I have walked down this road many times before. I want to make it to the finish line and I hope that I can use this site to get there. I get frustrated because it is going to take me so long to lose 130 pounds to get to my goal weight. The time is going to pass regardless of me losing the weight or not so I need to make this time count.
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I found breaking my weight loss goal down into smaller goals helped alot. It was too much for me to think I need to lose 60 + lbs, it was easier to tell myself to take it 5lbs at a time and celebrate meeting each goal.
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Thank you. I have decided to break it up into 10 pound goals. I have also decided not to have a weight loss goal for X number of pounds a week. It's great when I make my goal but I lose motivation when I plateau. I will put the date beside each 5 pound loss and not worry about the time it takes to get there so much.
It doesn't matter how long it takes me to get to the finish line. Just as long as I get there.
I totally understand feeling overwhelmed by the number of pounds that need to fall off to achieve your goal weight! Breaking it down into smaller goals really helps me too. Even though I know it isn't any easier, hearing "I need to lose 10 pounds 10 times" sounds SO much better than "I need to lose 100 pounds" to me.
You have the right attitude already, just stick with it and you can do it!
So far you have a GREAT attitude, which is needed.
I'm totally in the same boat, lose weight, gain it back... start over.
It's easier to think there is an ultimate goal, but also make small ones as well. I know 50lbs is 50 weeks, and that will suck but that's life. It might take 100weeks, but every week I stick to it, loss or not, is one week closer to what I want. If I give up, I can lose 50 weeks, which is what happened. I tell myself, "I'd be at goal if I just stuck to it!"
Kuri, those 50 weeks are going to pass whether we lose weight or not. Why not make small changes so that we lose a pound a week? I think you have a great mindset. I would have been at goal a long time ago if I had just been okay with losing a pound or a half a pound a week. We can do it this time!
I'm right here with you, I gain and lose, and then gain again, quit, start over and repeat.. Now is where I've had enough of starting over! I'm going to finally take charge and stick to it! We can do this!
Same here, gained and lost a lot over time.
I concluded based on personal experience, that calling it a "diet" is a bad idea. Instead I just call it "will to live" or "so I can enjoy my time with my husband longer".
I actually refuse to step on a scale unless I am at the doctor's, they weigh me there every two months because of my lupus, so, I don't want to obsess, I used to, and I have had problems with that in the past, it creates anxiety.
All I know is that I used to be a size 26 in jeans and now I am a size 20-22 depending on the brand!
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Starting over for the LAST time!
