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I have had some major hurdles in my life and recently have been jumping over them one by one. Not with ease or speed but with planning, determination, and most of all accountability.
The hurdle I have now is weight loss. I have been fat all of my life (except right before I was diagnosed) and now it is time to shed those pounds. I joined weight watchers a while ago which I know I have mentioned here but I was just recently away for three weeks due to three things. One weigh in I skipped because I was just tired and slept in, another when I was sick, and the last was when we went out of town.
This last weekend I finally went back to weigh in for the first time in 2008. It was not pretty. I had gained 7 pounds in 3 weeks! I knew I had gained so it was not a total shock but there is a part of me that hopes for some sort of gravitational miracle as soon as I step on the scale. That did not happen of course.
Knowing all week that I was not going to weigh in allowed me to say, "I'll eat whatever I want tonight and will work on it tomorrow." It's a terrible attitude but my brain went their everyday of those three weeks. It tells me that I need the accountability. I need the weekly weigh in's because it has not become a habit yet. I have to remember that this cannot be a diet. It has to be a way of life.
I find it funny that we can put the rest of our bodies in jeopardy to please such a small portion of it. Our taste buds send signals to our brain that the food we are eating is yummy but the rest of the body suffers when that food is not healthy. I cannot imagine a world where I only think of food as fuel but moderation and wise choices are not a part of my lifestyle just yet unless I am counting points each week.
Am I alone in having these issues? I wonder if I am going to be at Weight Watchers meetings for the rest of my life.
G-Money - you are DEFINITELY not alone. I too think the same way, and am equally confused, frustrated, and astounded that I let myself get away with it so many times over and over again.
Why do I keep making the same mistakes? Procrastination and reckless justification.
Your BFAM - Scottie J
I also strugle with the same problems. One thing I8nl do to keep my blood sugar under control is write down everthing I eat count the carbs for my insulin which I juast started on a few months ago. I am trying to do the same for exersice and wiehgtloss just so I have to be accountable or I dont do like I should.
You are not alone, I struggle with weightloss every single day. I know what I'm suppossed to do to be healthy. I eat right but it is the exercise part that I find difficult. I get bored very easily with certain exercises, for example, the treadmill,...you can only run so much to get nowhere! so what do I do when I get bored? you guessed it, I stop exercising. Then I get depressed because even though I eat the right things, I don't losse weight without the exercise. Tomorrow, after 2 weeks, I'm going back to weightwatchers. I know that scale will go up. Help, how do you keep yourself going. What gives you the power to keep doing the diet and the exercise day in and day out?