Hello
Hi! I am not new to diets or needing to lose weight, but I am new to this site. I am currently at my heaviest weight ever right now and while I am greatly ashamed that I let myself get this way, I understand and accept that things have got to change. I have lost weight before with some prescription weight loss pills, but got off of them when I met my fiance, I decided that I did want to have children and the pills are dangerous to a fetus. So I got off of them. I know I cannot conceive until I lose the weight so I found myself in a catch 22 kind of area. I have tried losing by myself, but looking back, they were just half hearted attempts. I may have changed my eating habits, but i didn't exercise, or I may have exercised, but I didn't change my eating habits. So now we are exercising regularly. We go to the gym together, but do our own thing, and we are trying to eat healthy. With our budget and our work ours, the eating healthy is harder to do than imagined. For some reason, vegetables and fruits don't fill me up or keep me feeling full for as long as most people say they do, and I know that if I don't feel full then I will just grab an unhealthy snack. Also, I don't eat if I am not hungry, and so sometimes I only eat twice a day, but they are calorie rich meals. I know I am supposed to break it up and snack throught the day. I just don't know how to do it. Telling me to do something and showing me how to do something are two very different things. I work 3 12hr days and one 4 hr day where I sit at a desk and maybe, maybe 3 times a day I am able to get up to relieve myself and refill my water bottle and grab a bite to eat. Plus my job is an extremely stressful job and that doesn't help with weight loss. I am lucky that I have three days off, but on those days I am so mentally exhausted that I do the bare minimum. We do work out after work and we have agreed that we each get one day a week where we can choose to not work out. That way we are just working out 5 days a week. I do have more energy after my workout, which I think is kind of weird, but who am I do second guess my body. So basically, I am here for advice and support (not that I don't get support at home, because I do, from my fiance and his family and my mother)
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