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For all of you that have been there done that....for everyone that has lost 70 lbs and gained 85....what is different this time? What will keep you at your goal weight this time? What is driving you to succeed?
Here are mine:
1. This time I realize that you CAN gain the weight back. Being smaller is not a pass to eat whatever and whenever you want.
2. This time I am not dieting, I am changing.
3. This time I am doing it for me and me alone...because when you let others be your focus or your motivation, when they are gone your focus and motivation may go also.
4. This time I have found things about healthy living that I really enjoy and instead of making them a temporary routine, I am making them habits.
Those are just a few that I could think of, but I am sure there are 100s more...what are you doing this time/ what is different about you this time?
Im doing it the RIGHT way this time, the healthy way!! A HUGE difference is this website!! I wish I had stumbled upon it a long time ago!
Instead of fantasizing and dreaming about being thin, and doing very little to get there, I am ACTIVELY working towards my goal.
I never thought I was lazy before, but now I realize that I kinda was...
Now I pay SO much more attention to what I put in my mouth! What I though was a relatively harmless snack before at the end of the day a few times a week turned out to be about 1000 calories!! (Oreos and milk)
Its amazing how much difference awareness makes!
The difference this time? Hmmm.
1. Faithfully using the food log. I've counted calories before, but it was so burdensome that I would give up quickly. So THIS time I am logging them in, good, bad, or ugly. Before I would just give up.
2. Eating just until I am getting full. This is not a habit yet, even as long as I've been working on it. But I am still very conscious of stopping eating when I am getting full, not when I am stuffed.
3. Changing my habits. Lifetime committment.
4. Committing to recommit. I got this early from a success story. A woman who had lost a lot of weight said her key was to commit to recommit. Whenever she made a mistake in her eating, she would start again and commit to weight loss again. Me too, now!
5. NEVER SURRENDER, NEVER GIVE UP. My motto now. Same and number 4.
Put simply, this time I've decided to do it, and not just half-ass it until I get tired of working out or cutting out foods.
It is no longer an option for me to be this size.
Simply put.
I AM TIRED OF FIGHTING THE BATTLES, I WANT TO WIN THE WAR
I AM TIRED OF BEING FAT AND TIRED
I NEED TO BE HEALTHY AND ACTIVE AS A ROLL MODEL TO MY KIDS
And if I can kick caffeine and nicotine cold turkey on the same day, can this really be that hard....I think not.
The biggest difference for me this time is exercise. I am actually spending at least an hour every day putting in miles. And and liking how I feel. I am breathing better, my knees don't hurt, and s*x is a lot more fun. 
Mine is getting to know my biochemistry and why I could never say no to sugar and why I was a depressed binger. I spent three years working on all of that. Now, I know what to eat. And now I have found caloriecount. It has opened my eyes to just how much I was eating. I honestly had no true idea of how much I was scarfing up. I've only been at this for a week, but it has been so painless just to see how much I was eating, and I've dropped my calories by 1000 already most days this week. I also have moved more than I've eaten every day but one. And I'm seeing results and feeling good.
I have the big picture; that's why it's different this time. For me, the four essential are turning out to be 1) eating for my biochemistry 2) counting calories 3) using NEAT to burn calories rather than relying on 30 minutes or an hour at the gym to do it while I mostly sit on my butt the rest of my days 4) regular trips to the gym of four or five days a week.
Lisa - what is NEAT? I have never heard of that before.
As for what is different for me this time - I think it very well may be all of you! It is so nice to know that there are many other people out there going through the same battles I am and because of or maybe in spite of that will help hold me accountable to my own health and well being. If you can do it, I can do it too!
This is also the first time that I have had the genuine support of my children as I go about this lifestyle change. They are finally old enough that they actually understand what I am doing and are willing to make a sacrifice or two to help me instead of being cranky that I am not stocking all the junk food, etc I used to. They are worried about my health and whether or not I will still be around to help my grandchildren grow up.
Finally, I have been truly confronted with the fact that I want to be a grandma even more than I wanted to be a mom. I want to ENJOY my grand kids, and be the grandma they all want to take their friends to meet, because I am just that cool. I want my grand kids to say about me what my kids say about my dad - "I just can't believe grandpa is 65 years old - he can still leave me the dust" Right now, I can't keep up with my dad, much less my kids.
Sunni
What's different for me this time is a lot of things.
1. I'm counting calories for the first time ever.
2. I'm going to counseling while I'm on this journey to focus on the emotional issues that made me this fat.
3. I'm being gentle with myself. If I mess up I accept it as something that a human being like myself does and I get right back on the horse and try again.
4. I've found an exercise that I love and a place where I love to do it.
5. I've had my epiphany, my aha moment. I need to take care of my body if I want to be happy and healthy. I haven't been healthy since I was 7 or 8. I'm 35 now, I need to do this now so I can LIVE the rest of my life.
6. I have someone in my life who loved me when I was 244 lbs loves me at 217 and will love me at 140. For once I feel like I'm really doing this for me and not to please anyone else to keep anyone else or to try to look good for a special event. I'm doing this so I will be happier with me.
That is really awesome peaceapple.
I am still focusing on patience. That has been my downfall on a lot of diets. If the weight wasn't flying off I would get discouraged. This time the weight is no where near flying but I still feel good for the little that I have accomplished. Better off than on and I am going down, slowly but surely.
I am not so sure there was ever a before time for me.
when I was 19, I joined weight watchers with my mother, for her moral support, but at 5'2"(1" taller) and 160 I needed it to, to learn how to eat healthy. I only lost 10 lbs before the messed up thinking of "I can and should eat almost the same amount of food my husband does."
A few years ago, while he was in Iraq I lost about 20 pounds (gained it back + 20 more) but I was abusing amphetamines and just plain starving myself.
This time, I have *completely* now gotten over my worst binging habit of consuming 1800 calories in about 10 minutes on Little Debbie snack cakes. Still haven't conquered the plain old, i-just-want-it-all-to-feel-stuffed thing, but thankfully that is rare and I am using my brain more.
But this time, the final time, the only real time - real as in, I actually am being healthy and care about what I'm doing - I know how healthy I am eating, and the exercise I do, is forever, and the calorie restriction is only temporary for 100 more pounds.
My attitude is what is different this time. Being fat is no longer an option! I will not stay this size!
I am still working on patience, which can be REALLY hard. I usually give up when I am not seeing results as fast as I would like to. I am just trying to hang in there this time and accept that your body does not like to lose weight, so it may be stubborn sometimes...lol
For me the difference is everyone said I was only losing weight because of lap band and they didn't realize all the side effects I went through...But now it is me and I am doing this for me and showing people I can do it!!! Now I realize you guys are in my corner and know what I am going through and I know what you are going through. We can all do it!!!
This time I am truly tired of being overweight . I felt really good when I was working out and eating right . This time I'm changing my life and not dieting.
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