Getting back in the Groove

BeefStew85
BeefStew85 Posts: 15 Member
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Started my fitness journey 2 years ago and was on track to accomplish my weight loss goals. An unexpected pregnancy in 2019, car accident and the craziness of 2020 set me back. I am trying to get back into the groove of things moving forward and hoping to find a few friends for support, encouragement and ideas on exercise & food. Feel free to add :)

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  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,140 Member
    Wow you have had quite the couple of years. Welcome!

    What are your goals for 2021?
  • BeefStew85
    BeefStew85 Posts: 15 Member
    My ultimate goal would be to lose 50 pounds, but realistically I am aiming for at least losing 35 pounds this year. I have a 135 pounds to lose, so I am trying to balance my focus a little. When looking at the long term weight loss, it can feel very daunting and unachievable. So, I plan on setting mini goals to achieve. That really helped the last time.
  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member
    What are the mini goals that you have? That's a great idea to break things down, it is daunting sometimes to look at the far off picture, seems like you'll never get there
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,140 Member
    CoffeeCreamerLover85 wrote: »
    My ultimate goal would be to lose 50 pounds, but realistically I am aiming for at least losing 35 pounds this year. I have a 135 pounds to lose, so I am trying to balance my focus a little. When looking at the long term weight loss, it can feel very daunting and unachievable. So, I plan on setting mini goals to achieve. That really helped the last time.

    Sounds like you've a great long term plan and totally agree it can be overwhelming to try and tackle it all at once.

    There's a great group here called Larger Losers for those with substantial amounts of weight lose, they're very active and have a number of threads for daily goal and non-scale achievements too.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133315-larger-losers
  • BeefStew85
    BeefStew85 Posts: 15 Member
    cgrout78 wrote: »
    What are the mini goals that you have? That's a great idea to break things down, it is daunting sometimes to look at the far off picture, seems like you'll never get there

    My first set of mini goals is to:

    1. complete my food diary every day for 2 weeks. Mainly to get back into the habit.
    2. To drink recommended water amount every a day. This one is kinda easy as I have found drinking out of a straw cup helps meet the recommended water amount, plus more sometimes.
    3. Aim to lose 15 pounds in 3 months. If I eat the recommended calorie amount, without excersize, then I should lose 12 pounds in 3 months. If I don't meet this one, I won't beat myself up, but know how to gauge the next set of goals.
  • BeefStew85
    BeefStew85 Posts: 15 Member
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    CoffeeCreamerLover85 wrote: »
    My ultimate goal would be to lose 50 pounds, but realistically I am aiming for at least losing 35 pounds this year. I have a 135 pounds to lose, so I am trying to balance my focus a little. When looking at the long term weight loss, it can feel very daunting and unachievable. So, I plan on setting mini goals to achieve. That really helped the last time.

    Sounds like you've a great long term plan and totally agree it can be overwhelming to try and tackle it all at once.

    There's a great group here called Larger Losers for those with substantial amounts of weight lose, they're very active and have a number of threads for daily goal and non-scale achievements too.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133315-larger-losers

    Thanks! I will definitely check it out. I haven't really ever been involved with a group before, but the ones I had joined before weren't active either.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,140 Member
    CoffeeCreamerLover85 wrote: »
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    CoffeeCreamerLover85 wrote: »
    My ultimate goal would be to lose 50 pounds, but realistically I am aiming for at least losing 35 pounds this year. I have a 135 pounds to lose, so I am trying to balance my focus a little. When looking at the long term weight loss, it can feel very daunting and unachievable. So, I plan on setting mini goals to achieve. That really helped the last time.

    Sounds like you've a great long term plan and totally agree it can be overwhelming to try and tackle it all at once.

    There's a great group here called Larger Losers for those with substantial amounts of weight lose, they're very active and have a number of threads for daily goal and non-scale achievements too.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133315-larger-losers

    Thanks! I will definitely check it out. I haven't really ever been involved with a group before, but the ones I had joined before weren't active either.

    I dip in and out of that one myself but there are always a couple of active threads.

    I also run a weekly weigh in group that's been running since 2017, it's not extremely chatty but we do have a weekly thread for weigh ins with plenty of regular members and a monthly progress report, which can be helpful with seeing the bigger picture when the scale doesn't always show on a week-to-week basis much progress.

    That's here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/118368-weekly-weigh-in-group

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