HappyGrape
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2013
What @4Mickeys said about my past history rang a bell and I had very good thing about what I want out of this year and what is going wrong. And you know what, this week it went wrong as I was too tried and too hungry and cranky and too worried about the program and the scale and not enough about living happy and healthy. So here is what I came up with
1st I hate to admit but I am pretty happy with how I look so I don't feel very motivated to lose weight. Is this terrible? Like I don't think of myself OMG, you are amazing, like a model type of thing. But I feel pretty awesome for a 38 year old mum that works full time in IT. So while I do want the scale to go down tiny little bit more down this year, it's not really goal or priority. I am conflicting myself - I look at the mirror and I feel pretty awesome about the weight loss and progress done, I am very content. And than, trying to convince myself I need to diet is just not happening right now
2nd Working out. What do I want to get out of it. Well, I am not after body fat %, flat abs, bikini shoots, a specific event type of goals. Not at all. Again - I am 38, mother, example to a child, that wants to live happy life and use working out to keep strong and healthy and be able to do more outside the gym, not less. I don't want to walk around drained. I just want to live happy and learn how to keep my body strong, to deal with hyper mobility to continue not be an issue for me and keep my posture as good as it can be. I did great getting the new program on 20th of December and doing 3 days on working out, 1 off, 3 on. +15000 steps daily. Back in work, school drop offs, school picks up, homework. All that may not add to many calories but believe me - it adds up to real, physical tiredness.
So what I am saying. Well I don't really know yet! I am making it up as I go haha.
What do I need to do? It's the same thing I had to ask myself during weight loss again and again.
I need to make it easy for myself. I need to make sure I don't let myself make it hard (and that happend last week, thanks @4Mickeys for the reminder of what is going on!) I need to focus on keeping it happy and sustainable and make sure I enjoy what I do and how I live.
How do I do that?
I need to make it easy for myself to sustain healthy habits.
Cut my step count as I feel little too tired to be happy. New daily goal - not specific, but between 10 000 and not more than 15000
Cut my calorie deficit goal to 0 to 200 daily only, and be ok with 0
Cut the treat calories and focus on satiating meals more, and one 4 pm snack
Add more rest days. It may be 2 days on, 1 off, 1 on, 1 off repeat. Or one on one off.
I will spend time today doing food prep and other things (as clothes for each day). I will pre chop veggies, pre cook & freeze meals
I come home from work 5:30 with my son. I need to have the meal ready for him and I need to have my full attention for him between 5:30 and 7:30, I can't be cleaning, cooking and double jobbing. I need to be mum only during that time. DH is away from work, so it's only me and DS. It can be really stressful time if I am not ready for it and can easily end up oversnacking to deal with the panic. He needs my attention for homework, and I need a peaceful time and chat with him. I need to organize myself today to make sure this happens.
What amazes me is how much the same is maintaining weight loss as it is loosing. i still have to try to keep it happy. I still have to keep and eye on calories. I still have to keep an eye on exercise. I still need to review how things are going and take change of course.
I am not very good at setting up monthly goals and keep changing them but being part of this forum is very helpful for me. Thanks @4Mickeys for making me think
1st I hate to admit but I am pretty happy with how I look so I don't feel very motivated to lose weight. Is this terrible? Like I don't think of myself OMG, you are amazing, like a model type of thing. But I feel pretty awesome for a 38 year old mum that works full time in IT. So while I do want the scale to go down tiny little bit more down this year, it's not really goal or priority. I am conflicting myself - I look at the mirror and I feel pretty awesome about the weight loss and progress done, I am very content. And than, trying to convince myself I need to diet is just not happening right now
2nd Working out. What do I want to get out of it. Well, I am not after body fat %, flat abs, bikini shoots, a specific event type of goals. Not at all. Again - I am 38, mother, example to a child, that wants to live happy life and use working out to keep strong and healthy and be able to do more outside the gym, not less. I don't want to walk around drained. I just want to live happy and learn how to keep my body strong, to deal with hyper mobility to continue not be an issue for me and keep my posture as good as it can be. I did great getting the new program on 20th of December and doing 3 days on working out, 1 off, 3 on. +15000 steps daily. Back in work, school drop offs, school picks up, homework. All that may not add to many calories but believe me - it adds up to real, physical tiredness.
So what I am saying. Well I don't really know yet! I am making it up as I go haha.
What do I need to do? It's the same thing I had to ask myself during weight loss again and again.
I need to make it easy for myself. I need to make sure I don't let myself make it hard (and that happend last week, thanks @4Mickeys for the reminder of what is going on!) I need to focus on keeping it happy and sustainable and make sure I enjoy what I do and how I live.
How do I do that?
I need to make it easy for myself to sustain healthy habits.
Cut my step count as I feel little too tired to be happy. New daily goal - not specific, but between 10 000 and not more than 15000
Cut my calorie deficit goal to 0 to 200 daily only, and be ok with 0
Cut the treat calories and focus on satiating meals more, and one 4 pm snack
Add more rest days. It may be 2 days on, 1 off, 1 on, 1 off repeat. Or one on one off.
I will spend time today doing food prep and other things (as clothes for each day). I will pre chop veggies, pre cook & freeze meals
I come home from work 5:30 with my son. I need to have the meal ready for him and I need to have my full attention for him between 5:30 and 7:30, I can't be cleaning, cooking and double jobbing. I need to be mum only during that time. DH is away from work, so it's only me and DS. It can be really stressful time if I am not ready for it and can easily end up oversnacking to deal with the panic. He needs my attention for homework, and I need a peaceful time and chat with him. I need to organize myself today to make sure this happens.
What amazes me is how much the same is maintaining weight loss as it is loosing. i still have to try to keep it happy. I still have to keep and eye on calories. I still have to keep an eye on exercise. I still need to review how things are going and take change of course.
I am not very good at setting up monthly goals and keep changing them but being part of this forum is very helpful for me. Thanks @4Mickeys for making me think
I'm in a lot of pain, and caring for a 3 month old and 2 year old when I can hardly walk is really hard, it's getting me down...but right now I am just focusing on my eating habits, hopefully the extra weight will continue to fall off and my knees will heal as I get lighter.
