Need some motivation please!!!!

Hey there! Don't beat yourself up too badly about falling off. Congrats on taking the next steps to get back on track.

Your work schedule does sound like the culprit. Do you have the opportunity to take breaks at work and go for a walk maybe around your building?

Also, you said you have an active 1 year old. I have a 15 month old who is also active, but he loves going to the park and walking around the track with me. That is a great way to interact with your child and get some exercise in too. I sometimes push my son in the stroller but most of the time, I let him get out and walk with me. It also wears them out. Other than that, maybe you can do an exercise tape at home while your child naps.

I'm no expert, but wanted to offer some options that may work. I hope they do. Good luck to you on your journey!

I used to work that shift! I don't know what your job is, but it really helped me to wear a pedometer. I would challenge myself to take more steps each night. I also packed 4-6 (healthy) snacks and ate them throughout the night instead of a meal. During the day I could only sleep when my daughter napped (which wasn't often). Since I wasn't doing much I didn't eat much during the day.
Take care of yourself and get some sleep or you'll burn out!

Would it help if you wrote down in a diary 3 or 4 goals you have over the next 3 months? Could you make mini-goals for your weight lose journey with small rewards when you achieve them? One of mine was new nail polish, a pedicure, a message, etc. You may have to have someone watch your daughter but it will make you feel better about yourself at the same time. Good luck!

Hi, the first thing i feel compelled to tell ya is, you have done a fantastic job already. working full time, chasing after a little one and having already lost 15 pounds...great job! This journey we are on, is forever, so try not to think of the destination, but rather the journey! Enjoy each day, and always try to improve tomorrow, and when tomorrow comes and you didnt accomplish something you wanted to, then do it tomorrow! Try not to feel bad about something youve done/didnt do in the past...you cant change it, what we can do is let it change us, for the better!

I feel your frustration though. I have four kiddos and am recently separated from an abusive husband and i work full time outside of the house. I have had three different surgeries for various things in the last two years and have two more approaching within the next 6 months or so. i have the hardest time fitting conventional excercise into my schedule, so i make what i have to do anyways excercise. for example, when i am gathering laundry, i start at the closest point to the washing machine and fill up the basket as i get further away, by the time i get to the other side of my 2500 square foot home the basket is heavy and then ill lift it up and down until i get to the machine, i keep an large exercise ball in my bedroom outside of my restroom and everytime i go to the restroom ill do some crunches on the ball, or when i have a bunch of errands to run, ill park the car in one place and walk everywhere(racked up about 2 miles the other day doing this) or even parking at the end of a parking lot when going to the store or something, sometimes i dont even get a shopping cart at the store i just carry everything(only if i can handle the amount of stuff), and my favorite thing, benching my youngest son, he only weighs 50 pounds but with a few reps i get a mini workout and he has a blast, so as you can see, we can work "excercise" in to what we are already doing.

as far as eating right, i am not one to give advice on that, i have trouble getting much food into this body. i had gastric bypass on july 20th of this year and dont each much anyways, but since my husband and i seperated(two weeks ago) i cant hardly eat at all, i have absolutely no appetite and not even a craving, most things i do eat/drink make me sick. so sorry i cant helpo ya there, i gotta work on myself in that department.

just remember, its not the destination, its the journey that we make memories out of!!! Good luck hon!!!