Day 1 Staying focused

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Shell said:
LaMaria I haven't had an allergy test done in the past, but I asked for one last week. However, the doctor's office needed to find out if my insurance would pay for the test.
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That sucks so much that basic healthcare isn´t a guarantee where you live :ambivalence:
 
LaMaria and Cate you are absolutely correct about the healthcare system. Unfortunately, it profitable here, so there are a lot of people fighting against providing basis healthcare for everyone. Companies and the healthcare system would loss to much money. At the same time, I am use to it.

I am still dealing with a headache; although I have completed the prescribed medication. I am still taking sinus/allergy medication, it reduces the pain. I am glad the severe level goes down, but I wish it would go away.

I didn't go to the gym today because we are going downtown to sightsee, so I figured my exercise would be walking today.

My calorie intake yesterday was 1396, water 40fl oz.

I am still struggling with staying focused on eating healthy, but I am also trying to push myself past the struggle. Does anyone else ever feel like they want to give up on this healthy eating or weight loss program? If so, what have you done to push past it? In the past I gave up and stated back when I was ready to get back focused on eating healthy. This time I am really trying to endure past the temptation of giving up.
 
Shell said:
Does anyone else ever feel like they want to give up on this healthy eating or weight loss program? If so, what have you done to push past it?
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Very regularly. And I can´t say I´ve found a fool-proof solution for it. Usually I try to remind myself that if I veer off track it won´t be long until I´m overweight and unhealthy again and how awful that felt. And that no matter what I do the only thing that´ll work long-term is healthy, balanced eating with regular exercise. Then when I can think of a reasonable, satisfying, special meal or snack I´m usually fine again for a while.
 
I think it's a constant struggle for most of us. The alternative is not good though. I am sick to death of losing, regaining, losing, regaining.......It is worth sticking to healthy eating but does require perseverance. You can do this, Shell xo
 
Shell said:
Does anyone else ever feel like they want to give up on this healthy eating or weight loss program?
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Of course I do, and based on Cate and LaMa's posts it looks like we are not alone. Sometimes it just doesn't seem fair that I have to do this when so many of my friends and family can just eat what they want and stay slim, I want to be like them.
Shell said:
If so, what have you done to push past it? In the past I gave up and stated back when I was ready to get back focused on eating healthy. This time I am really trying to endure past the temptation of giving up.
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Wish I had the magic answer, obviously I don't here I am almost 67 years old and overweight, like you I have been up and down this road too many times. I guess I am just trying to accept that I am not someone who can eat what they want and stay healthy, dieting is my only alternative. Hang in there, this feeling will pass, if you stick to your diet until it does you'll feel a lot better and better about yourself!
 
Shell said:
... Does anyone else ever feel like they want to give up on this healthy eating or weight loss program?
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Yes! I'd love to be able to eat the way I imagine other people to eat, potatoes and cheesecake and gosh-knows-what-all. But I just plain can't (and anyway, probably they don't eat as much as I imagine them to eat anyway - I remember once when I was out to dinner with someone and he was pretty taken aback by how much I ate.)
Anyway, I just plain can't, and that's my body, and I've got to learn to live with it - I'd love to have curly hair too! I'd love to have startlingly blue eyes!

Shell said:
...If so, what have you done to push past it? In the past I gave up and stated back when I was ready to get back focused on eating healthy. This time I am really trying to endure past the temptation of giving up.
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So I guess accepting myself and my body (and it's a good, honest, healthy body! Not a beauty-contest winner, alas, but it works a treat for doing everyday stuff, and can do a short run, like for a bus, if I have to) is one thing I do. So accepting this body and how it works, and appreciating it for what is and does, including its quirks and limitations - that's one thing!

But also - I did "give up" for a while. :eek:

When I started the quest for a healthier me, I was lots heavier than now - and I lost about sixty pounds. And I looked much better, and I felt much better, and I loved it. And there I stayed for... not sure, but at least a couple of years at that same lower weight, still "clinically obese", but much less than I had been. Then this year, the time felt right to get going on a second stage, and here I am.
I regret that, a bit - the "giving up", and the time lost when I could have been focussing on getting healthier in ways other than losing weight - but on the other hand it helped me feel more sure of myself, more sure than I "owned" this newer body with more shape to it, and ready to start again.
So - over all - yes, try not to "give up"! But if you do, don't "give up" in the sense of going wild eating unhealthy, just make it a gentle-on-yourself break, not gaining, but just stopping for a bit at the weight you're at, giving yourself credit for weight lost, liking your new body and reculer pour mieux sauter, as the French say, pausing to give yourself a better chance at the next leap forward!

p.s.: ignore all that if it's not helpful! Sorry it was so long.
 
Thanks so much everyone for posting your personal struggles with wanting to give up and working through it. I really appreciate you all.

I was having a good day, but then I reinjured my leg that I thought was a flare up. It happened again when I was walking; but I don't know what actually happened. The only difference now is it's swollen, so I am going to the emergency room to find out what's going on with this leg. I am waiting for my daughter to take me because my husband can drive good at night.

Anyway my yesterday's intake was 1924 calories and at 3,017 out. I forgot to log my water intake yesterday, but I had a lot of water since we were walking in the heat. I walked 8,401 steps yesterday.

I didn't make it to the gym this morning, so I was focused on walking this evening. I was almost home when my leg started throbbing again.
My intake today was 1711 calories in and 2469 calories out. Water intake 64 fl oz. I walked 6947 steps.
 
LaMaria said:
Fingers crossed your leg isn´t too bad :grouphug: Well done on the calories though!
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Thanks, LaMaria.

Apparently I tore a ligament that's a part of me knee. It will take a while to heal, so I will have to start over again with exercising in a few weeks. I am glad I found out exactly what happened, so I won't push myself through the pain. The doctor said I could do water exercise, but I just don't know when, yet. They gave me a shot for the inflammation and pain last night. It didn't do much for the pain, but the swelling has gone down. He also changed my inflammation medication, but I can't take it yet, because it causes sleepiness. I have to work today, so I don't want to take it and have problems staying awake. So, I will continue taking my other inflammation medication until Thursday.
 
Ouch, that sucks! Still: it´s always good to know what´s going on. I hope you heal up soon. Ligaments tend to take a while to heal.
 
Oh, you poor thing! Water exercise would be a good thing to get into as it's so supportive. I might try to get my head around going out in bathers this summer. I don't think I have felt ok in bathers since I was a kid. :grouphug:
 
Oh, that's rotten luck, about the torn ligament. I hope you can work out a way to get the water exercise in the time before it heals.
 
Thanks everyone for the post. I was feeling a little defeated this morning until I seen the support.

I wanted to go to water exercise this morning, but decided to get through the weekend before making a decision. I guess I am just afraid that I will start gaining weight again with no exercise. So, I trying to think what diet program I could do temporarily. I thought about the Keto diet since several of my friends are doing it, but I really don't know if it would work for me. I also thought about a semi-Daniel fast, but not for sure about that either.

I think the medication from the shot finally kick in yesterday because, it's not hurting as bad as it was the night before last. The positive is the intensity level of the pain has decreased, which causes less frustration. The negative is it give me a false sense of healing, which makes me think I can put my pressure on it or do more than I actually can. I am trying to balance all of this out, by paying more attention to the swelling when I start walking.

Yesterday's calories in 1702 and calories out was 2193; water intake 30 fl oz.; 2481 steps

I have to work today. I am a little stressed about it because I don't like being the center of attention, but I have to elevate my leg again. My next concern is working 8 hours. I usually don't work that many hours in a day, so I am concerned about the medication wearing off and the pain level increasing while I am working. I also usually get up every hours and walk around to reduce any other challenges with my chronic pain, however, I have notice every time I walk my knee area swells. These are concerns, but by the time I get to work, I will be in a mindful state.
 
I hope you get through your work day without pain, Shell. I'm glad you're feeling a bit more positive. Take care xo
 
What Cate said. Also: might it help to do some chair gymnastics if you can't walk much?
 
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