I have lost my focus

I have lost my focus on dieting and am like a ship without a rudder. I was sooooo motivated when I started my diet. I was gung ho and totally focused but I have lost my direction. I think it started with hitting a plateau and several events helped my momentum to falter. It is no longer just faltering, it is floundering and sinking rapidly now. I have picked up a cold, and for me a cold is something to dread as I drag a cold forever and it knocks me flat on my back. I am going to try to get back on track tommorow morning. I know how to eat properly, in fact I know so much information I could write books on nutrition. Why can't I apply my knowledge to myself. Life sure can be frustrating.

Tommorow is the first day of the rest of my life...

I think a part of the problem is that I MUST come here to calorie-count daily. It is a crutch that I need at this time.

See you all tommorow


Steve

Sounds like you're feeling really down and ill to boot. Try to get lots of vitamin C, that might help you recover faster. Good luck!

Steve, try thinking of this as a lifestyle change instead of a diet. A lifestyle change is typically done for improved health as well as weight loss or maintenance. Get back on board by remembering why you wanted to diet in the first place. Write down all the positive reasons you can think of for this lifestyle change. Then I think you will feel more motivated.

I'll meet you tomorrow.  I too was gung ho and you couldnt tempt me with cake or pie.  But one thing that i have learned is NOT to beat yourself up if you lose your rudder.  Just get up and go on.  We are all in the same boat.  No pun intended!!  As I pick up something to eat that isnt the best choice, I ask myself... Does feeling thin feel better than this tastes?

To the finish line!!!

I have to come here everyday too. I have to join challenges and groups and post there often. Sometimes I don't feel like I have time to be here, but I know even a few minutes of logging my calories and updating a few threads is enough to keep me going. I hope you can get over your cold soon and start the rest of your life with a positive thought.

Please let us know how you are doing, we will be waiting to hear about your latest triumph!

And don't forget that not only are we here for you, but we need you here for us too! We all have our down days and we need you to help us focus and continue towards our goals!

Best Wishes

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Steveo1959-

I just blew my first good week with a double-whammy of son's birthday party (pizza and cake) and friend's wedding (beer). I detoxed today, and now it's time to move forward again. I probably put back on everything I lost before. Sucks, but that was yesterday.

Here's how I get through the cold- multivitamin, fluids, clean sheets and clothes. Don't skip shaving, take extra showers. Take aspirin or tylenol or whatever, even if I don't have a headache, so that maybe you feel a little better. If I can't exercise, then I at least stretch so I get some endorphins or whatever. 

I hear you about the website. It's the same for me with TV, internet, media in general. Get one of those "Sounds of nature" CDs and sit and listen to it with your eyes closed and think about what you would do with three wishes. Or blast some Wagner. Get out of your own head for a while, but not with TV, internet, commercial radio, etc. That stuff is a recipe for depression.

Motivation will come back around, so all you have to do is get yourself through until then.

Just because you had one bad day or a number of them doesn't mean all hope is lost.  You are still in charge of the ship.  It won't always be smooth sailing.  Especially if you deal with emotional events with food up until now. 

I had a bad day yesterday (at McDonald's b/c I was depressed about some stuff).  Then I was more frustrated and sad that I gave in and ate that.  I did my analysis and somehow came out okay for the day (a B for the grade and well within calorie range).  I also did carpentry work yesterday so turns out I burned off alot too even though I didn't have time for a regular workout. 

You'll get on track.  Don't give up.  Just think how good it will feel to be thin.  That's what I tell myself when I am blue.  Also, today I played some of my old cd's (Metal Mania, to perk me up). Dreaming of looking like a rock star and dancing around the house got me out of my depressed mood and all of my problems are the same.  I can change course is what I found out.

Cheers!

We are all in this together.  I swear without CC I would have lost my motivation already.  I have decided to not have the scale going down as my motivator but I look at how was my food intake today?  Am I eating healthy?  Am I becoming stronger on my hikes?  Things like that.  I am losing slowly, which is good.  But my mind wants it to be now!  So, I have to find ways to ignore that inner impatient voice.  And I keep logging onto CC!

Thanks for all the support gang... I will hang in there and will succeed as we all will. A summer cold sucks but such is life ehh. I am going to start logging food again starting tommorow and I know that helps me anyway.

Steve