AllTheWay
TID Lady Member
- Mar 17, 2011
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Why do you do it? how do you keep going? how do you stay at it? what is your secret? all these are questions that i get on a fairly routine basis either in real life or as comments or messages on bb.com.
i have stated many times that by nature, i am a lazy person. but thankfully, i am a prideful lazy person . had it not been for the comments and such that i got when i started this journey over a year and a half ago, i would still be fat and wishing that i was in better shape! i was looking for the quick fix. i was all about trying every fat burner and "secret diet" pill there was. the problem was that they didnt work very well. my nutrition sucked. i ate way too much. luckily for me, i have always worked hard and done physical work so i could keep my weight kind of in control.
as a child, like others on here, my parents were very big about us eating everything on our plates. whatever you took, you ate, or in some cases, whatever dad put on your plate you ate. my sisters and i are all easy keepers! we were all about 10-30 pounds overweight as teenagers and into our adult lives. the one saving grace for us is that we worked hard on the farm. i have two sisters that as adults are easily 50-75# overweight and the other one is probably 20#over. for most of my life, i was anywhere from 20-50# overweight. no ones fault but my own because i was too lazy and too unwilling to control my eating. i wanted my cake and to eat it too
in college i worked out but also ate and drank everything in site! i was strong but fat. i wanted to look better but i didnt want to put the effort into it. i didnt want to not eat all the yummy stuff that was around me. you know, life is short, why not enjoy it!? this was the way it was until about a year ago.
i joined and became active in bb.com. i got back into the weight room consistently for the first time in 15 years. after about 4 months of being back in the gym, i decided it was time to work on the diet! this has been a slow process and one that i still suck at! i told you i was lazy to eat right is hard work. but i have made some significant changes in my diet that have resulted in some positive changes in my body.
what drives me? what keeps me going? what makes me go even when i dont feel like it? never being satisfied with where i am. i have a dream, corny sounding i know, but it is true! when i started my goal was that i wanted to be in the best shape of my life when i hit 40. now my goal is to be in better shape each new year than i was the year before.
for some people they need something solid to work towards, like a competition. not me, i think a competition would be the death of me to get to that level and then gain the weight back and not look like i did during the competion, i couldnt handle it. i would be a depressed fatty all over again. so to be driven by the unattainable, for me, that is what is best, that is what keeps me going. never having a set end point, never being able to stop and say that i have gotten to where i want to be. never being strong enough. never being satisfied. always needing to be working towards something......
what drives you? what keeps you going back to the gym day after day, month after month and year after year? do you have an end point?
i have stated many times that by nature, i am a lazy person. but thankfully, i am a prideful lazy person . had it not been for the comments and such that i got when i started this journey over a year and a half ago, i would still be fat and wishing that i was in better shape! i was looking for the quick fix. i was all about trying every fat burner and "secret diet" pill there was. the problem was that they didnt work very well. my nutrition sucked. i ate way too much. luckily for me, i have always worked hard and done physical work so i could keep my weight kind of in control.
as a child, like others on here, my parents were very big about us eating everything on our plates. whatever you took, you ate, or in some cases, whatever dad put on your plate you ate. my sisters and i are all easy keepers! we were all about 10-30 pounds overweight as teenagers and into our adult lives. the one saving grace for us is that we worked hard on the farm. i have two sisters that as adults are easily 50-75# overweight and the other one is probably 20#over. for most of my life, i was anywhere from 20-50# overweight. no ones fault but my own because i was too lazy and too unwilling to control my eating. i wanted my cake and to eat it too
in college i worked out but also ate and drank everything in site! i was strong but fat. i wanted to look better but i didnt want to put the effort into it. i didnt want to not eat all the yummy stuff that was around me. you know, life is short, why not enjoy it!? this was the way it was until about a year ago.
i joined and became active in bb.com. i got back into the weight room consistently for the first time in 15 years. after about 4 months of being back in the gym, i decided it was time to work on the diet! this has been a slow process and one that i still suck at! i told you i was lazy to eat right is hard work. but i have made some significant changes in my diet that have resulted in some positive changes in my body.
what drives me? what keeps me going? what makes me go even when i dont feel like it? never being satisfied with where i am. i have a dream, corny sounding i know, but it is true! when i started my goal was that i wanted to be in the best shape of my life when i hit 40. now my goal is to be in better shape each new year than i was the year before.
for some people they need something solid to work towards, like a competition. not me, i think a competition would be the death of me to get to that level and then gain the weight back and not look like i did during the competion, i couldnt handle it. i would be a depressed fatty all over again. so to be driven by the unattainable, for me, that is what is best, that is what keeps me going. never having a set end point, never being able to stop and say that i have gotten to where i want to be. never being strong enough. never being satisfied. always needing to be working towards something......
what drives you? what keeps you going back to the gym day after day, month after month and year after year? do you have an end point?