felici
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If I had said that. Except I said that I never say that!!!
And not only did I say that I never say it, but I never do say it either!!! or even think it!! And I most certainly never do do it!!
I did amaze myself about how far I could walk though, eventually ... and without any risk of breathing any dust!
*Thinks about it*
I was amazed. Yet now it doesn't seem like that far. It was quite a change.
I did think about Debi and the rest of you guys above, and other people (hope that's got me covered - it is the reality of it), to help me feel like trying things, to help me be bothered trying to see how I could get the time, and to prod me to make a move when it seemed like it was too awkward. Also I once I was moving I used my knowledge of what you guys were doing to push me further and faster. This is probably not much use to anyone else as a template because when it comes to the physical, I have almost no competitiveness in me. When I've striven to do my utmost in a sport it was always to try and make the game worth playing (see "always coming last" below). In general, I measure myself against myself.
But when I was trying to build on to what I was doing, especially at those moments when it was all going rather anaerobic on me, which could easily be interpreted as my body trying to feedback that it was time to stop, I would deliberately remind myself about other people, on the basis that they had shown me it could be done, so I would keep going. And I didn't look to athletes for those images. I'm pretty sure I came last in every single race I ever ran. I wasn't fat when I was a kid, but I was short, and when it first counted, I was always the youngest. I reckon I still tried as hard as I could, not because I wanted to win, but because I wanted not to be last (edit: and cos my mum told me that I just had to do my best), and and I definitely remember getting plenty of "stitches" from running while I was little. However, there was a shortcut available to me to stop having to come last, and as soon as I was able to, I took it, I stopped running!! So I didn't relate to TV athletes.
But I had an intention to use the stories of other people at this site. And I often would see that despite having started with such big weight issues they were achieving against difficulties that seemed much worse than mine, or achieving far more than I could imagine myself aiming at. That was a prod. It said to me that massive efforts could be made, and that therefore I could make some, at least some.
I would look back to see where people had started and see that it wasn't necessary for me to be able to do a great deal, in order for me to start. And I could also see that I would need to up the ante on what I was doing, if I was to make progress towards what I could see happening and what I admired.
Today I don't do that as much, even if I am at the end of an anaerobic lap and thinking that I want it to be the last one, because I have more of a habit of my own to look back on. Now I tell myself that I know I can keep going because I already have, but it wasn't always like that. I used to think, I can't keep going, and then remind myself that other people had kept going, and had in fact done much more difficult things, and so I would push on, instead of stopping.
I guess these days I do something similar, but it's less of a moment by moment thing, and more a matter of seeing that the mindset can be pursued indefinitely because there are others who do that - that there are other people who are still continuing their lifestyle change, or still continuing to push towards a goal weight.
Also (I am not going to try and mention the exact right names), I did use small encouragements I was given, I linked to the sites that were mentioned as helpful and I tried to copy some of the things I could see other people doing. I used other people who I knew in real life that were making an effort, and I used images of people striving to run or work out, on The Biggest Loser too.
And overall, I found out that I could push myself, could actually see myself as someone who exercised and exercised hard, could actually get an athlete's high.
Bonus.
I hope I've expressed this correctly. No time for getting it any more accurate today!!
If I had said that. Except I said that I never say that!!! And not only did I say that I never say it, but I never do say it either!!! or even think it!! And I most certainly never do do it!!
I did amaze myself about how far I could walk though, eventually ...
and without any risk of breathing any dust! *Thinks about it*
I was amazed. Yet now it doesn't seem like that far. It was quite a change.
I did think about Debi and the rest of you guys above, and other people (hope that's got me covered - it is the reality of it), to help me feel like trying things, to help me be bothered trying to see how I could get the time, and to prod me to make a move when it seemed like it was too awkward. Also I once I was moving I used my knowledge of what you guys were doing to push me further and faster. This is probably not much use to anyone else as a template because when it comes to the physical, I have almost no competitiveness in me. When I've striven to do my utmost in a sport it was always to try and make the game worth playing (see "always coming last" below). In general, I measure myself against myself.
But when I was trying to build on to what I was doing, especially at those moments when it was all going rather anaerobic on me, which could easily be interpreted as my body trying to feedback that it was time to stop, I would deliberately remind myself about other people, on the basis that they had shown me it could be done, so I would keep going. And I didn't look to athletes for those images. I'm pretty sure I came last in every single race I ever ran. I wasn't fat when I was a kid, but I was short, and when it first counted, I was always the youngest. I reckon I still tried as hard as I could, not because I wanted to win, but because I wanted not to be last (edit: and cos my mum told me that I just had to do my best), and and I definitely remember getting plenty of "stitches" from running while I was little. However, there was a shortcut available to me to stop having to come last, and as soon as I was able to, I took it, I stopped running!! So I didn't relate to TV athletes.
But I had an intention to use the stories of other people at this site. And I often would see that despite having started with such big weight issues they were achieving against difficulties that seemed much worse than mine, or achieving far more than I could imagine myself aiming at. That was a prod. It said to me that massive efforts could be made, and that therefore I could make some, at least some.
I would look back to see where people had started and see that it wasn't necessary for me to be able to do a great deal, in order for me to start. And I could also see that I would need to up the ante on what I was doing, if I was to make progress towards what I could see happening and what I admired.
Today I don't do that as much, even if I am at the end of an anaerobic lap and thinking that I want it to be the last one, because I have more of a habit of my own to look back on. Now I tell myself that I know I can keep going because I already have, but it wasn't always like that. I used to think, I can't keep going, and then remind myself that other people had kept going, and had in fact done much more difficult things, and so I would push on, instead of stopping.
I guess these days I do something similar, but it's less of a moment by moment thing, and more a matter of seeing that the mindset can be pursued indefinitely because there are others who do that - that there are other people who are still continuing their lifestyle change, or still continuing to push towards a goal weight.
Also (I am not going to try and mention the exact right names), I did use small encouragements I was given, I linked to the sites that were mentioned as helpful and I tried to copy some of the things I could see other people doing. I used other people who I knew in real life that were making an effort, and I used images of people striving to run or work out, on The Biggest Loser too.
And overall, I found out that I could push myself, could actually see myself as someone who exercised and exercised hard, could actually get an athlete's high.
Bonus.
I hope I've expressed this correctly. No time for getting it any more accurate today!!
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