Accountability-Daily Support/motivation group

Hi All,

Can I join? I'm new here but could use the daily push for motivation and accountability! I'm turned 30 this year and need to make a change to my health. Since I got married in 2012, I gained about 30 lbs and stayed there for the past 6 years! Well I figured it's a new year, I have a new job, and new priorities! I also recently started exercising again, so that should help (crossfit).

Cw: 215 (approx- will weigh In tomorrow morning)
Gw: 175

Thanks all

My name is Bianka, I am 25 years old and I am from Montreal, Qc ( yes, I speak French )

I have let myself go back to almost my highest weight ever (I was 14 years old back then) in about 10 years.

CW: 185.6 lbs
GW1: 150 lbs
GW2: 120 -135 lbs (the weight that will allow me to lead a satisfying life without controlling everything forever)

I had lost a 100 lbs and I had kept most of it off for the first few years, then 10 pounds more each year recently, I lost 10 pounds here and there, but I haven't been able to really commit to it like before and I ended up getting my weight even higher then before each time which really didn't help motivate me.

Because I know that it's going to be a long journey again this time, it feels like my brain is just remembering all the bad sides of the journey. The suffering from that past experience. I can't "feel" the good even though I was mostly happy on my first weight journey. It was filled with a 100% success, not a single weak did I not achieved my goals. But I forced myself eating basically everything, because I liked pretty much nothing healthy back then and I probably wasn't eating enough without noticing because I was starving, often. That was a 1200 calories a day, which is what is recommended for my height, but I know I can't eat that little anymore.

The irony is that it should be easier now, because I don't have to force myself, I like healthy food. I really do. A lot. But it's no longer a straight line, there is a lot of entanglement.

I am so scared the results won't come fast enough for my level of motivation (and amount of faith and hope left), it feels like I've been sabotaging myself for a while. Particularly by retaking some unhealthy eating habits that were long gone for many years.

Another significant issue that wasn't there as a teen is definitely the ties between food and my social life. As an adult in a city, most of the time, people want to go out to eat or drink. Second best is inviting you home to eat or drink… Same with my family. I have been trying with mitigated success to invite people to do alternate activities, but with too many of my friends and family, it gets complicated much faster in that case and I end up not being able to see my friends as much as I want, as much as I need.

The social life aspect of it mixed with emotional eating are my two biggest problems this time. I'll have to tackle it, but there is no straight line for it.

Sure, I have a lot of control over the emotional eating with enough motivation, but for the social life, it is not only on me. You can't just find new friends to do new things with. It's possible, but it's not as easily controllable as not eating popcorn in the evening!

Thus, I am hoping to find internet friends here, to be able to at least share some of the struggles. So, add me 😊

I started my period this morning and then my mother was rushed to the hospital via EMS and ive stress eaten like garbage today and i'm pretty disappointed in myself... not a productive day

Hello everyone! Is it too late to join this group? I just started looking around the MFP community and saw that this thread is full of friendly people! 🤗
My name is Ashley. I’m 29 and I have two kids, almost 4 and almost 2. I have always hated the way I look ever since I was a teenager. We recently took Christmas photos, and I realized that I could either cry about them and eat more or actually do something about it. So, I started this app. Hoping to meet some friends and do this with other people besides my husband, haha! 🤣

CW: 187 lbs
GW: 160 lbs

I like the fact that the app tells me when I complete my day where I would be in 5 weeks if I did and ate the same thing every day. I hope I can try to replicate today because it says I would be down 30 lbs!

Just went to the gym and worked out for about 40 minutes! And thank the merciful fitness gods I somehow lost another pound despite my laps in healthy eating yesterday! Trying to get my water for the day in.

No workouts are happening here today. Husband is working on house, we both have work tonight, BUT I ate my first 500 calorie meal this afternoon, and I am NOT starving!!! 😁 I am finally getting used to this whole small portions thing. ✌️

echoroyal79 wrote: »

Today felt like a damn Monday. Also kept thinking it was Monday.
Got to catch up on water....not doing so good on that today. Hope to get on the elliptical in a little bit

today TOTALLY felt like a Monday!