I've put on so much weight and it's entirely my fault

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Had a baby in 2018. Put on a fair bit of weight during pregnancy but it pretty much fell off afterwards. I've always eaten a fairly healthy and balanced diet. Can't remember how much I weighed a year ago but I have written down that my BMI was 24. In the past year I've gone from walking to work every day, going to the gym on my lunch breaks and eating well, to doing little exercise, snacking on junk all day and only going out to the park with my son or walking with him etc. Not exactly great exercise in the grand scale of things. I now find myself craving sugar, my clothes don't fit, I feel lethargic and tired all the time. It may be slightly due to having the mirena coil fitted, and a polyp I didn't know about that has caused me to bleed for months on end... In reality I know it is mainly due to my inactivity and diet.

I'm so busy with work and my toddler that by the time I have some me time I just want chocolate and to sit on my arse.

I am completely unmotivated.

How the hell do I get out of this funk and motivate myself again?

I think I also hate my stomach so much, it's all loose and covered in stretch marks, that I don't see the point in trying. (I know, my health is important too but this doesn't help)

Same! Pre-March 2020 lockdown I was cycling a 16 mile round trip to work every day and going to yoga 3 times a week.

Now I sit on my sofa working on my laptop all day eating cheese and crisps.

Really feeling crap. I have just had a treadmill delivered so I'm going to try my best.

Me too, OP, though it's not pregnancy-related in my case :-(

I'm struggling to find the motivation to get up and out, particularly ATM when the weather is foul. It's easier not to bother since I no longer have a dog :(

@CoolCovidCat

Same! Pre-March 2020 lockdown I was cycling a 16 mile round trip to work every day and going to yoga 3 times a week.

Now I sit on my sofa working on my laptop all day eating cheese and crisps.

Really feeling crap. I have just had a treadmill delivered so I'm going to try my best.

Treadmill, eh? That sounds good! Any chance you could link to it?

When you’re stressed, eating a poor diet and overweight your dopamine levels drop so you do genuinely feel unmotivated and it becomes a viscous circle then.

If you improve your diet you’ll lose weight and those two together will raise your dopamine levels.