First time visiting this sub, and I hope I can find some folks with similar experiences.
So I'm a larger guy, have been most of my life. I'm well into my 40s now, but at a couple of different points in life I've really got my motivation up and buckled down to lose weight. Once back in the day it was the Atkins diet, once it was just watching what I ate and exercising (I really got into running a couple of times).
Long story short... I've lost and re-gained the same 100-ish pounds several times. I'm now back at the point of being at the top end of my weight range, and honestly it's kind of disgusting. It's really de-motivating when I try to make a positive change to look back and realize that I've done this before, multiple times, and it always ends up with me back to where I started, or worse.
I guess what I want to know... have any of you guys been where I am right now, and figured it out? How did you get over the hump of telling yourself "why bother, I've done great before and just went right back"?
Being 100 lbs overweight makes, quite literally, every aspect of your life worse. It affects your confidence, your love life, your ability to connect with people, the way your co-workers look at you. Everything. And everyone who doesn't have this struggle looks down on you, or at least it feels that way.
And now, I'm at the age where I just know this is going to start seriously affecting my health if I don't fix it. I've been REALLY lucky to this point... my blood pressure, cholesterol, etc are still relatively normal. But I also have a family history of heart issues, and I'm staring down the barrel of 50.
Sorry for the long ranty post, but I'm just hoping to connect with some people who have faced this adversity and come out on the other side. I'm disgusted with myself in a lot of ways, and I need to figure this out.
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1lb0cvu/getting_the_motivation_to_try_again/
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