Frustrated with myself

If doing all the things at once is too much, is there *one* thing you could start with instead? Break it down into a stepwise plan, start with manageable baby steps until you get some momentum again? It’s hard when life throws us curveballs— but we can choose to pull back on some of our habits and not stop all of them altogether...

Do you keep a food diary? If you make your food diary the center of your plan, you can get out of the start/stop loop. How? Keep your diary no matter what. Over your number? Log it. Crazy over? Log that too. The process is more important than the numbers.

I’ve been maintaining for years. How? Its Complicated. First, I don’t maintain at my lowest ever. My official goal weight, is 184 lbs, the top of a healthy BMI. but my lowest was 168 lbs. But I didn’t like living like that. The place I’m comfortable is around 175. My red line seems to be 178 lbs. Seems to be?

Let’s talk red lines. We need to be careful about what red lines we draw because drawing a lot of red lines and then crossing them erodes our confidence. But it doesn’t really matter what I say the line is, it matters when I actually do something. 178 is when I go back to actively keeping a food dairy. I initially kept a food dairy for 5 years before I was able to maintain without it. Now I go back as needed. Usually takes about 4-6 weeks to get things straighten out. Just how it is.

A couple of things about breaking the home to the couch habit. My plan was have a snack and hit the gym. But the best snacks were really at the house. So I had to stop at home. I tried buying snacks at the convenience store and tried bringing them with me in the morning but I wasn’t very satisfied. I need Ed snacks I was will to wait for.

Then after I was at the house I had to go our again. There were some days when that was tough. Regardless of my workout plan, some days I went to the gym just to go. I looked on it as defending my habit. The only purpose was to avoid filling gym time with couch time. Some days I made deals with myself to do 1/2 of my workout. Some days I just walked on the treadmill. What can you do to break the cycle? Change shoes and go for a walk? Something is better than nothing. Keep experimenting until something clicks. I’ve done numerous complete overhauls. Fact is the tinkering and adjusting never ends. Hope something here helps you. Good luck.