In terms of my weight loss, I'm completely stuck. I haven't put on weight in months and I haven't lost it either. Instead I've just hovered within a 2 kilogram window that I can't seem to break out of. Worst of all, this isn't a dreaded plateau, it's completely self inflicted. I haven't been doing enough. Especially for the last few weeks. I haven't been bad, but I haven't been paying much attention to my food, or water intake. The only thing I have been doing is exercising.
To be honest, I am a little surprised that I haven't at least seen a slow and gradual loss, given that I have been regularly exercising and my eating hasn't been anywhere near as bad as it used to be. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't counting on this being the case, that I could just give up and still lose weight. In hindsight though, I haven't been so bad that I shouldn't have seen some loss.
I don't know why is it that I'm so stuck right now. I have patches where I'm back to doing everything right, then all of a sudden it's gone. I'm only now starting to get frustrated with myself for it. I don't know if maybe my weight loss so far has sort of been enough to make me proud of myself that I'm not as highly motivated to keep going. Or maybe I've just had an off patch that I've been too lenient with and allowed to go on for too long. I can't make sense of it, and I want to know why I'm doing it. So I can kick it in the butt and keep going, and avoid it again in the future.
I'm trying not to get too down on myself, as making myself feel guilty has never helped me. All it does is make things harder. Instead, I'm working on finding positive ways to move forward and gain back the focus on my health that I had before. Things like learning about nutrition (which I REALLY enjoy, shockingly), and getting up early to do my morning walk. If I keep focusing on these things that I enjoy doing, and setting myself small goals, hopefully I will find my way back to losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle. I really want to. I'm not satisfied with going back to where I was, and it's such a slippery slope back to that. I want to keep moving forward, for my health and my future.
Has anyone else gotten stuck, be it for a short or long while? What did you do to get out of it?
I am pretty shocked how much I enjoy learning about nutrition as well. I watched a documentary on youtube last week called Fathead (this is not spam, you don't have to watch it) and was shocked how interesting it was to me. That is something I have not been fond of in the past. You've lost 41 pounds so far, so you know what it takes. That's a big accomplishment already, I got faith in ya
ReplyDeleteAH The notorious plateau. I hate those. Keep plugging through, You will break through it. Mine took what seemed like forever. I think it was around 2 months. Be patient and keep doing what your doing.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check it out! And thanks for the encouragement :) I really appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they aren't much fun. Don't worry, I'm hanging in there!
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