Lossing Motivation

Well I was doing great with the weight loss thing until I hit a rough patch.  In the first 3 weeks of my journey I lost 26 lbs then I got sick and had to stop the program so I could get well.  I was too sick to exercise and the medication I was taken made my illness worse.  Then to top it all off it was one of the medications I was taken that caused my illness.  The doctor who prescribed my phetermine also prescribed an anti-depressant.  Well I was already on an anti-depressant so I was on 2 for a while.  Well I stop taking my original meds. for the alternative meds prescribed by my doctor.  That was the wrong move.....apparently I didn't ween myself off the first meds properly and my body went into withdraws that made me sick.  Since that happened I'm afraid when it comes time for my weight in this week I will gain.  I'm planning on starting back up the exercise tomorrow, but it may be a few more days before I can get back on the the phetermine.

I'm going to keep going, but I just need to learn how to manage my journey even through illness.

I can't say I know EXACTLY how your feeling but I sure can relate. My problem was somewhat similar to what you discribed but instead of becoming ill I hit a plateau. No matter how healthy I ate or how hard I worked out my progress was coming to a schreeching hault. So what did I do? I started with some online research and began speaking to fitness experts at my gym. What they told me was that when a person hits a plateau or is out of the gym for a period of time the first thing one should do is start a new routine. Changing the order in which you work out, switching between free weights and machines are just a few ways you can do it. I also starting supplementing my diet rapid absorbing protien shakes, multi-vitamins, and a fatburner, they even had one formulated to break through those plateaus. I'd be glad to e-mail you a link if you wish.

hey sinclair! losing our religion happens...I have changed the way I approach that mood when it hits.  I strive to observe my feelings, not wallow, mind you, but just try to learn from how i feel as well as feel what I am feeling - is it sadness? anger? apathy?

For myself, I fight my feelings rather than take the smallest lesson from them. I know for me, I must admit that those "rough patches" turned into an excuse to not do what I know I need to do.

I can certainly stop and take a breather from regimen once in a while, but why does it have to be a destructive breather? It may only be that I do less stressful workouts - not zero...and it may  need to be switching foods, not stuffing my gullet till it busts open!

See what I mean here? Sometimes the message is to keep going, stop whining; other times when we have been at it as long as some have, the message may need to be switch gears.

Anyhoo, I realize n your case, it's been due to med issues and illness, so that is hard, but even still, i would say try to look at the big picture, and not flail completely! Life throws curveballs - that is a given, right????


....and successful peeps continue to look for avenues to stay on the path!

Hang in there!!!!!

Ah man, you got slapped upside the head with that "Life Happens" crap!  And right when you were doing so well, too, damnit. 

But this is like falling off of a horse, you just get back on the damned thing and ride your heart out til you get where you are going.  Our jouneys are filled with pitfalls, some of them not even our own making, so take heart that these things happen and know that just because you took one step back, now you get to go two steps forward.

It's not the end of your journey, it's just a bump in the road and I pray it teaches you a great lesson about handling hard times.  We've all lived through this and came out the wiser for it in the end.  Good luck,

Mary