3momchaos
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I’ve been struggling with my mindset the past week or so. Not that I’ve been eating too much or the “wrong” things. I guess I’m struggling with the concept of maintenance.
Since January 2020 I’ve been on a journey to have weight loss surgery. October 2020 I had the surgery. Since then it’s been a journey to lose weight in a healthy manner while making sure my vitamins and thyroid meds are maintaining parts of my health that I don’t have as much control over. Now that I’ve lost almost 100% of my excess weight, I have a weird sense of just being lost.
I have a goal of maintaining the loss, but that’s basically just me doing what I’m doing. I need to add exercise to my life, but I’m having a lot of hip and knee pain that my chiropractor is helping me manage. I’m also concerned that adding in light cardio and weights will alter the amount I eat, and that for some reason bothers me. Probably because in the past whenever I would workout I was always hungry.
I guess I’m stuck in a pattern that I’m scare of deviating from because I don’t know what the consequences will be. I did not expect to lose all the weight within the first year, and that could be part of my mental struggle. I think I should still be trying to lose, but in reality I don’t need to.
I’m not tracking my protein like I had been in October because I eat almost the same thing everyday. If my scale reflects an increase I’ll go back to more diligent tracking.
I don’t think there’s really a solution to this other than getting over my worries, slowly adding in exercise, and maintaining my protein intake.
Since January 2020 I’ve been on a journey to have weight loss surgery. October 2020 I had the surgery. Since then it’s been a journey to lose weight in a healthy manner while making sure my vitamins and thyroid meds are maintaining parts of my health that I don’t have as much control over. Now that I’ve lost almost 100% of my excess weight, I have a weird sense of just being lost.
I have a goal of maintaining the loss, but that’s basically just me doing what I’m doing. I need to add exercise to my life, but I’m having a lot of hip and knee pain that my chiropractor is helping me manage. I’m also concerned that adding in light cardio and weights will alter the amount I eat, and that for some reason bothers me. Probably because in the past whenever I would workout I was always hungry.
I guess I’m stuck in a pattern that I’m scare of deviating from because I don’t know what the consequences will be. I did not expect to lose all the weight within the first year, and that could be part of my mental struggle. I think I should still be trying to lose, but in reality I don’t need to.
I’m not tracking my protein like I had been in October because I eat almost the same thing everyday. If my scale reflects an increase I’ll go back to more diligent tracking.
I don’t think there’s really a solution to this other than getting over my worries, slowly adding in exercise, and maintaining my protein intake.