member
    That is so awesome that you feel committed and in the game, that's the hardest part! I am a shorty too at 5'2" so I totally understand the whole every pound counts thing, plus it's not about the weight it's about the health aspect.

    What are your current goals and ideas on how to meet them?

    I fell off the wagon the last couple of weeks too... and gained back my hard won few pounds that I lost. Today we went to the grocery store and stocked up on healthy foods so we won't eat out again for a while.

    If you need any support I am here just let me know! Good luck :)
  • Aftronthegreat
    Aftronthegreat Posts: 54 Member
    I have defiantly fallen off the wagon too! Glad you are back and committed :) Take it slow and steady!
  • alejandrocd85
    alejandrocd85 Posts: 10 Member
    edited February 2017
    It happened to me as well. lost like 40lbs 3 years ago and then filled myself with excuses and gained all those 40lbs back plus another 40lbs. But this year I promised my self I would change my life for good. So here I am back again. This year I've lost 33lbs so far. So yes we can! You have all what it takes!
  • rosalie115
    rosalie115 Posts: 44 Member
    Another fallen soldier reporting in with shame.
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    edited February 2017
    WickAndArtoo wrote: »
    That is so awesome that you feel committed and in the game, that's the hardest part! I am a shorty too at 5'2" so I totally understand the whole every pound counts thing, plus it's not about the weight it's about the health aspect.

    What are your current goals and ideas on how to meet them?

    I fell off the wagon the last couple of weeks too... and gained back my hard won few pounds that I lost. Today we went to the grocery store and stocked up on healthy foods so we won't eat out again for a while.

    If you need any support I am here just let me know! Good luck :)

    Thanks everyone.

    WickAndArtoo - I plan to start measuring and weighing food again definitely, walking on the treadmill every other day and work up to more as my body gets used to that again and eating more one ingredient foods. I had fallen back in to eating fast food almost daily and not exercising and not weighing/measuring. I'm tired of feeling miserable.
  • cushygal49
    cushygal49 Posts: 10 Member
    Oh my gosh, we are almost identical - I too am 48, only 4foot11 but I have a few more pounds on me than you. At my heaviest I topped the scale at 196.5 and got to my lowest of 138 and I felt pretty good but for some reason I stopped exercising and ballooned up to 181 - I now weigh 170.8 with the hopes of hitting 135 as my final goal. I suffer from low level depression as well as adult binge eating disorder = I would love to get off of my meds one day by living a healthier/happy/lighter lifestyle.

    Would love some new friends on here for support and motivation. This is my 4th time starting over on this journey with MFP. All the best.

    Claudette
  • meltedsno
    meltedsno Posts: 208 Member
    Back again, also for me... at my highest, 280 lbs 5'2". will be 62 and will be damned if I spend the rest of my life fighting my weight. I spent the first 50 years of my life doing that and losing the battle. have had my ups and downs in the last 12 years but I think I am holding steady. The one key to success for me is to be honest with myself and log, log, log. I notice that when I input every single thing that goes into my mouth and weigh my portions, I am not as apt to binge...doesn't mean I won't, but at least the numbers are in front of my face and I can't be in denial. I log absolutely everything, including my vitamins. Believe me, there have been a few evenings when I just wanted to grab and eat... sometimes I give in, but most times just seeing the calories eaten for the day are enough to make me think twice.

    The other thing I've done is banished the scale from my life. I was a habitual weigher-- stepping on that thing 3, 4, 5 times a day-- every time I would go to the bathroom, I'd weigh myself... and the numbers made me crazy... can't handle the daily-- if not hourly -- fluctuations of up a pound, down two pounds, up three pounds, down 1 pound merry-go-round. I truly do not know what I weigh today. I use my clothes as a means of measure and rely on stepping on the scale each year at the doctors office.

    This formula of logging food and breaking the weigh-in habit seems to work great for me. I think it takes the emphasis off of "diet" and puts it on "lifestyle". With that being said, the jeans are getting a little snug these days so back at logging everything... what an eye opener! that "one little bite" has been ending up as "10 little bites" which is translating into "tight jeans"... log, log, log!
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