Gah, how do i get over this bummed feeling.

I can't seem to shake it today. I feel bummed out. I feel like I'm working really hard to lose the weight with my exercise but it seems like the fats just not coming off.  I know this is only the second week of it and I shouldn't be worried but dangit I can't shake it.  For the first time in over a month I had a thought of "Why am I doing this?? It's not like it's going to work.".  UGH! that ****** me off, I want to remain focuses and stay positive!  I guess I'm bummed because I gained last week after starting the exercise and I thought I was doing so well.  It's like I just want 20 lbs to melt away in a week. 

Hey Chris, Everyone wants 20 lb's to melt away.  Shoot, I want 200lb's to melt away from my fat rear.  It's frustrating, I know.  You'll lose the weight you've earned to lose soon enough.  I bet next week when you weigh in, it'll all come off and you'll be eating your words.  It'll catch up with you and you'll be happy as a piggy in poo.  Just hang in there for now.  It's rough but make your goal for this week "To make it through this week".  Once you do, you'll feel better. 

Yes, that's it!  Just make it through this week!  Ugh, god this week seems so long lol!  Hell, i'm gonna shorten that to Just make it through this day!

Heya Chris,      If you're not headed into a late winter blast like the rest of us (we were in the 80's two days ago and now have a high of 38 with a chance of snow :-0), you should head out into the sun.  Sunlight's a powerful mood altering tool.  Another one is the cardio exercise you're doing.  And find some activity you can reward yourself with that doesn't involve food. :-)  We need to replace our old reward/comfort habits which revolved around food with new healthy ones.  Our food addiction will use not only physical weapons against us when we diet but psychological ones as well.

I think my addiction pulled out the proverbial baseball bat today.  It's also cold here and I'm very upset about that. In fact, that may be the whole reason I'm feeling this way.  I don't mind snow and welcome it because it's pretty and fun to play in, but I seriously hate the cold!  Even more now that I have to work out in it!  It's gonna be hard doing my running tonight.  It's supposed to get to around or below freezing here too... 

Ugh it's been really nice here all in the 60s and BAM we get snow and its freezing here now. I HATE MICHIGAN!!!!!!!!!! I need to move!   Anyways....Yes one week at a time, I tell myself that too...one week at a time and I feel as if this week as lasted a whole month...and oh yea my birthday is in 13 days oh yea shake it Christa is going to be 21! Woohoo....yea baby...ok enough! CHRIS! You are going to blow them away at TOPS and you know it...if you have to get fully naked in front of everyone do it....nah I'm kidding unless you're totally comfortable hey more power to ya! haha. So keep it up and everyone has those kind of days, you'll snap back. ---Christa

Girl you're not gonna believe this but my wife's birthday is April 17th.. how ironic is that???  You guys almost share the same birthday!  We're going to the mountains for a week with her best friend.  Ahh a week in a secluded cabin, that's gonna be nice and relaxing. OMG, I'm gonna have to run uphill, hahah! You know i'll do it too!  Don't even tempt me! I'll run outta that room with George and his two cousin's floppin in the wind just to get a reaction! hahah

Mines the 18th. But it still is ironic.  Mine is one day after hers. Ahh a cabin, I don't know what i am doing for my birthday since I am turning the big 21....But my birthday falls on a wed. and I'm not really a bar person either.  So I might just go out to like a bar and grill with some friends. And then that Saturday I'm going to the races my best friends boyfriend races we go every saturday in the spring and summer...and she said she's going to get me drunk, but alcohol makes you gain so...I might not? Who knows. George and his two cousins thats funny!

I think you should still buy a single drink just to say you did. A single isn't gonna hurt you. I wouldn't get drunk though that'll be an overload and you'd probably be angry with yourself in more ways than one. :)  Why you starin' at George? Gah!

Chris,  When I was 350 pounds I used to believe that "dieting" was like emptying the Atlantic Ocean with a thimble.  The last thing I wanted to hear from the receptionist at Weigh****chers was "oh I see you gained .04 ounces, are you sure you drank your water?"  I have to tell you, some weeks those receptionists were lucky to escape with their lives. When I could no longer walk and the scale had crept above the 350 mark, I knew that at 40 years old I was living half the life I could.  The rest is history.  You can read my profile if you'd like, it's fairly long as it is almost 2 years old I could give you a bunch of idiotic sayings like "Rome wasn't built in a day" or "The longest journey starts with the first step."  But sharing this horrible disease of obesity with so many on this board, I know that we are already the strongest and most motivated people in the world. All I can say is, make yourself worth it.  Don't spend each and every day looking for the time when the numbers will fall off.  Make small changes each and every day in your eating and exercise habits and realize that it is now going to have to be a change of life, not just a diet.  If we fail to make those changes it just becomes another hill on the rollercoaster that we've been riding for too long. Good luck! Donna