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Originally Posted by ShellydeFlores
I'm 23 years old and I should be having fun, right? I dont want to look back on my early 20's and think I wasted them not having fun!!
Would you rather look back and think that you wasted your time sitting on a barstool, drinking empty calories, when you could have been working on being healthier as you headed towards middle age? There are plenty of fun things to do with friends besides drink - dancing, hiking, bowling, walking through a big museum, taking a fitness class or learning a new sport, walking and talking, etc. And if you do go to bars, there's nothing wrong with nursing a single drink, ordering relatively low-cal drinks, or alternating alcoholic drinks with water. After all - it's the company and the atmosphere, not the alcohol itself, that's important, right?
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Originally Posted by ShellydeFlores
BUT now I can't seem to make up the difference and actually lose anymore. My plan was to be at goal by my birthday (February) but that doesn't look like it will happen! I'm lost on what to do.
Decide what's important to you and adjust your goals accordingly. Then work on doing what you have to do to get there.
If you maintain or continue losing now, then you'll probably reach your goal weight sooner than you would if you gained that 50 lbs back and had to lose it again.
It sounds like reaching GW by your birthday is an arbitrary goal. Even if you don't reach that weight by that particular day, you'll still have made a huge amount of progress than if you hadn't tried to lose weight at all, and all you'll have to do is set another date to aim for without having to feel bad about having stopped trying.