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confuzzledwife

confuzzledwife

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Hi everyone!

I have set a date to begin my journey to losing weight for good. Monday, July 27th. This is my second go-around at this. I've done it before (about 4 years ago), but my biggest problem was maintaining. I was able to keep my weight fairly steady for awhile but this past year I blew it. I could blame it on my bout with depression, problems with my kids, but those are just excuses.

I turned to food for comfort, mostly ice cream and pretty much anything sugary which has completely sapped my energy. In addition to stopping my exercise program and over eating, I stopped taking my vitamins. I am a mess.

Today I feel like crap. Extremely sluggish, no energy to do anything. This is how I've been feeling for months. I look around the things I have to do around my house and it makes me want to take another nap. I know what I need to do, except this time around I have at least 50 to lose instead of 40. It gets discouraging, but I know I have to do it.

When I lost the weight before, when I was eating right and exercising, I felt GREAT! I had more energy than I knew what to do with it! Now? Blah.. that's how I look and feel.

I'm 5'3" and 195 (an all time high). Not proud of myself. I am ashamed of myself. Looking for others just starting out who have around the same weight to lose as I do. A bit of encouragement.

So I know what to do to lose it. I know it won't be easy, but I know the end result is so worth it.

:)
 
I'm with you... and like I said before, dont think of this as a diet. Go into this with this being overall lifestyle change and make sure your doing it for yourself!

Its kinda funny that since I have been drinking water now for just about 2 weeks (outside of the occasional diet soda), I dont even really miss it and when I wake up in the morning its now a habit to just head right for the faucet... where as in the past I would be like "ewwww" even thinking about drinking water. Same deal with meals, I dont even have the craving for all that junk I use to eat and when I do get a small fries with my chicken, I honestly can say that I really dont enjoy them like I use to. Its really all about a mindset that you need to get yourself into... try to make this as painfree and enjoyable as possible while keeping in mind that when your done losing... you will look even more incredible then you look now.
 
Hi there. Bruce gave good advice. I dont think of the way I eat as depriving myself of anything. I think of it as giving good nutrition for my body. A cake or chocolate or chips are not good for you. Popcorn, fruit or nuts are better for you. I try not to buy any pre made foods if I can help it. I used to eat a lot of sweets and cakes etc. Now I have fruit, yogurt or nuts or popcorn instead. I cant look at a cake or chocolate now without feeling sick. My husband bought my fudge home once and I took one bite and spat it out. It was waaaaaaaaaaaay to sweet. I could eat it before but my taste changed.
 
Well tonight was order night in our house and typically my meal would be an entire medium extra pepperoni pizza and an order of cheese fries and I ordered a tuna wrap (could only eat half and felt full) and I got these things called broccoli bites (figured I dont get enough veggies) but then the darn things were deep fried in a bread crust with melted cheese and the broccoli... man I was mad... was thinking they were just pieces of broccoli, so I only ate 2 of them. :banghead:
 
I love pepperoni pizza. I cant remember the last time I had some. I am thinking that I might try and make a more healthy version with low fat mozzarela cheese on wholewheat pitta with turkey pepperoni. At least then I wont feel deprived.
 
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