Thread: Help! Weight Loss and Excercise

Your best bet is just to decide what motivates you, what will make you stick to your healthy lifestyle?

If you have trouble sticking to an exercise program, join a fitness class, and/or start exercising with a buddy - having someone hold you accountantable when you don't stick to your program can sometimes really help. Or just find a hobby that you really enjoy that incorporates exercise, so it doesn't feel like you're forcing yourself to work out - tennis, swimming, biking, finding something you LIKE to do really helps you stick to it. Really, it is just willpower - you know you need to exercise, and only you can make yourself keep at it, but the tips above make it easier to stick it out!

As for the eating, yeah, you NEED to eat - starving yourself will hurt your body and will make it cling to every fat cell it can (starvation mode), but you already know that it seems.... don't skip meals! so start each day eating a healthy breakfast (a whole grain cereal or oatmeal, fruit, and some sort of protein like milk, egg, or low fat cheese), have a healthy snack if you get the munchies between meals, make sure you eat lunch and dinner, drink plenty of water and stop eating a few hours before you go to bed so you don't disrupt your sleep cycle.

A healthy amount of sleep really helps a body - it allows your body to regenerate, your mind to have more clarity, your mood to improve...

Again, these are all things you can do that will help you - but it is a lifestyle, and you need to commit yourself to it! Diets don't work, pushing your body to the limits for a few days/weeks won't work. You must change your mindset from "eh, I'll get through these few weeks and then whatever" to "this is me now. This is my life. I am healthy and happy and will continue to be so by doing these things"

Good luck! I just started changing my life for the better, and I can tell you that I feel SoOoOoOoO much better already... I've still got some learning and need to keep progressing, but considering where I came from, I'm making it work (for over 3 months now!). I hope you can do the same!!