2013

This morning, I weighed myself and felt disappointed. I had only lost a pound. I had been feeling hungry all week, worked out everyday but one and I just felt really demotivated. What was the point? I felt really down and upset. I’m pretty sure everyone has been through that. 

I am eating less than anyone I know, I am not drinking during my last year of University, and when my friends and I went out for a meal I didn’t eat anything deliberately so that I could eat healthily back in my flat. I had one treat day during the week, which I feel is beneficial because it keeps your BMR (metabolism) guessing. But I began feeling like I should just give up all treats…and all meals. Or maybe just give up the diet and live happily eating what I wanted and not focusing on my weight. 

But then I stopped myself. Tumblr actually helped because I remembered all the tumblr posts I had seen about ‘not giving up’. It’s pointless to give up. Tumblr motivated me so I thought I return the favour and spread my own motivational thoughts when one feels they haven’t lost ‘enough’.

One week may not be as successful as the next or the previous one, despite having done more or less to ensure you are being fit and healthy, but you shouldn’t give up. You should be proud of yourself for not giving up, for continuing, so that in six months time you can look back and be proud you didn’t give up. Don’t bully yourself for not losing ‘enough’ either. 1lb or .5lb or even no pounds is still better than the week before. Even if you lost nothing I bet your fitness has improved that week. Or if you allowed yourself to slip for a week, eating unhealthily and not doing exercise, you can get back on the health wagon whenever you please. Nothing is the end. You can always start again. Furthermore, I’ve googled a pound of weight. 

A pound of fat is that! That is a lot!!! 

Also, maybe you didn’t lose any weight because you gained muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat. So maybe you just gained some muscle? (I am not saying that’s what happened to me this week but it could be true for all of you guys!) It helps if you take pictures of yourself every week because then you can see the changes happening, it won’t happen at first because it takes roughly four weeks for you to notice the changes to your body but it will. And then if you don’t lose weight one week you can look back and think “hey, well I have lost weight since the first week so it’s silly to give up now based on a number on a scale”. 

And that is true. It is a number on a scale.Don’t let it rule your mood or emotions. I am disappointed in myself for being sad this morning because it’s not the end of the world. You just have to keep going. 

Hope this helps someone at least! Keep going everyone! x

Hello there, 

Thought I’d introduce myself. I have been on Tumblr for quite some time but with a different blog. I wanted to set this one up for myself as motivation to lose weight. I have been losing weight since June very slowly but now I have upped my game. I have been losing weight well for about three weeks. 

I have alway seen a Yo-Yo dieter and right now I am at the opposite end of the scales to what I want to be. So I have decided to stop being a yo-yo dieter. I have decided to do this healthier and sensibily so that my weight loss will be permanent and not just for a year or four years etc but for life. 

My metabolism, as you can guess, is pretty mucked up due to all this yo yo dieting so it doesn’t take much for me to gain weight and takes a lot for me to lose weight. So I am eating minimally (Which I do not recommend) but allowing myself a treat day once in a while and not making myself miserable (a far cry from any of my diets before). Also once I get to my goal weight I will be working to maintain it by increasing my diet bit by bit and when I gain weight reducing it. And hopefully my metabolism will return back to normal. 

I will be keeping this blog up to date every 2-5 days. I will be reblogging inspiration pictures and quotes all the time and I hope you will enjoy :) 

Love x