I was overweight all of my life. My family has always loved food and many of the women in my family battle their weight everyday. Well, when I was a sophmore in high school, I starting joining things and fell in love with a sport called crew. I also gave up sweets, pop, beef, pork, cheese, and pretty much anything unhealthy for lent. After lent was over, I had no desire to eat all those foods again and I was doing great. I went from about 195 my freshman year in high school to 130 my junior year. Well then I came to college. The healthy options that were available at school always looked wilted and gross and I gradually let myself do all the things I had stopped doing a few years before. I stopped working out, because the rec center was all the way across campus and it got so cold and windy on campus. I now am a senior in college and I am fighting to get myself to where I was. I am eating healthier, but at times I mess up and now I frequently have a taste for the unhealthy stuff. I am really busy with school, and pretty unorganized, so I never leave myself time to work out. I want to get back to where I was! I haven't weighed myself in awhile, we don't have a scale in my apartment, but I am guessing that I weigh about 185. I realized when trying clothes on this weekend, I am only one size smaller than where I was in high school I want to lose weight..but how to I get that motivation back?

Hi, I'm in university too, so I know your pain with unhealthy options at the cafeteria and the gym being far away (mine's about a 25 minute walk!) I don't know how exactly you will get your motivation back, but I know what got mine, and maybe that'll help:
- I got organized. I told myself that I wasn't going to lose weight unless I knew what I was doing. I started planning my schedule differently so that I could fit in more time for walking, or running around in the cafeteria trying to find something healthy.
- I started exercising more and felt more energized to want to eat healthier
- I chose a weight I wanted to be, though I don't have a scale at University and decided that when I got home, I wanted to be that weight. And when I got home, I would fit into the clothes that I left behind.
- I started putting all my food into Fitday to see my carb/protein/fat ratio and realized I was doing great with fat but terrible with protein, I didn't get any of it. No wonder I was growing bigger.
And last, but definitely not least,
- I started posting on here! Talking to a lot of people who were also conscious of what they ate and were interested in being healthy made me become more interested in them. Lately I've been hanging out with a lot of guys who can eat whatever they want and their metabolisms will take care of it. That's not who I am, and I had to realize that. Coming on here daily helps me keep track of my goals and be responsible with my exercising and eating habits.

Anyway, sorry that was pretty long, I didn't mean to bore you , but hopefully it helps!!

Good luck and keep posting! The forums here are super friendly and there's lots of different ones for different situations.

Thank you so much. You didn't write too much at all. I feel like I do not know anyone else in my situation right now (who wants get healthier atleast) and I feel like I have no one to talk to. I talk to my fiance sometimes about it, and he is a pretty helpful guy, but I don't want to talk about it to him too much because I do not want to seem like I am too self conscience and that my weight issue has taken over my life...that definately is NOT attractive! Another thing is, he eats lots of food sometimes, and I spend a lot of time with him, but you are right..I need to remind myself that I am different and that I do not have his metabolism!

Oh, I'm glad it helped If you want to talk more ever about it, just PM me, it's nice to have people to relate to!! Or, don't be surprised if I do, just to commiserate.

You might check out the IE thread.
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...=93470&page=26

I checked out your thread Carol, thanks. I do have to admit one thing that I am am proud of, regarding my health choices, this Thanksgiving I did not get seconds of anything! I only ate enough to fill me up and I was barely even full when I had a small piece of dessert. I think it helped that I was at a friend's parent's house and did not feel comfortable pigging out. Usually every thanksgiving I get to that point were I am tired and I want to loosen my pants a bit. I also did tell myself over a month ago that I was not going to gain weight during the holidays like I probably usually do!