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I know this may sound antagonistic but I just wanted some folks out there to know it is okay to quit. It is okay to gain all your weight back too. I know that sounds like terrible advice but here is what happened the last 3-4 months for me.
My wife and I were rocking it from January to May this year. Eating WAY better than we ever have. I am talking baked/boiled chicken and vegetables for meals 5 nights a week. Exercising an hour a day 6 days a week. And no sodas, no candy, and doing great on calorie restricting. We usually had one day where we didn't count calories at all but the exercise was helping even those cheat days out.
We lost about 40 lbs each over that time and we were both so excited but also exhausted. She had to have a minor surgery in June on her foot and stopped working out with me. I continued until July but without a buddy and it being summer time I was losing motivation to keep at it.
So we quit.
No calorie counting, we went back to eating fast food. We drank soda. We stopped exercising altogether.
Here we both are after gaining most of the weight back, not all of it but most of our progress has been erased. And I am okay with that. I still love my wife no matter what size she is and she feels the same. We are both starting our exercising again and planning our meals, but the point I wanted to make was that I quit and that's fine.
After 5 months of extreme diet and lifestyle changes I was so burnt out and couldn't look at a bag of frozen vegetables or baked chicken breast without being disappointed.
I know some here would say I could have ate a lot of different foods or switched up my exercise plan but I just want people to know that if you are dieting and exercising to a point that you are hating it, then just quit. I took a break for 3-4 months and ate like a pig. I didn't exercise unless I felt like it (which was rare) and I didn't count one calorie. I also spent more time with my kids and wasn't at the gym so much.
After the break I am so excited to get back to work and look forward to healthy meals again. I don't think if I hadn't taken a break I would have made it through the last few months. This sub is tremendous and such a great tool for support and help but I just wanted to remind people here that are struggling that quitting doesn't mean you failed, or are gonna be overweight forever. It means you are human.
And humans fail. It is kind of our thing. I always look at things the way I look at parenting. I fail to be the best parent I can be for my kids because I'm tired, or it's late, or the trash needs taken out etc. but I always tell myself that "tomorrow I can fail better"
So in some folks eyes I failed to stick with my diet and exercise, but tomorrow I can fail better
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