I remember how good it felt to reach under 400 to see that 3 instead of a 4 is a huge motivator. Just be aware that life events that rock the boat can send you spiraling. I regained it all and I’m back to trying to return to that place.
Find a way to become resilient. Resiliency is so important to keep you from falling back into old habits. I’m still trying to learn what that means for me and I know it is a sort of nebulous concept but I know there is something there and hoping to figure it out.
I think essentially your resolve needs to be stronger than your ingrained habits. Think about the path that got you to that weight as a sort of dug in path in the dirt from you walking across it repeatedly and often. Shun that path and push yourself to make a new path in your day to day life. It’s all about the behavior that carries you through the day. Hope that made sense as I’m just thinking out loud haha. Maybe if anything I’m just talking to myself here as well.
I wish you luck.
We can do this.
That's something I've been realizing recently is that there will always be sh!t. Maybe not every day, but whether it's something stupid at work, family relationship, someone from church, even, my own mind over analyzing something.... when I need to just move on because life is too short.
I was talking to a friend recently who's been clean from heroin for a year, but takes "maintenance" drugs prescribed to her. And she said, a downward spiral could mean death in her case, and made it seem like one little thing could set her off and that would be it. One tiny conflict..
Well, whatever the inner struggle, we need to realize that one tiny conflict doesn't justify us choosing to hurt ourselves and waste the little time we've been given on this earth. And so, yeah, resilience is the key to life when we are pretty much guaranteed to have unideal situations happening daily or weekly as long as we live.
Can you tell me what you did to get started and your change in foods. I’m F 51 450. Getting ready to start water aerobics all over again after stopping 6 months ago due to getting sick getting COVID getting sick again along with having a mental health issues. I just let myself go now to have to start over.
I just got to get out of my head that my biggest problem getting out of my head.
I just started eating less, found lower calorie options for stuff I really like, and incorporated more vegetables into my diet. Also I started eating soup for lunch a lot and the soup I normally get is only like 200 calories for the whole can. I only started doing that because soup is just genuinely my favorite kind of food. I've never found a soup I didn't like.
I also count calories for pretty much everything that enters my mouth. If I eat it and can count it, then it gets put in my app. I use my fitness pal but theres also the app lose it. I prefer my fitness pal because I can change the calorie goal to be however much I want it to be and if you set your location to somewhere other than the US (if you live in the us) then you can still use the barcode scanner for free and on lose it you can't do that
Awesome job!!!!
Congrats on your progress. It definitely feels amazing when you start seeing some results!
I'm so proud of you.
I remember how good it felt to reach under 400 to see that 3 instead of a 4 is a huge motivator. Just be aware that life events that rock the boat can send you spiraling. I regained it all and I’m back to trying to return to that place. Find a way to become resilient. Resiliency is so important to keep you from falling back into old habits. I’m still trying to learn what that means for me and I know it is a sort of nebulous concept but I know there is something there and hoping to figure it out. I think essentially your resolve needs to be stronger than your ingrained habits. Think about the path that got you to that weight as a sort of dug in path in the dirt from you walking across it repeatedly and often. Shun that path and push yourself to make a new path in your day to day life. It’s all about the behavior that carries you through the day. Hope that made sense as I’m just thinking out loud haha. Maybe if anything I’m just talking to myself here as well. I wish you luck. We can do this.
That's something I've been realizing recently is that there will always be sh!t. Maybe not every day, but whether it's something stupid at work, family relationship, someone from church, even, my own mind over analyzing something.... when I need to just move on because life is too short. I was talking to a friend recently who's been clean from heroin for a year, but takes "maintenance" drugs prescribed to her. And she said, a downward spiral could mean death in her case, and made it seem like one little thing could set her off and that would be it. One tiny conflict.. Well, whatever the inner struggle, we need to realize that one tiny conflict doesn't justify us choosing to hurt ourselves and waste the little time we've been given on this earth. And so, yeah, resilience is the key to life when we are pretty much guaranteed to have unideal situations happening daily or weekly as long as we live.
Woo hoo!!!! Notice all the changes along the way. You should be so proud!
Yayyyyyy thrilled for you, this is awesome!!!! Keep up the awesome work. You’ll be in the 300s before you can even blink!
Thank you for sharing. It helps gives me hope for my journey too. I’m happy for you.
Can you tell me what you did to get started and your change in foods. I’m F 51 450. Getting ready to start water aerobics all over again after stopping 6 months ago due to getting sick getting COVID getting sick again along with having a mental health issues. I just let myself go now to have to start over. I just got to get out of my head that my biggest problem getting out of my head.
I just started eating less, found lower calorie options for stuff I really like, and incorporated more vegetables into my diet. Also I started eating soup for lunch a lot and the soup I normally get is only like 200 calories for the whole can. I only started doing that because soup is just genuinely my favorite kind of food. I've never found a soup I didn't like.
I also count calories for pretty much everything that enters my mouth. If I eat it and can count it, then it gets put in my app. I use my fitness pal but theres also the app lose it. I prefer my fitness pal because I can change the calorie goal to be however much I want it to be and if you set your location to somewhere other than the US (if you live in the us) then you can still use the barcode scanner for free and on lose it you can't do that