Women 200lb+, Let's Keep It Moving This March!!!

sjonathans wrote: »

Hello Everyone. New Here.

SW (2/24/2020) - 357
CW (3/2/2020) - 354
GW - 150

Right now I am focusing on one day at a time. I got some very concerning medical DX - but I am also struggling with severe depression and anxiety, so actually working on loosing weight and getting healthy is a struggle all on its own. So any encouragement is welcome.

OMG Sjonathans, the exact same thing happened to me. Left the doctors in tears the other day and came on the community that night. So I'm right there with you. It's been so challenging for me and I feel like I'm stuck in this never ending cycle. But ever since I've joined the community and was surrounded with all this positive energy I have started to feel a bit better reading everyone's posts and it's making me feel like "I can do this!"
But, like you said I'm taking it one day at a time!
So im telling you:
YOU CAN DO THIS!
WE CAN DO THIS!

@Sableprncs and @sjonathans we are glad you two are here, and I think most of us can relate to that overwhelming feeling of being stuck in a cycle. Being here is a great step! One day at a time- YOU CAN DO IT!

Start by making one little positive change, and roll with that for a few days, see how you feel, see where it takes you. After a while that one little positive change becomes the new normal, then maybe make another one.

@charsuzy my advice for feeling motivated to exercise is to find what really works for you. Don't try to do something you don't like! For me, I dislike exercising first thing in the morning. I will always hate that. If I try to make that happen, I end up not exercising nine times out of ten. So, find something you like, and figure out what time you feel most like doing it, and try that out. After a while, you'll feel so good you won't be able to imagine not having that as part of your routine.

@pamiede your progress is amazing. Wow- 100 pounds in less than a year! Thanks for the inspiration!

@CupcakeCrusoe – “…it’s about the form. Get the form right.” Yes, I spend a lot of time telling my left knee it needs to be pointing forward during my runs and my walks! Also I need to remind myself to stand up straight all the time!

@sonyaj989 – wow, meatless March! In the spirit of the Lenten season, I decided to try meatless Fridays, which might morph into meatless Mondays long-term.

@VictorSmashes – I keep a huge infuser pitcher of water at my desk. I do tend to guzzle about 24 ounces at a time. But my goal is for the water in the pitcher to be gone by the time I leave at the end of the day.

@sharpdust – giving up fast food was so great, and I could not believe I wouldn’t miss it. I think the last time I had McDonald’s, I was on a road trip and it was the only choice. But other than that, I think the last time I regularly had fast food was back in 2013. Once you lose the taste for it, you’ll have the same reaction as @Terytha: I can do this way better myself, at home!

@kathrynegrady – sometimes I tell myself I’m getting into beast mode! You already learned one important lesson, though, which is that it’s truly your food intake that matters for weight loss. Exercise helps but it’s not always the boost everyone thinks it is! And for exercise, find something you like to do because in the long run it’s consistency that matters, not the difficulty. And don’t discount weight lifting, it takes a lot of calories to repair that muscle tissue!

@sjonathans – during my better times, which would include the past nine months or so, it’s easy for me to slow down and think, “If I overeat and gain weight, how is that extra weight going to make any other issue I’m facing better or easier?” It’s not that the extra weight might compound my misery, it’s my way of deliberately separating my thinking about eating from other emotions I’m experiencing.

@vegasgirl0825 – was laughing today, reading that you live in Wisconsin! So far from Las Vegas!

@charsuzy – I’m going to share this thought from my favorite podcaster at Phit-n-Phat, since she does frequently address the topic of motivation. She coaches her group that you should not wait for motivation. “Do you wait for motivation to brush your teeth, or to do anything else that’s good for you?” To me that’s a fair point. Thinking in those terms, waiting for motivation sounds more like waiting for inspiration. Personally, I handle it by making myself start my planned workouts with a rule that I must put forth a good faith effort for at least 10-15 minutes, and if I still feel like I don’t want to workout that day, I stop and go home. I truly cannot remember a time when I’ve stopped at that point and said, “nope, not today!” Also, find something you like to do. Not everyone likes running! I want to love Zumba and Barre classes, but they are both hard on my knees in a way running is not!

@Brockka90, @charsuzy and @jellygrl Motivation. We all want it. I hear it said a lot on this site. The thing about motivation is, you just can't stay motivated. It's not a natural state. There will be moments when you will be motivated: seeing the scale move downward, seeing an old picture of you and realizing you're fitter now, seeing that one quote that pulls the day together. That is great. Those are good moments.

But the day to day- it's more about habits. Why am I weighing everything on a food scale to the gram? Because I know that if I make it a habit, then I'm going to get to my motivation- which for me, is Future Hotter Me. It's fine to be vain as long as it's the thing that keeps you getting healthier. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

But seriously- you find motivation where you find it: better health, lifting more weight, running further or faster, or just being Future Hotter You. All those are acceptable. To get there, we do the very un-hot, un-sexy work of building habits that will get us there. The motivation is a bonus.

So take a minute and think why you want to be smaller. What do you want to happen, who do you want to be?

@Danielle__S You are killing it, well done.

@mmccloy12 heck yeah you've got this.

@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I'm glad you have something that helps, that sounds horribly painful.

@Terytha I fall into that trap with food all the time. When I was pregnant with my second, all I wanted in the entire world was a Fish Filet sandwich from McDonalds. I thought about it for weeks. When I finally got it, it tasted like nothing and grease.

@Lasmartchika oh man I love me some Zumba. Get it!

@vegasgirl0825, @shorepine, @pamiede Those are great goals and you are all on your way! Pamiede you are killing it! I love seeing you complete your diary every day.

@sjonathans You can do this. We're all here for you.

@asthesoapturns your decal idea sounds fantastic!

@sharpdust get that gym time!

@sableprncs and @nesmith77 welcome! we're here for you even if you're just lurking!

@darksunapril crazy... like a fox! You can do this! But I speak for myself when I say I'd like pictures of this dress!!!

@mmdeveau I had some bad form going that had to be corrected- fortunately, caught it before it turned into an injury.

@BrownSugar17 thanks for sharing! I love that! You are so fit now.


Those meals I preplanned today? Yeah, one of them went out the window. I had planned for leftover chili, but turns out someone in the office ate enough where I only had enough for lunch and not dinner. Thank goodness for Subway's chopped chicken salad- just a pile of vegetables and chicken, yum. I don't even need dressing, because I get all the good sweet peppers and the relish in there. Mmmmm. My day went fine, Flo's coming, so who knows what the scale is going to do, but I know I'm on track. And those brownies are gone out of my house, which is also a huge help.

Well, I got all the downstairs housework done and a good dinner (steak, baby potatoes, and brussel sprouts with rolls) ready. Boyfriend came home and didn't want any of it. Girlfriend's asleep; she may wake up sometime this evening and eat her portion. So I ate my steak and rice (I try not to eat potatoes) and am feeling sort of sad. It's not my fault he's depressed, but I miss him when he's like this. I think I will wait til he goes up to bed or 8 pm, whichever comes first, and go to the gym and then stop and get my girlfriend's meds on the way back.

Terytha wrote: »

Alternatively here is a most excellent article on breaking the low mood cycle, which is what most of us get trapped in when we speak of needing motivation. This thing:



It's a good read, I recommend!

https://captainawkward.com/2014/06/29/guest-post/

Thanks for posting these things. I hadn't even seen it from that perspective, since it's not my experience, and I really appreciate it.

I'm sure I have more but transferring from dead computer to living one is tedious. If anyone has a Cricut or Silhouette I'm happy to put the cut files in a public folder or drive somewhere.