Hi all,
I'm new 'round these parts, but so happy to have discovered such a safe and inviting place as 3FC . Reading your stories has been sooo inspirational to me and I could *really* use the inspiration right now!
I have been on this weightloss journey since September, when I was diagnosed with PCOS and my gyno strongly recommended losing the excess weight. I've been overweight all my life, but I have never actually tried losing weight in any sort of serious way until now -- I guess it took the shock of the diagnosis and the realization of the consequences if I didn't (i.e. harder time conceiving, increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, etc.). And I've been doing well up to now! - it's been slow going, with 1/2 to 1 lb. per week (but my doctor warned me that the weight loss would likely be slower with PCOS), but fairly steady...until 3 weeks ago. I just TOTALLY went off the rails.
I had lost the weight by calorie counting (1500 cals/day, recorded on FitWatch) and running 3 days a week, with 1-2 days/wk at Curves. I had been training for a 10K, and completed it 3 weeks ago! Unfortuately, also got tendinitis in my knee right after the race, and have not been able to run since...and it seems that once the exercise piece got lost, it all went to heck as I've spiralled into my old bad eating habits. I've estimated that I've eaten around 2000-2500 cals/day in the last two weeks. And not good calories, either. But like apple pie, chocolate bars, chips, and Coke-kind of empty calories.
So now, lovely ladies (and gents!) of 3FC, I need some words of inspiration! What do you find works for you when you get off track, to get your program back on track? I'm thinking of keeping my calorie intake in the 1300 range for the next little while as I know that my physical activity won't be back to normal until my knee feels better and I can get back to running. I know that I have to start tracking my calories again and I've already started that for today. I'm just afraid I'm not going to keep it up, though -- it's discouraging that months of trying to build new good habits has just gone by the wayside . Ok, I realize I'm just getting whiney
Thanks everyone, I appreciate your reading this. Looking forward to hanging out around here and learning from you all!
Rae