NO ENTHUSIASM WHAT SO EVER!

You have to want it. Walk away for a few days and come back.
Someone once told me " When the student is ready, the teacher will come".

Agree with the above post,,when it is your time you to start you will know, Put a picture of you at your heavy's on the fridge it works for me,,then I think twice before reaching for junk

You have to want it. Walk away for a few days and come back.
Someone once told me " When the student is ready, the teacher will come".

That's from 'Kung Fu' LOL

I agree. You have to WANT it, if you don't want it, you will find every excuse not to do it.
It's as simple as that.

No one here is going to stroke you and say "it's ok, you'll be fine." They will tell you straight up, if you don't do the work, you won't reap the rewards.

Losing weight is a lifetime committment and you have to make that committment or else it won't work.

If fad diets and quick fixes worked, there would be no overweight people in this world.

When I have no motivation that is when i start to say forget it. When you are truly ready to lose weight you will want it and stick with it. My mom went years with trying to lose weight but she never stuck with any of it and she was 250lbs. She finally found her source of what was making her feel the way she did and BOOM started losing weight after she got closure. Some people use food for lots of things depression, stress, the loss of a loved one. You just need to find what is stopping you and put that to rest and then you will have that motivation. It also helps to have a friend or someone to diet with you!

Yea. like everyone else is saying. You just have to want it bad enough. Its a long hard journey. Nothing will be easy and the results will be slow. Just start with something easy like walking and get rid of any junk food in the house. Good Luck!

The biggest motivator in my life is knowing that if I do NOT exercise and eat properly I WILL die younger. I work with elderly people and see that the active ones are the happy ones.

Go to a nursing home and talk to the residents. Who do you want to be?

As for me, I will exercise. I will eat a proper diet.

Good Luck.

I know exactly how you feel. I've struggled with my weight for years. I have always liked working out, but something was always getting in the way, I was just too busy or too embarrassed by the way I look compared to some of the other people at the gym to get myself to go. But I must say that this website has helped me greatly!!!! The best advice I have for you is this, if you don't want to totally change the way you eat, don't. But for a couple of days log religiously about what you eat, and don't skip anything. That is what really made a difference for me. I went to taco bell one day and logged what I ate and almost threw up because of how many calories I ate. I just never saw it so clearly that the reason I am so overweight really is an excess of calories. Because even if I work out a lot, I was still eating too many calories to lose weight. But now I pay attention to what I eat. I've found a lot of snack foods that really do taste good and don't have too many calories for a snack, that really has helped. And honestly I love, love, love soda, So sometimes I'll still have one, I just have to make sure that it doesn't cause me to go way over my calories for the day.
I hope that this helps! Let me know if there is anything I can do for you!!!!!

Some thoughts for you. Please don't be offended, I mean no harm, I am just truthful.
Only you can control what goes into your mouth and what you do. If you sit around eating, that is on you. If you get up and exercise, that too is on you. You are in control of you. There are no magic feel good words that will help you do what you need to do. Only getting up and doing it. There are no magic feel good words that will help you keep from eating what you shouldn't be eating.

With that said, I did read a quote one time and I do love it. It says "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". I do find that to be true so maybe you can remember that, I try too.
But I also do a lot of research on the food I eat because I have RA and every food choice will affect me, either for good or for bad. But I have to say that you don't have to have RA for that to be true. Everything you eat will affect you in one of those two ways.

Good luck.

well, there are several "hard core" responses here, and they have their place. But another approach is to start slow and take small steps that you CAN manage. Check in every day even if you don't log. Work on getting enough water. I suggest finding one thing you can add each week. Motivation can be elusive, but if you can feel success in small things you can work your way to being the person you want to be.
Good luck!

Focus on your achievements.....nothing (including food) is more addicting than results.

I know exactly how you feel....if you don't mind my saying so,you sound depressed,and if you are an emotional eater it will make you eat more,and that will make you more depressed...I have found that sometimes by changing what we tell ourselves it can help break that cycle. When I am dying for my drug of choice(Dr. Pepper),instead of telling myself how badly I want one and how great it would taste,etc......I try to tell myself how great I am doing,and how I deserve to treat myself to a healthy meal,that I deserve it sooo much more than the junk I have been putting in my body. Also,I understand the lack of enthusiam for excercise...becuase of the severe arthritis in both of my knees I have been forbidden from any weight bearing excercise from my doctor,but have stared to enjoy my physical therapy(water based) by telling myself it is something I deserve instead of something I have to suffer through. May sound silly but it is working for me:) Hope that helps,and you are in my thoughts and prayers!

little steps....that's all it takes. I'm basically the same as you! Love to eat and it makes me feel good. I've been doing this for a couple of weeks now and already feel much better! I suggest to set yourself 2 rules this week....#1 is just to log on here everyday and record what you eat. #2 just try to make better choices on what you're eating. Go shopping if need be to get some healthy food alternatives in your pantry! As for exercise....just move more! You don't have to run a mile a day or do 20 push-ups....just get up and move for 20 minutes a day. If you like to clean....just vaccuum for 20 minutes (and it'll make you feel good that your house looks nice too). I try to just walk when I can. AND I'm taking it slowly. I know that I can walk faster but I want to just enjoy my activity so that I keep doing it!

Ok this is going to sound cruel but...

Go and look in the mirror.

Go and get someone to take a photo of you.

Do you like what you see?

If the answer is yes then carry on the way you are.

If you dont, well YOU need to do something about it. I have learned. There is no magic pill, there is no easy way there is no way on earth you can eat everything you want whenever you want and still lose weight.

Something has to give. Ive tried and given up, tried and given up and well im trying again but this time there's no going back I cant be this size anymore, I cant live with being this tired angry and upset every time I try on clothes and they don't fit the way I want them to.

MFP will give you the amount you need to eat without exercise (I was given 1200 and I'm losing 1-2lbs a week with hardly any exercise) and if you want to exercise extra so be it, but we cant force you. You have to make this decision.

Choose foods which you like to eat but eat them in moderation, cut your portion sizes down (mine have been halved!) and drink water if you feel like snacking, everytime you go to the fridge for a snack, get a glass and fill it with water.

Choose exercise you like, dancing, walking, computer games (kinect and wii if your lucky enough to have them) and do little bits, it doesnt have to be huge, a little exercise is some exercise.

It wont be easy but your body will adjust and it will stop wanting the bad stuff and appreciate the good stuff, your energy levels will improve and you will want to do more exercise.

But at the end of the day its all worth it. Every pound is worth it and one step close to where you need and want to be. Only you can make the decision to change!

I think you have to start with some type of exercise you REALLY like doing and work your way up to harder things from there. I started with swimming laps to doing deep water aquacise classes and now I weight lift 3 times a week and do zumba classes 6 times a week. Hope you find something you really enjoy doing, it makes it so much more fun and before you know it , your just hooked on the endorphins you get from exercising.