Oh Motivation Where Have You Gone?!

Resi12

Ok so I am a 17yo male and this is my story!

I lost 3-4 stone recently, Over a few months.
Needless to say I was delighted my confidence was up, I found a new love of clothes shopping and was just in general in a better frame of mind(Happier, Healthier and all that!), Soo anyway about 2-3 months ago, I slipped and I started to buy absolute crap junk foods after staying away from them for a few months!

Well it's a given I was gutted with myself however that didn't stop me. It was odd, One day i was saying No to anything bad and the next my willpower just seemed to have dissapeared...

3 months later and 1 and half stone gained back I am just so sad that I gave up. My willpower is at an all time low as I feel so bad recently I just comfort eat all the time(I do not want to make excuses) but it is a fair point I feel.

So I have had enough, I want my happy self back once and for all, I at the mo have nothing like a job or college, But am starting one next week !
So I just want some tips, I have plenty of time on my hands so i can easily excercise, I do not have the money for the Gym at the moment either. Can someone give me tip's on what's the best thing to do, I want to lose weight and hopefully one day gain some muscle after all fat is gone.

I have fat all over my body really, Being my stomach, ass, lower back(yes I know eww), Thighs, Chest and a bit on my face. Any help would be very VERY much appreciated, Oh and thanks for reading all this !

Sangre

Grab your belly with both hands. Get yourself some good, meaty handfuls. Now jiggle it around.

There's your motivation.

Resi12

Sangre wrote: »

Grab your belly with both hands. Get yourself some good, meaty handfuls. Now jiggle it around.



There's your motivation.

There's always one smug pric* on these forum's aint there!

corkcomp

eventhough Sangre could have got the point across a bit more subtly its not bad advice ... IMO you need to STOP eating the junk right now, see it as a form of damage limitation. Afterall, if you lost 3 - 4 stone and only gained back 1.5 so far it might not be as bad as you think?

ziedth

TBF he has a very good point,

All the motivation I generally need (I'm in the middle of a fairly aggressive weight loss war) is when I get out of bed in the morning and look over in the mirror beside the bed at my Manboobs/Belly and it gives me the drive not to eat any crap for the day.

Sangre

Resi12 wrote: »

There's always one smug pric* on these forum's aint there!

Nothing smug about it. Being able to grab a lump of fat is all the motivation i've ever needed to get back to the gym.

Fatloss08

Sangre wrote: »

Grab your belly with both hands. Get yourself some good, meaty handfuls. Now jiggle it around.

There's your motivation.

had a vision of chunk doing the truffle shuffle there from the goonies

Roper

OP if you're 17, now is the time to lay a foundation for the rest of your life, or, at least, your 20s!

Get stuck into a sport or activity. If teams are your thing, football, rugby, volleyball are some examples, then there's individual sports like tennis, boxing, cycling, running. There's literally endless amounts of sports out there to try. The advantages of those over going to the gym are that you'll always have a schedule, you'll enjoy it much more and you'll have people around you with the same interests.

The reason you probably lost your motivation may have been just plain boredom. When you achieved your goal of getting in shape, you may have subconsciously said "well, now I have it, what next". In sports the "next" is easy to find. You're always improving, or you're helping your team mates, getting quicker, more skillful or just having more fun.

Resi12

Roper wrote: »

OP if you're 17, now is the time to lay a foundation for the rest of your life, or, at least, your 20s!

Get stuck into a sport or activity. If teams are your thing, football, rugby, volleyball are some examples, then there's individual aports like tennis, boxing, cycling, running. There's literally endless amounts of sports out there to try. The advantages of those over going to the gym are that you'll always have a schedule, you'll enjoy it much more and you'll have people around you with the same interests.

The reason you probably lost your motivation may have been just plain boredom. When you achieved your goal of getting in shape, you may have subconsciously said "well, now I have it, what next". In sports the "next" is easy to find. You're always improving, or you're helping your team mates, getting quicker, more skillful or just having more fun.

Yes thank you! Your exactly what I need!
Thank you .

CoachBoone

Resi, you need to set yourself Goals.

Motivation is all about goals and surpassing them and then re-goal setting. Sounds like you did the first two parts well then totally forgot about the latter.

Food Diaries/ Exercise Plans/ Days off/ Target Weights etc are all types of goals. Use them to help keep your head down and yourself motivated.

ali.c

+ 1 to what Roper said.

tbh you sound a bit like me in that your diet is an all or nothing affair. It like once i broke the diet plan I figure I may as well give up. You have to get it into your head that you will slip up and on some days your diet wont be perfect but that doesnt mean you have too throw it all away.

You say you have alot of time on your hands atm is that recent? It may be with the extra time you are eating junk out of boredom?

For me having loads of free time or alternatively being pretty stressed has the tendency to throw my healthy eating plans out the window.

Atm i am working on finding the right balance where my diet is pretty reasonable but not overly regimened. It has been my experience (I have lost a gained the same stone a good few time) that a more moderate approach is what does the trick.

Another factor that I have struggled with is that I try to keep my diet really tight while at the same time increase my training load. Which resulted in me getting pissed off with the whole thing and losing consistency. My new approach of a moderate diet (i.e. there is room for everything but not eating to the point of being stuffed) has done wonders for my training. My training and diet are better than ever and what s more my energy levels are higher. Granted it has only been just over a month but so far so good plus my fitness is steadily increasing.

I am not sure if this is helpful or not but I thought I'd share my experience.