Progress Eludes Me

Its now over two years since I started changing my diet and exercise habits to lose weight. Although I had much initial success, losing well over 10% of my starting weight, I have been stalled for the last year and a half. I f**ked it all up for a while by being an abstainer/binger of chocolate and cakes. But its now four months since I had hypnotherapy to rid me of my cravings and it has worked far better than I could have ever imagined. I feel happy and at ease with my diet, I eat healthily but have occasional treats (in the savoury form) and the most surprising of all changes is that I now feel comfortable and able to exercise alone.

The odd thing is that I feel relatively happy with myself, I am comfortable with my diet and I feel masses healthier than I did at my heaviest. Although my lumps and bumps still occasionally make me feel uncomfortable, most of the time I am now happier with my appearance.

Whilst I would love to lose more weight, part of me also now feels, why bother? The truth is that to lose weight I would have invest masses of energy into meal planning and a dedicated exercise programme. Really what I want right now is my life back. I have spent a large amount of time and energy into changing myself, making me healthy and now I want some time back to work on other parts of me. I do realise that in order to maintain my weight I will have to do some work, but I have weighed the pretty much the same weight for the last year - surely this proof that I can continue to do this, especially now I exercise much more.

I think what I am trying to say is that I am at the crossroads.

What should I do?

Do I carry on trying to lose weight or accept that I am healthy as I can be and just get on with my life?

Your thoughts would be appreciated :)

Comments

[Bri]

I vote for accepting yourself as you are. Do you read any Fat Acceptance blogs? If you are happy with how you are living your life and you are treating your body well then why not just enjoy life and quit worrying about what you weigh? : )

[weight loss exercise]

I tried that before but it didn't work. Will try yours and see how it will work out.

Awesome. I learned a lot.

-Alexis

[Georgie]

well it depends if your overweight, then you have to loose weight but if your not, then why worry, you just have to ask yourself are you happy, people can get obsessed with weight and thats when it becomes a problem especially if your a healthy weight, i myself have to watch that i dont become obsessed.