Used to be fit and fell of the wagon?

My memories of being fit are from when I was a child. Depression and anxiety issues stopped me from caring about my weight until recently. I'll never have the body I had as a child, but then I wouldn't want to. My main wish is to keep having the health, both physical and mental, to stay on the path I'm already on. I'm losing weight for the first time in my life!

Schedules. Specifically, becoming a mother (and all the schedule juggling that entails), while at the same time taking care of an elderly grandparent. I felt that I lost total control of my life for several years when I had two young children and grandma to care for. My needs came last.

Fortunately, my kids are a little older, and although their schedules are more hectic, they also are more self-reliant. And the situation with grandma has changed for now, although it may change again.

The biggest thing is I started putting my needs higher up on the list, and made my workout time a priority.

Hi Antonio,

Yep, I used to be a fit gym bunny and went religiously and really enjoyed it. Then I broke my foot and couldn't run for a few months and found that because I wasn't active, my healthy eating started to slide and I ate more and more junk food. Then when my foot healed I tried to go straight back into workouts at the level I was doing before. Obviously I wasn't as fit as before so couldn't workout to the same extreme, ended up getting disheartned and fell off the wagon totally and didn't set foot in a gym for about a year! So I wasn't exercising, was eating too much crap and most crucially, I didn't want to work out as I felt lazy in my head. Basically a vicious circle!!

I've found that now I'm starting to exercise again (getting into it slowly) I'm starting to enjoy again and as I'm feeling healthier physically, I feel healthier mentally and actually want to get fit. So in answer to your question, I would change my mental mindset back into a healthy groove and that would enable me to reclaim my fitness as I'd WANT to go to the gym and stop finding excuses not to go

Phew, sorry about the essay there!

Stacey

I used to be super fit as well in my early twenties. I had been obese before then and now I'm trying to get back to those fit years. I don't like to say I would change this or that, as I have a very blessed life, 2 beautiful kids...but I know where I made mistakes. When I was in the bet shape of my life, I was working out 2-3 hours a day 4 days a week (weight training and martial arts), not to mention walking around the huge UGA campus. I ate what I wanted, but I was a much more picky eater then. I didn't eat fried foods and although I'd eat all the fries in the world, I wouldn't eat much of any other fast food. After graduating, I met my (now ex)boyfriend while attending grad school, who was way skinnier than me, but who ate all the time. He wasn't health conscious. I didn't consider myself to be either, so I allowed him to introduce me to new foods. Wings with tons of ranch sauce, baklava, gyros, Jamaican food, pasta dishes...we ate a lot. I was still active, but I now had very poor eating habits. After kids came the weight (since I still ate poorly), plus I was working a career job now and was becoming more and more inactive. On came more weight...after splitting with him, I became active again. Went back to martial arts and dropped the weight. Loved it so much. I eventually moved back to my hometown, and thus loss my brilliant martial arts connection (such an amazing school and support group that was)...on came more weight as I became more inactive.

Now, getting back on track with in home training. Keeping things lively with a mixture of workouts and making far better food choices.