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WHY can't I get motivated?!

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Moochops89 · 12/11/2015 12:25

I need to lose about 5st, I'm only 5ft and 14st. I'm getting married in just over a year and I know if I don't sort myself out I'll look back at the photos and all I'll see is how huge I am and not what a brilliant day it was. I want to be happy with my weight before I have babies as I probably won't afterwards. I'm sick of being "the fat one" out of my gorgeous slim friends. My back constantly aches, I'm always exhausted.

So why is it that I can't stop bloody eating?! I've done slimming world a few times, it worked once when I lost 1st 2lbs in 2 months and then I got stuck and lost motivation. I now work shifts in no particular pattern so find it hard to get to the same group every week and I don't think I'd stick to it if I just did it alone online.

I tried MFP a couple of months ago and it gave me an allowance of 1200 cals/day which worked well for 2 weeks, I lost 4lb. I'd cut out drinking coke and eating bread, pasta and rice. Then those things slowly started creeping back into meals (I'll just have a little bit) till I was back to my old eating habits (and then some!)

Every time I think right I'll start doing it again tomorrow it's like my brain thinks 'oh shit' and I start cramming all kinds of crap in.

I have plenty of good reasons to want to lose weight and I'm miserable as I am, so why can I just do it? What does it need to take??

Just a rant I suppose Blush

OP posts:
Mrscog · 12/11/2015 13:22

Hi, why don't you come and join us on our 'stone in 6 weeks' thread? For lots of us a stone in that time is a bit too much, but the point is all about just getting on with it. It sounds like you could be a stone lighter by Christmas if you got on with it. How do you feel imagining waking up on Christmas day 20% nearer your goal? Try getting the thought/daydream really cemented in your mind and think of it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2494613-If-you-woke-up-in-6-weeks-time-and-had-lost-a-stone-in-weight-how-happy-would-you-be?

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