Getting into a 'fitness' mindset

[veus]

I find I sign up to something like a fun run or something and it gives me a goal to head to. Just gotta keep finding goals.


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[nothing2lose]

Don't take this the wrong way PLEASE!!! But I think one of the first things to do is to refuse to let yourself use PCOS as an excuse.

I have PCOS and I am overweight too. I struggle with it, so I know it isn't easy, but the reality is women with PCOS can and do lose weight. We just have to really limit our carbs, and then only eat low gi carbs. It's not fair and it sucks but it's what we have to do. Carbs are our enemy. They are what makes us fat - not dietary fats.

Have you tried something like Calorie King? It's good to set it up so all of your nutritional requirements are 'targets' for you.
It becomes like a little game after a few days.

If you're mathematically minded, work out your basal metabolic rate (google a good BMR calculator), then, based on the fact it takes a calorie deficit of 7000 calories to lose a kilo, work out how many cals a day you can eat a day and how many cals you need to burn through exercise to lose a kilo. Like I said, it becomes
like a maths game.

Read Niadella's blog. It is really inspirational. She has had great success since last August!!

If you are a cook, sit down and 'de-calorise' your favourite recipes. Again, it's a little challenge to keep you
engaged.

I really do know how hard it is. I do. I promise you. But I am doing an unofficial Ten Week Challenge with a goal of losing between five and ten kilos before April 26 (when I next see my FS). I am only on day 6 but I am determined

I really hope you can get into the groove and stay there for as long as you need.

Take care x

[Mak]

TBH I think you just have to commit and do it. Book it in and don't negotiate out of it. The exercise and eating here are getting that way - so much so I cannot be bothered too much with meal planning etc. I get up - walk/run and then get on with my day. Good luck - it is a constant challenge here but we can do this. xx

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Thanks ladies I know what you mean N2L, don't worry! Mentally, I seem to have to place blame somewhere though. Another thing I'm working on. But I had to change my focus a couple years ago, because I was counting calories and looking at meal breakdowns and obsessing over exercise to an unhealthy point, and was blaming myself when my weight didn't go down. I can't let myself get to THAT point again, so in my head I've changed it to 'exercising so I feel healthy, even if my weight doesn't change'. Does that make sense?

[MrsFabuloso]

Things which have worked in the past for me are, printing horrid photos of myself and nice ones and having them next to each other for comparison. Sticky notes with goals or motivational quotes on them. Just not having junk in the house or any spare money around to go and buy it with. Knowing what I will be eating, so a loose kind of meal plan, if not a propper written out menu (a la weight watchers). Weight watchers! Faking it til I make it, so just going through the motions and knowing what needs to be done until one day I realise it's become habbit and not so much effort any more.