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Location: Texas | I am about to pass the 150 mark on the scale and I have stretch marks on my stomach. Most days i'm okay but sometimes I just feel so depressed.. I've got my self into this cycle where I will buy healthy foods and eat good for maybe 1 day but then I just get sad about my body and say well "one bad meal won't hurt what I already look like".. But I know it also won't help. I've felt so many changes in my body, breathing is a little harder, riding is harder, walking up stairs or walking to class i'm out of breath, I fel sick and groggy most days. You would think seeing and feeling how bad my eating habits and lack of excersise is for me would be enough to change, but I have such a hard time doing so.. Any advice on how to get motivated? |
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Location: Home....Smiling M Farms | Join a FB weightloss motivation group :) |
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Location: TN | I've been struggling with getting motivated to exercise too. In the last couple days though I've decided that it's time to quit pigging out and being lazy because I need to strengthen my core for a few reasons: it's weak and has given me some back problems lately, I would like to be in shape and feel good, and most importantly I need to strengthen my core to work on my balance and body position in my turns.
So I started the 30 day plank challenge tonight and I'm trying to eat sensibly (not denying myself any certain foods, just eating smaller portions of unhealthy things and trying to make healthier choices). The goal is to gain muscle and strength, not lose weight, so we'll see how it goes. My motivation is mostly coming from wanting to ride better. Think about something that would really drive you to get fit and go with it. You can do it girl!  |
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Location: on my horse | I ballooned up to 165 lbs from 115 over the last 2 years and what I did to get motivated was to join Myfitnesspal and stalk their challenge boards, add friends, and find a few good accountability buddies. No matter how crappy I feel and how much I know that my eating is affecting my health I can't do it on my own and need the thought of other people seeing/reading what I eat and do to get me moving. And guess what... IT WORKS! If you want to try MFP my name on there is brlrcr22,
I also worked up an incentive program with my mom, I do a weekly weigh in and send her the results, she keeps a tally and every ten pounds we do something for it like go out for a healthy dinner together or for the first ten lbs I bought myself a new pair of jeans lol but it's awesome having my mom on board with me and cheering me on and going to her house and seeing her little tally sheet.
Another thing I did was get a polar loop fitness band. It tracks my steps and gives me a rough estimate of calories burned. Wearing it on my wrist helps keep me honest with myself and active. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | A gym friend!!!!!! I was working out 5-6 days a week for an hour to an hour and a half this time two years ago. Why? Not because I hated myself, but because my best friend encouraged me and really got me into it. I could go a few days a week by myself, but once she got transferred to a different branch two hours away I completely stopped going. I was in pretty good shape (not going around in a two piece in public, but I was happy with my strength!), but gained everything back and lost a lot of muscle. I need to start going again.... But I know I'm not a determined enough person to do it alone. Have someone to keep you accountable and let's you enjoy the process! |
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I just read the headlines
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| Read the post Fairweather has about overweight riders. It got me motivated just reading the whole thing. I am telling myself that since I am getting my horse in shape, I have to get in shape, too. It's not fair to him if he has to work out but I don't. Strangely, that is working, at least for today, lol! Just take it one day at a time and one meal at a time. So what if you mess up one meal- you have 2 more to get right. Walk in place during commercials or do kind of movement. If you need some one to do this with, you can do it with me.  |
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Location: Minnesota | Find someone to help motivate you that lives a clean, healthy lifestyle. Getting healthy is just that, a lifestyle. Fad diets don't last. I work out 6 days a week. I meal plan, I control what I eat, how much and at what time. I take vitamins and protein powders. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.
I started this a few months ago and I feel amazing. Good luck! |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | redmansmyman11 - 2015-02-05 9:52 PM
I ballooned up to 165 lbs from 115 over the last 2 years and what I did to get motivated was to join Myfitnesspal and stalk their challenge boards, add friends, and find a few good accountability buddies. No matter how crappy I feel and how much I know that my eating is affecting my health I can't do it on my own and need the thought of other people seeing/reading what I eat and do to get me moving. And guess what... IT WORKS! If you want to try MFP my name on there is brlrcr22,
I also worked up an incentive program with my mom, I do a weekly weigh in and send her the results, she keeps a tally and every ten pounds we do something for it like go out for a healthy dinner together or for the first ten lbs I bought myself a new pair of jeans lol but it's awesome having my mom on board with me and cheering me on and going to her house and seeing her little tally sheet.
Another thing I did was get a polar loop fitness band. It tracks my steps and gives me a rough estimate of calories burned. Wearing it on my wrist helps keep me honest with myself and active.
I requested you as a MFP friend!!! I haven't been on in probably a year but I need to start doing it! |
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Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | Longneck - 2015-02-05 10:34 PM redmansmyman11 - 2015-02-05 9:52 PM I ballooned up to 165 lbs from 115 over the last 2 years and what I did to get motivated was to join Myfitnesspal and stalk their challenge boards, add friends, and find a few good accountability buddies. No matter how crappy I feel and how much I know that my eating is affecting my health I can't do it on my own and need the thought of other people seeing/reading what I eat and do to get me moving. And guess what... IT WORKS! If you want to try MFP my name on there is brlrcr22, I also worked up an incentive program with my mom, I do a weekly weigh in and send her the results, she keeps a tally and every ten pounds we do something for it like go out for a healthy dinner together or for the first ten lbs I bought myself a new pair of jeans lol but it's awesome having my mom on board with me and cheering me on and going to her house and seeing her little tally sheet. Another thing I did was get a polar loop fitness band. It tracks my steps and gives me a rough estimate of calories burned. Wearing it on my wrist helps keep me honest with myself and active. I requested you as a MFP friend!!! I haven't been on in probably a year but I need to start doing it!
Im gonna add you redmansmyman!! And Longneck you can add me, reedemad |
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Location: on my horse | added/requested you both! |
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Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | I;ve done mfp before and it helped, that's what my dr reccomended. I'm gonna try it again.. Although it says I'll only lose 5lbs by March 12th which seems like very little to me.. BUT I will be positive I think that's my biggest problem. |
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Location: on my horse | That stupid weight loss counter thing lies I swear! It's never right with me but the site itself definitely helps! |
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Location: NC | I am right there with you. I weighed 128 before I got pegnant last year and had always been 128-132. Then during the pregnancy I started packing on the pounds, then got a new job that was a desk job and had me getting off too late to ride after work. Next thing I know I am 207lbs!! After baby I went to 170 after the first month. Now almost a year later I am still 150. I wouldn't care so much but it is ALL in my waist. I have stretch marks all over my thighs, stomach and boobs. When I look at myself in the mirror I want to cry. My husband doesn't complain but when I complain to him he just says well eat less and work out everyday with me, ride bikes on the weekend, etc... BUT with a baby in the house its hard. and if during my free time I am working out that means I am not riding. I hardly get to ride at all as it is, I don't want to give up what little time I have to ride to work out. Then on top of that my baby CLINGS to me when I come home from work wont let me put him down for a good hour after I get home. So by then its time to eat dinner and get him ready for bed and by then I need to go to bed.
Sorry for such a long reply but your post really hit home for me. I FEEL your pain. I feel so depressed between my body and my lack of time to ride I have thought about just giving up and sellign out. Which then makes me feel that much more depressed... 
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Location: Alberta | Find out about any exercises classes in your town, at a fitness centre? Church? Whether it be a specific class or if there are any walking groups...another option is getting a trainer who can help you with meal plans and a workout plan....YES they cost money but they help to keep you accountable, doing a lifestyle change is NOT easy AND 1 day does not make you a failure, dust yourself off and keep rolling. Look into Weight Watchers meetings and join, WW is a great program and the meetings definitely help to empower everyone!
You can do this! |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | even if you can just do 10 minutes of something...some exercise every day you will start to develop a habit. You can build on that habit!
The 30 day challenge app is a good one. The workouts are quick and you just get in a routine of doing it. Try getting up a few minutes early to do it before you hop in the shower for work. Then it's done. Any other exercise you manage to get during the day is a bonus at that point!
Also...I mostly distance ride these days. One trick some do is to ride a mile then walk their horse for a mile. Trot a mile..jog with the horse a mile. etc. Accomplishes riding/conditioning/exercise for both horse and rider. |
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| I put on the pounds having 4 kids in 4 years, staying at home with them, not even thinking about exercise or diet. I lost the weight when I decided to start riding. I had joined a gym and I told my husband it was like an ego boost everyday, once you could see the changes people would come up and tell me great job, etc. - it felt good and I got hooked on going to the gym and the mental boost it gives you from working out. Getting older is quite a motivator too, I am 54 and want to stay healthy. My husband's side of the family is palgued with health issues, some heriditary, some created by lifestyle, but all could benefit from clean eating and exercise. I want my husband healthy and around for a long time so I cook him very healthy meals. It is just not about today but taking care of ourselves for the future. His family has a history of an eye disease that causes blindness, his mother is losing her sight - very sad. Research shows a healthy diet can tremendously reduce the progess of this disease. Hubby takes vitamins for his eye per his eye doctor, he gets organic fresh spinach every day along with other dark leafy vegetables, no processed or junk foods. Once or twice a week we will have something "bad". I buy him dynamic greens, an antioxidant powder that he drinks daily. He is the only one in his famliy that has made any changes- it just blows me away that the other siblings don't do anything to help themselves.
I have very little discipline to work out on my own so I attend group classes, fun and motivating and I will bust my but in there but on my own, not so much.
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| Gym Friend that will be motivated with you! And go there and do something you enjoy and just make sure you are getting something out of it! |
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 The Bling Princess
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Location: North Dakota | It helps me to not look at the big picture because when I do that that thought of having to lose 60lbs is VERY DAUNTING!! So I take it one day at a time and I break down the day into before noon, after noon, and after 6 pm. I try to eat my carbs before noon so my body has all day to break them down and burn them off. Afternoon, when I'm craving chocolate, etc, I make sure to have something healthy to replace it, or if I want a piece of chocolate I eat just one and not the whole bowl. After 6 is when I try to eat the least amount of carbs and big meals. Veggies & lean meats is what I try to stick to.
I also have a workout buddy that is at the gym with me to help me push through when I'm about to give up.
The first two weeks is what I've found to be the hardest, but once your in a routine it becomes easier and you'll actually look forward to working out and enjoying it. Once you start working out you'll find that you feel so good you don't want to put garbage in your mouth.
Some days when the motivation isn't there I just look out my window and look at my horse. I think about what we can do together and I know because he is strong that I need to be strong. So its sort of fear of falling off or lawn darting off the front of my horse that makes me hit the gym:) Plus I just feel better:)
You can do it...You just have to start!!! |
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Location: East TN | I'm in the same boat. I went from 185 before pregnancy to 245 afterwards. I lost maybe a pound between when I had my son in April and the first of January. All of my weight loss has been in the past month. Since I stopped eating so late at night and not eat much junk food, I've dropped down to 225 in a month (20lbs). I now find myself with more energy and motivation to ride again. :) |
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| So I'm gonna be the odd one out ... Gym friends help but at the end of the day YOU are the only one responsible for what you do, how you eat, and how you feel. Thus, my motivation is to better myself one run, one lift, one day at a time.
Set a realistic goal - attain it and set another one. Loosing weight in a healthy manner (so it doesn't come back quickly) is a very hard thing to do. Due to my family history, I am a walking time bomb if I don't step up to the proverbial plate and make positive choices every day. I am my own motivation.
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