A true story.

Tuesday weigh-in, 171.6. Felt pretty good to bust my plateau of 6 months.

Wednesday weigh-in, 170.6. Had a new level of self love. dh-type told me I was "shakin' it." I felt great. Superb. Fantastique.

Thursday weigh-in, 171. Pitched into a fit of paranoid depression...will I gain all my weight? Should I even be looking at that carrot? Oh my god, keep that rice away from me.


What's wrong with this spicture?

1. I shouldn't, shouldn't, SHOULD NOT be weighing daily. I should be doing the right things daily, then on my weekly weigh-ins, I will have reinforcement that I'm doing the right things. Daily weigh-ins are fraught with water retention, water loss, less food in tummy, more food in tummy, wet hair, dry hair, stars not alligned, stars properly alligned...tom looming, tom far away...(Do you get the general idea?)

2. I SHOULD notice, well, yeah, tuesday to Thursday, I *did* trend downwards.

3. I SHOULD shake it every day. Because I am all that, in my world. half a pound does NOT look like anything on my body. TEN pounds looks like something, but half a pound is a whole lot of nothing.


So how do you feel good about yourself!?

how i feel good about myself?

easy i look in the mirror say i am one hot cookie and when i have lost weight i feel even more super plus hubby tells me all the time that even if i got really huge or really skinny he would still love me..so that makes me feel good about myself always being told i am beauitful :D and when i have lost weight i look in the mirror and say wicked your getting prettier and prettier by the minute.. :D

Ooh, nice post. Boy do I know what you mean!

You know what's weird that helps me? Looking in the mirror after I exercise, when I'm all sweaty and my hair's in disarray, and the endorphins are rushing through my body. With the after-exercise glow in my face and the post-exercise mood lift, it's hard NOT to like myself.

How do I feel great about myself:

1. I exercise, I always feel better about myself then
2. I think of all the things my body can do.
3. I smile (smiling helps everything)

Renee

:) good ones!!

:) good ones!!

Looking in the mirror after I exercise, when I'm all sweaty and my hair's in disarray, and the endorphins are rushing through my body. With the after-exercise glow in my face and the post-exercise mood lift, it's hard NOT to like myself.

108 said exactly what my own answer is! :D After I've worked out I always feel so strong and confident and pleased with myself.

Donna

I like to put sexy panties on, It makes me feel sexy. Besides its fun, my husband sees them and well he likes it too. I know that I have a long way to go but knowing that I can look and feel sexy at this point in the game makes my goal seem that much sweeter, because if I can feel like this now imagine what I will feel like then.

The ultimate goal is not about weight for me it is about changing my life. I need to melt away the past along with the fat envelopping my body like an armor. Loosing that body armor allows me to connect with people on a different level. Right now if I meet someone who does not like me, I can say that they are being judgemental about me. I can blame them instead of me for a failure to connect. Fat people are often easy going and charming, the great communicators, funny and witty and will do anything to be included. But there is another dark side to that exterior. They are constantly mean to their own selves. They show no pity towards themselves, no friendship, no keenship to their struggles and pain. They seek comfort in reading, watching TV or movies and feel safe inside their home. This isolation is very comfortable at first but will only lead to inactivity and weight gain.

It is hard to go out there and do things but once you start it gets easier and is a great source of motivation. I don't think that you can loose weight by dieting, I think you have to be active and eat healthy and drink lost of water. That is what I am going to do. I thought about going to a weight loss center because I have 50 lbs to loose and it is hard to stay motivated but with the help and support of this forum, I think I have really good odds to make it.
That is what makes me feel good about myself, doing something to improve my life.
Danie

Dreamer. are you the Dreamer that used to chat here at DT some years ago?

Carol

Yeah, it is something about working out that gives me a lift also! My body feels much lighter, as if a burden has been lifted off my entire body after I work out. I think that is one of my key motivators...without it I probably wouldn't dig exercise at all! Also, there's no greater feeling than to be able to wear something that makes you feel sexy...even if its just for yourself:D

Well, my this is a good question. For me, I guess its more of an internal thing going on. As I change whats inside, the outward part changes also. Here I am 47 years old, parents have been gone from this Earth for a long time. But yet, its hard to break free from upbringing, the guilt is almost unbearable. But, I have dared to think for myself. I have dared to 'disrespect' my parents by admitting that they too were only human, making mistakes, not knowing all the answers. It was at that point that I allowed myself to pick and chose parts of my upbringing that rang true for me and shuck the rest. Now, I see my parents as people just trying to do what they knew to do. I have put them to rest, with lots of respect from me. But, it didnt stop there. I thought to myself, if I can sit here and pick them apart, what about me? [I had help on this one from a friend who dared!], I wanted to see my own faults. I realized, I am no diff than my imperfect parents, I am someone that lived my life by rote... traditions of the father, never questioning, not much responsibility in that, just blindly obey the rituals.. That is a job that is never done!.
So, whether I exercise, or am dressed in rags, I still feel great inside! May not always feel so great physically, but I do have BIG faith that will change too!

I just try to stay off of the scale daily and tell myself that I can do it over and over and over and over!
I feel great when I excercise so when I get down in the dumps I try to get up, no matter what I do I just have to get off of the couch and feel a little better about myself.
Get up get moving, if you do it I will too!

I feel great about myself by fueling my body with the best food that i can..i also feel great by exercising regualrly and pushing out of my comfort zone...
Buying cute new outfits that i never would have dared wear before gives me confidence too.
what gives me the best feeling though is knowing that i am setting a good healthy example for my kids!
hugs bell :)

Bell, that is so cool about the example. .wish I would have thought of that years ago hahahaha

Another thing that makes me feel like a million dollars..
There are times in the year [cant figure out why this is tho], that I hardly have any pain. I walk and walk.. last year with my dog, but I dont have one this year, maybe hubby will let me collar him. haha
Or..

When I hold up a garment and say to myself "no way will that fit me!' And it winds up too big lol

I will love when I am at the point that I can hold up old clothes and know that they are too big.

One thing I did right after my last child is gave all of my maternity clothing away. Almost instantly I got rid of all of the confy clothes and started wearing things too tight so I would realize that I needed to keep up the work all of the time. I am now down to my weight before my last child but I am going to keep going to my goal.

Originally posted by Dreamer
But there is another dark side to that exterior. They are constantly mean to their own selves. They show no pity towards themselves, no friendship, no keenship to their struggles and pain. They seek comfort in reading, watching TV or movies and feel safe inside their home. This isolation is very comfortable at first but will only lead to inactivity and weight gain.
Danie

wow, that hit me right in the face. i always knew i was like that, isoated, hurting myself...
i feel good....i feel good when i am out there, working, at school, with my friends. i am not hapy isolated in the corner.
even if i dont look super thin and attractive in my shirt, and even if i feel guilty about how i look... that doesnt matter as much as the hapiness i feel when i am out, with other people.

The times I felt the very best was almost 4 years ago when I was participating in road races as a walker. When I crossed the finish line of a 10 mile race and then when I won third place in the walkers division of a rather difficult (lots of hills) 5k, THAT made me feel ecstatic! And, I had GREAT legs, even at 170 lbs. :D I'm gonna do that again this year by darn...

I think the most important thing for me is to remember that my physique is only part of me. I have a wonderful sense of humor, I enjoy life, I love my job (how many people can say that?). So in general, I tend to feel good about myself most of the time.

When I am naked and in the mirror, I tend to get down quick, but then I reiterate the other things aloud, and it makes me feel so much better.

And I remember that I am working on the physical. It would be different if I was not doing anything. . .like I did for so many years.

i try to remeber that my body image and weight isnt hu i am

and that just because i agree with other people on what is 'beutiful' dosent mean that im not

im just finding it hard to come to terms with my control