Maybe the 83rd Time is the Charm??

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PlumpHope

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So I discovered and joined this forum almost exactly one year ago... I had super motivation, high hopes, plans, etc... I'm really awesome with the planning, charting, tracking portion of weight loss, it's that whole follow through part that gets me stuck!!

A year ago I joined a gym, started seeing a personal trainer, started a food journal, and did all those things I charted out would be the best things I could do for success. I stuck to it all for a while too. I actually really liked going to the gym, but then something I hadn't planned for happened. My personal trainer quit abruptly, and although there were numerous ways I could have continued with my plans... I didn't. I fell ay off track, but thankfully got back on my horse only two months after I had jumped off the weight loss wagon.

I came back to this forum, I started back up my gym trips and food diary. I got back on track! Then I started having terrible pain in my left hip. Once the pain dulled, I continued to use that as an excuse for why I didn't go to the gym... And if I wasn't going to the gym, I wasn't half-assing it by just watching what I ate... Nonsense, I was all or nothing! So I swan dived off the wagon again... Here I am now, 8 months have passed since I last visited this forum, and I am full of regrets.

I weigh almost as much as I did when I first decided to buy a scale that would show weights over 300 pounds. In the 2-3 years since I have become honest with myself about my weight, I've squandered a million chances to become a healthier person. I'm still making excuses as to why I can't totally get on board with a new healthy lifestyle. This past year was rough, as my husband and I both lost our jobs. I cancelled the gym membership (not that I'd used it even once in the last 4 months I had it) and pawned my Wii Fit. There are a million and one ways I could still exercise... So why am I leaning on that crutch?

I have paper and pens... I could still journal and write down what I eat... WHat's my excuse for not doing that? It's just easier to ignore the problem than to deal with it being a reality... Only it's not really easier at all. Nothing is easy when you weigh almost 320 pounds.

I'm not getting younger. The longer I stay like this, the harder it is going to be for me to take this extra baggage off. I need to do this for so many reasons.

I just hope that this time is the charm... And I am going to need a lot of support!
 
Congratulations on getting back, it's never too late to make a change. Looks like you and I have similar starting points and similar goals, nice to have someone around with similarities :)

Best wishes to you, I will keep an eye out for future posts from you :)
 
PlumpHope said:
I'm still making excuses as to why I can't totally get on board with a new healthy lifestyle.


Nothing is easy when you weigh almost 320 pounds.


The longer I stay like this, the harder it is going to be for me to take this extra baggage off.
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So stop making excuses.


I am 5'9" and 165 lbs now.

I was 75lbs overweight for something like 13 years and I just didn't give a rat's ass because I was married and I had a fat wife, too. I was depressed, couch potato, had severe sleep apnea, loud snoring, ALWAYS sick (on antibiotics at least 8 times per year), almost had a heart attack in an airport, etc. I couldn't walk up stairs without losing my breath, I broke chairs and toilets just by sitting on them, took up two seats on the bus, even broke my bed a few times a week... I couldn't fit into Japanese cars... Nothing was easy for me at 240 lbs, so I do understand.

So, at 42 years old, I got divorced. After that, I decided to lose the weight. I didn't tell myself that I will try, I told myself that it is going to come off right now and that is the end of the discussion. I weighed myself daily, and I did not allow or accept any lack of progress. If I didn't lose, or if I gained, then I ate even less. Week by week, I did absolutely, without a question, force myself to lose 2-3 lbs each week. It was my top priority in life, above my job, friends, hobbies, girlfriends, etc. I did not allow anything to distract me or stand in my way of reaching my goal.

And I can tell you that exercise is not required for weight loss, because I didn't do ANY and I still lost 2-3 lbs per week. Proper diet is, however, absolutely required.

Having difficulty losing weight due to age is a complete myth. You keep your insulin level very low by completely avoiding high and medium GI foods, and restrict your caloric intake to 1400-1500 kcal per day, I guarantee you that pounds will be falling off regardless of your age.

When you decide to put the hammer down and evict the extra weight, you don't need anybody's support. I didn't have anybody's support, hell I even had people working against me - fat friends and SLIM girlfriends deliberately trying to keep me fat for their own selfish reasons. I told myself that if my weight loss goal isn't important to them, then they as people aren't important to me. Relationships ended. I didn't care because it was then apparent to me that they weren't healthy relationships in the first place.
 
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