Being middle aged kind of sucks, and all my friends warned me of belly weight that I NEVER had before, and yep, that happened! But I KNOW there are women my age in good shape and I’m determined to be one of those people! Would you suggest even when I get my endurance back that I stick with the 1200 calorie plan? I think with my age my body would gain on much more. And even after a workout and some yoga, I am quite sedentary during the day – I work at a computer almost all day. I WILL start exercising again, but it after months of being too tired to it (I used to LOVE high impact cardio and lifting moderate weights!) my endurance is GONE so it twill be a slow start for me to get back to a place where I can exercise at the level and intensity that I used to. Which is something that meal plans and diets and such don’t take into consideration, and BMR calculations don’t take women’s ages into consideration. I do have one question – most of your followers are young, and I am 47 and peri-menopausal so my metabolism has really slowed down the past few years and I can no longer eat the way I did when I was younger as my body now requires less calories. And NOW I do! I’m so excited to start on my own journey and finally feel better about myself and have energy again! I haven’t been exercising because I’m so unhappy and so tired from not sleeping enough and eating crappy foods (think processed carbs and sugary snacks!) and I hate how I feel physically, but feel like I don’t know what to eat. And like you said, it’s not about vanity (though it will be nice to fit into my favorite skinny jeans again!) it’s about how you FEEL in your body, and I want to feel good in my skin, and feel healthy and vibrant again. I’m a girl that needs structure and guidance and this is EXACTLY what I needed to make some changes in my life. When you announced yesterday (I got the text and read the email!) I was SO excited I almost cried because FINALLY I have the inspiration, and more importantly the HOPE that I can make my body healthy again and feel better about myself without having to return to my eating disorder ways. I already bought the 90 Day Journal (two because I knew they would sell out fast!) but never found the motivation to begin on my own journey. I’ve felt hopeless at losing this weight as I tried diets and I tried starving (former e/d girl here) and none of it worked or made me feel good. So when you announced this plan was coming, I was SO excited. After I gained the weight I kept going back to your journey for inspiration, but didn’t feel like I really knew how to do one myself or what to eat or how to start and I often wished that I had a 90 day plan that I could follow as I’m not good at coming up with meal ideas for myself. I had followed your entire 90 day journey eagerly looking forward to every entry and was so excited for you that you figured out what your body needed and you reached your goals and felt so much better about yourself and felt so much better physically. I’m SO excited that you did this for us! I have gained 25 lbs since January, most of it since the whole covid thing began and I got depressed and ate crap that made my body feel like crap. It was because I was happy throughout my journey, that I was able to lose the weight. My 90 Day Journey helped me rediscover my purpose and my happiness, and I am literally the most confident I have EVER been in my entire life, right now. Through feeding my body for the right reasons (instead of using food to fill empty emotional voids to no avail) and through finding joy through fitness again (at that point in my life fitness was work and work was not a happy place) – I was able to find myself again. I made a promise to myself to get in the best shape of my life mentally and physically, and I gave myself the time and grace I needed to do it properly. But hard was exactly what I needed to undo everything that had messed me up so badly. What you don’t see is how my entire life has changed for the better, from that picture on the left to the picture on the right.Įmbarking on my 90 Day Journey was the best thing I ever did for myself. ![]() But that extra fat on my body was a metaphor for the extra negativity literally weighing down my body and my life. Some people will look at my before and after and judge it as a weight loss transformation, which yeah, it is – on the most superficial level. The intangible had become tangible, and I was letting it break me down. Sometimes I would walk into my own office and have a hard time breathing because I felt so judged. ![]() There were so many times I wanted to quit everything, move away, and just give up. ![]() During this time in my life, I was dealing with a lot of internal turmoil, untrustworthy people who I let suck the happiness out of my life, and toxic situations that made me question if I was even meant to be doing what I was doing.
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