FatBlogger Powers… ACTIVATE!
08-26-08
… in the form of “Encouraging Words”!
Seriously, I’ve noticed something about this last couple of weeks. It’s not just me, it seems that something is affecting most of the FatBloggers. I can’t really pinpoint an exact feeling except “discouragement”. Just the following examples show that many of us are entering a point of “bleah” about this weight-loss journey.
- John T in “Apathy strikes hard“
- Colin in “Will it ever end?“
- Alex in “My body fights back“
- Johnny in “Running in place“
- Ryan in “Two against one“
- Tony C in “Now is the time“
I’ve been feeling it somewhat of late as well. I’m probably crazy, but I think part of it has to do with summer ending… at least it seems that way. After all, kids are going back to school, lives now have to settle back into the nine month routine. Our goals which we had set to reach before summer still (at least in my case) have yet to be reached and we’re very near the end.
We don’t want to set new goals, because they’ll be the same goals, warmed over and served with hummus. We need to set new *realistic* goals, but not goals that will be so silly as to be laughable (”I plan on losing 1.0 pound by New Years Eve”). We need fresh ideas on our goals.
We don’t want to beg for encouragement ,because it will show we are weak when we are supposed to be men and able to take on this weight bull and wrangle it to the ground. We need encouragement from you. Yes, you… you know who you are.. you read these posts, but just move on to the next when we need some encouragement from you.. a note to let us know that we’re not as alone as we feel.. that our goals are not unrealistic, but our methods to reach them might be… we need to hear from you. If not for every one of our posts… please go to the ones I just listed and give them a pep-talk. They need it more than I do right now, but don’t just click “read” and move on. Say something.
It’s true Charles looks like we are on crisis, but it happens to everybody not just with us. It’s hard to think straight when everything goes wrong, in my case, besides the fact that my leg still hurt, my scale broke and the one that I bought online and arrived today was also broken plus my polar watch stop working, geez what a nightmare!!!
My last 2 days weren’t very good with food, but now I decide that the only thing that I can do is to continue what I was doing because at least I was doing something that was good for my health.
Take care,
Alex.
Thanks for the support, Charles. And I had hummus for lunch today.
It’s ok, we’ll make it — slumps happen, we stop caring for a few weeks, whatever. It’s ok to get off the horse for a little while.. provided it doesn’t run away, leaving you fat and stranded.
I’m soldiering on, because the best thing that could happen for my mood, above everything else, is to lose some weight. Everything else would be some kind of compensating or rationalization. So, tons of exercise for me this week!
You go, Charles!
I’ve noticed the same thing happening to me. The heat and humidity of Summer wears me down and I have no desire to exercise in it. (Who am I kidding? I have no desire to exercise, period.)
Good luck to us all in regaining our momentum as we head into the most challenging season of Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and Christmas cookies!! We can do it!!
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These words could not have come at a better time. I’ve been suffering with a bout of lazy bones lately too. It’s got me feeling pretty low. When it rains it pours and I’ve had ear infections, obnoxious work schedules, car troubles, and troublesome kids contributing to the slump. These things will happen though, and working through it makes you stronger on the other side. If I wait for the real world to slow down and give me a second, then I’ll be waiting forever.
So I’ve reevaluated my goals, devised a plan, and made a contract with myself. All thanks to Charles. Even bigger thanks to the FatBloggers community, men who I consider brothers now, for striving to keep each other motivated.