How many times will I try to get successful results from something that I have time and time again proven to not work? I’m doing it again! I’m trying a method of weight loss that I KNOW doesn’t work for me! And I am so frustrated. Why do I do it to myself??
So what am I doing? I am eating about 1600 calories and expecting to lose weight. I know…I know. 1600 calories SHOULD by the actual numbers be a great goal for eating. However, time and time again I have experimented and each time I come to the conclusion that it doesn’t work for me. I am LUCKY if I maintain at that level of calorie intake. Yet I try It. Over and over I try! When will I learn and just accept?
I know that my profile on myfitness pal was reset a while back and my goal is 1500…but I am going to go back online and fix that….I would rather see the 1200 or 1300 ad my goal and be over budget at the end of the day versus seeing the 1500-1600 as my goal and see that I am right on budget or every under budget at the end of the day. Why? Because if I am aiming for the lower calories and I end up over budget I will not be expecting to lose weight! It may happen…but I won’t be expecting it! When I am under budget with the higher calorie limit it is human nature to expect a loss and it is very disheartening to then not lose!!!
I am still struggling with the emotions of my own personal revelations about the long term negativity that I have been dealing with it. Basically, I have heard the negativity for years but it has just become part of the fabric of my life. But the wedding dress comment (your butt looked fat in your wedding dress) just has played through my mind constantly in the four months the since I got married. (Yup…it’s been a bit more thanfour months since we got married.). I have replayed that comment many times in my head. In the meantime, I started a new quilt.
The new quilt is coming along. The negativity wasn’t immediate…I got a compliment about how beautiful the quilt was turning out. However the next words were ‘I sure hope you are doing it right…your stuff tends to fall apart’? What? We sometimes sleep under a quilt that I made 30 years ago….that doesn’t sound like it fell apart to me? It’s a quilt that I drag around …..literally drag around…it goes on vacation with us as I remove the comforters on hotel beds and use my own quilt….they don’t wash those hotel comforters every use!). This quilt is used and used hard. But my stuff falls apart? And there have been multiple snide remarks about my quilt. And those comments…I think of them all the time when I’m working on this quilt…second guessing myself. Worrying that for some reason this quilt will fall apart. It totally undermined any ounce of self confidence I had about it. So two comments that stayed in my mind for a long time (never ending). And once those comments were stuck in my head it opened my memory and my awareness to what really happens. So I still am struggling with those emotions.
But I move forward. Processing the information…the comments…the events in life. Life throws negativity at you. Life throws moments when we keep doing the same old thing and expect different results. (ie my calorie counting). How I respond and react is what makes me awesome, mediocre or a slug of a human being. I want to be awesome. So fixing issues and rising above is my goal!