My goal is to be healthy for me. I started running a couple of years ago and have been doing three 5Ks a year. Last month I ran a 5K and got 4th place in my age division (ranked 20 out of 422 women & 70 out of 603 who completed it) - totally surprised myself.

I've been trying to tone up - doing pilates or standing ab exercises after I run. It is challenging and I kinda slacked off lately helpfully we can keep each other motivated.

Oh and like I tell DH - "I want to look better on my worst day than BM looks on her best day."

~BettyRay

I want to lose about 30 pounds. I have no motivation at this point. I am a diabetic who takes insulin. The insulin makes me gain weight. Just being diabetic makes it harder to lose weight and with the insulin I am on I now have to combat the weight gain of that. I have stayed about the same for the last two years-around 185-190. This is with eating healthy and a lot less than most people. I feel hungry a lot. I recently started a new medicine that has a side effect of helping you lose some weight. It makes you feel full quickly and stop eating. It doesn't do that for everyone however. Only about 50% of patients lose weight on it. I have lost 4-5 pounds in the first month. My doctor thinks at best it will offset the weight I gain from the insulin and will help me maintain the same weight level. My A1C numbers haven't been good in the last 6 months so it is suppose to help with that as well.

One of my biggest issues is I have no one to exercise with or do activities with. DH said he would join the gym with me after he retired from the Navy but now that it has happened he won't. He watched his weight and had weigh ins every 6 months for 21 years. He doesn't want to eat healthy and exercise now.

Great post.
I have what I like to call mechanical problems. It causes some pretty severe radiating pain down my arms and sometimes my legs. so my old physical life can be challenging at times. I just miss being able to do all the things I want to do. And of course not doing the things I have always done, weight comes on. Sigh....and like Echo, I am a foodie.

Let's all support each other and get healthy.

Let's all support each other and get healthy.

You guys go right ahead, I'll watch.

Just kidding, I'm working on it, myself. I don't know what in the hell is wrong with me. I have a gym in my basement, for God's sake. I know how much better I feel when I'm eating right and working out.

I also know how good cookies are.

Right there with you guys! I was skinny when I got married. Then we quit smoking. Then I got pregnant. Then I got pregnant with TWINS. *sigh* It doesn't help matters any that I also have plantar fasciitis (tendon issue in both feet) and I can't do any "impact" stuff - even walking is discouraged at the moment. Fortunately riding a bike is fine, so I've been trying to take my oldest bio bike riding as often as possible!

For myself (and I am NOT recommending anyone else buy it!) I bought an app for my phone called iTrackBites. It's basically Weight Watchers, but it's only a one-time fee for the app and not a monthly payment. In the past 5 weeks I've lost 14 lbs, so... yay? We'll see how it goes as a long term thing. Honestly I think having a "group" to be accountable to is helpful.

My current motivation is 4th of July. My size zero sister will be visiting. I love her, but I hate feeling like a hippo standing next to her!!!

I am so stuck in my quest to be healthier. I have some severe chronic illnesses and am overweight. I finally got to the point where I was motivated enough to start getting exercise. Just walking because I have never exercised on a regular basis before.

Welp...I tore my meniscus in my knee. Now I can hardly move without regretting it the next few days. Plus, I got my uterus and ovaries taken out and now am in full blown menopause. I feel like my appetite now is a bottomless pit.

We are moving this month to a place in a little town of 500 people. No fast food places. No pizza places. No nothing except our yard. I am hoping that having a garden will help. I really don't know what else to do.

I think this is FANTASTIC! I've just recently quit the HCG diet, (doctor monitored), and am heading back to the low-glycemic way of eating...the hcg thing was super depressing. Like seriously. So far I've lost 20 lbs in three months, super hard but I gotta keep at it because I am feeling better physically.

The motivation tho. ugh. I have some other health problems that this way of eating is helping with, just going to the gym tho..aaaaaaa...or walking and the possibility of small talk with neighbors/other dog owners...aaaaa

Goals:
1. Lose 10 more lbs by August
2. Make exercise part of my daily routine
3. Continue to make good food choices and not kick my own ass when I have a fucking taco once in a while
4. Drive by Portillo's without salivating

I'm in. Things are getting tight that weren't tight before.

But I'll let you all in my own best way to lose weight: I don't weigh myself. I change or increase the exercise, look at my sleep, and look at the level of bad food and adjust. I've never been able to stay in the same range of clothes for this long than I have for the past 14 years. I haven't weighed myself (I stand backwards on the scale at the clinic too) since my son was born. I go by how my clothes feel. It has been so much easier than fretting over the numbers. And just like your balance is different on different days, your weight is up or down on different days based on lots of factors. If the clothes keep fitting (or are getting looser if that's where I'm trying to go) over a course of weeks, that's easier on my weight-related anxiety.

Here's my biggest issue right now: I know the weight is up a bit to a more sedentary job and stepmom wine.
I vow to stop working all the way through lunch and at least walk for 30 minutes.
I'll work on the wine issue later