Time to make a change...

[cdub84]

My first post on the forums, and decided to use it by starting my diary. A lot of people here are very good inspiration. I thought having a way to document my success would be a good way to keep motivated as i struggle to once again lose weight. Since i was young its always been a struggle. Ive made this journey from fat and out of shape to skinny and healthy 3 times now. Every time saying it would be the last and, aint life grand, here i am once again.

Right now im not the heaviest ive ever been, but not far from it at 218. If i had to put a number on my goal it would be 160's but i just want to generally get my life back on track. Ive been pretty miserable for a while, so its time to make that change again. This aint my first rodeo, so im going to stick to whats worked for me in the past. No junk, 4 to 5 average means a day, and putting on my shoes and hitting the streets. Looking forward to making progress, more soon...

 

[ABBAgirl]

Welcome! You've made a wise choice in getting your weight and health under control! Walking/running rule, IMHO. It is very important to get enough calories, check out fitday.com for keeping track (for free). Do you have a real plan to stick to?

Don't let past weight loss and gain have any hold on you! It's like moving out, or breaking up with someone: You might have to do it more than once, but you learn and grow a little more from each time. NOW is the time that you have the most knowledge you have ever had. GO FOR IT!!!

Best wishes on your WL journey
ABBA

 

[Vitality!]

By starting your diet and fitness goal, you have given yourself a GIFT:

We have one life; we have one body.

Each of our recreational activities have a price tag; our health is priceless.

The status of our on-going health is the most important above and beyond any exterior physical thing we acquire in our life or the temporary good feeling one wants from an "exterior substance".

Exterior physical things can be replaced; but, there is only one of each of us.

When all the smoke clears about our differences in opinion on what "looks good" in the physical (or what is a healthy habit), what matters in the end, is our inner well-being and health.

"Our greatest wealth is our personal health".

Some of us can be blind to this truth, until its taken from you like a thief in the night.

And, what this thief leaves behind, is a paling gloss of what was once thought to be important and revealing the inner pigment of what is.

The "unnamed thief" reveals and exposes reality.

We sometimes will not know when, where, how, and sometimes why, this "unnamed thief" enters.

This "unnamed thief" enters seemingly immorally, without warning, and in some cases without explanation of its cause, but it will awake within you.

Our goals within diet fitness "do have a price tag", but our health is priceless.

Yes, we all have diet and fitness goals, and they have a price tag: I am not willing to pay the expense of looking good (or "knowingly" put something in my mouth) and put my health in past tense. I will increase the odds that I will be healthy, knowing I can not completely eliminate them.

Our bodies carry us in this one-chance-at-life journey; the beliefs we carry about certain issues within our life ought to be examined thoroughly, as once we reach the death bed one will learn whether they were right or wrong.

Stubbornness on convictions can be death to one and not know it, until......its too late.

Grab your personal health.

And, you are well on your way, and I wish you the best.


Best wishes

Chillen