Back in Business

snowfox92
snowfox92 Posts: 100 Member
edited October 2024 in Introduce Yourself
This is my third attempt at MFP. The other two times I gave up due to lack of support from people in my life, and not really having many motivators on here, either. Now that I'm in a healthy environment, I have been losing the weight I had so easily gained. Doesn't come off as easy, sadly. I've been really sick, as well, but I hope to head off other things, like diabetes, which runs in my family. At one point we thought I had diabetes, but it wasn't. Today, to start myself on getting even more on track, I'm meeting with a dietitian in hopes to learn what I can and cannot eat for maximum weight loss, and to stay healthy so I won't get diabetes. I already have the exercise portion down. Plus, I would really like to be back in the size four I was in last year by the time my Marine comes home. He won't have seen me in a year and a half when he comes back, so I would love to have a body I can be proud of, not ashamed of. I have to lose 40 more pounds by March. Is that a good goal? How else can I stay on track? I would love to keep up this weight loss and not give up like I have before. So, I would love to have some supporters here! Add me :)

Replies

  • jilliebk
    jilliebk Posts: 252 Member
    one day @ a time. you can do it!
  • Fatbuster205
    Fatbuster205 Posts: 333 Member
    Well done for coming back and we will make your Marine so proud of you next March! That is my goal date too - 6 March is my 50 birthday and I am aiming to have lost the bulk of 58 pounds by then. If I don't lose it all so be it but I am really determined to set the clock back and become less of a frump! Add me as a friend.:flowerforyou: Then we can support eachother over the next 5 months!
  • snowfox92
    snowfox92 Posts: 100 Member
    We can definitely do this! We don't need to let our health get the best of us. We can make ourselves healthy and make this life what we want!
  • happyhenglers
    happyhenglers Posts: 17 Member
    Sometimes it takes several times before you get it right. Think about anything else you've tried to learn--did you nail it the first time out of the gate? Probably not. You made a little progress, then made some mistakes, then made a little more progress, then made some mistakes. You probably made some adjustments each time you made a misstep--maybe held the tool a little differently, cooked it a little longer, stretched after instead of before...Each mistake allowed you to learned something about how to be more successful next time. Learning how to lose weight is not a linear progression either. Why do we feel like if we don't get it right the first time we've failed? You would never be that black and white or judgmental with a friend, right? It's not fair to yourself to set those kind of unrealistic expectations, and it won't allow you to be successful. To be successfuly in your weight loss journey, you need to be focused by kind to yourself, and realize that each step--each time you make a healthy food choice...each time you lace up those shoes when you don't feel like it...each time you reach for the phone to call a friend not named Food--takes you closer to your goal. And if you misstep, then evaluate what you could do differently next time, and begin stepping again. You will get there. And not for your Marine, but for you. Because you CAN be the person you want to be.
This discussion has been closed.

Categories