Here's my deal: I'm really overweight. I lack motivation. I can't stand the way I look or feel, and so I eat more (redundant - I know). I'm a busy mom of two, and I also work three 12 hour shifts per week. So I'm either all about motherhood, or all about my work. But who doesn't have a lifestyle just like mine, right?
I just joined this game, but this will not be my first dietbet. My first game just technically finished last week, but I quit on it a while ago. I had to lose 7.8lbs, and I lost 4 in my first week! And then, like always, I quit on myself.
I don't know what happens to me after the first week. I do really well, I eat right and exercise, and there are some painful moments where I really want to binge eat, but I make it work and get through it. Then I finish the week, and I weigh myself. Instead of using my results as motivation......I don't know what happens. I lose it. I think, "Oh, I can have that bit of junk food. I won't weigh in for another week. I have time." And then that one thought snowballs. Every. Time.
Exercise isn't really a problem for me. I can get into exercising pretty easily. It's junk food! I want it! And I don't do "in moderation". I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. If I eat one cookie, I eat a dozen. Five M&Ms turns into a whole bag, and not a small one either.
So anyway, that is where I'm going to have to fight. My first week, probably, will be relatively okay for me. It's after that that I quit on myself, get frustrated, gain my weight back, plus more (oh, yeah, that happened, too).
But my clothes have went from uncomfortable, to tight, to Holy Crap, this is ridiculous. Enough is enough. I have to do something now. I'm 33 years old, and I have two young kids to keep up with.
i just have to get passed that damned first week.