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Mayu

Mayu

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Hi everyone,

I used to post here under another name a while back but I figured it was time for a fresh start (that and I changed email addresses and I can't find my old password).

Anyway, the main reason I'm here is to get help with the mental side of weight loss. I know what to do physically and I know how to do it right and healthy, what I cannot seem to wrap my head around is sticking with it. I don't know why. I want this more than anything right now and I just can't make myself follow through. It's sooooooo frustrating and it literally makes me want to cry. I am newly single, a new non-smoker and it's time now for me to lose this damn weight. I just wish I knew why I can't seem to stay with it.

Please help! Any and all help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. I also will probably be (bugging the hell out of everyone) utilizing this forum quite a bit when ever I feel like I'm slipping or needing some advice. Gawd I hope I can stick to it this time.

Thanks in advance for the support everyone!
 
Well, I guess the best way to attack the mental side of things is to figure out what's behind it all! For me, my weight problem stemmed from a mixture of emotional eating and pure laziness. The laziness is usually my worst barrier, but before I could even begin thinking about losing weight, I had to tackle some of my emotional baggage. I found that one of the best ways is to just talk! For a while, I called my best friend every time I found myself about to or engaged in emotional eating. She would talk me down and help me deal enough to put away the food. Eventually, I was able to do that on my own and was beginning to face some of my problems. Now your mental side could be totally different, but the easiest way to find out is to talk about it :D that's one of the nicest things about being on a forum like this...you can talk to anyone about ANYTHING! People here are great, as you probably know from being here before, so make use of our ears and maybe we can help each other! :)
 
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Please help! Any and all help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. I also will probably be (bugging the hell out of everyone) utilizing this forum quite a bit when ever I feel like I'm slipping or needing some advice. Gawd I hope I can stick to it this time.

Thanks in advance for the support everyone!
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That uh...that's what the forum is here for, so don't worry about it.

Welcome...back?
 
Thank you everyone.

Yeah Lazy, I totally understand what you are saying. I just can't let my thinking or whatever interfere anymore. I HAVE to do this. I don't have to be a size 2 but I do have to lose weight.

I hate that term lose, it implies something you want to find again. How about drop, or get rid of, or take off weight. That's better. :)
 
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That hardest part of dieting to me was being the only one in the house that was on it. My mom and I bought the biggest loser cookbook and did a sweep or our house and got rid of all foods that were unhealthy. Now we are only eating turkey or chicken burger (turkey is a lot cheaper, it's about 1.97 a pound here) or 96% fat free ground beef, lots of veggies and fruit and making sure we get the right amount of calories. If you don't eat the right number of calories your body will convert anything that is consumed to fat since it thinks it's starving. The book tells you take your current weight and mutiply it by 7 and that will give you the number of calories you should be eating per day. It seems like a lot of food but if you stick with it, it works. Plus you can still continue to eat your favorite foods and not feel like your doing without.
 
Hi. I, also, know what to do and what to eat, and I have every good intention. Yet, here I am at my all-time highest weight.

I teach a step class. I usually do 3 different combinations then put them together. I'll say, "Let's try doing them all together." I usually mess up putting them together, so it's more for me to TRY than for my class. There's a lady that always says, "We're not going to try, we're just going to do it." I just want to run out and give her a hug.

I guess that's kind of what this forum is about. We are all here to encourage each other and say, "We're not going to try, we're just going to do it."

Good luck to you!!!! You can do it!!!!
 
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