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Platinum1141

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Hi all, my name is Sarah - 39 from Cleveland. I started to eat healthy last year after I got on the scale and it said - 410 :ack2: (I am 5'8") I have always been on the chubby side but at some point, apparently, it got out of control. That number scared me a lot and decided I needed to do something. So that was 1 year ago this month, and I am down 98lbs as of today!! :) I don't call anything I am doing a diet, because those fail - I am just re-teaching myself to eat healthy. 100% sugar free and just doing that created the most strangest and unusual feelings, the biggest being - I don't much get "hungry" anymore.

I am now at a point of being able to, and needing to move ALOT more than I am doing but for some reason I feel quite lazy about it. At this point, its not a lack of energy, or pain - I can only assume its some type of stubborn mindset. Once I get started, I am good - its the getting started that is for some reason so troublesome. I am looking for friends to share motivation with! Also maybe recipes, sharing stories and ideas for eating and workouts or jusst to chat for support when the feeling of loss of self control creeps up!
 
98lbs! That's awesome I like the low /no sugar route too. I remember struggling to get motivated to workout about 9 months into my 'get healthy' project because I was stressed and busy at work at the time. For about 8 weeks I forced myself to workout on the days I felt least motivated (which was super tough) but I felt twice as good after working out on those days and it gave me a real boost. I haven't struggled to get motivated since that. Good luck with continued success!
 
98 pounds is freakin amazing! I am also getting motivated to exercise. One trick that often works for me is to choose 2 different workouts to choose from and if I don't do one of them during the day, I have to do the harder one for sure before I go to bed. This motivates me to at least do the easy one! Another trick I have heard is just getting up and doing 5 minutes of exercise and that usually leads to completing the workout, but if not, you can also do little spurts of exercise throughout the day at first. I have this sort of block against taking care of myself - I have to picture myself as a friend who I am helping to get around this sometimes.

It's really inspiring that you aren't so hungry since quitting sugar. I am going to quit sugar, and I really hope it cuts down the cravings. It actually makes me feel bad when I eat it, so hopefully this won't be super hard!

Good luck with the exercise, and continuing with the great diet!!!
 
I am turning into one of those PUSHY annoying people, lecturing people on how amazing no sugar can be!! The 5 minute thing sounds like a good idea! I am going to try it! This week I did push myself back into the gym and hired a trainer (1 session is all I can afford) but I hope to get an idea of how to start using weights and then I can focus on that as well as cardio, because sometimes cardio is just boring!!
 
Platinum1141 said:
I am turning into one of those PUSHY annoying people, lecturing people on how amazing no sugar can be!! The 5 minute thing sounds like a good idea! I am going to try it! This week I did push myself back into the gym and hired a trainer (1 session is all I can afford) but I hope to get an idea of how to start using weights and then I can focus on that as well as cardio, because sometimes cardio is just boring!!
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I was almost going to bed without doing exercise, so I let myself do the easier exercise, yoga, and I am so glad I did - I feel sooo better and on top of that, didn't break my promise to myself of doing exercise each day. So I revise my statement about making myself do the hard exercise at night if I didn't exercise yet - I tried doing the easy one instead this time and that was even better because I was kind to myself instead of punishing myself by making myself do something in the name of it being good for me (which makes me associate healthy things with discomfort instead of with feeling better). I think maybe the key for me (at least while starting out) is to do good things for myself in a way that feels good, not punishing.

So great you got a training session in (I know what you mean about how expensive that is)! I struggle with how to use weights, too. If you find a good youtube video or anything helpful, please pass it along to me. Otherwise I have to keep bugging my hubby who can't understand why I can't remember how to lift weights!

I have gone 2 days without sugar, and have cravings, but eating a lot of protein is helping. I am starting to picture the fresh fruit I can have instead of sugar and that helps a lot. It makes me love the fruit more!
 
You need to follow some strict diet in your daily routine and also need to go to the gym and hit few heavy exercises. But for these all things very first you should make yourself prepared for the things and set a goal to achieve it anyhow.
 
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