Hi Sam, sorry to hear how you've been feeling. Crumbs, don't be too hard on yourself. Look at me, for a long time I've been off on off on off on. You are doing way better than me.
It's early days for me L-Jay...I have actually been trying to lose this weight for a year + !!!!!. I have bought and tried so many plans and now I'm returning to Cohens after all that. I know I can lose with Cohens it's jsut getting back into that bloody mind set.
I was wondering, about TOM, I noticed you said you suffered insomnia for a couple of nights. Is that usual then? I ask, because I suffer it regularly before TOM, and once it starts I sleep a bit better. Sometimes, I'm bad for a week or 2. This really wreaks havoc with will power and coping, but strictly sticking to Cohens does help a little bit. I hope you're feeling better soon.
Tom is all over the place for me atm....The insomnia was more so to do with a few personal issues I've been going through....and it just happened to coincide with tom etc. During tom I get derailed so often...it makes me upset because once I'm in that mind set I can acheive anything but then tom will arrive and it changes everything. I actually have to up my Vitamins and mineral the week before and yes eating really clean like Cohens does improve things I notice. I have to admit with Cohens I just function and feel alot more better health wise.
Make sure you make time for yourself, to get the rest you need and to sort your head out. We all have our ups and downs. When I'm going well, I wish I could put some of my motivation into a pill and give it to someone who so desperately wants it. Find what it is that motivated you in the past and use it, or find something new. I struggle with that, and find my motivation is very visual things. Like pictures of skinny people. (I find other people more inspiring, piccys of myself when I was thin make me feel more down on myself, though they are a reminder that I can do this.)
Your right I don't make time for myself....atm I'm on here typing aware that I should be doing this and that when I should be chillaxing a bit and appreciating this time for me. So true about the pill, I wish I could do the same and give myself one when feeling down about it all....which I am now by the way. Yes that motivation thing is a hard one to grasp....I still don't fully understand how that all works. How does it occurr and how do we hold on to it. I think it all comes down to our mind set and atm my mind is struggling to understand why it take so long to lose and why we put it on so quickly.
Something else that may help, do you ever read back over your diary when you first began, and how motivated you were then? There may be some things you've posted which got you through tough times then, that you've forgotten about and could utilize now?
Hang in there.
