I hate dieting, post #18930...
I wonder if it's possible to get myself hypnotised to accept the size I am, to be happy with it, to not feel like a failure because I can't seem to shift that last stone, because I've lost the same half stone over and over and I'm no further on now than I was 18 months ago. To look at how far I've come and not beat myself up about how much further I want to go. I was a size 22 when I started - back then I would have been thrilled at the idea of being a size 14. I would have been happy to stop there! And yet...
I swear, half the battle with dieting isn't the food. It isn't the calorie deficit and the exercise. I can do that! It's the emotional struggle, feeling guilty when you have a bad day, feeling disheartened and ready to jack the whole thing in when the scales don't move, wondering what the point of it is when you put so much effort in and get so little back.
*sighs*
I need to just keep reminding myself of how far I've come and how I've kept it off, how so many lose a lot of weight and put it back on again, how a size 14 is perfectly acceptable place to stop.
I swear, half the battle with dieting isn't the food. It isn't the calorie deficit and the exercise. I can do that! It's the emotional struggle, feeling guilty when you have a bad day, feeling disheartened and ready to jack the whole thing in when the scales don't move, wondering what the point of it is when you put so much effort in and get so little back.
*sighs*
I need to just keep reminding myself of how far I've come and how I've kept it off, how so many lose a lot of weight and put it back on again, how a size 14 is perfectly acceptable place to stop.