Fitness Goals Support Group

This community is dedicated to group support around achieving fitness goals, whatever they may be, through personal training, athletic activites, or other strenuous activity. Whether you are trying to get fit to treat a health problem, boost your mood, relieve stress, or tone your body, this group is a great place to meet other like-minded people who have similar goals.

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TheHunger 01/10/2015

I'm having some issues with following through with my routine for some reason. I'll find plenty of motivation to start, but I am having so much trouble staying with it for some reason.

I lost 100 pounds between 2010 and 2013. 2014 was a terrible year, a lot of changes, a lot of stress, many obstacles to overcome. I gained back every pound... In one year!! I blimped.

So... Has anyone else recovered from this sort of set back? How did you manage to put yourself back into the mindset?

carolyn7681 01/10/2015

Hi. I'm sorry to hear about your set back. But don't stay in it. every day is a new day. you need to start doing something positive every day. I do things that make me proud of myself. Don't dwell on the past. start something new. get in a group that meets. these are all suggestions. I have been trying to lose just 25 pounds for years. I get down about 10 pounds and quit. I can't imagine losing 100 pounds. Wow you are great. these are all just suggestions. We all recover in different ways. Thanks for your inspiration.

koolman 01/11/2015

2011 was a pretty cruddy year for me. Business dropped off to almost nothing, second job didn't pay shit, bills were piling up. How I managed to pull myself back from a set-back mindset is revert from a consuming to a producing mindset. In short, when the material world was shit, the only material I could rely on was my own body and pure primordial will to survive. There are reservoirs of strength we didn't know we have that we can all resurrect and draw upon, if we dig deep and work.

Cypressmoon1 01/13/2015

There are great points made here. For me, it's one DAY at a time. Every day is a challenge. But, I keep telling myself that I'm tired of feeling like this and I deserve to feel good about myself and comfortable in my own skin. Enough is enough. If all else fails, they can't say I'm fat....:P So, I work on myself and there is a certain pride in that.

jujuscb3 01/18/2015

When I had my son in 2008 i never bounced back from being the fit and healthy eater I was. I gained 50+ lbs from that and have remained at 213 for these past few years. I've been inconsistent with my workouts and eating correctly due to some personal issues of not being able to conceive again these past 2.5 years and moving to a whole new state.

It's now 2015 and I have been told by my OBgyn mid December of last year that I have POS cause by my obesity. She suggested I lose 20 lbs before she would put me on any type of medication. This setback has not pushed me to drop those lbs and go back to the way I was.. a healthier lifestyle overall. I'll be 31 next week, 5 ft. 2 and 213 lbs! i am 10 days into a 'better me' and I'm doing it day by day. I like to keep a small notebook with me and write down what i have eaten for morning, noon, night and snacks in between. I keep log of my workouts and how I'm feeling. I also keep track of my water intake. I find that helped me before and has continued to help me know. I like to go back at the end of each week and see what I did, ate and wrote to myself.

I know it's hard but keep trying and keep going is the key. It's hard when life gets in the way, we just have to find ways to keep focus and carry out and complete that goal.

I wish you the best of luck. Now that I'm new to this group, i'm going to try my best to keep an update journal of my progress!

koolman 01/23/2015

The end of 2014 was certainly a set-back, because in family get-togethers over the holidays, I ate a lot. Then, from December to January, just as I thought I'd be able to burn off the fat, I took on a roommate who was between jobs and homes to help him out, and the only income he had to contribute to me financially was from food stamps. Since he was contributing to me with food, I couldn't exactly dictate what KIND of food to buy, so I let him buy whatever he wants that we'd both eat, some of which was healthy and some of which happened to be mainly Italian, processed white flour pasta, Ragu spaghetti sauce which is loaded with sugar, Peter Pan peanut butter, which is also loaded with sugar, along with various sugary desserts, which I had to eat if I wanted to partake of his money. Needless to say, I put on about 30 lbs. of fat in the past few weeks, mostly in the bulging gut.

Now that he and I have consumed all of the Italian food, I've been on my bicycle and in the gym working out almost every day burning off the fat, and my gut is shrinking back to its normal size. I've told my roommate, as kindly as possible, that while I appreciate the food he's been contributing, normally I don't eat food so rich in sugar, white processed flour, fat and calories, and have made suggestions on salads and other things that offer way more nutritional value. He seems receptive.

Anyway, he's moving out in a few weeks, so when he's in his own place, he can eat whatever he wants and I'll go back to eating my usual, more sensible, healthy diet, lean meat, fruit, whole grains and veggies.