Saturday, 08 October 2011
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Patience While Pursuing Weight Loss
I am in the midst of pursuing better health. In the past two weeks, I’ve accomplished the following:-Weaned myself off my daily diet coke habit by replacing soda with seltzer
-Shook off my lethargy by running Monday-Friday, half at the gym, half outdoors, and thus building a little running base
-On several occasions out and about, I've made the Salad Choice over Other Fatty Option, reminding myself I’m on a mission
So where does this put me? I don’t know. I’m not weighing myself and haven’t seen any noticeable physical change. What I have noticed is a feeling I haven’t had for a while: pride.
I like going for my runs and increasing my goal from the last time I went out. I’ll try to run just a bit faster, for just a bit longer.
And I’m keeping it all really simple, which is the point.
I’m looking for a new way to live, not so much an immediate result. It is hard, however, while at the gym and seeing all the model looking girls gliding around, glowing rather than sweating. It’s hard not to want everything to change quickly. It’s hard not to reset myself to counting calories and reading diet books.
But what I want, ultimately, is a break from outside sources telling me how to eat, how to exercise, how to feel. What I want is patience with myself. What I want is not in a scale.
Do you struggle with patience? What do you do to practice patience?
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- From: funnygirlblues
- About Me: I am a 6'1" girl trying to put my life together in New York City. I love to write, read, cafe hop, and swim when I have the chance. I believe good health has its foundations in good mental health, and do my best to keep that in order as well. Everything's a work in progress.
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Comments (6)
i LOVE this post. thank you.
i need more of this in my life.best of luck to you continuing this healthy way of thinking and living.good luck on your goal! and i admire your patience. i really ought to learn a few things from you!
This is a fantastic and epiphanic post! Pride... I never thought of that as being both the means and the ends... Thanks so much for this, and good luck! =)
Oh my gosh I so struggle! I am trying to get over it but it's not easy when you look around and see other people where you want to be! It's so easy to give it up and throw in the towel. But I'm trying to change my habits for good so it's going to take a looooooong time so patience is key right now!!! Thanks for this post! :)
The pride thing is so important. It kinda keeps you distracted from the weight loss and the feeling itself is good. You will end up losing weight without being all 'omg I gained a pound today!' so keep up the good work and keep being motivated :]
I agree that patience is really important. During the first week or so, you lose weight really quickly and become really excited. But then it slows down and that's when most people, who don't have patience, give up. But after a month of so, you begin to lose weight again. This cycle of losing weight, plateau, losing weight, plateau...continues, and then after half a year or so, you begin to lose weight really rapidly. I have so much experience in weight loss. Patience is really important, or else you would never get to the rapid weight loss stage.