I’ve been losing weight in a healthy, gradual, sustained way. I’m down about 40 pounds since April. I’ve gone off the rails a few times, but have been able to redirect myself back to what I was doing and it wasn’t complete “I’ve effed it up so may as well quit” moments. I think I’m the most proud of that actually. But…
I do however have a history of not so healthy weight loss and oftentimes extreme calorie reduction or an insane unsustainable exercise regime. I’m aware of this and actively work against it.
I find myself sometimes thinking “this thing is happening in X weeks, I bet I could lose Y amount of weight by then.” It is almost always something totally unrealistic (like 5 pounds/week), but even if it is something kind of realistic like I’ve been losing at a consistent 1.5 pounds a week and to achieve whatever arbitrary goal I’d have to lose 2 pounds/week. It’s like the INSTANT (even if it’s super brief) the thought crosses my mind my brain is like “guess what….now you’re starving 100% of the time”. So that relatively ‘easy’ to maintain 1.5 pounds a week that I’ve been successful at becomes super duper ridiculously hard.
I wish I could stop my brain from having those thoughts, but I was curious if anyone else has that struggle sometimes and what you might do to help yourself through it.
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