Can’t Stop Gaining - How Do I Reverse This?

Hey girl I hear your struggle! I have been there and you are definitely not alone! I am in the process of bettering myself... I have my ups and downs but find ways to continue to motivate myself. If you are a typical girl like me then you too love to Pinterest. Before going to bed I like to look up motivational quotes etc. recently I have gotten a large calendar to write some of those quotes down and keep track of my workouts. This seems silly but I even use stickers to show my good days and bad days. Visuals and writing down my goals have been a huge help. Let me know if this helps and maybe I can continue to help motivate you.
Sincerely,
A motivating friend:)

Don't look for motivation look for the easiest and most simplest thing you can do to start.

I suggest reading this:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

and this:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

NovusDies wrote: »

Don't look for motivation. Look for the easiest and most simplest thing you can do to start.

I suggest reading this:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

and this:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

That^^

Do you have a food scale? Get one. Start a food diary. Fill out your profile on MFP. When it asks you your goal, put maintain your weight. You can change it to losing later.

Try to make a menu to hit your calorie number. Make sure you always log everything into your diary. Over your number? Log it. Wildly over? Log that too.

You’ll soon find that you have a better chance to hit your number if you have a plan. Try to plan a week at a time.

Weight loss is mostly about problem solving and persistence. When you have problems, instead of throwing up you hands and waking away, try to fix them.

There’s a significant calorie counting learning curve. Give yourself plenty of time to learn the system. When you have control of the day to day process, calculate a modest calorie deficit and aim for that. Never quit.

Hi there.

First off, as someone who has lost, and gained, and lost, and gained, and lost again, life is always going to be a struggle for the likes of us. We don’t have super fast motabilism. We find it hard to lose weight and super easy to put it back on. So there are really, really simple steps you can take to change that and this is what I recommend. You can start on tuesday after easter sunday (if you have that) and you have the best season weather wise to do it. By summer you will be feeling amazing, i promise.

First, give yourself a 10 week goal.

You can shed LOADS in that time where you notice HUGE differences. I looked at my previous diary entries from 2016 and it took me 10 weeks to go from my worst to my best. Once i realised that i was committed. These 10 weeks were not grueling, they were very manageable.

Secondly, Calorie count everything, and i mean everything.

Google TDEE calculator, work out how many calories your body needs a day and try and hit 500-1000 calories below that number. Exercising 3 times a week gives you extra food calories during the day, so you can allow yourself abit of chocolate in the evenings and pasta for dinner instead of meat and salad.

Third - Saturday nights are your cheat meals. Enjoy yourself, get a takeaway or go out. Just try and get the SLIGHTLY healthier options occasionally. For eg chicken kebab instead of fatty donner kebab in my case. Or small chips and not large chips etc.

Fourth - exercise doesn’t have to be dread worthy. Just get your trainers on, even when you don’t feel like it, and get out there. You can do it, honestly. Be proud of yourself, believe in yourself and even commiting to a 15 minute work out you will probably find yourself working even harder and longer, and if you dont?? Well at least you did something.

Keep to aerobic exercise (pacey walking or jogging) and move to strength exercises once you start seeing results, but to slim down i definitely recommend jogging. You can tone up later, people will try and convince you to do it from the off but you want to see results slimming down first and running does just that. When you feel fit you can add strength in.

Lastly, keep setting new challenges to keep it interesting.

Try and keep going even when you get to a place you are content with. You know deep down you want to go further and don’t listen to others who say “oh you’re losing it too quickly”. I am personally in the best shape of my life right now ( im on about week 15) and i still have a way to go to get rid of my love handles and moobs. But the way i have kept motivating is by changing it up. First of all it was 10 week commitment, then it was joinging a running club (ruined by Coronavirus) and now since the end of March me and my partner have committed to a 30 day Challenge of 100 burpees (its killer and a nightmare but we are 11 days in now!). Setting new challenges will keep you going when you are starting to get bored of the same routine.

Thats all for now. Remember, calorie count everything. It will keep you on track even when you are bingeing. Im pGood luck.