Mon, Aug-13-07, 06:19
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,209
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Plan: atkins
Stats: 230/198.6/170
BF:
Progress: 52%
Location: terre haute indiana
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Originally Posted by Trisha5813
I guess my main problem is that I just don't have the time to go to the gym like I need to. Now I know that is not a good excuse, and I do apologize, but it's true. As far as exercising at home, I just cannot seem to get motivated. Again, poor excuse. I know that exercise will definitely reduce the chances of carrying around 20 lbs of extra skin, but even that is not good motivation. Sad, I know. Have any of you ever watched the show called Big Medicine? Oh man, there are people on there that weigh, or have weighed 500-600 lbs. But what really shock me are the ones that have lost hundreds of pounds and now have tons of excess skin just hanging off their bodies. It shows people having the surgery to remove excess skin, and I know I would NEVER have this done....it shows them removing skin by the strips and by the handfulls, practically cutting them in two. No way this body is undergoing that kind of trauma! I will just have to learn to deal with the excess skin for the rest of my life, and know that I am much much healthier.
Yes, I am on Atkins. And while the other plan sounds very tempting, I would never dare change. See, I have been on every diet under the sun. Atkins is the first one I have EVER been able to stick with. I'm afraid that if I even thought about changing my lifestyle of eating, I would fall so far off the wagon I would never get back on. I'm not saying that you plan isn't wonderful, I am just saying that I'm scared, to be honest. I just can't jinx this when I've come so far!
Trisha
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Trisha. After reading your post, I had to double check to make sure I hadn't somehow sleep walked and posted in the middle of the night. You sounded so much like me!! I guess to an extent we all sound very similar. What struck me first was the part about not having time to exerecise. I have been saying that forever. OR I'll say something like: I don't want to start some program that I am going to have to follow the rest of my life, because I won't.
and then I will just go back to flab. We can come up with all kinds of excuses, can't we? Last week I bought some 5 pound weights, to work my upper arms. I will tell you this: the defeatest part of me says: well, it was only twelve bucks, so if you don't do it, no big deal. Why do we do that kind of crap to ourselves? Would it really kill be to spend five or ten minutes, while watching TV, to lift these weights? I started last night. I know I will feel better. I know I will LOOK better. I know I have the time. So, what is stopping me?
Menopause sucks. I am over the hot flashes. Had them for maybe a year off and on. It would be the middle of winter, and I would have sweat POURING off of me, WITH a fan blowing on me. People at work would be asking me if I was ok. funny stuff. Mood swings. Yikes!!! As far as TOM, I would go for months with nothing, then, our of the middle of nowhere, with no symptoms or anything, there would be a giant whoosh, and of course I wouldn't be prepared. Since I wear tan khakis about half the time, try and imagine how that worked out for me. Fortunately I never emabarrassed myself, if you know what I mean, but I would have to dash into the kmart next door, HOPE they had some big slacks that I wouldn't have to try on, grab a pack of undies, some wipes, some tom supplies, and then pull off this magic act in the handicap stall back at work. Can I get an AMEN SISTER for that?
heeheehee Life as a woman is great isn't it?
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