It’s the only thing I’ve ever set my mind to and then failed at it.
And failed I have. Utterly and completely.
The stakes? Nothing less than my life.
The task? My weight.
Despite multiple attempts, resolve, determination, and knowledge…still…not only have I not lost weight…I weigh more now than I ever have before.
Yeah…diet and excercise is all it takes, right? And anybody that says that off-hand has never battled a weight problem. Eat less? Yep, good advice. Has the same impact as “Breathe less.” Without constant vigilance and total conscious control it just doesn’t happen.
Exercise I get in plenty…I live an active life. More would be good. More hours in the day would be good too. Diet’s the change that’s gotta get it started.
The pressures are many. The default is to fail. No excuses here…other than to say it is far harder to do than to say.
I’ve attempted many, many things in my life. I’ve succeeded or at least proven to my satisfaction that I could do the task in all of them…all except this one.
Complete, abject, failure.
I don’t like the way that tastes.
They tell me it’s never too late. Whilst I still breathe there’s always a chance for a new beginning.
I’m sick of it…and reaching the age where it will effect what I’m capable of doing…which to me is incomprehensible.
I’ve got…well…stuff…to do. Ya know?
So. A new beginning.
Again.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
I’m fighting that battle myself. My sons and their friends started a tournament paintball team and they asked me to be on it. I need to lose the weight to keep up with them as they are *cough* twenty eight *cough* years younger than this old dragon. I have a reputation to uphold (disappearing and reappearing) and laying on the ground gasping for air won’t cut it.
My wife found that ability to stick to a plan and she’s almost back down to what she weighed when we got married many years ago. So I know it can be done.
Bleh man, I know exactly what ur talking about, my husband had the same problem. I wish U luck, maybe U need to train the dragon to not go on the auto BBQ/Mexican/etc. runs
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I’m 48 years old, if that makes a difference.
I’ve found that in order to stick to a plan, you need to have a *reason* for the diet. A good reason, not some doctor telling you that you’re gonna have a heart attack or something … that’s way too far in the future, and too much of a gamble, for most of us.
We need something concrete to make us want to lose weight.
A part-time job for me is photography. I make some dollars by taking landscape, wildlife, and event photos. The tie-in here is that in order to get the good photos, I gotta be able to do stuff like hike, camp, and move quickly in events. So, physically fit (at least, more fit than I was).
Hiking is hard when you’re 5’4″ and 200 pounds, and in rotten aerobic shape. It’s a helluva lot easier when you’re 180… and I expect it’ll be even easier as my weight drops further.
If you’re already active, changing what you eat might help. For allergy reasons, my doctor put me on a “diet” last year, calories dropped as a result of the foods I’m eating now … from fast food and soda to salads, no dairy, no deep-fried foods, no soda. Like I said, it helps to have a really good concrete reason, other than losing weight, which I just couldn’t get behind. It’s easier to have some rules, like no eating 2 hours before bed; it makes having the discipline easier.
You’re a long-distance biker. You have the necessary discipline, you just gotta have a good reason… just like biking, for me it’s not the whole “Hey look I’m on a bike” thing, it’s the fact that you can go places *and* enjoy getting to those places.