ISH - thanks alot your post cheered me up too. I know tommorow I'll be up early making my eggs and veggies and I'll do well next week. I'm now finished with the emotions and ready to hit ONEderland and get some momentum back.
Blondie, Ish, Scarlett thanks so much for your kind words, I'm feeling better already than I was this morning and feeling more like I can make it to the gym tonight.
Blondie I think my biggest fear is that this 'life change' means no more fun, making sure I religiously log the nutritional value of everything I eat and start cancelling social plans to go to the gym. I've not yet worked out a lifestyle that will balance fun and not being fat!
Ish I'm sure I will enjoy the festival. I need to try and drink a little less than I did at the last one, but once I get there I should have a great time. As long as I manage to get right back on track when I return, I hope I can find the elusive comfortable liveable groove that you mention! Thanks for the wise words
Blondie I think my biggest fear is that this 'life change' means no more fun, making sure I religiously log the nutritional value of everything I eat and start cancelling social plans to go to the gym. I've not yet worked out a lifestyle that will balance fun and not being fat!
I 100% can relate to this! I LOVE to over indulge at restaurants and sit in watching movies with a tub of ben and jerrys but ya know you will still be able to do these things as long as you watch your calories the rest of the week! The way I'm seeing it is staying as strict as i can while im losing the weight and then while i maintain it, if i wana go to town in the chinese buffet then i'm certainly gona, ill just spend a day or 2 in the same week being super strict to make up for it. I think that will always have to be the way for me, i cant do the steady maintenance, I think it will have to be a bit of a yoyo!
I'm losing motivation too. I didn't cheat or anything like that I just don't think about it as much these days. I used to come on here and read all your posts and got so much motivation. At least I still exercise daily. I find myself eating too much or drinking wine.. It's nothing critical but I just know this is where it went wrong the last time. I lost some weight and I just enjoyed it too much (you know.. looking good and stuff). If I want to reach my goal I have to be more careful.
I don't know it's been a strange couple of weeks. I'm leaving for school to another country in October and my boyfriend and I are just in a weird place right now. We've been together for 6 years.
themilesawaygirl: I hope you enjoy the festivals, I'm so jealous I hope you find some healthy food choices there too, the ones I was at had only fast food :/
Thankskhat
Have fun abroad! As for your relationship, the chips will fall where they are supposed to fall. I went to Japan for a semester, and I had so much fun I didn't care about my bf at home, even after I wrote him and I got no response; I got so busy I didn't think about the fact that he didn't write back and I didn't write him again the entire time I was away. When I returned I found out through an acquaintance that he had fathered a baby with another woman while I was away (the woman was about 2 months preggo and was telling everyone he was the father)! Well that was that, and I didn't even care. I had so much fun and such an eye-opening world view and experience that I honestly was not sad or even hurt... it was just "Good riddance!" To this day it doesn't even bother me, and I was REALLY into him before I left. Someone better than him came into my life a few months afterward so... Whatever happens, just know that it is for the best and gosh you're so close to goal! Wait till you're there.... watch out world!
A nice drop for me this week.. But I'm just not feeling good about it
Thanks for your support FassGal, I was also the one to say 'lets just see what happens' but as the semester is coming closer I'm geting this bad feeling I'm going to regret this. And he isn't really any support. He thinks this is more important to me than him/our realtionship and makes things dificult. I don't know.. Maybe it is more important.
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yikes! been basically on vacation for 3 weeks, traveling and drinking too much wine!...and didnt lose buut, im very glad i didnt gain. and this week its hard core on!
ish! glad you stuck it through. and you're posting again! i think being active in the journey is important, so if you feel yourself getting off track come here and post. sorry i didnt start the shred yet. was just getting settled in from traveling, and couldnt get my butt up to do it. have you started yet? im glad your down the few pounds and it was all water. remember weight loss is not a race, its a lifestyle change. maybe why these challenges are too much pressure and discouraging at times? sometimes i feel like im on a great roll, then i get off track a lil, then on a great roll again. i think its normal and ok, as long as you get back on. good luck this week, im rooting for you!
Great job on your loss! I bet it burned ur ex sooooo bad when you didn't care that he got someone pregnant when you were away. Good for you! Glad it worked out for the better!
Khat
Congrats on your weight loss!
Every relationship has its problems. You will discover soon enough if it's meant to be. relationship issues are sooo hard to figure out! I feel for you.
your post cheered me up too. I know tommorow I'll be up early making my eggs and veggies and I'll do well next week. I'm now finished with the emotions and ready to hit ONEderland and get some momentum back.
